List of guerrillas
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List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region:
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[edit] A
[edit] Afghanistan
Ahmed Shah Massoud
- Abdul Haq
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
- Ismail Khan
- Mohammed Omar
- Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida leader
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- Jalaluddin Haqqani
[edit] Albania
[edit] Algeria
[edit] Angola
[edit] Arabia
[edit] Argentina
[edit] Austria
[edit] B
[edit] Bangladesh
- Kader Siddiqui in Tangail, Bangladesh
- Hemayet Uddin in Faridpur, Bangladesh
- Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan in Narsingdi, Bangladesh
- Afser Uddin in Mymensing, Bangladesh
- Khondoker Baten in Tangail, Bangladesh
- Akber Hussein Miah in Jinaidah, Bangladesh
- Latif Mirza in Sirajganj, Bangladesh
- Cpt. Halim Chowdhary in Manikganj, Bangladesh
- Zia Uddin in Sundarban, Bangladesh
[edit] Bolivia
- Che Guevara in Ñancahuazu, Bolivia
[edit] Brazil
[edit] C
[edit] Cambodia
[edit] Cameroon
[edit] Canada
- Joseph Broussard, who also went by the pseudonym Beausoleil.
- Gabriel Dumont
- Louis Riel
[edit] Chad
[edit] Chechnya
- Aslan Maskhadov
- Dzhokhar Dudayev
- Akhmed Zakayev
- Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
- Imam Shamil in Daghestan
- Amir Ibn al-Khattab
- Sheikh Abdul Halim
- Shamil Basayev
[edit] China
- Mao Tse-Tung in China
[edit] Colombia
[edit] Cuba
- Fidel Castro in Cuba
- Camilo Cienfuegos
- Che Guevara in Cuba, Bolivia, Africa and South America
- Antonio Maceo in Cuba
[edit] Cyprus
[edit] D
[edit] Democratic Republic of the Congo
[edit] Dominican Republic
[edit] E
[edit] Egypt
- Inarus ( an Egyptian rebel ruler ) together with Athenian allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against Persians.
[edit] El Salvador
- Farabundo Martí
- Schafik Handal
- Cayetano Carpio (Comandante Marcial)
- Joaquín Villalobos
- Ana María
[edit] Eritrea
[edit] Estonia
[edit] Ethiopia
[edit] F
[edit] France
[edit] G
[edit] Germany
- Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
- Thomas Muentzer in Germany
[edit] Greece
- Athanasios Diakos
- Geórgios Karaïskákis
- Manolis Glezos
- Markos Botsaris
- Odysseas Androutsos
- Theodoros Kolokotronis
- Antonis Vratsanos
[edit] Guatemala
- Rodrigo Asturias
- Comandante Rolando Morán
[edit] Guinea
[edit] H
[edit] Haiti
[edit] I
[edit] Republic of India
- Chatrapati Shivaji
- Komaram Bheem in Andhra Pradesh
- Alluri Sita Rama Raju in Andhra Pradesh
- Malik Ambar
- Patel sudhakar reddy
- sakhamuri appa rao
[edit] Indonesia
- 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
[edit] Iran
[edit] Iraq
- Mustafa Barzani
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
- Abu Ayyub al-Masri
- Moqtada al-Sadr
- Zayd ibn Ali
- Ishmael Jubouri
- Abu Omar al-Baghdadi
[edit] Ireland
[edit] Irish Republican
- Michael Collins, Old IRA guerrilla leader (during British 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
[edit] Ulster Loyalist
- Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) leader
- John Gregg, senior Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, attempted to assassinate Gerry Adams
- Johnny Adair aka "Mad Dog", UDA commander
[edit] State of Israel
[edit] Italy
[edit] J
[edit] Japan
[edit] K
[edit] Kosovo
- Adem Jashari
- Ramush Haradinaj
- Agim Ceku
- Agim Ramadani
- Sali Çekaj
- Hamëz Jashari
- Bekim Berisha
- Luan Haradinaj
- Daut Haradinaj
[edit] Kashmir
[edit] L
[edit] Laos
[edit] Lebanon
[edit] Lesotho
[edit] Liberia
[edit] Libya
[edit] M
[edit] Malaysia
- Force 136
- Chin Peng, Malayan Communist Party
- Japanese Red Army (Nihon Sekigun)
[edit] Mexico
- Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico
- Pancho Villa
- Emiliano Zapata
- Lucio Cabañas
[edit] Morocco
[edit] Mozambique
[edit] Myanmar
[edit] N
[edit] Namibia
[edit] Nepal
[edit] Netherlands
[edit] Nicaragua
- Adolfo Calero
- Arlen Siu
- Augusto César Sandino
- Roberto Pérez
- Daniel Ortega
- Dora María Téllez
- Edén Pastora (Comandante Cero)
- Enrique Bermúdez
