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A list of pages in alphabetical order that are needed on this wiki. Please do not add celebrities unless they have done indisputably heroic things.

People

  • Sinan Ateş, leader of the Grey Wolves who was killed due to his opposition against the government.
  • Nickole Atkinson; Shanann Watts' best friend, and help to stop Chris Watts getting away from his murder.
  • Benjamin Herschel Babbage; English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his colony work in South Australia, son of Charles Babbage.
  • Patricio Bañados; First Chilean TV Host, who actively helped for opposition against Augusto Pinochet's regime.
  • Twinkle Borge; Hawaiian activist, matriarch of Pu'uhonua o Wai'anae, Hawaii's largest homeless community.
  • Juan Bosch; former president of the Dominican Republic, who made reforms that granted labor rights to Dominicans.
  • Alexey Brusilov; Russian general of the First World War who became famous for the Brusilov Offensive.
  • Joseph Caventou; chemist who helped discover quinine's medical applications.
  • Austen Chamberlain; British politician who helped negotiate the Locarno Treaties.
  • Charlie Chaplin: famous British-American actor. He oftenly promoted workers rights, anti-militarism, anti-authoritarism and anti-totalitarism in his films.
  • Lisa Chernyshenko; fifteen-year-old girl who drove four adults to safety despite being shot in the legs
  • Chulalongkorn; Siamese king who modernized Thailand, made political reforms, and abolished slavery
  • Luis Donaldo Colosio; Mexican politician, known for his 1994 speech where he exposes the discomforts of the country.
  • Confucius, founder of Confucianism and philosopher
  • Rafael Correa; Ecuadorian president who advocated for national improvements as well as opposing neoliberalism and American imperialism.
  • John Covode, American abolitionist who led a committee to investigate the possibility to impeach President James Buchanan for his various corruption scandals.
  • Molly Craig; Aboriginal Australian freedom fighter known for escaping the Moore River Native Settlement with her sister and cousin.
  • Sidney Crosby; Canadian hockey player who is considered to be the greatest of all time and is involved in charitable and philanthropic efforts to help disadvantaged children
  • Benjamin Crump; civil rights lawyer.
  • Peter Cundall; horticulturalist, conservationist, soldier, author, broadcaster and television personality.
  • John Denver; singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, activist, and humanitarian who advocated for environmentalism and protested censorship in music.
  • John Dewey; philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer who contributed to the development of the modern American educational system through incorporating democracy along with being one of the fathers of functional psychology.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky; Russian poet who advocated social reforms.
  • Clint Eastwood; American actor, film director, politician, and Korean War veteran who saved a man's life by performing the Heimlich maneuver in the 2014 Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament
  • Bülent Ecevit, Turkish Prime Minister who captured Öcalan.
  • Bai Fangli; Chinese pedicab driver who went out of retirement to get more than 300 poor kids into school
  • Doug Flutie; NFL and CFL quarterback, philanthropist, and autism awareness activist
  • Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor and Parkinson's disease research activist
  • Enes Kanter Freedom, basketball player and human rights activist
  • Cathy Freeman; Aboriginal Australian athlete who inspired Indigenous kids throughout Australia and providing better opportunities for them.
  • Eduardo Frei; Ex-President of Chile, who made many progressive reforms and later support opposition to Augusto Pinochet due of him not returning democracy.
  • Ernst Friedheim; medical researcher who discovered a cure for sleeping sickness.
  • Jo Frost; English television personality, nanny and author, who helped reformed children
  • Mike Foster: Former Governor of Louisiana (from 1996 to 2004) who fought against corruption and worked to reform ethics laws and improve government transparency during his tenure.
  • Blaine Gabbert, NFL quarterback who along with his brothers saved 4 people from a helicopter crash on jet skis
  • James Garfield, president who put blacks including Frederick Douglass in cabinet
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss; German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science, ranked among history's most influential mathematicians
  • Phan Đình Giót, Vietnamese war hero who sacrificed himself by blocking a machine gun
  • Necip Hablemitoğlu, Turkish historian who conducted studies on the recent history of Turkish communities outside of Turkey and anti-Gülenist.
  • Chris Hadfield, first Canadian astronaut to perform extravehicular activity in outer space
