Revolutionary Leaders & Icons
33 entries in the Revolutionary Leaders & Icons compendium.
Pancho VillaMexican revolutionary and guerrilla leaderPatrisse CullorsCo-founder of Black Lives Matter and prison abolition activist.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 uprising against the Qing dynasty.Rani of JhansiThe warrior queen who defied the British and became an icon of Indian nationalism.Rigoberta MenchúK'iche' activist and Nobel laureate for Indigenous rights.Rosa LuxemburgPolish-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary, co-founder of the KPD.Russell MeansOglala Lakota activist and leader in the American Indian MovementSakamoto 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.Sun Yat-senFounder of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.Sylvia PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst: suffragette, socialist, and anti-colonial activist.Tamara BunkeArgentine-born East German spy and guerrilla in Bolivia.Tarana BurkeAmerican activist who started the MeToo movement.Theodor HerzlFounder of modern political Zionism and visionary of a Jewish state.Thomas Wyatt the YoungerRebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary ITiradentesRevolutionary leader and national hero of BrazilNestor MakhnoUkrainian anarchist revolutionary and commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of UkraineNguyễn TrãiPoet, strategist, and advisor who helped liberate Vietnam from Ming rule.Patrick PearseIrish revolutionary leader and poet who proclaimed the Irish Republic during the 1916 Easter Rising.Petro Konashevych-SahaidachnyHetman who reformed the Zaporozhian Cossacks and fought at Khotyn.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.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 the global pan-African…Subcomandante MarcosMexican insurgent and former Zapatista military leader and spokesman.Subhas Chandra BoseNetaji: The defiant nationalist who sought Axis alliances for India's freedom.Tan MalakaIndonesian statesman, Marxist, and founder of Struggle Union.Tank ManUnidentified man who blocked a tank column in Beijing.Tawakkol KarmanYemeni Nobel laureate and advocate for press freedom.Theodore Dwight WeldArchitect of the American abolitionist movement and co-author of a key compendium.
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