The fifth Global Citizen Festival is almost here! For the past four years, the world's best musical acts have dazzled tens of thousands of Global Citizens in Central Park to call for an end to extreme poverty everywhere.  

While the music is the main draw, the stage and backstage will also be crowded with world leaders and activists advocating for everything from gender equality to climate change action to the right for everyone to have clean drinking water. 

One of the most iconic moments of past festivals was in 2015 when Malala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, was joined on the stage by four women's rights activists and galvanized the audience with a call for universal education.  

"I'm asking for a basic human right," she told the audience of 60,000. 

Here are some of the other activists and dignitaries who have attended from the over four years. 

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, with Hugh Jackman 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, with Bono

Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway, with Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

Malala Yousafzai with fellow women's rights activists 

Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, Hugh Jackman, and Jim Kim, president of the World Bank

Bill and Melinda Gates

Amina Mohammen, environmental minister of Nigeria

Joe Biden, vice president of the US, and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden

Michelle Obama, first lady of the US

Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, with his wife Chirlane Mccray and Hugh Evans, CEO of Global CItizen