List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate or advocated diplomatic, non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall peace movement to focus the world's attention on the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facillitate wide public dialogues aimed at nonviolently altering long-standing societal agreements directly related and held in place by the various irrational, violent, and historically fearful thought-processes at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.

• Jane Addams
• Eqbal Ahmad - anti-war activist
• Martti Ahtisaari - former president of Finland, active in conflict resolution
• Stew Albert - anti-Vietnam war activist, organizer
• Émile Arnaud - French peace campaigner, coined the word "Pacifism"
• Vittorio Arrigoni
• Joan Baez - prominent American anti-war protester, inspirational singer
• Ernesto Balducci
• Harry Belafonte - anti-war, performer, inspiration
• Daniel Berrigan - prominent anti-Vietnam war protester
• Frida Berrigan
• Philip Berrigan - prominent anti-Vietnam war protester
• James Bevel - prominent anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
• Vinoba Bhave - Gandhian, teacher, author, organizer
• Vera Brittain
• Elihu Burritt
• Helen Caldicott - physician, anti-nuclear weapon, initiator
• Noam Chomsky - writer, activist, organizer
• Ramsey Clark - American anti-war and anti-nuclear lawyer, activist
• William Sloane Coffin - Protestant cleric, anti-war activist
• Judy Collins - inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, protester
• Rachel Corrie
• David Cortright
• Frances Crowe - anti-war and anti-nuclear power, draft counselor
• Rennie Davis - prominent anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
• Dorothy Day
• David Dellinger - pacifist, prominent American anti-war leader
• Élie Ducommun
• Mel Duncan
• Shirin Ebadi
• Albert Einstein - pacifist, anti-nuclear advocate
• Daniel Ellsberg - anti-war whistleblower, protester
• Jodie Evans - initiator, organizer, filmmaker
• Tom Fox
• Comfort Freeman
• Alfred Fried - co-founder German peace movement, called for world peace organization.
• Arun Gandhi - organizer, educator, grandson of Mohandas
• Mohandas Gandhi - writer, organizer, protester, inspiration to movement leaders
• Allen Ginsberg - anti-war protester, writer
• Arthur Gish
• Mikhail Gorbachev - anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency
• Dick Gregory - comedian, anti-war protester
• Tenzin Gyatso - current Dalai Lama, advocate for peace
• Otto Hahn - pacifist, anti-nuclear weapons and testing advocate
• Judith Hand - anti-war writer, academian
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• G. Simon Harak
• Keir Hardie
• Václav Havel - nonviolent writer, poet, and politican
• Brian Haw - initiated and long time participant, Parliament Square Peace Campaign
• Tom Hayden - anti-war organizer, writer, lecturer