  • Václav Havel: Czech playwright and politician, one of leaders of Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrown Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, after which he became first post-Communist Czechoslovakian President.
  • Rutherford Hayes; president who vetoed the Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Miguel Hidalgo: Mexican Revolutionary, revolutionary in Mexico who is known as the "Father of Mexican Independence"
  • Bob Hoskins, British actor and Parkinson's disease research activist
  • Elizabeth Huckaby; Former vice principal of Little Rock Central High School, ally of the Little Rock Nine
  • Thomas J. Hudner, Jr.; A US Navy Officer and a Naval Aviator in the Korean war, he attempted to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the battle of Chosin Reservoir.
  • Shigesato Itoi; Japanese graphic designer and writer who designed anti-war advertisements, created one of the most heartfelt game series in MOTHER, and supported LGBT friends in the 80s and beyond.
  • Alija Izetbegović: First President of Bosnia, who lead country to independence and undo damage by Slobodan Milošević and Franjo Tuđman.
  • Mary Jackson; American mathematician and aerospace engineer for NASA
  • Víctor Jara; Chilean musician and activist
  • Rebecca Jarrett; a former prostitute and procuress who, with reformer and newspaper editor W.T. Stead, fought against child prostitution and white slavery during the late 19th century.
  • Richard Jewell; an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Magic Johnson; American basketball player and HIV/AIDS activist who changed public perception of HIV
  • Marie Smith Jones; Native American chief and environmentalist
  • Benehakaka Kanahele: Stopped Shigenori Nishikaichi.
  • Siti Rahmah Kasim; independence activist and contributor of the 'Bangle of Independence'
  • Kenneth Kaunda, controversial independence hero of Zambia, anti-violence leader.
  • Felix Kersten; personal therapist to Heinrich Himmler who saved 60,000 Jews from extermination.
  • Maxim Katz; Notable Russian opposition politician.
  • Néstor Kirchner; Argentine president who prosecuted war criminals who participated in his nation's previous military dictatorship.
  • Kwaku Dua I; Ashanti king who modernized his nation.
  • Charles Laveran; discovered the malaria parasite, which helped to treat it.
  • Bruce Lee; actor and martial artist who changed how Asians are portrayed in the media
  • Vince Lombardi; football coach considered one of the greatest of all time as well as being a staunch advocate for civil rights.
  • William Macpherson; British judge who helped expose institutional racism in the police force.
  • Renae Maihi; Māori filmmaker and activist who started a petition calling for Bob Jones to be stripped of his knighthood for proposing an annual "Māori Gratitude Day" and abolish Waitangi Day.
  • Michael Manley; Prime Minister of Jamaica who made several domestic reforms that benefited the Jamaican population.
  • José Martí; hero of the independence of Cuba
  • Giacomo Matteotti: Italian anti-corruption, anti-fascist politician.
  • John McAleese; War hero in Iranian Embassy siege.
  • Gary McMichael; peacemaker
  • Raoni Metuktire; Brazilian indigenous leader that fights against deforestation in the Amazon.
  • Mihai I: Last King of Romania. In 1944 he organized state coup against Ion Antonescu's Fascist regime, making WW2 shorter than it could be.
  • Warren Moon; NFL and CFL quarterback whose accomplishments made him the first black quarterback to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, breaking the color barrier by changing how black quarterbacks are viewed
  • Evo Morales; Bolivian president who advocated for Indigenous rights and decolonization.
  • Prince Philip Mountbatten; World War II British war hero.
  • Andrew Mynarski; Canadian airman and war hero.
  • Mohammad Najibullah; second president of Afghanistan who abolished the one-party state
  • Ibrahim Njoya; Bamum king who modernized his nation.
  • Aisholpan Nurgaiv; Kazakh girl who became the first female eagle hunter to compete in the eagle festival at Ulgii, Mongolia helping to break gender barriers in the sport and is the subject of the documentary The Eagle Huntress.
  • Gaffar Okkan, Turkish police chief who fought against the PKK and Hezbollah and carried out many social activities, such as the recruitment of policewomen for the first time in Diyarbakır.
  • John P. O'Neill; American counter-terrorism expert and 9/11 hero and victim.
  • Robert Oppenheimer; American scientist and anti-Nuclear War activist.
  • Ümit Özdağ, Turkish opposition.
  • Osman Pamukoğlu, Turkish retired general who lead major operations against the PKK.
  • Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa; two of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, Parrado and Canessa climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10-day period to successfully find and bring back help to rescue the remaining survivors.
  • Joseph Pelletier; chemist who discovered quinine's medical applications.
