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A


Afghanistan

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Ahmad Massoud Ahmad Massoud (Pashto/, ; born 1989) is an Afghan politician who is the founder and Leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. He is the eldest son of anti-Soviet military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. He was appointed as the CEO of Ma ...
- son of Ahmed Shah Massoud * Ahmed Shah Massoud * Abdul Haq *
Wazir Akbar Khan Wazīr Akbar Khān (Pashto/Dari: ; 1816-1847), born Mohammad Akbar Khān () and also known as Amīr Akbar Khān (), was an Afghan prince, general, emir for a year, and finally wazir/heir apparent to Dost Mohammad Khan until his death in 1847. ...
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ( ps, ګلب الدين حكمتيار; born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker. He is the founder and current leader of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin political party, so calle ...
*
Ismail Khan Mohammad Ismail Khan (Dari/Pashto: محمد اسماعیل خان) (born 1946) is an Afghan former politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2005 to 2013 and before that served as the governor of Herat Province. Originally a cap ...
* Mohammed Omar * Osama Bin Laden *
Jalaluddin Haqqani Jalaluddin Haqqani ( ps, جلال الدين حقاني, Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group fighting in guerilla warfare against US-led ...


Albania

* Enver Hoxha *
Lekë Dukagjini Lekë III Dukagjini (1410–1481), mostly known as Lekë Dukagjini, was a 15th-century member of the Albanian nobility, from the Dukagjini family. A contemporary of Skanderbeg, Dukagjini is known for the ''Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit'', a code of ...
*
Skanderbeg , reign = 28 November 1443 – 17 January 1468 , predecessor = Gjon Kastrioti , successor = Gjon Kastrioti II , spouse = Donika Arianiti , issue = Gjon Kastrioti II , royal house = Kastrioti , father ...


Algeria

* Abdel Kadir * Saadi Yacef * Ali La Pointe


Angola

* Jonas Savimbi


Argentina

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Enrique Gorriarán Merlo Enrique Haroldo Gorriarán Merlo (18 October 1941 – 22 September 2006) was an Argentine guerrilla, born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province. His family was affiliated with the Radical Civic Union, but at the age of 27 Gorriar ...
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Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quot ...


Armenia

* Fedayi *
Dashnaks The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( hy, Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն, ՀՅԴ ( classical spelling), abbr. ARF or ARF-D) also known as Dashnaktsutyun (collectively referred to as Dashnaks for short), is an Armenian ...
* Hunchaks * Armenakans


Assyria

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Malik Khoshaba Malik Khoshaba Yousip ( syr, ܡܠܟ ܚܕܒܫܒܐ ܝܘܣܦ) was an Assyrian tribal leader (or "malik") of the Tyari tribe (''Bit Tyareh'') who played a significant role in the Assyrian independence movement during World War I. Early life Malik Kho ...
*
Dawid Mar Shimun Dawid Mar Shimun (Syriac: ܕܘܝܕ ܡܪܝ ܫܡܥܘܢ) was a Assyrian military leader From World War I up until the Simele Massacre in 1933 when he was exiled to Cyprus along with his son Mar Eshai Shimun. His first hand experience and contributio ...
*
Agha Petros Petros Elia of Baz ( syr, ܐܝܠܝܐ ܦܹܛܪܘܼܣ) (April 1880 – 2 February 1932), better known as Agha Petros, was an Assyrian military leader during World War I. Early years Petros Elia was from the Lower Baz village, Ottoman Empire in ...
*
Shimun XIX Benyamin Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin (1887– 3 March 1918) ( syr, ܡܪܝ ܒܢܝܡܝܢ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܥܣܪܝܢ ܘܩܕܡܝܐ) served as the 117th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East. Life He was born in 1887 in the village of Qochanis in the Hak ...


Austria

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Andreas Hofer Andreas Hofer (22 November 1767 – 20 February 1810) was a Tyrolean innkeeper and drover, who in 1809 became the leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the Napoleonic and Bavarian invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition. He was subs ...
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Otto Skorzeny Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-''Obersturmbannführer'' (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including th ...
- involved in many unconventional operations in
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...


B


Bangladesh

* Kader Siddique in Tangail * Hemayet Uddin in Faridpur *
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan (; 3 January 1943 – 28 July 2010) was a Bangladeshi politician of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Early life Bhuiyan was born on 3 January 1943, at his maternal grandfather's house at Asad Nagar village under Mashimpur Un ...
in Narsingdi


Belgium

* Jacob Collaert -
Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...
admiral who served as a privateer and one of the
Dunkirkers During the Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), the Dunkirkers or Dunkirk Privateers were commerce raiders in the service of the Spanish monarchy. They were also part of the ''Dunkirk fleet'', which consequently was a part of the Spanish monarchy's ''Fl ...
in
Spanish Habsburg Habsburg Spain is a contemporary historiographical term referring to the huge extent of territories (including modern-day Spain, a piece of south-east France, eventually Portugal, and many other lands outside of the Iberian Peninsula) ruled bet ...
service during the Dutch Revolt.


Bolivia

* Tamara Bunke in Ñancahuazú *
Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quot ...
in Ñancahuazú * Osvaldo Peredo in Teoponte


Brazil

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Anita Garibaldi Anita Garibaldi (, ; 30 August 1821 – 4 August 1849), born Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro, was a Brazilian republican revolutionary. She was the wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Their partnership epitomized ...
* Carlos Marighella * Giuseppe Garibaldi


Bulgaria

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Kaloyan Kaloyan or Kalojan, also known as Ioannitsa or Johannitsa ( bg, Калоян, Йоаница; 1170 – October 1207), was emperor or tsar of Bulgaria from 1196 to 1207. He was the younger brother of Theodor and Asen, who led the anti-Byzant ...


C


Cambodia

* Pol Pot


Cameroon

* Osende Afana *
Félix Moumié Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, ...
* Ernest Ouandié *
Ruben Um Nyobé Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Re'uven), meaning "behold, a son". In the Bible, Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob. Variants include Rúben in European Portuguese; Rubens in Brazilian Portuguese ...


Canada

* North-West Rebellion **
Fine-Day Fine Day or Kamiokisihkwew (Miyo-Kîsikaw) (c. 1856 – c. 1942) was a Cree war chief of the River People band of Plains Cree. He participated in the North-West Rebellion of 1885. During the Battle of Cut Knife, he acted as the Battle Chief, t ...
** Gabriel Dumont **
Louis Riel Louis Riel (; ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first ...
** 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 The military history of the Acadians consisted primarily of militias made up of Acadian settlers who participated in wars against the English (the British after 1707) in coordination with the Wabanaki Confederacy (particularly the Mi'kmaw milit ...
in their resistance to the
Expulsion of the Acadians The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation, and the Deportation of the Acadians (french: Le Grand Dérangement or ), was the forced removal, by the British, of the Acadian peo ...
. **
Sébastien Rale Sébastien Rale (also Racle, Râle, Rasle, Rasles and Sebastian Rale (January 20, 1657 – August 23, 1724) was a French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who preached amongst the Abenaki and encouraged their resistance to British coloniza ...
**
Joseph Broussard Joseph Broussard (1702–1765), also known as Beausoleil ( en, Beautiful Sun), was a leader of the Acadian people in Acadia; later Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. Broussard organized a Mi'kmaq and Acadian militias against th ...
- also went by the pseudonym ''Beausoleil''.


Chad

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Goukouni Oueddei Goukouni Oueddei ( ar, كوكوني عويدي '; born 1944 in Zouar) is a Chadian politician who served as President of Chad from 1979 to 1982. A northerner, Goukouni commanded FROLINAT rebels with Libyan support during the first Chadian Civ ...
*
Hissène Habré Hissène Habré (Arabic: ''Ḥusaīn Ḥabrī'',  Chadian Arabic: ; ; 13 August 1942 – 24 August 2021), also spelled Hissen Habré, was a Chadian politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 5th president of Chad from 1982 u ...
*
Ibrahim Abatcha Ibrahim Abatcha (1938 – February 11, 1968) was a Muslim Chadian politician reputed of Marxist leanings and associations. His political activity started during the decolonization process of Chad from France, but after the country's independence ...
*
Idriss Déby Idriss Déby Itno ' (18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the president of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021. Déby was a member of the Bidayat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. A high-ranki ...
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Rabih az-Zubayr Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah ( ar, رابح فضل الله ,رابح الزبير ابن فضل الله), usually known as Rabah in French (c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who establish ...
*
Youssouf Togoïmi Youssouf Togoïmi (26 March 1953, ''Afrique Express'', number 256, 2 October 2002 . – 24 September 2002, ''Afrique Express'', number 256, 2 October 2002 .) was a Chadian politician who served in the government under President Idriss Déby but su ...


Chechnya

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Aslan Maskhadov Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (russian: Асла́н (Хали́д) Али́евич Масха́дов; ce, Масхадан Али-воӀ Аслан (Халид), Masxadan Ali-voj Aslan (Xalid); 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was ...
* Dzhokhar Dudayev *
Akhmed Zakayev Akhmed Halidovich Zakayev ( ce, Заки Хьалид кlант Ахьмад, Zaki Halid-khant Ahmad; russian: Ахмед Халидович Закаев, Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev; born 26 April 1959) is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Pri ...
*
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev Zelimkhan Abdulmuslimovich Yandarbiyev ( ce, Яндарбин Абдулмуслиман-кIант Зелимхан, romanized: ''Yandarbin Abdulmusliman-khant Zelimxan''; russian: link=no, Зелимхан Абдулмуслимович Я ...
*
Imam Shamil Imam Shamil ( av, Шейх Шамил, Şeyx Şamil; ar, الشيخ شامل; russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in ...
in
Daghestan Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North Ca ...
* Amir Ibn al-Khattab *
Sheikh Abdul Halim Abdul-Halim Abusalamovich Sadulayev ( ; Chechen: Сайд-Iелийн Абусаламин кІант Iабдул-Хьалим, ''Sadulin Abusalamin-Kant Abdulhalim''; Russian: Абдул-Халим Αбусаламович Сайдулае ...
*
Shamil Basayev Shamil Salmanovich Basayev ( ce, Салман ВоӀ Шамиль ; russian: Шамиль Салманович Басаев; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006), also known by his kunya "Abu Idris", was a senior military commander in the Cheche ...


Chile

* Galvarino Apablaza *
Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza Manuel Xavier Rodríguez Erdoíza (; February 27, 1785 – May 26, 1818) was a Chilean lawyer and guerrilla warfare, guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Rodríguez was of Basque people, Basque descent. Early lif ...
* Miguel Enríquez * José Gregorio Liendo,
Neltume Neltume is a Chilean town in Panguipulli commune, of Los Ríos Region. It lies along the 203-CH route to Huahum Pass into Argentina. The town's main economic activities are forestry and, more recently, tourism since the Huilo-Huilo Biological ...
* Raúl Pellegrin


China

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Sun Tzu Sun Tzu ( ; zh, t=孫子, s=孙子, first= t, p=Sūnzǐ) was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period of 771 to 256 BCE. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of '' The ...
- ancient Chinese general and military strategist who authored ''
The Art of War ''The Art of War'' () is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun"), is com ...
'' *
Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...
*
Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai (; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman and military officer who served as the first premier of the People's Republic of China from 1 October 1949 until his death on 8 January 1976. Zhou served under Chairman Ma ...
* Sun Yat-sen * Bai Chongxi * Chiang Kai-shek *
Gan Ning Gan Ning () (early 170s - c. 220), courtesy name Xingba, was a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Sun Quan in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Originally a notorious pirate, he gave up the life of a marauder in the late 190s and beca ...
* Cao Cao *
Zang Ba Zang Ba ( 162–230s), courtesy name Xuangao, was a military general who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period of China. He served the warlord Tao Qian initially, followed by Lü Bu and finally Cao Cao and his su ...


Colombia

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Jacobo Arenas Jacobo Arenas ("nom de guerre" of Luis Alberto Morantes Jaimes, 23 January 1924 – 10 August 1990) was a Colombian guerrilla leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (''Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia'', FARC). Im ...
*
Manuel Marulanda Pedro Antonio Marín Marín (13 May 1930 – 26 March 2008), known by his "nom de guerre" Manuel Marulanda Vélez, was the main leader of the Marxist–Leninist FARC-EP ("''Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo'' ...
*
Camilo Torres Camilo Torres may refer to: * Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929–1966), liberation theologian, priest and guerrilla member in Colombia during the 1960s * Camilo Torres Tenorio (1766–1816), political leader of Colombia's independence struggle agai ...


