A panel of experts has picked out 50 individuals - including some double acts - who they believed were
motivated by an "ethical" dimension.
This list has been compiled by the Independent newspaper, whose associate editor Paul Vallely was involved in the selection process.
The chart does not rank the individuals in order of their "goodness" as the panel members were unable to agree a definitive order of merit.
Instead it is presented in alphabetical order:
Muhammad Abdul Bari, Muslim leader
Andrew Linzey, animal rights moralist
Anne Owers, HM Inspector of Prisons
Benjamin Zephaniah, poet
Bob Geldof, poverty campaigner
Bob Holman, community worker
Bruce Kent, peace activist
Camilla Batmanghelidjh, founder of Kids Company
Chris Patten, politician
Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer
David Attenborough, television naturalist
Donald Findlater, pioneer in paedophile treatment
Gareth Peirce, solicitor
Gee Walker, mother
Gordon Conway, ecologist
Indarjit Singh, Sikh leader
Jean Vanier, disabled campaigner
Jill Pitkeathley, careers' campaigner
John Bell, peace activist and hymn-writer
John Harris, bio-ethicist
John Houghton, meteorologist
John Sulston, scientist
Jon Snow, broadcaster
Jonathon Porritt, environmentalist
Justin Forsyth, poverty strategist
Ken Loach, filmmaker
Ken Newell and Gerry Reynolds, Northern Ireland peace activists
Kevin Watkins, anti-poverty researcher
Laurie Pycroft, animal testing campaigner
Lionel Blue, rabbi
Mark Malloch Brown, UN official
Martin Dent and Bill Peters, debt campaigners
Mohammed Mamdani, founder of the Muslim Youth Helpline
Niall Fitzgerald, businessman
Nick Hargreaves, refugees campaigner
Ann Pettifor, debt campaigner
Peter Tatchell, gay rights campaigner
Phil Sumner, community worker
Philip Pullman, children's writer
Richard Adams, fair trade pioneer
Richard Curtis, comedy scriptwriter and global campaigner
Richard Harries, moralist
Robert Chambers, anti-poverty thinker
Shami Chakrabarti, civil rights campaigner, director of Liberty
Sheila Cassidy, palliative care pioneer
Shirley Williams, politician
Sister Frances Dominica, founder of the Helen House hospice
Tariq Ramadan, Islamic reformer
Timothy Radcliffe, Dominican friar
Tom Shakespeare, disability activist
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