Youth activists

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".

Charles James Kirk was an American right-wing political activist, entrepreneur, and media personality. He co‑founded the conservative student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) in 2012 and served as its executive director until his assassination in 2025. A key ally of Donald Trump, he became one of the most prominent voices of the MAGA movement within the Republican Party, publishing several books and hosting The Charlie Kirk Show.

Hong Kong politician

Palestinian activist

Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an American far-right political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality.

Afghan rapper and activist

Canadian political activist

20th century Belgian cardinal, founder of the Young Christian Workers (1882–1967)

American activist and gun control advocate

Syrian children's education activist

Canadian actress

Argentinian climate activist

youth climate change activist

member of the French resistance (1908-2002)

Indian climate activist

German activist

Kyle Howard Rittenhouse is an American man who gained national attention at age 17 for shooting three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, two fatally, amid protests and riots in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in 2020.

Canadian climate change activist

Sri Lankan actress

Sri Lankan civil servant working for the United Nations as the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth

Thai activist, librarian, publisher and author

Italian Catholic writer (1910–1988)

Colombian activist

Singaporean YouTuber, activist, and content creator

Syrian girl who tweets from Aleppo

DR Congolese politician

Palestinian journalist

Hong Kong pro-independence activist

South African gay rights, AIDS, and anti-apartheid activist (1957-1998)

human rights activist from Yemen

young campaigner for right to food

Irish environmentalist

Pakistani advocating for ending child marriage

civil and human rights organization

Singaporean environmentalist

an early Palestinian activist.

activist for the rights of Afghan women and adolescents

Filipino politician (born 1989)

American investigative journalist, filmmaker, and political activist

nigerian-United Kingdom human rights defender

Hong Kong independence activist

Liberian human rights activist

Burmese activist (1908-2003)

Thai human rights activist and political activist

Cambodian activist

Secretary-General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and former United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth.