| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Rocky Anderson |
Politician |
9-Sep-1951 |
|
Mayor of Salt Lake City, 2000-08 |
| Dick Armey |
Politician |
7-Jul-1940 |
|
US House Majority Leader, 1995-2003 |
| Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| Tammy Baldwin |
Politician |
11-Feb-1962 |
|
US Senator from Wisconsin |
| Bob Barr |
Politician |
5-Nov-1948 |
|
Congressman from Georgia, 1995-2003 |
| Francis Biddle |
Government |
9-May-1886 |
4-Oct-1968 |
US Attorney General, 1941-45 |
| Lewis Black |
Comic |
30-Aug-1948 |
|
Rants on The Daily Show |
| Julian P. Boyd |
Historian |
3-Nov-1903 |
21-May-1980 |
Princeton University Librarian, 1940-52 |
| Ben Bradlee |
Editor |
26-Aug-1921 |
21-Oct-2014 |
Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 |
| Heywood Broun |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1888 |
18-Dec-1939 |
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
| Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
| Bob Carr |
Politician |
27-Mar-1943 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1975-95 |
| Erwin Chemerinsky |
Scholar |
14-May-1953 |
|
Legal Scholar |
| David N. Cicilline |
Politician |
15-Jul-1961 |
|
Congressman, Rhode Island 1st |
| Richard C. Clark |
Politician |
14-Sep-1928 |
|
US Senator from Iowa, 1973-79 |
| Johnnie Cochran |
Attorney |
2-Oct-1937 |
29-Mar-2005 |
Successfully defended O. J. Simpson |
| Jeff Cohen |
Pundit |
? |
|
Fox News Watch |
| Warren I. Cohen |
Historian |
20-Jun-1934 |
|
America's Response to China |
| Alan Colmes |
Pundit |
24-Sep-1950 |
|
Left-leaning political pundit |
| John Conyers |
Politician |
16-May-1929 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 14th |
| Lanny J. Davis |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
White House Counsel, 1996-98 |
| Eugene V. Debs |
Labor Leader |
5-Nov-1855 |
20-Oct-1926 |
Labor leader ran for President five times |
| Morris Dees |
Activist |
16-Dec-1936 |
|
Bankrupted the Klan |
| Bernardine Dohrn |
Activist |
12-Jan-1942 |
|
Weather Underground leader |
| Melvyn Douglas |
Actor |
5-Apr-1901 |
4-Aug-1981 |
Being There |
| Richard Dreyfuss |
Actor |
29-Oct-1947 |
|
Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Michael Dukakis |
Politician |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
Twice Governor of Massachusetts |
| Olympia Dukakis |
Actor |
20-Jun-1931 |
|
Tales of the City |
| Susan Estrich |
Pundit |
16-Dec-1952 |
|
Fox News liberal |
| Lane Evans |
Politician |
4-Aug-1951 |
5-Nov-2014 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1983-2007 |
| Shepard Fairey |
Artist |
15-Feb-1970 |
|
Andre the Giant Has A Posse |
| Frances Farenthold |
Educator |
2-Oct-1926 |
|
President of Wells College, 1976-80 |
| Mike Farrell |
Actor |
6-Feb-1939 |
|
BJ Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H |
| Howard Fast |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1914 |
12-Mar-2003 |
Spartacus |
| Bob Filner |
Politician |
4-Sep-1942 |
|
Mayor of San Diego, 2012-13 |
| Felix Frankfurter |
Judge |
15-Nov-1882 |
22-Feb-1965 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 |
| Gabrielle Giffords |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Congresswoman from Arizona, 2007-12 |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Ira Glasser |
Activist |
1938 |
|
ACLU Executive Director, 1978-2001 |
| Arthur J. Goldberg |
Judge |
8-Aug-1908 |
19-Jan-1990 |
Supreme Court Justice, 1962-65 |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Actor |
16-Nov-1977 |
|
Secretary |
| Paul Haggis |
Screenwriter |
10-Mar-1953 |
|
Crash |
| Alcee Hastings |
Politician |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Congressman, Florida 20th |
| Christie Hefner |
Business |
8-Nov-1952 |
|
CEO of Playboy, 1988-2009 |
| Wade Henderson |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| Betty Hill |
Hoaxer |
28-Jun-1919 |
17-Oct-2004 |
Self-proclaimed UFO abductee |
| Harold Ickes |
Government |
15-Mar-1874 |
3-Feb-1952 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46 |
| Peter H. Irons |
Activist |
11-Aug-1940 |
|
A People's History of the Supreme Court |
| Molly Ivins |
Columnist |
30-Aug-1944 |
31-Jan-2007 |
Loudmouthed Texas dame |
| Dawn E. Johnsen |
Attorney |
14-Aug-1961 |
|
Indiana University law professor |
| Burton Joseph |
Attorney |
23-May-1930 |
31-Mar-2010 |
First Amendment lawyer |
| Herman Kahn |
