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This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated
diplomatic , philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through
nonviolent means and methods. Peace
activists usually work with others in the overall
anti-war and
peace movements to focus the world's attention on what they perceive to be the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.
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B. R. Ambedkar
Uri Avnery
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (1964–2011) – Kenyan peace activist, government consultant
David Adams (born 1939) – American author and peace activist, task force chair of the United Nations
International Year for the Culture of Peace , coordinator of the
Culture of Peace News Network
Jane Addams (1860–1935) – American, national chairman of
Woman's Peace Party , president of
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Ruth Adler (1944–1994) – feminist, and human rights campaigner in Scotland
Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34–1999) – Pakistani political scientist, activist
Martti Ahtisaari (1937–2023) – former president of Finland, active in conflict resolution
Robert Baker Aitken (1917–2010) –
Zen Buddhist
Rōshi and anti-war activist,
anti-nuclear testing activist, and proponent of
deep ecology
Tadatoshi Akiba (born 1942) – Japanese pacifist and
nuclear disarmament advocate, former mayor of
Hiroshima
Widad Akrawi (born 1969) – Danish-Kurdish peace advocate, organizer
Stew Albert (1939–2006) – American anti-Vietnam war activist, organizer
Abdulkadir Yahya Ali (1957–2005) – Somali peace activist and founder of the Center for Research and Dialogue in Somalia
B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) – Polymath, economist, jurist, social reformer, civil rights leader, political philosopher and
revivalist of Buddhism in India
Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern, 1902–1992) – German philosopher and a critic of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence
Ghassan Andoni (born 1956) – Palestinian physicist, Christian, advocate of
non-violent resistance
Andrea Andreen (1888–1972) – Swedish physician, pacifist, and feminist
Annot (1894–1981) – German artist, anti-war and
anti-nuclear activist
José Argüelles (1939–2011) – American
New Age author and pacifist
Émile Armand (1872–1963) – French anarchist and pacifist writer
Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) – French peace campaigner, coined the word "pacifism"
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844–1916) – Swedish pacifist, Nobel peace laureate, founder of the
Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
Ya'akov Arnon (1913–1995) – Israeli economist, government official and pacifist
Vittorio Arrigoni (1975–2011) – Italian reporter, anti-war activist
Pat Arrowsmith (1930–2023) – British author and peace campaigner, co-founder of
CND
Arik Ascherman (born 1959) – Israeli-American rabbi and defender of Palestinian human rights
Steve Ashley (born 1946) — British singer-songwriter and peace campaigner
Margaret Ashton (1856–1937) – British suffragist, local politician, pacifist
Nafez Assaily (born 1956) – Palestinian sociologist and long-term advocate of nonviolence
Julian Assange (born 1971) – founder of
WikiLeaks , recipient of numerous prizes and awards, and one of only six people to be recognised with the
Gold medal for Peace with Justice of the Sydney Peace Foundation
Anita Augspurg (1857–1943) – German lawyer, writer, feminist, pacifist
Uri Avnery (1923–2018) – Israeli writer and founder of
Gush Shalom
Mubarak Awad (born 1943) – Palestinian–American advocate of nonviolent resistance, founder of the
Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence
Ali Abu Awwad (born 1972) – Palestinian peace activist and proponent of nonviolence from
Beit Ummar , founder of Taghyeer (Change) Movement
Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970) – Nigerian conflict resolution professional, ombudsman, peace builder and poet
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Medea Benjamin
James Bevel
Elise M. Boulding
José Bové
Caoimhe Butterly
Anton Bacalbașa (1865–1899) – Romanian Marxist and pacifist
Eva Bacon (1909–1994) – Australian socialist, feminist, pacifist
Gertrud Baer (1890–1981) – German Jewish peace activist, and a founding member of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Joan Baez (born 1941) – American anti-war protester, inspirational singer
Matilde Bajer (1840–1934) – Danish feminist and peace activists
Ella Baker (1903–1986) – African-American civil rights activist, feminist, pacifist
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) – American pacifist, leader of
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom , and 1946 Nobel peace laureate
Ernesto Balducci (1922–1992) – Italian priest and peace activist
Roger Nash Baldwin (1884–1981) – American pacifist, leader in Civil Liberties Bureau of
American Union Against Militarism , supporting conscientious objectors to World War I; lifelong civil libertarian, co-founder of
ACLU
Edith Ballantyne (born 1922) – Czech-Canadian peace activist
Mary Barbour (1875–1958) – Scottish socialist, a founder of
the Women's Peace Crusade , local councillor and magistrate; involved in the
Red Clydeside movement
Daniel Barenboim (born 1942) – pianist and conductor, joint founder – with
Edward Said – of the
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra , citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine and Spain
Christine Ross Barker (1866–1940) – Canadian pacifist and suffragist
Ludwig Bauer (1878–1935) – Austro-Swiss writer and pacifist
Archibald Baxter (1881–1970) – New Zealand pacifist, socialist, and anti-war activist
Alaide Gualberta Beccari (1842–1906) – Italian feminist, pacifist and social reformer
Yolanda Becerra (born 1959) – Colombian feminist and peace activist
Henriette Beenfeldt (1878–1949) – radical Danish peace activist
Harry Belafonte (1927–2023) – American anti-war protester, performer
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (born 1948) –
East Timorese bishop, Nobel peace laureate
Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922, Pope 1914–1922) – advocated peace throughout WW1; opposed aerial warfare; promoted humanitarian initiatives to protect children, prisoners of war, the wounded and missing persons
Medea Benjamin (born 1952) – American author, organizer, co-founder of the anti-militarist
Code Pink
Tony Benn (1925–2014) – British Member of Parliament, anti-war and anti-imperialism campaigner, one of the founders of the
Stop the War Coalition
Meg Beresford (born 1937) – British activist,
European Nuclear Disarmament movement
Daniel Berrigan (1921–2016) – American anti-Vietnam war protester, Jesuit (Catholic) priest, poet, author, anti-nuke and war
Philip Berrigan (1923–2002) – American anti-Vietnam war protester, former Josephite (Catholic) priest, author, anti-nuke and war
James Bevel (1936–2008) – American civil rights activist, anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982) – Indian, Gandhian, teacher, author, organizer
Albert Bigelow (1906–1993) – former US Navy officer turned pacifist, skipper of the first vessel to attempt disruption of the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons
Lotte Binder (1888–1930) – Transylvanian pacifist feminist
Doris Blackburn (1889–1970) – Australian social reformer, politician, pacifist
Janet Bloomfield (1953–2007) – British peace and disarmament campaigner, chair of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Bhikkhu Bodhi (born 1944) – American Theravada Buddhist monk and founder of
Buddhist Global Relief
Kees Boeke (1884–1966) – Dutch educator, missionary and pacifist
Beatrice Boeke-Cadbury (1884–1976) – English social activist, educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist
Carl Bonnevie (1881–1972) – Norwegian jurist and peace activist
Bono (born 1960) – Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist; born
Paul David Hewson
Charles-Auguste Bontemps (1893–1981) – French anarchist, pacifist, writer
John Bosco (1815–1888) – Italian priest, educator and author, who devoted his life to disadvantaged youth; founded the
Salesians of Don Bosco and developed the nonviolent
Salesian Preventive System of teaching
Elise M. Boulding (1920–2010) – Norwegian-born American sociologist, specialising in academic peace research
Albert Bourderon (1858–1930) – French socialist and pacifist
