WRenato Accorinti is an Italian politician and activist.
WSandro Calvani, is the Senior Adviser on Strategic Planning for the Mae Fah Luang Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand.
WLuca Casarini is an Italian activist and former proponent of the Tute Bianche movement. Casarini was influential in the development of the "white overalls" movement, that practiced social and civil disobedience while dressed in white overalls and padding.
WDavide Cesare, also known as Dax was an Italian anti-fascist activist from Rozzano, who was stabbed to death by two far-right activists in Milan, the night of March 16, 2003. Cesare was brought to the hospital but died in the ambulance. Immediately after his death, members of his group tried to enter the hospital but were blocked by the police. This resulted in new riots with several people being injured, damage to police cars, and the emergency department suspending all activities for the whole night.
WSergio D'Elia is an Italian politician, activist and former left-wing terrorist, now a human rights' supporter and advocate of non-violence.
WDanilo Dolci was an Italian social activist, sociologist, popular educator and poet. He is best known for his opposition to poverty, social exclusion and the Mafia on Sicily, and is considered to be one of the protagonists of the non-violence movement in Italy. He became known as the "Gandhi of Sicily".
WPier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Catholic activist, and a member from the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the St Vincent de Paul Society, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin; he put his own pious beliefs into practice to cater to their needs and was best known for his devotion and amiable character.
WPietro Kuciukian is an Italian writer and surgeon of Armenian descent. He is also the president of International Committee for the Righteous of Armenians and Co-Founder of The Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee. He collaborates with the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan and is the founder of the “Memory is the Future” Committee, a project to sponsor Armenian cultural projects.
WLanza del Vasto was an Italian philosopher, poet, artist, Catholic and nonviolent activist.
WThis article contains material translated from the Spanish Wikipedia's version of this page.
WLuigia Lollobrigida, known professionally as Gina Lollobrigida, is an Italian actress and photojournalist. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. Today, along with Sophia Loren she is among some of the last living, high profile international actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
WLorenzo Marsili is a philosopher, political activist and social entrepreneur.
WGiorgiana Masi was an Italian student and activist who was killed during a protest in Rome on May 12, 1977. The circumstances of her death are unclear.
WAlex Moroder was an Italian activist.
WLeonardo Murialdo was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the co-founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph - also known as the Murialdines. Murialdo's call to the priesthood did not manifest until late in his education in Savona; he pursued his ecclesial studies and was ordained as such in 1851 before dedicating himself to social work alongside the poor and with adolescent men. This put him into contact with other priests of the era such as Giovanni Bosco and Giuseppe Cafasso who held Murialdo in great esteem. His zeal for social concern saw his frequent calls for an end to worker exploitation and the granting of further rights to workers in factories.
WCarlo Petrini, born in the province of Cuneo in the commune of Bra in Italy, is the founder of the International Slow Food Movement. He first came to prominence in the 1980s for taking part in a campaign against the fast food chain McDonald's opening near the Spanish Steps in Rome. In 1983, he helped to create and develop the Italian non-profit food and wine association known as Arcigola.
WLuigi Piccio was an Italian activist and Catholic priest. Often referred to as Don Gino, Piccio was Italy's foremost expert on critical pedagogy, in particular of the educational philosophy of Paulo Freire.
WAdolfo Sansolini is an Italian animal welfare activist.
WRoberto Savio is a journalist, communication expert, political commentator, activist for social and climate justice and advocate of global governance. He has spent most of his career with Inter Press Service (IPS), the news agency which he founded in 1964 along with Argentine journalist Pablo Piacentini.
WFrancesco Vincent Serpico is an American retired detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice racketeering. In 1967, he reported credible evidence of widespread police corruption, to no effect In 1970, he contributed to a front-page story in the The New York Times on widespread corruption in the NYPD, which drew national attention to the problem. Mayor John V. Lindsay appointed a five-member panel to investigate accusations of police corruption, which became the Knapp Commission.
WSpartaco Lavagnini was an Italian communist syndicalist and activist.
WAdriano Tardelli was an Italian resistance activist during World War II.
WAnnalena Tonelli was an Italian lawyer and social activist. She worked for 33 years in East Africa, where she focused on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, campaigns for eradication of female genital mutilation, and special schools for hearing-impaired, blind and disabled children. In June 2003, Tonelli was awarded the Nansen Refugee Award, which is given annually by the UNHCR to recognize outstanding service to the cause of refugees. In October 2003, she was killed inside her hospital by two gunmen.
WCristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso was an Italian noblewoman, princess of Belgiojoso, who played a prominent part in Italy's struggle for independence. She is also notable as a writer and journalist.