Det här är en lista över personer som har gjort betydande bidrag till främjandet av mänskliga rättigheter, ordnade i alfabetisk ordning efter födelseland eller bosättning. Det inkluderar politiker, konstnärer och andra människor som har bekämpat mänskliga rättigheter genom aktivism eller filantropi förutom dedikerade mänskliga rättighetsförespråkare och aktivister. Brett definierade är mänskliga rättigheter rättigheter som tillhör en individ eller grupp individer helt enkelt för att vara mänskliga som en följd av inneboende mänsklig sårbarhet eller för att de är nödvändiga för möjligheten till ett rättvist samhälle.
algerier
- Lounés Matoub
Amerikansk
- 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. räknar
- Mary Crow Dog
- Justin Dart, Jr.
- Angela Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Paulina Davis
- Dorothy Day
- Bill de Blasio
- Ruby Dee
- Morris Dees
- Alison Des Forges
- Fader gudomlig
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- Grace Hoadley Dodge
- Ignatius Donnelly
- Frederick Douglass
- St. Katharine Drexel
- Abigail Jane Scott Duniway
- Andrea Dworkin
- Gunnar Dybwad
- Rosemary F. Dybwad
- Eagle Woman
- 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 Höjd
- 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
- Fru CJ Walker
- Jim Wallis
- Nåd 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.
Argentinsk
- René de Epelbaum
- Francis I
- Juan Gelman
- Tomás Eloy Martínez
- Emilio Fermin Mignone
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas
australier
- 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
Österrikisk
- Alfred Hermann Fried
- Michael Hainisch
- Bertha, Freifran (baroninna) von Suttner
Bangladesh
- Shamsur Rahman
- Muhammad Yunus
Belgiska
- Henri La Fontaine
- Constantin Meunier
- Paul van Ostaijen
- Peter Piot
- Dominique Pire
Brasiliansk
- Sebastião Salgado
- Herbert José de Souza (Betinho)
Brittiska
- Valerie Ann Amos, baronessan Amos från Brondesbury
- Charles Freer Andrews
- Norman Angell
- Anthony John Arkell
- Catherine Ashton, barones Ashton of Upholland
- Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
- Peter Benenson
- John Desmond Bernal
- Annie Besant
- Walter Besant
- John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr från Brechin Mearns
- Richard Branson
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, baronessan Burdett-Coutts
- Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1: a 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, prinsessan av Wales
- Kenny Everett
- Elizabeth Fry
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1: a 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
- Moses Montefiore, Baronet
- 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
- May Sinclair
- Sigmund Sternberg
- Sting
- 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
Kamerun
- René Philombe
Kanadensisk
- Anna Mae Aquash
- Norman Bethune
- Henry Enns
- Michael J. Fox
- Michaëlle Jean
- Naomi Klein
- Ovide Mercredi
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Chilenska
- Ariel Dorfman
- Raúl Rettig Guissen
- Sola Sierra
- Raúl kardinal Silva Henríquez
- Sergio Valech Aldunate
Kinesiska
- Ai Weiwei
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Hu Jia
- Rebiya Kadeer
- Harry Hongda Wu
- Liu Xiaobo
Colombianska
- Jaime Garzón
- Juanes
Kongolesiska
- Denis Mukwege
Costa Rica
- Óscar Arias Sánchez
Kubansk
- Vilma Espín Guillois
tjeck
- Václav Havel
- Martina Navratilova
Danska
- Fredrik Bajer
Nederländska
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Östtimores
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
- José Ramos-Horta
Egyptisk
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Wael Ghonim
etiopisk
- Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Finska
- Martti Ahtisaari
Franska
- 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
tysk
- 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
ghanansk
- Kofi Annan
grekisk
- Melina Mercouri
guatemalan
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Luisa Moreno
haitian
- Gérard Jean-Juste
Indisk
- 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
- Moder Teresa
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar
Indonesiska
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Iranska
- Simin Behbahani
- Shirin Ebadi
Irländska
- Bono
- Michael D. Higgins
- Seán MacBride
- Mary Robinson
- Betty Williams
Israelisk
- Anatoly Shcharansky
Italienska
- Tina Modotti
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
- Camilla Ravera
Japanska
- Arishima Takeo
- Kagawa Toyohiko
- Takahashi Hisako
Jordanska
- Noor al-usseusse
- Rania al-ʿAbdullah
Kenyansk
- Wangari Maathai
Liberian
- Leymah Gbowee
- Tawakkul Karman
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Malaysiska
- Dato 'Onn bin Jaafar
Mexikansk
- 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
Nyzeeländare
- Helen Clark
- Matiu Rata
- Kate Sheppard
Nigerianska
- Gani Fawehinmi
- Fela Kuti
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Wole Soyinka
Norska
- Camilla Collett
- Jan Egeland
- Kronprins Haakon
- Christian Lous Lange
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Henrik Arnold Wergeland
palestinsk
- Edward Said
pakistansk
- Malala Yousafzai
Peruansk
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
- Manuel Scorza
putsa
- Wawrzyniec Goślicki
- Johannes Paulus II
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Leon Kruczkowski
- Lech Wałęsa
Portugisiska
- Mário Soares
rumänska
- Jon Cioaba
- Elie Wiesel
ryska
- 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
- Prins Nikolay Alekseyevich Orlov
- Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov
- Anatoly Shcharansky
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Rwandiska
- Alphonse Marie Nkubito
Salvadoransk
- María Julia Hernández
Somalisk
- Waris Dirie
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
sydafrikanska
- Johnny Clegg
- FW de Klerk
- Ruth först
- 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
sydkoreansk
- Kim Dae-Jung
svenska
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson
- Greve (greve) Folke Bernadotte
- Karl Hjalmar Branting
- Stieg Larsson
- Alva Myrdal
- Torsten Nils Wiesel
Schweiziska
- Élie Ducommun
- Henri Dunant
- Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg
- Stefano Franscini
- Charles-Albert Gobat
Trinidadian
- CLR James
tunisisk
- Habib Bourguiba
jemenitisk
- Tawakkol Karman
zimbabwisk
- Albert John Luthuli
- Morgan Tsvangirai
