Berikut adalah daftar orang-orang yang telah memberikan kontribusi signifikan bagi kemajuan hak asasi manusia, diurutkan menurut abjad berdasarkan negara kelahiran atau tempat tinggal. Ini termasuk politisi, seniman, dan orang lain yang memperjuangkan hak asasi manusia melalui aktivisme atau filantropi di samping para pembela dan aktivis hak asasi manusia yang berdedikasi. Didefinisikan secara luas, hak asasi manusia adalah hak yang dimiliki oleh individu atau kelompok individu semata-mata karena menjadi manusia sebagai akibat dari kerentanan manusia yang melekat atau karena hak tersebut merupakan syarat untuk kemungkinan terciptanya masyarakat yang adil.
Aljazair
- Lounés Matoub
Amerika
- Jane Addams
- Bronson Alcott
- Muhammad Ali
- Saul Alinsky
- Jessie Daniel Ames
- Herbert Aptheker
- Brooke Astor
- Byllye Avery
- Joan Baez
- Gamaliel Bailey
- Ella Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- James Baldwin
- Roger Nash Baldwin
- Toni Cade Bambara
- John Perry Barlow
- Marion Barry
- Charlotta Spears Bass
- Daisy Gatson Bates
- Harry Belafonte
- Alva Belmont
- Anthony Benezet
- Mary Frances Berry
- James Luther Bevel
- Alice Stone Blackwell
- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
- William DP Bliss
- Norman Ernest Borlaug
- Kay Boyle
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
- Jembatan Ruby
- John Brown
- Molly Brown
- Olympia Brown
- Ruth Winifred Brown
- Tony Brown
- Warren Buffett
- Ralph Bunche
- Lucy Burns
- Nicholas Murray Butler
- Stokely Carmichael
- Jimmy Carter
- Rosalynn Carter
- Ana Castillo
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Harry Chapin
- Cesar Chavez
- Ramsey Clark
- Septima Poinsette Clark
- George Clooney
- Willie Colón
- Elizabeth Comstock
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper
- Samuel Cotton
- George S. Hitungan
- Mary Crow Dog
- Justin Dart, Jr.
- Angela Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Paulina Davis
- Dorothy Day
- Bill de Blasio
- Ruby Dee
- Morris Dees
- Alison Des Forges
- Bapa Ilahi
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- Grace Hoadley Dodge
- Ignatius Donnelly
- Frederick Douglass
- St. Katharine Drexel
- Abigail Jane Scott Duniway
- Andrea Dworkin
- Gunnar Dybwad
- Rosemary F. Dybwad
- Wanita Elang
- Crystal Eastman
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Leon Eisenberg
- George Henry Evans
- Medgar Evers
- Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Mimi Fariña
- James Farmer
- Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham
- Rebecca Ann Felton
- Edward A. Filene
- Paul J. Flory
- Carolyn Forché
- Connie Francis
- Barney Frank
- Al Franken
- Frances Dana Barker Gage
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
- James A. Garfield
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Bill Gates
- Melinda Gates
- Theaster Gates
- Richard Gere
- Abigail Hopper Gibbons
- Stephen Girard
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Isabella Marshall Graham
- Rebecca Gratz
- Dick Gregory
- Kathy Griffin
- Woodie Guthrie
- Sarah Josepha Hale
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Joy Harjo
- Frances EW Harper
- Ida A. Husted Harper
- Michael Harrington
- Barbara Clementine Harris
- Tom Hayden
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Dorothy Height
- Audrey Hepburn
- Julia Butterfly Hill
- Isabella Beecher Hooker
- Herbert Hoover
- Lou Hoover
- Bob Hope
- Lugenia Membakar Harapan
- Dolores Huerta
- Cordell Hull
- Harold L. Ickes
- Jesse Jackson
- Mary Putnam Jacobi
- Jane Jacobs
- Kenneth Jernigan
- Johnson Ajaib
- Angelina Jolie
- Raul Julia
- Danny Kaye
- Florence Kelley
- Frank B. Kellogg
- WK Kellogg
- John Oliver Killens
- Coretta Scott King
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Freda Kirchwey
- Larry Kramer
- Maggie Kuhn
- Luis Kutner
- Lady Gaga
- Susette La Flesche
- Cyndi Lauper
- Norman Lear
- Denise Levertov
- Francis Lieber
- Abraham Lincoln
- Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
- Josephine Shaw Lowell
- Audre Lorde
- Jane Lynch
- Malcolm X
- Wilma Pearl Mankiller
- Horace Mann
- Betita Martínez
- Cotton Mather
- Cindy McCain
- Francis John McConnell
- Cynthia McKinney
- James Meredith
- Barbara Mikulski
- Harvey Milk
- Virginia Louisa Minor
- Anne Moody
- Michael Moore
- Anne Tracy Morgan
- Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris
- Constance Baker Motley
- Lucretia Mott
- Ralph Nader
- Josephine Louise Le Monnier Newcomb
- Paul Newman
- Kwik P. Newton
- Mary Gove Nichols
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Barack Obama
- Michelle Obama
- Tillie Olsen
- George Oppen
- Thomas Mott Osborne
- James Otis
- Mary White Ovington
- Robert Dale Owen
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Taman Kayu Maud
- Theodore Parker
- Taman Rosa
- Anne Parrish
- Parrish Celestia Susannah
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
- Alice Paul
- Linus Pauling
- Sean Penn
- Kekuatan Samantha
- Al Raby
- A. Philip Randolph
- John Reed
- Walter Reuther
- Jacob A. Riis
- Ed Roberts
- Paul Robeson
- Randall Robinson
- Rubye Robinson
- V. Gene Robinson
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller III
- Winthrop Rockefeller
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elihu Root
- Ernestine Rose
- Julius Rosenwald
- Bill Russell
- Bayard Rustin
- Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage
- José Sarria
- Mario Savio
- Bobby Seale
- William H. Seward
- Betty Shabazz
- Al Sharpton
- Cindy Sheehan
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Fred Shuttlesworth
- Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
- Stephen Smale
- Gerrit Smith
- Samantha Smith
- George Soros
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Ellen Gates Starr
- Gloria Steinem
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Oscar Solomon Straus
- Arthur Tappan
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Gereja Mary Eliza Terrell
- Lucy Terry
- Martha Carey Thomas
- Norman Thomas
- Henry David Thoreau
- Stanley Tigerman
- Reies López Tijerina
- William Monroe Trotter
- Henry Viscardi, Jr.
