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George Farmer (businessman)
George Thomas Stahel Farmer is a British and American entrepreneur and businessman. He is the former chairman of Turning Point UK and the former CEO of Parler and Parlement Technologies. He is the son of Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer, as well as the husband of American political commentator Candace Owens.
Lech Wałęsa
President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)
Robert Mugabe
2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017
Lech Kaczyński
Polish politician, democratic oppositionist, ministry of justice, president of Poland (1949–2010)
JD Vance
James David Vance is an American politician and author serving as the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 2023 to 2025.
Eva Perón
Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)
Giuseppe Conte
Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he is considered an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.
Josephine Baker
American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is an American politician and activist who has served since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
John Michael Talbot
American Roman Catholic singer-songwriter
Mairead Maguire
peace activist (born 1944)
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.
Michael Moore
American filmmaker and author (born 1954)
Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez, known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. His work spans more than six decades of television and film, and his accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Actor Awards. In 1989, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Maximilian Kolbe
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1894–1941)
Óscar Romero
fourth archbishop of San Salvador (1917–1980)
Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
Samantha Smith
American peace activist and child actress (1972–1985)
Lena Horne
American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the prominent Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator and US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of US president John F. Kennedy and US senator Ted Kennedy.
Amanda Gorman
American poet and activist
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Polish Catholic priest, martyr, blessed (1947–1984)
Peter Benenson
English human rights activist (1921-2005)
Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo Yiannopoulos is a British far-right political commentator, whose speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, and social justice. He is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.
Cesar Chavez
Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.
Rafael Caldera
president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 kai from 1994 to 1999
Daniel O'Connell
Irish political leader (1775–1847)
Marsha P. Johnson
Black American queer liberation activist (1945–1992)
Chiara Lubich
Italian founder of the Focolare Movement (1920–2008)
Zilda Arns
Brazilian pediatrician (1934-2010)
Candace Owens
Candace Amber Owens Farmer is an American political commentator, author, and conspiracy theorist. Her political positions have mostly been described as conservative or far-right. She has promoted conspiracy theories on a wide range of subjects throughout her career. Since 2024, she has espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Guido Gezelle
Belgian poet, journalist, teacher, monastery director and priest (1830–1899)
Pier Giorgio Frassati
Pier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
American philanthropist; founder of the Special Olympics; sister of John F. Kennedy (1921–2009)
Nick Fuentes
Nicholas Joseph Fuentes is an American far-right political commentator and livestreamer. He hosts America First, a program that researchers, journalists, and civil-rights organizations have described as promoting white nationalism, white supremacy, Christian nationalism, themes associated with the incel movement, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ positions, and antisemitic views, including Holocaust denial. The show is noted for its use of irony and humor to appeal to younger audiences, a style that observers argue provides Fuentes with plausible deniability for more extreme statements. His supporters, known as "Groypers," form a loose network of primarily young, online activists associated with alt-right politics.
Władysław Bartoszewski
Polish politician and activist (1922–2015)
Sam Brownback
American politician and 46th Governor of Kansas (born 1956)
Charles-Michel de l'Épée
French priest and educator of the deaf
Robert Catesby
English conspirator (died 1605)
Mother Angelica
religious sister (1923-2016)
Jacques Roux
French priest and revolutionary (1752-1794)
Joseph Görres
German writer and journalist (1776-1848)
Pablo Virgilio Siongco David
Filipino Roman Catholic Bishop and Cardinal (born 1959)
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Belgian and French religious sister
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marcos
Adolph Kolping
German catholic priest (1813-1865)
Lucy Burns
American suffragist (1879-1966)
Luigi Orione
Italian Catholic saint, priest, social advocate and religious founder (1872-1940)
Ivan Merz
Bosnian-Croatian academic, Catholic layperson, writer, schoolteacher, polyglot and blessed of the Catholic Church (1896–1928)
Joseph Cardijn
20th century Belgian cardinal, founder of the Young Christian Workers (1882–1967)
Chiara Badano
Italian Blessed
Dorothy Stang
Brazilian activist (1931–2005)
Joseph Cao
Vietnamese-American activist and politician
Irmã Dulce Pontes
Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister (1914-1992)
Norma McCorvey
plaintiff in Roe v. Wade (1947–2017)
Daniel Comboni
Catholic saint, bishop and missionary (1831–1881)