WDiana Alexandra Aguavil Calazacón, is an Ecuadorian indigenous leader, since 25 August 2018, the first female governor of the Tsáchila nationality after 104 years of male administrations and winning the 2018 Tsáchila election. She was also the second woman to become a candidate.
WHorace Bumstead was a Congregationalist minister and educator. He used his career to fight for African American education and became the second president of Atlanta University (1888–1907). Bumstead was one of the first white men in the United States to fight for educational rights for African Americans. As a white man, he was condemned by many for taking on this role, but African Americans rallied behind his efforts and viewed him as a spokesman.
WRosa Laudelina Chiquichano is a Tehuelche Argentine lawyer and politician who served as Deputy for the province of Chubut between 2007 and 2011. When assuming the position, she was the first person from original Argentine people to be member of the peoples from Argentina to be a member of the National Congress.
WClaudia Coari Mamani is a Quechua politician in Peru. She was a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru between 2011 and 2014, representing the Peruvian Nationalist Party, but was no longer a congresswoman by March 2018.
WJohn Wesley Posey (1801–1884) was a significant figure in the Underground Railroad in Indiana, America. Posey was one of the organizers of the Anti-Slavery League of Indiana.
WRudolf Goldschmid Sonneborn was an oil executive, businessman, and onetime president of The State of Israel Bond Drive
WChuner Mikhailovich Taksami was a Russian ethnographer of Nivkh origin and had a Doctor of Historical Sciences attained in 1955.