List of prominent figures in nationalism
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[edit] Early thinkers
[edit] Pre-19th century nationalism
- Pasquale Paoli (Corsica)
- Tiradentes (Brazil)
[edit] 19th century nationalism
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos (Puerto Rico)
- Abd-el-Kader (Algeria)
- Ramon Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rico)
- José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
- Simón Bolívar (South America)
- José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (Paraguay)
- Theodor Herzl (Jews)
- Lola Rodriguez de Tio (Puerto Rico)
- Miguel Hidalgo (Mexico)
- Lajos Kossuth (Hungary)
- Vasil Levski (Bulgaria)
- Jose De Diego (Puerto Rico - 19th and 20th Century)
- José Martí (Cuba)
- Segundo Ruiz Belvis (Puerto Rico)
- Francisco de Miranda (South America)
- Francisco Morazán (Honduras/Central America)
- José María Morelos (Mexico)
- Antonio Nariño (Colombia)
- Daniel O'Connell (Ireland)
- Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile/South America)
- Ernest Renan (France: Especially his 1882 Sorbonne lecture Qu'est-ce qu'une nation ? What is a nation? English translations are widely anthologised
- José de San Martín (South America)
- Stefan Stambolov (Bulgaria)
- Ante Starčević (Croatia)
- Ľudovít Štúr (Slovakia)
- Antonio José de Sucre (South America)
- Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico - 19th and 20th Century)
[edit] National unification
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos (Antilles' Confederacy)
- Otto von Bismarck (Germany)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (Italy)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japan)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (Japan)
- Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
- Sir Georges Cartier (Canada)
- Giuseppe Mazzini (Italy)
- Oda Nobunaga (Japan)
- Qin Shihuangdi (China)
- Pedro Albizu Campos (Latina American unity)
- Simon Bolivar (Gran Colombia)
[edit] Nationalist leaders of 20th century nation states
- Michel Aflaq (Arabs)
- Kemal Atatürk (Turkey)
- Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria)
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda (Malawi)
- Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria)
- David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
- Habib Bourguiba (Tunisia)
- Jānis Čakste (Latvia)
- Michael Collins (Ireland)
- Eamon de Valera (Ireland)
- Gnassingbé Eyadema (Togo)
- King Faisal I (Iraq)
- King Ghazi (Iraq)
- Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky (Ukraine)
- Alija Izetbegović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan)
- Modibo Keita (Mali)
- Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya)
- Kim Il-sung (Korea)
- Patrice Lumumba (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
- Norman Manley (Jamaica)
- King Muhammad V (Morocco)
- Mujibur Rahman (Bangladesh)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt/Arabs)
- Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
- Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana)
- Sam Nujoma (Namibia)
- Milton Obote (Uganda)
- Sylvanus Olympio (Togo)
- Sir Lynden Pindling (The Bahamas)
- Louis Rwagasore (Burundi)
- Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso)
- Antanas Smetona (Lithuania)
- Sukarno (Indonesia)
- Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea)
- Franjo Tuđman (Croatia)
- Eric Williams (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh)
[edit] 20th century nationalist regimes
- Joaquín Balaguer (Dominican Republic)
- Stepan Bandera (Ukraine)
- Chiang Kai-shek (China)
- Francisco Franco (Spain)
- Andrej Hlinka (Slovakia)
- Miklós Horthy (Hungary)
- Gerardo Machado (Cuba)
- Daniel Malan (South Africa)
- Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (El Salvador)
- Ioannis Metaxas (Greece)
- Slobodan Milosevic (Serbia)
- Ante Pavelić (Croatia)
- Juan Perón (Argentina)
- Juan Velasco Alvarado (Peru)
- Augusto Pinochet (Chile)
- Reza Shah (Iran)
- António de Oliveira Salazar (Portugal)
- Jozef Tiso (Slovakia)
- Tojo Hideki (Japan)
- Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic)
- Manuel Fraga (Galiza)
[edit] 20th century nationalist resistance
- James Connolly (Ireland)
- Marcus Garvey (Black Nationalist who lived in Jamaica, the United States and the United Kingdom)
- Ruben Berrios Martinez (Puerto Rico)
- Yasser Arafat (Palestine)
- Emilio Aguinaldo (Philippines)
- Mullah Mustafa Barzani (Kurdistan)
- Mahatma Gandhi (India)
- Isaias Afewerki (Eritrea)
- Dedan Kimathi (Kenya)
- Francis Ona (Bougainville)
- Juan M. Dalmau Ramirez (Puerto Rico)
- Augusto César Sandino (Nicaragua)
- Andimba Toivo ja Toivo (Namibia)
- Michael Collins (Ireland)
- Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico)
- Sean MacStiofain (Ireland)
- Cathal Goulding (Ireland)
- Manuel Rodriguez Orellana (Puerto Rico)
- Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
- Fernando Martin (Puerto Rico)
- Robert Sobukwe (South Africa)
- Gilberto Concepcion de Gracia (Puerto Rico)
- Lolita Lebron (Puerto Rico)
- René Lévesque (Canada/Québec)
[edit] 21st century nationalists
- Ruben Berrios Martinez (Puerto Rico)
- Hugo Chávez (Venezuela)
- Ollanta Humala (Peru)
- David Orchard (Canada)
- Gerry Adams (Ireland)
- Mark Durkan (Ireland)
- Nick Griffin (Britain)
- Mel Hurtig (Canada)
- Maude Barlow (Canada)
[edit] Nationalist politicians
- Ruben Berrios Martinez (Puerto Rico)
- Sabino Arana (Basques)
- Christoph Blocher (Switzerland)
- Umberto Bossi (Italy)
- Anto Đapić (Croatia)
- Roman Dmowski (Poland)
- Gianfranco Fini (Italy)
- Dariush Forouhar (Iran)
- Juan M. Dalmau Ramirez (Puerto Rico)
- Pim Fortuyn (Netherlands)
- Jörg Haider (Austria)
- Shintaro Ishihara (Japan)
- Jean-Marie Le Pen (France)
- Vladimír Mečiar (Slovakia)
- Tomislav Nikolić (Serbia)
- Željko Ražnatović "Arkan" (Yugoslavia)
- Claro M. Recto (Philippines)
- Maria de Lourdes Santiago (Puerto Rico)
- Antun Saadeh (Lebanon)
- Vojislav Šešelj (Serbia)
- Corneliu Vadim Tudor (Romania)
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Russia)
[edit] Anti-nationalists
[edit] Others
- Muammar al-Qaddafi (Libya)
- Winston Churchill (Britain)
- John Diefenbaker (Canada)
- Charles de Gaulle (France)
- Liah Greenfeld
- Zeev Jabotinsky
- Eduard Limonov
- Gavrilo Princip (Serbia)
- Joseph Stalin (former Soviet Union)
- Malcolm X (African Americans)
- Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico)
