List of peace activists

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This list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate or advocated diplomatic, non-military resolution of international political disputes, usually through nonviolent means. A peace activist is an activist of the peace movement.

• Jane Addams
• Martti Ahtisaari
• Émile Arnaud - French peace campaigner, coined the word "Pacifism"
• Vittorio Arrigoni
• Joan Baez - prominent American anti-war protester, inspirational singer
• Ernesto Balducci
• Daniel Berrigan - prominent anti-Vietnam war protester
• Frida Berrigan
• Philip Berrigan - prominent anti-Vietnam war protester
• James Bevel - prominent anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
• Barry Bonthus - farmer, inventor, anti-Vietnam war protester (Big Lake One)
• Vera Brittain
• Elihu Burritt
• Noam Chomsky - writer, activist, organizer
• Ramsey Clark - American anti-war and anti-nuclear lawyer, activist
• William Sloane Coffin
• Judy Collins - inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, protester
• Rachel Corrie
• David Cortright
• Frances Crowe
• Rennie Davis - prominent anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
• Dorothy Day
• David Dellinger - pacifist, prominent American anti-war leader
• Élie Ducommun
• Mel Duncan
• Shirin Ebadi
• David Eberhardt - poet, teacher, writer, anti-war activist (Baltimore Four)
• Albert Einstein - pacifist, anti-nuclear advocate
• Daniel Ellsberg - anti-war whistleblower, protester
• Tom Fox
• Comfort Freeman
• Alfred Fried - co-founder German peace movement, called for world peace organization.
• Mohandas Gandhi - writer, organizer, protester, and inspiration to movement leaders
• Allen Ginsberg - anti-war protester, writer
• Arthur Gish
• Mikhail Gorbachev - anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency
• Dick Gregory - comedian, anti-war protester
• Tenzin Gyatso - current Dalai Lama, advocate for peace
• Otto Hahn - pacifist, anti-nuclear weapons and testing advocate
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• G. Simon Harak
• Keir Hardie
• Brian Haw - initiated and long time participant, Parliament Square Peace Campaign
• Sidney Hinkes
• Emily Hobhouse
• Abbie Hoffman - anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of Yippies
• Aldous Huxley - anti-war and anti-conflict writer
• Khawaja Zafar Iqbal
• Kathy Kelly
• Robert F. Kennedy - anti-Vietnam war U.S. presidential candidate
• Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Martin Luther King Jr. - pastor, prominent anti-Vietnam war protester, inspiration
• Ron Kovic - Vietnam war veteran, protestor of war
• George Lansbury
• John Lennon - singer songwriter of activist songs, anti-war protestor
• Sidney Lens - anti-Vietnam war leader
• Tom Lewis - artist, anti-war activist (Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine)
• Charles Lindbergh - campaigned against American entry in the second World War
• [[Dr. Gordon Livingston, M.D. - Vietnam war vet, physician, psychiatrist, anti-war activist
• Staughton Lynd - anti-Vietnam war leader
• Eugene McCarthy - U.S. presidential candidate, ran on an anti-Vietnam war agenda
• George McGovern - U.S. Senator, Presidential candidate, anti-Vietnam war agenda
• David McTaggart
• Mairead Corrigan Maguire
• Bob Marley - inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter
• Rigoberta Menchú
• [[Rev. James L. Mengel - USAF vet (Korean War), printer, Christian missionary (Ghana, Korea), auxiliary civilian chaplain (USAF-Korea), pastor, anti-war activist (Baltimore Four)
• Thomas Merton - inspirational writer, philosopher
• Barry Mitcalfe
• A.J. Muste - pacifist, American anti-Vietnam War leader
• Abie Nathan
• Phil Ochs - anti-Vietnam war singer/songwriter, initiated protest events
• Yoko Ono - anti-Vietnam war campaigner in America and Europe
• Laurence Overmire
• Rosa Parks - NAACP civil rights worker, anti-war activist, M. L. King aide
• Linus Pauling - anti-nuclear testing advocate and leader
• Concepcion Picciotto - anti-nuclear and anti-war protestor, White House Peace Vigil
• Peace Pilgrim - walked the highways and streets of America promoting peace
• Lindis Percy
• Jeannette Rankin
• Marcus Raskin
• Dahlia Ravikovitch
• Henry Richard
• Oscar Romero
• Jerry Rubin - anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of the Yippies
• Sophie Scholl
• Pete Seeger - anti-war protestor, inspirational singer/songwriter
• Jeff Sharlet - anti-Vietnam war soldier, journalist
• Martin Sheen - anti-war and anti-nuclear bomb protestor, inspirational American actor
• Dick Sheppard
• Toma Sik
• Jeanmarie Simpson
• Ramjee Singh - Indian peace activist, philosopher and Gandhian
• Samantha Smith - young advocate of peace between Soviets and Americans
• Benjamin Spock - anti-Vietnam war protestor, writer
• Olaf Stapledon
• Cat Stevens
• Tank Man - Stood in front of tank during China protest
• Eve Tetaz
• Thomas - initiated, long-time particpant, White House peace vigil
• Ellen Thomas - long-time participant, White House peace vigil
• Leo Tolstoy - writer on nonviolence, inspiration to movement leaders
• Jo Vallentine
• Mordechai Vanunu
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello
• Kurt Vonnegut - prominent anti-war and anti-nuclear writer and protestor
• Bertha von Suttner
• John Wallach
• Alfred Webre - cooperation in space advocate, other activities
• Jody Williams
• Brian Willson
• Lawrence S. Wittner - peace historian, researcher, and movement activist
• John Howard Yoder
• Neil Young
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
• Howard Zinn - historian, writer, and peace advocate

See also

• Anti-war
• Direct action
• Pacifism
• Peace
• Peace churches
• Resistance movement
• Parliament Square Peace Campaign
• White House Peace Vigil
• List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates