List of guerrillas

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List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region:

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A

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Jonas Savimbi

Arabia

Argentina

Austria

Andreas Hofer

B

Bangladesh

Kader Siddique in Tangail
Hemayet Uddin in Faridpur
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan in Narsingdi
Afser Uddin in Mymensing
Khondoker Baten in Tangail
Akber Hussein Miah in Jinaidah
Latif Mirza in Sirajganj
Cpt. Halim Chowdhary in Manikganj
Zia Uddin in Sundarban

Balochistan

Bolivia

Che Guevara in Ñancahuazu

Brazil

C

Cambodia

Pol Pot

Cameroon

Canada

Joseph Broussard, who also went by the pseudonym Beausoleil.
Gabriel Dumont
Louis Riel
"Yank" Levy

Chad

Chechnya

China

Mao Zedong

Colombia

Cuba

Cyprus

Georgios Grivas

D

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominican Republic

E

Egypt

Inaros (an Egyptian rebel ruler) together with Athenian allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against Persians.

El Salvador

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

F

France

G

Germany

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Thomas Müntzer in Germany

Greece

Guatemala

Rodrigo Asturias
Comandante Rolando Morán

Guinea

Samory Touré

H

Haiti

I

Republic of India

Indonesia

General Sudirman was the military commander of Republican Indonesian forces during Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch in the 1940s
Abdul Haris Nasution

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Irish Republican

Michael Collins, Irish Republican Army guerrilla leader during British rule of Ireland
Tom Barry
Gerry Adams, suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member
Martin McGuinness, suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member
Seamus Costello, Official IRA member
Stakeknife, senior Provisional IRA member and British government informant, alleged to be Freddie Scappaticci
Bobby Sands, Provisional IRA member and hunger striker
Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA member and later hunger striker
Dominic McGlinchey, Provisional IRA and later INLA leader

Ulster Loyalist

Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) leader
John Gregg, senior Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, attempted to assassinate Gerry Adams
Johnny Adair aka "Mad Dog", UDA commander

Israel

Italy

J

Japan

K

Kosovo

Kenya

Kurdistan

L

Laos

Lebanon

Hassan Nasrallah

Lesotho

Ntsu Mokhehle

Liberia

Libya

Omar Mukhtar

Lithuania

M

Malaysia

Mexico

Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico
Pancho Villa
Emiliano Zapata
Lucio Cabañas
Miguel Hidalgo

Morocco

Abd el-Krim

Mozambique

Myanmar

N

Namibia

Nepal

Prachanda

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Nigeria

P

Pakistan

Ramzi Yousef (Al-Qaeda)

Palestine

Peru

Abimael Guzmán (Presidente Gonzalo)
Tupac Amaru

Philippines

Poland

Feliks Ankerstein
Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum (If asked: by ethnic Poles, his middle name was Mieczysław; if by Jews Mordechaj; in fact, it was Moryc or in English: Morris)
Edmund Charaszkiewicz
Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański
Franciszek Kamiński
Tadeusz Komorowski
Józef Kasparek
Aleksander Józef Lisowski
Leopold Okulicki
Jan Piwnik
Kazimierz Pużak
Stefan Rowecki
Avraham Stern (from Suwałki; backed by the Polish Army in 1938 & 1939)
Emil August Fieldorf "Nil"

R

Romania

Vlad the Impaler

Rwanda

S

Serbia

See list of Serbian hajduks
Serbian Revolutionaries (1804–15)
Serbian Chetnik Organization (1903–08)
Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (1941–45)

Scotland

Sierra Leone

Foday Sankoh

Singapore

South Africa

Soviet Union

Mikhail Frunze in the Soviet Union
Stepniak, Russian radical
Stepan Bandera

Spain

Aben Humeya
Abo Hafs Omer Al-Baloty
Francisco Sabate El Quico, Anarchist maquis fighter killed in 1960
Hermanos Quero, urban guerrilla fighters in Granada (1940–1947)
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana
Pelagius of Asturias
Umar ibn Hafsun
El Empecinado
Johanne Galan "La Galana"
Francisco Abad Moreno "Chaleco"
Agustina de Aragón

Sudan

Suriname

Ronnie Brunswijk

Syria

Sultan al-Atrash

T

Tunisia

Turkey

U

Uganda

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Orde Wingate (founder of the Chindits) in Palestine and Burma
Owain Glyndŵr in Wales
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia
Ursula Graham Bower, led the Nagas against the Japanese during World War II

United States

William T. Anderson

Revolutionary War

Confederate

World War II

Symbionese Liberation Army

Weather Underground

List of Weatherman members

Others

Michael G. Vickers - legendary paramilitary officer in first Afghan war from the CIA's Special Activities Division
William Gentles - Civil War
Robert Rogers - French and Indian War
Francis Marion - American War of Independence
Touch the Clouds - Native American warrior
Orlando Bosch in Cuba, America and South America
Ethan Allen - American War of Independence
Jonathan James Shearman - Gulf war, Urban and Rural crime watchman
Tony Poe - legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's Special Activities Division
Geronimo - Native American freedom fighter
Osceola - Native American freedom fighter
Nat Turner - Leader of slave rebellion

Uruguay

Raúl Sendic during the 1960s and '70s in Uruguay

V

Vietnam

W

Western Sahara

Y

Yugoslavia

Z

Zimbabwe

See also

External links

List of United States Civil War guerrillas US Civil War guerrillas

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