List of guerrillas

List of notable guerrilla activists, ordered by country:

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Afghanistan

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

Algeria

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

Angola

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Jonas Savimbi	UNITA	Angola Civil War

Arabia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
T. E. Lawrence	British Army	Arab Revolt

Argentina

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

Armenia

• Fedayi
• Dashnaks
• Hunchaks
• Armenakans

Assyria

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Malik Khoshaba	Assyrian independence movement	Persian campaign
Dawid Mar Shimun
Agha Petros
Shimun XIX Benyamin

Austria

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

Bangladesh

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

Belgium

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Jacob Collaert	Dunkirkers	Dutch Revolt

Bolivia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Tamara Bunke	Ejército de Liberation Nacional de Bolivia	Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
Che Guevara
Osvaldo Peredo

Brazil

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

Bulgaria

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Kaloyan	Asen dynasty	Uprising of Asen and Peter

Cambodia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Pol Pot	Khmer Rouge	Cambodian Civil War

Cameroon

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

Canada

• North-West Rebellion
  • Fine-Day
  • Gabriel Dumont
  • Louis Riel
  • Wandering Spirit
• Other
  • "Yank" Levy
  • Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot - Quebec born member of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine who was a leader of the Acadian militia in their resistance to the Expulsion of the Acadians.
  • Sébastien Rale
  • Joseph Broussard - also went by the pseudonym Beausoleil.

Chad

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

Cuba

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

Cyprus

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Georgios Grivas	EOKA	Cyprus Emergency
Grigoris Afxentiou
Kyriakos Matsis
Nikos Sampson

Dagestan

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
Ramón Natera	Constitutionalist faction	Dominican Civil War
Gregorio Urbano Gilbert

Egypt

• Inaros - (Egyptian rebel ruler) together with Athenian allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against Persians.

El Salvador

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

Estonia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
August Sabbe	Forest brothers	Occupation of the Baltic States
Ülo Voitka
Alfred Käärmann

Ethiopia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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

• Paavali Halonen
• Lauri Törni
• Pekka Vesainen

France

• François le Clerc - 16th-century French privateer known as "Jambe de Bois" (Peg Leg) who is credited as the first pirate in the modern era to have a "peg leg".
• Bertrand du Guesclin
• Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot - Quebec born member of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine who was a leader of the Acadian militia in the resistance to the Expulsion of the Acadians.
• Sébastien Rale
• Jean-Louis Le Loutre
• Pierre Georges - member of the French Communist Party during World War II
• Charles de Gaulle
• Nancy Wake
• Georges Cadoudal
• Joseph Epstein
• Jean-Baptiste du Casse
• Jean Fleury
• Jean Ango
• Jeanne de Clisson

Frisia

• Pier Gerlofs Donia
• Wijerd Jelckama

Germany

• Arminius - Germanic chieftain who orchestrated the legendary ambush against the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
• Klein Henszlein - German pirate from 1560 to 1573 who raided shipping in the North Sea
• Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
• Thomas Müntzer
• Otto Skorzeny - Austrian elite operative who conducted unconventional operations in World War II for Nazi Germany
• Franz von Rintelen
• Johann Ewald
• Carl von Clausewitz
• Felix von Luckner

Greece

• Athanasios Diakos
• Geórgios Karaïskákis
• Manolis Glezos
• Markos Botsaris
• Odysseas Androutsos
• Theodoros Kolokotronis
• Antonis Vratsanos
• Daskalogiannis

Guatemala

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Rodrigo Asturias	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity	Guatemalan Civil War
Rolando Morán

Haiti

• Charlemagne Péralte
• Toussaint L'ouverture
• Francois Mackandal
• Vincent Oge
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• Jean-Jacques Dessalines
• Francois Capois
• Henri Christophe
• Sans-Souci
• Dutty Boukman

India

• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
• Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja in Kerala
• Sangolli Rayanna in Karnataka
• Komaram Bheem in Andhra Pradesh
• Alluri Sita Rama Raju in Andhra Pradesh
• Malik Ambar
• Patel Sudhakar Reddy
• Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan
• Sayeed Salahudeen
• Yasin Malik

Indonesia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Abdul Haris Nasution	Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia	Indonesian National Revolution
Sudirman

Iran

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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

• Spartacus
• Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Giuseppe Mazzini
• Carmine Crocco
• Ninco Nanco
• Licio Visintini - decorated Italian naval officer who conducted unconventional amphibious warfare like missions against allied shipping in World War II

Japan

• Genpei War
  • Yoritomo
    • Minamoto no Yoshitsune
    • Minamoto no Noriyori
    • Minamoto no Yoritomo
  • Yoshinaka
    • Minamoto no Yoshinaka
    • Minamoto no Yukiie
  • Taira clan
    • Taira no Kiyomori
• Genkō War
  • Kusunoki Masashige
• Boshin War
  • Tatsumi Naofumi
  • Hosoya Jūdayū
  • Hayashi Tadataka
• World War II
  • Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  • Hiroo Onoda
• Other
  • Fūma Kotarō
  • Tateoka Doshun
  • Ōishi Yoshio
  • Mochizuki Chiyome
  • Tsuneo Mori

