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
• Jalaluddin Haqqani

[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
• Amir Ibn al-Khattab

[edit] China

• Mao Zedong in China

[edit] Colombia

• FARC
• ELN
• AUC

[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

• Hayelom Araya
• Kinfe Gebremedhin
• Meles Zenawi
• Sebhat Nega
• Siye Abraha

[edit] France

• Georges Cadoudal
• Charles de Gaulle

[edit] Germany

• Thomas Muentzer in Germany

[edit] Greece

• Manolis Glezos

[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 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
• 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
• Abu Ali Mustafa
• Ahmad Sa'adat

[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)
• Mir Balach Khan Marri (Baloch liberation Army)

[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
• Jan Smuts in the Second Boer War
• Christiaan de Wet
• Potlako Leballo

[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

• Ho Chi Minh
• Vo Nguyen Giap

[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