Far-Right Extremists

Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician whose career has been characterized by extreme views and divisive rhetoric, particularly against Islam and immigration. In 2023, his PVV secured the largest number of seats in the Dutch general election.

Marine Le Pen is a French lawyer, politician, and former President of the National Rally. She has been a member of the National Assembly since 2017. Le Pen earned a Master of Laws in 1991 and a Master of Advanced Studies in criminal law in 1992.

Pernille Vermund is a Danish politician who co-founded The New Right, a national-conservative political party. She used to be a member of the Conservative People’s Party. She is now a member of the Danish Parliament.

Inger Støjberg is a Danish politician who held multiple government posts in the Danish Parliament. Støjberg was initially elected to politics as a member of the Viborg Municipality council, which she held from 1994 until 2002.

Pauline Hanson was born in Brisbane 1954. She initially joined politics in 1994, when she was elected to the Ipswich City Council where she served until 1995. She joined the Liberal Party in August 1995 and was nominated for the Federal seat of Oxley in November.

Tommy Robinson (real name, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is a British right-wing, anti-Muslim activist that has long been involved in far-right politics in the United Kingdom and abroad. His first official move was back in 2004 when he joined the far-right political party British National Party (BNP).

Anne Marie Waters is an Irish-British far-right politician and activist in the United Kingdom. She is the founder and leader of the anti-Islam party For Britain. Although born and raised in Ireland, she considers herself to be passionately, loyally, and proudly British.

Paul Golding is a British far-right politician and the current leader “Britain First”. In 1999, Golding became active in nationalistic politics for the first time. From 2009 to 2011, Golding served as a British National Party (BNP) councillor for St Mary’s Ward in Swanley on the Sevenoaks District Council.

Pia Kjærsgaard is a Danish politician who was elected to the Folketing (Danish parliament) in 1984, serving the Copenhagen County constituency from 1984 to 1987 and subsequently the Funen County electorate from 1987 to 1995. In 1995, Kjærsgaard co-founded the right-wing party Dansk Folkeparti (DF).

Alain Soral, born in 1958 as Alain Bonnet, is a French-Swiss essayist, filmmaker, and far-right ideologue - best known for his antisemitic views. Soral claims to be both a nationalist and a left-wing ideologue, due to his Marxist beliefs. On the contrary, however, he presents himself as a "French National Socialist".

Lana Lokteff is an American far-right white supremacist and a former YouTube personality . Known for her anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views, she is part of the alt-right movement and is currently the host of Radio 3Fourteen. Lana Lokteff has been quoted numerous times as a Holocaust denier.

Damien Rieu is a French far-right politician. He became one of the most visible and active members of France’s extreme right. Damien was raised by a communist militant father in a far-left environment. However, at the age of 17, he decided to join the youth section of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s far-right National Front party.

Robert Menard is a French politician, a former journalist, and the Mayor of Beziers in France since 2014. Born in 1953 in the French-controlled Algerian city of Oran, Menard was raised in a Catholic French family who decided to return back to France when he was nine years old, following the Algerian War of Independence.

Eric Zemmour is a French essayist and journalist -turned-celebrity pundit born in 1958 at Montreuil in France after his Jewish family - originating from Algeria - moved to France during the Algerian war of independence. In 1979, he started his education at Science Po Paris where he obtained a degree in Public Administration.

Laura Loomer is an American far-right and anti-Muslim political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz described her as a “far-right Jewish activist”. Loomer pursued her studies at Barry University in Miami and graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2015.

McInnes moved to Canada as a child before migrating to the United States to pursue his career in politics. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom. McInnes was named a major figure in the New York hipster subculture during his tenure at Vice magazine, which he helped create, and rose to further prominence.

Katie Olivia Hopkins is a British writer and media personality. She rose to prominence as a divisive candidate on the BBC show “The Apprentice.” After graduating from school, she went on to study economics at the University of Exeter, and on weekends, she participated in the “Officer's Training Camps.”

Paludan is a Danish far-right politician, lawyer, and the founder and leader of the right-wing political party “Hard-Line.” Paludan is known for his far-right controversial, Islamophobic, and xenophobic views, especially against Islam. He frequently calls for banning and expelling Muslims and all non-Western citizens from Denmark.

Matthew Heimbach rose to national prominence while attending Towson University in Maryland, where he graduated in 2013 with a degree in history. As a student, he established and led a branch of the white supremacist organisation, the Youth for Western Civilization (YWC).

Pamela Geller is a prominent anti-Muslim activist in the U.S. Geller created a blog named Atlas Shrugs in 2004 and regularly appears on Fox News, which provides her a platform to target Muslims and Islam in the U.S. Geller's blog achieved popularity in 2006 when she reposted the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons.