Chess player.

Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).

German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical. (1898-1956).

American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).

Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. (1878-1965...

English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).

American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).

American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).

John George Diefenbaker, PC, CH, QC (September 18, 1895 - August 16, 1979) led Canada as its 13th Prime Minister, serving from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963.

American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).

American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).

Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).

German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).

The pre-eminent political and spritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. (1869-1948).

French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature .

Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).

Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)

Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).

Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).

Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).

American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).

American biologist and sexologist. (1894-1956).

Chess player and mathematician.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (1888 - 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence and popularly as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his lia...

President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).

Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).

Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).

Mao Zedong, (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Han Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 194...

German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).

Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understa...

Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 - March 30, 1912) was a German writer, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and si...

British artist, designer, author, and socialist. (1834-1896).

American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).

Wilhelm "Willi" Münzenberg (1889 – 1940) was a communist political activist. Münzenberg was the first head of the Young Communist International in 1919-20 and established the famine-relief and propaga...

Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemoller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem First they came....

Finnish runner.

German radical pacifist. (1889-1938).

Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 - May 11, 1936) was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He was nicknamed The Fighting Quaker and he directed the controversial Palmer Raids.

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (July 18, 1887- October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian army officer and politician, who served as President of occupied Norway. Today in Norway and other parts of t...

Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).

Mexican artist. (1886-1957).

Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).

Philosopher, logician, mathematician, pacifist, social critic. (1872-1970).

British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).

Charles Emil "C.E." Ruthenberg (1882 - 1927) was an American marxist politician and was a founder and head of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

Labourers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed in Massachusetts in 1927.

Chess player.

German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. (1875-1965).

Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847 in Cherbourg – 29 August 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in peo...

Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. (1885-1954).

Chess player.

American author and poet. (1817-1862).

Russian author. (1828-1910).

Russian revolutionary. (1879-1940).

German author.

Auguste Vaillant (27 December 1861 – 5 February 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893.

Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none