Cuba

* Fidel Castro * Camilo Cienfuegos *
Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quot ...
* Antonio Maceo


Cyprus

*
Georgios Grivas Georgios Grivas ( el, Γεώργιος Γρίβας; 6 June 1897 – 27 January 1974), also known by his nickname Digenis ( el, Διγενής), was a Cypriot general in the Hellenic Army and the leader of the Organization X (1942-1949), EOKA ...


D


Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Laurent-Désiré Kabila Laurent-Désiré Kabila () (27 November 1939 – 18 January 2001) or simply Laurent Kabila ( US: ), was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who was the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassinatio ...
*
Laurent Nkunda Laurent Nkunda (or Laurent Nkundabatware Mihigo (birth name), or Laurent Nkunda Batware, or as he prefers to be called The Chairman; born February 2, 1967) is a former General in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is ...
*
Pierre Mulele Pierre Mulele (11 August 1929 – 3 or 9 October 1968) was a Congolese rebel active in the Simba rebellion of 1964. Mulele had also been minister of education in Patrice Lumumba's cabinet. With the assassination of Lumumba in January 1961 and ...


Dominican Republic

* Ramón Natera * Gregorio Urbano Gilbert


E


Egypt

* Inaros - (Egyptian rebel ruler) together with
Athenian Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against
Persians The Persians are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian. ...
.


El Salvador

* Farabundo Martí * Schafik Handal *
Cayetano Carpio Salvador Cayetano Carpio (6 August 1918 – 12 April 1983), also known as Commander Marcial, was the leader of the Communist Party of El Salvador in the 1960s, until he quit the party to found the Salvadoran revolutionary political-military organ ...
(Comandante Marcial) * Joaquín Villalobos *
Ana María Ana María (17 May 1929 – 6 April 1983) was the nom-de-guerre of Dr. Mélida Anaya Montes, the second in command of the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL), the oldest of the five guerilla organizations making up the FMLN, ...


Eritrea

*
Isaias Afewerki Isaias Afwerki ( ti, ኢሳይያስ ኣፍወርቂ, ; born 2 February 1946) is an Eritrean politician and partisan who has been the president of Eritrea since shortly after he led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) to victory in ...
*
Hamid Idris Awate Hamid Idris Awate (10 April 1910 – 28 May 1962) was the founder of the Eritrean Army (the armed wing of the Eritrean Liberation Front), and a symbol of the Eritrean struggle for independence. Early life in Italian Eritrea Awate was born in 19 ...
* Woldeab Woldemariam


Estonia

* Alfred Käärmann *
Rummu Jüri Rummu Jüri (born Jüri Rummo; in Kehtna Parish – unknown) was an Estonian itinerant, thief and robber. He has become the archetypical Estonian folk hero, an outlaw who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Although most noted for his ma ...
*
August Sabbe August Sabbe (1 September 1909 – 27 or 28 September 1978) was one of the last surviving Estonian members of the Forest Brothers, a group of citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who resisted and fought against the Soviet occupation of thei ...
* Ülo Voitka


Ethiopia

* Hayelom Araya * Kinfe Gebremedhin *
Meles Zenawi Meles Zenawi Asres (Tigrinya and ; , born Legesse Zenawi Asres; 9 May 1955 – 20 August 2012) was an Ethiopian soldier and politician who served as President of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and then Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 until his ...
* Siye Abraha *
Debretsion Gebremichael Debretsion Gebremichael ( ti, ደብረጽዮን ገብረሚካኤል, pronunciation: ) is an Ethiopian politician and current president of the Tigray Region and chairman of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). His position as titular head ...


F


Finland

* Nils Månsson Grabbe * Paavali Halonen * Herpman brothers * Lauri Kärki * Pietari Longström * Taneli Luukkoinen *
Tapani Löfving Tapani may refer to: * Tapani (name), a Finnish male given name * Tapani (surname), a Finnish surname * Tapani, Iran, a village in Kermanshah Province, Iran * Tapani Incident The Tapani incident or Tapani uprising in 1915 was one of the biggest ...
* Lauri Roivas * Jakob Johan Roth * Erkki Sallinen * Jalmari Takkinen * Olli Tiainen *
Lauri Törni Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish-born soldier who fought under three flags: as a Finnish Army officer in the Winter War and the Continuation War ultimately gaining a rank of ca ...
* Pekka Vesainen


France

*
François le Clerc François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, Kin ...
- 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 A pegleg is a prosthesis, or artificial limb, fitted to the remaining stump of a human leg. Its use dates to antiquity. History By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peglegs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate, lifeli ...
". *
Bertrand du Guesclin Bertrand du Guesclin ( br, Beltram Gwesklin; 1320 – 13 July 1380), nicknamed "The Eagle of Brittany" or "The Black Dog of Brocéliande", was a Breton knight and an important military commander on the French side during the Hundred Years' Wa ...
* 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 The military history of the Acadians consisted primarily of militias made up of Acadian settlers who participated in wars against the English (the British after 1707) in coordination with the Wabanaki Confederacy (particularly the Mi'kmaw milit ...
in the resistance to the
Expulsion of the Acadians The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation, and the Deportation of the Acadians (french: Le Grand Dérangement or ), was the forced removal, by the British, of the Acadian peo ...
. *
Sébastien Rale Sébastien Rale (also Racle, Râle, Rasle, Rasles and Sebastian Rale (January 20, 1657 – August 23, 1724) was a French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who preached amongst the Abenaki and encouraged their resistance to British coloniza ...
*
Jean-Louis Le Loutre Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre (; 26 September 1709 – 30 September 1772) was a Catholic priest and missionary for the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Le Loutre became the leader of the French forces and the Acadian and Mi'kmaq militias during King Ge ...
*
Pierre Georges Pierre Georges (21 January 1919 – 27 December 1944), better known as ''Colonel Fabien'', was one of the two members of the French Communist Party who perpetrated the first assassinations of German personnel during the Occupation of France durin ...
- member of the
French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Un ...
during
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
* Charles de Gaulle *
Nancy Wake Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and ...
*
Georges Cadoudal Georges Cadoudal ( br, Jorj Kadoudal; 1 January 1771 – 25 June 1804), sometimes called simply Georges, was a Breton politician, and leader of the ''Chouannerie'' during the French Revolution. He was posthumously named a Marshal of France in 1 ...
*
Joseph Epstein Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans. Communi ...
* Jean-Baptiste du Casse *
Jean Fleury Jean Fleury (or Florin) (died 1527) was a French naval officer and privateer. He is best known for the capture of two out of the three Spanish galleons carrying the Aztec treasure of Hernán Cortés from Mexico to Spain and one ship from Santo Do ...
* Jean Ango *
Jeanne de Clisson Jeanne de Clisson (1300–1359), also known as Jeanne de Belleville and the Lioness of Brittany, was a French / Breton former noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by the French king. She cros ...


