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List of notable guerrilla activists, ordered by country:
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
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Enver Hoxha | Party of Labor of Albania | Balkans in World War II |
Skanderbeg | Albanian feudal leader | Albanian-Ottoman war |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
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Abdel Kadir | Emirate of Abdelkader | French conquest of Algeria |
Saadi Yacef | Algerian War | National Liberation Front |
Ali La Pointe |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Jonas Savimbi | UNITA | Angola Civil War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
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T. E. Lawrence | British Army | Arab Revolt |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Che Guevara | July 26th Movement | Cuban Revolution |
Enrique Gorriarán Merlo | People's Revolutionary Army | Dirty War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Malik Khoshaba | Assyrian independence movement | Persian campaign |
Dawid Mar Shimun | ||
Agha Petros | ||
Shimun XIX Benyamin |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Andreas Hofer | Schützen militia | Napoleonic Wars |
Otto Skorzeny | Sonder Lehrgang Oranienburg | World War II |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Kader Siddique | Mukti Bahini | Bangladesh Liberation War |
Hemayet Uddin | ||
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Jacob Collaert | Dunkirkers | Dutch Revolt |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Tamara Bunke | Ejército de Liberation Nacional de Bolivia | Ñancahuazú Guerrilla |
Che Guevara | ||
Osvaldo Peredo |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Anita Garibaldi | Juliana Republic | Ragamuffin War |
Carlos Marighella | Araguaia Guerrilla War | Ação Libertadora Nacional |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | Riograndense Republic | Ragamuffin War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Kaloyan | Asen dynasty | Uprising of Asen and Peter |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Pol Pot | Khmer Rouge | Cambodian Civil War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Osende Afana | Union of the Peoples of Cameroon | Anglophone Crisis |
Félix Moumié | ||
Ernest Ouandié | ||
Ruben Um Nyobé |
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 |
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 |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Jacobo Arenas | National Liberation Army | Colombian conflict |
Manuel Marulanda | Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia | |
Camilo Torres |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Fidel Castro | July 26th Movement | Cuban Revolution |
Camilo Cienfuegos | ||
Che Guevara | ||
Antonio Maceo | Cuban Liberation Army | Cuban War of Independence |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Georgios Grivas | EOKA | Cyprus Emergency |
Grigoris Afxentiou | ||
Kyriakos Matsis | ||
Nikos Sampson |
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 |
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 |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Ramón Natera | Constitutionalist faction | Dominican Civil War |
Gregorio Urbano Gilbert |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Isaias Afewerki | Eritrean People's Liberation Front | Eritrean War of Independence |
Hamid Idris Awate | ||
Woldeab Woldemariam |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
August Sabbe | Forest brothers | Occupation of the Baltic States |
Ülo Voitka | ||
Alfred Käärmann |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Rodrigo Asturias | Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity | Guatemalan Civil War |
Rolando Morán |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Abdul Haris Nasution | Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia | Indonesian National Revolution |
Sudirman |
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 |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Dedan Kimathi | Mau Mau rebels | Mau Mau rebellion |
Waruhiu Itote | ||
Musa Mwariama |
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 |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Pēteris Dzelzītis | Latvian partisans | Guerrilla war in the Baltic states |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Hassan Nasrallah | Hezbollah | Lebanese Civil War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Ntsu Mokhehle | Lesotho Liberation Army | BCP insurgency |
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 |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Omar Mukhtar | Senussi Brotherhood | Second Italo-Senussi War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Jonas Žemaitis | Lithuanian Union of Freedom Fighters | Lithuanian partisans |
Adolfas Ramanauskas | ||
Juozas Lukša |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Chin Peng | Malayan Communist Party | Malayan Emergency |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Abd el-Krim | Rif Republic | Rif War |
Mouha ou Hammou Zayani | Qaid | Zaian War |
Mohammed Ameziane | Riffians | Second Melillan campaign |
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 |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Prachanda | Nepal Communist Party | Nepalese Civil War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Martin Linge | Royal Norwegian Army | German occupation of Norway |
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 |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Paul Kagame | Rwandan Patriotic Front | Rwandan Genocide |
Fred Rwigyema |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Foday Sankoh | Revolutionary United Front | Sierra Leone Civil War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Ronnie Brunswijk | Jungle Commando | Surinamese Interior War |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Sultan al-Atrash | Syrian rebels | Great Syrian Revolt |
Saladin | Ayyubid dynasty | Third Crusade |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Nestor Makhno | Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine | Russian Civil War |
Maria Nikiforova |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
José Mujica | Tupamaros | Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay |
Raúl Sendic |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Ho Chi Minh | Vietminh | Indochina War |
Võ Nguyên Giáp |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Draža Mihailović | Royal Patriotic Army of Yugoslavia | Balkans in World War II |
Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslav Partisans |
Guerrilla leader | Movement | War |
---|---|---|
Joshua Nkomo | ZAPU | Rhodesian Civil War |
Robert Mugabe | ZANU |