Stephen Donaldson ( July 27, 1946 – July 18, 1996 ), born Robert Anthony Martin, Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual-identified LGBT political activist.

In 1978, Greenpeace launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a, former fishing trawler named for the Cree legend that inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.

* 1954 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and environmental activist, son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy

* Robert A. G. Monks, American entrepreneur, politician, and corporate activist

* 1858 – Robert Owen, English activist ( b. 1771 )

In the UK a Labour Party anti-war activist Robert Smillie isuued a statement in June 1919 condeming the continuation blockade in which he also claimed that 100, 000 German civilians had died.

* Robert Cover ( 1943-1986 ), an American law professor, scholar, and activist

* J Robert Verdun, a Canadian shareholder-rights activist

In the same year, Robert Bresson presented A Man Escaped, in which an imprisoned Résistance activist works with a reformed collaborator inmate to escape.

* Robert Hilferty ( 1959 – 2009 ), journalist, filmmaker and AIDS activist.

Two years after Esmond was killed during military service she married Robert Treuhaft, whom she met as part of her work as a civil rights activist.

* Robert F. Williams, civil rights activist

* Robert D. Alexander: public policy activist.

Peter Robert Garrett AM, MP ( born 16 April 1953 ) is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.

His father, Robert Layton, was a Liberal Party activist in the 1960s and 1970s, and served as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Cabinet minister in the 1980s under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Politicians that have graduated from Penn Law include Joseph Sill Clark ( Mayor of Philadelphia, and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ), Charles Robert Miller ( Governor of Delaware ), Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. ( former Chairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U. S. Ambassador to Sweden ), Raul Roco ( former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines ), Oscar Goodman ( Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada ), Harry Arista Mackey ( Mayor of Philadelphia ), Martin J. Silverstein ( U. S. Ambassador to Uruguay ) and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky ( member of the U. S. House of Representatives and women's rights activist ).

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge, (; November 9, 1915January 18, 2011 ) was an American statesman and activist.

NYRA also maintains an influential Advisory Board, including Scarlett Swerdlow of Students for Sensible Drug Policy ; Kevin Keenan of American Civil Liberties Union-San Diego ; Adam Fletcher of The Freechild Project ; Dr. Robert Epstein, author of The Case Against Adolescence ; Dr. David J. Hanson of Potsdam University ; activist Bennett Haselton of Peacefire ; Grace Llewellyn, author of the Teenage Liberation Handbook ; Dr. Mike A.

Robert H. Knight ( born April 23, 1951 ) is an American conservative writer and activist.

Robert Bly ( born December 23, 1926 ) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement, most famous for his Iron John: A Book About Men ( 1990 ), which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list.

Roland Gaucher entered politics as a far-left activist, first as a member of the Trotskyist group Fédération des étudiants révolutionnaires ( Federation of Revolutionary Students ) and then of the Jeunesses socialistes ouvrières ( Workers ' Socialist Youth ), where he met with Robert Hersant and Alexandre Hébert, who would become one of the leaders of the social-democrat trade-union Force Ouvrière ( FO ).

After attempts to revive the Trotskyist Group, Voix Ouvrière was founded in 1956 by Robert Barcia, known as Hardy and the group's pre-eminent leader, and by Pierre Bois, a leading activist in the Renault plant.

* Robert Burnham, Jr., author of the Celestial Handbook.

* Robert Anton Wilson, polymath, author, philosopher, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian, ( edu.

In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

The author Robert Lee speculated that Teach may therefore have been born into a respectable, wealthy family.

A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

** Robert Waring Darwin of Elston ( 1724 – 1816 ), author of Principia Botanica

* 1972 – Robert Muchamore, English children's author

In some accounts, Hermes fathered Pan upon Dryope, daughter of Dryops, for whom he was tending kine, but according to 20th century author Robert Graves ( 1960 ), Pan was far older than Hermes.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and Scout movement founder ( d. 1941 )

* Robert Henryson ( Scottish, 15th century ), author of The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian.

Historian Robert Nisbet thought him to be " the true author of National Socialism ".

* Robert Hazen, Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science, and author

The rules for simulating magic were inspired by the works of fantasy author Jack Vance, and the system as a whole drew upon the work of authors such as Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiber.

* 1927 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author ( d. 2011 )

* 1802 – Robert Chambers, Scottish author and journalist ( d. 1871 )

* 1558 – Robert Greene, English author ( d. 1592 )

* 1951 – Robert R. McCammon, American author