Frisia

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Pier Gerlofs Donia Pier Gerlofs Donia ( 1480 – 28 October 1520) was a Frisian rebel leader and pirate. He is best known by his West Frisian nickname ''Grutte Pier'' ("Big Pier"; in the pre-1980 West Frisian spelling written as ''Greate Pier''), or by the Dutch ...
* Wijerd Jelckama


G


Germany

* Arminius - Germanic chieftain who orchestrated the legendary ambush against the Romans at the
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varian Disaster () by Roman historians, took place at modern Kalkriese in AD 9, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius ...
. * Klein Henszlein - German pirate from 1560 to 1573 who raided shipping in the
North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the ...
*
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964), also called the Lion of Africa (german: Löwe von Afrika), was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four ye ...
*
Thomas Müntzer Thomas Müntzer ( – 27 May 1525) was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer w ...
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Otto Skorzeny Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-''Obersturmbannführer'' (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including th ...
- Austrian elite operative who conducted unconventional operations in World War II for Nazi Germany * Franz von Rintelen * Johann Ewald *
Carl von Clausewitz Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz (; 1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral", in modern terms meaning psychological, and political aspects of waging war. His mo ...
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Felix von Luckner Felix Nikolaus Alexander Georg Graf von Luckner (9 June 1881, Dresden – 13 April 1966, Malmö), sometimes called Count Luckner in English, was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and sailor who earned the epithet ''Der Seeteufel'' (the ...


Greece

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Athanasios Diakos Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas ( el, Αθανάσιος Νικόλαος Μασσαβέτας; 1788 – 24 April 1821) also known as Athanasios Diakos ( el, Αθανάσιος Διάκος) was a Greek military commander during the Greek War of ...
* Geórgios Karaïskákis * Manolis Glezos *
Markos Botsaris Markos Botsaris ( el, Μάρκος Μπότσαρης c. 1788 – 21 August 1823) was a chieftain of the Souliotes and hero of the Greek War of Independence, and general of the Greek army.Brigands with a Cause, Brigandage and Irredentism ...
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Odysseas Androutsos Odysseas Androutsos ( el, Οδυσσέας Ανδρούτσος; 1788 – 1825; born Odysseas Verousis el, Οδυσσέας Βερούσης) was a Greek military and political commander in eastern mainland Greece and a prominent figure of the ...
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Theodoros Kolokotronis Theodoros Kolokotronis ( el, Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης; 3 April 1770 – 4 February 1843) was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) against the Ottoman Empire. Kolokotronis's g ...
* Antonis Vratsanos *
Daskalogiannis Ioannis Vlachos (), better known as Daskalogiannis (; 1722/30 – 17 June 1771) was a wealthy shipbuilder and shipowner who led a Cretan revolt against Ottoman rule in the 18th century.Detorakis, Turkish rule in Crete, p. 357 Life and career ...


Guatemala

* Rodrigo Asturias * Comandante
Rolando Morán Comandante Rolando Morán (29 December 1929 – 11 September 1998) was the ''nom de guerre'' of Ricardo Arnoldo Ramírez de León, leader of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), an armed Guatemalan communist resistance organizati ...


Guinea

* Samory Touré


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Haiti

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Charlemagne Péralte Charlemagne Masséna Péralte (1886 – 1 November 1919) was a Haitian nationalist leader who opposed the United States occupation of Haiti in 1915. Leading guerrilla fighters called the Cacos, he posed such a challenge to the US forces in Haiti ...
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Toussaint L'ouverture François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (; also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda; 20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803) was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture ...
* Francois Mackandal * Vincent Oge * Jean-Bertrand Aristide * Jean-Jacques Dessalines * Francois Capois *
Henri Christophe Henri Christophe (; 6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820) was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti. Christophe was of Bambara ethnicity in West Africa, and perhaps of Igbo descent. Beginning with ...
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Sans-Souci Jean-Baptiste Sans-Souci was a leader of rebel slaves during the Haitian Revolution. He was assassinated by rival black rebel leader, Henri Christophe, in 1803, shortly before Haiti won its independence. Sans-Souci is notable as one of the most ef ...
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Dutty Boukman Dutty Boukman (or Boukman Dutty; died 7 November 1791) was an early leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Senegambia (present-day Senegal and Gambia), he was enslaved to Jamaica. He eventually ended up in Haiti, where he became a leader of ...


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Shivaji Maharaj Shivaji Bhonsale I (; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680), also referred to as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the declining Adils ...
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Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja Pazhassi Raja () (3 January 1753 – 30 November 1805) was known as Kerala Varma and was also known as Cotiote Rajah and Pychy Rajah. He was a warrior Hindu prince and de facto head of the kingdom of Kottayam, otherwise known as Cotiote, in ...
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Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
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Sangolli Rayanna Sangolli Rayanna was born on 15 August 1798 was a nineteenth century Indian revolutionary, military chief (''Shetsanadi)'' and warrior in the Kittur princely state in the present day Indian state of Karnataka. He was the ''Shetsanadi'' of the ...
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Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...
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Komaram Bheem Komaram Bheem (1900/1901–1940), alternatively Kumram Bheem, was a revolutionary leader in Hyderabad State of British Raj, British India from the Gondi people, Gond tribes. Bheem, in association with other Gond leaders, led a protracted low in ...
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Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...
* Alluri Sita Rama Raju in
Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...
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Malik Ambar Malik Ambar (1548 – 13 May 1626) was a Siddi military leader and prime minister who became a kingmaker and de facto ruler of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in the Deccan region of India. Born in the Adal Sultunate, in present-day Ethiopia, Mali ...
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Patel Sudhakar Reddy Patel Sudhakar Reddy, aliases Suryam, Damodar, and Venkatesh, (1950s – 24 May 2009) was a leader of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Early life Reddy was born in Kurthiravulacheruvu village in Mahbubnagar dis ...
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Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (22 April 1915 – 31 July 2003) was the key instigator of the 1947 Poonch Rebellion in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in British India and the later establishment of Azad Kashmir under Pakistani admi ...
* Sayeed Salahudeen *
Yasin Malik Yasin Malik (born 3 April 1966) is a Kashmiri separatist leader and former militant who advocates the separation of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan. He is the Chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, which originally spearheaded ar ...


