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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—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
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—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)