José Bové (born 1953) – French farmer, politician, pacifist
Norma Elizabeth Boyd (1888–1985) – African American politically active educator, children's rights proponent, pacifist
Heloise Brainerd (1881–1969) – American women activist, pacifist
Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) – American educator, social reformer, pacifist
Lenni Brenner (born 1937) – American
civil rights activist, opposed to the Vietnam war and strong
opponent of Zionism
Pierre Brizon (1878–1923) – French politician and pacifist
Vera Brittain (1893–1970) – British writer, pacifist
José Brocca (1891–1950) – Spanish activist, international delegate
War Resisters' International , organiser of relief efforts during the Spanish Civil War
Hugh Brock (1914–1985) – lifelong British pacifist and editor of
Peace News between 1955 and 1964
Peter Brock (1920–2006) – British-born Canadian pacifist historian
Fenner Brockway (1888–1988) – British politician and
Labour
MP ; humanist, pacifist and anti-imperialist; opposed conscription and founded the
No-Conscription Fellowship in 1914; first chairperson of the
War Resisters' International (1926–1934); founder member of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and of the charity
War on Want
Emilia Broomé (1866–1925) – Swedish politician, feminist and peace activist
Brigid Brophy (1929–1995) – British novelist, feminist, pacifist
Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – American theologist, suffragist, pacifist
Elihu Burritt (1810–1879) – American diplomat, social activist
Caoimhe Butterly (born 1978) – Irish peace and human rights activist
Maria C. Buțureanu (1872–1919) – Romanian educator and feminist pacifist
Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942) – British
Liberal and later
Labour
MP , philanthropist and peace activist, critical of the
Treaty of Versailles
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Helen Caldicott
Montserrat Cervera Rodon
Judy Collins
Peter Ritchie Calder (1906–1982) – Scottish science journalist, socialist and peace activist
Helen Caldicott (born 1938) – Australian physician,
anti-nuclear activist, revived
Physicians for Social Responsibility , campaigner against the dangers of
radiation
Hélder Câmara (1909–1999) – Brazilian archbishop, advocate of
liberation theology , opponent of military dictatorship
Lydia Canaan – Lebanese singer, first rock star of the
Middle East , risked life to perform under military attack in protest of
Lebanese Civil War
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Marcelle Capy (1891–1962), novelist, journalist, pacifist
Angelo Cardona (born 1997), Colombian peace activist, pacifist
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) – American industrialist and founder of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
April Carter (born 1937) – British peace activist, researcher, editor
Jimmy Carter (born 1924) – American negotiator and former US President, organizer, international conflict resolution
René Cassin (1887–1976) – French jurist, professor, and judge, co-wrote the 1948
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Benny Cederfeld de Simonsen (1865–1952) – Danish peace activist
Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945) – Swiss engineer, founder of
Service Civil International (SCI) or International Voluntary Service for Peace (IVSP)
Montserrat Cervera Rodon (born 1949) – Catalan anti-militarist, feminist, and women's health activist
Félicien Challaye (1875–1967) – French philosopher and pacifist
Émile Chartier (1868–1951) – French philosopher, educator and pacifist
Simone Tanner Chaumet (1916–1962) – French peace activist
Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) – American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist
Helen Chenevix (1886–1963) – Irish suffragist, trade unionist, pacifist
Ada Nield Chew (1870–1945) – British suffragist and pacifist
Molly Childers (1875–1964) – Irish writer, nationalist, pacifist
Noam Chomsky (born 1928) – American linguist, philosopher, and activist
Alice Amelia Chown (1866–1949) – Canadian feminist, pacifist and writer
Howard Clark (1950–2013) – British peace activist, deputy editor of
Peace News and Chair of
War Resisters' International .
Ramsey Clark (1927–2021) – American anti-war and anti-nuclear lawyer, activist, former U.S. Attorney General
Helena Cobban (born 1952) – British peace activist, journalist, author
William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006) – American cleric, anti-war activist
James Colaianni (1922–2016) – American author, publisher, first anti-Napalm organizer
Judy Collins (born 1939) – American anti-war singer/songwriter, protester
Alex Comfort (1920–2000) – British scientist, physician, writer, pacifist, conscientious objector and author of
The Joy of Sex
Alecu Constantinescu (1872–1949) – Romanian trade unionist, journalist and pacifist
Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949) – British politician, socialist, long-time anti-war, anti-imperialism and anti-racism campaigner
Tom Cornell – American anti-war activist, initiated first anti-Vietnam War protest
Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) – American activist for Palestinian human rights
David Cortright – American anti-nuclear weapon leader
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) – American journalist, author, organizer, initiator
Randal Cremer (1828–1908) – British trade unionist and
Liberal
MP (1885–1895, 1900–1908); pacifist; leading advocate for international arbitration; co-founded the
Inter-Parliamentary Union and the
International Arbitration League ; promoted the
Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 ; awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1903)
Frances Crowe (1919–2019) – American pacifist,
anti-nuclear power activist, draft counselor supporting conscientious objectors
Edvin Kanka Ćudić (born 1988) – Bosnian human rights and peace activist, founder and coordinator of
Association for Social Research and Communications (UDIK)
Adam Curle (1916–2006) – Quaker peace activist; first professor of
peace studies in the UK
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Dorothy Day
David Dellinger
Margaretta D'Arcy (born 1934) – Irish actress, writer and peace activist
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (born 1946) – Palestinian professor and peace activist
Thora Daugaard (1874–1951) – Danish feminist, pacifist, journal editor and translator
George Maitland Lloyd Davies (1880–1949) – Welsh pacifist and anti-war campaigner, chair of the
Peace Pledge Union (1946–1949)
Rennie Davis (1941–2021) – American anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
Dorothy Day (1897–1980) – American journalist, social activist, and co-founder of the
Catholic Worker movement
John Dear (born 1959) – American priest, author, and nonviolent activist
Élisabeth Decrey Warner (born 1953) – Swiss peace activist, founder of
Geneva Call
Siri Derkert (1888–1973) – Swedish artist, pacifist and feminist
David Dellinger (1915–2004) – American pacifist, organizer, anti-war leader
Michael Denborough
AM (1929–2014) – Australian medical researcher who founded the
Nuclear Disarmament Party
Dorothy Detzer (1893–1981) – American feminist, peace activist, U.S. secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Amanda Deyo (1838–?) – American Universalist minister, peace activist, correspondent
Mary Dingman (1875–1961) – American social and peace activist
Anita Dobelli (1865–?) – Italian peace activist and pacifist feminist
Alma Dolens (1876–?) – Italian pacifist and suffragist
Frank Dorrel – American peace activist, publisher of
Addicted to War
Ann Druyan (born 1949) – American documentary producer, vocal advocate for nuclear disarmament
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – American socialist, historian, civil rights activist, peace activist and author
Gabrielle Duchêne (1870–1954) – French feminist and pacifist
Muriel Duckworth (1908–2009) – Canadian pacifist, feminist and community activist, founder of
Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace
Élie Ducommun (1833–1906) – Swiss pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Peggy Duff (1910–1981) – British peace activist, socialist, founder and first General Secretary of
CND
Henry Dunant (1828–1910) – Swiss businessman and social activist, founder of the
Red Cross , and the joint first Nobel peace laureate (with
Frédéric Passy )
Roberta Dunbar (died 1956) – American clubwoman and peace activist
