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The Origins of Totalitarianism remains the reference work on how republics fail.

Led the campaign that won Ayurveda statutory recognition in independent India.

Founded deep ecology and the case for nature's intrinsic worth.

Master physician of Guangzhou whose spleen-stomach theory shaped modern TCM curricula.

Twenty-seven years in prison, then negotiated the end of apartheid without civil war.

Turned yoga into a precise therapeutic method taught in clinics and studios worldwide.

A Theory of Justice: fairness derived from behind the veil of ignorance.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed rewrote literacy teaching for the global south.

Founded Five Element acupuncture and the colleges that carried it across the English-speaking world.

Letter from Birmingham Jail and a movement that rewrote American law.

Africa's first elected woman head of state; rebuilt post-war Liberia.

UN Secretary-General who put human security at the centre of the organisation.

Built The Healer's Art curriculum, taught in medical schools on four continents.

Lent $27 of his own money and started a global industry for the poor.

Green Belt Movement founder; 51 million trees and a democracy campaign.

Brokered peace across five Central American wars.

Founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and trained a generation of fellows.

Founded the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico and trained the first Western practitioners.

Fifteen years under house arrest; later a contested civilian leader.

The Foundations of Chinese Medicine became the standard Western textbook of the field.

Capabilities approach to justice, and a defence of emotion in public reason.

Co-founded Bastyr University, the first accredited natural-medicine university in the United States.

Ended a 52-year civil war by negotiated accord.

Philosopher of seed sovereignty and critic of industrial agriculture.

Freed tens of thousands of children from bonded labour.

Surgeon who has treated tens of thousands of survivors of wartime sexual violence.

Indigenous rights advocate whose testimonio reached the world.

Led the women's movement that ended Liberia's civil war.

Negotiated the Eritrea peace accord; later a contested wartime leader.

Journalist who led Yemen's 2011 uprising.

Shot for going to school; now the youngest Nobel laureate in history.