Ini adalah senarai orang yang telah memberikan sumbangan besar untuk kemajuan hak asasi manusia, yang disusun mengikut abjad mengikut negara kelahiran atau tempat tinggal. Ini termasuk ahli politik, seniman, dan orang lain yang memperjuangkan hak asasi manusia melalui aktivisme atau dermawan di samping pendukung dan aktivis hak asasi manusia yang berdedikasi. Secara garis besar, hak asasi manusia adalah hak yang dimiliki oleh individu atau sekumpulan individu semata-mata kerana menjadi manusia sebagai akibat daripada kerentanan manusia yang wujud atau kerana mereka memerlukan kemungkinan masyarakat yang adil.
Orang Algeria
- Lounés Matoub
Orang 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
- Jambatan 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. Mengira
- Anjing Mary Crow
- Justin Dart, Jr.
- Angela Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Paulina Davis
- Hari Dorothy
- Bill de Blasio
- Ruby Dee
- Morris Dees
- Alison Des Forges
- Bapa Ilahi
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- Grace Hoadley Dodge
- Ignatius Donnelly
- Frederick Douglass
- Katharine Drexel
- Abigail Jane Scott Duniway
- Andrea Dworkin
- Gunnar Dybwad
- Rosemary F. Dybwad
- Wanita Helang
- Crystal Eastman
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Leon Eisenberg
- George Henry Evans
- Medgar Evers
- Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Mimi Fariña
- James Petani
- 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
- Gerbang Theaster
- 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. Hust Harper
- Michael Harrington
- Barbara Clementine Harris
- Tom Hayden
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Dorothy Height
- Audrey Hepburn
- Bukit Rama-rama Julia
- Isabella Beecher Hooker
- Herbert Hoover
- Lou Hoover
- Bob Harapan
- Lugenia Membakar Harapan
- Dolores Huerta
- Cordell Hull
- Harold L. Ickes
- Jesse Jackson
- Mary Putnam Jacobi
- Jane Jacobs
- Kenneth Jernigan
- Magic Johnson
- 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
- Puan 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
- Kapas Kapas
- Cindy McCain
- Francis John McConnell
- Cynthia McKinney
- James Meredith
- Barbara Mikulski
- Susu Harvey
- Virginia Louisa Kecil
- 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
- Huey P. Newton
- Mary Gove Nichols
- Mempertahankan 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
- Celestia Susannah Parrish
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
- Alice Paul
- Linus Pauling
- Sean Penn
- Kuasa 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
- Akar Elihu
- 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
- Puan CJ Walker
- Jim Wallis
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Cornel Barat
- Charlotte Anita Whitney
- Roy Wilkins
- Jody Williams
- Woodrow Wilson
- Oprah Winfrey
- James D. Wolfensohn
- Victoria Woodhull
- Frances Wright
- Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Orang 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
Orang Austria
- Alfred Hermann Fried
- Michael Hainisch
- Bertha, Freifran (baroness) von Suttner
Warga Bangladesh
- Shamsur Rahman
- Muhammad Yunus
Belgia
- Henri La Fontaine
- Constantin Meunier
- Paul van Ostaijen
- Peter Piot
- Dominique Pire
Orang Brazil
- Sebastião Salgado
- Herbert José de Souza (Betinho)
Inggeris
- 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, puteri Wales
- Kenny Everett
- Elizabeth Fry
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil
- 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 Lebih
- 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
Warga Cameroon
- René Philombe
Orang Kanada
- Anna Mae Aquash
- Norman Bethune
- Henry Enns
- Michael J. Fox
- Michaëlle Jean
- Naomi Klein
- Ovide Mercredi
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Orang Chile
- Ariel Dorfman
- Raúl Rettig Guissen
- Sola Sierra
- Raúl Cardinal Silva Henríquez
- Sergio Valech Aldunate
Orang Cina
- Ai Weiwei
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Hu Jia
- Rebiya Kadeer
- Harry Hongda Wu
- Liu Xiaobo
Orang Colombia
- Jaime Garzón
- Juanes
Bahasa Congo
- Denis Mukwege
Costa Rican
- Carscar Arias Sánchez
Orang Kuba
- Vilma Espín Guillois
Bahasa Czech
- Václav Havel
- Martina Navratilova
Bahasa Denmark
- Fredrik Bajer
Belanda
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Orang Timor Timur
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
- José Ramos-Horta
Orang Mesir
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Wael Ghonim
Orang Ethiopia
- Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Bahasa Finland
- Martti Ahtisaari
Bahasa 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
Bahasa 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
Orang Ghana
- Kofi Annan
Bahasa Yunani
- Melina Mercouri
Guatemala
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Luisa Moreno
Orang Haiti
- Gérard Jean-Juste
Orang India
- 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 Shiva
- Gayatri Spivak
- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
- Ibu Teresa
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar
Bahasa Indonesia
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Orang Iran
- Simin Behbahani
- Shirin Ebadi
Orang Ireland
- Bono
- Michael D. Higgins
- Lihat MacBride
- Mary Robinson
- Betty Williams
Orang Israel
- Anatoly Shcharansky
Bahasa Itali
- Tina Modotti
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
- Camilla Ravera
Orang Jepun
- Arishima Takeo
- Kagawa Toyohiko
- Takahashi Hisako
Orang Jordan
- Noor al-Ḥussein
- Rania al-ʿAbdullah
Orang Kenya
- Wangari Maathai
Orang Liberia
- Leymah Gbowee
- Tawakkul Karmān
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Orang Malaysia
- Dato 'Onn bin Jaafar
Orang Mexico
- 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 Zealand
- Helen Clark
- Matiu Rata
- Kate Sheppard
Orang Nigeria
- Gani Fawehinmi
- Fela Kuti
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Wabak Soyinka
Orang Norway
- Camilla Collett
- Jan Egeland
- Putera Mahkota Haakon
- Christian Lous Lange
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Henrik Arnold Wergeland
Palestin
- Edward Said
Orang Pakistan
- Malala Yousafzai
Orang Peru
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
- Manuel Scorza
Bahasa Poland
- Wawrzyniec Goślicki
- John Paul II
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Leon Kruczkowski
- Lech Wałęsa
Portugis
- Mário Soares
Bahasa Romania
- Ion Cioaba
- Elie Wiesel
Orang 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
- Putera Nikolay Alekseyevich Orlov
- Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov
- Anatoly Shcharansky
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Rwanda
- Alphonse Marie Nkubito
Salvadoran
- Maria Julia Hernández
Somalia
- Waris Dirie
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Afrika Selatan
- Johnny Clegg
- FW de Klerk
- Ruth Pertama
- Nkosi Johnson
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
- Fatima Meer
- Bloke Modisane
- Kemudianjiwe Mtintso
- Dullah Omar
- Mamphela Ramphele
- William Philip Schreiner
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Helen Suzman
- Desmond Tutu
- Helen Zille
Korea Selatan
- Kim Dae-Jung
Bahasa Sweden
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson
- Greve (kiraan) Folke Bernadotte
- Karl Hjalmar Branting
- Stieg Larsson
- Alva Myrdal
- Torsten Nils Wiesel
Orang Switzerland
- Élie Ducommun
- Henri Dunant
- Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg
- Stefano Franscini
- Charles-Albert Gobat
Trinidadian
- CLR James
Orang Tunisia
- Habib Bourguiba
Orang Yaman
- Tawakkol Karman
Zimbabwe
- Albert John Luthuli
- Morgan Tsvangirai