Indonesia

*General
Sudirman General of the Army Raden Sudirman ( Old Spelling: Soedirman; 24 January 1916 – 29 January 1950) was a high-ranking Indonesian military officer during the Indonesian National Revolution. The first commander of the Indonesian National Ar ...
- military commander of Republican Indonesian forces during Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch in the 1940s * Abdul Haris Nasution


Iran

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Babak Khorramdin , native_name_lang = , birth_date = 795 or 798 , birth_place = Ardabil, Abbasid Caliphate , spouse = Banu , death_date = probably 7 January 838 (age 40 or 43) , death_place = Samarra, Abbasid Caliphate , years_active ...
* Hassan-i Sabbah *
Ismail I Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Safavid Iran, Iran, ruling as its King of Kings (''Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His re ...
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Mostafa Chamran Mostafa Chamran Save'ei ( fa, مصطفی چمران ساوه‌ای) (2 October 1932 – 21 June 1981) was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran ...
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Massoud Rajavi Massoud Rajavi ( fa, مسعود رجوی, born 18 August 1948 – disappeared 13 March 2003) became the leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) in 1979. In 1985, he married Maryam Rajavi, who became the co-leader of the MEK. After leaving ...


Iraq

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Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سه‌لاحه‌دین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...
* Abu Musab al-Zarqawi *
Abu Ayyub al-Masri Abu Ayyub al-Masri ( ; , ', translation: "Father of Ayyub the Egyptian"; 1967 – 18 April 2010), also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir
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Muqtada al-Sadr Muqtada al-Sadr ( ar, مقتدى الصدر, Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi politician and militia leader. He is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the leader of the Peace Companies, a successor to the militia he had p ...
* Zayd ibn Ali *
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al-Zawi ( ar, حَمِيدُ دَاوُدَ مُحَمَّدُ خَلِيلِ ٱلزَّاوِيِّ, Ḥamīd Dāwud Muḥammad Ḵalīl az-Zāwī; 1959 – 18 April 2010), known as Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi and Abu Omar ...
* Abu Muslim *
Abu Azrael Ayoub Falih Hasan Al-Raie ( ar, أيوب فالح حسن لراعي), born 1978, known by his nom de guerre Abu Azrael, also known as the Angel of Death, is an Iraqi Commander in the popular crowd of the Kataib al-Imam Ali, an Iraqi Shi'a militia ...


Ireland


Irish Republican

*Michael Collins (Irish leader), Michael Collins - Irish Republican Army (1917–22), Irish Republican Army guerrilla leader during British rule of Ireland *Tom Barry (soldier), Tom Barry *Gerry Adams - suspected IRA Army Council, Provisional IRA Army Council member *Martin McGuinness - suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member *Seamus Costello - Official IRA member *Stakeknife - senior Provisional IRA member and British government informant, alleged to be Freddie Scappaticci *Bobby Sands - Provisional IRA member and hunger striker *Francis Hughes - Provisional IRA member and later hunger striker *Dominic McGlinchey - Provisional IRA and later Irish National Liberation Army, INLA leader *Frank Aiken


Ulster Loyalist

*Billy Wright (loyalist), Billy Wright - Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) leader *John Gregg (UDA), John Gregg - senior Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, attempted to assassinate Gerry Adams *Johnny Adair - aka "Mad Dog", UDA commander *Lenny Murphy - notorious Ulster Loyalist operative who led the Shankill Butchers


Israel

*Menahem ben Judah - leader of the Sicarri *Judas Maccabeus - Jewish priest who led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167-160 BCE) *Avraham Stern *Menachem Begin *Yitzhak Shamir *Yohai Ben-Nun *Haim Bar-Lev *Aharon Davidi *Yekutiel Adam - a member of the Haganah that conducted raids into enemy territory. *Ehud Barak - took part in a commando guerrilla like but controversial 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, raid in Lebanon. *Yonatan Netanyahu *Ze'ev Almog *Ami Ayalon *Ariel Sharon - member of the Haganah. His unit in the Haganah conducted hit-and-run raids on enemy forces. He was also a member of the controversial guerrilla/commando like group known as Unit 101 which had been scrutinized and condemned for some of its operations. *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 World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...


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Japan

*Genpei War **Minamoto clan, Yoritomo ***Minamoto no Yoshitsune ***Minamoto no Noriyori ***Minamoto no Yoritomo **Minamoto clan, 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 World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
**Tadamichi Kuribayashi **Hiroo Onoda *Other **Fūma Kotarō **Tateoka Doshun **Ōishi Yoshio **Mochizuki Chiyome **Tsuneo Mori


K


Korea

*Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) **Gwak Jae-u **Hyujeong **Jo Heon *Japanese colonial rule of Korea **Ji Cheong-cheon **Lee Beom-seok (prime minister), Lee Beom-seok **Kim Won-bong **Kim Hong-il (general), Kim Hong-il **Kim Il Sung **Kim Chwa-chin **Yun Hui-sun *Others **Choe Ik-hyeon **Shin Dol-seok


Kosovo

*Adem Jashari *Ramush Haradinaj *Agim Ceku *Agim Ramadani *Sali Çekaj *Hamëz Jashari *Bekim Berisha *Luan Haradinaj *Daut Haradinaj


Kenya

*Dedan Kimathi *Waruhiu Itote *Musa Mwariama


Kurdistan

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Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سه‌لاحه‌دین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...
*Mahmud Barzanji *Mahmoud Ezidi *Foad Mostafa Soltani *Abdullah Mohtadi *Sedigh Kamangar *Jalal Talabani *Nawshirwan Mustafa *Najmadin Shukr Rauf *Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou *Sadegh Sharafkandi *Abdullah Öcalan *Murat Karayılan *Cemil Bayık *Sakine Cansız *Mazlum Doğan *Mahsum Korkmaz


L


Laos

*Vang Pao, General Vang Pao in Kingdom of Laos *Pa Chay Vue *Ong Kommandam, Ong Kommandan *Ong Keo


