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Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist
John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Patrice Lumumba
Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed
Paulo de Mello Bastos
Brazilian pilot and union leader
Ronald Reagan
American politician; 40th president of the United States
Fidel Castro
Cuban politician and revolutionary
Jimmy Carter
American politician, 39th President of the United States
Nelson Mandela
South African politician, lawyer, activist,; First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist
Fannie Lou Hamer
American civil rights activist
James Baldwin
American writer
George McGovern
American historian and politician
Dani Agron
Israeli militia and businessman
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer and historian
Malcolm X
American human rights activist
Hubert Humphrey
American politician; Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
Spouse of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, prince-consort of the Netherlands
Eva Perón
Argentine actress and politician
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Betty Ford
U.S. First Lady: wife of Gerald Ford
Pete Seeger
American folk singer
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter and folk musician
Rosalynn Carter
American former first lady; Wife of the 39th President, Jimmy Carter
Michael Tippett
English composer
Narayan Apte
Hindu activist and entrepreneur
Phyllis Schlafly
American conservative activist
Coretta Scott King
American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist
Chiara Lubich
Italian founder of the Focolare Movement
Harry Belafonte
American musician and actor
Willi Bleicher
German trade unionist
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actress and activist
Rosa Parks
African-American civil rights activist
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist
Maya Angelou
African-American poet and author
Samuel Beckett
Nobel-winning Irish writer
Maurice Yaméogo
Burkina Faso President