List of figures in nationalism

A list of prominent figures on the topic of nationalism.

Early thinkers

• Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi
• Johann Gottfried von Herder
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Jeanne d'Arc
• Brian Boru
• Theobald Wolfe Tone
• William Wallace
• Robert the Bruce
• Owain Glyndŵr

19th century nationalism

• Toussaint L'Ouverture (Haiti)
• Count Ioannis Kapodistrias (Greece)
• Eugenio María de Hostos (Puerto Rico)
• Abd-el-Kader (Algeria)
• Ramón Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rico)
• José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
• Simón Bolívar (South America)
• José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (Paraguay)
• Theodor Herzl (Jews)
• Lola Rodríguez de Tio (Puerto Rico)
• Miguel Hidalgo (Mexico)
• Lajos Kossuth (Hungary)
• José de Diego (Puerto Rico - 19th and 20th century)
• José Martí (Cuba)
• Segundo Ruiz Belvis (Puerto Rico)
• Francisco de Miranda (South America)
• Sheikh Hassan Barsane (Somalia)
• 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
• Alexander I (Russian Empire)
• José de San Martín (South America)
• Ante Starčević (Croatia)
• Ľudovít Štúr (Slovakia)
• Antonio José de Sucre (South America)
• Tecumseh (United States and Canada)
• Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico - 19th and 20th century)

National unification

• Eugenio María de Hostos (Antilles' Confederacy)
• Otto von Bismarck (Germany)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (Italy)
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japan)
• Aden Abdullah Osman Daar (Somalia)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (Japan)
• Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier (Canada)
• Ivan the Terrible (Russia)
• Brian Boru (Ireland)
• Giuseppe Mazzini (Italy)
• Oda Nobunaga (Japan)
• Qin Shihuangdi (China)
• Pedro Albizu Campos (Latina American unity)
• Simón Bolívar (Gran Colombia)
• Oliver Cromwell (Britain)
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (India)

Nationalist leaders of 20th century nation states

• Michel Aflaq (Arabs)
• Abdullahi Issa (Somalia)
• Kemal Atatürk (Turkey)
• Eleftherios Venizelos (Greece)
• King Ghazi (Iraq)
• Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)
• Mykhailo Hrushevsky (Ukraine)
• Miklós Horthy (Hungary)
• Alija Izetbegović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan)
• Mohammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
• Chaudhry Rehmat Ali (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)
• Juan Domingo Perón (Argentina)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt/Arabs)
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (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)
• Eric Williams (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh)

20th century nationalist regimes

• Adolf Hitler (Germany)
• Plaek Pibulsonggram (Thailand)
• Chiang Kai-shek (China)
• Sun Yat-sen (China)
• Benito Mussolini (Italy)
• Francisco Franco (Spain)
• Andrej Hlinka (Slovakia)
• Gerardo Machado (Cuba)
• Daniel Malan (South Africa)
• Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (El Salvador)
• Ioannis Metaxas (Greece)
• Ion Antonescu (Romania)
• Slobodan Milošević (Serbia)
• Ante Pavelić (Croatia)
• 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)
• Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)
• Fidel Castro (Cuba)

20th century nationalist resistance

• James Connolly (Ireland)
• Marcus Garvey (Pan Africanist who lived in Jamaica, the United States and the United Kingdom)
• Henri Bourassa (Canada)
• Rubén Berríos Martínez (Puerto Rico)
• Stepan Bandera (Ukraine)
• Yasser Arafat (Palestine)
• Emilio Aguinaldo (Philippines)
• Mullah Mustafa Barzani (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• Mahatma Gandhi (India)
• Dedan Kimathi (Kenya)
• Francis Ona (Bougainville)
• Juan Dalmau Ramírez (Puerto Rico)
• Augusto César Sandino (Nicaragua)
• Andimba Toivo ja Toivo (Namibia)
• Michael Collins (Ireland)
• Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico)
• Sean MacStiofain (Ireland)
• General Aidid (Somalia)
• Cathal Goulding (Ireland)
• Manuel Rodríguez Orellana (Puerto Rico)
• Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• Fernando Martín (Puerto Rico)
• Mohammed Mosaddeq (Iran)
• Robert Sobukwe (South Africa)
• Gilberto Concepción de Gracia (Puerto Rico)
• Lolita Lebrón (Puerto Rico)
• René Lévesque (Canada/Quebec)
• Vietminh (Vietnam)
• Vietcong (Vietnam)

20th and 21st century nationalists

• Rubén Berríos Martínez (Puerto Rico)
• David Orchard (Canada)
• Gerry Adams (Ireland)
• Mark Durkan (Ireland)
• Nick Griffin (United Kingdom)
• Michael Savage (United States)
• Mel Hurtig (Canada)
• Maude Barlow (Canada)
• Pat Buchanan (United States)
• Jared Taylor (United States)
• Nigel Farage (United Kingdom)
• Juan José Ibarretxe (Basque Country)
• Glenn Beck (United States)
• Meir Kahane (Israel)
• Geert Wilders (The Netherlands)
• Donald Trump (United States)

Nationalist politicians

• Narendra Modi (India)
• Amit Shah (India)
• Sabino Arana (Basques)
• Christoph Blocher (Switzerland)
• Anto Đapić (Croatia)
• Roman Dmowski (Poland)
• Hossein Fatemi (Iran)
• Gianfranco Fini (Italy)
• Dariush Forouhar (Iran)
• Juan Dalmau Ramírez (Puerto Rico)
• Pim Fortuyn (Netherlands)
• Éamon de Valera (Ireland)
• Jörg Haider (Austria)
• Shintaro Ishihara (Japan)
• Dimitar Stoyanov (Bulgaria)
• Volen Siderov (Bulgaria)
• Jean-Marie Le Pen (France)
• Vladimír Mečiar (Slovakia)
• Željko Ražnatović "Arkan" (Yugoslavia - Serbia)
• Claro M. Recto (Philippines)
• Maria de Lourdes Santiago (Puerto Rico)
• Xabier Arzalluz (Basque Country)
• Antun Saadeh (Lebanon)
• Ali Mohamed Osoble (Somalia)
• Vojislav Šešelj (Serbia)
• Corneliu Vadim Tudor (Romania)
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Russia)
• Begum Khaleda Zia (Bangladesh)
• Nick Griffin (United Kingdom)
• Alex Salmond (United Kingdom)
• Richard Barnbrook (United Kingdom)
• Andrew Brons (United Kingdom)