- Lillian D. Wald
- Nyonya CJ Walker
- Jim Wallis
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Cornel West
- Charlotte Anita Whitney
- Roy Wilkins
- Jody Williams
- Woodrow Wilson
- Oprah Winfrey
- James D. Wolfensohn
- Victoria Woodhull
- Frances Wright
- Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Argentina
- René de Epelbaum
- Francis I
- Juan Gelman
- Tomás Eloy Martínez
- Emilio Fermin Mignone
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Orang Australia
- Burnum Burnum
- Helen Broinowski Caldicott
- Caroline Chisholm
- Mick Dodson
- Cheryl Kernot
- Simon McKeon
- Roma Flinders Mitchell
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal
- WEH Stanner
- James D. Wolfensohn
- Judith Wright
Austria
- Alfred Hermann Fried
- Michael Hainisch
- Bertha, Freifran (baroness) von Suttner
Bangladesh
- Shamsur Rahman
- Muhammad Yunus
Belgia
- Henri La Fontaine
- Constantin Meunier
- Paul van Ostaijen
- Peter Piot
- Dominique Pire
Brazil
- Sebastião Salgado
- Herbert José de Souza (Betinho)
Inggris
- Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos dari Brondesbury
- Charles Freer Andrews
- Norman Angell
- Anthony John Arkell
- Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton dari Upholland
- Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
- Peter Benenson
- John Desmond Bernal
- Annie Besant
- Walter Besant
- John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr dari Brechin Mearns
- Richard Branson
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts
- Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet ke-1
- George Cadbury
- William Carey
- Richard Carlile
- Edward Carpenter
- Mary Carpenter
- John Cartwright
- Edwin Chadwick
- Thomas Chalmers
- Margery Corbett Ashby
- Randal Cremer
- Emily Davison
- Diana, putri Wales
- Kenny Everett
- Elizabeth Fry
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cecil ke-1
- Robert Hall
- Arthur Henderson
- Christopher Hitchens
- Emily Hobhouse
- Quintin Hogg
- Thomas Hood
- John Howard
- John Hume
- John Jebb
- John Maynard Keynes
- Joanna Lumley
- Máiread Maguire
- Constance Markievicz
- Paul McCartney
- Ian McKellen
- James Mill
- Jessica Mitford
- Moses Montefiore, Baronet
- William Moon
- Hannah More
- Florence Nightingale
- Richard Overton
- Christabel Harriette Pankhurst
- William Penn
- John Philip
- Samuel Plimsoll
- Robert Raikes
- Anita Roddick
- Joseph Rotblat
- B. Seebohm Rowntree
- Bertrand Russell
- Granville Sharp
- Semoga Sinclair
- Sigmund Sternberg
- Menyengat
- Joseph Sturge
- EP Thompson
- Arnold Toynbee
- David Trimble
- Peter Ustinov
- John Westlake
- Richard Whately
- William Wilberforce
- Betty Williams
- Fannie Barrier Williams
- Gerrard Winstanley
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Kamerun
- René Philombe
Kanada
- Anna Mae Aquash
- Norman Bethune
- Henry Enns
- Michael J. Fox
- Michaëlle Jean
- Naomi Klein
- Ovide Mercredi
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Chili
- Ariel Dorfman
- Raúl Rettig Guissen
- Sola Sierra
- Raúl Cardinal Silva Henríquez
- Sergio Valech Aldunate
Cina
- Ai Weiwei
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Hu Jia
- Rebiya Kadeer
- Harry Hongda Wu
- Liu Xiaobo
Kolumbia
- Jaime Garzón
- Juanes
Orang Kongo
- Denis Mukwege
Kosta Rika
- Óscar Arias Sánchez
Kuba
- Vilma Espín Guillois
Ceko
- Václav Havel
- Martina Navratilova
Orang Denmark
- Fredrik Bajer
Belanda
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Orang Timor
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
- José Ramos-Horta
Mesir
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Wael Ghonim
Etiopia
- Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Finlandia
- Martti Ahtisaari
Perancis
- Georges Arnaud
- Claude Bourdet
- Léon Bourgeois
- Aristide Briand
- Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson
- René Cassin
- Paul-H.-B. d'Estournelles de Constant
- Olympe de Gouges
- Victor Hugo
- Léon Jouhaux
- Alexandre, comte de Lameth
- François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
- Dionys Mascolo
- Frédéric Passy
- Maximilien de Robespierre
- Émile Zola