Mel Duncan (born 1950) – American pacifist, founding Executive Director of
Nonviolent Peaceforce
B. D. Dykstra (1871–1955) – Dutch American pastor, writer, newspaper editor, and pacifist
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Abdul Sattar Edhi
Hedy Epstein
Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) – American lawyer, suffragist, pacifist, journalist, co-founder of
ACLU
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947) – Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, Nobel peace laureate
Anna B. Eckstein (1868–1947) – German advocate of
world peace
Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928-2016) – Pakistani philanthropist, created the world's largest ambulance network (
EDHI )
Nikolaus Ehlen (1886–1965) – German pacifist teacher
Hans Ehrenberg (1883–1958) – German Jewish philosopher and Christian theologian
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) – German-born American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in physics
Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023) – American anti-war whistleblower, protester, leaked the
Pentagon Papers
Scilla Elworthy (born 1943) – British Quaker, founded the
Oxford Research Group and
Peace Direct ; advised in setting up
The Elders
James Gareth Endicott (1898–1993) – Canadian missionary, initiator, organizer, protester
Hedy Epstein (1924–2016) – Jewish-American antiwar activist, escaped Nazi Germany on the
Kindertransport ; active in opposition to Israeli military policies
Gladys del Estal (1956–1979) – Basque ecological activist, shot dead by the
Guardia Civil at a protest against the
Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant and the
Bardenas firing range
Dorothy Evans (1888–1944) – Hunger-striking British
suffragette , secretary of
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Jodie Evans (born 1954) – American political activist, co-founder of
Code Pink , initiator, organizer, filmmaker
Maya Evans – British peace campaigner, arrested for reading out, near
The Cenotaph , the names of British soldiers killed in Iraq
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Mildred Fahrni (1900–1992) – Canadian pacifist, feminist, internationally active in the peace movement
Andrew Feinstein (born 1964) – South African activist against the arms trade; first member of the South African Parliament to introduce a motion on the Holocaust
Michael Ferber (born 1944) – American author, professor, anti-war activist
Benjamin Ferencz (1920–2023) – American chief prosecutor at the
Einsatzgruppen Trial
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021) – American poet, painter, peace and social activist
Hermann Fernau (born 1883) – German lawyer, writer, journalist and pacifist
Solange Fernex (1934–2006) – French peace activist and politician
Beatrice Fihn (born 1982) – Swedish anti-nuclear activist, chairperson of
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Genevieve Fiore (1912–2002) – American women's rights and peace activist
Ingrid Fiskaa (born 1977) – Norwegian politician and peace activist
Jane Fonda (born 1937) – American anti-war protester, actress
Henni Forchhammer (1863–1955) – Danish educator, feminist and pacifist
Jim Forest (1941–2022) – American author, international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship
Randall Forsberg (1943–2007) – led a lifetime of research and advocacy on ways to reduce the risk of war, minimize the burden of
military spending , and promote democratic institutions; career started at the
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in 1968
Tom Fox (1951–2006) – American Quaker
Diana Francis (born 1944) – British peace activist and scholar, former president of the
International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Ursula Franklin (1921–2016) – German-Canadian scientist, pacifist and feminist, whose research helped end atmospheric nuclear testing
Marcia Freedman (born 1938) – American-Israeli peace activist, feminist and supporter of gay rights
Comfort Freeman – Liberian anti-war activist
Maikki Friberg (1861–1927) – Finnish educator, journal editor, suffragist and peace activist
Alfred Fried (1864–1921) – co-founder of German peace movement, called for world peace organization
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Mahatma Gandhi
Emma Goldman
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of
Tibet on the 2006 United States
Congressional Gold Medal
Arun Manilal Gandhi (1934–2023) – Indian, organizer, educator, grandson of Mohandas
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) – Indian, writer, organizer, protester, lawyer, inspiration to movement leaders
Alfonso García Robles (1911–1991) – Mexican diplomat, the driving force behind the
Treaty of Tlatelolco , setting up a nuclear-free zone in
Latin America and
the Caribbean . Awarded 1982
Nobel Peace Prize
Saadia Gardezi – Pakistani journalist and founder of
Project Dastaan
Eric Garris (born 1953) – American activist, founding webmaster of
antiwar.com
Martin Gauger (1905–1941) – German jurist and pacifist
Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) – Liberian peace activist, organizer of women's peace movement in Liberia, awarded 2011
Nobel Peace Prize
Aviv Geffen (born 1973) – Israeli singer and peace activist
Everett Gendler (1928–2022) – American conservative rabbi, peace activist, writer
Olive Gibbs (1918–1995) – British politician, founding member of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and second to serve as its chair, 1964–1967
Jeremy Gilley (born 1969) – as a result of Gilley's efforts, a General Assembly resolution was unanimously adopted by UN member states, establishing 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace – Peace Day.
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) – American anti-war protester, writer, poet
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) – Italian politician and cosponsor of the first Italian legislation on conscientious objection to military service, co-founder of the Catholic/ecumenical
Focolare movement dedicated to unity and universal fraternity.
Arthur Gish (1939–2010) – American public speaker and peace activist
Bernie Glassman (1939–2018) – American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of
Zen Peacemakers
Danny Glover (born 1946) – American actor and anti-war activist
Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927) – Hungarian educator, pacifist and women's rights activist
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I
Amy Goodman (born 1957) – American journalist, host of
Democracy Now!
Paul Goodman (1911–1972) – American writer, psychotherapist, social critic, anarchist philosopher and public intellectual
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) – Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency. In 1993 he launched
Green Cross International and in 1995 initiated the
World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates .
Jean Goss (1912–1991) – French non-violence activist
Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 1930) – Austrian pacifist and theologian
Dorothy Granada (born 1930) – American nurse, humanitarian, and peace and social justice activist who was the 1997 recipient of the
International Pfeffer Peace Award
Lorraine Granado (1948–2019) – American environmental, peace and social justice activist and organizer who co-founded the Colorado People's Environmental and Economic Network and Neighbors for a Toxic-Free Community in Denver
Jonathan Granoff (born 1948) – Co-founder and President,
Global Security Institute
William Grassie (born 1957) – American nonviolence activist
Jürgen Grässlin (born 1957) – teacher and activist against
arms exports , especially of
small arms (
Heckler & Koch )
Wavy Gravy (born 1936) – American entertainer and activist for peace
Great Peacemaker – Native American co-founder of the
Iroquois Confederacy , author
Great Law of Peace
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) – American comedian, anti-war protester
Irene Greenwood (1898–1992) – Australian feminist, peace activist and broadcaster
Richard Grelling (1853–1929) – German lawyer, writer and pacifist
Ben Griffin (born 1977) – former
British
SAS soldier and
Iraq War veteran
Suze Groeneweg (1875–1940) – Dutch politician, feminist and pacifist
Edward Grubb (1854–1939) – English Quaker, pacifist, active in the
No-Conscription Fellowship
Emil Grunzweig (1947–1983) – Israeli teacher and peace activist