Korea

• Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
  • Kwak Chaeu
  • Hyujeong
  • Cho Hŏn
  • Chŏng Munbu
• Japanese colonial rule of Korea
  • Ji Cheong-cheon
  • Lee Beom-seok
  • Kim Won-bong
  • Kim Hong-il
  • Kim Il Sung
  • Kim Chwa-chin
  • Yun Hui-sun
• Others
  • Choe Ik-hyeon
  • Shin Dol-seok

Kosovo

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
Dedan Kimathi	Mau Mau rebels	Mau Mau rebellion
Waruhiu Itote
Musa Mwariama

Kurdistan

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
Pēteris Dzelzītis	Latvian partisans	Guerrilla war in the Baltic states

Lebanon

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Hassan Nasrallah	Hezbollah	Lebanese Civil War

Lesotho

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Ntsu Mokhehle	Lesotho Liberation Army	BCP insurgency

Liberia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
Omar Mukhtar	Senussi Brotherhood	Second Italo-Senussi War

Lithuania

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Jonas Žemaitis	Lithuanian Union of Freedom Fighters	Lithuanian partisans
Adolfas Ramanauskas
Juozas Lukša

Malaysia

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Chin Peng	Malayan Communist Party	Malayan Emergency

Mexico

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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

• Genghis Khan
• Tolui
• Jebe
• Subutai

Morocco

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

Mozambique

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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

• Khun Sa
• Saya San
• Johnny and Luther Htoo

Namibia

• Jakobus Morenga
• Hendrik Witbooi

Nepal

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Prachanda	Nepal Communist Party	Nepalese Civil War

Netherlands

• Pier Gerlofs Donia
• Wijerd Jelckama
• Abraham Blauvelt
• Michiel Andrieszoon - Dutch buccaneer active in the 1680s.
• Jan Willems (Dutch buccaneer)
• Cornelis Jol
• Roche Braziliano

Nicaragua

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
Martin Linge	Royal Norwegian Army	German occupation of Norway

Pakistan

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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
Yahya Sinwar
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 leader	Movement	War
Abimael Guzmán	Shining Path	Internal conflict in Peru
Héctor Béjar	National Liberation Army
Hugo Blanco	Workers' Revolutionary Party
Javier Heraud	National Liberation Army

Philippines

• Wendell Fertig
• Gabriela Silang
• José María Sison
• Luis Taruc
• Emilio Aguinaldo
• Macario Sakay
• Andrés Bonifacio
• Baldomero Aguinaldo
• Gregorio del Pilar
• Antonio Luna
• Emilio Jacinto
• Juan Pajota - Filipino guerrilla leader who played a major role in the Raid at Cabanatuan
• Eduardo Joson

Poland

• Feliks Ankerstein
• Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum
• Edmund Charaszkiewicz
• Jerzy Dąbrowski
• Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański
• Franciszek Kamiński
• Tadeusz Komorowski
• Aleksander Józef Lisowski
• Leopold Okulicki
• Witold Pilecki
• Jan Piwnik
• Kazimierz Pużak
• Stefan Rowecki
• Avraham Stern (from Suwałki; backed by the Polish Army in 1938 & 1939)
• Emil August Fieldorf "Nil"
• Joseph Epstein - Polish born activist who fought for the French Resistance in World War II
• Mordechai Anielewicz

Portugal

• Viriathus

Romania

• Mircea I of Wallachia
• Vlad the Impaler
• Stephen III of Moldavia

Rwanda

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Paul Kagame	Rwandan Patriotic Front	Rwandan Genocide
Fred Rwigyema

Scotland

• First War of Scottish Independence
  • William Wallace
  • Robert I of Scotland
  • The Black Douglas
  • Andrew Moray
  • William the Hardy
  • Thomas Randolph
  • Simon Fraser
  • John Comyn
• Second War of Scottish Independence
  • Andrew Murray
  • William Douglas
  • Patrick V
  • John Randolph
  • Archibald Douglas
• Others
  • Andrew Barton (privateer) - notorious Scottish sailor who made raids against Portuguese ships.

Sierra Leone

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Foday Sankoh	Revolutionary United Front	Sierra Leone Civil War

Singapore

• Lim Bo Seng, Force 136
• Tan Chong Tee, Force 136

South Africa

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
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

• Aben Humeya
• Abo Hafs Omer Al-Baloty
• Juan Guartem - late 17th century Spanish renegade pirate
• Francisco Sabate - El Quico, Anarchist maquis fighter killed in 1960
• José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana
• Pelagius of Asturias
• Umar ibn Hafsun
• El Empecinado
• Johanne Galan "La Galana"
• Francisco Abad Moreno "Chaleco"
• Agustina de Aragón
• Vicente López Tovar
• Viriathus

Sudan

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
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 leader	Movement	War
Ronnie Brunswijk	Jungle Commando	Surinamese Interior War

Syria

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Sultan al-Atrash	Syrian rebels	Great Syrian Revolt
Saladin	Ayyubid dynasty	Third Crusade

Thailand

• See Bang Rachan
• Phraya Phichai

Tunisia

• Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i
• Abu Yazid
• Hannibal
• Mago Barca

