Questo è un elenco di persone che hanno dato un contributo significativo al progresso dei diritti umani, ordinato alfabeticamente per paese di nascita o residenza. Comprende politici, artisti e altre persone che hanno difeso le cause dei diritti umani attraverso l'attivismo o la filantropia, oltre a sostenitori e attivisti dei diritti umani dedicati. In generale, i diritti umani sono diritti che appartengono a un individuo oa un gruppo di individui semplicemente per essere umani come conseguenza della vulnerabilità umana intrinseca o perché sono necessari alla possibilità di una società giusta.
algerino
- Lounés Matoub
americano
- Jane Addams
- Bronson Alcott
- Muhammad 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 Spears Bass
- 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 Bridges
- 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. Conti
- Mary Crow Dog
- Justin Dart, Jr.
- Angela Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Paulina Davis
- Dorothy Day
- Bill de Blasio
- Ruby Dee
- Morris Dees
- Alison Des Forges
- Padre Divino
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- Grace Hoadley Dodge
- Ignatius Donnelly
- Frederick Douglass
- Santa Katharine Drexel
- Abigail Jane Scott Duniway
- Andrea Dworkin
- Gunnar Dybwad
- Rosemary F. Dybwad
- Donna Aquila
- Crystal Eastman
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Leon Eisenberg
- George Henry Evans
- Medgar Evers
- Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Mimi Fariña
- James Farmer
- 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 Gates
- 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 Altezza
- Audrey Hepburn
- Julia Butterfly Hill
- Isabella Beecher Hooker
- 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
- Cotton Mather
- Cindy McCain
- Francis John McConnell
- Cynthia McKinney
- James Meredith
- Barbara Mikulski
- Harvey Milk
- 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 Park
- 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 Root
- Ernestine Rose
- 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 Church 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
- Signora 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.
argentino
- René de Epelbaum
- Francesco I
- Juan Gelman
- Tomás Eloy Martínez
- Emilio Fermin Mignone
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas
australiano
- 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
austriaco
- Alfred Hermann Fried
- Michael Hainisch
- Bertha, Freifran (baronessa) von Suttner
Bangladesh
- Shamsur Rahman
- Muhammad Yunus
belga
- Henri La Fontaine
- Constantin Meunier
- Paul van Ostaijen
- Peter Piot
- Dominique Pire
brasiliano
- Sebastião Salgado
- Herbert José de Souza (Betinho)
Britannico
- Valerie Ann Amos, Baronessa Amos di Brondesbury
- Charles Freer Andrews
- Norman Angell
- Anthony John Arkell
- Catherine Ashton, Baronessa Ashton di Upholland
- Philip John Noel-Baker, barone Noel-Baker
- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
- Peter Benenson
- John Desmond Bernal
- Annie Besant
- Walter Besant
- John Boyd Orr, barone Boyd-Orr di Brechin Mearns
- Richard Branson
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baronessa Burdett-Coutts
- Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1 ° Baronetto
- George Cadbury
- William Carey
- Richard Carlile
- Edward Carpenter
- Mary Carpenter
- John Cartwright
- Edwin Chadwick
- Thomas Chalmers
- Margery Corbett Ashby
- Randal Cremer
- Emily Davison
- Diana, principessa del Galles
- Kenny Everett
- Elizabeth Fry
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, primo visconte 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
- Moses Montefiore, Baronetto
- William Moon
- Hannah More
- 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
- Può Sinclair
- Sigmund Sternberg
- Puntura
- 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
Camerunese
- René Philombe
canadese
- Anna Mae Aquash
- Norman Bethune
- Henry Enns
- Michael J. Fox
- Michaëlle Jean
- Naomi Klein
- Ovide Mercredi
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
cileno
- Ariel Dorfman
- Raúl Rettig Guissen
- Sola Sierra
- Cardinale Raúl Silva Henríquez
- Sergio Valech Aldunate
Cinese
- Ai Weiwei
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Hu Jia
- Rebiya Kadeer
- Harry Hongda Wu
- Liu Xiaobo
Colombiano
- Jaime Garzón
- Juanes
Congolese
- Denis Mukwege
costaricano
- Óscar Arias Sánchez
cubano
- Vilma Espín Guillois
ceco
- Václav Havel
- Martina Navratilova
danese
- Fredrik Bajer
olandese
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Timorese orientale
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
- José Ramos-Horta
egiziano
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Wael Ghonim
etiope
- Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
finlandese
- Martti Ahtisaari
francese
- 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, conte de Lameth
- François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duca di La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
- Dionys Mascolo
- Frédéric Passy
- Maximilien de Robespierre
- Émile Zola
Tedesco
- 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
Ghanese
- Kofi Annan
greco
- Melina Mercouri
Guatemalteco
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Luisa Moreno
Haitiano
- Gérard Jean-Juste
indiano
- 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
- Madre Teresa
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar
indonesiano
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
iraniano
- Simin Behbahani
- Shirin Ebadi
irlandesi
- Bono
- Michael D. Higgins
- Seán MacBride
- Mary Robinson
- Betty Williams
israeliano
- Anatoly Shcharansky
italiano
- Tina Modotti
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
- Camilla Ravera
giapponese
- Arishima Takeo
- Kagawa Toyohiko
- Takahashi Hisako
Giordano
- Noor al-Ḥussein
- Rania al-ʿAbdullah
Keniota
- Wangari Maathai
Liberiano
- Leymah Gbowee
- Tawakkul Karmān
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Malese
- Dato 'Onn bin Jaafar
messicano
- 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
Neozelandese
- Helen Clark
- Matiu Rata
- Kate Sheppard
nigeriano
- Gani Fawehinmi
- Fela Kuti
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Wole Soyinka
norvegese
- Camilla Collett
- Jan Egeland
- Il principe ereditario Haakon
- Christian Lous Lange
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Henrik Arnold Wergeland
palestinese
- Edward Said
pakistano
- Malala Yousafzai
Peruviano
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
- Manuel Scorza
polacco
- Wawrzyniec Goślicki
- Giovanni Paolo II
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Leon Kruczkowski
- Lech Wałęsa
portoghese
- Mário Soares
rumeno
- Ion Cioaba
- Elie Wiesel
russo
- Alessandro II
- Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner
- Lidiya Korneyevna Chukovskaya
- Natalya Khusainova Estemirova
- Orazio, barone Günzburg
- Joseph, barone Günzburg
- Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen
- Mirra Komarovsky
- Lev Zinoviyevich Kopelev
- Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
- Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky
- Il principe Nikolay Alekseyevich Orlov
- Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov
- Anatoly Shcharansky
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Ruandese
- Alphonse Marie Nkubito
Salvadoregna
- María Julia Hernández
Somalo
- Waris Dirie
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
sudafricano
- Johnny Clegg
- FW de Klerk
- Ruth First
- Nkosi Johnson
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
- Fatima Meer
- Bloke Modisane
- Thenjiwe Mtintso
- Dullah Omar
- Mamphela Ramphele
- William Philip Schreiner
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Helen Suzman
- Desmond Tutu
- Helen Zille
Corea del Sud
- Kim Dae-Jung
svedese
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson
- Greve (conte) Folke Bernadotte
- Karl Hjalmar Branting
- Stieg Larsson
- Alva Myrdal
- Torsten Nils Wiesel
svizzero
- Élie Ducommun
- Henri Dunant
- Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg
- Stefano Franscini
- Charles-Albert Gobat
Trinidad
- CLR James
tunisino
- Habib Bourguiba
Yemenita
- Tawakkol Karman
dello Zimbabwe
- Albert John Luthuli
- Morgan Tsvangirai