Gerson Gu-Konu , also Gerson Konu (1932–2006) – Peace and human rights activist from
Togo
J. Edward Guinan (1936–2014) – Founder of the
Community for Creative Non-Violence
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) – American anti-war protester and musician, inspiration
Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) – 14th Dalai Lama of
Tibet ,
Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and spiritual and
formerly temporal ruler of Tibet and the
Tibetan Government-in-Exile
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Václav Havel
Brian Haw
Jessie Wallace Hughan
Hugo Haase (1863–1919) – German socialist politician, jurist and pacifist
Lucina Hagman (1853–1946) – Finnish feminist, politician, pacifist
Otto Hahn (1879–1968) – German chemist, discoverer of
nuclear fission ,
Nobel Laureate , pacifist, anti-nuclear weapons and testing advocate
Jeanne Halbwachs (1890–1980) – French pacifist, feminist and socialist
Jeff Halper (born 1946) – American anthropologist and Israeli peace activist, founder of the
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
France Hamelin (1918–2007) – French artist, peace activist and resistance worker
Eugénie Hamer (1865–after 1926) – Belgian peace activist and writer
Judith Hand (born 1940) – American biologist, pioneer of peace
ethology
Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen (1864–1939) – Norwegian teacher, shipowner, politician and founder of the Norwegian Peace Association
Eline Hansen (1859–1919) – Danish feminist and peace activist
G. Simon Harak (born 1948) – American professor of theology, peace activist
Keir Hardie (1856–1915) – Scottish socialist and pacifist, co-founder of
Independent Labour Party and
Labour Party , opposed
WWI
Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) – American suffragist, social reformer, pacifist and diplomat
David Harris (1946–2023) – American anti-war organizer and draft resistance leader; later a journalist and author
George Harrison (1943–2001) – English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer, achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of
The Beatles ; religious and anti-war activist
David Hartsough (born 1940) – American Quaker peace activist
Rhoda Hatch (1946–2020) – American peace activist who organized protests against
Operation Desert Storm
Marii Hasegawa (1918–2012) – Japanese peace activist and president (1971–1975) of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Václav Havel (1936–2011) – Czech nonviolent writer, poet, and politician
Brian Haw (1949–2011) – British activist, initiated and long time participant of the
Parliament Square Peace Campaign
Tom Hayden (1939–2016) – American civil rights activist, anti-Vietnam war leader, author, California politician
Wilson A. Head (1914–1993) – American/Canadian sociologist, activist
Brad Heckman – Founder of the New York Peace Institute, artist and activist
Fredrik Heffermehl (born 1938) – Norwegian jurist, writer and peace activist
Idy Hegnauer (1909–2006) – Swiss nurse and peace activist
Estrid Hein (1873–1956) – Danish ophthalmologist, women's rights activist and pacifist
Arthur Henderson (1863–1935) – British politician,
Labour Party leader,
Foreign Secretary , chair of the
Geneva Disarmament Conference ,
Nobel Peace Prize 1934
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) – American Christian pacifist, anarchist and social activist
Yella Hertzka (1873–1948) – Austrian peace and women's rights activist
Alice Herz (1882–1965) – German-born feminist and anti-fascist who was the first person in the U.S. to
self-immolate in protest against the
Vietnam War
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) – Polish-born American rabbi, professor at Jewish Theological Seminary, civil rights and peace activist
Bono (born 1960) – Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist; born Paul David Hewson
Paul David Hewson (born 1960) – Irish singer-songwriter; see
Bono above
Hiawatha (1525–?) – Native American co-founder of the
Iroguois League and co-author of the
Great Law of Peace
Sidney Hinkes (1925–2006) – British pacifist and Anglican priest
Raichō Hiratsuka (1886–1971) – Japanese writer, political activist, feminist and pacifist
Unutea Hirshon (born 1947) – French Polynesian anti-nuclear activist
Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) – British welfare campaigner, pacifist, and anti-war activist, publicly denounced the existence of the
British concentration camps in
South Africa
Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989) – American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of
Yippies
Ann-Margret Holmgren (1850–1940) – Swedish writer, feminist, and pacifist
Margaret Holmes ,
AM (1909–2009) – Australian activist during the
Vietnam War , member
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
Inger Holmlund (1927–2019) – Swedish anti-nuclear activist
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) – English novelist; feminist, socialist and pacifist; active in the
Independent Labour Party and
League of Nations Union
Alec Horsley (1902–1993) – British Quaker businessman, founder of the company which became
Northern Foods , member of the
Common Wealth Party , the
Committee of 100 , founding member of
CND
Ellen Hørup (1871–1953) – Danish writer, pacifist, and women's rights activist
Nobuto Hosaka (born 1955) – Japanese politician, mayor of Setagaya in Tokyo; campaigned and won the mayor's job on an
anti-nuclear platform in April 2011, just over a month after the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – American writer, social activist, peace advocate, author of the
Mother's Day Proclamation
Helmuth Hübener (1925–1942) – executed at the age of 17 in
Nazi Germany for distributing anti-war leaflets
Kate Hudson (born 1958) – British left-wing political activist and academic; General Secretary of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and National Secretary of
Left Unity ; officer of the
Stop the War Coalition since 2002
Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875–1955) – founder of the
War Resisters League ; socialist and radical pacifist
Emrys Hughes (1894–1969) – Welsh socialist member of the British Parliament, where he was an outspoken pacifist
Laura Hughes (1886–1966) – Canadian feminist and pacifist
Hannah Clothier Hull (1872–1958) – American Quaker activist, in the leadership of
WILPF in the US
John Hume (1937–2020) – Irish
Nobel Peace Prize and
Gandhi Peace Prize recipient, former leader of the
Social Democratic and Labour Party , and former MP for
Foyle 1983–2005
John Peters Humphrey (1905–1995) – Canadian scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate, wrote the first draft of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) – English pacifist, anti-war and anti-conflict writer
Marian Fleming Harwood (1846–1934) – Scottish-born Australian scholar, linguist, pacifist, and philanthropist
Melki Sedek Huang (born 2000) – Indonesian activist and
sex offender who formerly served as Chairman of The Student Executive Board at
University of Indonesia
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Daisaku Ikeda
Miguel Giménez Igualada (1888–1973) – Spanish anarchist, writer, pacifist
Daisaku Ikeda (1928–2023) – Japanese Buddhist leader, writer, president of
Soka Gakkai International , and founder of multiple educational and peace research institutions
Kathleen Innes (1883–1967) – British educator, writer, pacifist
Margaret Isely (1921–1997) – American peace activist and co-founder of
WCPA
Philip Isely (1915–2012) – American peace activist, writer and founder of
WCPA & GREN
Henriette Ith (1885–1978) – Swiss pacifist, Esperantist, author
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Kirthi Jayakumar
Berthold Jacob (1898–1944) – German journalist and pacifist
Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) – Dutch physician, feminist and peace activist
Martha Larsen Jahn (1875–1954) – Norwegian peace activist and feminist
Jean Jaurès (1859–1914) – French anti-war activist, socialist leader
Kirthi Jayakumar (born 1987) – Indian peace activist and gender equality activist, youth peace activist, peace educator and founder of The Red Elephant Foundation
Zorica Jevremović (1948–2023) – Serbian playwright, theatre director, peace activist
Jigonhsasee – co-founder, along with The
Great Peacemaker and
Hiawatha , of the
Iroquois Confederacy , she became known as the Mother of Nations among the Iroquois.
