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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israel Shahak | Israel Shahak | 1933 | 2001 | Israeli | professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate and activist on behalf of both Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Shahak |
| Cameron Kasky | Cameron Marley Kasky | 2000 | n/a | American | activist and advocate against gun violence who co-founded the student-led gun violence prevention advocacy group Never Again MSD. He is notable for helping to organize the March for Our Lives nationwide student protest in March 2018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Kasky |
| Paul Warburg | Paul Moritz Warburg | 1868 | 1932 | American | investment banker born in Germany, and an early advocate of the U.S. central bank system, who served as 2nd Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1916 to 1918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Warburg |
| Robert Kagan | Robert Kagan | 1958 | n/a | American | neoconservative scholar, and critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan |
| Gabby Giffords | Gabrielle Dee Giffords | 1970 | n/a | American | retired politician and gun control advocate who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned due to a severe brain injury suffered during an assassination attempt | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Giffords |
| Robert Zubrin | Robert Zubrin | 1952 | n/a | American | aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin |
| Gary Taubes | Gary Taubes | 1956 | n/a | American | journalist, writer, and low-carbohydrate / high-fat (LCHF) diet advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Taubes |
| Sharon Afek | Sharon Afek | 1970 | n/a | null | current chief military advocate general of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), appointed in October 2015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Afek |
| Irwin Schiff | Irwin Allen Schiff | 1928 | 2015 | American | libertarian and tax resistance advocate known for writing and promoting literature in which he argued that the income tax in the United States is illegal and unconstitutional | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Schiff |
| Martine Rothblatt | Martine Aliana Rothblatt | 1954 | n/a | American | lawyer, author, entrepreneur, and transgender rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt |
| Josip Frank | Josip Frank | 1844 | 1911 | Croatian | lawyer and politician, a noted representative of the Party of Rights in the Croatian Parliament, and a vocal advocate of Croatian national independence in Austria-Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Frank |
| Art Spiegelman | Art Spiegelman | 1948 | n/a | American | cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Spiegelman |
| Larry Kramer | Laurence David Kramer | 1935 | 2020 | American | playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kramer |
| Kerryn Phelps | Kerryn Lyndel Phelps | 1957 | n/a | Australian | medical practitioner, public health and civil rights advocate, medical educator and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerryn_Phelps |
| Annie Sprinkle | Annie M. Sprinkle | 1954 | n/a | American | certified sexologist and advocate for sex work and healthcare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Sprinkle |
| Nnamdi Kanu | Nnamdi Okwu Kanu | 1967 | n/a | British | political activist who advocates for the independence of Biafra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnamdi_Kanu |
| Henry Morgentaler | Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler | 1923 | 2013 | Polish | Jewish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgentaler |
| Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet | Nathalie Geneviève Marie Kosciusko-Morizet | 1973 | n/a | null | engineer, public figure and advocate, having previously had a political career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Kosciusko-Morizet |
| Jim Steyer | James Pearson Steyer | 1956 | n/a | American | children's advocate, civil rights attorney, professor and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steyer |
| Alan Gottlieb | Alan Merril Gottlieb | null | null | American | author, conservative political activist, gun rights advocate, and businessperson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gottlieb |
| Dov Charney | Dov Charney | 1969 | n/a | Canadian | entrepreneur, clothing manufacturer and advocate for immigration reform in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney |
| David Marcus | David Marcus | 1924 | 2009 | Irish | Jewish editor and writer who was a lifelong advocate for and editor of Irish fiction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marcus |
| Amy Goldman Fowler | Amy Goldman Fowler | 1954 | n/a | American | billionaire heiress, gardener, author, artist, philanthropist, and advocate for seed saving and heirloom fruits and vegetables | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goldman_Fowler |
