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| - People who are/were activists or educators in other areas (social reform, feminism etc), but who were also atheists.
* Pietro Acciarito (1871–1943): Italian anarchist activist who attempted to assassinate King Umberto I.
* Zackie Achmat (1962–): South African anti-HIV/AIDS activist; founder of the Treatment Action Campaign.
* Baba Amte (1914–2008): Respected Indian social activist, known for his work with lepers.
* Yaron Brook (1961–): Current president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.
* Deng Pufang (1944–): Chinese handicap people's rights activist, first son of China's former Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.
* David D. Friedman (1945–): Economist, law professor, novelist, and libertarian activist.
* E. Haldeman-Julius (1889–1951): American social
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| - People who are/were activists or educators in other areas (social reform, feminism etc), but who were also atheists.
* Pietro Acciarito (1871–1943): Italian anarchist activist who attempted to assassinate King Umberto I.
* Zackie Achmat (1962–): South African anti-HIV/AIDS activist; founder of the Treatment Action Campaign.
* Baba Amte (1914–2008): Respected Indian social activist, known for his work with lepers.
* Yaron Brook (1961–): Current president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.
* Deng Pufang (1944–): Chinese handicap people's rights activist, first son of China's former Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.
* David D. Friedman (1945–): Economist, law professor, novelist, and libertarian activist.
* E. Haldeman-Julius (1889–1951): American social reformer and publisher, most noted as the editor of Appeal to Reason newspaper.
* Franklin E. Kameny (1925–): American gay rights activist and former astronomer.
* Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921): Russian anarchist communist activist and geographer, best known for his book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, which refutes social Darwinism.
* Taslima Nasrin (1962–): Bangladeshi physician, writer, feminist human rights activist and secular humanist.
* Ingrid Newkirk (1949–): British-born animal rights activist, author, and president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the world's largest animal rights organization.
* Ron Reagan (1958–): American magazine journalist, board member of the politically activistic Creative Coalition, son of former U. S. President Ronald Reagan.
* Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939): English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions and the treatment of animals, a noted anti-vivisectionist and pacifist, and a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist, and the man who introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau.
* Margaret Sanger (1879–1966): American birth-control activist, founder of the American Birth Control League, a forerunner to Planned Parenthood. The masthead motto of her newsletter, The Woman Rebel, read: "No Gods, No Masters".
* Rosika Schwimmer (1877–19486): Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist and female suffragist.
* Bhagat Singh (1907–1931): Indian revolutionary freedom fighter.
* Marie Souvestre (1830–1905): French headmistress, a feminist educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women.
* David Suzuki (1936–): Canadian university professor, science broadcaster, and environmental activist.
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