Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either advocates or actively engages in some kind of revolution. Since the term "revolution" may be used to refer to a sudden change in any field, one may speak of political revolutionaries, social revolutionaries, revolutionary scientists, inventors, artists, etc.

Alphabetical list of known political revolutionaries

Note: This list is incomplete. If you know a revolutionary who is not listed, you are encouraged to add his or her name to the list.

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• Abdul Qadir Jilani
• John Adams
• Samuel Adams
• Aung San
• Pavel Axelrod
• Antonio de Sucre
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Nicolae B?lcescu
• Ben Bella
• Andrés Bello
• Alexander Berkman
• Maurice Bishop
• Simón Bolívar
• Fidel Castro
• Michael Collins
• George Danton
• Deng Xiaoping
• Jean Jacques Dessalines
• Phoolan Devi
• Friedrich Engels
• Frantz Fanon
• Carlos Fonseca Amador
• Benjamin Franklin
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Marcus Garvey
• Emma Goldman
• Che Guevara
• Abimael Guzmán
• Patrick Henry
• Ho Chi Minh
• Abbie Hoffman
• Hua Guofeng
• Huang Xing
• Avram Iancu
• Thomas Jefferson
• Jesus
• Tupac Katari
• Leila Khaled
• Ayatollah Khomeini
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Kossuth
• Peter Kropotkin
• Béla Kun
• Vladimir Ilich Lenin
• Vasil Levski
• Li Dazhao
• Karl Liebknecht
• Lin Biao
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Francisco I. Madero
• Errico Malatesta
• Malcolm X
• Nelson Mandela
• Mao Zedong
• Jean-Paul Marat
• Farabundo Martí
• José Martí
• Karl Marx
• Mirabal sisters
• Francisco de Miranda
• Khallid Abdul Muhammad
• Isaac Newton
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Toussaint l'Ouverture
• Thomas Paine
• Qiu Jin
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Augusto Sandino
• Thomas Sankara
• Jonas Savimbi
• Assata Shakur
• Bhagat Singh
• Jose Maria Sison
• Georges Sorel
• Spartacus
• Sten Sture
• Sun Yat-sen
• Tecumseh
• Leon Trotsky
• Tupac Amaru
• Kwame Ture
• Nat Turner
• Walter (Wat) Tyler
• The Unknown Rebel
• Pancho Villa
• Tudor Vladimirescu
• George Washington
• Emiliano Zapata
• Zhou Enlai