Tano Jōdai (1886–1982) – Japanese English literature professor, peace activist and university president
John Paul II (1920–2005) – Polish Catholic pope, inspiration, advocate
Helen John (1937–2017) – British activist, one of the first full-time members of the
Greenham Common peace camp
Hagbard Jonassen (1903–1977) – Danish botanist and peace activist
Alice Jouenne (1873–1954) – French educator and socialist activist
Terasawa Junsei (born 1950) – Japanese Buddhist monk and peace activist
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Tawakkol Karman
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947) – Bulgarian educator, writer, suffragist, feminist, pacifist
Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) – Yemeni journalist, politician and human rights activist; shared 2011 Nobel Peace prize
Randy Kehler (born 1944) – American pacifist, anti-war activist, imprisoned draft resister, tax resister, nuclear weapons freeze organizer
Helena Kekkonen (1926–2014) – Finnish peace activist and peace educator
Helen Keller (1880–1968) – American activist, deafblind writer, speech "Strike Against The War" Carnegie Hall, New York 1916
Kathy Kelly (born 1952) – American peace and anti-war activist, arrested over 60 times during protests; member and organizer of international peace teams
Petra Kelly (1947–1992) – German politician, feminist, pacifist
Bruce Kent (1929–2022) – British political activist, former Catholic priest; anti-nuclear campaigner with the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and president of the
International Peace Bureau
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) – Pashtun independence activist, spiritual and political leader, lifelong pacifist
Wahiduddin Khan (1925–2021) – Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist
Abraham Yehudah Khein (1878–1957) – Ukrainian rabbi, essayist, pacifist
Steve Killelea – initiated
Global Peace Index and
Institute for Economics and Peace
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) – American author, civil rights leader, and active in the anti-Vietnam war movement
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) – Civil rights leader, American anti-Vietnam war protester
Anna Kleman (1862–1940) – Swedish suffragist and peace activist
Michael D. Knox (born 1946) – founder of US Peace Memorial Foundation, antiwar activist, psychologist, professor
Adam Kokesh (born 1982) – American activist,
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Annette Kolb (1870–1967) – German writer and pacifist
Ron Kovic (born 1946) – American Vietnam war veteran, war protester
Paul Krassner (1932–2019) – American anti-Vietnam war organizer, writer, Yippie co-founder
Dennis Kucinich (born 1946) – former U.S. Representative from Ohio, advocate for US Department of Peace
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Henri La Fontaine
John Lennon
Bertie Lewis
Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943) – Belgian initiator, organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Léonie La Fontaine (1857–1949) – Belgian feminist and pacifist
William Ladd (1778–1841) – early American activist, initiator, first president of the
American Peace Society
Benjamin Ladraa (born 1982) – Swedish activist
Bernard Lafayette (born 1940) – American organizer, educator, initiator
Maurice Laisant (1909–1991) – French anarchist and pacifist
George Lakey (born 1937) – American peace activist, co-founder of the
Movement for a New Society
Grigoris Lambrakis (1912–1963) – Greek athlete, physician, politician, activist
Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) – German writer, anarchist, pacifist
Elena Landázuri (1888–1970) – Mexican feminist, pacifist, and social worker
Lanza del Vasto (1901–1981) – Italian Gandhian, philosopher, poet, nonviolent activist
Christian Lous Lange (1869–1938) – Norwegian historian and pacifist
Alexander Langer (1946–1995) – Italian journalist, peace activist and politician
George Lansbury (1859–1940) – British politician and Christian pacifist;
Labour Party Leader (1932–1935); campaigner for social justice and women's rights and against imperialism; opposed
WW1 ; campaigned for disarmament in the 1920s and 1930s; president of the
Peace Pledge Union (1937)
Roger Allen LaPorte (1943–1965) – American
Catholic Worker who
self-immolated in protest against the
Vietnam War
André Larivière (born 1948) – Canadian ecologist and anti-nuclear activist
Bryan Law (1954–2013) – Australian non-violent activist
Louis Lecoin (1888–1971) – French anarchist and pacifist
Urbain Ledoux (1874–1941) – American
Baháʼí diplomat and activist
John Lennon (1940–1980) – British singer/songwriter, anti-war protester
Sidney Lens (1912–1986) – American anti-Vietnam war leader
Muriel Lester (1885–1968) – British social reformer, pacifist and
nonconformist ; Ambassador and Secretary for the
International Fellowship of Reconciliation ; co-founder of the
Kingsley Hall
Captain Howard Levy – Army Captain sent to
Leavenworth Military Prison for over two years for refusing an order to train Green Beret medics on their way to Vietnam.
Bertie Lewis (1920–2010) – RAF airman who went on to become a U.K. peace campaigner
Thomas Lewis (1940–2008) – American artist, anti-war activist with (Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine)
Bart de Ligt (1883–1938) – Dutch anarchist, pacifist and antimilitarist
Georgia Lloyd (1913–1999) – American pacifist, writer
Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875–1944) – American pacifist, suffragist, feminist
Gabriele Moreno Locatelli (1959–1993) – Italian pacifist
Grace Lolim (fl. 2000) – Kenyan human rights and peace activist
James Loney (born 1964) – Canadian peace worker, kidnap victim
Isabel Longworth (1881–1961) – Australian dentist and peace activist
Lee Lorch (1915–2014) – Canadian mathematician and peace activist
Fernand Loriot (1870–1932) – French teacher and pacifist
Lowkey (born 1986) – British
rapper and peace activist; opposed to the invasion of Iraq and US/UK foreign policy more generally
David Loy (born 1947) – American scholar, author and
Sanbo Kyodan Zen Buddhist teacher
Chiara Lubich (1920–2008) – Italian Catholic mystic and founder of
Focolare movement, advocate of unity amongst Christians, interreligious dialogue and cooperative relations between religious and non-religious people. Promoted "universal fraternity".
Rae Luckock (1893–1972) – Canadian feminist, peace activist and politician
Sigrid Helliesen Lund (1892–1987) – Norwegian peace activist
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) – German Marxist and anti–war activist
Jake Lynch (born 1964) – peace journalist, academic and writer
Staughton Lynd (born 1929) – American anti-Vietnam war leader
Bradford Lyttle (born 1927) – American pacifist, writer, presidential candidate, and organizer with the
Committee for Non-Violent Action
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Nelson Mandela
Rigoberta Menchú
Alaa Murabit
Wangari Maathai (1940–2011) –
Kenyan environmental activist, Nobel peace laureate
John Maclean (1879–1923) – Scottish radical socialist, who saw
capitalism as the root of war
Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937) – Scottish politician, feminist, pacifist
Salvador de Madariaga (1886–1978) – Spanish diplomat, historian and pacifist
Carmen Magallón (born 1951) – Spanish physicist, pacifist, conducting research in support of women's advancement in science and peace
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) – American anti-war writer, war protester
Mairead Maguire (born 1944) – Northern Ireland peace movement, Nobel peace laureate
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) – South African statesman, leader in the anti-apartheid movement and post-apartheid reconciliation, founder of
The Elders , inspiration
Rosa Manus (1881–1942) – Dutch pacifist and suffragist
Bob Marley (1945–1981) – Jamaican, inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, inspiration
Jacques Martin (1906–2001) – French pacifist and Protestant pastor
Yoko Matsuoka (1916–1979) – Japanese anti-war activist, writer, and feminist
Elizabeth McAlister (born 1939) – American former nun, peace activist, and co-founder of
Jonah House
Colman McCarthy (born 1938) – American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, anarchist, and long-time peace activist
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) – U.S. presidential candidate, ran on an anti-Vietnam war agenda
John McConnell (1915–2012) – American peace activist, creator of
Earth Day
George McGovern (1922–2012) – U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, anti-Vietnam war agenda
Keith McHenry (born 1957) – American co-founder of
Food Not Bombs
David McReynolds (1929–2018) – leader in U.S.
War Resisters League for 40 years, chair of
War Resisters' International , organizer of major national anti-Vietnam War demonstrations
David McTaggart (1932–2001) – Canadian activist against
nuclear weapons testing , co-founder
Greenpeace International
Monica McWilliams (born 1954) – Northern Irish academic, peace activist, human rights defender and former politician. She was delegate at the Multi-Party Peace Negotiations, which led to the
Good Friday Peace Agreement in 1998.
