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 * *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).