Simple living advocates

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

Russian author (1828–1910)

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace ( ), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figure in Sufism, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian literature and mystic poetry in general. Today, his translated works are enjoyed all over the world.

American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Zarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas, which he is traditionally believed to have authored, he is described as a preacher and a poet-prophet. Some have claimed, with much scholarly controversy, to find his influence in Heraclitus, Plato, Pythagoras, and, perhaps less controversially, in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, parti

Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)

Uruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician

Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)

Church Father, Archbishop of Constantinople and Christian saint (c. 347–407)

Italian poet (1474–1533)

Romanian-French philosopher and essayist (1911–1995)

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

Mozi, personal name Mo Di,

Norwegian black metal musician

Iranian Prime Minister and President of Iran (1933-1981)

American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1827–1915)

Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895–1976)

British economist (1911–1977)

Thiruvalluvar, commonly known as Valluvar, was an Indian poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economic matters, and love. The text is considered an exceptional and widely cherished work of Tamil literature.

American rock musician

Finnish ecologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman (1932–2020)

American writer

Indonesian politician (1884–1954)

Welsh poet and writer (1871–1940)

American non-denominational spiritual teacher (1908–1981)

Indian revolutionary (1884–1939)

Indian activist and editor

American politician (born 1926)

British environmentalist, writer and philosopher (1928–2009)

American activist and author

American Christian pacifist, anarchist and social activist (1893-1970)

French philosopher (1910–1996)

American activist (1883–1983)

American writer (1929-2012)

German sculptor (1936-2002)

British writer

Franco-American environmentalist

American philosopher (1885–1974)

French physician (1875-1947)

American activist and adventurer

Irish writer

American writer

Dutch writer and reformer (1866–1959)

Environmentalist blogger

Church of the Brethren pastor and academic (1927–2007)

Canadian writer

Daniel James Shellabarger (known as Daniel Suelo, or simply Suelo, and The Man Who Quit Money, born 1961) is an American simple living adherent who stopped using money in the autumn of 2000. He was born in Arvada, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, and once lived for many years in a cave near Moab, Utah, when not wandering the country.

artist and author (1900-1988)

American philosopher and activist (born 1943)