Jeanne Mélin (1877–1964) – French pacifist, feminist, writer, and politician
Adrienne van Melle-Hermans (1931–2007) – Dutch anti-nuclear peace activist, also active in ex-Yugoslavia
Marjorie Bradford Melville (born 1929) – Member of the
Catonsville Nine
Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959) – Guatemalan indigenous rights advocate, anti-war activist, and co-founder of
Nobel Women's Initiative
Chico Mendes (1944–1988) – Brazilian environmentalist, trade union leader, and human rights advocate of peasants and indigenous peoples; assassinated in 1988
Frank Merrick (1886–1981) – English composer, pianist, conscientious objector
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) – American
Trappist monk and poet, inspirational writer, philosopher
Johanne Meyer (1838–1915) – pioneering Danish suffragist, pacifist, and journal editor
Karl Meyer (born 1937) – American pacifist and tax resister
Selma Meyer (1890–1941) – Dutch pacifist and resistance fighter of Jewish origin
Fred Mfuranzima (born 1997) – Rwandan writer, peace activist
Kizito Mihigo (1981–2020) – Rwandan Christian singer; genocide survivor; dedicated to forgiveness, peace and reconciliation after the
1994 genocide
Olga Misař (1876–1950) – Austrian peace activist and writer
Barry Mitcalfe (1930–1986) – a leader of the New Zealand movement against the Vietnam War and the
New Zealand anti-nuclear movement
Malebogo Molefhe (born
c. 1980) –
Botswanan activist against
gender-based violence
Eva Moltesen (1871–1934) – Finnish-Danish writer and peace activist
Roger Monclin (1903–1985) – French pacifist and anarchist
Agda Montelius (1850–1920) – Swedish philanthropist, feminist and peace activist
E. D. Morel (1873–1924) – British journalist, author, pacifist and politician; opposed the
First World War and campaigned against slavery in the Congo
Simonne Monet-Chartrand (1919–1993) – Canadian women's rights activist, feminist, and pacifist
Howard Morland (born 1942) – American journalist, nuclear weapons abolitionist
Norman Morrison (1933–1965) – American Quaker who
set himself on fire in protest against the
Vietnam War
Sybil Morrison (1893–1984) – British pacifist active in the
Peace Pledge Union
Émilie de Morsier (1843–1896) – Swiss feminist, pacifist and abolitionist
John Mott (1865–1955) – American evangelist, leader of the
YMCA and
WSCF , 1946 Nobel peace laureate
Bobby Muller (born 1946) – Vietnam vet and driving force behind campaign to ban landmines, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize
Alaa Murabit (born 1989) – Libyan Canadian
physician and human rights advocate for inclusive peace and security
Craig Murray (born 1958) – British former diplomat turned
whistleblower , human rights activist and anti-war campaigner
John Middleton Murry (1889–1957) – British author, sponsor of the Peace Pledge Union, and editor of Peace News 1940–1946
A. J. Muste (1885–1967) – American pacifist, organizer, anti-Vietnam War leader
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Abie Nathan
Fumiko Nakamura (1913–2013) – Japanese teacher and anti-war activist.
Ottfried Nassauer (1956–2020) – German journalist and researcher, activist for
arms control and against arms exports
Abie Nathan (1927–2008) – Israeli
humanitarian , founded
Voice of Peace radio, met with all sides of a conflict
Ezra Nawi (1952–2021) – Israeli human rights activist and pacifist
Paul Newman (1925–2008) – American anti-war protester, actor
Gabriela Ngirmang (1922–2007) – Palauan peace and anti-nuclear activist
Mrs. Ba Thanh Ngo (1931–2004) – Vietnamese anti-war and peace activist
Elizabeth Pease Nichol (1807–1897) – suffragist, chartist, abolitionist, anti-vivisectionist, member of the
Peace Society
Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874–1964) – German professor, famous for the book The Biology of War
Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) – German anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor, imprisoned in
Sachsenhausen and
Dachau , vocal pacifist and campaigner for disarmament
Anna T. Nilsson (1869–1947) – Swedish educator and peace activist
Philip Noel-Baker (1889–1982) – British
Labour Party politician, Olympic silver medallist, active campaigner for disarmament,
Nobel Peace Prize 1959, co-founder with
Fenner Brockway of the World Disarmament Campaign
Louise Nørlund (1854–1919) – Danish feminist and peace activist
Sari Nusseibeh (born 1949) – Palestinian activist
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Billboard displaying
Yoko Ono's artwork Imagine Peace
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) – American anti-Vietnam war singer/songwriter, initiated protest events
Paul Oestreich (1878–1959) – German
educator , board member of the "German Peace Society" in 1921– 1926
Paul Oestreicher (born 1931) – German-born British human rights activist, Canon emeritus of
Coventry Cathedral , Christian pacifist, active in post-war reconciliation
Yoko Ono (born 1933) – Japanese anti-Vietnam war campaigner in America and Europe
Ciaron O'Reilly (born 1960) – Australian pacifist, anti-war activist, Catholic Worker, served prison time in America and Ireland for disarming war material
Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938) – German pacifist, Nobel peace laureate, the opponent of Nazi rearmament
Geoffrey Ostergaard (1926–1990) – British political scientist, academic, writer, anarchist, pacifist
Laurence Overmire (born 1957) – American poet, author, theorist
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Medha Patkar
Peace Pilgrim
Abbé Pierre
Achola Pala – Kenyan anthropologist and sociologist
Olof Palme (1927–1986) – Swedish prime minister, diplomat
Ellen Palmstierna (1869–1941) – Swedish women's rights and peace activist
Marian Cripps, Baroness Parmoor (1878–1952) – British anti-war activist
Medha Patkar (born 1954) – Indian activist for
Tribals and
Dalits affected by dam projects
Frédéric Passy (1822–1912) – French economist, peace activist and joint recipient (together with
Henry Dunant ) of the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901)
Ron Paul (born 1935) – American author, physician, former U.S. congressman and Presidential candidate, anti-war activist,
libertarian Republican
Ava Helen Pauling (1903–1981) – American human rights activist, feminist, pacifist
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) – American anti-nuclear testing advocate and leader
James Peck (1914–1993) – American anti-war and civil rights activist; advocate of nonviolent civil disobedience
Priscilla Hannah Peckover (1833–1931) – English pacifist, nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize
Mattityahu Peled (1923–1995) – Israeli scholar, officer and peace activist
Miko Peled (born 1961) – Israeli peace activist, author of the book The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
Lindis Percy (born 1941) – British nurse, midwife, pacifist, founder of the
Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
Gabrielle Petit (1860–1952) – French feminist activist, anticlerical, libertarian socialist, newspaper editor
Ann Pettitt (born 1947) – co-founder of
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Concepción Picciotto (born 1945?) – Spanish-born
anti-nuclear and anti-war protester, White House Peace Vigil
Abbé Pierre (1912–2007) – French priest, founder of the
Emmaus movement
Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) – American activist, walked the highways and streets of America promoting peace
Amparo Poch y Gascón (1902–1968) – Spanish anarchist, pacifist and physician
Ronald Podrow (1926–2004) – American pacifist and peace activist
Paula Pogány (1884–1982) – Hungarian peace activist, suffragist, and conditioning/strength coach
Maria Pognon (1844–1925) – French writer, feminist, suffragist and pacifist
Joseph Polowsky (1916–1983) – American GI, advocate of better relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union between 1955 and 1983
Pomnyun Sunim (born 1952) – South Korean author, peace activist,
YouTuber
Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot (1897–1989) – Dutch economist, feminist, pacifist
Vasily Pozdnyakov (1869–1921) – Russian conscientious objector and writer
Manasi Pradhan (born 1962) – Indian activist; founder of Honour for Women National Campaign
Devi Prasad (1921–2011) – Indian activist and artist
Harriet Dunlop Prenter (1865/1866–1939) – Canadian feminist, pacifist
Christoph Probst (1919–1943) – German pacifist and member of the anti-Nazi White Rose resistance
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Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) – German pacifist, 1927 Nobel peace laureate
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Coleen Rowley
Jim Radford (1928–2020) – British social, political and peace activist, Britain's youngest D-Day veteran, folk singer and co-organiser of the first
Aldermaston March in 1958
Gabrielle Radziwill (1877–1968) – Lithuanian pacifist, feminist and League of Nations official
Clara Ragaz (1874–1957) – Swiss pacifist and feminist
Abdullah Abu Rahmah – Palestinian peace activist
