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Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Edward Snowden
American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)
Chelsea Manning
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
Daniel Ellsberg
American whistleblower (1931–2023)
Mark Felt
Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal (1913-2008)
Leah Remini
American actress (born 1970)
Hugh Thompson Jr.
United States Army officer (1943–2006)
Jan Karski
Polish World War II officer, resistance fighter and diplomat (1914–2000)
Smedley Butler
United States Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient, activist, lecturer, official, and writer (1881-1940)
Frances Haugen
American data engineer, scientist, and whistleblower
Frank Serpico
NYPD officer, whistleblower
Deep Throat
alias of Mark Felt, the whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal
Karen Silkwood
Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)
Philip Agee
former CIA agent; author; expatriate American (1935-2008)
Lou Dobbs
American conservative political commentator (1945–2024)
Chuck Blazer
American soccer administrator (1945–2017)
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U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media
Kathryn Bolkovac
American human rights advocate and former police investigator
Jeffrey Wigand
American whistleblower, tobacco company executive
Herbert Yardley
American cryptographer (1889–1958)
Roger Boisjoly
American aerospace engineer (1938–2012)
Lawrence Wilkerson
United States Army colonel (ret.), Chief of Staff to Colin Powell
John Kiriakou
John Chris Kiriakou is an American former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, whistleblower, journalist, and author.
Coleen Rowley
American FBI agent, whistleblower, political candidate for Congress
Joseph C. Wilson
American diplomat (1949–2019)
James Bamford
author and journalist
Ronald Ridenhour
American whistleblower and investigative journalist (1946–1998)
William Edward Binney
former U.S. intelligence official and cryptoanalyst; whistleblower
Brittany Kaiser
former Director of Business Development at Cambridge Analytica
Martha Mitchell
wife of U.S. President Richard Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell
Mark Klein
American whistleblower (1945–2025)
Ifeoma Ozoma
American public policy specialist and technology industry equity advocate
Joe Darby
U.S. Marine Sargeant and whistleblower
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
Eric Murdock
American basketball player
Suchir Balaji
American artificial intelligence researcher (1998–2024)
Thomas Andrews Drake
former NSA executive and whistleblower
Mark Rathbun
American whistleblower
Silas Soule
American Union Army officer
Nomi Prins
author
Chris Smalls
American labor organizer
Jesselyn Radack
American attorney defending whistleblowers
Cynthia Cooper
American accountant
Peter Buxtun
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower (1937–2024)
John Michael D'Arcy
Catholic bishop (1932-2013)
Cher Scarlett
American software engineer, writer, labor activist, and corporate whistleblower
Bradley C. Birkenfeld
American banker and whistleblower
Arnold Gundersen
American nuclear engineer
Russ Tice
former intelligence analyst
Daniel Hale
former employee of the US National Security Agency
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling
American CIA officer
Rick Bright
US immunologist and US COVID-19 response whistleblower
Harry Markopolos
Whistleblower who exposed the Madoff investment scandal
Lucianne Goldberg
American literary agent
Sophie Zhang
Whistleblower disclosing Facebook's neglect monitoring of political manipulations
Karen Kwiatkowski
retired military officer and author
Oscar White Muscarella
American archaeologist (1931–2022)
Brandon Bryant
American whistleblower
A. Ernest Fitzgerald
American whistleblower (1926-2019)
Mona Hanna-Attisha
American pediatrician who uncovered the Flint water crisis