Bu, doğdukları veya ikamet ettikleri ülkeye göre alfabetik olarak sıralanmış insan haklarının geliştirilmesine önemli katkılarda bulunan kişilerin listesidir. Kendini adamış insan hakları savunucuları ve aktivistlerine ek olarak aktivizm veya hayırseverlik yoluyla insan hakları davalarını savunan politikacıları, sanatçıları ve diğer kişileri içerir. Geniş tanımıyla, insan hakları, bir bireye veya bir gruba ait olan haklardır, sadece insan doğasında var olan savunmasızlığın bir sonucu olarak veya adil bir toplum imkânı için gerekli oldukları için insan oldukları için.
Cezayir
- Lounés Matoub
Amerikan
- Jane Addams
- Bronson Alcott
- Muhammed Ali
- Saul Alinsky
- Jessie Daniel Ames
- Herbert Aptheker
- Brooke Astor
- Byllye Avery
- Joan Baez
- Gamaliel Bailey
- Ella Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- James Baldwin
- Roger Nash Baldwin
- Toni Cade Bambara
- John Perry Barlow
- Marion Barry
- Charlotta Mızraklı Bas
- Daisy Gatson Bates
- Harry Belafonte
- Alva Belmont
- Anthony Benezet
- Mary Frances Berry
- James Luther Bevel
- Alice Stone Blackwell
- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
- William DP Bliss
- Norman Ernest Borlaug
- Kay Boyle
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
- Ruby Köprüleri
- John Brown
- Molly Brown
- Olympia Brown
- Ruth Winifred Brown
- Tony Brown
- Warren Buffett
- Ralph Bunche
- Lucy Burns
- Nicholas Murray Butler
- Stokely Carmichael
- Jimmy Carter
- Rosalynn Carter
- Ana Castillo
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Harry Chapin
- Cesar Chavez
- Ramsey Clark
- Septima Poinsette Clark
- George Clooney
- Willie Colón
- Elizabeth Comstock
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper
- Samuel Cotton
- George S. Sayar
- Mary Crow Köpeği
- Justin Dart, Jr.
- Angela Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Paulina Davis
- Dorothy Günü
- Bill de Blasio
- Ruby Dee
- Morris Dees
- Alison Des Forges
- Baba İlahi
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- Grace Hoadley Dodge
- Ignatius Donnelly
- Frederick Douglass
- St. Katharine Drexel
- Abigail Jane Scott Duniway
- Andrea Dworkin
- Gunnar Dybwad
- Biberiye F. Dybwad
- Kartal Kadın
- Crystal Eastman
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Leon Eisenberg
- George Henry Evans
- Medgar Evers
- Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Mimi Fariña
- James Çiftçi
- Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham
- Rebecca Ann Felton
- Edward A. Filene
- Paul J. Flory
- Carolyn Forché
- Connie Francis
- Barney Frank
- Al Franken
- Frances Dana Barker Gage
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
- James A. Garfield
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Bill Gates
- Melinda Gates
- Theaster Kapıları
- Richard Gere
- Abigail Hopper Gibbons
- Stephen Girard
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Isabella Marshall Graham
- Rebecca Gratz
- Dick Gregory
- Kathy Griffin
- Woodie Guthrie
- Sarah Josepha Hale
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Joy Harjo
- Frances EW Harper
- Ida A. Husted Harper
- Michael Harrington
- Barbara Clementine Harris
- Tom Hayden
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Dorothy Yüksekliği
- Audrey Hepburn
- Julia Kelebek Tepesi
- Isabella Beecher Fahişe
- Herbert Hoover
- Lou Hoover
- Bob Hope
- Lugenia Burns Hope
- Dolores Huerta
- Cordell Hull
- Harold L. Ickes
- Jesse Jackson
- Mary Putnam Jacobi
- Jane Jacobs
- Kenneth Jernigan
- Magic Johnson
- Angelina Jolie
- Raul Julia
- Danny Kaye
- Florence Kelley
- Frank B. Kellogg
- WK Kellogg
- John Oliver Killens
- Coretta Scott King
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Freda Kirchwey
- Larry Kramer
- Maggie Kuhn
- Luis Kutner
- Lady Gaga
- Susette La Flesche
- Cyndi Lauper
- Norman Lear
- Denise Levertov
- Francis Lieber
- Abraham Lincoln
- Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
- Josephine Shaw Lowell
- Audre Lorde
- Jane Lynch
- Malcolm X
- Wilma Pearl Mankiller
- Horace Mann
- Betita Martínez
- Pamuk Mather
- Cindy McCain
- Francis John McConnell
- Cynthia McKinney
- James Meredith
- Barbara Mikulski
- Harvey Süt
- Virginia Louisa Minor
- Anne Moody
- Michael Moore
- Anne Tracy Morgan
- Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris
- Constance Baker Motley
- Lucretia Mott
- Ralph Nader
- Josephine Louise Le Monnier Newcomb
- Paul Newman
- Huey P. Newton
- Mary Gove Nichols
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Barack Obama
- Michelle obama
- Tillie Olsen
- George Oppen
- Thomas Mott Osborne
- James Otis
- Mary White Ovington
- Robert Dale Owen
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Maud Wood Parkı
- Theodore Parker
- Rosa Parks
- Anne Parrish
- Celestia Susannah Parrish
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
- Alice Paul
- Linus Pauling
- Sean Penn
- Samantha Power
- Al Raby
- A. Philip Randolph
- John Reed
- Walter Reuther
- Jacob A. Riis
- Ed Roberts
- Paul Robeson
- Randall Robinson
- Rubye Robinson
- V. Gene Robinson
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller III
- Winthrop Rockefeller
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elihu Kökü
- Ernestine Gül
- Julius Rosenwald
- Bill Russell
- Bayard Rustin
- Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage
- José Sarria
- Mario Savio
- Bobby Seale
- William H. Seward
- Betty Shabazz
- Al Sharpton
- Cindy Sheehan
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Fred Shuttlesworth
- Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
- Stephen Smale
- Gerrit Smith
- Samantha Smith
- George Soros
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Ellen Gates Starr
- Gloria Steinem
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Oscar Solomon Straus
- Arthur Tappan
- Elizabeth taylor
- Mary Eliza Kilisesi Terrell
- Lucy Terry
- Martha Carey Thomas
- Norman Thomas
- Henry David Thoreau
- Stanley Tigerman
- Reies López Tijerina
- William Monroe Trotter
- Henry Viscardi, Jr.
