Activists
- Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader in 1960's U.S. civil rights struggle
- Majora Carter (born 1966) – MacArthur Genius Award winning founder of Sustainable South Bronx
- Claudette Colvin (born 1939) – first person to protest bus desegregation in the U.S. South (Montgomery, Alabama), March 2, 1955
- Ita Ford (1940–1980) – Maryknoll nun, murdered by Salvadoran death squad
- Ray McGovern (born 1939) – retired Central Intelligence Agency officer turned political activist
- Maurice Paprin (1920–2005) – Mitchell Lama apartments developer and social activist
- Sally Regenhard – 9/11 activist and notable Co-op City resident
- Stephen Spiro – conscientious objector and Vietnam War opponent
- Elizabeth Sturz (1917–2010) – founder Argus Community and Harbor House; folklorist with husband Alan Lomax
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