List of nonviolence scholars and leaders

This is a list of people who have played a prominent role in social movements which have adopted the methods of nonviolent resistance. It also includes people who made a significant contribution to the study of nonviolence as a political technique.

Scholars and leaders of nonviolence, or nonviolent resistance

*A.J. Muste
*Albert Bigelow
*Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
*Aung San Suu Kyi
*Barbara Deming
*Bayard Rustin
*Brian Martin
*César Chávez
*Corazon Aquino
*Dalai Lama
*Dave Dellinger
*Diane Drufenbrock
*Dorothy Day
*Étienne de La Boétie
*Gene Sharp
*George Lakey
*Giga Bokeria
*Hans Scholl
*Henry David Thoreau
*Jawdat Said
*James Lawson
*Jeff Halper
*Jesus
*Joan Baez
*Johan Galtung
*John Howard Yoder
*John Lennon
*Ken O'Keefe
*Ken Saro-Wiwa
*Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
*Lanza del Vasto
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*Leo Tolstoy
*Mahatma Gandhi
*Marco Pannella
*Mario Rodríguez Cobos ("Silo")
*Marshall Rosenberg
*Martin Luther King, Jr.
*Meer Abdullah Harun
*Mkhuseli Jack
*Mubarak Awad
* (Mustafa Jemilev)
*Petra Kelly
*Philip Berrigan
*Raed Awad Abu-Sahlieh
*Richard Gregg
*Rigoberta Menchú Tum
*Robert L. Holmes
*Rosa Parks
*Hans Scholl
*Sophie Scholl
*Stanley Hauerwas
*Starhawk
*Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama
*Te Whiti o Rongomai
*Thich Nhat Hanh
*Tupua Tamasese Lealofi II
*Vinoba Bhave
*William Moyer
*Yasin Malik
*Michael Nagler
*Arun Gandhi
*David McReynolds

Religious leaders

Some of the following may not fit into the category of "nonviolent resistance" (see discussion).

*Gautama Buddha
*Jesus
*Mahavira
* Katie Border
 
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