List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region

Afghanistan

• Abdul Rashid Dostum in Afghanistan
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Afghanistan
• Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida leader

Algeria

• Abdel Kadir in Algeria

Angola

• Jonas Savimbi in Angola

Chechnya

• Aslan Maskhadov in Chechnya
• Dzhokhar Dudayev in Chechnya
• Akhmed Zakayev in Chechnya
• Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev in Chechnya
• Imam Shamil in Daghestan and Chechnya

China

• Mao Zedong in China

Cuba

• Fidel Castro in Cuba
• Che Guevara in Cuba, Africa and South America
• Antonio Maceo y Grajales in Cuba

Cyprus

• George Grivas in Cyprus

Dominican Republic

• Ramón Natera in the Dominican Republic

France

• Georges Cadoudal in France

Germany

• Thomas Muentzer in Germany

Guinea

• Samory Touré in Guinea

Indonesia

• Abdul Haris Nasution in Indonesia
• Riduan Isamuddin (Hambali), Jemaah Islamiyah
• Abu Bakar Bashir, Jemaah Islamiyah

Ireland

• Michael Collins, Old IRA guerrilla leader (during British colonial rule of Ireland)
• Tom Barry
• Gerry Adams, suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member
• Martin McGuiness, suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member
• Seamus Costello, Official IRA member
• Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader
• John Gregg, senior Ulster Defence Association member, attempted to assassinate Gerry Adams
• Johnny Adair aka "Mad Dog", leader of the Ulster Freedom Fighters
• Steakknife, senior Provisional IRA member and British government informant , alleged to be Freddie Scappaticci
• Bobby Sands, IRA member and Hunger Striker
• Francis Hughes, IRA member and later Hunger Striker
• Dominic "Mad Dog" McGlinchey, IRA and later INLA leader

Iraq

• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
• Moqtada al-Sadr

Japan

• Kusunoki Masahige in Japan

Lesotho

• Ntsu Mokhehle in Lesotho

Mexico

• Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico

Nicaragua

• Eden Pastora or Commandante Zero in Nicaragua
• Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua

Palestine

Stern Gang

• Yitzhak Shamir in Palestine
• Yasser Arafat in Palestine
• George Habash
• Leila Khaled
• Abu Nidal
• Sheikh iz al-Din Al-Qassem
• Yahya Ayyash
• Marwan Barghouti
• Amin al-Husayni
• Ahmed Jibril
• Leila Khaled
• Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil
• Khaled Mashal
• Dalal Mughrabi
• Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
• Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
• Omar Rezaq
• Sirhan Sirhan
• Mahmoud Tawallbe
• Ahmed Yas

Pakistan

• Ramzi Yousef, Al-Qaida

Singapore

• Lim Bo Seng, Force 136
• Tan Chong Tee, Force 136

South Africa

• Nelson Mandela in South Africa
• Jan Smuts in the Boer War
• Christiaan de Wet in South Africa

Soviet Union

• Mikhail Frunze in the Soviet Union
• Stepniak, Russian radical

Spain

• Mikel Albizu Iriarte suspected ETA leader from 1993 to 2004 until his arrest in France [1]
• Soledad Iparraguirre , Albizu's partner, considered to be the highest-ranking woman in ETA accused of 14 murders, arrested in France with Albizu

Sri Lanka

• Velupillai Prabakharan, leader of the Tamil Tigers

Suriname

• Ronnie Brunswijk in Suriname

Ukraine

• Nestor Makhno in the Ukraine

United Kingdom

• T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia
• Orde Wingate (founder of the Chindits) in Palestine and Burma

United States

• Wendell Fertig World War 2
• William Quantrill United States Civil War
• Dan Showalter United States Civil War

Symbionese Liberation Army

• Donald DeFreeze
• Camilla Hall
• Emily Harris
• Russ Little
• Patricia Soltysik
• Willie Wolfe

Weather Underground

Others

• Orlando Bosch in Cuba, America and South America

Vietnam

• Vo Nguyen Giap in Vietnam

Yugoslavia

• Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia

See also

• List of guerrilla movements
• List of alleged Al-Qaida members

External link

• List of United States Civil War guerrillas US Civil War guerrillas