  • Peter III of Russia; Emperor of Russia for six months in 1762. He made several positive reforms such as proclaiming religious freedom, improving education, abolishing the secret police and made it illegal for landowners to kill their serfs without going to court.
  • Michael Phelps; Olympic swimmer, philanthropist, and mental health advocate
  • Mau Piailug, Micronesian teacher who preserved the art of Polynesian wayfinding.
  • Alexander Pushkin; Russian poet who advocated social reforms.
  • Srđa Popović: Serbian politicial activist and former Deputy. He was one of the most notable dissidents during Slobodan Milošević's ruling, and, after Milošević's overthrown, he found CANVAS that support pro-Democratic movements around the world.
  • Mumilaaq Qaqqaq; Inuk activist and former politician who advocates for the rights of Inuit along with helping to reduce Nunavut's suicide rate, increase access to housing, and ensure food security in Nunavut as well as calling for David Lametti to investigate crimes against humanity regarding the sexual and physical abuse of Indigenous children under the residential and day school system and the extradition and arrest of Johannes Rivoire.
  • Michael Redhead Champagne; Inuk public speaker, writer, community advocate, and on-screen personality who advocates for the rights of Indigenous peoples throughout Canada helping to heal and break cycle
  • Sally Ride, first American woman to go to space
  • Louis Rwagasore; Burundian leader of the independence.
  • Sacagawea; Lemhi Shoshone who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Alaa Salah; Sudanese activist
  • Hazel Scott; Trinidian jazz pianist, civil rights anti-segregationist, TV show hostess, wife of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
  • Shakushain; Ainu freedom fighter
  • Elizabeth Smart: American kidnapping child safety activist
  • Samantha Smith; American child peace activist who wrote a letter to Andropov concerning about nuclear war and accepted her invitation to the Soviet Union in 1983
  • William Edward Hanley Stanner; Australian anthropologist who advocated for Aboriginal rights.
  • Roger Staubach; NFL quarterback and Vietnam War veteran
  • Bessie Stringfield; Motorcyclist who was the first African-American woman to ride solo across the United States where she helped broke racial and gender barriers in motorcycling.
  • Jendral Sudirman, National Hero Of Indonesia
  • David Suzuki; Japanese Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist.
  • Valentina Tereshkova; first woman to go to space
  • Max Theiler; virologist who discovered a vaccine for yellow fever.
  • Lidia Thorpe; DjabWurrung, Gunnai, and Gunditjmara politician and activist who advocates for the rights of Indigenous peoples throughout Australia and calls for a treaty.
  • Jordan Turpin; escaped and called local police, who then raided the residence, discovered disturbing evidence and exposed Turpin parents and stop them getting away.
  • Truganini; Aboriginal Australian freedom fighter
  • Franjo Tuđman; president of Croatia who helped lead Croatia into independence and undo the damage by Slobodan Milošević.
  • Dorothy Vaughan; American mathematician and human computer for NASA.
  • Abdurrahman Wahid; Former President of Indonesia who fought against corruption and protected and improved minority rights.
  • Tiger Woods; American golfer who is considered to be the greatest of all time and changed golf by breaking the color barrier to become the first black golfer to win the Masters.

Groups

  • Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes; government organization that investigated the Nazi war crimes.
  • Croatian Democratic Union; group that set up democracy in Croatia.
  • Human Rights Foundation; a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights.
  • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Nuclear disarmament organization.
  • League for Democracy in Greece; heroic group that resisted the Greek junta.
  • Merck, Sharp and Dohme; American medical research group that discovered drugs that make AIDS survivable.
  • Military Emergencies Unit; unit of the Spanish Armed Forces dedicated to helping people in natural disasters.
  • Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo; Argentine organization that seeks to find the disappeared during the military dictatorship.
  • National Council of Iran; loosely based umbrella group of the exiled opposition to Iran's Islamic Republic government.
  • Solidarity; Polish pro-democracy trade union led by Lech Wałęsa.
  • Southern Poverty Law Center; American legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
  • Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet; Tunisian pro-democracy group.

Events

  • Impeachment Investigation against James Buchanan; a process that investigates James Buchanan and his administration for corruption.
  • Operation Yewtree; British police investigation into sexual abuse allegations that exposed celebrities
  • Oslo Freedom Forum; a series of global conferences run by the New York-based non-profit Human Rights Foundation
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