List of guerrillas

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List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region:

[edit] Afghanistan

• Abdul Rashid Dostum
• Abdul Haq
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
• Ismail Khan
• Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida leader
• Ahmed Shah Massoud

[edit] Algeria

• Abdel Kadir in Algeria

[edit] Angola

• Jonas Savimbi in Angola

[edit] Bolivia

• Che Guevara in Ñancahuazu, Bolivia

[edit] Brazil

• Carlos Marighella

[edit] Cambodia

• Pol Pot

[edit] Chad

• Hissène Habré

[edit] Chechnya

• Aslan Maskhadov
• Dzhokhar Dudayev
• Akhmed Zakayev
• Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
• Imam Shamil in Daghestan

[edit] China

• Mao Zedong in China

[edit] Cuba

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

[edit] Cyprus

• George Grivas in Cyprus

[edit] Dominican Republic

• Ramón Natera in the Dominican Republic

[edit] El Salvador

• Cayetano Carpio (Comandante Marcial)
• Joaquín Villalobos

[edit] Estonia

• Rummu Jüri
• Aivar Voitka
• Ülo Voitka

[edit] Ethiopia

• Seeye Abraha

[edit] France

• Georges Cadoudal
• Charles de Gaulle

[edit] Germany

• Thomas Muentzer in Germany
• Red Army Faction

[edit] Guatemala

• Comandante Rolando Morán

[edit] Guinea

• Samory Touré in Guinea

[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
• Massoud Rajavi
• Maryam Rajavi

[edit] Iraq

• Mustafa Barzani
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
• Moqtada al-Sadr

[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 "Mad Dog" 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/Palestine

• Yasser Arafat
• George Habash
• Leila Khaled
• Abu Nidal
• Yahya Ayyash
• Marwan Barghouti
• Amin al-Husayni
• Ahmed Jibril
• Leila Khaled
• Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil
• Khaled Mashal
• Dalal Mughrabi
• Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
• Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
• Omar Rezaq
• Sirhan Sirhan
• Mahmoud Tawallbe
• Ahmed Yassin

[edit] Japan

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

[edit] Lebanon

• Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon

[edit] Lesotho

• Ntsu Mokhehle in Lesotho

[edit] Liberia

• Charles Taylor
• Prince Johnson

[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] Mozambique

• Afonso Dhlakama

[edit] Myanmar

• Khun Sa

[edit] Nicaragua

• Edén Pastora (Comandante Cero) in Nicaragua
• Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua

[edit] Pakistan

• Ramzi Yousef (Al-Qaida)

[edit] Peru

• Abimael Guzmán (Presidente Gonzalo)

[edit] Philippines

• Emilio Aguinaldo
• Luis Taruc

[edit] Poland

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

[edit] Rwanda

• Paul Kagame

[edit] Sierra Leone

• Foday Sankoh

[edit] Singapore

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

[edit] South Africa

• Nelson Mandela in South Africa
• Jan Smuts in the Second Boer War
• Christiaan de Wet in South Africa
• Potlako Kitchener Leballo in South Africa. Leballo, a Basotho World War Two veteran of the South African Army and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) Secretary-General, took over direction of the peasant-initiated POQO Rising in South Africa in 1962. Exiled in 1964, he formed the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), which saw service in the late 60's in Mozambique.

In the 1970's Leballo facilitated the Libyan training of the Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA). He died in 1986.

[edit] Soviet Union

• Mikhail Frunze in the Soviet Union
• Stepniak, Russian radical

[edit] Spain

• Mikel Albizu Iriarte suspected ETA leader from 1993 to 2004 until his arrest in France [1]
• Soledad Iparraguirre, Albizu's partner, considered to be the highest-ranking woman in ETA accused of 14 murders, arrested in France with Albizu
• Francisco Sabate El Quico, Anarchist maquis fighter killed in 1960

[edit] Sri Lanka

• Velupillai Prabakharan, leader of the Tamil Tigers

[edit] Sudan

• John Garang

[edit] Suriname

• Ronnie Brunswijk in Suriname

[edit] Turkey

• Abdullah Öcalan

[edit] Uganda

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

[edit] Ukraine

• Nestor Makhno in the Ukraine

[edit] United Kingdom

• T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia
• Orde Wingate (founder of the Chindits) in Palestine and Burma

[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

[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

[edit] Uruguay

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

[edit] Vietnam

• Vo Nguyen Giap in Vietnam

[edit] Yugoslavia

• Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
• Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia

[edit] See also

• List of guerrilla movements
• List of alleged Al-Qaida members

[edit] External link

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