Turkey

• Şeyh Bedrettin
• Hayreddin Barbarossa - famous admiral of the fleet of the Ottoman Empire
• Dragut

Uganda

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

United Kingdom

• Glyndŵr Rising
  • Owain Glyndŵr in Wales
• American Revolution
  • Banastre Tarleton – British Cavalry officer of the British Legion (American Revolution) in the American Revolution
  • Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe of the Queen's Rangers in the American Revolution
  • Christopher Carleton – led raids in the American Revolution
  • Patrick Ferguson
  • William Caldwell
  • Bloody Bill Cunningham
  • David Fanning
  • Simon Girty
  • John Butler
  • James De Lancey
• War of 1812
  • James FitzGibbon
  • William Johnson Kerr
  • Tecumseh – Native-American guerrilla leader who served the British in the War of 1812
  • Phineas Riall
  • Adam Muir – Battle of Maguaga
  • James Gordon
  • George Cockburn
  • James Lucas Yeo – conducted 3 raids. The second British raid at Charlotte, New York, at the mouth of the Genesse River (June 15, 1813). Performed the raid at the battle of Fort Oswego. And the raid at Sodus, New York (June 19, 1813)
  • Cecil Bisshopp
  • William Caldwell
  • John Brant
  • Gordon Drummond
  • William Mulcaster
  • Charles de Salaberry
• World War I
  • T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia
• World War II
  • David Stirling – Scottish born officer who was the founder of the Special Air Service
  • Tommy Macpherson – Scottish born British-army officer who conducted guerrilla operations in World War II
  • Roy Farran – in command of Operations Wallace and Hardy
  • Orde Wingate – (founder of the Chindits) in Palestine and Burma
  • Mike Calvert – British soldier nicknamed "Mad Mike" who participated in Chindit operations and was influential in promoting the ideas of unconventional warfare by Orde Wingate.
  • Jack Churchill – British soldier named "Mad Jack" who fought in World War II armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a Scottish broadsword.
  • Ursula Graham Bower – led the Nagas against the Japanese during World War II
  • Nancy Wake – New Zealand born female operative who joined the Special Operations Executive and participated in operations with the French Resistance in World War II
  • Virginia Hall – American spy who worked with the Special Operations Executive in the European theatre of World War II before joining the American Office of Strategic Services.
  • Fitzroy Maclean worked with Tito and Yugoslav Partisans during World War II
  • Ivan Lyon – member of the Z Special Unit
  • Robert Grainger Ker Thompson – famous British military officer and counter-insurgency expert who served in the Burma Campaign
  • Carol Mather
  • John Durnford-Slater
• Malayan Emergency
  • Robert Grainger Ker Thompson – famous British military officer and counter-insurgency expert
• Other
  • Henry Mainwaring – nicknamed "The Dread Pirate".
  • Edward Davis (buccaneer) – English buccaneer active in the Caribbean during the 1680s.
  • William Kyd – 15th-century English pirate active in Southwest England from the 1430s until the 1450s.
  • John Nutt – notorious 17th-century English pirate who raided the coasts of Southern Canada and Western England for over three years before his capture.
  • Henry Jennings – 18th-century English privateer from the colony of Bermuda
  • Samuel Bellamy – "Black Bellamy"
  • Howell Davis – Welsh pirate
  • Charles Bellamy – English pirate raided colonial American shipping in New England and later off the coast of Canada.
  • William Dampier
  • Blackbeard – one of the most notorious pirates from England
  • James Alday
  • John Bear (pirate)
  • William Rous
  • William Parker
  • Dick Turpin

