This is a list of people who have been referred to as pacifists.

• Jane Addams, (1860-1935)
• Hannes Alfvén, (1908-1995), Swedish scientist
• Günther Anders
• Óscar Arias Sánchez, (1941- ), president of Costa Rica
• Ashoka, (273 BC-232 BC), Mauryan emperor (became pacifist after seeing atrocities he comitted)
• Eduard Bernstein, (1850-1932), German socialist leader
• Daniel Berrigan, U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
• Philip Berrigan, (1923-2002), U.S. peace activist, co-founder of the Plowshares Movement
• Albert Bigelow, (born 1906), U.S. anti-nuclear activist
• Martin Buber, (1878-1965), Jewish philosopher
• Smedley Butler (1881-1940), U.S. general, author of War is a Racket
• William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), U.S. politician
• Helen Caldicott, (born 1938), Australian Medical Doctor
• Bartolomé de Las Casas , (1474-1566), Spanish Priest
• Marie Curie, (1867-1934), Polish scientist
• Dorothy Day, (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
• David Dellinger, (born 1915), U.S. activist, one of the Chicago Seven
• Barbara Deming, (1917-1984), U.S. feminist and activist
• Jean Henri Dunant, (1828-1910), founder of Red Cross
• Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), physicist
• Desiderius Erasmus, (1466-1536), Dutch philosopher
• James L. Farmer, Jr., (1920-1999), U.S. Civil Rights leader
• José Figueres Ferrer, (1906-1990), President of Costa Rica
• Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
• George Fox, (1624-1691), founder of the Quakers
• Leonard Frank
• Ernst Friedrich
• Kasturba Gandhi, (1869-1944), Mahatma Gandhi's wife
• Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948), Indian statesman
• William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879), U.S. abolitionist
• Siddhartha Gautama, (563 BC-483 BC), Indian spiritual leader
• Emil Gumbel, (1891-1966), German mathematician
• Hubert von Goisern ,
• Emma Goldman, (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist
• Jane Goodall, (1934-), English ethologist and anthropologist
• Boudewijn de Groot , (1944- ), Dutch singer
• João Goulart, (1918-1976), Brazilian president
• Sidney Gulick, (1860-1945), American missionary
• Thich Nhat Hanh, (1926-), Buddhist peace activist
• Stanley Hauerwas, United Methodist theologian/ethicist
• Hegetorides of Thasos, (c. 431-404 BC), Greek citizen
• Andre Heller , (1946-), artist
• Ernest Miller Hemingway, (1899-1961), American author
• Lewis Hill , founder of Pacifica Radio
• Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910), U.S. abolitionist and songwriter
• Jessie Wallace Hughan , founder of the War Resisters League
• Jean Léon Jaurès, (1859-1914), French socialist leader
• Jesus, (ca. 6 BC-33), central figure of Christianity
• Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804), German philosopher
• Kim Dae-jung, (1925-), South-Korean politician
• Martin Luther King, (1929-1968), U.S. Civil Rights leader
• Gustav Landauer
• D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author
• John Lennon, (1940-1980), British musician (The Beatles)
• Agnes Macphail, (1890-1954), Canadian politician and social reformer
• Nelson Mandela, (1918-), South-African apartheid resister and former president.
• David McReynolds, (1929), U.S. socialist
• Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
• Michael Moore, (born 1954), U.S. film maker
• Edmund Dene Morel, (1873-1924), British journalist and politician
• A. J. Muste, (1885-1967), U.S. socialist, labor leader, and clergyman
• Fridtjof Nansen, (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer
• Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Swedish inventor
• Ken O'Keefe, (1969- ), U.S. activist
• Carl von Ossietzky, (1889-1938), German journalist
• Arndt Pekurinen (1905-1941), Finnish war resister
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter
• Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981), U.S. activist
• Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), German historian
• Jeannette Rankin, (1880-1973), American politician
• Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), German author (Im Westen nichts neues)
• Óscar Romero, (1917-1980) Salvadorian Archbishop
• Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Belgian painter
• Lewis Fry Richardson, (1881-1953), mathematician and meteorologist
• Rishabhadeva, (c. 1500 BC), founder of Jainism
• Józef Rotblat, (1908- ), Polish physicist
• Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), Welsh philosopher
• Bayard Rustin, (1912-1987), U.S. socialist and civil rights organizer
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000), Austrian architect
• Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965), physician and humanitarian
• William Stafford, (1914-1993), U.S. poet
• Helene Stöcker
• Bertha von Suttner, (1843-1914), Austrian peace activist
• Tenzin Gyatso, (1935-), the 14th Dalai Lama
• Norman Thomas, (1884-1968), U.S. socialist leader
• Mother Theresa
• Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862), U.S. writer
• Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), British composer
• Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910), author, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
• Kurt Tucholsky, (189-1935), German journalist
• Desmond Tutu, (1931-), African Bishop
• Mordechai Vanunu, (1954-), Israeli scientist
• Lanza del Vasto, (1901-1981), Italian artist and activist
• Lech Walesa, (1943-), Polish union activist and former president
• Roger Waters, (born 1943), British musician (Pink Floyd)
• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British author
• Frank Lloyd Wright, (1867-1959), U.S. architect
• John Howard Yoder, (1927-1997), Mennonite theologian/ethicist
• Alvin York, (1887-1964), U.S. soldier
• Howard Zinn, (born 1922), U.S. historian
• Norman Morrison, protested Vietnam War

See also

• List of Nobel Peace Prize winners
• Pacifism
• Pacifist organisation
• List of people