Latvia

*Pēteris Dzelzītis - Latvian soldier during World War II


Lebanon

*Hassan Nasrallah


Lesotho

*Ntsu Mokhehle


Liberia

*Charles G. Taylor, Charles Taylor *Prince Johnson


Libya

*Omar Mukhtar


Lithuania

*Jonas Žemaitis *Adolfas Ramanauskas *Juozas Lukša


M


Malaysia

*Force 136 *Chin Peng, Malayan Communist Party *Japanese Red Army ''(Nihon Sekigun)'' *Mahathir Mohamad


Mexico

*Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico *Pancho Villa of the Mexican Revolution. *Emiliano Zapata of the Mexican Revolution. *Lucio Cabañas * Miguel Hidalgo of the Mexican War of Independence. * Davy Crockett of the Texas Revolution, died at the Fall of the Alamo. * Sam Houston of the Texas Revolution. * William Barret Travis of the Texas Revolution, died at the Fall of the Alamo. * Juan Seguín of the Texas Revolution. * James Bowie of the Texas Revolution, died at the Fall of the Alamo. * James Fannin of the Texas Revolution, murdered in the Goliad Massacre. * Victorio: Apache chief and warlord, active in both Mexico and the United States. Apache Wars. * Geronimo of the Apache Wars, active in both Mexico and the United States. * Bernardo Reyes, warlord during the Mexican Revolution. * Francisco I. Madero, revolutionary general during the Mexican Revolution.


Mongolia

*Genghis Khan *Tolui *Jebe *Subutai


Morocco

*Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Abd el-Krim *Mouha ou Hammou Zayani *Mohammed Ameziane


Mozambique

*Afonso Dhlakama *André Matsangaissa *Eduardo Mondlane *Filipe Samuel Magaia *Samora Machel


Myanmar

*Khun Sa *Saya San *Johnny and Luther Htoo


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Namibia

*Jakobus Morenga *Hendrik Witbooi (Namaqua chief), Hendrik Witbooi


Nepal

*Prachanda


Netherlands

*
Pier Gerlofs Donia Pier Gerlofs Donia ( 1480 – 28 October 1520) was a Frisian rebel leader and pirate. He is best known by his West Frisian nickname ''Grutte Pier'' ("Big Pier"; in the pre-1980 West Frisian spelling written as ''Greate Pier''), or by the Dutch ...
* Wijerd Jelckama *Abraham Blauvelt *Michiel Andrieszoon - Dutch buccaneer active in the 1680s. *Jan Willems (Dutch buccaneer) *Cornelis Jol *Roche Braziliano


Nicaragua

*Adolfo Calero *Arlen Siu *Augusto César Sandino *Daniel Ortega *Dora María Téllez *Edén Pastora (Comandante Cero) *Enrique Bermúdez *Humberto Ortega *Joaquín Cuadra *Nora Astorga *Rigoberto Cruz *Carlos Fonseca


Nigeria

*Ateke Tom *Henry Okah *Mujahid Dokubo-Asari *Odumegwu Ojukwu *Philip Effiong


Norway

*Martin Linge


P


Pakistan

*Ilyas Kashmiri *Osama bin Laden *Malik Munawar Khan Awan *Nauroz Khan *Allah Nazar Baloch *Balach Marri *Sher Mohammad Marri


Palestine

*Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni *Yasser Arafat *George Habash *Wadie Haddad *Abu Nidal *Ahmed Yassin *Yahya Ayyash *Mohammed Deif *Ahmad Sa'adat *Abu Ali Mustafa *Marwan Barghouti *Khalil al-Wazir *Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil *Ali Hassan Salameh *Zakaria Zubeidi *Dalal Mughrabi *Leila Khaled *Izz ad-Din al-Qassam *Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi *Omar Rezaq *Sirhan Sirhan *Mahmoud Tawalbe


Peru

*Abimael Guzmán (Presidente Gonzalo) * Tupac Amaru *Héctor Béjar *Hugo Blanco (politician), Hugo Blanco *Andrés Avelino Cáceres *Javier Heraud *Revolutionary Left Movement (Peru), Guillermo Lobaton


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 * Henryk Dobrzański, Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański * Franciszek Kamiński * Tadeusz Komorowski * Józef Kasparek * 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, Emil August Fieldorf "Nil" *
Joseph Epstein Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans. Communi ...
- Polish born activist who fought for the French Resistance in World War II * Mordechai Anielewicz


Portugal

* Viriathus


R


Romania

*Mircea I of Wallachia * Vlad III the Impaler, Vlad the Impaler * Stephen III of Moldavia


Rwanda

*Paul Kagame *Fred Rwigyema


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Saudi Arabia

*Ibn Saud *T. E. Lawrence *Muhammad


Scotland

*First War of Scottish Independence **William Wallace **Robert I of Scotland **James Douglas, Lord of Douglas, The Black Douglas **Andrew Moray **William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, William the Hardy **Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, Thomas Randolph **Simon Fraser (died 1306), Simon Fraser **John Comyn III of Badenoch, John Comyn *Second War of Scottish Independence **Andrew Murray (Scottish soldier), Andrew Murray **William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, William Douglas **Patrick V, Earl of March, Patrick V **John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, John Randolph **Archibald Douglas (died 1333), Archibald Douglas *Others **Andrew Barton (privateer) - notorious Scottish sailor who made raids against Portuguese ships.


Serbia

*See list of Serbian hajduks *Serbian Revolutionaries (1804–15) *Serbian Chetnik Organization (1903–08) *Chetniks, Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (1941–45)


Sierra Leone

*Foday Sankoh


Singapore

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


South Africa

*First Boer War **Boer **Boer Commando **Piet Joubert **Joachim Ferreira **Nicolaas Smit **Schalk Willem Burger **Francois Gerhardus Joubert - Boer commander who ambushed and decimated a British column in the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit **Piet Cronjé *Second Boer War **Boer **Boer Commando **Louis Botha **Christiaan de Wet **Jan Smuts **Koos de la Rey **Deneys Reitz **Piet Joubert **Martinus Theunis Steyn **Schalk Willem Burger **Piet Cronjé **Christian Frederick Beyers **Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger **Gideon Scheepers **Johannes Lotter *Others **Nelson Mandela **Potlako Leballo **Walter Sisulu **Jacob Zuma **Joe Slovo **Chris Hani **African National Congress (ANC) **African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) **Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)


Soviet Union

*Mikhail Frunze *Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, Stepniak - Russian radical *Stepan Bandera *Viktor Leonov - Soviet sailor whose experiences as a Soviet Naval Scout would be a precursor to the Russian special operations called the Spetsnaz *Sydir Kovpak *Semyon Rudniev *Vasily Zaitsev (sniper), Vasily Zaitsev - Soviet Sniper who killed 225 enemy soldiers *Serge Obolensky


