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Social Reformers and Revolutionaries
Please link Geni profiles of reformers and revolutionaries to this project - notables can be added to the list below.
See also Dissident Freedom Activists Worldwide
Definitions:
- Reformer - a disputant who advocates reform
- Revolutionary - a person engaged in political revolution.
Bold links are to Geni Profiles.
A
- Pedro Abad Santos, (1876-1945) Filipino Marxist politician. He founded the Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas or Philippine Socialist Party in 1932.
- Samuel Adams (1722-1803) US revolutionary, statesman
- Jane Addams (1860-1935) US social worker, suffragist
- Saul Alinsky, (1909-1972) US political activist
- Susan B. Anthony. (1820-1906) US social reformer, suffragist
- Mary Austin, (1868-1934) US writer, suffragist
B
- Gracchus Babeuf, (1760-1797) French early revolutionary socialist and one of the leaders of the Conspiracy of the Equals
- Mikhail Bakunin, (1814-1876) Russian anarchist
- Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
- Andrés Bonifacio, (1863-1897) Filipino freemason and revolutionary leader
- William Booth (1829-1912) British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell, (1825-1921) US abolitionist, feminist, clergy
- Albert Brisbane (1809–1890) an American utopian socialist, chief popularizer of the theories of Charles Fourier in the US
- Josephine Elizabeth Butler (1828-1906) Victorian era British feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes.
C
- Maria Weston Chapman, (1806-1885) US abolitionist, editor
- Hugo Chávez, (1954-2013) Venezuelan politician, revolutionary and military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013.
- Camilo Cienfuegos, (1932-1959) Cuban revolutionary. One of the major figures of the Cuban Revolution, he was considered second only to Fidel Castro among the revolutionary leadership.
D
- Georges Jacques Danton, (1759-1794) French revolutionary leader, orator
- Angela Davis, (1944-____) US political activist, revolutionary, author
- Dorothy Day, (1897-1980) US editor, humanitarian, women's rights advocate
- Eugene Debs, (1855-1926) US labor organizer
- Deng Xiaoping, (1904-1997) Chinese revolutionary, politician, and statesman
- Frederick Douglass, (1818-1895) American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
- W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963) US writer, social reformer
E
- Marian Wright Edelman, (1939-____) US social reformer, lawyer, author
F
- John Fairbairn (1794 – 1864) - newspaper proprietor, educator, financier and politician of the Cape Colony.
- Susan Faludi, (1959-____) US writer, feminist
- Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham, (1815-1864) US social reformer, lecturer
- Betty Friedan, (1921-2006) US feminist, activist, writer
- Margaret Fuller, (1810-1850) US critic, social reformer, writer
G
- Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Emma Goldman, (1869-1940) US anarchist
- Horace Greeley, (1811-1872) US newspaper editor, reformer
- Germaine Greer, (du Feu) born 1939. Australian born reformer, author, educator
- Dick Gregory, (1932-____) US comedian, author, political activist
- Angelina Grimke, (1805-1979) US abolitionist, women's rights advocate
- Che Guevara, (1928-1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.
- Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, (1934-2012) revolutionary who led the guerrilla force Second National Front of Escambray during the Cuban Revolution against Fulgencio Batista and later opposed the government of Fidel Castro over its pro-Soviet leanings.
H
- Clara McBride Hale, (1905-1992) US social reformer
- Lewis Hine (1874-1940) American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States
- Abbie Hoffman, (1936-1989) US political activist
- Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910) US social reformer
- Dolores Huerta, (1930-____) US Chicana activist, labor leader
J
- Jesse Jackson, (1941-____) US civil rights leader, minister, politician
- Sonia Johnson, () US activist, religious leader
K
- Sally Kempton, (1943-____) US writer, feminist
- Ellen Key, (1849-1926) Swedish writer, feminist
- Coretta Scott King, (1927-2006) US civil rights activist
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
- Maggie Kuhn, (1905-1995) US activist, social worker
L
- Maxim Litvinov, (1876-1951) Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet statesman and diplomat
- Belva Lockwood, (1830-1917) US social reformer, lawyer
- Clare Boothe Luce, (1905-1987) US dramatist, author, politician, diplomat
- Patrice Lumumba, (1925-1961) Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Martin Luther, (1483-1546) German religious reformer
M
- Malcolm X, (1925-1965) US political activist
- Nestor Makhno (1888-1934), the military leader of the Free Territory and the originator of The Platform (one of the branches of anarchist thought)
- Nelson Mandela
- Mao Zedong, (1893-1976) Chinese politician, political theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China.
- Karl Marx, (1818-1883) German socialist leader, philosopher
- Giuseppe Mazzini, (1805-1872) Genoese propagandist, revolutionary
- Mary Ann McCracken (1770-1866)
- Hồ Chí Minh (1890-1969) Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman
- Lucretia Mott, (1793-1880) US social reformer
N
- Carry Nation, (1846-1911) US social reformer
- Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910) English nurse, reformer
- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) English suffragist
O
- Daniel Ortega (1945-____) Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician
P
- Rosa Parks (McCauley) (1913-2005) US civil rights leader
- Sir John Philips (1775-1851)
Q
R
- José Rizal, (1861-1896), Filipino writer
- Jeanne-Marie Roland, (1754-1793) French revolutionary
- Dora Russell, (1894-1986) English writer, activist
S
- Margaret Sanger, (1883-1966) US nurse, social reformer
- Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
- Florida Scott-Maxwell, (1883-1979) US writer, suffragist, psychologist
- Jose Maria Sison, (1939-2022) Filipino writer, poet, and activist who founded and led the Communist Party of the Philippines and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy—which would be known as National Democracy.
- Hannah Whitall Smith, (1832-1911) US evangelist, reformer, suffragist, author
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (1815-1902) US social reformer, feminist
- Gloria Steinem, (1934-____) US feminist, journalist, lecturer
- Andries Stockenström (1792-1864) Earlier South African campaigner for reform
- Lucy Stone, (1818-1893) US suffragist, feminist
- Sun Yat-sen, (1866-1925) Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who served as the provisional first president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang.
T
- Luis Taruc, (1913-2005), Filipino reformer
- Mary Church Terrell, (1863-1954) US social reformer
- Arnold Toynbee, (1852-1883) English economist, reformer
- Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940) Russian communist revolutionary
- Sojourner Truth, (1797?-1883) US abolitionist, reformer
- Harriet Tubman, (c.1820-1913) US abolitionist, emancipator
U
V
- Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp (1747-1812) Pioneer Dutch missionary and one of the earliest protagonists for racial equality in South Africa.
W
- Lech Walesa, (1943-____) Polish labor activist, politician
- William Wilberforce English politician and leader of the movement to abolish slavery.
- Roy Wilkins, (1901-1981) US social reformer, civil rights leader
- Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797) English writer, women's rights activist
- Victoria Claffin Woodhull, (1838-1927) US reformer
X-Y-Z
- Victor S. Yarros, (1865-1956) anarchist
- Whitney M. Young Jr., (1921-1971) US civil rights leader
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