| Anthony Julius | Anthony Robert Julius | 1956 | n/a | British | solicitor advocate and academic, known for being Diana, Princess of Wales' divorce lawyer and for representing Deborah Lipstadt | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Julius |
| Felice Schwartz | Felice Nierenberg Schwartz | 1925 | 1996 | American | writer, advocate, and feminist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Schwartz |
| Marvin Liebman | Marvin Liebman | 1923 | 1997 | American | conservative activist and fundraiser, and later in his life, a gay rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Liebman |
| Leonard Garment | Leonard Garment | 1924 | 2013 | American | attorney, public servant, and arts advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Garment |
| Dana Beyer | Dana Beyer | 1952 | n/a | American | transgender rights advocate and the executive director of Gender Rights Maryland, a civil rights and advocacy organization serving Maryland's transgender community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Beyer |
| Beate Sirota Gordon | Beate Sirota Gordon | 1923 | 2012 | Austrian | performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Sirota_Gordon |
| Norman Cousins | Norman Cousins | 1915 | 1990 | American | political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cousins |
| Lucien Wolf | Lucien Wolf | 1857 | 1930 | English | Jewish journalist, diplomat, historian, and advocate of rights for Jews and other minorities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Wolf |
| Evan Wolfson | Evan Wolfson | 1957 | n/a | null | attorney and gay rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Wolfson |
| Elsa Herrmann | Elsa Herrmann Pick | 1893 | 1957 | German | Jewish feminist writer and refugee advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Herrmann |
| Peter Hotez | Peter Jay Hotez | 1958 | n/a | American | scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hotez |
| Simon Baruch | Simon Baruch | 1840 | 1921 | null | physician, scholar, and the foremost advocate of the urban public bathhouse to benefit public health in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baruch |
| Richard Berkowitz | Richard Berkowitz | 1955 | n/a | null | gay American author and activist best known as an early advocate of safe sex in response to the AIDS crisis among gay men in the 1980s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berkowitz |
| Ron Castan | Aaron Ronald Castan | 1939 | 1999 | Australian | barrister and human rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Castan |
| Rose Kushner | Rose Rehert Kushner | 1929 | 1990 | American | journalist and pioneering advocate for breast cancer patients | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Kushner |
| Marlon Reis | Marlon Reis | 1981 | n/a | American | animal rights advocate, writer, and first gentleman of Colorado as the husband of 43rd governor of Colorado Jared Polis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Reis |
| Matt Deitsch | Matthew Bryan Deitsch | 1997 | n/a | American | writer, gun violence prevention advocate and political advisor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Deitsch |
| Andrew Weil | Andrew Thomas Weil | 1942 | n/a | American | celebrity doctor who advocates for alternative medicine including the 4-7-8 breathing technique | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weil |
| György Konrád | György (George) Konrád | 1933 | 2019 | Hungarian | novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/György_Konrád |
| Wayne Besen | Wayne Besen | 1970 | n/a | American | LGBT rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Besen |
| Joe Romm | Joseph J. Romm | 1960 | n/a | American | author, editor, physicist and climate expert, who advocates reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming and increasing energy security through energy efficiency, green energy technologies and green transportation technologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Romm |
| Charlie Shrem | Charles Shrem IV | 1989 | n/a | American | entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Shrem |
| Isaac Harby | Isaac Harby | 1788 | 1828 | null | early 19th-century teacher, playwright, literary critic, journalist, newspaper editor, and advocate of reforms in Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Harby |
| Ezra Heywood | Ezra Hervey Heywood | 1829 | 1893 | American | individualist anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and advocate of equal rights for women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Heywood |
| Beeban Kidron | Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron | 1961 | n/a | British | filmmaker and an advocate for children's rights in the digital world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeban_Kidron |
| Susan Rosenberg | Susan Lisa Rosenberg | 1955 | n/a | American | activist, writer, advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rosenberg |
