Significant People Gabriel Would Like To Meet

We are living in a time on our planet where the great thinkers, leaders, artists, activists, and others trying to make positive changes need to come together and share ideas and thoughts. There are many people around the world in positions of influence who Gabriel of Urantia respects and would like the opportunity to meet to work together towards creating a sustainable and balanced future of unity without uniformity. This is an invitation to those people listed below:

  • Spiritual Leaders

    • Billy Graham
    • Dr. Albert Lincoln

      Secretary General of Bahá'i International
    • Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Adhokshjanand Tirathji Maharaj

      Hindu spiritual leader trying to keep the peace between India and Pakistan. Like most true spiritual leaders, he has been discredited by world corporate press and is little known in American New Age magazines.
    • Kevin Annett

      Advocate for Canadian indigenous people.
    • Khozh Ahmed Noukhaev

      People's choice for the President of Chechnya; see French documentary The Making of a Republic
    • Nelson Mandela
    • Pope Benedict XVI
    • The Dalai Lama
    • Thich Nhat Hanh

      Buddhist monk and peace activist

  • Activists & Political Leaders

    • Arundhati Roy

      Activist, author
    • Aung San Suu Kyi

      Activist, Burmese politician, and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy
    • Chris Hedges

      Activist, journalist, war-correspondent
    • Dennis Kucinich

      Congressman and former presidential candidate
    • Dr. James Orbinski

      Doctors Without Borders, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
    • Grace Lee Boggs

      Activist
    • Helen Caldicott

      Physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate, she has committed her life to educating others of the dangers of nuclear energy and using depleted uranium munitions.
    • Joseph P. Firmage

      Scientific genius and entrepreneur who challenged the business world with his hypothesis titled The Truth about the evidence of extra-terrestrial visitations to Earth. Co-founder and CEO of USWeb Corporation, the world’s largest Internet consulting firm. USWeb changed his title from CEO to "founder and chief strategist" after he began publicly espousing his beliefs.
    • Leymah Gbowee

      Founding member of the Women in Peacebuilding Program/West African Network for Peacebuilding. She served as the commissioner-designate for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Ms. Gbowee is the central character of the award-winning documentary "Pray the Devil Back to Hell."
    • Martin Espada

      Known as the Latino poet of his generation; winner of the American Book Award. He is also a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
    • Maya Angelou
    • Michael Moore
    • Millard Fuller

      Activist, founder of Habitat for Humanity
    • Naomi Klein

      Journalist, author and activist against corporate power and globalization.
    • Noam Chomsky
    • Owens Wiwa

      Human rights activist and brother of Nigerian freedom fighter and martyr Ken Saro Wiwa, who Gabriel I wrote "The Freedom Song" for on his Holy City CD. Gabriel received a warm letter of thanks from Owen and family and hopes to meet him in person some day
    • Palagummi Sainath

      Activist, Indian journalist. Exposes the injustices committed against the so called "untouchables," victims of India's long-standing caste system that is still so prevalent today.
    • Ralph Nader
    • Rigoberta Menchu Tum

      Nobel Peace Prize winner. Mayan Advocate of Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation for indigenous peoples in the Western hemisphere. Became involved in social reform activities through the Catholic Church at a very young age and was prominent in the women's rights movement as a teenager.
    • Winona LaDuke

      Native American activist and environmentalist.

  • Artists, Musicians, & Others in the Media Industry

    • Alan Arkin
    • Alessandro Baricco

      Italian author and performer. He wrote the theatrical monologue, Novecento, which was made into the film, The Legend of 1900.
    • Angelica Houston
    • Ani DiFranco

      Singer, songwriter, activist.
    • Benicio Del Toro

      Actor and Producer
    • Bill Cosby
    • Bill Maher
    • Bill Moyers
    • Bob Dylan
    • Buffy Saint-Marie

      Activist
    • Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
    • Davy Spillane
    • Dick Cavett
    • Dustin Hoffman
    • Edward James Olmos

      Activist
    • Francesco Tornatore

      Producer; The Legend of 1900
    • George Gallo

      Screen Writer, Producer, and Director
    • Giuseppe Tornatore

      Screenwriter and director; The Legend of 1900
    • Harry Belafonte

      Singer, actor, producer, and human rights activist.
    • Jane Fonda

      Activist
    • Jeffery Rush
    • Jeneane Garofalo
    • Khyentse Norbu

      Director and writer of Travellers and Magicians and The Cup.
    • Kirk Douglas
    • Lara Logan

      South African television and radio journalist, and war correspondent.
    • Linda Ronstadt
    • Mel Gibson
    • Melanie Thierry

      Actress The Legend of 1900
    • Peter Coyote
    • Phil Donahue
    • Polly Draper

      Actress and screenwriter; wrote and acted in The Tic Code with Gregory Hines.
    • Richard Branson

      Founder and President of Virgin Records
    • Robert Venosa

      Famous artist of cosmic visions and beings. Venosa is a URANTIA Book reader and Gabriel saw many of the original paintings of celestial beings described in The URANTIA Book when he and Niánn stayed in Venosa’s apartment for one week in Boulder, Colorado while he was away in Europe.
    • Robin Williams
    • Saki Takakoa

      Japanese Actress
    • Sean Connery
    • Sean Penn

      Activist
    • Sinead O'Connor
    • Steve MacDonald

      CD - Sons of Somerled
    • Steven Spielberg
    • Tim Robbins
    • Tim Roth
    • Tom Hanks