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• Clive Ponting, a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence who leaked classified documents to Labour Member of Parliament, Tam Dalyell confirming that the General Belgrano was sunk by United Kingdom forces during the Falklands War while outside the total exclusion zone, contradicting statements by the UK Government.

• Samuel Provance, a system administrator for Military Intelligence at the Abu Ghraib prison who publicly revealed the role of interrogators in the abuses, as well the general effort to cover-up the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse itself.

• Peter Rost (doctor). Peter Rost was a former vice president at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer that reported about accounting irregularities and other irregularities to the US authorities. In response to his whistleblowing he was exiled internally by Pfizer and removed from all responsibilities and decision making. In 2004, he testified in Congress as a private individual in favour of drug reimportation, a position strongly at odds with the official policy of the pharmaceutical industry. In December 2005, Rost was fired from Pfizer. In September 2006 he published his experiences in the book “The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman”

• Philip Schneider, a former U.S. geologist who helped constructing various classified military underground bases, who gave public lectures around 1995 (some of which are available in youtube). Among his claims were ones that the United States would become a New World Order dictatorship within the next few months or years. He was found dead in his apartment in January 1996.

• Frank Serpico, a former New York City police officer who reported several of his fellow officers for bribery and related charges. He is the first officer to testify against police corruption.

• Karen Silkwood, a labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. The 1983 film Silkwood is an account of this story.

• Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Air Force, Office of Naval Intelligence, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Most recently he is one of the sources used by the New York Times in reporting on the NSA wiretapping controversy. He had earlier been known for reporting suspicions that a DIA colleague of his might be a Chinese spy.

• Linda Tripp, a former White House staff member who disclosed to the Office of Independent Counsel that Monica Lewinsky committed perjury and attempted to suborn perjury, and President Bill Clinton committed misconduct, by denying the Clinton-Lewinsky relationship in the Paula Jones federal civil rights suit. A victim of retaliation by the Clinton Administration, Tripp won her lawsuit against the federal government for violating the Privacy Act of 1974 when it leaked personal information about her to the press.

• John Paul Vann, an American colonel, who, during the Vietnam War, reported to his superiors that American policy and tactics were seriously flawed, and later went to the media with his concerns. Vann was asked to resign his commission, did so, but later returned to Vietnam.

• M.N. Vijayakumar, an IAS officer in Karnataka, India is a whistle blower who exposed serious corrupt practices at high levels. His wife, Jayashree J.N, fearing for his life set up a website detailing her husband's efforts to fight corruption. See here as to what Transparency International says about them and the New York Times report here
• Mark Whitacre, a PhD scientist and very senior executive with Archer Daniels Midland, who worked with the FBI as a secret informant, to blow the whistle on price-fixing in his company. This story is featured in the film The Informant!.
• Jeffrey Wigand, a former executive of Brown & Williamson who exposed his company's practice of intentionally manipulating the effect of nicotine in cigarettes on the CBS news program 60 Minutes. Famously known as the man who blew the whistle on Big Tobacco and almost single-handedly revealed the health dangers of smoking to the public. The story was dramatized in the 1999 film The Insider, in which Russell Crowe portrayed Wigand.
• Andrew Wilkie, an Australian intelligence officer at the Office of National Assessments who resigned in March 2003 over concerns intelligence reports were incorrectly claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
• Joseph Wilson, former U.S. ambassador, whose July 6, 2003 editorial in The New York Times, "What I Didn't Find In Africa", exposed pretexts for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^{[unbalanced opinion]}
• Edmund Dene Morel a British accountant who reported on the uncommon trading practices between the Congo Free State and Europe which led to a strong campaign about Belgian King Leopold autocratic regime on his African territory.
• Dr. David Graham, who discovered that the pain-reliever Vioxx increased the risk of cardiovascular problems, spoke out against the policies of the Food and Drug Administration, and succeeded in convincing the FDA to require large warning labels on Vioxx packaging.
• Rick S. Piltz, who worked with the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and blew the whistle on Philip Cooney, a White House official who edited a climate change report to reflect the administration's views without having any scientific background.