United States

• French and Indian War
  • Kingdom of Great Britain, British America, and Native American allies
    • John Stark
    • John Armstrong Sr.
    • Eyre Massey
    • Sayenqueraghta
    • Robert Rogers
    • Daniel Morgan
  • Kingdom of France, New France, and Native American allies
    • Jean Erdman
    • Francois-Marie
    • Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu
    • Jean-Daniel Dumas
    • Charles Michel de Langlade
    • Pontiac
• Revolutionary War
  • George Washington
  • John Parker
  • Benjamin Cleveland
  • Elijah Clarke
  • John Sevier
  • Ethan Allen
  • William Campbell
  • Francis Marion
  • Andrew Pickens
  • Thomas Sumter
  • Samuel Whittemore
  • William Richardson Davie
  • James Williams
  • Isaac Shelby
  • John Schenck
  • William Russell
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Philemon Dickinson
  • William Moultrie
  • John Sullivan
  • Seth Warner
  • Marinus Willett
  • Nathanael Greene
  • Daniel Morgan
  • Return J. Meigs Sr.
  • William Barton
  • John Glover
  • Edward Hand
  • William Maxwell – American Continental general whose guerrilla actions are notable in the Forage War, Battle of Cooch's Bridge, and Battle of Connecticut Farms.
  • Henry Lee III
  • Allan McLane
  • Benjamin Tallmadge
  • William Washington
  • David Wooster
  • Timothy Murphy – his exploits of guerrilla-like actions are shown in What Manner of Men: Forgotten Heroes of the American Revolution by Fred J. Cook in Chapter III
  • Thomas Knowlton
  • John Stark
  • Anthony Wayne – led a famous surprise night attack in the Battle of Stony Point.
  • Adam Hyler – German who immigrated to America and became a privateer harassing the British by destroying ships, capturing crews, and conducting raids.
  • George Wait Babcock
  • Jeremiah O'Brien – led the first American attack in the Raid on St. John (1775)
  • Gustavus Conyngham – Irish-born American officer in the continental navy and a privateer who has been called "the most successful of all Continental Navy Captains."
  • John Rathbun – officer in the Continental Navy whose most well known exploit was his own raid at Nassau. Not to be confused with the first Raid of Nassau
  • John Barry
  • Herbert Woodbury
  • Noah Stoddard
  • John Paul Jones
  • Jonathan Haraden – his unconventional type of warfare at sea are mentioned in What Manner of Men: Forgotten Heroes of the American Revolution by Fred J. Cook in chapter IX.
  • Nicholas Biddle
  • Joshua Barney
  • David Hawley
  • Morgan's Riflemen
  • Whitcomb's Rangers
  • 1st Continental Light Dragoons
  • 2nd Continental Light Dragoons
  • Lee's Legion
  • American Militia
  • American Privateers
• Northwest Indian War
  • United States
    • Charles Scott
    • James Wilkinson
    • John Hardin
    • Benjamin Logan
    • William Wells
  • Native Americans
    • Little Turtle
    • Buckongahelas
    • Egushawa
    • Blue Jacket
• Quasi-War
  • Silas Talbot
  • Isaac Hull
  • Daniel Carmick
  • Stephen Decatur Sr.
  • Benjamin Stoddert
  • David Porter
• First Barbary War
  • John Rodgers
  • Andrew Sterett
  • Lewis Heermann
  • Stephen Decatur
  • Thomas Macdonough
  • William Eaton
• War of 1812
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Alexander Macomb
  • Benjamin Forsyth
  • Daniel Appling
  • Lodowick Morgan
  • Bennet C. Riley
  • Alexander Smyth
  • Jacob Brown
  • Peter B. Porter
  • John Coffee
  • Philip Reed
  • Azariah C. Flagg
  • Richard Mentor Johnson
  • Ninian Edwards
  • Davy Crockett
  • Caleb Hopkins
  • Joseph Bartholomew
  • John Tipton
  • John Ketcham
  • William Dudley
  • Nathan Boone
  • Thomas Hinds
  • Buckner F. Harris
  • Lewis Cass
  • Samuel Dale
  • John Williams
  • William Whitley
  • John Swift
  • Benjamin Mooers
  • Benjamin Howard
  • John Floyd
  • Isaac Shelby
  • Guilford Dudley Young
  • Elisah Griffen
  • Richard Lawson
  • Benajah Mallory
  • Joseph Willcocks
  • Abraham Markle
  • William McIntosh
  • Pushmataha
  • Red Jacket
  • Isaac Clark
  • George McGlassin
  • James Miller
  • George Croghan
  • George Edward Mitchell
  • William Russell
  • William Orlando Butler
  • John E. Wool
  • John Miller
  • James Wilkinson
  • Nathaniel Towson
  • John B. Campbell
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Duncan McArthur
  • Andrew Holmes
  • Daniel Bissell – American general who used the cover of the woods and tactical maneuvers to successfully raid/destroy the enemy grain and flower in the Battle of Cook's Mills.
  • William Pinkney – commanded American riflemen who concealed themselves by the shrubbery on the low ground near the river at Bladensburg bridge. Pinckney's concealed riflemen poured deadly volleys into exposed masses of British troops crossing the bridge. This is mentioned in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 28 edited by Henry Mills Alden page 439. This is also confirmed in a well documented history book Lossing's War of 1812: Lossing’s Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 written by Benson Lossing Chapter XXXIX.
  • Regiment of Riflemen
  • United States Rangers
  • 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons
  • 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons
  • Canadian Volunteers
  • American Militia
  • American Privateers
  • Isaac Chauncey
  • Arthur Sinclair
  • Charles Stewart
  • Johnston Blakeley
  • William Henry Allen
  • David Porter
  • Melancthon Taylor Woolsey
  • Stephen Decatur
  • John Percival
  • Francis Gregory
  • Jesse Elliot
  • Joseph Tarbell – conducted a hit-and-run night attack on the British navy with gunboats and riflemen with mixed or limited results. This is mentioned in the history book The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History by Spencer C. Tucker page 123.
  • William Josephus Stafford
  • Joshua Hailey
  • George R. Roberts
  • Thomas Boyle
  • James DeWolf
  • Joshua Barney
  • Otway Burns
  • Bill Johnston – Canadian amphibious guerrilla/pirate who fought for the American side.
  • John Ordronaux – very successful French-born privateer who preyed on British merchant ships, outran about seventeen British warships, and brought back to the US goods worth $250,000 and $300,000.
  • J. Rowland – raided British shipping and vessels
  • Clement Cathell
  • James Barnes
  • Samuel Barstow
  • George W. Burbank