| Josel of Rosheim | Josel of Rosheim | 1480 | 1554 | null | great advocate ("shtadlan") of the German Jews during the reigns of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Charles V. Maximilian I appointed him as governor of all Jews of Germany, a position which was confirmed after his death by his grandson, Charles V. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josel_of_Rosheim |
| Leonard Boudin | Leonard B. Boudin | 1912 | 1989 | American | civil liberties attorney and left-wing activist who represented Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and Dr. Benjamin Spock, the author of Baby and Child Care, who advocated draft resistance during the Vietnam War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Boudin |
| Rose Pastor Stokes | Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes | 1879 | 1933 | American | socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Pastor_Stokes |
| Ursula Hirschmann | Ursula Hirschmann | 1913 | 1991 | German | anti-fascist activist and an advocate of European federalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Hirschmann |
| Judith L. Lichtman | Judith L. Lichtman | null | null | American | attorney specializing in women's rights and an advocate for human and civil rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_L._Lichtman |
| Sara Ehrman | Sara Ehrman | 1919 | 2017 | American | politician who advocated for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Ehrman |
| Aaron S. Zelman | Aaron S. Zelman | 1946 | 2010 | American | gun rights advocate, author, and founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S._Zelman |
| Cindi Leive | Cynthia Leive | 1967 | n/a | null | journalist, media leader and advocate for women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindi_Leive |
| Henry Spira | Henry Spira | 1927 | 1998 | Belgian | animal rights advocate, regarded by some as one of the most effective animal advocates of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spira |
| Daniel Gordis | Daniel Gordis | 1959 | n/a | American | author and speaker, who is best known as a fierce advocate of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gordis |
| Frédéric Ozanam | Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam | 1813 | 1853 | French | literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Ozanam |
| Lynne Franks | Lynne Joanne Franks | 1948 | n/a | null | advocate, communications strategist, writer and spokeswoman on women's issues, sustainability and consumer lifestyles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Franks |
| Michael F. Jacobson | Michael F. Jacobson | 1943 | n/a | American | scientist and nutrition advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Jacobson |
| Anna Strunsky | Anna Strunsky Walling | 1877 | 1964 | null | known as an early 20th-century Jewish-American author and advocate of socialism based in San Francisco, California, and New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Strunsky |
| John Gofman | John William Gofman | 1918 | 2007 | American | scientist and advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gofman |
| Miklós Haraszti | Miklós Haraszti | 1945 | n/a | Hungarian | politician, writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miklós_Haraszti |
| Allison Raskin | Allison Beth Raskin | 1989 | n/a | American | writer, director, comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, and mental health advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Raskin |
| Leonard Weinglass | Leonard Irving Weinglass | 1933 | 2011 | null | U.S. criminal defense lawyer and constitutional law advocate, best known for his defense of participants in the 1960s counterculture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Weinglass |
| Leslie Jacobs | Leslie Rosenthal Jacobs | 1959 | n/a | null | education reform advocate, business executive, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jacobs |
| Joan Rosanove | Joan Mavis Rosanove | 1896 | 1974 | Australian | lawyer and advocate for the rights of women to practice law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Rosanove |
| Lewis Gompertz | Lewis Gompertz | none | 1861 | English | writer and inventor, and early animal rights and veganism advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gompertz |
| John Weiss | John Weiss | 1818 | 1879 | American | author and clergyman, an advocate of women's rights, as well as a noted abolitionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Weiss |
| Sara Gibbs | Sara Gibbs | null | null | British | comedy script writer and autism advocate with credits on the British television shows HIGNFY, Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Mash Report amongst others | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Gibbs |
| Judy Darcy | Judy Darcy | 1950 | n/a | Canadian | health care advocate, trade unionist, and former politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Darcy |
| Victor Papanek | Victor Josef Papanek | 1923 | 1998 | Austrian | designer and educator, who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek |
