American Indigenous rights activists

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

president of the United States from 1923 to 1929

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of glamor and romance, with frequent references to pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, two Billboard Women in Music awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for 11 Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Variety honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century". In 2023, Rolling Stone placed Del Rey on their list of the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time", while Rolling Stone UK named her as the "greatest American songwriter of the 21st century".

Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential performers in the history of cinema, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTAs, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.

Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.

American country singer (1932–2003)

Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Regarded as the "Queen of Soul", she was twice named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest singer of all time.

Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series The X-Files, socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has resided in London since 2002, after earlier years divided between the United Kingdom and the United States.

American anthropologist (1818–1881)

American basketball player

American abolitionist, writer

American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

American musician

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

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author

Native American activist

American activist (1946–2022)

Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1945–2010)

American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)

author and activist

American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur (1932–2017)

American politician and businessman (1791-1883)

American actress

Native American entertainer (1936–2007)

American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)

Native American rights activist, musician, poet, and actor (1946-2015)

Native American physician and scouting pioneer (1858–1939)

French musician

Ojibwe co-founder of the American Indian Movement (1937-2017)

human rights professor

politician (1883-1963)

American historian

civil rights activist from Alaska (1911–1958)

American artist (1940–2021)

American activist (1844-1921)

American writer (1824–1892)

American politician (1854-1931)

political activist

Oglala Lakota writer and actor (1868-1939)

American poet

American politician (1936-2021)

American lawyer, politician and writer

Native American activist (1866–1923)

American historian, photographer, and activist (1859–1928)

Native American activist

White Earth Ojibwe activist

American writer (born 1934)

Lakota author and indigenous rights activist (1954–2013)

Mohawk Native American activist (1942–1972)

American politician (1805-1883)

Native American activist

American model and activist (born 2002)

a Native American rights activist

Chippewa and Metis, first Native American graduate of Washington Law School, Bureau of Indian Affairs accountant

Native American writer and activist

Episcopalian priest and a founder and leader of the Society of American Indians

American academic (1934-2011)

Assiniboine activist and journalist