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Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
Jane Fonda
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.
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher (1930–2004)
Sanna Marin
Prime Minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has been serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the first woman and the first Jewish person to hold the office. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), she previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023. In 2025, Forbes ranked Sheinbaum as the fifth most powerful woman in the world.
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Germaine Greer
Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
Vandana Shiva
Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
Olena Zelenska
Ukrainian screenwriter and First Lady of Ukraine
Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
Jacques Maritain
French philosopher (1882–1973)
Murray Bookchin
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
Henri Lefebvre
French philosopher (1901-1991)
Petra Kelly
German politician and activist (1947-1992)
Marilyn Waring
New Zealand politician and academic
Carol J. Adams
author, animal rights activist
Françoise d'Eaubonne
French feminist (1920–2005)
Maria Ohisalo
Finnish politician
Winona LaDuke
author and activist
Saul Alinsky
American community organizer and writer (1909–1972)
Anna Kingsford
English physician, activist and feminist (1846–1888)
Helen Gahagan Douglas
American actress and politician (1900–1980)
Sônia Guajajara
Brazilian female environmentalist, indigenous rights activist, and politician
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau is a Canadian public speaker and retired television host. She married Justin Trudeau, the 23rd prime minister of Canada, in 2005; the couple separated in 2023. She is involved in charity work, social work, and public speaking focused mainly on the environment, women's issues, and children's issues.
Pamela Rendi-Wagner
Austrian physician and politician (born 1971)
Starhawk
Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.
Derrick Jensen
American ecophilosopher, radical environmentalist, and anti-civilization advocate
Yip Harburg
American lyricist (1896–1981)
Sheri S. Tepper
American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (1929–2016)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
American theologian (1936–2022)
Maria Mies
German sociologist (1931–2023)
Marie Christina Kolo
climate activist and ecofeminist
Susan Griffin
American feminist writer, poet
Val Plumwood
Australian philosopher (1939–2008)
Joanna Macy
American activist, author, and ecologist (1929–2025)
Sandrine Rousseau
French economist and politician
Yayo Herrero
Spanish anthropologist, engineer, professor and ecofeminist activist
Judi Bari
American environmentalist (1949–1997)
Rudolf Bahro
German politician and writer (1935-1997)
Carolyn Merchant
American ecofeminist
Mahlaqa Mallah
Iranian environmentalist (1917–2021)
Titilope Gbemisola Akosa
Nigerian climate justice advocate, environmentalist, lawyer, gender and social inclusion expert
Catherine McKenna
Canadian politician
Monica Sjöö
Swedish artist (1938-2005)
Charlie Angus
Canadian author, journalist, broadcaster, musician and politician
Alicia Puleo
philosopher and ecofeminist thinker from Spain
Ivone Gebara
Brazilian nun and theologian
Josephine Donovan
American professor
Charlene Spretnak
American environmentalist
Dominique Anglade
Canadian businessperson and politician
Ariel Salleh
Australian sociologist
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Canadian politician
Laura Wright
academic studying veganism
ecofeminist art
Artistic practices grounded in ecology
Ragini Upadhyaya
Nepalese painting artist