- Lillian D. Wald
- Madam CJ Walker
- Jim Wallis
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Cornel West
- Charlotte Anita Whitney
- Roy Wilkins
- Jody Williams
- Woodrow Wilson
- Oprah Winfrey
- James D. Wolfensohn
- Victoria Woodhull
- Frances Wright
- Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Arjantinli
- René de Epelbaum
- Francis ben
- Juan Gelman
- Tomás Eloy Martínez
- Emilio Fermin Mignone
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Avustralyalı
- Burnum Burnum
- Helen Broinowski Caldicott
- Caroline Chisholm
- Mick Dodson
- Cheryl Kernot
- Simon McKeon
- Roma Flinders Mitchell
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal
- WEH Stanner
- James D. Wolfensohn
- Judith Wright
Avusturya
- Alfred Hermann Fried
- Michael Hainisch
- Bertha, Freifran (barones) von Suttner
Bangladeş
- Shamsur Rahman
- Muhammed Yunus
Belçikalı
- Henri La Fontaine
- Constantin Meunier
- Paul van Ostaijen
- Peter Piot
- Dominique Pire
Brezilya
- Sebastião Salgado
- Herbert José de Souza (Betinho)
ingiliz
- Valerie Ann Amos, Brondesbury Barones Amos
- Charles Freer Andrews
- Norman Angell
- Anthony John Arkell
- Catherine Ashton, Döşemeli Barones Ashton
- Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
- Peter Benenson
- John Desmond Bernal
- Annie Besant
- Walter Besant
- John Boyd Orr, Brechin Mearns'den Baron Boyd-Orr
- Richard Branson
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Barones Burdett-Coutts
- Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1. Baronet
- George Cadbury
- William Carey
- Richard Carlile
- Edward Carpenter
- Mary Carpenter
- John Cartwright
- Edwin Chadwick
- Thomas Chalmers
- Margery Corbett Ashby
- Randal Cremer
- Emily Davison
- Diana, Galler Prensesi
- Kenny Everett
- Elizabeth Fry
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1. Viscount Cecil
- Robert Hall
- Arthur Henderson
- Christopher Hitchens
- Emily Hobhouse
- Quintin Hogg
- Thomas Hood
- John Howard
- John Hume
- John Jebb
- John Maynard Keynes
- Joanna Lumley
- Máiread Maguire
- Constance Markievicz
- Paul McCartney
- Ian McKellen
- James Mill
- Jessica Mitford
- Musa Montefiore, Baronet
- William Moon
- Hannah Daha Fazla
- Florence Nightingale
- Richard Overton
- Christabel Harriette Pankhurst
- William Penn
- John Philip
- Samuel Plimsoll
- Robert Raikes
- Anita Roddick
- Joseph Rotblat
- B. Seebohm Rowntree
- Bertrand Russell
- Granville Sharp
- Mayıs Sinclair
- Sigmund Sternberg
- Acı
- Joseph Sturge
- EP Thompson
- Arnold Toynbee
- David Trimble
- Peter Ustinov
- John Westlake
- Richard Whately
- William Wilberforce
- Betty Williams
- Fannie Barrier Williams
- Gerrard Winstanley
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Kamerunlu
- René Philombe
Kanadalı
- Anna Mae Aquash
- Norman Bethune
- Henry Enns
- Michael J. Fox
- Michaëlle Jean
- Naomi Klein
- Ovide Mercredi
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Şili
- Ariel Dorfman
- Raúl Rettig Guissen
- Sola Sierra
- Raúl Kardinal Silva Henríquez
- Sergio Valech Aldunate
Çince
- Ai Weiwei
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Hu Jia
- Rebiya Kadeer
- Harry Hongda Wu
- Liu Xiaobo
Kolombiyalı
- Jaime Garzón
- Juanes
Kongolu
- Denis Mukwege
Kosta Rika
- Óscar Arias Sánchez
Küba
- Vilma Espín Guillois
Çek
- Václav Havel
- Martina Navratilova
Danimarka dili
- Fredrik Bajer
Flemenkçe
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Doğu Timor
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
- José Ramos-Horta
Mısırlı
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Wael Ghonim
Etiyopya
- Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Fince
- Martti Ahtisaari
Fransızca
- Georges Arnaud
- Claude Bourdet
- Léon Bourgeois
- Aristide Briand
- Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson
- René Cassin
- Paul-H.-B. d'Estournelles de Constant
- Olympe de Gouges
- Victor Hugo
- Léon Jouhaux
- Alexandre, Comte de Lameth
- François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
- Dionys Mascolo
- Frédéric Passy
- Maximilien de Robespierre
- Émile Zola
Almanca
