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Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022)
bhikkhu, poet, peace activist, monk, spiritual teacher, religious studies scholar
- Princeton University
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
military officer, poet, translator, publisher, painter, journalist, peace activist, activist shareholder, playwright, bookseller, political activist
- University of Paris, Columbia University
E. P. Thompson (1924-1993)
historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, biographer, labor historian, peace activist, anti-nuclear weapons activist
- University of Cambridge, Dragon School
Douglas James Roche (born 1929)
politician, diplomat, political scientist, peace activist
Horst-Eberhard Richter (1923-2011)
medical specialist, sociologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, neurologist, peace activist
Michael Moore (born 1954)
film director, television presenter, journalist, comedian, autobiographer, film actor, peace activist, film producer
- University of Michigan–Flint, University of Michigan–Dearborn
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
economist, politician, constitutionalist, barrister, jurist, sociologist, anthropologist, pedagogue, philosopher, social reformer, journalist, revolutionary, professor, political scientist, scholar, orator, freedom fighter, historian, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, humanitarian, human rights activist, educational theorist, spiritual leader, peace activist, autobiographer, theologian, painter, women's rights activist, bibliographer, essayist, scholar
- Columbia University, London School of Economics and Political Science
Eugen Drewermann (born 1940)
psychologist, lecturer, psychotherapist, Catholic theologian, priest, peace activist, YouTuber