- Humberto Ortega
- Joaquín Cuadra
- Nora Astorga
- Rigoberto Cruz
- Carlos Fonseca
[edit] P
[edit] Pakistan
[edit] Palestine
- 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
[edit] Peru
- Abimael Guzmán (Presidente Gonzalo)
[edit] 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
- Datu Ampuanagus
[edit] Poland
- Feliks Ankerstein
- Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum (If asked: by ethnic Poles, his middle name was Mieczyslaw; if by Jews Mordechaj; in fact, it was Moryc or in English: Morris)
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz
- Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański
- Franciszek Kaminski
- Tadeusz Komorowski
- Józef Kasparek
- Alexander Jozef Lisowski
- Leopold Okulicki
- Jan Piwnik
- Kazimierz Puzak
- Stefan Rowecki
- Avraham Stern (from Suwałki; backed by the Polish Army in 1938 & 1939)
- Emil August Fieldorf "Nil"
[edit] R
[edit] Romania
[edit] Rwanda
[edit] S
[edit] Scotland
[edit] Sierra Leone
[edit] Singapore
[edit] South Africa
- Christiaan de Wet
- Jan Smuts in the Second Boer War
- Koos de la Rey
- Nelson Mandela
- Potlako Leballo
- Walter Sisulu
[edit] Soviet Union
- Mikhail Frunze in the Soviet Union
- Stepniak, Russian radical
- Stepan Bandera
[edit] Spain
- Aben Humeya
- Abo Hafs Omer Al-Baloty
- Francisco Sabate El Quico, Anarchist maquis fighter killed in 1960
- Hermanos Quero, urban guerrilla fighters in Granada (1940–1947)
- José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana
- Pelayo
- Umar ibn Hafsun
- El Empecinado
- Johanne Galan "La Galana"
- Francisco Abad Moreno "Chaleco"
- Agustina de Aragón
[edit] Sri Lanka
- Velupillai Prabakharan, leader of the Tamil Tigers
[edit] Sudan
[edit] Suriname
[edit] Syria
[edit] T
[edit] Tunisia
[edit] Turkey
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- İsmet İnönü
- Orhan Yılmazkaya
- Necdet Adalı
- Taylan Özgür
- Erdal Eren
- Şeyh Bedrettin
- Bahoz Erdal
- Mazlum Doğan
- Kemal Pir
- Hayri Durmuş
- Ali Haydar Yıldız
- Dursun Karataş
- Sabahat Karataş
- Cafer Cangöz
- Gülnaz Yıldız
- Ayçe İdil Erkmen
- Hasan Ocak
- Önder Babat
- Osman Ocalan
- Abdullah Ocalan
- Murat Karayilan
- Deniz Gezmiş
- Hüseyin İnan
- İbrahim Kaypakkaya
- Yusuf Aslan
- Mahir Çayan
- Sinan Cemgil
- Ulaş Bardakçı
- Mihri Belli
- Mahsum Korkmaz
[edit] U
[edit] Uganda
- Yoweri Museveni
- Alice Auma (Alice Lakwena)
- Joseph Kony
[edit] Ukraine
[edit] United Kingdom
- Orde Wingate (founder of the Chindits) in Palestine and Burma
- Owain Glyndŵr in Wales
- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia
- Ursula Graham Bower, led the Nagas against the Japanese during WWII
[edit] United States
[edit] Confederate
- 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
- Jesse James American Civil War
[edit] Symbionese Liberation Army
- Donald DeFreeze
- Camilla Hall
- Emily Harris
- Russ Little
- Patricia Soltysik
- Willie Wolfe
- Weather Underground
[edit] Others
- Wendell Fertig - World War II
- Michael G. Vickers - legendary paramilitary officer in first Afghan war from the CIA's Special Activities Division
- William Orlando Darby - World War II
- William Gentles
- Robert Rogers - French and Indian War
- Francis Marion - American War of Independence
- Touch the Clouds - Native American warrior
- Orlando Bosch in Cuba, America and South America
- Francisco X of the FALN (Frente Americano para la Liberación Nacional) also known as The Guerrilla Alliance
- Ethan Allen - American War of Independence
- Jonathan James Shearman - Gulf war, Urban and Rural crime watchman
- Tony Poe - legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's Special Activities Division
[edit] Uruguay
- Raúl Sendic during the 60's and 70's in Uruguay
[edit] V
[edit] Vietnam
[edit] W
[edit] Western Sahara
[edit] Y
[edit] Yugoslavia
[edit] Z
[edit] Zimbabwe
[edit] 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
- Maoism
- Klepht
- Hajduk
- Martial Race
- Blitzkrieg
- Reagan Doctrine
- Erwin Rommel
- Oliver Cromwell
- Nonviolence
[edit] External links
- List of United States Civil War guerrillas US Civil War guerrillas
