Goldman Environmental Prize awardees

The list Goldman Environmental Prize awardees includes Medha Patkar, Wangari Maathai, Zuzana Čaputová, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Marina Silva. The list consists of 179 members.

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Medha Patkar

Indian social activist

Overview: Medha Patkar (born 1 December 1954) is an Indian social activist working on various crucial political and economic issues raised by tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Social workers from Gujarat 21T

Women educators from Gujarat 16T

Tata Institute of Social Sciences alumni 3T
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Zuzana Caputová

President of Slovakia since 2019

Overview: Zuzana Čaputová, MPTP (née Strapáková; born 21 June 1973) is a Slovak politician, lawyer, and environmental activist who has been President of Slovakia since 15 June 2019. Čaputová is the first woman ...

Date of birth: 21 June 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: Slovakian

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Female

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21st-century Slovak lawyers 6T

Women civil rights activists 609T

Politicians from Bratislava 74T
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Thuli Brilliance Makama

Swazi environmental attorney

Overview: Thuli Brilliance Makama is a Swazi environmental attorney. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010.

Nationality: Swazi

Occupation: Activist

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Swazi women environmentalists 1T

Swazi women activists 3T

Swazi environmentalists 1T
4.

Wangari Maathai

Kenyan environmental and political activist

Overview: Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy ...

Date of birth: 1 April 1940

Date of death: 25 September 2011

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Kenyan

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Kenyan women environmentalists 5T

Kenyan veterinarians 3T

Japan–Kenya relations 3T
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Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nigerian activist

Overview: Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award for "exemplary courage in ...

Date of birth: 10 October 1941

Date of death: 10 November 1995

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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People associated with Maynooth University 1T

20th-century male writers 5,043T

Murdered male writers 92T
6.

Marina Silva

Brazilian politician

Overview: Maria Osmarina da Silva Vaz de Lima (born 8 February 1958) is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist. She is currently the spokeswoman for the Sustainability Party (REDE). During her political career ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

Partner: Fábio Vaz De Lima (Married)

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Shorty Award winners 210T

Members of the Legislative Assembly of Acre 4T

Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Acre 7T
7.

Von Hernandez

Overview: Von Hernandez is a former literature professor and environmental activist from the Philippines. He has spoken up against the processing of imported garbage, when waste incinerators pump out clouds of dioxin ...

Nationality: Filipino

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Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

People associated with Greenpeace 63T

Filipino academics 53T
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Tuy Sereivathana

Cambodian environmentalist

Overview: Tuy Sereivathana (born 1970) is a Cambodian environmentalist who has worked to resolve conflicts between elephants and people in Cambodia. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010.

Date of birth: 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: Cambodian

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Cambodian environmentalists 3T

Cambodian people 9T

Environmentalists 124T
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Anna Giordano

Italian activist

Overview: Anna Giordano (born in 1965) is an Italian conservationist. A trained ornithologist with a doctorate in natural sciences, Giordano is today a leader of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Sicily and a ...

Date of birth: 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Scientists from Messina 8T

Italian conservationists 5T

People from Messina 102T
10.

Yvonne Margarula

Australian, Activist

Overview: Yvonne Margarula is an Aboriginal Australian environmentalist who won the 1998 Friends of the Earth International Environment Award and the 1998 Nuclear-Free Future Award. She also won the 1999 US Goldman ...

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Australian women environmentalists 36T

Women human rights activists 491T

Australian women activists 34T
11.

Kory Johnson

American environmentalist from Arizona

Overview: Kory Johnson is an American environmentalist from Arizona.

Nationality: American

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American environmentalists 715T

American activists 1,561T
12.

Anne Kajir

Papua New Guinean attorney and environmentalist

Overview: Anne Kajir (born c. 1974) is an attorney from Papua New Guinea. She has uncovered evidence of widespread corruption in the Papua New Guinea government, that allowed illegal logging in tropical forests ...

Date of birth: 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Papua New Guinean

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Female

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Papua New Guinean women environmentalists 1T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Papua New Guinean environmentalists 2T
13.

Noah Idechong

Palauan activist and politician

Overview: Noah Idechong is an environmental activist from Palau, and former chief of Palau's Governmental Division of Marine Resources, where he helped draft the Island's first marine conservation legislation in ...

Nationality: Palauan

Occupation: Activist

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Palauan environmentalists 1T

Speakers of the House of Delegates of Palau 3T

Palauan activists 3T
14.

Wendy Bowman (activist)

Australian environmentalist (c. 1934–2023)

Overview: Wendy Bowman (born c.) is an Australian farmer and environmentalist in New South Wales. Thanks to her campaigning, she has been able to prevent the Chinese coal company Yancoal Australia from developing ...

Date of birth: 1934

Date of death: 26 July 2023

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Farmer

Gender: Female

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2023 deaths 5,026T

Australian women farmers 9T

Australian women environmentalists 47T
15.

Nemonte Nenquimo

Ecuadorean, Activist

Overview: Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous activist, author and member of the Waorani Nation from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador. She is the first female president of the Waorani of Pastaza (CONCONAWEP) and c ...

Date of birth: 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: Ecuadorean

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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21st-century indigenous women of the Americas 39T

Time 100 248T

Indigenous women of the Americas 30T
16.

Edwin Gariguez

Filipino religious leader and environmentalist

Overview: Edwin Gariguez is a Filipino religious leader and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2012, for his voicing of protests on behalf of indigenous communities against large ...

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Berta Cáceres

Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader (1971–2016)

Overview: Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016) (Lenca) was a Honduran environmental activist, indigenous leader, and co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Orga ...

Date of birth: 4 March 1971

Date of death: 3 March 2016

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: Honduran

Occupation: Activist

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Lenca people 5T

Women indigenous leaders 8T

Honduran women environmentalists 5T
18.

Sven Peek

South African, Activist

Overview: Sven Peek is an environmentalist and activist from Durban, South Africa. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998, for his efforts on improvement of pollution problems in the region of South ...

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

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Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

South African environmentalists 10T

People from Durban 422T
19.

Carlos Alberto Ricardo

Brazilian environment pioneer

Overview: Carlos Alberto Ricardo is a Brazilian environment pioneer. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992, for his contribution to environment policy in Brazil.

Nationality: Brazilian

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Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Brazilian environmentalists 28T
20.

Garth Owen-Smith

Namibian artist

Overview: Garth Owen-Smith is a Namibian environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993, jointly with Margaret Jacobsohn, for their efforts on conservation of wildlife in Namibia, where ...

Date of death: 11 April 2020

Nationality: Namibian

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2020 deaths 11,737T

Namibian environmentalists 2T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T