List of guerrillas
List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region:
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A
- Abdul Haq
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
- Ismail Khan
- Mohammed Omar
- Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida leader
- Ahmed Shah Massoud
- Jalaluddin Haqqani
B
- Che Guevara in Ñancahuazu, Bolivia
C
- Aslan Maskhadov
- Dzhokhar Dudayev
- Akhmed Zakayev
- Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
- Imam Shamil in Daghestan
- Amir Ibn al-Khattab
- Sheikh Abdul Halim
- Shamil Basayev
- Mao Zedong in China
- Fidel Castro in Cuba
- Camilo Cienfuegos
- Che Guevara in Cuba, Bolivia, Africa and South America
- Antonio Maceo in Cuba
D
E
- Ana María
- Cayetano Carpio (Comandante Marcial)
- Joaquín Villalobos
F
G
- Athanasios Diakos
- Geórgios Karaïskákis
- Manolis Glezos
- Markos Botsaris
- Odysseas Androutsos
- Theodoros Kolokotronis
- Rodrigo Asturias
- Comandante Rolando Morán
H
I
- General Sudirman was the military commander of Republican Indonesian forces during Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch in the 1940s
- Abdul Haris Nasution in Indonesia
- Michael Collins, Old IRA guerrilla leader (during British colonial rule of Ireland)
- Tom Barry
- Gerry Adams, suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member
- Martin McGuiness, 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, IRA member and Hunger Striker
- Francis Hughes, IRA member and later Hunger Striker
- Dominic McGlinchey, IRA and later INLA leader
- Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader
- John Gregg, senior Ulster Defence Association member, attempted to assassinate Gerry Adams
- Johnny Adair aka "Mad Dog", leader of the Ulster Freedom Fighters
J
K
L
M
- Force 136
- Chin Peng, Malayan Communist Party
- Japanese Red Army (Nihon Sekigun)
- Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico
- Pancho Villa
- Emiliano Zapata
N
- Adolfo Calero
- Arlen Siu
- Augusto César Sandino
- Carlos Fonseca
- Daniel Ortega
- Dora María Téllez
- Edén Pastora (Comandante Cero)
- Enrique Bermúdez
- Humberto Ortega
- Joaquín Cuadra
- Nora Astorga
- Rigoberto Cruz
P
- Yasser Arafat
- George Habash
- Leila Khaled
- Abu Nidal
- Yahya Ayyash
- Marwan Barghouti
- Amin al-Husayni
- Ahmed Jibril
- Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil
- Khaled Mashal
- Dalal Mughrabi
- Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
- Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
- Omar Rezaq
- Sirhan Sirhan
- Mahmoud Tawalbe
- Ahmed Yassin
- Abu Ali Mustafa
- Ahmad Sa'adat
- Abimael Guzmán (Presidente Gonzalo)
R
S
- Christiaan de Wet
- Jan Smuts in the Second Boer War
- Koos de la Rey
- Nelson Mandela
- Potlako Leballo
- Walter Sisulu
- Mikhail Frunze in the Soviet Union
- Stepniak, Russian radical
- Stepan Bandera
- Aben Humeya
- Abo Hafs Omer Al-Baloty
- Francisco Sabate El Quico, Anarchist maquis fighter killed in 1960
- José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana
- Pelayo
- Umar ibn Hafsun
- El Empecinado
- Velupillai Prabakharan, leader of the Tamil Tigers
- Rohana Wijeweera
T
- Abdullah Öcalan
- Deniz Gezmiş
- Hüseyin İnan
- İbrahim Kaypakkaya
- Yusuf Aslan
- Mahir Çayan
- Sinan Cemgil
- Ulaş Bardakçı
- Mihri Belli
U
- Yoweri Museveni
- Alice Auma (Alice Lakwena)
- Joseph Kony
- Nestor Makhno in the Ukraine
- Orde Wingate (founder of the Chindits) in Palestine and Burma
- Owain Glyndŵr in Wales
- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia
- Champ Ferguson American Civil War
- William Quantrill American Civil War
- Dan Showalter American Civil War
- John Singleton Mosby American Civil War
- John Hunt Morgan American Civil War
- Evan MacLeod American Civil War
Others
- Wendell Fertig - World War II
- William Orlando Darby - World War II
- Robert Rogers - French and Indian War
- Francis Marion - American War of Independence
- Orlando Bosch in Cuba, America and South America
- Ethan Allen - American War of Independence
- Jonathan James Shearman - Gulf war, Urban&Rural crime watchman
- Raúl Sendic during the 60's and 70's in Uruguay
V
Y
Z
See also
- List of guerrilla movements
- List of samurai
- List of usurpers
- List of condottieri
- List of conquistadors
- List of military commanders
- List of revolutions and rebellions
- Klepht
- Hajduk
- Martial Race
- Blitzkrieg
- Erwin Rommel
- Oliver Cromwell
- Nonviolence
External links
- List of United States Civil War guerrillas US Civil War guerrillas