List of Peace Activists

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

• Jane Addams
• Martti Ahtisaari
• Vittorio Arrigoni
• Joan Baez
• Ernesto Balducci
• Daniel Berrigan
• Frida Berrigan
• Philip Berrigan
• Vera Brittain
• Elihu Burritt
• Noam Chomsky
• Rachel Corrie
• David Cortright
• Frances Crowe
• Godfried Danneels
• Dorothy Day
• Élie Ducommun
• Mel Duncan
• Shirin Ebadi
• Albert Einstein
• Daniel Ellsberg
• Tom Fox
• Comfort Freeman
• Mahatma Gandhi
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Arthur Gish
• Otto Hahn
• G. Simon Harak
• Keir Hardie
• George Harrison
• Brian Haw
• Helen Hill
• Sidney Hinkes
• Emily Hobhouse
• Abbie Hoffman
• Aldous Huxley
• Khawaja Zafar Iqbal
• Michael Jackson
• Kathy Kelly
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo
• George Lansbury
• John Lennon
• Julian Lennon
• Charles Lindbergh
• Staughton Lynd
• Paul McCartney
• David McTaggart
• Mairead Corrigan Maguire
• Bob Marley
• Rigoberta Menchú
• Thomas Merton
• Barry Mitcalfe
• Macy Morse
• A.J. Muste
• Abie Nathan
• Huey Newton
• Alfred Nobel
• Laurence Overmire
• Linus Pauling
• Geshe Thubten Phelgye
• Lindis Percy
• Jeannette Rankin
• Dahlia Ravikovitch
• Henry Richard
• Oscar Romero
• Jerry Rubin
• Sophie Scholl
• Colin Scott
• Bobby Seale
• Martin Sheen
• Dick Sheppard
• Toma Sik
• Jeanmarie Simpson
• Samantha Smith
• C. Maxwell Stanley
• Richard Starkey
• Olaf Stapledon
• Cat Stevens
• Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama)
• Eve Tetaz
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• Thomas
• Leo Tolstoy
• Jo Vallentine
• Mordechai Vanunu
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello
• Kurt Vonnegut
• John Wallach
• Jody Williams
• Brian Willson
• John Howard Yoder
• Yoko Ono
• Neil Young
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
• Howard Zinn
• Salman Hashmi