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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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      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, co-founder and 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 advocate for human rights in Israel and Palestine
      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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      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
      Frida Berrigan (born 1974) – American antinuclear activist
      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
      William J. Bichsel ("Bix") (1928–2015) – American Jesuit priest and antinuclear activist
      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
      Robin Briant (born 1939), New Zealand doctor and chair of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
      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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      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
      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 (1937–2022) – British peace activist, researcher, editor
      Jimmy Carter (1924–2024) – 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
      Susan Crane (born c.1943) – American antinuclear activist
      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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      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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      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
      David Eberhardt (born 1941) – American antiwar activist
      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
      Robert Ellsberg (born 1955) – American religious publisher, peace activist and editor
      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 (1938–2021) – 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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      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
      Carol Gilbert (born 1947) – American Dominican nun and antinuclear activist
      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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      Hugo Haase (1863–1919) – German socialist politician, jurist and pacifist
      Haggagovic (born 1984) – world traveler, peace activist, Egyptian television personality
      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
      Katharine Hamnett (born 1947) – English fashion designer, known for designing T-shirts with large-print slogans against war and militarism
      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 (1948–2019) – 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
      Marian Fleming Harwood (1846–1934) – Scottish-born Australian scholar, linguist, pacifist, and philanthropist
      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
      Larry Hebert – Active duty Senior Airman in US Air Force who went on a hunger strike in Washington, D.C., in March and April 2024 to protest U.S. military support of Israel's war in Gaza.
      Fredrik Heffermehl (1938–2023) – 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
      Robert L. Holmes (1935) – American Professor emeritus, international lecturer and theorist of nonviolence, war and morality at the University of Rochester
      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
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      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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      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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      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 (1944–2024) – American pacifist, anti-war activist, imprisoned draft resister, tax resister, nuclear weapons freeze organizer; inspiration to Daniel Ellsberg
      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
      Steve Kelly (born c.1949) – American Jesuit priest and antinuclear activist
      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 (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
      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 (1929–2022) – 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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      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
      Emmanuel Charles McCarthy (born 1940) – American 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
      Ciaran McKeown (1943–2019) – Irish Peace Activist
      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
      Anne Montgomery (1926–2012) – American Roman Catholic nun and antinuclear activist
      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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      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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      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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      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)
      Frida Perlen (1870–1933) – Co-founder of the German section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
      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 (1936–2016) – Spanish-born anti-nuclear and anti-war protester, White House Peace Vigil
      Abbé Pierre (1912–2007) – French priest, founder of the Emmaus movement
      Ardeth Platte (1936–2020) – American Roman Catholic nun and antinuclear activist, and inspiration for Sister Jane Ingalls on Orange is the New Black.
      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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      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 (1951–2019) – 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 (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 (1930–2022) – 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 (1932–2024) – 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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      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 (1931–2023) – 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)
      Aethel Tollemache (1875–1955), British suffragette who became a pacifist, was arrested in London in 1917 (during World War I) for collecting signatures for a peace memorial
      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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      Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) – English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist
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      Jo Vallentine (born 1946) – Australian politician and peace activist
      Alfred Vanderpol (1854–1915) – French engineer, pacifist and writer
      Mordechai Vanunu (born 1954) – Israeli whistleblower
      Krista van Velzen (born 1974) – Dutch politician, pacifist and antimilitarist
      Madeleine Vernet (1878–1949) – French educator, writer and pacifist
      Llorenç Vidal Vidal (born 1936) – Spanish poet, educator and pacifist
      Stellan Vinthagen (born 1964) – Swedish anti-war and nonviolent resistance scholar-activist
      Louis Vitale (1932–2023) – American anti-war activist and Franciscan friar
      Bruno Vogel (1898–1987) – German pacifist and writer
      Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – American anti-war and anti-nuclear writer and protester
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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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      Lluís Maria Xirinacs (1932–2007) – Catalan politician, writer, catholic cleric, nonviolent activist and advocate for the independence of Catalonia.


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      Stephen Yang (1911–2007) – Sichuanese surgeon, educator, Quaker peace activist
      Peter Yarrow (1938–2025) – American singer-songwriter, anti-war activist
      Cheng Yen (born 1937) – Taiwanese Buddhist nun (bhikkhuni) and founder of Tzu Chi Foundation
      Ada Yonath (born 1939) – Israeli Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009, pacifist
      Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) – Japanese writer, feminist, pacifist
      Edip Yüksel (born 1957) – Kurdish-Turkish-American lawyer/author, Islamic peace proponent
      Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) – Pakistani peace advocate
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      George Benedict Zabelka (1915–1992) – chaplain to the aircrews that dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki who later became a convert to the Christian gospel of nonviolence
      L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917) – creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language, fascinated by the idea of a world without war
      Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) – Cuban-born American historian, lawyer in international law and human rights, vociferous critic of military interventions and the use of torture
      Angie Zelter (born 1951) – British anti-war and anti-nuclear activist, co-founder of Trident Ploughshares
      Clara Zetkin (1857–1933) – German Marxist, feminist and pacifist
      Else Zeuthen (1897–1975) – Danish peace activist and feminist
      Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – American historian, writer, peace advocate
      Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) – German writer and anti-war activist
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      Further reading

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: list of peace activists

    list of peace activists