Milan Rai (born 1965) – British writer and anti-war activist
Justin Raimondo (born 1951) – American author, anti-war activist, founder of
Antiwar.com
Cornelia Ramondt-Hirschmann (1871–1957) – Dutch teacher, feminist and pacifist
José Ramos-Horta (born 1949) – East Timorese politician, head of the
United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau , Nobel peace laureate
Michael Randle (born 1933) – British peace activist and co-organiser of the first
Aldermaston March
Darrell Rankin (born 1957) – Canadian peace activist and Communist politician
Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, lifelong pacifist
Marcus Raskin (1934–2017) – American social critic, opponent of the Vietnam war and the draft
Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005) – Israeli poet and peace activist
Betty Reardon (1929) – founder and director of the Peace Education Center and Peace Education Graduate Degree Program at
Teachers College, Columbia University
Madeleine Rees (fl. from 1990s) – British lawyer, human right and peace proponent
Ernie Regehr – Canadian peace researcher
Eugen Relgis (1865–1987) – Romanian writer, pacifist and anarchist
Patrick Reinsborough (born 1972) – American anti-war activist and author
Maixux Rekalde (1934–2022) – Spanish Basque pacifist, activist, and journalist
Megan Rice SHCJ (1930–2021) – Sister of the Holy Child and antinuclear disarmament activist
Henry Richard (1812–1888) – Welsh Congregationalist minister and
Member of Parliament (1868–1888), known as "the Apostle of Peace" / "Apostol Heddwch", advocate of international arbitration, secretary of the
Peace Society for forty years (1848–1884)
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953) – English mathematician, physicist, pacifist, pioneer of modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting and their application to studying the causes of war and how to prevent them
Renate Riemeck (1920–2003) – German historian and Christian peace activist
Paul Robeson (1898–1976) – American singer, actor, anti-fascist political activist, and vocal opponent of the
Cold War
Ellen Robinson (1840–1912) – British peace campaigner
Julian Perry Robinson (1941–2020) – British peace researcher
Adi Roche (born 1955) – Irish activist, chief executive of the charity
Chernobyl Children International
Douglas Roche (1929) – Canadian author, parliamentarian, diplomat, and peace activist
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) – Russian visionary artist and mystic, creator of the
Roerich Pact and Nobel Peace Prize candidate
Amelia Rokotuivuna (1941–2005) – Fijian opponent of French nuclear tests in the Pacific
Madeleine Rolland (1872–1960) – French translator and peace activist; sister of
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) – French dramatist, novelist, essayist, anti-war activist
Óscar Romero (1917–1980) – Archbishop of San Salvador (Catholic), assassinated for his stand against social injustice and violence, canonized 14 October 2018
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) – American pacifist, organized the 1948 United Nations'
Universal Declaration of Human Rights , first
Gandhi Peace Award winner
Martha Root (1872–1939) – American
Baháʼí traveling teacher
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973) – historian and social philosopher, whose work spanned the disciplines of history, theology, sociology, linguistics and beyond
Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) – German Jewish theologian (rabi) and philosopher
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) – American author, political theorist, historian, staunch opponent of military interventions
Elisabeth Rotten (1882–1964) – German-born Swiss peace activist and education reformer
Coleen Rowley (born 1954) – ex-FBI agent, whistleblower, peace activist, and the first recipient of the
Sam Adams Award
Arundhati Roy (born 1961) – Indian writer, social critic and peace activist
Jerry Rubin (1938–1994) – American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of the
Yippies
Hagar Rublev (1954–2000) – Israeli peace activist, founder of
Women in Black
Otto Rühle (1874–1943) – German Marxist and pacifist
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) – British philosopher, logician, mathematician, outspoken advocate of
nuclear disarmament
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) – American nonviolence,
Anti-racism and
LGBT
Quaker activist
Han Ryner (1861–1938) – French anarchist philosopher, pacifist
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Carl Sagan
Teresa Sarti Strada
Albert Schweitzer
Cindy Sheehan
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) – American astronomer, opposed escalation of the
nuclear arms race
Mohamed Sahnoun (1931–2018) – Algerian diplomat, peace activist,
UN envoy to
Somalia and to the
Great Lakes region of Africa
Edward Said (1935–2003) – Palestinian-American academic and cultural critic, joint founder with
Daniel Barenboim of the
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Avril de Sainte-Croix (1855–1939) – French feminist, pacifist and writer
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) – Russian nuclear physicist, human rights activist, and pacifist
Ada Salter (1866–1942) – English Quaker and pacifist, a founding member of
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Ed Sanders (born 1939) – American poet, organizer and singer, co-founder of anti-war band
The Fugs
Teresa Sarti Strada (1946–2009) – Italian teacher, pacifist and philanthropist who co-founded the NGO
Emergency
Mark Satin (born 1946) – American political theorist, anti-war proponent, draft-resistance organizer, philosopher, and writer
Gerd Grønvold Saue (born 1930) – Norwegian writer and peace activist
Jean-René Saulière (1911–1999) – French anarchist and pacifist
Henriette Sauret (1890–1976) – French feminist, author, pacifist, journalist
Jonathan Schell (1943–2014) – American writer and campaigner against nuclear weapons, anti-war activist
Manon Schick (born 1974) – Swiss-German journalist, human rights activist
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) – German student and Christian pacifist, active in the
White Rose non-violent
resistance movement in Nazi Germany
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) – German-French activist against nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon testing whose speeches were published as Peace or Atomic War ; co-founder of
The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
Kailash Satyarthi (born 1954) – child activist, Bachpan Bachao Aandolan, Nobel Peace Prize
Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948) – Hungarian feminist, pacifist and suffragist
Molly Scott Cato (born 1963) – British green economist, Green Party politician, pacifist, and anti-nuclear campaigner
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) – American singer, anti-war protester and inspirational singer/songwriter
Margarethe Lenore Selenka (1860–1922) – German zoologist, feminist, and pacifist
Ravi Shankar (born 1956) – Indian spiritual teacher, humanitarian leader, and ambassador of peace
Mary Shapard (c. 1882–1950s) – American author and peace activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; she was reportedly the first American to advocate for the formation of a "league of nations" during
World War I and was also reportedly the source of the original text used by U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson to draft his
Covenant of the League of Nations
Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969) – American journalist and anti-Vietnam war soldier
Gene Sharp (1928–2018) – American writer on non-violent resistance, founder of the
Albert Einstein Institution
H. James Shea Jr. (1939–1970) – American politician and anti-Vietnam War activist
Cindy Sheehan (born 1957) – American anti-Iraq and anti-Afghanistan war leader
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878–1916) – Irish feminist, peace activist and writer
Martin Sheen (born 1940) – American anti-war and anti-nuclear bomb protester, inspirational actor
Nancy Shelley
OAM (died 2010) –
Quaker who represented the
Australian peace movement at the UN in 1982
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) – English Romantic poet, non-violent philosopher, and inspiration
Dick Sheppard (1880–1937) – Anglican priest and Christian pacifist, started the
Peace Pledge Union
David Dean Shulman (born 1949) – American indologist, humanist, peace activist and defender of Palestinian human rights
Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (1885–1969) – German theologian and pacifist
Toma Sik (1939–2004) – Hungarian-Israeli peace activist
Vivian Silver (1949–2023) – Canadian-Israeli peace activist, Palestinian rights activist, and women's rights activist, killed in the
Hamas attack on 7 October 2023
Jeanmarie Simpson (born 1959) – American feminist and peace activist
Ramjee Singh (born 1927) – Indian activist, philosopher, and Gandhian
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 1938) –
