List of guerrillas
List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region:
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A
Afghanistan
- Ahmed Shah Massoud
- Abdul Haq
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
- Ismail Khan
- Mohammed Omar
- Osama bin Laden
- Jalaluddin Haqqani
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Arabia
Argentina
Austria
B
Bangladesh
- Kader Siddique in Tangail
- Hemayet Uddin in Faridpur
- Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan in Narsingdi
- Afser Uddin in Mymensing
- Khondoker Baten in Tangail
- Akber Hussein Miah in Jinaidah
- Latif Mirza in Sirajganj
- Cpt. Halim Chowdhary in Manikganj
- Zia Uddin in Sundarban
Balochistan
Bolivia
- Che Guevara in Ñancahuazu
Brazil
C
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
- Joseph Broussard, who also went by the pseudonym Beausoleil.
- Gabriel Dumont
- Louis Riel
- "Yank" Levy
Chad
Chechnya
- Aslan Maskhadov
- Dzhokhar Dudayev
- Akhmed Zakayev
- Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
- Imam Shamil in Daghestan
- Amir Ibn al-Khattab
- Sheikh Abdul Halim
- Shamil Basayev
China
Colombia
Cuba
Cyprus
D
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dominican Republic
E
Egypt
- Inaros (an Egyptian rebel ruler) together with Athenian allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against Persians.
El Salvador
- Farabundo Martí
- Schafik Handal
- Cayetano Carpio (Comandante Marcial)
- Joaquín Villalobos
- Ana María
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
F
France
G
Germany
- Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
- Thomas Müntzer in Germany
Greece
- Athanasios Diakos
- Geórgios Karaïskákis
- Manolis Glezos
- Markos Botsaris
- Odysseas Androutsos
- Theodoros Kolokotronis
- Antonis Vratsanos
- Daskalogiannis
Guatemala
- Rodrigo Asturias
- Comandante Rolando Morán
Guinea
H
Haiti
- Benoît Batraville
- Charlemagne Péralte
- Toussaint L'ouverture
- Francois Mackandal
- Vincent Oge
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines
- Francois Capois
- Henri Christophe
- Sans-Souci
- Dutty Boukman
I
Republic of India
- Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja in Kerala
- Sangolli Rayanna in Karnataka
- Chatrapati Shivaji
- Komaram Bheem in Andhra Pradesh
- Alluri Sita Rama Raju in Andhra Pradesh
- Malik Ambar
- Patel Sudhakar Reddy
- Sakhamuri Appa Rao
- Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan
- Sayeed Salahudeen
- Abdul Hamid Sheikh
- Yasin Malik
- Ahsan Dar
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
Iran
Iraq
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
- Abu Ayyub al-Masri
- Muqtada al-Sadr
- Zayd ibn Ali
- Ishmael Jubouri
- Abu Omar al-Baghdadi
- Abu Muslim
Ireland
- Michael Collins, Irish Republican Army guerrilla leader during British rule of Ireland
- Tom Barry
- Gerry Adams, suspected 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 INLA leader
- 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
Israel
Italy
J
Japan
K
Kosovo
- Adem Jashari
- Ramush Haradinaj
- Agim Ceku
- Agim Ramadani
- Sali Çekaj
- Hamëz Jashari
- Bekim Berisha
- Luan Haradinaj
- Daut Haradinaj
Kenya
Kurdistan
- Mahmud Barzanji
- Foad Mostafa Soltani
- Abdullah Mohtadi
- Sedigh Kamangar
- Hama Hussein Karimi
- Jafar Shafiyi
- 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
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania
- Jonas Žemaitis
- Adolfas Ramanauskas
- Juozas Lukša
- Lionginas Baliukevičius
- Juozas Vitkus-Kazimieraitis
- Jonas Misiūnas-Žalias Velnias
- Vaclovas Voveris-Žaibas
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.
