Peace Heros can be visionaries, theorists, advocates, trainers, teachers, organizers, mediators, nonviolent activists, artists or martyrs. Every Peace Hero has inner strength. They are found everywhere from the highest levels of government to the school yard. Each of us can act for good, for healing, for hope for peace and justice. Here are some.
Tell us about your own Peace Heroes!
- John Newton 1725 – 1807
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
- Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
- Mohandas Gandhi 1869 – 1948
- Jeannette Rankin 1880 – 1973
- Archbishop Oscar Romero 1917 – 1980
- Gene Sharp 1928 – 2018
- Paul David Hewson (Bono) 1960
- Kim Phuc 1963
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1890 – 1988
- Dolores Huerta 1930
- Frederick Douglass 1818 – 1895
- Julia Ward Howe 1819 – 1910
- Susan B. Anthony 1820 – 1906
- Samuel Clemens 1835 – 1910
- Vaclav Havel 1936 – 2011
- Woody Guthrie 1912 – 1967
- Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 – 1968
- Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
- Dorothy Day 1897 – 1980
- Marshall B. Rosenberg 1934 – 2015
- Wangari Maathai 1940 – 2011
- Lech Walesa 1943
- Rosa Louise Parks 1913 – 2005
- Desmond Tutu 1931
- Daniel Ellsberg 1931
- Cesar Chavez 1927 – 1993
- Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama 1935
- Shirin Ebadi 1947
- Teresita Quintos-Deles 1948
- Diane Judith Nash 1938
- Peter Seeger 1919 – 2014
- Greg Mortenson 1957
- Julia Butterfly Hill 1974
- Antoinette Tuff
- Edward Snowden 1983
- Paul Chappell 1985
- Chelsea Manning 1987
- Reality Winner 1991
- Ramsey Orta 1992
- Malala Yousafzai 1997
- Dr. Christine Blasey Ford 1966