Miscellaneous Activists & Dissidents
25 entries in the Miscellaneous Activists & Dissidents compendium.
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Uri AvneryIsraeli peace activist who met Arafat during the Siege of Beirut.Ulrike MeinhofGerman left-wing militant and founding member of the Red Army Faction.Wang Dan (dissident)Chinese dissident and scholar exiled after Tiananmen Square protests.Wei JingshengChinese dissident who spent 18 years in prison for advocating democracy.Wilma MankillerFirst woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.Alexander ZakharchenkoPro-Russian separatist leader of the Donetsk People's Republic.Anna WalentynowiczHer firing ignited the strike that birthed Solidarity.Bertha von SuttnerAustrian noblewoman, pacifist, and first female Nobel Peace Prize winner.Betty WilliamsBetty Williams was a Northern Irish peace activist born on 22 May 1943 in Belfast. Her fatBoris SavinkovRevolutionary, terrorist organizer, writer, and anti-Bolshevik leader.Caroline ChisholmEnglish humanitarian who aided immigrant women and families in Australia.Catherine Helen SpenceScottish-born Australian writer, preacher, and social reformer.Charles Perkins (Aboriginal activist)Aboriginal activist, soccer player, and public administrator.Clara ZetkinGerman Marxist theorist and women's rights activist.Douglas NichollsSir Douglas Ralph Nicholls (9 December 1906 – 4 June 1988) was a Yorta Yorta man who becamErnst RöhmCo-founder and leader of the Nazi SA, assassinated in 1934.Ernst ThälmannGerman communist leader who opposed both the SPD and the Nazis.Hans SchollHans Fritz Scholl was a co-founder of the White Rose, a German resistance movement that opInna ShevchenkoUkrainian feminist leader of FEMEN, topless activist.Irena SendlerPolish humanitarian who saved Jewish children during the Holocaust.Kate SheppardOrganised the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition that made New Zealand the first country to esSophie SchollSophie Scholl (1921–1943) was a member of the German resistance in World War II. She was bTommy RobinsonBritish far-right activist and co-founder of the English Defence League.Vinayak Damodar SavarkarIndian nationalist who formulated Hindutva and advocated Hindu unity.William Walker (filibuster)American filibuster who briefly ruled Nicaragua.
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