A former employee at the United States Public Health Service, Buxtun became a whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist and whistleblower. She was convicted of disclosing classified military documents to Iraq, Afghanistan, and WikiLeaks. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Karen Silkwood
Ranked among the most famous whistleblowers, Karen had to pay with her life for exposing what she believed was wrong. She used to work at Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in Oklahoma, where she found various violations and reported them to the Atomic Energy Commission. Later, she was found dead in her car with no documents.
Mark Felt
The Watergate scandal still remains one of the most notorious episodes of whistleblowing, all thanks to Felt. He was an Associate Director of the FBI, who worked under an anonymous alias to leak classified information about US President Richard Nixon and his administration. Nixon later resigned, becoming the only US president to have done so.
Edward Snowden
Snowden is an American and naturalised Russian former computer intelligence consultant and whistleblower who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency.
Frank Serpico
The New York City Police Department detective exposed corruption in the department. He was later shot, but he survived the attack and fled the country.