Outlaw

:For other uses, see Outlaws.

Famous outlaws

The stereotype owes a great deal to English folklore precedents, in the tales of Robin Hood and of gallant highwaymen. But outlawry was once a term of art in the law, and one of the harshest judgments that could be pronounced on anyone's head.

Related Topics:
Stereotype - English - Folklore - Robin Hood - Highwaymen - Term of art - Law - Judgment

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The outlaw is familiar to contemporary readers as an archetype in Western movies, depicting the lawless expansionism period of the United States in the late 19th century. The Western outlaw is typically a criminal who operates from a base in the wilderness, and attacks or disrupts the fragile institutions of new settlements.

Related Topics:
Western movie - Expansionism - Criminal - Wilderness

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Western Outlaw

• Apache Kid
• Butch Cassidy
• Billy the Kid
• Jesse James
• Cole Younger
• List of Western Outlaws

Depression-era "Public Enemy" Outlaws

• John Dillinger
• Bonnie & Clyde
• Ma Barker
• Jack Black

Vikings

• Erik the Red

Medieval

• Robin Hood - Legendary Medieval English outlaw
• William Wallace - Leader of the Scottish resistance to Edward I.
• Rob Roy MacGregor - Scottish Chieftain.
• El Cid Campeador - banned from Castile by the king, he worked as a mercenary for other Spanish lords, Christian and Muslim.

Bandits

• Song Jiang - Historical Chinese bandit immortalised in the classic Water Margin
• Veerappan Indian (of India) bandit.
• Jovo Stanisavljević - Čaruga - Serb in Yugoslavia
• Joco Udmanić - Serb in Yugoslavia
• Perot Rocaguinarda - Catalan bandit, pictured as the gentlemanly bandit Roque Guinart in Don Quixote

Also a term used for gay people

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Australian Bushrangers

• Ned Kelly

Others

• When the government of the First Spanish Republic was unable to reduce the Cantonalist rebellion centered in Cartagena, Spain, the Cartagena fleet was declared piratic, allowing any nation to prey on it.