Jerman
- Johannes Robert Becher
- Willy Brandt
- Joschka Fischer
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Wilhelm Emmanuel Ketteler
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Johann Friedrich Oberlin
- Ludwig Quidde
- Gerhart Moritz Riegner
- Albert Schweitzer
- Ernst Toller
- Clara Zetkin
Ghana
- Kofi Annan
Yunani
- Melina Mercouri
Guatemala
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Luisa Moreno
Haiti
- Gérard Jean-Juste
Indian
- Baba Amte
- Jagdish Bhagwati
- Mamata Banerjee
- Kiran Bedi
- Bhikaiji Cama
- Dayananda Sarasvati
- Sunil Dutt
- Kasturba Gandhi
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Najma Heptulla
- Anna Hazare
- Kumaraswami Kamaraj
- Dhondo Kesh Karve
- Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani
- Ram Manohar Lohia
- Kumari Mayawati
- Sarojini Naidu
- Medha Patkar
- Aruna Roy
- Arundhati Roy
- Ram Mohun Roy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Kailash Satyarthi
- Vandana Siwa
- Gayatri Spivak
- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
- Bunda Teresa
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar
bahasa Indonesia
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Iran
- Simin Behbahani
- Shirin Ebadi
orang Irlandia
- Bono
- Michael D. Higgins
- Seán MacBride
- Mary Robinson
- Betty Williams
Israel
- Anatoly Shcharansky
Italia
- Tina Modotti
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
- Camilla Ravera
Jepang
- Arishima Takeo
- Kagawa Toyohiko
- Takahashi Hisako
Yordania
- Noor al-Ḥussein
- Rania al-ʿAbdullah
Kenya
- Wangari Maathai
Liberia
- Leymah Gbowee
- Tawakkul Karmān
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Malaysia
- Dato 'Onn bin Jaafar
Meksiko
- Edwin Bustillos García
- Rosario Castellanos
- Alfonso García Robles
- Rafael Guillén Vicente
- Carlos Monsiváis
- José Revueltas
- Samuel Ruiz García
- David Alfaro Siqueiros
Myanmar
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Orang New Zeland
- Helen Clark
- Matiu Rata
- Kate Sheppard
Nigeria
- Gani Fawehinmi
- Fela Kuti
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Wole Soyinka
Norsk
- Camilla Collett
- Jan Egeland
- Putra Mahkota Haakon
- Christian Lous Lange
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Henrik Arnold Wergeland
Orang Palestina
- Edward Said
Orang Pakistan
- Malala Yousafzai
Peru
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
- Manuel Scorza
Polandia
- Wawrzyniec Goślicki
- Yohanes Paulus II
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Leon Kruczkowski
- Lech Wałęsa
Portugis
- Mário Soares
Rumania
- Ion Cioaba
- Elie Wiesel
Rusia
- Alexander II
- Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner
- Lidiya Korneyevna Chukovskaya
- Natalya Khusainova Estemirova
- Horace, Baron Günzburg
- Joseph, Baron Günzburg
- Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen
- Mirra Komarovsky
- Lev Zinoviyevich Kopelev
- Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
- Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky
- Pangeran Nikolay Alekseyevich Orlov
- Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov
- Anatoly Shcharansky
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Rwanda
- Alphonse Marie Nkubito
Salvador
- María Julia Hernández
Somalia
- Waris Dirie
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Afrika Selatan
- Johnny Clegg
- FW de Klerk
- Ruth First
- Nkosi Johnson
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
- Fatima Meer
- Bloke Modisane
- Thenjiwe Mtintso
- Dullah Omar
- Mamphela Ramphele
- William Philip Schreiner
- Tandai Shuttleworth
- Helen Suzman
- Desmond Tutu
- Helen Zille
Korea Selatan
- Kim Dae-Jung
Orang Swedia
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson
- Greve (hitung) Folke Bernadotte
- Karl Hjalmar Branting
- Stieg Larsson
- Alva Myrdal
- Torsten Nils Wiesel
Swiss
- Élie Ducommun
- Henri Dunant
- Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg
- Stefano Franscini
- Charles-Albert Gobat
Trinidadian
- CLR James
Tunisia
- Habib Bourguiba
Yaman
- Tawakkol Karman
Orang Zimbabwe
- Albert John Luthuli
- Morgan Tsvangirai
