WOlavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho is a Brazilian polemicist, self-promoted philosopher, political pundit, former astrologer, journalist and far-right conspiracy theorist living since 2005 in Richmond, Virginia.
WGeorge Dornbusch was an Austrian businessperson and activist for vegetarianism and various other causes including abolitionism, anti-vaccination, temperance, women's suffrage and the peace movement. He was an early proponent of veganism.
WAlfredo Helsby Hazell was a Chilean landscape painter of English ancestry. He was also an avid promoter of what is now known as alternative medicine.
WMarie Huot was a French poet, writer, feminist, animal rights and vegetarianism activist.
WDavid Bardens is a German physician whose case was reported internationally in 2015 after the district court of Ravensburg had ruled that he should get the €100,000 prize money that biologist Stefan Lanka had promised to anyone who could provide information about the size of the measles virus. This award was overturned by the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) Stuttgart in 2016. Although six scientific publications were submitted purporting to show the existence of measles, they failed to meet the contest requirements as set by Lanka.
WJohn Pombe Joseph Magufuli was the fifth president of Tanzania, serving from 2015 until his death in 2021. He served as Minister of Works, Transport and Communications from 2000 to 2005 and 2010 to 2015 and was chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2019 to 2020.
WLuc Montagnier is a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He has worked as a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
WGemma O'Doherty is an Irish far-right activist and conspiracy theorist. She began her career as a staff writer for the Irish Independent, contributing articles on the criminal justice system and corruption, but was dismissed in 2014 for unethical conduct. She ran as a political candidate in the 2018 Irish presidential election, but failed to secure the minimum qualifying number of nominations. O'Doherty was unsuccessful in the 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland, winning just 1.85% of first preference votes in the Dublin constituency. She ran in the 2020 Irish general election, but received just under 2% of first preference votes.
WGiuseppe Povia, better known just as Povia [ˈpɔːvja], is an Italian rock singer-songwriter.
WMichèle Rivasi is a French politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009, for Europe Écologie–The Greens.
WGeorge Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
WJoseph Wallace was an Irish activist for vegetarianism, food reform and against vaccination.
WAda Wells was a feminist and social worker in New Zealand.
WJames John Garth Wilkinson, was a homeopathic physician, social reformer, translator and editor of Swedenborg's works, and a writer on Swedenborgian topics.
WFrank Winterstein is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for Toulouse Olympique in the Betfred Championship.
WLetitia Michelle Wright is a Guyanese actress. She began her career with guest roles in the television series Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, Doctor Who and Black Mirror; for the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She then had her breakthrough for her role in the 2015 film Urban Hymn, for which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) named Wright among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits.