A list of real-life social/political activists with their own articles on this wiki.
For activists who were elected to political offices, please see Politicians and Heads of State instead.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- J. J. Abrams
- Calpernia Addams
- Adele
- Max Adler
- Philip Ahn
- Alan Alda
- Desiree Akhavan
- Muhammad Ali
- Chad Allen
- Nancy Allen
- Kirstie Alley
- Pamela Anderson
- Jennifer Aniston
- Niels Arestrup
- Charles Aznavour
- Johnny Appleseed
- Samaire Armstrong
- Rosanna Arquette
- Joan Baez
- Josephine Baker
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Brigitte Bardot
- Bob Barker
- Billy Barty
- Angela Bassett
- Kim Basinger
- Jennifer Beals
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Harry Belafonte
- Michael Bell
- Chloe Bennet
- Melissa Benoist
- Alexandra Billings
- Björk
- Paul Blackthorne
- Linda Blair
- Rowan Blanchard
- Orlando Bloom
- Chadwick Boseman
- John Boyega
- Billy Bragg
- Marlon Brando
- Louis Braille
- Russell Brand
- Jamie Brewer
- Pierce Brosnan
- James Brown
- Jackson Browne
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- Saffron Burrows
- Nick Cannon
- Gina Carano
- Orson Scott Card
- Diahann Carroll
- Cesar Chavez
- Don Cheadle
- Margaret Cho
- Charlotte Church
- Johnny Clegg
- David Clennon
- George Clooney
- Coluche
- Adam Conover
- Jennifer Coolidge
- Nicola Correia-Damude
- Bill Cosby
- Marion Cotillard
- Nicola Coughlan
- Jacques Cousteau
- James Cromwell
- Sheryl Crow
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Liam Cunningham
- John Cusack
- Jon Cryer
- Claire Danes
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Richard Dawkins
- Rosario Dawson
- Angela Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Doris Day
- Rebecca Dayan
- Ruby Dee
- Dana Delany
- Robert De Niro
- Emily Deschanel
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Victoria Dillard
- Nyle DiMarco
- Shannen Doherty
- Frederick Douglass
- Fran Drescher
- Patty Duke
- Irene Dunne
- Ava DuVernay
- Ivan Dixon
- Bob Dylan
- Lina Esco
- Chris Evans
- Brian Eno
- Jeff Fahey
- Edie Falco
- Mike Farrell
- Mia Farrow
- Julie Fernandez
- Carrie Fisher
- Betty Ford
- Harrison Ford
- Herman Van Veen
- Jane Fonda
- Michael J. Fox
- Stephen Fry
- Peter Gabriel
- Josh Gad
- Lady Gaga
- Neil Gaiman
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Gael García Bernal
- Marcus Garvey
- Richard Gere
- Ricky Gervais
- Marla Gibbs
- Danny Glover
- Humberly González
- Matthew Good
- Amanda Gorman
- Ryan Gosling
- Woody Guthrie
- Khrystyne Haje
- Mark Hamill
- Margaret Hamilton
- Daryl Hannah
- Tom Hanks
- Chris Hansen
- Sarah Harmer
- Woody Harrelson
- Anne Hathaway
- Amber Heard
- Dana Heath
- Tippi Hedren
- Charlton Heston
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
- Laurie Holden
- Robert Hooks
- Lena Horne
- Helena Howard
- Tenoch Huerta
- Langston Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- Marsha Hunt
- Samuel L. Jackson
- LeBron James
- Jay-Z
- Elton John
- Magic Johnson
- Angelina Jolie
- Ashley Judd
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Helen Keller
- Jack Kevorkian
- Alicia Keys
- Margot Kidder
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mia Kirshner
- Eartha Kitt
- Fela Kuti
- Kendrick Lamar
- k.d. lang
- Brie Larson
- Cyndi Lauper
- Lucy Lawless
- Misty Lee
- Spike Lee
- Rachelle Lefevre
- John Lennon
- Julius Lester
- Jared Leto
- Leona Lewis
- John Lewis
- Rush Limbaugh
- Graham Linehan
- Gina Lollobrigida
- Jennifer Lopez
- Audre Lorde
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Elizabeth Ludlow
- Joanna Lumley
- Diego Luna
- Zoë Lund
- Ali MacGraw
- Macklemore
- Shirley MacLaine
- Gavin MacLeod
- Madeleine Madden
- Madonna
- Nicole Maines
- Nelson Mandela
- J. P. Manoux
- Miriam Margolyes
- Nicole Maines
- Meghan Markle
- Bob Marley
- Chase Masterson
- Brian May
- Paul McCartney
- Matt McGorry
- Rose McGowan
- Virginia McKenna
- Jess McLeod
- Rove McManus
- Russell Means
- M.I.A.
- Alyssa Milano
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Michael Moore
- Tom Morello
- Zión Moreno
- Kathryn Morris
- Ulrich Mühe
- Kathy Najimy
- Paul Newman
- Olivia Newton-John
- Cynthia Nixon
- Lloyd Nolan
- Edward Norton
- Sinéad O'Connor
- Sandra Oh
- Babatunde Olatunji
- Edward James Olmos
- Elliot Page
- Hayden Panettiere
- Pat Parker
- Dolly Parton
- Pedro Pascal
- Adrian Paul
- Alexandra Paul
- Gregory Peck
- Jordan Peele
- Ross Perot
- Katy Perry
- Pauley Perrette
- Joaquin Phoenix
- River Phoenix
- P!nk
- Brad Pitt
- Natalie Portman
- Lauren Potter
- Mark Povinelli
- Daniel Radcliffe
- Rage Against the Machine
- Sara Ramirez
- Franchesca Ramsey
- Robert Redford
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Christopher Reeve
- Rob Reiner
- Leah Remini
- Alan Rickman
- José Rizal
- Chappell Roan
- Tim Robbins
- Edward G. Robinson
- Henry Rollins
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Michael Rosen
- Mark Ruffalo
- John Ruskin
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Kendrick Sampson
- Jose Rafael Cordero Sanchez
- Susan Sarandon
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Hunter Schafer
- Steven Seagal
- Nick Searcy
- Tom Selleck
- Yara Shahidi
- Shakira
- Tupac Shakur
- Al Sharpton
- Martin Sheen
- Michael Sheen
- Kuba Sienkiewicz
- Alicia Silverstone
- Gary Sinise
- Sirusho
- Jonathan Slavin
- Ayoola Smart
- Will Smith
- Jimmy Smits
- Liza Soberano
- Bahar Soomekh
- Kevin Sorbo
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Mira Sorvino
- Wendie Jo Sperber
- Steven Spielberg
- Amandla Stenberg
- Patrick Stewart
- Sting
- August Strindberg
- Sally Struthers
- Sugizo
- Donald Sutherland
- George Takei
- Kensington Tallman
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Marlo Thomas
- Emma Thompson
- Tessa Thompson
- Justin Timberlake
- Noa Tishby
- Peter Tosh
- Leon Trotsky
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Sophie Turner
- Desmond Tutu
- Tomi Ungerer
- Usher
- Robert Vaughn
- Jon Voight
- Roger Waters
- Emma Watson
- Kanye West
- Alissa White-Gluz
- Jesse Williams
- Vanessa Williams
- Alex Winter
- Stevie Wonder
- Evan Rachel Wood
- Alfre Woodard
- Danny Woodburn
- Shailene Woodley
- Jeffrey Wright
- Malcolm X
- Andrew Yang
- Neil Young
- Alexis G. Zall
- Luna Bella Zamora
- Carmen Zapata
- Frank Zappa
- Xiran Jay Zhao
- Émile Zola