- Johannes Robert Becher
- Willy Brandt
- Joschka Fischer
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Wilhelm Emmanuel Ketteler
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Johann Friedrich Oberlin
- Ludwig Quidde
- Gerhart Moritz Riegner
- Albert Schweitzer
- Ernst Toller
- Clara Zetkin
Ganalı
- Kofi Annan
Yunan
- Melina Mercouri
Guatemalalı
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Luisa Moreno
Haitili
- Gérard Jean-Juste
Hintli
- Baba Amte
- Jagdish Bhagwati
- Mamata Banerjee
- Kiran Bedi
- Bhikaiji Cama
- Dayananda Sarasvati
- Sunil Dutt
- Kasturba Gandhi
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Najma Heptulla
- Anna Hazare
- Kumaraswami Kamaraj
- Dhondo Kesh Karve
- Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani
- Ram Manohar Lohia
- Kumari Mayawati
- Sarojini Naidu
- Medha Patkar
- Aruna Roy
- Arundhati Roy
- Ram Mohun Roy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Kailash Satyarthi
- Vandana Shiva
- Gayatri Spivak
- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
- Rahibe Teresa
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar
Endonezya dili
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
İran
- Simin Behbahani
- Şirin Ebadi
İrlandalı
- Bono
- Michael D. Higgins
- Seán MacBride
- Mary Robinson
- Betty Williams
İsrail
- Anatoly Shcharansky
İtalyan
- Tina Modotti
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
- Camilla Ravera
Japonca
- Arishima Takeo
- Kagawa Toyohiko
- Takahashi Hisako
Ürdün
- Noor al-Ussein
- Rania al-ʿAbdullah
Kenya
- Wangari Maathai
Liberya
- Leymah Gbowee
- Tawakkul Karmān
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Malezya
- Dato 'Onn bin Cafer
Meksikalı
- Edwin Bustillos García
- Rosario Castellanos
- Alfonso García Robles
- Rafael Guillén Vicente
- Carlos Monsiváis
- José Revueltas
- Samuel Ruiz García
- David Alfaro Siqueiros
Myanmar
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Yeni Zelandalı
- Helen Clark
- Matiu Rata
- Kate Sheppard
Nijeryalı
- Gani Fawehinmi
- Fela Kuti
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Wole Soyinka
Norveççe
- Camilla Collett
- Jan Egeland
- Veliaht Prens Haakon
- Christian Lous Lange
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Henrik Arnold Wergeland
Filistin
- Edward Said
Pakistan
- Malala Yousafzai
Peru
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
- Manuel Scorza
Lehçe
- Wawrzyniec Goślicki
- John Paul II
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Leon Kruczkowski
- Lech Wałęsa
Portekizce
- Mário Soares
Romence
- Ion Cioaba
- Elie Wiesel
Rusça
- Alexander II
- Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner
- Lidiya Korneyevna Chukovskaya
- Natalya Khusainova Estemirova
- Horace, Baron Günzburg
- Joseph, Baron Günzburg
- Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen
- Mirra Komarovsky
- Lev Zinoviyevich Kopelev
- Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
- Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky
- Prens Nikolay Alekseyevich Orlov
- Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov
- Anatoly Shcharansky
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Ruandalı
- Alphonse Marie Nkubito
Salvadorlu
- María Julia Hernández
Somalili
- Waris Dirie
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Güney Afrikalı
- Johnny Clegg
- FW de Klerk
- Ruth First
- Nkosi Johnson
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
- Fatima Meer
- Bloke Modisane
- Thenjiwe Mtintso
- Dullah Ömer
- Mamphela Ramphele
- William Philip Schreiner
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Helen Suzman
- Desmond Tutu
- Helen Zille
güney Koreli
- Kim Dae-Jung
İsveççe
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson
- Greve (sayım) Folke Bernadotte
- Karl Hjalmar Branting
- Stieg Larsson
- Alva Myrdal
- Torsten Nils Wiesel
İsviçre
- Élie Ducommun
- Henri Dunant
- Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg
- Stefano Franscini
- Charles-Albert Gobat
Trinidad
- CLR James
Tunus
- Habib Bourguiba
Yemenli
- Tawakkol Karman
Zimbabwe
- Albert John Luthuli
- Morgan Tsvangirai