  • Nathanial Shaler
• Texas Revolution
  • American volunteers, Texan Revolutionaries, and allies
    • Sam Houston
    • William B. Travis – commander of the Texans at the Fall of the Alamo.
    • James Bowie
    • Davy Crockett – famous frontiersmen, fought and died at the Fall of the Alamo.
    • Amon B. King – Battle of Refugio
    • Ira Westover
    • William Ward
    • Richard Andrews
    • Noah Smithwick
    • Deaf Smith
    • John Coker
    • Moses Lapham
    • Moseley Baker
    • Frank W. Johnson
    • James Grant
    • Mirabeau B. Lamar
    • Juan Seguín
    • Manuel N. Flores
    • Plácido Benavides
    • John Henry Moore
  • Mexico
    • José de Urrea
    • Carlos de la Garza
    • Manuel Fernández Castrillón – used his fellow Mexican marksmen to snipe and harass the Texan insurgents in the Siege of Béxar. Mentioned in Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution by Stephen L. Hardin in Chapter 5.
    • Rafael Pretalia
• Seminole Wars
  • United States of America
    • William S. Harney
    • Bennet C. Riley
    • Joseph Marion Hernandez – commanded an American force that made two successful stealthy raids/assaults on the Seminoles. Mentioned in History of the Second Seminole war, 1835–1842 by John K. Mahon pages 211-214
    • Andrew Jackson – disguised his ship with a British flag to lure Hillis Hadjo into a trap and successful capture.
    • Gabriel J. Rains
  • Seminoles and their allies
    • Micanopy
    • Osceola – Native American freedom fighter
    • Thlocklo Tustenuggee
    • Billy Bowlegs
    • Ar-pi-uck-i – Seminole guerrilla leader who used cover, concealment, and evasive tactics in Lake Okeechobee, Loxahtchee, and Pine Island Ridge
    • John Horse
    • Hillis Hadjo
• Mexican–American War
  • United States of America
    • Fabius Stanly – American naval lieutenant who led raids against the Mexican armed forces.
    • Joseph Lane – United States Army American general who led a hit and run surprise attack on the Mexican armed forces at the Skirmish at Matamoros
    • John Coffee Hays – Hay's well planned ambush mentioned in Mixed Blessing: the Role of the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War, 1846–1848 written by Ian B. Lyles, pages 43–44
    • Samuel Hamilton Walker
    • Albert G. Blanchard – feigned retreat luring the Mexicans into John Coffee Hays' ambush in Mixed Blessing: the Role of the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War, 1846–1848 written by Ian B. Lyles, pages 43–44
    • Ezekiel "Stuttering Zeke" Merritt – conducted a hit-and-run raid capturing 170 horses. Mentioned in historic book Bear Flag Lieutenant: The Life Story of Henry L. Ford [1822-1860] written by Fred Blackburn Rogers page 263.
    • William B. Ide
    • Henry Ford – conducted 3 incursions/raids on enemy houses/bases destroying enemy weapons, capturing prisoners, and rescuing hostages before returning to friendly lines. Mentioned in Bear Flag Lieutenant: The Life Story of Henry L. Ford (1822–1860) written by Fred Blackburn Rogers pages 268–270.
    • Benjamin McCulloch
    • John C. Fremont
    • Tunis Craven
  • Mexico
    • Joaquín Rea
    • Antonio Canales Rosillo
    • Jose Mariano Salas – Mexican commander who commanded Mexican partisans called "Guerrillas of Vengeance" which is mentioned in the history book "U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War" page 15. ^[1]
    • Celedonio Dómeco de Jarauta
    • José Antonio Carrillo
    • José María Flores
    • Manuel Pineda Munoz – commanded Mexican forces that used guerrilla tactics in the Battle of Mulegé
• Utah War
  • Lot Smith
  • Daniel H. Wells
  • Brigham Young
  • Isaac C. Haight
  • John D. Lee
• Civil War
  • Confederacy
    • Bloody Bill Anderson
    • Champ Ferguson
    • William Quantrill
    • Dan Showalter
    • John Singleton Mosby
    • John Hunt Morgan
    • John Hanson McNeill – led an independent irregular Confederate military company called McNeill's Rangers commissioned under the Partisan Ranger Act
    • Earl Van Dorn
    • Adam Rankin Johnson – gained notoriety for his incursion known as the Newburgh Raid where he gained the nickname "Stovepipe Johnson"
    • Archie Clement
    • Joseph C. Porter – Confederate officer who was a key leader in the guerrilla campaigns in northern Missouri
    • John Mobberly
    • Jack Hinson – Confederate partisan sniper
    • John Jackson Dickison – at times called by scholars or historians as "the Swamp Fox of the Confederacy" or "the Confederate Swamp Fox"
    • William McWaters – Confederate guerrilla who with his fellow bushwackers conducted a successful but controversial sabotage mission known as the Platte Bridge Railroad Tragedy
    • Joseph Wheeler
    • Jubal Early
    • J. E. B. Stuart
    • Harry Gilmor
    • Mary Jane Green
    • Wade Hampton III
    • Richard Montgomery Gano
    • Stand Watie
    • James Iredell Waddell
    • Raphael Semmes
  • Union
    • John Brown
    • Charles R. Jennison
    • James H. Lane
    • Daniel R. Anthony
    • Newton Knight
    • Owen Brown
    • Benjamin Grierson
    • William B. Cushing
    • Samuel C. Means – captain of the Loudoun Rangers
    • Henry Young
    • Harriet Tubman – female African American who infiltrated slave territory bringing slaves to safe zones, played a major role in the Raid on Combahee Ferry, and provided critical intelligence to the Union.
    • James Montgomery – Union Jayhawker who was in command of the Union forces in the Raid on Combahee Ferry and conducted other raids against the confederates.
    • Henry Baxter
    • James J. Andrews
    • Abel Streight
    • Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
    • Gouverneur K. Warren – Union Army general who executed a deadly ambush in the Battle of Bristoe Station
    • William Henry Powell
    • William W. Averell
    • Samuel P. Carter
    • George W. Taylor
    • Samuel P. Cox
    • George Stoneman
    • James H. Wilson
    • Thomas R. Kerr
    • John R. Kelso – his exploits of covert guerilla-like actions are mentioned in his book Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso's Civil War written by himself.
    • Ishmael Day
    • Theophilus Lyle Dickey
    • James Madison Wells
    • Malinda Blalock
    • Daniel Ellis
    • Fielding Hurst
    • Christopher Haun
    • Edward E. Potter
    • Seth Ledyard Phelps
    • Opothleyahola
