Sandinista National Liberation Front

:Sandinista! is also the name of a popular music album by The Clash.

Prominent Sandinistas

• Bayardo Arce, hard-line National Directorate member in the 1980s
• Patrick Arguello, a Sandinista involved with the Dawson's Field hijackings
• Monica Baltodano
• Tomás Borge, one of the FSLN's founders, leader of the explicitly Marxist Prolonged Popular War tendency in the 1970s, Minister of Interior in the 1980s, architect of FSLN police state policies
• Omar Cabezas
• Ernesto Cardenal, poet and Catholic priest, Minister of Culture in the 1980s
• Luis Carrion, National Directorate member in the 1980s
• Miguel d'Escoto, a Maryknoll Catholic priest, served as Nicaragua's foreign minister
• Carlos Fonseca, one of the FSLN's principal founders and leading ideologist in the 1960s
• Herty Lewites, former mayor of Managua, opponent of Daniel Ortega in 2005
• Vilma Núñez
• Daniel Ortega, post-revolution junta head, then President from 1985, lost presidential elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, but continues to control the FSLN party
• Humberto Ortega, leader of the FSLN Insurrectional Tendency (Tercerista) in the 1970s, chief strategist of the anti-Somoza urban insurrection, Minister of Defense in the 1980s during the Contra war
• Edén Pastora, "Comandante Cero," social democratic guerrilla leader who joined the Terceristas during the anti-Somoza insurrection, broke with FSLN to lead center-left ARDE contra group based in Costa Rica during the 1980s
• Sergio Ramirez, novelist and civilian Sandinista, architect of alliance with moderates in 1970s, Vice President in 1980s, opponent of Daniel Ortega in 1990s
• Henry Ruíz, "Comandante Modesto," FSLN rural guerrilla commander in the 1970s, member of the National Directorate in the 1980s
• Dora María Téllez
• Jaime Wheelock, leader of the FSLN Proletarian Tendency, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, key figure in Nicaragua's economic collapse and alienation of the highland peasantry