List of Atheist Activists and Educators - Other Activists and Educators

Other Activists and Educators

People who are/were activists or educators in other areas (social reform, feminism etc), but who were also atheists.

• Pietro Acciarito (1871–1943): Italian anarchist activist who attempted to assassinate King Umberto I.
• Zackie Achmat (born 1962): South African anti-HIV/AIDS activist; founder of the Treatment Action Campaign.
• Baba Amte (1914–2008): Respected Indian social activist, known for his work with lepers.
• Julian Assange (born 1971): Australian publisher, journalist, media and internet entrepreneur, media critic, writer, computer programmer and political/internet activist.
• Alexander Berkman (1870–1936): anarchist known for his political activism and writing. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century. While living in France, Berkman continued his work in support of the anarchist movement, producing the classic exposition of anarchist principles, Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism.
• Robert Ettinger (1918–2011): American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.
• David D. Friedman (born 1945): Economist, law professor, novelist, and libertarian activist.
• E. Haldeman-Julius (1889–1951): American social reformer and publisher, most noted as the editor of Appeal to Reason newspaper.
• Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989): American political and social activist.
• Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940): Revisionist Zionist (nationalist) leader, author, orator, activist, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.
• Ted Kaczynski (born 1942): American mathematician, social critic, anarcho-primitivist, and Neo-Luddite activist. Also known as the "Unabomber".
• Franklin E. Kameny (born 1925): American gay rights activist and former astronomer.
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921): Russian anarchist communist activist and geographer, best known for his book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, which refutes social Darwinism.
• Taslima Nasrin (born 1962): Bangladeshi physician, writer, feminist human rights activist and secular humanist.
• Ingrid Newkirk (born 1949): British-born animal rights activist, author, and president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the world's largest animal rights organization.
• Deng Pufang (born 1944): Chinese handicap people's rights activist, first son of China's former Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.
• Ron Reagan (born 1958): American magazine journalist, board member of the politically activistic Creative Coalition, son of former U. S. President Ronald Reagan.
• Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939): English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions and the treatment of animals, a noted anti-vivisectionist and pacifist, and a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist, and the man who introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau.
• Margaret Sanger (1879–1966): American birth-control activist, founder of the American Birth Control League, a forerunner to Planned Parenthood. The masthead motto of her newsletter, The Woman Rebel, read: "No Gods, No Masters".
• Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948): Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist and female suffragist.
• Bhagat Singh (1907–1931): Indian revolutionary freedom fighter.
• Marie Souvestre (1830–1905): French headmistress, a feminist educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women.
• David Suzuki (born 1936): Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist.
• Jimmy Wales: co-founder of Wikipedia.
• Aaron Swartz (1986–2012): American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site Reddit, in which he was an equal partner after its merger with his Infogami company.