Revolutionary Leaders & Icons
34 entries in the Revolutionary Leaders & Icons compendium.
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Nestor MakhnoGeorgian revolutionary socialist and military commander.Nguyễn TrãiPoet and strategist who advised Lê Lợi against Ming rule.Pancho VillaMexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader of the Mexican Revolution.Patrick PearseIrish revolutionary and leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.Patrisse CullorsCo-founder of Black Lives Matter and prison abolition activist.Petro Konashevych-SahaidachnyHetman who reformed the Zaporozhian Cossacks and fought at Khotyn.Phan Bội ChâuVietnamese nationalist who sought independence from French rule.Phan Đình PhùngConfucian scholar who led guerrilla war against French rule.Qiu JinChinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer executed for anti-Qing activities.Rani of JhansiQueen of Jhansi and rebel leader against British rule.Rigoberta MenchúK'iche' activist and Nobel laureate for Indigenous rights.Rosa LuxemburgPolish-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary, co-founder of the KPD.Ruby BridgesAmerican actress, activist, and recipient of Emmy, Grammy, Obie, and Drama Desk Awards.Rudi DutschkeGerman sociologist and activist, leading figure in 1960s student movement.Russell MeansOglala Lakota activist, actor, and leader in the American Indian Movement.Saigō TakamoriSamurai and politician who led the Satsuma Rebellion.Sakamoto RyōmaLow-ranking Tosa samurai who negotiated the Satchō Alliance against the Bakufu.Sergei NechaevRussian nihilist revolutionary who advocated destruction by any means.Shirin EbadiIranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, and former judge.Shulamith FirestoneRadical feminist writer and activist who co-founded key second-wave groups.Stokely CarmichaelTrinidadian-American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement and theSubcomandante MarcosMexican insurgent and former Zapatista military leader and spokesman.Subhas Chandra BoseIndian independence leader who formed the Azad Hind Fauj and sought Axis support against BSun Yat-senFounder of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.Sylvia PankhurstEnglish feminist, socialist, activist, artist and writer.Tamara BunkeArgentine-born East German spy and guerrilla in Bolivia.Tan MalakaIndonesian statesman, Marxist, and founder of Struggle Union.Tank ManUnidentified man who blocked a tank column in Beijing.Tarana BurkeAmerican activist who started the MeToo movement.Tawakkol KarmanYemeni Nobel laureate and advocate for press freedom.Theodor HerzlFounder of modern political Zionism and visionary of a Jewish state.Theodore Dwight WeldArchitect of the American abolitionist movement and co-author of a key compendium.Thomas Wyatt the YoungerEnglish rebel leader who opposed Queen Mary I's Spanish marriage.TiradentesLeader of the Inconfidência Mineira, executed for seeking Brazilian independence.
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