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
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“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
—Bible: New Testament, Philippians 4:7.