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, Johanne Galan "La Galana" *Francisco Abad Moreno "Chaleco" *Agustina de Aragón *Vicente López Tovar *Viriathus


Sudan

*John Garang *Khalil Ibrahim *Muhammad Ahmad *Osman Digna *
Rabih az-Zubayr Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah ( ar, رابح فضل الله ,رابح الزبير ابن فضل الله), usually known as Rabah in French (c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who establish ...
*Sebehr Rahma


Suriname

*Ronnie Brunswijk


Syria

*Syrian civil war **People's Defense Units, YPG **Arin Mirkan **Anti-Terror Units *Others **Sultan al-Atrash


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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


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Uganda

*Yoweri Museveni *Alice Auma (Alice Lakwena) *Joseph Kony


Ukraine

*Nestor Makhno *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 (ranger), William Caldwell **Bloody Bill Cunningham **David Fanning (loyalist), David Fanning **Simon Girty **John Butler (Ranger), John Butler **James De Lancey (loyalist), 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 (British Army officer), Adam Muir - Battle of Maguaga **James Gordon (Royal Navy officer), James Gordon **Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, 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 (ranger), William Caldwell **John Brant (Mohawk leader), John Brant **Gordon Drummond **William Mulcaster **Charles de Salaberry *World War I **T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia *
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
**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 Naga people, Nagas against the Japanese during World War II **
Nancy Wake Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and ...
- 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. **Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Fitzroy Maclean worked with Josip Broz Tito, Tito and Yugoslav Partisans during World War II **Ivan Lyon - member of the Z Special Unit **Robert Grainger Ker Thompson - famous British people, 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 people, 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 (privateer), William Parker **Dick Turpin