| Gloria Feldt | Gloria Feldt | 1942 | n/a | null | New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator, and feminist leader who has gained national recognition as a social and political advocate of women's rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Feldt |
| Paul Kammerer | Paul Kammerer | 1880 | 1926 | Austrian | biologist who studied and advocated Lamarckism, the theory that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics acquired in their lifetime | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kammerer |
| Ben Manski | Ben Manski | 1974 | n/a | American | sociologist, lawyer, and democracy advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Manski |
| Herbert Hupka | Herbert Hupka | 1915 | 2006 | German | journalist, politician (SPD and later the CDU), and advocate for the Germans expelled from neighbouring countries after the Second World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hupka |
| Yiḥyah Qafiḥ | Yiḥyah Qafiḥ | 1850 | 1931 | null | one of the foremost rabbinical scholars in Sana'a during that period, and one who advocated many reforms in Jewish education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiḥyah_Qafiḥ |
| David Silverman (activist) | David Silverman | 1966 | n/a | American | secular advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silverman_(activist) |
| Jerome J. Shestack | Jerome Joseph "Jerry" Shestack | 1923 | 2011 | null | Philadelphia lawyer and human rights advocate active in Democratic Party politics who served as president of the American Bar Association (ABA) from 1997 to 1998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_J._Shestack |
| Itay Tiran | Itay Tiran | 1980 | n/a | Israeli | stage and screen actor, director, and a well-known pro-Palestinian advocate in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itay_Tiran |
| Dorothy Norman | Dorothy Norman | 1905 | 1997 | American | photographer, writer, editor, arts patron and advocate for social change | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Norman |
| Mont Follick | Montefiore Follick | 1887 | 1958 | British | Labour Party politician, a campaigner for spelling reform, polyglot and advocate of decimal currency | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Follick |
| Enzo Sereni | Enzo Sereni | 1905 | 1944 | Italian | Socialist Zionist, co-founder of kibbutz Givat Brenner, celebrated intellectual, advocate of Jewish-Arab co-existence and a Jewish Brigade officer who was parachuted into Nazi-occupied Italy in World War II, captured by the Germans and executed in Dachau concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Sereni |
| Felix Moscheles | Felix Stone Moscheles | 1833 | 1917 | English | painter, writer, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Moscheles |
| Mark Mathew Braunstein | Mark Mathew Braunstein | 1951 | n/a | American | writer, nature photographer, art librarian, and advocate of medical marijuana legalization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mathew_Braunstein |
| Moisés Sáenz | Moisés Sáenz | 1888 | 1941 | null | leading education advocate and reformer of education in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisés_Sáenz |
| Moshe Smilansky | Moshe Smilansky | 1874 | 1953 | null | pioneer of the First Aliyah, a Zionist leader who advocated peaceful coexistence with the Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, a farmer, and a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction literary works | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Smilansky |
| Eduard Heimann | Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann | 1889 | 1967 | German | economist and social scientist who advocated ethical socialist programs in Germany in the 1920s and later in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Heimann |
| Arnold Zable | Arnold Zable | 1947 | n/a | Australian | writer, novelist, storyteller and human rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Zable |
| Florence E. Bamberger | Florence Eilau Bamberger | 1882 | 1965 | American | pedagogue, school supervisor, progressive education advocate, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_E._Bamberger |
| Reva Gerstein | Reva Appleby Gerstein | 1917 | 2020 | Canadian | psychologist, educator, and mental health advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reva_Gerstein |
| Harold Hanson (lawyer) | Harold Joseph Hanson | 1904 | 1973 | null | eminent South African advocate (QC) and Senior Member of the Johannesburg Bar Council | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hanson_(lawyer) |
| Bessie Moses | Bessie Louise Moses, M.D. | 1893 | 1965 | null | U.S. gynecologist and obstetrician who advocated birth control practices for women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Moses |
| Leopold Caspari | Leopold Caspari | 1830 | 1915 | null | Louisiana businessman and politician who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1884 to 1892, where he advocated the establishment of Northwestern State University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Caspari |
