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List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region:

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

[edit] Afghanistan

• Abdul Haq
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
• Ismail Khan
• Mohammed Omar
• Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida leader
• Ahmed Shah Massoud
• Jalaluddin Haqqani

[edit] Albania

• Skanderbeg

[edit] Algeria

• Abdel Kadir in Algeria
• Saadi Yacef
• Ali la Pointe

[edit] Angola

• Jonas Savimbi in Angola

[edit] Arabia

• Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
• T. E. Lawrence

[edit] Argentina

• Enrique Gorriarán Merlo

[edit] Austria

• Andreas Hofer

[edit] B

[edit] Bolivia

• Che Guevara in Ñancahuazu, Bolivia

[edit] Brazil

• Anita Garibaldi in Brazil.
• Carlos Marighella
• Giuseppe Garibaldi in Brazil.

[edit] C

[edit] Cambodia

• Pol Pot

[edit] Cameroon

• Osende Afana
• Félix Moumié
• Ernest Ouandié
• Ruben Um Nyobé

[edit] Chad

• Goukouni Oueddei
• Hissène Habré
• Ibrahim Abatcha
• Idriss Déby
• Rabih az-Zubayr
• Youssouf Togoïmi

[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 Zedong in China

[edit] Colombia

• Jacobo Arenas
• Manuel Marulanda
• Camilo Torres

[edit] Cuba

• Fidel Castro in Cuba
• Camilo Cienfuegos
• Che Guevara in Cuba, Bolivia, Africa and South America
• Antonio Maceo in Cuba

[edit] Cyprus

• Georgios Grivas in Cyprus

[edit] D

[edit] Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Laurent-Désiré Kabila
• Laurent Nkunda
• Pierre Mulele

[edit] Dominican Republic

• Ramón Natera in the Dominican Republic
• Gregorio Urbano Gilbert

[edit] E

[edit] Egypt

• Inarus ( an Egyptian rebel ruler ) together with the Greek allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against Persians.

[edit] El Salvador

• Ana María
• Cayetano Carpio (Comandante Marcial)
• Joaquín Villalobos

[edit] Eritrea

• Isaias Afewerki

[edit] Estonia

• Rummu Jüri
• Aivar Voitka
• Ülo Voitka

[edit] Ethiopia

• Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
• Hayelom Araya
• Kinfe Gebremedhin
• Meles Zenawi
• Sebhat Nega
• Siye Abraha

[edit] F

[edit] France

• Bertrand du Guesclin
• Charles de Gaulle
• Georges Cadoudal

[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

[edit] Guatemala

• Rodrigo Asturias
• Comandante Rolando Morán

[edit] Guinea

• Samory Touré in Guinea

[edit] H

[edit] Haiti

• Benoît Batraville
• Charlemagne Péralte

[edit] I

[edit] India

• Alluri Seetharamaraju in Andhra Pradesh
• General Akhil Uppal,

[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

• Ashraf Dehghani
• Babak Khorramdin
• Hassan-i Sabbah
• Ismail I
• Massoud Rajavi
• Maryam Rajavi

[edit] Iraq

• Mustafa Barzani
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
• Moqtada al-Sadr
• Zayd ibn Ali

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Irish Republican

• 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

[edit] Ulster Loyalist

• 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

[edit] Israel

• Avraham Stern
• Menachem Begin
• Yitzhak Shamir

[edit] Italy

• Fabius Maximus
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Giuseppe Mazzini

[edit] J

[edit] Japan

• Kusunoki Masashige
• Hosoya Judayu
• Tatsumi Naofumi
• Hayashi Tadataka

[edit] K

[edit] Kosovo

• Hashim Thaci

[edit] L

[edit] Lebanon

• Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon

[edit] Lesotho

• Ntsu Mokhehle in Lesotho

[edit] Liberia

• Charles Taylor
• Prince Johnson

[edit] Libya

• Omar Mukhtar

[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

[edit] Morocco

• Abd el-Krim

[edit] Mozambique

• Afonso Dhlakama
• André Matsangaissa
• Eduardo Mondlane
• Filipe Samuel Magaia
• Samora Moïses Machel

[edit] Myanmar

• Khun Sa
• Saya San

[edit] N

[edit] Namibia

• Jakobus Morenga
• Hendrik Witbooi

[edit] Nepal

• Prachanda

[edit] Netherlands

• Pier Gerlofs Donia
• Wijerd Jelckama
• Haring Harinxma
• Jancko Douwama

[edit] Nicaragua

• 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

[edit] P

[edit] Pakistan

• Ramzi Yousef (Al-Qaida)

[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

• Emilio Aguinaldo
• Gabriela Silang
• José María Sison
• Luis Taruc

[edit] Poland

• Feliks Ankerstein
• Edmund Charaszkiewicz
• Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański
• Józef Kasparek

[edit] R

[edit] Romania

• Vlad the Impaler

[edit] Rwanda

• Paul Kagame
• Fred Rwigema

[edit] S

[edit] Scotland

• Robert I of Scotland
• William Wallace

[edit] Sierra Leone

• Foday Sankoh

[edit] Singapore

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

[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
• José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana
• Pelayo
• Umar ibn Hafsun
• El Empecinado

[edit] Sri Lanka

• Velupillai Prabakharan, leader of the Tamil Tigers
• Rohana Wijeweera

[edit] Sudan

• John Garang
• Khalil Ibrahim
• Muhammad Ahmad
• Osman Digna
• Rabih az-Zubayr
• Sebehr Rahma

[edit] Suriname

• Ronnie Brunswijk in Suriname

[edit] T

[edit] Tunisia

• Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i
• Abu Yazid
• Hannibal

[edit] Turkey

• Abdullah Öcalan
• Deniz Gezmiş
• Hüseyin İnan
• İbrahim Kaypakkaya
• Yusuf Aslan
• Mahir Çayan
• Sinan Cemgil
• Ulaş Bardakçı
• Mihri Belli

[edit] U

[edit] Uganda

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

[edit] Ukraine

• Nestor Makhno in the 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

[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

[edit] Symbionese Liberation Army

• Donald DeFreeze
• Camilla Hall
• Emily Harris
• Russ Little
• Patricia Soltysik
• Willie Wolfe

[edit] Weather Underground

[edit] 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

[edit] Uruguay

• Raúl Sendic during the 60's and 70's in Uruguay

[edit] V

[edit] Vietnam

• Lê Lợi
• Ho Chi Minh
• Vo Nguyen Giap

[edit] Y

[edit] Yugoslavia

• Draža Mihailović in Yugoslavia
• Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia

[edit] Z

[edit] Zimbabwe

• Joshua Nkomo
• Robert Mugabe

[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
• Erwin Rommel
• Oliver Cromwell
• Nonviolence

[edit] External links

• List of United States Civil War guerrillas US Civil War guerrillas