Activists & Advocacy
Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd (19 November 1958 – 7 October 2023) was an American author, ordained minister (United Church of Christ and Universal Life Church) and lecturer who became known as America's "evolutionary evangelist" for his project of integrati
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British-Irish children's-fiction writer and human-rights activist whose four young-adult novels — three published in her lifetime, one posthumously — won her substantial international re
Bernard O’Dowd
Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (11 April 1866 – 1 September 1953) was an Australian poet, lawyer, journalist and socialist activist whose career bridged the late-Victorian colonial Victorian and the Federation-era Australian Labor traditions.
Brendan Duddy
Brendan Duddy (10 June 1936 – 12 May 2017) was a Derry businessman who, for two decades, served as the secret back-channel between the British government and the leadership of the Provisional IRA — known to MI6 only as "the Contact" — and w
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (7 December 1919 – 8 September 2017) was an American Marxist political economist, economic historian and lifelong civil rights and anti-war activist who taught economics at Cornell University, the University of Calif
Cathy O’Dowd
Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) is a South African mountaineer who, on 29 May 1999, became the first woman in history to summit Mount Everest from both its south side (Nepal, 25 May 1996, with the First South African Everest Expedition) and its no
Jeff Dowd
Jeff Dowd (born 1949) is an American film producer, publicist and political activist who is best known to the wider public as the principal real-life inspiration for the character of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in the Coen Brothers' *The Bi
