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Isadora Duncan
American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)
Angela Davis
American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)
Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist (1890–1967)
Jim Jones
American cult leader (1931–1978)
John Reed
American journalist, poet, and communist activist
Murray Bookchin
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
Frederik Pohl
American science fiction writer and editor (1919–2013)
Wilhelm Weitling
German-American socialist (1808–1871)
Gerda Lerner
Austrian-American women's history scholar (1920-2013)
Anna Louise Strong
American journalist
Michael Parenti
American academic (1933–2026)
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Alice Neel
American visual artist (1900-1984)
Daniel De Leon
American newspaper editor (1852–1914)
Leslie Feinberg
American transgender activist and writer (1949–2014)
Beah Richards
American actress (1920–2000)
Michael Hardt
American philosopher (born 1960)
Paul Sweezy
American economist (1910–2004)
Luigi Galleani
Italian anarchist (1861–1931)
Agnes Smedley
American journalist, writer, Comintern spy (1892-1950)
George Koval
American and Soviet intelligence officer (1913–2006)
Jeff Monson
American mixed martial artist
Carl Foreman
American screenwriter and film producer (1914-1984)
Abraham Jacobi
German-American pediatrician (1830–1919)
Bill Ayers
professor and activist
Joseph Weydemeyer
US Union Army officer (1818–1866)
Albert Maltz
American writer (1908–1985)
Ring Lardner Jr.
American screenwriter (1915–2000)
Paul Mattick
German-American Marxist political writer and social revolutionary (1904-1981)
George Jackson
activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family
Paula Strasberg
American actress, drama coach (1909-1966)
Mildred Harnack
American-German literary historian, professor, translator; Resistance fighter and anti-Nazi activist, who was executed during WWII in Germany
Cy Endfield
American screenwriter and director (1914–1995)
Friedrich Sorge
American communist (1828-1906)
Russell Bonner Bentley
pro-Putin militant and war correspondent of American origin in Donbass
Waldo Salt
American screenwriter (1914-1987)
Judi Bari
American environmentalist (1949–1997)
Vera Caspary
American writer (1899–1987)
Ingeborg Rapoport
German physician and East German communist functionary (1912-2017)
August Willich
Union Army General (1810-1878)
Grover Furr
academic
Boots Riley
American rapper
Hal Draper
American activist and author (1914-1990)
Gloria La Riva
socialist activist and perennial candidate for United States president
Joan Hinton
American physicist (1921–2010)
Colby Keller
American former pornographic actor and model
Luisa Moreno
Guatemalan activist
Jack Hirschman
American writer
Emile de Antonio
American film director (1919-1989)
Irving Howe
American writer, literary and social critic and socialist activist (1920–1993)
Sidney Rittenberg
American academic (1921-2019)
Peter Camejo
American politician (1939-2008)
Bernardine Dohrn
American radical activist and law professor
David Greenglass
Atomic spy for the Soviet Union (1922–2014)
Shirley Graham Du Bois
American composer and writer (1896–1977)
Meridel Le Sueur
American writer and social activist (1900–1996)
Floyd Dell
novelist, poet, playwright, critic, editor (1887–1969)