List of pacifists Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
This is a list of people who have been referred to as pacifists.
- Jane Addams, (1860-1935)
- Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), Swedish scientist
- Günther Anders
- Óscar Arias Sánchez, (1941- ), president of Costa Rica
- Ashoka, (273 BC-232 BC), Mauryan emperor (became pacifist after seeing atrocities he comitted)
- Eduard Bernstein, (1850-1932), German socialist leader
- Daniel Berrigan, U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
- Philip Berrigan, (1923-2002), U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
- Albert Bigelow, (born 1906), U.S. anti-nuclear activist
- Martin Buber, (1878-1965), Jewish philosopher
- William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), U.S. politician
- Helen Caldicott, (born 1938), Australian Medical Doctor
- Bartolomé de Las Casas , (1474-1566), Spanish Priest
- Jesus Christ, (ca. 6 BC-33), central figure of Christianity
- Marie Curie, (1867-1934), Polish scientist
- Dorothy Day, (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
- David Dellinger, (born 1915), U.S. activist, one of the Chicago Seven
- Barbara Deming, (1917-1984), U.S. feminist and activist
- Jean Henri Dunant, (1828-1910), founder of Red Cross
- Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), physicist
- Desiderius Erasmus, (1466-1536), Dutch philosopher
- James L. Farmer, Jr, (1920-1999), U.S. Civil Rights leader
- José Figueres Ferrer, (1906-1990), President of Costa Rica
- Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
- George Fox, (1624-1691), founder of the Quakers
- Leonard Frank
- Ernst Friedrich
- Kasturba Gandhi, (1869-1944), Mahatma Gandhi's wife
- Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948), Indian statesman
- William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879), U.S. abolitionist
- Siddhartha Gautama, (563 BC-483 BC), Indian spiritual leader
- Emil Gumbel, (1891-1966), German mathematician
- Hubert von Goisern,
- Emma Goldman, (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist
- Jane Goodall, (1934-), English ethologist and anthropologist
- Boudewijn de Groot, (1944- ), Dutch singer
- Joao Goulart, (1918-1976), Brazilian president
- Sidney Gulick, (1860-1945), American missionary
- Thich Nhat Hanh, (1926-), Buddhist peace activist
- Hegetorides of Thasos, (c. 431-404 BC), Greek citizen
- Andre Heller, (1946-), artist
- Ernest Miller Hemingway, (1899-1961), American author
- Lewis Hill, founder of Pacifica Radio
- Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910), U.S. abolitionist and songwriter
- Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of the War Resisters League
- Jean Léon Jaurčs, (1859-1914), French socialist leader
- Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804), German philosopher
- Kim Dae-jung, (1925-), South-Korean politician
- Martin Luther King, (1929-1968), U.S. Civil Rights leader
- Gustav Landauer
- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author
- John Lennon, (1940-1980), British musician (The Beatles)
- Agnes Macphail, (1890-1954), Canadian politician and social reformer
- Nelson Mandela, (1918-), South-African apartheid resister and former president.
- David McReynolds, (1929), U.S. socialist
- Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
- A. J. Muste, (1885-1967), U.S. socialist, labor leader, and clergyman
- Fridtjof Nansen, (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer
- Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Swedish inventor
- Ken O'Keefe, (1969- ), U.S. activist
- Carl von Ossietzky, (1889-1938), German journalist
- Arndt Pekurinen (1905-1941), Finnish war resister
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter
- Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981), U.S. activist
- Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), German historian
- Jeannette Rankin, (1880-1973), American politician
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), German author (Im Westen nichts neues)
- Óscar Romero, (1917-1980) Salvadorian Archbishop
- Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Belgian painter
- Lewis Fry Richardson, (1881-1953), mathematician and meteorologist
- Rishabhadeva, (c. 1500 BCE), founder of Jainism
- Józef Rotblat, (1908- ), Polish physicist
- Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher
- Bayard Rustin, (1912-1987), U.S. socialist and civil rights organizer
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000), Austrian architect
- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965), physician and humanitarian
- William Stafford, (1914-1993), U.S. poet
- Helene Stöcker
- Bertha von Suttner, (1843-1914), Austrian peace activist
- Tenzin Gyatso, (1935-), the 14th Dalai Lama
- Norman Thomas, (1884-1968), U.S. socialist leader
- Mother Theresa
- Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862), U.S. writer
- Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910), author, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Kurt Tucholsky, (189-1935), German journalist
- Desmond Tutu, (1931-), African Bishop
- Mordechai Vanunu, (1954-), Israelian scientist
- Lanza del Vasto, (1901-1981), Italian artist and activist
- Lech Walesa, (1943-), Polish union activist and former president
- Roger Waters, (born 1943), British musician (Pink Floyd)
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British author
- Frank Lloyd Wright, (1867-1959), U.S. architect
- Alvin York, (1887-1964), U.S. soldier
- Howard Zinn, (born 1922), U.S. historian
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