| Mitch Snyder | Mitch Snyder | 1943 | 1990 | American | advocate for the homeless | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Snyder |
| Frances Lasker Brody | Frances Lasker Brody | 1916 | 2009 | American | arts advocate, collector, and philanthropist who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Lasker_Brody |
| Ruth Adler | Ruth Margaret Adler nee Oppenheimer | 1944 | 1994 | null | feminist, human rights campaigner and child welfare advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Adler |
| Boris Kolker | Boris Grigorevich Kolker | 1939 | n/a | null | language teacher, translator and advocate of the international language Esperanto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kolker |
| Rodrigo Lehtinen | Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen | 1986 | n/a | American | LGBT rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Lehtinen |
| William L. Taylor | William Lewis Taylor | 1931 | 2010 | American | attorney and lobbyist who advocated on behalf of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and played a major role in drafting civil rights legislation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Taylor |
| Max Lugavere | Max Lugavere | 1982 | n/a | American | television personality, health and wellness writer and low-carbohydrate diet advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Lugavere |
| Sydel Silverman | Sydel Finfer Silverman Wolf | 1933 | 2019 | American | anthropologist notable for her work as a researcher, writer, and advocate for the archival preservation of anthropological research | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydel_Silverman |
| Ruth Sacks Caplin | Ruth Sacks Caplin | 1920 | 2014 | American | screenwriter, arts advocate, therapist and philanthropist known for her adapted screenplay for the film, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, starring Joan Plowright and Rupert Friend | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sacks_Caplin |
| Annie Altschul | Professor Annie Therese Altschul, CBE, BA, MSc, RGN, RMN, RNT, FRCN | 1919 | 2001 | null | Britain's first mental health nurse pioneer; a midwife, researcher, educator, author and a patient advocate, emeritus professor of nursing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Altschul |
| Ron Bruder | Ron Bruder | null | null | American | entrepreneur and advocate for increased youth employment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Bruder |
| Carolyn Goodman (psychologist) | Carolyn Elizabeth Goodman | 1915 | 2007 | American | clinical psychologist who became a prominent civil rights advocate after her son, Andrew Goodman and two other civil rights workers, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Goodman_(psychologist) |
| Sydney Harris (judge) | Sydney Malcolm Harris | 1917 | 2009 | Canadian | jurist and civil liberties advocate who worked as a lawyer, both for the federal government and then in private practice for over 30 years before being appointed to the Ontario Provincial Court in 1976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Harris_(judge) |
| Leyb Gorfinkel | Leyb Gorfinkel | 1896 | 1976 | null | advocate, journalist, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyb_Gorfinkel |
| Martin A. Couney | Martin Arthur Couney | 1869 | 1950 | American | obstetrician of German-Jewish descent, an advocate and pioneer of early neonatal technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Couney |
| Barbara Ostfeld | Barbara Jean Ostfeld | null | null | American | first ordained female cantor in Jewish history, and an American feminist, mental health advocate, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Ostfeld |
| Ronnie L. Podolefsky | Ronnie Lynn Podolefsky | 1950 | n/a | American | attorney, legal historian, social justice advocate, and feminist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_L._Podolefsky |
| Juan Carlos Blumberg | Juan Carlos Blumberg | 1945 | n/a | Argentine | textile entrepreneur and victims' rights advocate who rose to prominence following the 2004 murder of his son, Axel Blumberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Blumberg |
| Jan Steckel | Jan Steckel | null | null | null | San Francisco Bay Area-based writer of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, who is also known as an activist in the bisexual community and an advocate on behalf of the disabled and the underprivileged | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Steckel |
| Walter Siegmeister | Walter Isidor Siegmeister | 1903 | 1965 | null | early 20th-century American alternative health advocate and esoteric writer, who formed part of the alternative reality subculture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Siegmeister |
| Shirley Adelson Siegel | Shirley Adelson Siegel | 1918 | 2020 | American | lawyer whose work as a housing activist and advocate spanned over seven decades | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Adelson_Siegel |
