activist

An activist is an individual who intentionally works to bring about social, political, environmental, or economic change through organized actions such as advocacy, protest, education, and community engagement.

Aliases (47)

• labor activist ×10
• LGBT rights activist ×6
• mental health advocate ×4
• political reformer ×4
• voting rights activist ×4
• arts advocate ×3
• democracy activist ×3
• political organizer ×3
• American political activist ×2
• anti-colonial activist ×2
• social justice activist ×2
• socialist activist ×2
• Chicago activist ×1
• Indian activist ×1
• LGBT rights advocate ×1
• LGBTQ+ activist ×1
• LGBTQ+ rights activist ×1
• addiction treatment advocate ×1
• agrarian activist ×1
• anti-Castro activist ×1
• anti-Zionist activist ×1
• anti-corruption activist ×1
• anti-lynching activist ×1
• breast cancer activist ×1
• cancer activist ×1
• cannabis rights activist ×1
• charity campaigner ×1
• civil liberties activist ×1
• consumer advocate ×1
• disability rights activist ×1
• far-right activist ×1
• far-right political activist ×1
• feminist pioneer ×1
• gender equality activist ×1
• healthcare reformer ×1
• humanitarian activist ×1
• labor reformer ×1
• labor rights activist ×1
• language activist ×1
• left-wing activist ×1
• liberal activist ×1
• medical cannabis activist ×1
• mental health campaigner ×1
• political activists ×1
• same-sex marriage activist ×1
• social-justice advocate ×1
• temperance advocate ×1

Instances (129)

• Ava Helen Pauling ("civil liberties activist")
• George Clooney
• Allan Octavian Hume ("political reformer")
• Lyman Beecher ("temperance advocate")
• John Muir
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver
• Vandana Shiva
• Nancy Goodman Brinker ("cancer activist")
• Bayard Rustin ("political organizer")
• Joan Baez
• Fannie Lou Hamer ("voting rights activist")
• Queen Noor of Jordan
• Common
• Manuel Artime ("anti-Castro activist")
• Alicia Nash ("mental health advocate")
• Talib Kweli
• Mos Def
• Barlow
• Marion Wiesel
• Sophie Grégoire Trudeau ("mental health advocate")
• Amy Rule ("arts advocate")
• Stokely Carmichael ("political organizer")
• James Obergefell ("LGBT rights activist")
• Florence Nightingale (as nurse and organizer of medical care) ("healthcare reformer")
• Norman Thomas
• Jackie Goldberg
• Jakob von Uexkull
• Alexei Navalny ("anti-corruption activist")
• Kate Gleason ("feminist pioneer")
• Marcus Garvey
• Aptheker ("American political activist")
• Boris Nemtsov ("democracy activist")
• Maya Moore ("social justice activist")
• Patrick J. Kennedy ("mental health advocate")
• Amelia Boynton Robinson ("voting rights activist")
• Rick DeVos ("arts advocate")
• Dustin Lance Black ("LGBT rights activist")
• Emma Freud ("charity campaigner")
• George Walker (minister) ("political reformer")
• William Morris ("socialist activist")
• Helen Fabela Chávez ("labor activist")
• August Spies ("labor activist")
• Michael Schwab ("labor activist")
• Billie Jean Moffitt ("gender equality activist")
• Albert Parsons ("labor activist")
• Daniel Quasar ("LGBTQ+ activist")
• Aung San Suu Kyi ("democracy activist")
• Colin Kaepernick ("social justice activist")
• Women of the Arab Spring ("political activists")
• Peter Gabriel
• David Mullins ("LGBTQ+ rights activist")
• Ava DuVernay
• Frances Perkins ("labor activist")
• Wincenty Witos ("agrarian activist")
• Sergei Udaltsov ("left-wing activist")
• Patrick Dodson
• Christopher Lawford
• Suzanne Goldberg ("LGBT rights advocate")
• Ralph Nader ("consumer advocate")
• Angel McClary Raich ("medical cannabis activist")
• Brian Turner
• Sümeyye Erdoğan
• Awni Abd al-Hadi ("anti-colonial activist")
• James Forman ("political organizer")
• Annie Lee Cooper ("voting rights activist")
• Ashley Biden
• Ida B. Wells ("anti-lynching activist")
• Stanisław Narutowicz
• William English Walling ("labor reformer")
• Florence Kelley ("political reformer")
• Shepard Fairey
• Adolph Fischer ("labor activist")
• Alice Walker
• Roger Nash Baldwin
• Stephen Fry ("LGBT rights activist")
• Alexander Bernstein ("arts advocate")
• Jessie Little Doe Baird ("language activist")
• Allen Ginsberg
• Ethel Kennedy ("social-justice advocate")
• Common (musician)
• Lawrence Lessig
• Kwame Nkrumah ("anti-colonial activist")
• Askia Touré
• Maulana Karenga
• Betty Ford ("addiction treatment advocate")
• Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo
• Shana Knizhnik
• Sonia Sanchez
• Nikki Giovanni
• Kido Takayoshi ("political reformer")
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• Adrienne Rich
• May Morris ("socialist activist")
• Michael J. Fox
• Chancelor Johnathan Bennett
• Karl Harrer ("far-right activist")
• Gandhi family ("Indian activist")
• America Ferrera
• Louis Lingg ("labor activist")
• Oscar Neebe ("labor activist")
• Olivia Newton-John ("breast cancer activist")
• Geena Davis
• June Jordan
• Al Raby ("Chicago activist")
• Itagaki Taisuke ("liberal activist")
• George Engel ("labor activist")
• Samuel Fielden ("labor activist")
• Yolanda King
• Abrams ("voting rights activist")
• Willie Nelson
• Ida Darwin ("mental health campaigner")
• Helen Keller ("disability rights activist")
• Billy Barty
• Martin Luther King III
• Rosalynn Carter ("mental health advocate")
• Anthony Shriver
• Louise Little
• Leigh Blake ("humanitarian activist")
• Anton Drexler ("far-right political activist")
• Alyssa Milano
• Corazon C. Aquino ("democracy activist")
• Mary Cheney ("LGBT rights activist")