list of pacifists

This is a list of people who have been referred to as pacifists.

Jane Addams, (1860-1935)
Hannes Alfvn, (1908-1995), Swedish scientist
Gnther Anders
scar Arias Snchez, (1941- ), president of Costa Rica
Ashoka, (273 BC-232 BC), Mauryan emperor (became pacifist after seeing atrocities he comitted)
Eduard Bernstein, (1850-1932), German socialist leader
Daniel Berrigan, U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
Philip Berrigan, (1923-2002), U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
Albert Bigelow, (born 1906), U.S. anti-nuclear activist
Martin Buber, (1878-1965), Jewish philosopher
Smedley Butler (1881-1940), U.S. general, author of War is a Racket
William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), U.S. politician
Helen Caldicott, (born 1938), Australian Medical Doctor
Bartolom de Las Casas , (1474-1566), Spanish Priest
Marie Curie, (1867-1934), Polish scientist
Dorothy Day, (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
David Dellinger, (born 1915), U.S. activist, one of the Chicago Seven
Barbara Deming, (1917-1984), U.S. feminist and activist
Jean Henri Dunant, (1828-1910), founder of Red Cross
Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), physicist
Desiderius Erasmus, (1466-1536), Dutch philosopher
James L. Farmer, Jr., (1920-1999), U.S. Civil Rights leader
Jos Figueres Ferrer, (1906-1990), President of Costa Rica
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
George Fox, (1624-1691), founder of the Quakers
Leonard Frank
Ernst Friedrich
Kasturba Gandhi, (1869-1944), Mahatma Gandhi's wife
Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948), Indian statesman
William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879), U.S. abolitionist
Siddhartha Gautama, (563 BC-483 BC), Indian spiritual leader
Emil Gumbel, (1891-1966), German mathematician
Hubert von Goisern,
Emma Goldman, (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist
Jane Goodall, (1934-), English ethologist and anthropologist
Boudewijn de Groot, (1944- ), Dutch singer
Joo Goulart, (1918-1976), Brazilian president
Sidney Gulick, (1860-1945), American missionary
Thich Nhat Hanh, (1926-), Buddhist peace activist
Stanley Hauerwas, United Methodist theologian/ethicist
Hegetorides of Thasos, (c. 431-404 BC), Greek citizen
Andre Heller, (1946-), artist
Ernest Miller Hemingway, (1899-1961), American author
Lewis Hill, founder of Pacifica Radio
Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910), U.S. abolitionist and songwriter
Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of the War Resisters League
Jean Lon Jaurs, (1859-1914), French socialist leader
Jesus, (ca. 6 BC-33), central figure of Christianity
Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804), German philosopher
Kim Dae-jung, (1925-), South-Korean politician
Martin Luther King, (1929-1968), U.S. Civil Rights leader
Gustav Landauer
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author
John Lennon, (1940-1980), British musician (The Beatles)
Agnes Macphail, (1890-1954), Canadian politician and social reformer
Nelson Mandela, (1918-), South-African apartheid resister and former president.
David McReynolds, (1929), U.S. socialist
Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
Michael Moore, (born 1954), U.S. film maker
Edmund Dene Morel, (1873-1924), British journalist and politician
A. J. Muste, (1885-1967), U.S. socialist, labor leader, and clergyman
Fridtjof Nansen, (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer
Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Swedish inventor
Ken O'Keefe, (1969- ), U.S. activist
Carl von Ossietzky, (1889-1938), German journalist
Arndt Pekurinen (1905-1941), Finnish war resister
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981), U.S. activist
Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), German historian
Jeannette Rankin, (1880-1973), American politician
Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), German author (Im Westen nichts neues)
scar Romero, (1917-1980) Salvadorian Archbishop
Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Belgian painter
Lewis Fry Richardson, (1881-1953), mathematician and meteorologist
Rishabhadeva, (c. 1500 BC), founder of Jainism
Jzef Rotblat, (1908- ), Polish physicist
Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher
Bayard Rustin, (1912-1987), U.S. socialist and civil rights organizer
Margarete Schtte-Lihotzky (1897-2000), Austrian architect
Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965), physician and humanitarian
William Stafford, (1914-1993), U.S. poet
Helene Stcker
Bertha von Suttner, (1843-1914), Austrian peace activist
Tenzin Gyatso, (1935-), the 14th Dalai Lama
Norman Thomas, (1884-1968), U.S. socialist leader
Mother Theresa
Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862), U.S. writer
Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), British composer
Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910), author, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Kurt Tucholsky, (189-1935), German journalist
Desmond Tutu, (1931-), African Bishop
Mordechai Vanunu, (1954-), Israeli scientist
Lanza del Vasto, (1901-1981), Italian artist and activist
Lech Walesa, (1943-), Polish union activist and former president
Roger Waters, (born 1943), British musician (Pink Floyd)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British author
Frank Lloyd Wright, (1867-1959), U.S. architect
John Howard Yoder, (1927-1997), Mennonite theologian/ethicist
Alvin York, (1887-1964), U.S. soldier
Howard Zinn, (born 1922), U.S. historian
Norman Morrison, protested Vietnam War

List Of Pacifists

See also