List of guerrillas

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List of notable guerrilla activists, ordered by country:

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Afghanistan

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Ahmad Massoud National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Panjshir Conflict
Ahmed Shah Massoud Northern Alliance Soviet–Afghan War
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Mujahidin
Mohammed Omar Taliban
Osama Bin Laden Al-Qaeda
Jalaluddin Haqqani Haqqani Network

Albania

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Enver Hoxha Party of Labor of Albania Balkans in World War II
Skanderbeg Albanian feudal leader Albanian-Ottoman war

Algeria

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Abdel Kadir Emirate of Abdelkader French conquest of Algeria
Saadi Yacef Algerian War National Liberation Front
Ali La Pointe

Angola

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Jonas Savimbi UNITA Angola Civil War

Arabia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
T. E. Lawrence British Army Arab Revolt

Argentina


Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Che Guevara July 26th Movement Cuban Revolution
Enrique Gorriarán Merlo People's Revolutionary Army Dirty War

Armenia

Assyria

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Malik Khoshaba Assyrian independence movement Persian campaign
Dawid Mar Shimun
Agha Petros
Shimun XIX Benyamin

Austria

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Andreas Hofer Schützen militia Napoleonic Wars
Otto Skorzeny Sonder Lehrgang Oranienburg World War II

Bangladesh

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Kader Siddique Mukti Bahini Bangladesh Liberation War
Hemayet Uddin
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan

Belgium

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Jacob Collaert Dunkirkers Dutch Revolt

Bolivia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Tamara Bunke Ejército de Liberation Nacional de Bolivia Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
Che Guevara
Osvaldo Peredo

Brazil

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Anita Garibaldi Juliana Republic Ragamuffin War
Carlos Marighella Araguaia Guerrilla War Ação Libertadora Nacional
Giuseppe Garibaldi Riograndense Republic Ragamuffin War

Bulgaria

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Kaloyan Asen dynasty Uprising of Asen and Peter

Cambodia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Cambodian Civil War

Cameroon

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Osende Afana Union of the Peoples of Cameroon Anglophone Crisis
Félix Moumié
Ernest Ouandié
Ruben Um Nyobé

Canada

Chad

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Goukouni Oueddei FROLINAT Chadian–Libyan War
Hissène Habré
Ibrahim Abatcha Chadian Civil War
Idriss Déby Patriotic Salvation Movement First Chadian Civil War
Rabih az-Zubayr Sudanese warlord Rabih War
Youssouf Togoïmi Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad Insurgency in Chad

Chechnya

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Aslan Maskhadov Chechen Republic of Ichkeria First Chechen War
Second Chechen War
Dzhokhar Dudayev First Chechen War
Ahmed Zakaev Second Chechen War
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev Second Chechen War
First Chechen War
Ibn al-Khattab Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya Second Chechen War
First Chechen War
Abdul-Halim Sadulayev Chechen Republic of Ichkeria First Chechen War
Second Chechen War
Shamil Basayev Chechen Republic of Ichkeria First Chechen War

Chile

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Galvarino Apablaza Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front Armed resistance in Chile
Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza Patriots Chilean War of Independence
Miguel Enríquez Revolutionary Left Movement Armed resistance in Chile
José Gregorio Liendo
Raúl Pellegrin Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front

China

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Mao Zedong Chinese Communist Party Chinese Civil War
Zhou Enlai
Sun Yat-sen Kuomintang 1911 Revolution
Bai Chongxi Chinese Civil War
Chiang Kai-shek

Colombia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Jacobo Arenas National Liberation Army Colombian conflict
Manuel Marulanda Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Camilo Torres

Cuba

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Fidel Castro July 26th Movement Cuban Revolution
Camilo Cienfuegos
Che Guevara
Antonio Maceo Cuban Liberation Army Cuban War of Independence

Cyprus

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Georgios Grivas EOKA Cyprus Emergency
Grigoris Afxentiou
Kyriakos Matsis
Nikos Sampson

Dagestan

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Imam Shamil Caucasian Imamate Murid War
Ibn al-Khattab Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya War in Dagestan
Shamil Basayev Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Laurent-Désiré Kabila Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo First Congo War
Laurent Nkunda Rwandan Defence Forces
Pierre Mulele Simba rebel Simba rebellion

Dominican Republic

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Ramón Natera Constitutionalist faction Dominican Civil War
Gregorio Urbano Gilbert

Egypt

El Salvador

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Farabundo Martí Communist Party of El Salvador La Matanza
Schafik Handal Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front Salvadoran Civil War
Cayetano Carpio
Joaquín Villalobos
Ana María

Eritrea

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Isaias Afewerki Eritrean People's Liberation Front Eritrean War of Independence
Hamid Idris Awate
Woldeab Woldemariam

Estonia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
August Sabbe Forest brothers Occupation of the Baltic States
Ülo Voitka
Alfred Käärmann

Ethiopia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Hayelom Araya Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front Ethiopian Civil War
Kinfe Gebremedhin Tigray People's Liberation Front
Meles Zenawi Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
Siye Abraha
Debretsion Gebremichael Tigray People's Liberation Front