    • William Sloan Tough
• Powder River Expedition (1865)
  • United States
    • Patrick E. Connor – American brigadier general who led a surprise raid-like incursion in the Battle of the Tongue River; the incursion has had some controversy and debate.
    • Jim Bridger – army scout alongside Frank North who scouted and discovered the Arapaho village allowing Patrick E. Connor to make his controversial surprise attack in the Battle of the Tongue River
    • Frank North – led a successful dawn surprise-like attack with his Pawnee Scouts on the Cheyenne which became known as the Powder River Massacre which also might have some controversy or debate.
  • Native Americans
    • Red Cloud – very important leader of the Oglala Lakota people.
    • Dull Knife – great chief of the Cheyenne who alongside Red Cloud harassed the Americans at the Battle of Bone Pile Creek.
    • Sitting Bull
    • Roman Nose – alongside Sitting Bull led the Native Americans in ambushing, harassing, and skirmishing against the U.S. armed forces in the Powder River Battles
• Snake War
  • United States
    • George Crook
    • Billy Chinook – chief and member of the Wasco tribe and served the United States as a First Sergeant of the U.S. Army Wasco Scouts
  • Native Americans
    • Paulina (Paiute leader)
    • Wahveveh
• Great Sioux War of 1876
  • United States
    • Ranald S. Mackenzie
    • George Crook
    • Frank North – organized and commanded the Pawnee Scouts
    • Wesley Merritt – planned an ambush which let to little to no high body count in the Battle of Warbonnet Creek
  • Native Americans
    • Crazy Horse
    • Sitting Bull
    • Little Wolf
    • American Horse (elder)
• Apache Wars
  • United States
    • George Crook
    • George Morton Randall – American Captain who led a well coordinated surprise attack on the Apache and their allies in the Battle of Turret Peak.
    • James Henry Tevis – pioneer who led a militia of 30 men in a surprise attack on the Apache in the Battle of the Mimbres River
    • James H. Whitlock – Battle of Mount Gray
    • Al Sieber
    • Howard B. Cushing
    • Nantaje
  • Apache and their allies
    • Flechas Rayada
    • Mangas Coloradas – Apache tribal chief who led raids and ambushes against the Mexicans and Americans
    • Cochise – chief or leader of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache who also led raids and ambushes against the Mexicans and Americans
    • Victorio
    • Nana (chief)
    • Chato (Apache)
    • Juh
    • Baishan (Apache)
    • Geronimo – Native American freedom fighter
• Philippine–American War
  • Frederick Funston – American brigadier general who planned, led, and executed the raid that captured Emilio Aguinaldo.
  • United States Armed Forces – led a rear surprise attack/ambush decimating an army of would be ambushers in the Battle of Lonoy
  • Elwell Stephen Otis – American commander of a hit-and-run raid-like mission that successfully destroyed a Filipino artillery gun in the Battle of Olongapo
  • Hiram I. Bearss
• World War 1
  • Theodore Roosevelt Jr. – planned and ordered a successful raid at Cantigny that captured 33 prisoners and documents with intelligence. This is mentioned in Infantry in Battle by Charles T. Lanham, pages 43–47
  • Michael Valente
  • John L. Barkley – his exploit of surprising/ambushing and decimating an army of Germans are mentioned in his memoir written by himself and an article One Man’s Ambush written by Edward G. Lengel
  • Hiram I. Bearss
• United States occupation of the Dominican Republic
  • James P. Parker
  • Richard Wainwright – was in command of a commando amphibious raid in the Santo Domingo Affair
  • Ernest Calvin Williams – American marine who led a commando like assault in the Battle of San Francisco de Macoris
  • Albert S. Mclemore
• United States occupation of Nicaragua
  • Chesty Puller
  • Harold C. Roberts – surprised bandits, used fire and maneuver tactics including use of cover, and attempted an ambush. ^[2]
  • Evans Carlson
  • Merritt Edson
  • Wilburt S. Brown
• United States occupation of Haiti
  • Herman H. Hanneken
  • William Robert Button
  • Chesty Puller
  • Gerald C. Thomas
  • Smedley Butler
  • Ross Lindsey Iams – took part with Samuel Gross in Smedley Butler's surprise raid like commando assault in the Battle of Fort Rivière
  • Samuel Gross
• World War II
  • Aaron Bank – famous officer of the Office of Strategic Services who is considered the founder of the United States Army Special Forces also known as the "Green Berets".
  • Donald Blackburn – American advisor to the Philippine Commonwealth Army who conducted a guerrilla insurgency on the island of Luzon against the Japanese.
  • James M. Cushing
  • Evans Carlson – commander of the Marine Raiders whose notable unconventional warfare type of successes were the Raid on Makin Island and the Carlson's patrol.
  • William Orlando Darby – United States Army officer who led the famous "Darby's Rangers" which would evolve into the U.S. Army Rangers.
  • Joseph Beyrle – American paratrooper who conducted his own sabotage like warfare behind German lines before fighting alongside the Red Army after escaping German captivity a few times.
  • Merritt Edson
  • Carl F. Eifler
  • Wendell Fertig – American civil engineer who organized and commanded an America-Filipino guerrilla army on the Japanese – occupied, southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
  • Roger Hilsman – American who served in the Merrill's Marauders and then with the Office of Strategic Services as a guerrilla leader in the China Burma India Theater of World War II
  • Virginia Hall – American female spy who worked as an agent for the American Office of Strategic Services in Europe after previously working for the British Special Operations Executive.
  • William R. Peers
  • Russell W. Volckmann – United States Army infantry officer and a leader of the guerrilla resistance in the Philippines and considered a co-founder of the United States Army Special Forces
  • Hugh B. Miller – U.S. naval officer stranded on an island who systematically ambushed and attacked Japanese soldiers with just hand grenades and a bayonet.
  • Robert Prince – American officer in the U.S. Army's 6th Ranger Battalion who was the main architect of the plan for the Raid at Cabanatuan.
