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Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
playwright, political scientist, historian, journalist, peace activist, labor historian, human rights activist, film director, activist
- New York University, Columbia University
Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006)
journalist, human rights activist, peace activist, poet, activist
- MSU Faculty of Journalism
George Woodcock (1912-1995)
literary critic, poet, historian, biographer, anarchist, peace activist
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Edmond Privat (1889-1962)
peace activist, journalist, poet, Esperantist, historian, playwright, esperantologist
- University of Geneva
Lou Marin (born 1960)
journalist, translator, peace activist, anarchist
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
politician, barrister, journalist, philosopher, autobiographer, essayist, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, memoirist, humanitarian, peace activist, revolutionary, jurist, freedom fighter
- Mahatma Gandhi Museum, Inner Temple
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947)
judge, human rights activist, peace activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, politician, jurist
- University of Tehran
Vera Brittain (1893-1970)
nurse, poet, women's rights activist, pacifist, journalist, peace activist, suffragist
- University of Oxford