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John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
Václav Havel
Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)
Desmond Tutu
South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)
Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
Vandana Shiva
Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)
Paul Josef Crutzen
Dutch climatologist (1933–2021)
Thomas Piketty
French economist (born 1971)
Mohamed Nasheed
Maldivian politician, 4th president of the second republic of Maldives
Ruud Lubbers
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994
Masanobu Fukuoka
Japanese farmer and philosopher (1913-2008)
Amitav Ghosh
Indian writer
Cornelius Castoriadis
Greek-French philosopher (1922–1997)
Paul Watson
Canadian environmental activist
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Indian academic (1940-2020)
Wubbo Ockels
Dutch physicist and astronaut (1946–2014)
Jadav Payeng
Environmentalist, nature scientist
José María Figueres Olsen
42nd President of Costa Rica (1994-1998)
Bill Mollison
Australian permaculturist (1928–2016)
Vaclav Smil
science author and distinguished professor University of Manitoba
Tim Flannery
Australian scientist and global warming activist
Bianca Jagger
Nicaraguan-British human rights activist and socialite
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Ugandan scientist
Tim Winton
Australian novelist, short story writer, children's writer and screenwriter (born 1960)
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Swedish activist and documentary director
Robert Jungk
Austrian publicist and writer (1913–1994)
Jean-Michel Cousteau
French oceanographic explorer
Zuhal Atmar
Afghan environmentalist and businessperson
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
German physicist
Johan Rockström
Swedish environmental scientist (born 1965)
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Inuit environmentalist
triple bottom line
accounting framework
Clive Hamilton
Australian public intellectual
Prince Jaime, Count of Bardi
Parmese Royal
Nathan Myhrvold
former CTO at Microsoft
David Holmgren
Australian environmental designer
William E. Rees
Canadian ecologist
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
Dutch former politician (born 1937)
Luc Gnacadja
Beninese politician
Anupam Mishra
Indian environmentalist (1947-2016)
Willie Smits
Dutch environmentalist.
Hans Carl von Carlowitz
German forester (1645-1714)
Allan Savory
Zimbabwean scientist
Pieter Winsemius
Dutch former politician
Claudia Kemfert
German economist
Mathis Wackernagel
Swiss sustainability advocate
Mycle Schneider
Nuclear Energy consultant
Cristovam Buarque
Brazilian politician (born 1944)
Philipp Blom
German historian, novelist, journalist and translator
Sombath Somphone
Laotian activist
Bea Johnson
Franco-American environmentalist
Sérgio Trindade
Brazilian chemical engineer and researcher
Pete Bethune
New Zealand conservationist
Kenneth Hsu
professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zuerich, Switzerland
Carl-A. Fechner
German journalist, film director and film producer
Ignacy Sachs
French economist (1927–2023)
Ioannis Chryssavgis
theologian
Will Steffen
Climate scientist (1947–2023)
Ed Nijpels
Dutch former politician
Swami Sundaranand
Indian environmentalist (1926-2020)
Hans Rudolf Herren
Swiss entomologist