List of pacifists
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This is a list of people who have been referred to as pacifists.This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
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- A. J. Muste, (1885-1967), U.S. socialist, labor leader, and clergyman
- Agnes Macphail, (1890-1954), Canadian politician and social reformer
- Albert Bigelow, (born 1906), U.S. anti-nuclear activist
- Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), physicist
- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965), physician and humanitarian
- Aldous Huxley, British author
- Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Swedish inventor
- Alvin York, (1887-1964), U.S. soldier
- Andre Heller, (1946-), artist
- Andreas Maislinger, (1955-), Founder of Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Austrian Peace Service
- Arndt Pekurinen (1905-1941), Finnish war resister
- Ashoka, (273 BC-232 BC), Mauryan emperor (became pacifist after seeing atrocities he committed)
- Barbara Deming, (1917-1984), U.S. feminist and activist
- Bartolomé de Las Casas , (1474-1566), Spanish Priest
- Bayard Rustin, (1912-1987), U.S. socialist and civil rights organizer
- Benjamin Britten, (1913-1976), British composer.
- Bertha von Suttner, (1843-1914), Austrian peace activist
- Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher
- Boudewijn de Groot, (1944- ), Dutch singer
- Carl von Ossietzky, (1889-1938), German journalist
- Christina Rossetti, British poetess
- Cindy Sheehan, (1957-), peace activist
- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author
- Daniel Berrigan, U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
- David Dellinger, (1915-2004), U.S. activist, one of the Chicago Seven
- David Le Sage, Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
- David Thawley, Australian Anglican Priest
- David McReynolds, (1929), U.S. socialist
- Desiderius Erasmus, (1466-1536), Dutch philosopher
- Desmond Tutu, (1931-), African Bishop
- Dorothy Day, (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
- E. D. Morel, (1873-1924), British journalist and politician
- Eduard Bernstein, (1850-1932), German socialist leader
- Elihu Burritt, (1811-79), United States citizen, organizer of the first International Peace Congress of 1848.
- Emil Gumbel, (1891-1966), German mathematician
- Emma Goldman, (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), German author (Im Westen nichts neues)
- Ernest Miller Hemingway, (1899-1961), American author
- Ernst Friedrich
- Evelyn Underhill, Anglican theologian
- Francis of Assisi, Medieval Christian figure
- Frank Lloyd Wright, (1867-1959), U.S. architect
- Franz Jaegerstaetter, Second World War martyr
- Frère Roger, Taize Christian Ecumenical Community founder
- Fridtjof Nansen, (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
- George Fox, (1624-1691), founder of the Quakers
- George Lansbury, British Labour Party leader
- Günther Anders
- Gustav Landauer
- Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), Swedish scientist
- Hans Bethe, (1906-2005), German Physicist
- Hegetorides of Thasos, (c. 431-404 BC), Greek citizen
- Helen Caldicott, (born 1938), Australian Medical Doctor
- Helen Keller, (1880-1968), Deaf and blind American author, activist and lecturer
- Helene Stöcker
- Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862), U.S. writer
- Jean Henri Dunant, (1828-1910), founder of Red Cross
- Henry Ford (1863- 1947), industrialist
- Howard Zinn, (born 1922), U.S. historian
- Hubert von Goisern,
- Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804), German philosopher
- James L. Farmer, Jr., (1920-1999), U.S. Civil Rights leader
- Jane Addams, (1860-1935)
- Jane Goodall, (1934-), English ethologist and anthropologist
- Jean Léon Jaurès, (1859-1914), French socialist leader
- Jeannette Rankin, (1880-1973), American politician
- Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of the War Resisters League
- Jesus, (ca. 6 BC-33), central figure of Christianity
- João Goulart, (1918-1976), Brazilian president
- John Howard Yoder, (1927-1997), Mennonite theologian/ethicist
- John Lennon, (1940-1980), British musician (The Beatles)
- José Figueres Ferrer, (1906-1990), President of Costa Rica
- Joseph Rotblat, (1908-2005), Polish-British physicist
- Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910), U.S. abolitionist and songwriter
- Kasturba Gandhi, (1869-1944), Mahatma Gandhi's wife
- Ken O'Keefe, (1969- ), U.S. activist
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun non-violent leader. Also called Frontier Gandhi
- Kim Dae-jung, (1925-), South-Korean politician
- Kurt Tucholsky, (189-1935), German journalist
- Lanza del Vasto, (1901-1981), Italian artist and activist
- Lech Wałęsa, (1943-), Polish union activist and former president
- Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910), author, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Leonard Frank
- Lewis Fry Richardson, (1881-1953), mathematician and meteorologist
- Lewis Hill, founder of Pacifica Radio
- Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), German historian
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000), Austrian architect
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie, (1867-1934), Polish scientist
- Martin Buber, (1878-1965), Jewish philosopher
- Martin Luther King, (1929-1968), U.S. Civil Rights leader
- Max Walters, (1920-), botanist
- Michael Moore, (born 1954), U.S. film maker
- Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), British composer
- Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948), Indian statesman
- Mother Theresa, (1910-1997), Indian Catholic nun
- Norman Morrison, protested Vietnam War
- Norman Thomas, (1884-1968), U.S. socialist leader
- Olaf Stapledon, British science fiction author
- Óscar Arias Sánchez, (1941- ), president of Costa Rica
- Óscar Romero, (1917-1980) Salvadorian Archbishop
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter
- Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981), U.S. activist
- Peter Gabriel, Singer
- Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
- Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Belgian painter
- Philip Berrigan, (1923-2002), U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
- Richard "Dick" Sheppard, Anglican Priest and early British Radio Broadcaster, Founder of the Peace Pledge Union
- Richard Wagner, (1813-1883), German composer
- Rishabhadeva, (c. 1500 BC), founder of Jainism
- Robert Baker Aitken, (1917- ), Engaged Buddhist peace activist
- Robert LeFevre, (1911-1986), libertarian theorist
- Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury
- Siddhartha Gautama, (563 BC-483 BC), Indian spiritual leader
- Sidney Gulick, (1860-1945), American missionary
- Smedley Butler (1881-1940), U.S. general, author of War is a Racket
- Stanley Hauerwas, United Methodist theologian/ethicist
- Steve Biko, Anti-apartheid activist
- Sue Gilmurray, Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, British singer/songwriter
- Tenzin Gyatso, (1935-), the 14th Dalai Lama
- Thich Nhat Hanh, (1926-), Buddhist peace activist
- Tony Kempster, British Anglican Church figure
- Vera Brittain, British author
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British author
- William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), U.S. politician
- William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879), U.S. abolitionist
- William Stafford, (1914-1993), U.S. poet
- Yoko Ono, (1933- ), Conceptual Artist, Anti-War Activist
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