  • Henry Mucci – colonel of United States Army Rangers who led the Raid at Cabanatuan with Robert Prince as the planner of the mission.
  • Peter J. Ortiz
  • Ray C. Hunt
  • Victor H. Krulak
  • Edwin Ramsey
  • Iliff David Richardson
  • Arthur W. Wermuth
  • Robert Lapham
  • Jack Hendrick Taylor – sometimes considered or referred to as the "first Navy SEAL".
  • Richard Winters – took part in an ambush against a German horse drawn supply convoy. Mentioned in Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest written by Stephen E. Ambrose page 91. Also mentioned in Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends written by Dick Hill pages 62–64. Conducted a commando-like hit-and-run raid destroying four artillery guns successfully in the Brécourt Manor Assault. And successfully ambushed and wiped out a 7-man German machine gun crew at another battle. Mentioned in Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters written by Dick Winters pages 137–138.
  • William Guarnere
  • Chick Parsons
  • Arthur D. Simons
  • Samuel V. Wilson
  • Vincent R. Kramer
  • Clyde A. Thomason
  • Jack Hawkins
  • John H. Yancey
  • Oscar F. Peatross
  • Robert Halperin
  • Elizabeth Peet McIntosh
  • Serge Obolensky
  • Walter R. Mansfield
• Korean War
  • Donald Nichols
  • Merrill Newman
  • Colt Terry – whose experience of unconventional warfare in the Korean War before becoming a Green Beret are shown in Colt Terry, Green Beret written by Charles D. Patton published at the Texas A&M University Press
  • Robert H. Barrow – came up with a cunning tactic that allow his marines to ambush/surprise and kill more than 50 enemy troops. Mentioned in U.S. Marines in the Korean War by Charles Richard Smith pages 203-204
  • Colonel John McGee
  • Tony Poe
  • Vincent R. Kramer
  • Charles George
  • Eugene F. Clark
  • Underwater Demolition Teams
  • Korean War Ranger Companies
  • JACK
  • CIA SAC
  • 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines
• Vietnam War
  • Rudy Boesch – operative in Seal Team 2 in Vietnam War
  • David Hackworth – involved in the creation and command of Tiger Force
  • Carlos Hathcock – United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper who has 93 confirmed kills
  • Tony Poe – legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's Special Activities Division
  • Colt Terry – one of the original Green Berets whose successful unconventional type of warfare exploits are mentioned in his official biography Colt Terry, Green Beret written by Charles D. Patton published at the Texas A&M University Press.
  • Roy Boehm – first officer in charge of Seal Team two.
  • Richard J. Meadows
  • John Plaster
  • Richard Marcinko
  • Ira A. Hunt Jr.
  • George Bacon
  • Michael D. Healy
  • Billy Waugh
  • Harry Griffith Cramer Jr.
  • Thomas R. Norris
  • Robert J. Pruden
  • Arthur D. Simons
  • William Colby
  • Edward James Land
  • Chuck Mawhinney
  • Henry Kissinger – Campaign 139
  • Billy Walkabout
• Laotian Civil War
  • George Bacon
  • James William Lair
  • Pat Landry
  • Bill Young
  • Tony Poe – legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's Special Activities Division
  • Dick Holm
• United States invasion of Grenada
  • Stephen Trujillo
  • Delta Force
  • SEAL Team Six
  • 75th Ranger Regiment
• United States Invasion of Panama
  • Larry Vickers
  • Eldon Bargewell
  • Gary L. Harrell
  • Peter Schoomaker
  • Delta Force
  • American Navy SEALs
  • American 7th SFG
• War in Afghanistan
  • Matt Bissonnette
  • Brandon Webb
  • Robert J. O'Neill
  • Nicholas Irving
  • Edward Byers
  • Robert Harward
  • Francis J. Wiercinski – took part in a successful ambush wiping out nine enemy combatants while commanding his unit alongside a U.S. Special Operations Force team. Mentioned in A Different Kind of War: The US Army in Operation Enduring Freedom: October 2001 – September 2005 by Donald Wright pages 148–149.
  • Joseph Votel
  • Jonathan Idema – controversial American non commissioned reserve special operations vigilante.
  • Brent Bennett
  • Jason Amerine
  • Gary Berntsen
  • Gary Schroen
  • Jim Gant
  • Ann Scott Tyson
  • Marcus Luttrell
  • 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
  • 2nd Ranger Battalion
  • 3rd Ranger Battalion
  • 26th Infantry Regiment
  • Delta Force
  • Seal Team 6
• Iraq War
  • Kevin Lacz
  • Rorke Denver
  • Chris Kyle
  • Robert J. O'Neill
  • Carl Higbie – led the raid capturing the Butcher of Fallujah. Author of Enemies, Foreign & Domestic: A SEAL's Story and Battle on the Home Front.
  • Timothy Kellner
  • Ethan Place
  • Tyrone S. Woods  
  • Jocko Willink
  • Thomas Payne – took part in a successful commando raid that rescued 70 prisoners and killed 20 enemies in Operation Inherent Resolve.
  • Joshua Wheeler
  • Michael A. Monsoor
  • Jack Coughlin
  • 162nd Infantry Regiment
  • Delta Force
  • Seal Team 6
• Symbionese Liberation Army
  • Donald DeFreeze
  • Camilla Hall
  • Emily Harris
  • Patricia Soltysik
  • Willie Wolfe
• Weather Underground
  • List of Weatherman members
• Black Panther Party
  • Huey P. Newton
• Others
  • Michael G. Vickers – legendary paramilitary officer in first Afghan war from the CIA's Special Activities Division
  • Touch the Clouds – Native American warrior
  • Orlando Bosch – Cuba, America and South America
  • Nat Turner – leader of slave rebellion
  • Daniel Boone – famous frontiersmen, Indian fighter, and American Revolutionary War hero.
  • Billy the Kid
  • Railroad Bill
  • Devil Anse Hatfield
  • James–Younger Gang
  • Jesse James
  • Cole Younger
  • Apache Kid – renegade Apache during the Renegade period of the Apache Wars
  • Pancho Villa
  • Queho
  • Robert Clay Allison
  • Ike Clanton
  • Billy Clanton
  • John Henry "Doc" Holliday
  • Dangerfield Newby
  • Daniel Shays
  • Denmark Vesey
  • Dan Seavey – also known as "Roaring" Dan Seavey" who was a notorious timber pirate involved in poaching, human trafficking, and hijacking etc.
  • Lewis Wetzel – scout, frontiersman, and Indian fighter
  • William Hardin – American Revolutionary War soldier, farmer, rancher, marksman, hunter, and Native American killer
  • John L. Bullis
  • James Smith
  • Grayston Lynch
  • Edward Lansdale
  • Frederick Russell Burnham
  • Caesar (Planet of the Apes) Notable commander of an army which included guerillas