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
N
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
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
Nigeria
P
Pakistan
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
Peru
- Abimael Guzmán (Presidente Gonzalo)
- Tupac Amaru
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
- Felomino Venus
- Shanley Matthew G. Lumagod
Poland
- Feliks Ankerstein
- Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum (If asked: by ethnic Poles, his middle name was Mieczysław; if by Jews Mordechaj; in fact, it was Moryc or in English: Morris)
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz
- Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański
- Franciszek Kamiński
- Tadeusz Komorowski
- Józef Kasparek
- Aleksander Józef Lisowski
- Leopold Okulicki
- Jan Piwnik
- Kazimierz Pużak
- Stefan Rowecki
- Avraham Stern (from Suwałki; backed by the Polish Army in 1938 & 1939)
- Emil August Fieldorf "Nil"
R
Romania
Rwanda
S
Serbia
- See list of Serbian hajduks
- Serbian Revolutionaries (1804–15)
- Serbian Chetnik Organization (1903–08)
- Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (1941–45)
Scotland
Sierra Leone
Singapore
South Africa
- Christiaan de Wet
- Jan Smuts in the Second Boer War
- Koos de la Rey
- Nelson Mandela
- Potlako Leballo
- Walter Sisulu
- Jacob Zuma
- Joe Slovo
- Chris Hani
Soviet Union
- Mikhail Frunze in the Soviet Union
- Stepniak, Russian radical
- Stepan Bandera
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
- Pelagius of Asturias
- Umar ibn Hafsun
- El Empecinado
- Johanne Galan "La Galana"
- Francisco Abad Moreno "Chaleco"
- Agustina de Aragón
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
T
Tunisia
Turkey
- Orhan Yılmazkaya
- Necdet Adalı
- Taylan Özgür
- Erdal Eren
- Şeyh Bedrettin
- Hayri Durmuş
- Ali Haydar Yıldız
- Dursun Karataş
- Sabahat Karataş
- Cafer Cangöz
- Gülnaz Yıldız
- Ayçe İdil Erkmen
- Hasan Ocak
- Önder Babat
- Deniz Gezmiş
- Hüseyin İnan
- İbrahim Kaypakkaya
- Yusuf Aslan
- Mahir Çayan
- Sinan Cemgil
- Ulaş Bardakçı
- Mihri Belli
U
Uganda
- Yoweri Museveni
- Alice Auma (Alice Lakwena)
- Joseph Kony
Ukraine
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 World War II
United States
Revolutionary War
- Bloody Bill Anderson
- Champ Ferguson
- William Quantrill
- Dan Showalter
- John Singleton Mosby
- John Hunt Morgan
- Evan MacLeod
- Frank and Jesse James
- Earl Van Dorn
- Archie Clement
World War II
- Aaron Bank
- Donald Blackburn
- Evans Carlson
- William Orlando Darby
- Merritt Edson
- Carl F. Eifler
- Wendell Fertig
- Roger Hilsman
- William R. Peers
- Russell W. Volckmann
Others
- Michael G. Vickers - legendary paramilitary officer in first Afghan war from the CIA's Special Activities Division
- William Gentles - Civil War
- 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
- 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
- Geronimo - Native American freedom fighter
- Osceola - Native American freedom fighter
- Nat Turner - Leader of slave rebellion
- Davy Crockett - famous frontiersmen, fought and died at the Fall of the Alamo.
- Daniel Boone - famous frontiersmen, Indian fighter, and American Revolutionary War hero.
- William B. Travis - commander of the Texans at the Fall of the Alamo.
- 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
Uruguay
- Raúl Sendic during the 1960s and '70s in Uruguay
V
Vietnam
W
Western Sahara
Y
Yugoslavia
Z
Zimbabwe
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
- List of active communist armed groups
- Maoism
- Klepht
- Hajduk
- Martial Race
- Blitzkrieg
- Reagan Doctrine
- Erwin Rommel
- Oliver Cromwell
- Nonviolence
External links
- List of United States Civil War guerrillas US Civil War guerrillas