Finland

France

Frisia

Germany

Greece

Guatemala

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Rodrigo Asturias Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity Guatemalan Civil War
Rolando Morán

Haiti

India

Indonesia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Abdul Haris Nasution Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia Indonesian National Revolution
Sudirman

Iran

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Babak Khorramdin Khurramites Abbasid Caliphate.
Hassan-i Sabbah Order of Assassins Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
Mostafa Chamran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Iran–Iraq War
Massoud Rajavi People's Mujahedin of Iran Iranian revolution
Rais-Ali Delvari Persian campaign

Iraq

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Abu Muslim Abbasid Caliphate Abbasid Revolution
Zayd ibn Ali Alids Revolt of Zayd ibn Ali
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Al-Qaeda in Iraq Iraq War
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi
Muqtada al-Sadr Mahdi Army
Abu Azrael Popular Mobilization Forces Iraqi insurgency


Ireland

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Michael Collins Irish Republican Army Irish War of Independence
Tom Barry
Gerry Adams Provisional IRA Army Council Troubles
Martin McGuinness
Seamus Costello Official IRA
Freddie Scappaticci Provisional Irish Republican Army
Bobby Sands
Francis Hughes
Dominic McGlinchey Provisional Irish Republican Army and later Irish National Liberation Army
Frank Aiken Irish War of Independence Irish War of Independence
Billy Wright Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) Troubles
John Gregg Ulster Defence Association
Johnny Adair
Lenny Murphy Ulster Volunteer Force

Israel

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Menachem Begin Irgun Jewish insurgency
Yitzhak Shamir Lehi
Avraham Stern
Yohai Ben-Nun Haganah
Haim Bar-Lev
Aharon Davidi
Yekutiel Adam
Ariel Sharon
Danny Matt
Mordechai Gur
Rafael Eitan

Italy

Japan

Korea

Kosovo

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Adem Jashari Kosovo Liberation Army Kosovo war
Ramush Haradinaj
Agim Ceku
Agim Ramadani
Sali Çekaj
Hamëz Jashari
Bekim Berisha
Luan Haradinaj
Daut Haradinaj

Kenya

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Dedan Kimathi Mau Mau rebels Mau Mau rebellion
Waruhiu Itote
Musa Mwariama

Kurdistan

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Mahmud Barzanji Kurdistan Democratic Party Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
Mahmoud Ezidi
Foad Mostafa Soltani Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
Jalal Talabani Kurdistan Democratic Party Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
Nawshirwan Mustafa Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Najmadin Shukr Rauf Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
Sadegh Sharafkandi
Abdullah Öcalan Kurdistan Workers' Party Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Murat Karayılan
Cemil Bayık
Sakine Cansız
Mazlum Doğan
Mahsum Korkmaz

Laos

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
General Vang Pao Secret Army Laotian Civil War
Pa Chay Vue Hmong rebels Vue Pa Chay's revolt
Ong Kommandan Phu Mi Bun Movement Holy Man's Rebellion
Ong Keo

Latvia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Pēteris Dzelzītis Latvian partisans Guerrilla war in the Baltic states

Lebanon

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Lebanese Civil War

Lesotho

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Ntsu Mokhehle Lesotho Liberation Army BCP insurgency

Liberia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Charles Taylor National Patriotic Front of Liberia First Liberian Civil War
Sierra Leonean Civil War
Prince Johnson Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia First Liberian Civil War

Libya

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Omar Mukhtar Senussi Brotherhood Second Italo-Senussi War

Lithuania

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Jonas Žemaitis Lithuanian Union of Freedom Fighters Lithuanian partisans
Adolfas Ramanauskas
Juozas Lukša

Malaysia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Chin Peng Malayan Communist Party Malayan Emergency

Mexico

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Subcomandante Marcos Zapatista Army of National Liberation Zapatista uprising
Pancho Villa Liberation Army of the South Mexican Revolution
Emiliano Zapata
Lucio Cabañas Party of the Poor Mexican Dirty War
Miguel Hidalgo Mexican Army Mexican War of Independence.
Davy Crockett Army of the Republic of Texas Texas Revolution
Sam Houston
William Barret Travis
Juan Seguín
James Bowie
James Fannin
Victorio Apacheria Apache Wars.
Geronimo
Bernardo Reyes Reyistas Mexican Revolution
Francisco I. Madero Maderistas

Mongolia

Morocco

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Abd el-Krim Rif Republic Rif War
Mouha ou Hammou Zayani Qaid Zaian War
Mohammed Ameziane Riffians Second Melillan campaign

Mozambique


Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Afonso Dhlakama Renamo Mozambican Civil War
Mozambican War of Independence
Eduardo Mondlane Frelimo Mozambican Civil War
Mozambican War of Independence
Samora Machel Mozambican Civil War
Mozambican War of Independence
Filipe Samuel Magaia
André Matsangaissa Frelimo (1972–1975)Mozambican Civil War
Renamo (1975–1979)Mozambican War of Independence

Myanmar

Namibia

Nepal

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Prachanda Nepal Communist Party Nepalese Civil War

