List of hunger strikes

Hunger strikes

• 1929 hunger strike
• Bhagat singh
• BK Dutt
• and all other members of HSRA
• 1980 Irish hunger strike
• *Brendan Hughes
• *Tommy McKearney
• *Raymond McCartney
• 1981 Irish hunger strike
• *Michael Devine
• *Kieran Doherty
• *Francis Hughes
• *Martin Hurson
• *Kevin Lynch
• *Raymond McCreesh
• *Joe McDonnell
• *Thomas McElwee
• *Patsy O'Hara
• *Paddy Quinn
• *Bobby Sands
• 1983 International Fast For Life
• 1986 Veterans Fast For Life
• 2000 Death fast in Turkey
• 2009 Tamil diaspora protests
• 2012 Palestinian mass hunger strikes
• *Khader Adnan
• Mustafa Kocak
• 2012 Kurdish prisoners hunger strike
• 2013 California prisoner hunger strike
• 2019 hunger strike by South Korean opposition party leader Hwang Kyo-ahn calling for renewal of GSOMIA intel-sharing pact with Japan, as well as stopping National Assembly bills intended to introduce electoral reform and an anti-corruption taskforce

  Groups who have conducted hunger strikes

• British and American suffragettes
• *Alice Paul
• *Emmeline Pankhurst
• *Marion Wallace Dunlop
• Cuban dissidents
• *Guillermo Fariñas
• *Pedro Luis Boitel
• *Jorge Luis García Pérez
• *Orlando Zapata Tamayo
• Grup Yorum
• Irish republicans
• *Thomas Ashe
• *Denny Barry
• *Tony D'Arcy
• *Michael Fitzgerald
• *Michael Gaughan
• *Seán McCaughey
• *Terence MacSwiney
• *Joe Murphy
• *Frank Stagg
• *Seán Mac Stíofáin
• Indian Independence Movement
• *Jatindra Nath Das
• *Batukeshwar Dutt
• *Bhagat Singh
• Jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders
• * Jordi Sánchez
• * Jordi Turull
• * Joaquim Forn
• * Josep Rull
• Kurdish Politicians
• * Leyla Güven
• * Selma Irmak
• * Gültan Kışanak
• South Korean politicians
• * Hwang Kyo-ahn of Liberty Korea Party
• * Sohn Hak-kyu of the Bareunmirae Party
• * Lee Jeong-mi of the Justice Party
• * Kim Sung-tae of Liberty Korea Party

  Individuals who have conducted a hunger strike

• Philippe Vandenberghe, victim of the 2016 Brussels bombings
• Meryem Altun, Turkey, prisoner, 2002. Died.
• Ninoy Aquino
• Stanislav Aseyev, Ukrainian writer and journalist. Kidnapped by militants from so-called Donetsk People's Republic.
• Marwan Barghouti
• Chen Shui Bian, President of the Republic of China
• Franklin Brito, Venezuela, land dispute, 2010. Died.
• Emil Calmanovici, Romania, political prisoner, 1956. Died.
• Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers union, Arizona, 1968, 1970, 1972.
• William Coleman, 2007 to 2014 in CT, USA https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-longest-hunger-strike/
• Jatindra Nath Das Indian independence activist and revolutionary
• Andrey Derevyankin
• Katherine Dunham
• Ronald Easterbrook England, prisoner, 1997, 1999.
• Becky Edelsohn
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Akbar Ganji
• Andrias Ghukasyan
• Max Goldstein
• Lena Hades
• Anna Hazare
• J. B. S. Haldane
• Barry Horne
• Samer Tariq Issawi
• Lucy, Lady Houston
• Poopathy Kanapathipillai
• Jack Kevorkian
• Jüri Kukk
• Jean Lassalle
• Antonio Ledezma, Venezuelan politician, 2009
• Gloria Lee
• Ly Tong
• Haia Lifşiţ
• Anatoly Marchenko
• Holger Meins
• Akbar Mohammadi
• Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician and cleric, 1983
• Tony Nicklinson
• Jock Palfreeman
• Vasudev Balwant Phadke
• Darshan Singh Pheruman
• Kemal Pir
• Muhammad al-Qiq
• Mahmudur Rahman, Bangladeshi news editor
• Militão Ribeiro
• Randall Robinson
• George Rolph
• Hoda Saber
• Arash Sadeghi
• Andrei Sakharov
• Kostas Sakkas
• Nigamananda Saraswati
• Jaume Sastre i Font, Catalan teacher in Mallorca
• Nadiya Savchenko, Ukrainian volunteer helicopter pilot, kidnapped and detained in Russian prison, 2015 and 2016.
• Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian filmmaker and writer
• Irom Sharmila
• Bhagat Singh Indian socialist revolutionary
• Surat Singh Khalsa, Sikh Activist
• Mohamed Soltan, Egyptian opposition activist, 2014
• Theresa Spence
• Potti Sreeramulu
• Thileepan
• Judith Todd
• Sergey Udaltsov, Russian opposition activist, 2011 and 2014
• Lluís Maria Xirinacs, Catalan politician, writer, and religious leader
• Lin Yi-hsiung
• Shahrokh Zamani, Iranian Labour Activist, Died 2015 in Islamic Republic of Iran's prison
• Govinda K.C.
• Hwang Kyo-ahn