American anti-war activists

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American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)

American scientist (1901–1994)

American actress and activist

American politician (born 1935)

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

American teacher and aid worker

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

American singer, actor and civil rights activist (1927–2023)

Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez, known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. His work spans more than six decades of television and film, and his accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Actor Awards. In 1989, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Armenian-American musician

American musician (born 1962)

American actor (born 1946)

American peace activist and child actress (1972–1985)

American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)

American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)

priest and author (1915–1968)

American anti-war and human rights activist

American politician and physician (born 1950)

American author and politician

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

Jesse Ventura is an American politician, Vietnam veteran, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation, he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor with the Reform Party and is the party's only candidate to win a major government office.

American musician

American musician

American suffragist (1793–1880)

American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)

American journalist (1957-)

American anarchist writer and feminist

American politician (born 1946)

American singer and activist (born 1958)

American political scientist (born 1953)

American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)

American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)

American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)

American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator (1893-1935)

American historian (1874-1948)

American poet (1917–1977)

American abolitionist, social activist, and poet

American protest singer and songwriter (1940-1976)

American writer and journalist (1941–2022)

American rapper and record producer (born 1982)

American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)

American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)

American aviator and writer (1906–2001)

Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people (1939-2012)

Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)

American politician and activist

American psychologist (1934-2015)

American poet (1887–1962)

American journalist

American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and writer (1918–1994)

American antiwar activist

American lawyer and peace activist (1927–2021)

American psychiatrist and author (1926–2025)

American nurse and activist (1867–1940)

American musician

American writer and activist (1922–2007)

American political activist and author

American political activist

Suffragist (1830–1917)