# Expanded List of Historical Figures for "Voices of Liberty" NFT Collection
## Ancient Era (before 500 CE)
1. Socrates (M, 470-399 BCE) - Greek philosopher who questioned authority
2. Hypatia (F, c. 350-415 CE) - Alexandrian philosopher and mathematician
3. Cicero (M, 106-43 BCE) - Roman orator and free speech advocate
4. Ban Zhao (F, 45-116 CE) - Chinese historian and advocate for women's education
5. Diogenes (M, 412-323 BCE) - Greek philosopher known for bold speech
6. Aspasia (F, c. 470-400 BCE) - Athenian intellectual and orator
## Medieval Era (500-1400 CE)
7. Christine de Pizan (F, 1364-1430) - French writer, challenged misogyny in literature
8. Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (M, 1126-1198) - Islamic philosopher who defended free thought
9. Hildegard of Bingen (F, 1098-1179) - German abbess and polymath
10. Dante Alighieri (M, 1265-1321) - Italian poet who criticized political and religious corruption
11. Wu Zetian (F, 624-705) - Chinese empress who promoted meritocracy and open criticism
12. Peter Abelard (M, 1079-1142) - French philosopher known for critical thinking
## Renaissance and Reformation (1400-1700)
13. Margaret Cavendish (F, 1623-1673) - English writer and philosopher
14. John Milton (M, 1608-1674) - English poet, wrote against censorship
15. Anne Hutchinson (F, 1591-1643) - Puritan spiritual adviser, challenged religious authority
16. Galileo Galilei (M, 1564-1642) - Italian astronomer who defied the Church
17. Mary Astell (F, 1666-1731) - English feminist writer and rhetorician
18. Baruch Spinoza (M, 1632-1677) - Dutch philosopher who advocated for secular society
## Enlightenment Era (1700-1800)
19. Mary Wollstonecraft (F, 1759-1797) - English writer, advocate for women's rights
20. Voltaire (M, 1694-1778) - French Enlightenment writer and free speech advocate
21. Olympe de Gouges (F, 1748-1793) - French playwright and political activist
22. Thomas Paine (M, 1737-1809) - English-American political activist and revolutionary
23. Phillis Wheatley (F, 1753-1784) - First published African-American poet
24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (M, 1712-1778) - Genevan philosopher and writer
## 19th Century
25. Harriet Taylor Mill (F, 1807-1858) - English philosopher and women's rights advocate
26. Frederick Douglass (M, 1818-1895) - American abolitionist and orator
27. Sojourner Truth (F, c. 1797-1883) - African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
28. John Stuart Mill (M, 1806-1873) - British philosopher, proponent of individual liberty
29. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (F, 1815-1902) - American suffragist and women's rights activist
30. Bertrand Russell (M, 1872-1970) - British philosopher and logician
## Early 20th Century
31. Emma Goldman (F, 1869-1940) - Russian-American anarchist and free speech advocate
32. Mahatma Gandhi (M, 1869-1948) - Indian independence leader and civil rights advocate
33. Rosa Luxemburg (F, 1871-1919) - Polish-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary
34. George Orwell (M, 1903-1950) - English novelist and essayist
35. Virginia Woolf (F, 1882-1941) - English writer who explored women's experiences
36. Martin Luther King Jr. (M, 1929-1968) - American civil rights leader
## Mid-20th Century
37. Simone de Beauvoir (F, 1908-1986) - French existentialist philosopher and feminist
38. Nelson Mandela (M, 1918-2013) - South African anti-apartheid revolutionary
39. Hannah Arendt (F, 1906-1975) - German-American political theorist
40. Alexander Solzhenitsyn (M, 1918-2008) - Russian novelist and historian
41. Betty Friedan (F, 1921-2006) - American feminist writer and activist
42. Vaclav Havel (M, 1936-2011) - Czech writer and politician
## Late 20th Century to Present
43. Aung San Suu Kyi (F, b. 1945) - Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
44. Noam Chomsky (M, b. 1928) - American linguist and political activist
45. Shirin Ebadi (F, b. 1947) - Iranian lawyer and human rights activist
46. Julian Assange (M, b. 1971) - Australian editor and founder of WikiLeaks
47. Malala Yousafzai (F, b. 1997) - Pakistani activist for female education
48. Edward Snowden (M, b. 1983) - American whistleblower and privacy advocate
## Digital Age Pioneers
49. Jaron Lanier (M, b. 1960) - American computer scientist and virtual reality pioneer
50. Anita Borg (F, 1949-2003) - American computer scientist, founded Institute for Women and Technology
51. Tim Berners-Lee (M, b. 1955) - English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
52. Radia Perlman (F, b. 1951) - American computer programmer and network engineer
53. Aaron Swartz (M, 1986-2013) - American computer programmer and internet activist
54. Moxie Marlinspike (F, b. 1980) - American cryptographer, founder of Signal