| Sid Lerner | Sidney "Sid" Lerner | 1930 | 2021 | null | advertising and marketing industry executive and public health advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Lerner |
| Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading | Eva Violet Isaacs, 2nd Marchioness of Reading | 1895 | 1973 | British | philanthropist, Zionist activist, children's welfare advocate, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Isaacs,_Marchioness_of_Reading |
| Józef Sandel | Józef Sandel | 1894 | 1962 | Polish | Jewish art historian and critic, an art dealer and collector, and an advocate on behalf of Jewish artists in postwar Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Sandel |
| William A. Moses | William A. Moses | 1933 | 2002 | American | real estate developer, founder of the Community Housing Improvement Program, and an advocate against rent control | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Moses |
| Louis Rosenblum | Louis Rosenblum | 1923 | 2019 | null | pioneer in the movement for freedom of emigration for the Jews in the Soviet Union, was a founder of the first organization to advocate for the freedom of Soviet Jews, the Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism, founding president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, and a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center (now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rosenblum |
| Jonah Edelman | Jonah Martin Edelman | 1970 | n/a | American | advocate for public education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Edelman |
| Leon Feingold | Leon Feingold | 1973 | n/a | null | baseball player, polyamory advocate, advice columnist, and co-founder of the House of Good Deeds, from Oceanside, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Feingold |
| Barbara Margolis | Barbara Ann "Bobbie" Margolis | 1929 | 2009 | American | prisoners' rights advocate who served as the official greeter of New York City under the administration of Mayor of New York City Ed Koch | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Margolis |
| Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi | Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi | 1964 | n/a | American | disability rights activist and an advocate for Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Laszlo_Mizrahi |
| T. Jane Zelikova | Tamara Jane Zelikova | null | null | null | climate change scientist, advocate and communicator interested in the impacts of environmental change on natural and managed ecosystems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Jane_Zelikova |
| Ruth P. Smith | Ruth Proskauer Smith | 1907 | 2010 | null | pro-choice advocate for reproductive rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_P._Smith |
| Edward Beddington-Behrens | Major Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens | 1897 | 1968 | British | soldier, businessman and patron of the arts, and a leading advocate of European co-operation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Beddington-Behrens |
| Herb Denenberg | Herbert S. Denenberg | 1929 | 2010 | American | television journalist, lawyer, consumer advocate, and insurance regulator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Denenberg |
| Michael Freund (activist) | Michael Freund | null | null | American | political activist and non-profit executive who advocates on behalf of individuals and groups who self-identify as Jews or would-be Jews, including self-described descendants of the Lost tribes of Israel, crypto-Jews, hidden Jews, and Jews forcibly assimilated under Communist rule, and converts to Judaism, attempting to regularize their legal status as Jews under Israeli law and secure permission for them to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Freund_(activist) |
| Frida Laski | Frida Kerry Laski | 1884 | 1977 | British | suffragist, birth control advocate and eugenicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Laski |
| Esther Saperstein | Esther Richman Saperstein | 1901 | 1988 | American | legislator, women's rights advocate and mental health activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Saperstein |
| Jane Lobman Katz | Jane Lobman Katz | 1931 | 1986 | null | Alabama advocate for government reform | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lobman_Katz |
| Jonathan Shurberg | Jonathan Seth Shurberg | 1963 | 2017 | null | Maryland-based American attorney, community advocate, and 2014 Democratic Party candidate for state delegate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Shurberg |
| Ida Weis Friend | Ida Weis Friend | null | null | null | suffragist, philanthropist and lifelong advocate for progressive causes in New Orleans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Weis_Friend |
| Asa Keisar | Asa Keisar | 1973 | n/a | Israeli | Jewish religious scholar, rabbi, scribe, and advocate for veganism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Keisar |
| Lesley Max | Dame Lesley Max | 1945 | n/a | New Zealand | children's advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Max |
