Nonviolence advocates

Russian author (1828–1910)

264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)

former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

14th Dalai Lama

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".

French author (1866-1944)

Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)

Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)

Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, activist, and filmmaker. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)

Guatemalan human rights activist

Liberian peace activiste (born 1972)

Mexican politician. President of Mexico from 2018 to 2024

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

peace activist (born 1944)

German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)

French judge, writer and philosopher

Mozi, personal name Mo Di,

Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)

South African politician (1898–1967)

Argentine activist, architect and sculptor

President of Kosovo (1944-2006)

Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India

Polish Catholic priest, martyr, blessed (1947–1984)

Nigerian social rights activist (1941–1995)

Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar

German politician and activist (1947-1992)

Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's third wife, after Ahinoam and Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish, when David went into hiding.

Prince of Serbia

Leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement

German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany (1918–1943)

Spanish politician and academic (1934–2024)

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila

Cuban dissident

Cuban blogger, journalist, writer and human rights activist

Italian politician and activist (1930-2016)

Cuban activist (1952-2012)

philosopher, poet, artist, activist (1901–1981)

British-Australian Theravada Buddhist monk (born 1951)

Indian-American social activist (1934–2023)

Polish politician and historian

South African activist (1924-2010)

Italian author, sociologist, social activist (1924-1997)

Christian pacifist and civil rights activist (1885-1967)

Georgian politician

Italian Roman Catholic bishop (1935-1993)

Finnish pacifist (1905–1921)

Philippine historial and journalist

Thai pacifist

Italian philosopher and political activist (1899-1968)

American sociologist

Guatemalan human rights activist

Kunta-Ḥājjī al-Iliskhānī (Kishiev) (; 1800 – 1867) was a Chechen Muslim mystic, the founder of a Sufi branch named Zikrism, and an ideologue of nonviolence and passive resistance. He was a follower of the Qadiriyya Sufi order.

Iranian Islamic scholar