President of Liberia , shared 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with
Tawakkol Karman and
Leymah Gbowee in recognition of "their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"
Sulak Sivaraksa (born 1932) – Thai writer and
engaged Buddhist activist
Samantha Smith (1972–1985) – American schoolgirl, young advocate of peace between Soviets and Americans
Julia Solly (1862–1953) – British-born South African suffragist, feminist and pacifist
Miriam Soljak (1879–1971) – New Zealand feminist, communist, unemployed-rights activist and pacifist
Myrtle Solomon (1921–1987) – British General Secretary of the
Peace Pledge Union and Chair of
War Resisters' International
Cornelio Sommaruga (born 1932) – Swiss diplomat, president of the
ICRC (1987–1999), founding President of
Initiatives of Change International
Donald Soper (1903–1998) – British Methodist minister, president of the
Fellowship of Reconciliation and active in the
CND
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) – American pediatrician, anti-Vietnam war protester, writer, inspiration
Hope Squire (1878–1936) – British composer, pianist, and activist
Helene Stähelin (1891–1970) – Swiss mathematician and peace activist
Ringo Starr (born 1940) – British singer-songwriter, member of The Beatles
Helen Steven (1942–2016) – Scottish
Quaker and co-founder of the Scottish Centre for Nonviolence
Cat Stevens (born 1948) – British singer-songwriter, convert to Islam, and humanitarian
Lilian Stevenson (1870–1960) – Irish peace activist and historiographer
Joffre Stewart (1925–2019) – American poet, anarchist, and pacifist
Frances Benedict Stewart (fl. 1920s–1950s) – Chilean-born American sociologist, pacifist, feminist and
Baháʼí Faith pioneer
Yehuda Stolov (born 1961) – Founding director of the Interfaith Encounter Association
Gino Strada (1948–2021) – Italian surgeon, anti-war activist, human rights activist, and founder of
Emergency
David Swanson (born 1969) – American anti-war activist, blogger and author
Ivan Supek (1915–2007) – Croatian physicist, philosopher, peace activist and writer
Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914) – Czech-Austrian pacifist, first woman Nobel peace laureate
Helena Swanwick (1864–1939) – British feminist and pacifist
Irma Szirmai (1867–1958) – Hungarian feminist and pacifist
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Leo Tolstoy
Kathleen Tacchi-Morris (1899–1993) – British dancer, founder of Women for World Disarmament
Tamanend (c. 1625–c. 1701) – known as a lover of peace and friendship, the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle Clan of the
Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signed the Peace Treaty with
William Penn
Guri Tambs-Lyche (1917–2008) – Norwegian women's rights activist and pacifist
Tank Man – Stood in front of the tank during 1989 China protest
Peter Tatchell (born 1952) – Australian-born British LGBT and human rights campaigner, founder of Christians for Peace
Eve Tetaz (born 1931) – retired American teacher, peace and justice activist
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) – Vietnamese
Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, and inspirator of
engaged Buddhism
Jean-Marie Tjibaou (1936–1989) – Activist for the New Caledonia movement
Thomas (1947–2009) – American anti-nuclear activist, White House peace vigil
Ellen Thomas (born 1947) – American peace activist, White House peace vigil
Helen Thomas (1966–1989) – Welsh peace activist who died after being hit by a police vehicle at the
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Dorothy Thompson (1923–2011) – English historian and peace activist
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) – American writer, philosopher, inspiration to movement leaders
Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976) – British actress and pacifist; member of the Peace Pledge Union who gave readings for its benefit
Setsuko Thurlow (born 1932) – Japanese-Canadian non-nuclear weapon activist, figure of
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) – Russian writer on nonviolence, inspiration to Gandhi, Bevel, and other movement leaders
Aya Virginie Touré – Ivorian peace activist, proponent of non-violent resistance
Jakow Trachtenberg (1888–1953) – Russian engineer and pacifist
André Trocmé (1901–1971), with his wife Italian-born
Magda (1901–1996) – French Protestant pacifist pastor, saved many Jews in
Vichy France
Benjamin Franklin Trueblood (1847–1916) – 19th century American writer, editor, organizer, pacifist, active in the American Peace Society
Barbara Grace Tucker – Australian born peace activist, long time participant of the
Parliament Square Peace Campaign
Titia van der Tuuk (1854–1939) – Dutch feminist and pacifist
Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) – South African cleric, initiator, anti-apartheid, Nobel Peace Prize 1984
Clara Tybjerg (1864–1941) – Danish feminist, peace activist and educator
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Lillian Wald (1867–1940) – American nurse, writer, human rights activist, suffragist and pacifist
Julia Grace Wales (1881–1957) – Canadian academic and pacifist
John Wallach (1943–2002) – American journalist, founder of
Seeds of Peace
Sam Walton (born 1980s) – British Quaker, arrested (later acquitted) for attempting to disarm warplanes being used to bomb
Yemen ; CEO of
Free Tibet
Alyn Ware (born 1962) – New Zealand peace educator and campaigner, global coordinator for
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament since 2002
Roger Waters (born 1943) – English musician, co-founder of
Pink Floyd , and anti-war activist
Christopher Weeramantry (1926–2017) – President of the
International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms , former Sri Lankan Supreme Court Judge
Matilda Widegren (1863–1938) – Swedish educator and committed peace activist
Owen Wilkes (1940–2005) – New Zealand peace researcher and activist
Anita Parkhurst Willcox (1892–1984) – American artist, feminist, pacifist
Betty Williams (1943–2020) – Nobel peace laureate for her work towards bringing about reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Jody Williams (born 1950) – American anti-landmine advocate and organizer, Nobel peace laureate
Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944) – American historian, feminist and pacifist
Waldo Williams (1904–1971) – Welsh language poet, Christian pacifist and Quaker, opposed the Korean War and conscription, imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes which could fund war
George Willoughby (1914–2010) – American Quaker peace activist, co-founder of the
Movement for a New Society and of
Peace Brigades International
Brian Willson (born 1941) – American veteran, peace activist and lawyer
George Winne Jr. (1947–1970) – American student who
immolated himself in protest against the
Vietnam War
Lawrence S. Wittner (born 1941) – American peace historian, researcher, and movement activist
Lilian Wolfe (1875–1974) – British anarchist, pacifist, feminist
Walter Wolfgang (1923–2019) – German-born British activist
Ann Wright (born 1947) – retired US army colonel and State Department official who resigned in opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, becoming a peace activist and antiwar campaigner
Louise Wright (1861–1935) – Danish philanthropist, feminist and peace activist
Mien van Wulfften Palthe (1875–1960) – Dutch feminist, suffragist and pacifist
David Wylie (born 1929) – American attorney, author, and peace activist
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Cheng Yen
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Angie Zelter
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Ludel, Wallace (23 February 2021).
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, and founder of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore, has died, aged 101" .
The Art Newspaper . Retrieved 3 March 2021 . These experiences, particularly witnessing the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombing, turned Ferlinghetti into a lifelong pacifist and anti-war activist.
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Williams, Nadya (February 2021).
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a veteran for peace" . Obituary.
Morning Star . Retrieved 3 March 2021 . The turning point in Ferlinghetti's life came in late September 1945 as he walked the streets of Nagasaki, Japan, six weeks after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city by his country's government. ... Among the 40,000 Japanese who were incinerated on the day of August 9 was one who was drinking tea at the time. ... Ferlinghetti picked up that person's teacup; it had flesh and bone fused into it. The cup has now sat on the mantelpiece of his home for 75-and-a-half years. ... In all his prodigiously creative works, he never missed the opportunity to chastise the absurdity of materialism, the obscenity of war and the soullessness of profit-driven destruction.
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