Uruguay

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
José Mujica	Tupamaros	Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay
Raúl Sendic

Venezuela

• Gustavo Machado Morales - founder of the Communist Party of Venezuela
• Rafael Simón Urbina - Venezuelan rebel who waged a guerrilla insurgency against the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez
• José Dionisio Cisneros
• José Manuel Hernández
• Rafael de Nogales
• Douglas Bravo
• Carlos the Jackal
• Teodoro Petkoff
• Narciso Lopez
• Olga Luzardo
• Fabricio Ojeda
• Paul del Rio

Vietnam

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Ho Chi Minh	Vietminh	Indochina War
Võ Nguyên Giáp

Western Sahara

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

Zimbabwe

Guerrilla leader	Movement	War
Joshua Nkomo	ZAPU	Rhodesian Civil War
Robert Mugabe	ZANU

See also

• List of condottieri
• List of conquistadors
• List of guerrilla movements
• List of military commanders
• List of revolutions and rebellions
• List of samurai
• List of usurpers
• Blitzkrieg
• Oliver Cromwell
• Hajduk
• Klepht
• Maoism
• Martial Race
• Nonviolence
• Partisan (military)
• Reagan Doctrine
• Erwin Rommel

References

1. "The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War, The Occupation Of Mexico May 1846-July 1848" (PDF). history.army.mil. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2015.
2. "The Sandino Rebellion, 1927–1934". www.sandinorebellion.com.

External links

• US Civil War guerrillas List of United States Civil War guerrillas