United States

*James–Younger Gang **Jesse James **Cole Younger *French and Indian War **Kingdom of Great Britain, British America, and Native Americans in the United States, Native American allies ***John Stark ***John Armstrong Sr. ***Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina, Eyre Massey ***Sayenqueraghta ***Robert Rogers (British Army officer), Robert Rogers ***Daniel Morgan **Kingdom of France, New France, and Native Americans in the United States, Native American allies ***Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau, Jean Erdman ***François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery, Francois-Marie ***Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu ***Jean-Daniel Dumas ***Charles Michel de Langlade ***Pontiac (Ottawa leader), Pontiac *American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War **George Washington **John Parker (captain), John Parker **Benjamin Cleveland **Elijah Clarke **John Sevier **Ethan Allen **William Campbell (general), William Campbell **Francis Marion **Andrew Pickens (congressman), Andrew Pickens **Thomas Sumter **Samuel Whittemore **William Richardson Davie **James Williams (Revolutionary War), James Williams **Isaac Shelby **John Schenck **William Russell (Kentucky politician), William Russell **Andrew Jackson **Philemon Dickinson **William Moultrie **John Sullivan (general), John Sullivan **Seth Warner **Marinus Willett **Nathanael Greene **Daniel Morgan **Return J. Meigs Sr. **William Barton (soldier), William Barton **John Glover (general), John Glover **Edward Hand **William Maxwell (Continental Army general), 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 (sniper), 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 fleet 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 (naval officer), 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 (naval officer), Nicholas Biddle **Joshua Barney **David Hawley **Morgan's Riflemen **Whitcomb's Rangers **1st Continental Light Dragoons **2nd Continental Light Dragoons **Lee's Legion **Militia (United States), American militia **Privateer, American Privateers *Northwest Indian War **United States ***Charles Scott (governor), Charles Scott ***James Wilkinson ***John Hardin ***Benjamin Logan ***William Wells (soldier), William Wells **Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans ***Little Turtle ***Buckongahelas ***Egushawa ***Blue Jacket *Quasi-War **Silas Talbot **Isaac Hull **Daniel Carmick **Stephen Decatur Sr. **Benjamin Stoddert **David Porter (naval officer), David Porter *First Barbary War **John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772), John Rodgers **Andrew Sterett **USS Heermann, Lewis Heermann **Stephen Decatur **Thomas Macdonough **William Eaton (soldier), William Eaton *War of 1812 **Andrew Jackson **Alexander Macomb (general), Alexander Macomb **Benjamin Forsyth **Daniel Appling **Battle of Conjocta Creek, Lodowick Morgan **Bennet C. Riley **Alexander Smyth **Jacob Brown **Peter B. Porter **John Coffee **Philip Reed (politician), Philip Reed **Azariah C. Flagg **Richard Mentor Johnson **Ninian Edwards **Davy Crockett **Caleb Hopkins (colonel), Caleb Hopkins **Joseph Bartholomew (major general), Joseph Bartholomew **John Tipton **John Ketcham (Indiana surveyor), John Ketcham **William Dudley (colonel), William Dudley **Nathan Boone **Thomas Hinds **Buckner F. Harris **Lewis Cass **Samuel Dale **John Williams (Tennessee politician), John Williams **John Alexander Cocke **William Whitley **John Swift (general), John Swift **Benjamin Mooers **Benjamin Howard (Missouri politician), Benjamin Howard **John Floyd (Georgia politician), John Floyd **Isaac Shelby **Battle of St. Regis, Guilford Dudley Young **Battle of Matilda, Elisah Griffen **Norfolk, Virginia , Richard Lawson **Joseph Willcocks **Abraham Markle **William McIntosh **Pushmataha **Red Jacket **Raid On Philipsburg, Isaac Clark **Battle of Plattsburgh, George McGlassin **James Miller (general), James Miller **George Croghan (soldier), George Croghan **George Edward Mitchell **William Russell (Kentucky politician), William Russell **William Orlando Butler **John E. Wool **John Miller (Missouri politician), John Miller **James Wilkinson **Nathaniel Towson **John B. Campbell **William Henry Harrison **Duncan McArthur **Andrew Holmes (army officer), Andrew Holmes **Daniel Bissell(general), 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 in the War of 1812, United States Rangers **Indiana Rangers **Regiment of Light Dragoons (United States), 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons **2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons (United States), 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons **Canadian Volunteers **Militia (United States), American Militia **Privateer, American Privateers **Isaac Chauncey **Melancthon Taylor Woolsey **Johnston Blakeley **Arthur Sinclair **Daniel Turner (naval officer), Daniel Turner **William Henry Allen **Stephen Decatur **Charles Stewart (American Navy officer), Charles Stewart **David Porter (naval officer), David Porter **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 **James Kirker **Joshua Hailey **George R. Roberts (privateer), George R. Roberts **Thomas Boyle **James DeWolf **Joshua Barney **Otway Burns **Bill Johnston (pirate), Bill Johnston - Canadian amphibious guerrilla/pirate who fought for the American side. **John Ordronaux (privateer), 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. **American privateer Holkar, J. Rowland - raided British shipping and vessels **Surprise (1813 privateer), Clement Cathell **Surprise (1813 privateer), James Barnes **Surprise (1813 privateer), Samuel Barstow **HMS Anaconda (1813), George W. Burbank **HMS Anaconda (1813), Nathanial Shaler *Texas Revolution **United States of America, American volunteers, Texas, Texan Revolutionaries, and Tejanos, 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 (Texas soldier), William Ward ***Richard Andrews (soldier), Richard Andrews ***Noah Smithwick ***Deaf Smith ***John Coker (soldier), John Coker ***Moses Lapham ***Moseley Baker ***Frank W. Johnson ***James Grant (Texas politician), James Grant ***Mirabeau B. Lamar ***Juan Seguín ***Manuel N. Flores ***Plácido Benavides ***John Henry Moore (Texas settler), 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. ***Battle of San Patricio, 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 false flag, British flag to lure Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo), 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 Battle of Lake Okeechobee, Lake Okeechobee, Battles of the Loxahatchee, Loxahtchee, and Battle of Pine Island Ridge, Pine Island Ridge ***John Horse ***Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo), Hillis Hadjo *Mexican-American War **United States of America ***Fabius Stanly - American naval lieutenant who led raids against the Mexicans, Mexican armed forces. ***Joseph Lane - United States Army American general who led a hit and run surprise attack on the Mexicans, 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 ***California Republic, 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 ***Battle of Olómpali, 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. ***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 *American Civil War, Civil War **Confederate States of America, Confederacy ***Bloody Bill Anderson ***Champ Ferguson ***William Quantrill ***History of California#California and the War Between the States, 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 ***Stovepipe Johnson, 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 ***Earl Van Dorn ***Mary Jane Green ***Wade Hampton III ***Richard Montgomery Gano ***Stand Watie ***James Iredell Waddell ***Raphael Semmes **United States of America, Union ***John Brown (abolitionist), John Brown ***Charles R. Jennison ***James Henry Lane (Union general), James H. Lane ***Daniel R. Anthony ***Newton Knight ***Owen Brown (abolitionist, born 1824), Owen Brown ***Benjamin Grierson ***William B. Cushing ***Samuel C. Means - captain of the Loudoun Rangers ***Henry Young (major), 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 (American Civil War), Union. ***James Montgomery (colonel), 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 (soldier), William Henry Powell ***William W. Averell ***Samuel P. Carter ***George W. Taylor (general), 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 (Unionist), 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 in the United States, Native Americans ***Red Cloud - very important leader of the Oglala, Oglala Lakota people. ***Morning Star (chief), Dull Knife - great chief of the Cheyenne who alongside Red Cloud harassed the Americans at the Battle of Bone Pile Creek. ***Sitting Bull ***Hook Nose, 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 (1865), Powder River Battles *Snake War **United States ***George Crook ***Billy Chinook - chief and member of the Wasco-Wishram, Wasco tribe and served the United States as a First Sergeant of the U.S. Army Wasco Scouts **Native Americans in the United States, 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 in the United States, 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 *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 (1916–1924), United States occupation of the Dominican Republic **James P. Parker **Richard Wainwright (Spanish–American War naval officer), 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 **Santo Domingo Affair, 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. **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 (Medal of Honor), Samuel Gross in Smedley Butler, Smedley Butler's surprise raid like commando assault in the Battle of Fort Rivière **Samuel Gross (Medal of Honor), Samuel Gross *
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**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 Imperial Japanese Army, 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 Imperial Japanese Army, 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 World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
**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 Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese soldiers with just hand grenades and a bayonet. **Robert Prince (captain), 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 (captain), 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 (U.S. Marine Corps officer), Jack Hawkins **John H. Yancey **Oscar F. Peatross **Robert Halperin **Elizabeth Peet McIntosh **Serge Obolensky **Walter R. Mansfield *Korean War **Donald Nichols (spy), 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 **Donkey Squads (Korean War), Colonel John McGee **Tony Poe **Vincent R. Kramer **Charles George **Eugene F. Clark **Underwater Demolition Teams **Korean War Ranger Companies **Joint Advisory Commission, Korea, JACK **Special Activities Center, 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 (CIA officer), 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 (CIA officer), George Bacon **James William Lair **Pat Landry **Bill Young (CIA officer), Bill Young **Tony Poe - legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's Special Activities Division **Dick Holm *United States Invasion of Panama **Larry Vickers **Eldon Bargewell **Gary L. Harrell **Peter Schoomaker **Operation Acid Gambit, Delta Force **Operation Nifty Package, American Navy SEALs **7th Special Forces Group (United States), American 7th SFG *War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War in Afghanistan **No Easy Day, Matt Bissonnette **Brandon Webb (author), 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 (United States), 26th Infantry Regiment **List of operations conducted by Delta Force, Delta Force **List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six, 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 (soldier), 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 (author), Jack Coughlin **162nd Infantry Regiment (United States), 162nd Infantry Regiment **List of operations conducted by Delta Force, Delta Force **List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six, 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 **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 Native Americans in the United States, Indian fighter **William Hardin - American Revolutionary War soldier, farmer, rancher, marksman, hunter, and Native American killer **John L. Bullis **James Smith (frontiersman), James Smith **Grayston Lynch **Edward Lansdale **Frederick Russell Burnham


Uruguay

* Pepe Mujica * Raúl Sendic - during the 1960s and '70s in Uruguay


V


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

*Ho Chi Minh *Võ Nguyên Giáp *Triệu Việt Vương


W


Western Sahara

*Ma al-'Aynayn *El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed *Mohamed Abdelaziz (Sahrawi politician), Mohamed Abdelaziz *Brahim Gali


Y


Yugoslavia

*Draža Mihailović *Josip Broz Tito


Z


Zimbabwe

*Joshua Nkomo *Robert Mugabe


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 *Reagan Doctrine *Erwin Rommel


References

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