Editing Nonviolence (section)

== Notable nonviolence theorists and practitioners ==
{{See also|List of peace activists}}

* [[Jesus|Jesus of Nazareth]] (4 BCE-33 CE) - A religious figure that advocated for nonviolence, and to love your enemies on his [[Sermon on the Mount]].
* [[14th Dalai Lama]] (b. 1935) – spiritual leader and head of Tibet
* [[Issa Amro]] (b. 1980) – Palestinian activist
* [[Ghassan Andoni]] (b. 1956) –  professor of physics at Bir Zeit University, and a Palestinian Christian leader who advocates nonviolent resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
* [[Corazon Aquino]] (1933–2009) – Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic
* [[A. T. Ariyaratne]] (1931–2024) – Sri Lankan founder and president of the [[Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement]] in Sri Lanka
* [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] (b. 1945) – Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021
* [[Julia Bacha]] (b. 1980) – Brazilian documentary filmmaker
* [[Sunderlal Bahuguna]] (1927–2021) – Indian [[environmentalist]] and [[Chipko movement]] leader
* [[Lady Frances Balfour]] (1858–1931) – British aristocrat, author, and suffragist
* [[Omar Barghouti]] (b. 1964) – founding committee member of the [[Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]] (PACBI) and a co-founder of the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] (BDS) movement
* [[Antonio Bello]] (1935–1993) – Italian Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi from 1982 until his death from cancer in 1993
* [[Peter Benenson]] (1921–2005) – British [[barrister]] and human rights activist and the founder of the human rights group [[Amnesty International]] (AI)
* [[James Bevel]] (1936–2008) – strategist and director of most of the major events of the 1960s [[civil rights movement]], tactician of nonviolence
* [[Rubina Feroze Bhatti]] (b. 1969) – Pakistani human rights activist, peace activist and leadership consultant
* [[Étienne de La Boétie]] (1530–1563) – French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist
* [[Grace Lee Boggs]] (1915–2015) – philosopher, feminist, founder of [[Detroit Summer]]
* [[Iyad Burnat]] (b. 1973) – Palestinian activist who leads [[Bil'in]]'s nonviolent struggle in the [[West Bank]]
* [[Aldo Capitini]] (1899–1968) – Italian philosopher, poet, political activist, anti-fascist, and educator
* [[April Carter]] (1937–2022) – British peace activist
* [[Howard Clark (pacifist)|Howard Clark]] (1950–2013) – active pacifist who was Chair of [[War Resisters' International]] (WRI) from 2006 until his sudden death from a heart attack
* [[Kevin P. Clements]] (b.1946) - Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the [[University of Otago]] in New Zealand and the recipient of the Luxembourg Peace Prize (2022)<ref>[https://luxembourgpeaceprize.org/laureates/outstanding-peace-activist/2022-professor-kevin-clements/ Luxembourg Peace Prize 2020/2021 Outstanding Peace Acticist Professor Kevin Clements on luxembourgepeaceprize.org]</ref>
* [[Dorothy Day]] (1897–1980) – Journalist and co-founder of the [[Catholic Worker Movement|Catholic Worker]] movement 
* [[Barbara Deming]] (1917–1984) – feminist, author, war-tax resister
* [[Mariateresa Di Lascia]] (1954–1994) – Italian politician and writer, activist, human rights' supporter
* [[Muriel Duckworth]] (1908–2009) – Canadian pacifist, feminist, and social and community activist
* [[David Eberhardt]] (b. 1941) – American peace activist and poet
* [[Daniel Ellsberg]] (1931–2023) – Whistleblower who released the ''[[Pentagon Papers]]''
* [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]] (b. 1931) – Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor
* [[Ruth Fry]] (1878–1962) – British [[Quaker]] writer, [[pacifist]] and peace activist
* [[Nichidatsu Fujii]] (1885–1985) – Japanese [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] monk, and founder of the [[Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga|Nipponzan-Myōhōji]] order of Buddhism
* [[Mohandas Gandhi]] (1869–1948) – strategist and organizer in South African and India
* [[Samira Gutoc]] (b. 1974) – Filipina civic leader, journalist, environmentalist, women's rights advocate and politician
* [[Abdul Ghaffar Khan]] (1890-1998) - Pashtun Indian freedom fighter, colleague of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the [[Khudai Khidmatgar]] uniformed nonviolent army
* [[Valarie Kaur]] (b. 1981) – American activist, documentary filmmaker, lawyer, educator, and faith leader
* [[Chân Không]] (b. 1938) – expatriate Vietnamese Buddhist Bhikkhunī (nun) and peace activist
* [[Robert L. Holmes]] (b. 1935) - American Professor emeritus, international lecturer and theorist of nonviolence, war and morality at the [[University of Rochester]]<ref>[https://rochester.edu/news/printable.php?id=1516 University of Rochester press release: Prof. Robert L Holmes named to Mercer Brugler Distinguished Professorship] Oct. 14, 1994 Robert L. Holmes on rochester.edu/news</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tZjFAgAAQBAJ&q=Robert+L.+Holmes The Ethics of Nonviolence: Essays by Robert L. Holmes]. Holmes, Robert L. Cicovaki, Predrag - Editor.  Bloomsbury Publishing New York 20 June 2013 ISBN 9781623569624 Robert L. Holmes on Google books</ref><ref>Holmes, Robert L. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Dq4mDQAAQBAJ&q=Robert+L.+Holmes Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence] Bloomsbury Publishing  New York 2017 {{ISBN|978-1-4742-7982-6}} via Google Books</ref>   
* [[Bernard Lafayette]] (b. 1940) – Civil rights organizer, [[Kingian nonviolence]] educator 
* [[James Lawson (activist)|James Lawson]] (b. 1928) – Civil rights organizer, tactician of nonviolence
* [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] (1929–1968) – Civil rights organizer and tactician of nonviolence
* [[Gopi Shankar Madurai]] (b. 1991) Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist
* [[Aziz Abu Sarah]] (b. 1980) – Palestinian peace activist, journalist, social entrepreneur and politician
* [[Irom Chanu Sharmila]] (b. 1972) – Indian civil rights activist, political activist, and poet
* [[Gene Sharp]] (1928–2018) – leading scholar of nonviolence
* [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] (1792–1822) – British writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets
* [[Oscar Soria]] (b. 1974) – Argentinian political activist, social journalist, and environmental and human rights campaigner, currently serving as a campaign director in the international activist group [[Avaaz]]
* [[Thích Nhật Từ]] (b. 1969) – Vietnamese Buddhist reformer, an author, a poet, a psychological consultant, and an active social activist in Vietnam
* [[Malala Yousafzai]] (b. 1997) – [[Pakistani]] [[female education]] activist and the 2014 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate