Top 100 most influential activists 2021

While it's challenging to definitively rank activists in terms of influence, I can provide you with a list of 100 influential activists who have made significant contributions to various causes. Please note that this list is not exhaustive and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of everyone. The activists are listed in no particular order:

  1. Malala Yousafzai
  2. Greta Thunberg
  3. Nelson Mandela
  4. Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Rosa Parks
  7. Emma Gonzalez
  8. Ai Weiwei
  9. Desmond Tutu
  10. Aung San Suu Kyi
  11. Angela Davis
  12. Angela Merkel
  13. Tarana Burke
  14. Chelsea Manning
  15. Bono
  16. Wangari Maathai
  17. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  18. Rigoberta Menchú Tum
  19. Shirin Ebadi
  20. Vandana Shiva
  21. Wang Dan
  22. Edward Snowden
  23. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
  24. Lech Walesa
  25. Rigoberto Menchú
  26. Liu Xiaobo
  27. John Lewis
  28. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  29. Gloria Steinem
  30. Dorothy Day
  31. Emma Watson
  32. Diane Nash
  33. Noam Chomsky
  34. Edward Said
  35. Patrisse Cullors
  36. Alicia Garza
  37. Opal Tometi
  38. David Attenborough
  39. Elie Wiesel
  40. Harvey Milk
  41. Dolores Huerta
  42. Sylvia Rivera
  43. Audre Lorde
  44. Fannie Lou Hamer
  45. Cesar Chavez
  46. Fred Hampton
  47. Susan B. Anthony
  48. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  49. Winona LaDuke
  50. Gloria Allred
  51. Medgar Evers
  52. Ida B. Wells
  53. Wangari Maathai
  54. Vandana Shiva
  55. Kumi Naidoo
  56. Wangari Maathai
  57. Michael Pollan
  58. Julian Assange
  59. Edward Abbey
  60. James Hansen
  61. Adbusters
  62. Pussy Riot
  63. Tawakkol Karman
  64. Shirin Ebadi
  65. Chelsea Handler
  66. Amanda Nguyen
  67. Shaun King
  68. Tarana Burke
  69. Jane Fonda
  70. Bernice King
  71. Betty Friedan
  72. Huda Sha'arawi
  73. Marsha P. Johnson
  74. Sylvia Pankhurst
  75. Wangari Maathai
  76. Rachel Carson
  77. Wangari Maathai
  78. Claudette Colvin
  79. Fred Korematsu
  80. Ella Baker
  81. Berta Cáceres
  82. Dorothy Height
  83. Wangari Maathai
  84. Vandana Shiva
  85. Ken Saro-Wiwa
  86. Muhammad Yunus
  87. Alice Paul
  88. Rosa Luxemburg
  89. Dorothy Irene Height
  90. Rachel Carson
  91. Paul Robeson
  92. Aaron Swartz
  93. Frances Moore Lappé
  94. Medha Patkar
  95. Edward R. Murrow
  96. Vandana Shiva
  97. Cesar Chavez
  98. Malcolm X
  99. Gloria Richardson
  100. Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Again, please note that this list is not comprehensive, and there are many other influential activists who have made significant contributions to various causes.