Scholar |
15-Feb-1922 |
7-Jul-1983 |
Hudson Institute founder |
| Helen Keller |
Activist |
27-Jun-1880 |
1-Jun-1968 |
Deaf and blind activist |
| Florence Kelley |
Activist |
12-Sep-1859 |
17-Feb-1932 |
Founder of National Consumers League |
| Marilyn Kelly |
Judge |
15-Apr-1938 |
|
Justice, Michigan Supreme Court |
| W. H. Knight |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Law Professor, University of Washington |
| Milton R. Konvitz |
Educator |
12-Mar-1908 |
5-Sep-2003 |
Cornell Professor, Labor and Industrial Relations |
| Fred Korematsu |
Activist |
30-Jan-1919 |
30-Mar-2005 |
Opposed internment camps |
| William Kunstler |
Attorney |
7-Jul-1919 |
4-Sep-1995 |
Civil rights attorney |
| Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
| Burt Lancaster |
Actor |
2-Nov-1913 |
20-Oct-1994 |
Elmer Gantry |
| Goodwin Liu |
Attorney |
1970 |
|
Boalt Hall law professor |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Historian |
10-Oct-1873 |
30-Dec-1962 |
The Great Chain of Being |
| Barry Lynn |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Americans United for Separation of Church and State |
| Rachel P. Maines |
Scholar |
8-Jul-1950 |
|
The Technology of Orgasm |
| Bernard Malamud |
Author |
26-Apr-1914 |
18-Mar-1986 |
The Fixer |
| Camryn Manheim |
Actor |
8-Mar-1961 |
|
Ellenor Frutt on The Practice |
| Vito Marcantonio |
Politician |
10-Dec-1902 |
9-Aug-1954 |
American Labor Party |
| Thurgood Marshall |
Judge |
2-Jul-1908 |
24-Jan-1993 |
First black US Supreme Court justice |
| William G. McLoughlin |
Historian |
11-Jun-1922 |
28-Dec-1992 |
New England Dissent |
| Lucia Ames Mead |
Activist |
5-May-1856 |
1-Nov-1936 |
Swords and Ploughshares |
| Jerrold Nadler |
Politician |
13-Jun-1947 |
|
Congressman, New York 8th |
| Dawn Clark Netsch |
Politician |
16-Sep-1926 |
5-Mar-2013 |
Comptroller of Illinois, 1991-95 |
| Gene R. Nichol |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
President, William and Mary, 2005-07 |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton |
Politician |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Congresswoman, Washington DC |
| Charles Ogletree |
Attorney |
31-Dec-1952 |
|
Law professor |
| Charles Olson |
Poet |
27-Dec-1910 |
10-Jan-1970 |
The Maximus Poems |
| Lee Harvey Oswald |
Assassin |
18-Oct-1939 |
24-Nov-1963 |
Assassin of John F. Kennedy |
| Clarence Page |
Columnist |
2-Jun-1947 |
|
Newspaper columnist, talking head |
| Jack Parsons |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1914 |
17-Jul-1952 |
Satanic rocket scientist |
| Frances Fox Piven |
Activist |
10-Oct-1932 |
|
Regulating The Poor |
| Anthony Romero |
Activist |
9-Jul-1965 |
|
ACLU Executive Director |
| Robert Ryan |
Actor |
11-Nov-1909 |
11-Jul-1973 |
Billy Budd |
| Margaret Sanger |
Activist |
14-Sep-1879 |
6-Sep-1966 |
Birth control advocate |
| Rose Schneiderman |
Labor Leader |
16-Apr-1882 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Union leader of the 1920s-'50s |
| William F. Schulz |
Activist |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
Director, Amnesty International, 1994-2006 |
| Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| John Searle |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1932 |
|
Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language |
| Rod Serling |
Author |
25-Dec-1924 |
28-Jun-1975 |
Creator of The Twilight Zone |
| John Shattuck |
Attorney |
1943 |
|
CEO, JFK Library Foundation |
| Daniel P. Sheehan |
Activist |
1946 |
|
Christic Institute |
| Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
|
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
| Kevin Shelley |
Government |
16-Nov-1955 |
|
California Secretary of State, 2003-05 |
| Joel Siegel |
Critic |
7-Jul-1943 |
29-Jun-2007 |
Film critic |
| Upton Sinclair |
Novelist |
20-Sep-1878 |
25-Nov-1968 |
The Jungle |
| Pete Stark |
Politician |
11-Nov-1931 |
|
Former U.S. Congressman |
| Rex Stout |
Novelist |
1-Dec-1886 |
27-Oct-1975 |
Nero Wolf novels |
| Nadine Strossen |
Activist |
18-Aug-1950 |
|
President of the ACLU |
| Antonio Villaraigosa |
Government |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
Mayor of Los Angeles |
| Jessamyn West |
Author |
18-Jul-1902 |
23-Feb-1984 |
The Friendly Persuasion |
| Olivia Wilde |
Actor |
10-Mar-1984 |
|
Skin |
| Marion A. Zioncheck |
Politician |
5-Dec-1901 |
7-Aug-1936 |
Congressman, committed suicide |