| Noach Flug | Eliyahu Noach Flug | 1925 | 2011 | Israeli | economist, diplomat and advocate for the rights of Holocaust survivors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noach_Flug |
| Elliott Sanger | Elliot Sanger | 1897 | 1989 | null | co-founder of WQXR-FM and an early advocate of FM broadcasting | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Sanger |
| Joel J. Nobel | Joel Judovich Nobel | 1934 | 2014 | American | anesthesiologist and patient safety advocate best known for founding the crash cart and ECRI Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_J._Nobel |
| Janet Weinberg | Janet Inez Weinberg | 1955 | 2018 | American | LGBTQ activist, advocate for people with HIV/AIDS and advocate for disability rights, based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Weinberg |
| Dmitry Yakubovskiy | Dmitry Yakubovskiy [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj jə:kubˈoːfskɪj] born September 5, 1963 | null | null | Soviet | lawyer, advocate and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Yakubovskiy |
| Steve Kowit | Steve Kowit | 1938 | 2015 | American | poet, essayist, educator, and human-rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kowit |
| Enid Hammerman | Enid Hammerman Long | 1930 | 2002 | null | trustee at Columbia College in Chicago and an advocate for better health care in the United States and developing nations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Hammerman |
| Jules Browde | Jules Browde | 1919 | 2016 | South African | advocate and acting judge as well as a human-rights activist and Jewish communal leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Browde |
| Baruch Tegegne | Baruch Tegegne | 1944 | 2010 | null | prominent leader of Ethiopian Jews in Israel and advocate of their immigration in the 1980s and 1990s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Tegegne |
| Ronnie Lichtman | Ronnie Sue Lichtman | 1950 | n/a | null | midwife, educator, writer and advocate for women's health | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Lichtman |
| Daniel Juster | Daniel C. Juster | 1947 | n/a | null | author and advocate of Messianic Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Juster |
| Bertha Solomon | Bertha Solomon | 1892 | 1969 | South African | lawyer and politician and one of the country's early advocates for women's rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Solomon |
| Markus Nissa Weiss | Markus Nissa Weiss | null | null | Hungarian | advocate and author of the Reform Judaism movement that started in the late 18th century, with the advent of Jewish emancipation and acculturation in Central Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Nissa_Weiss |
| Isaac Zieman | Isaac Zelig Zieman | 1920 | 2007 | null | survivor of both the Holocaust and Stalin's gulag (labor camps) who went on to devote his life to helping people as a psychoanalyst and an advocate for peace between Germans and Jews, Israelis and Palestinians, and other groups with a history of antagonism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Zieman |
| León Klenicki | Rabbi León Klenicki | 1930 | 2009 | null | advocate for interfaith relations, particularly between Jews and Catholics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/León_Klenicki |
| John Hans Stroh | John Hans Stroh | 1916 | 1996 | Australian | health advocate, businessman and researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hans_Stroh |
| Alexander Ryvchin | Alexander | 1983 | n/a | Australian | author, advocate, media commentator, and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ryvchin |
| Stephanie St. James | Stephanie St. James | null | null | American | actress, singer, mentor, and advocate for the disease endometriosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_St._James |
| Lev Kritzman | Lev Natanovich Kritzman | 1890 | 1938 | Soviet | Marxian economist who became a prominent advocate of state planning in the 1920s Soviet economy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Kritzman |
| Frank Taffel | Frank Taffel | 1877 | 1947 | null | journalist, a founder of Congregation Beth Jacob (Atlanta), and an advocate of Jewish causes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Taffel |
| Walter Max Lippmann | Walter Max Leopold Lippmann | 1919 | 1993 | null | Jewish and ethnic community leader and advocate of multiculturalism in Australia, Walter was born in Hamburg, Germany and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Max_Lippmann |
| Greta Beer | Greta Georgia Beer | 1921 | 2020 | null | Romanian Jew who advocated the rights of thousands of other Holocaust survivors and their families, who collectively lost millions in assets during World War II. Her work culminated in a lawsuit against Swiss banks that resulted in a settlement of more than $1 billion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Beer |
| Leon Schagrin | Leon Schagrin | 1926 | n/a | null | Holocaust survivor and Jewish advocate in the State of Florida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Schagrin |