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Adolfo Calero Contras Nicaraguan Revolution
Arlen Siu Sandinista National Liberation Front
Augusto César Sandino Army in Defense of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua United States occupation of Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega Sandinista National Liberation Front Nicaraguan Revolution
Dora María Téllez
Edén Pastora Contras
Enrique Bermúdez
Humberto Ortega Sandinista National Liberation Front
Joaquín Cuadra
Nora Astorga
Rigoberto Cruz
Carlos Fonseca

Nigeria

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Ateke Tom Ijaw militia Conflict in the Niger Delta
Henry Okah Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
Mujahid Dokubo-Asari Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force
Odumegwu Ojukwu Biafran Armed Forces Biafra war
Philip Effiong

Norway

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Martin Linge Royal Norwegian Army German occupation of Norway

Pakistan

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Ilyas Kashmiri Al-Qaeda Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Osama bin Laden Maktab al-Khidamat Soviet–Afghan War
Malik Munawar Khan Awan Azad Hind World War II
Nauroz Khan Kalat insurgents First Balochistan conflict
Allah Nazar Baloch Balochistan Liberation Front Insurgency in Balochistan
Balach Marri
Sher Mohammad Marri

Palestine

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Army of the Holy War 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
Yasser Arafat Palestine Liberation Organization Israeli–Palestinian conflict
George Habash Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Wadie Haddad
Abu Nidal Abu Nidal Organization
Ahmed Yassin Hamas
Yahya Ayyash
Mohammed Deif
Ahmad Sa'adat Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Abu Ali Mustafa
Marwan Barghouti Palestine Liberation Organization
Khalil al-Wazir Palestine Liberation Organization
Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil Hamas
Ali Hassan Salameh Black September Organization
Zakaria Zubeidi Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
Dalal Mughrabi Palestine Liberation Organization
Leila Khaled
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Black Hand 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi Hamas Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Omar Rezaq Abu Nidal Organization
Mahmoud Tawalbe Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Peru

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Abimael Guzmán Shining Path Internal conflict in Peru
Héctor Béjar National Liberation Army
Hugo Blanco Workers' Revolutionary Party
Javier Heraud National Liberation Army

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Rwanda

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Paul Kagame Rwandan Patriotic Front Rwandan Genocide
Fred Rwigyema

Scotland

Sierra Leone

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Foday Sankoh Revolutionary United Front Sierra Leone Civil War

Singapore

South Africa

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Piet Joubert Transvaal Boer Wars
Schalk Willem Burger
Piet Cronjé

Joachim Ferreira

Francois Gerhardus Joubert
Nicolaas Smit
Jan Smuts
Louis Botha
Johannes Lötter Cape Colony
Christiaan de Wet Orange Free State
Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger
Jan Smuts Transvaal
Schalk Willem Burger
Christiaan Frederik Beyers
Koos de la Rey Orange Free State
Martinus Theunis Steyn
Gideon Scheepers
Deneys Reitz
Nelson Mandela African National Congress Apartheid
Walter Sisulu
Jacob Zuma
Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
Chris Hani
Potlako Leballo Pan Africanist Congress of Azania

Soviet Union

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Mikhail Frunze Red Army Basmachi revolt
Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky Serb rebels Herzegovina uprising
Stepan Bandera Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Sydir Kovpak Red Army Russian Civil War
Semyon Rudniev
Serge Obolensky Russian White Army

Spain

Sudan

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
John Garang South Sudan People's Defence Forces First Sudanese Civil War
Second Sudanese Civil War
Khalil Ibrahim Justice and Equality Movement War in Darfur
Muhammad Ahmad Mahdist State Mahdist War
Osman Digna
Rabih az-Zubayr Kanem-Bornu Empire Rabih War
Sebehr Rahma Mahdist State Mahdist War

Suriname

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Ronnie Brunswijk Jungle Commando Surinamese Interior War

Syria

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Sultan al-Atrash Syrian rebels Great Syrian Revolt
Saladin Ayyubid dynasty Third Crusade

Thailand

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Yoweri Museveni National Resistance Movement Ugandan Bush War
Alice Auma Holy Spirit Movement War in Uganda
Joseph Kony Lord's Resistance Army Lord's Resistance Army insurgency

Ukraine

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Nestor Makhno Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine Russian Civil War
Maria Nikiforova

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
José Mujica Tupamaros Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay
Raúl Sendic

Venezuela

Vietnam

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Ho Chi Minh Vietminh Indochina War
Võ Nguyên Giáp

Western Sahara

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Mohamed Abdelaziz Polisario Western Sahara War
Ma al-'Aynayn Qadiriyya French conquest of Morocco
El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed Polisario Western Sahara War
Brahim Gali Polisario Western Sahara War

Yugoslavia

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Draža Mihailović Royal Patriotic Army of Yugoslavia Balkans in World War II
Josip Broz Tito Yugoslav Partisans

Zimbabwe

Guerrilla leaderMovementWar
Joshua Nkomo ZAPU Rhodesian Civil War
Robert Mugabe ZANU

See also

References

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  2. "The Sandino Rebellion, 1927–1934". www.sandinorebellion.com.