Fighters for independence and radical change — from anti-colonial revolutionaries to political icons who upended empires and ideologies.
54 historical figures, born between 1743 and 1956, across 34 countries.
Birth years 1743 to 1956 · 34 countries · 5 continents · Main fields: Politics (41), Literature (6), Military (3), Philosophy (2), Arts & Music (1), Science (1)
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Frantz Fanon b. 1925
Eleftherios Venizelos b. 1864
Cai Yuanpei b. 1868
Bhagat Singh b. 1907
Chandra Shekhar Azad b. 1906
Hemu Kalani b. 1923
Che Guevara b. 1928
Amílcar Cabral b. 1924
Mao Zedong b. 1893
Georgi Dimitrov b. 1882
Josip Broz Tito b. 1892
Thomas Sankara b. 1949
Meena Keshwar Kamal b. 1956
Jonas Savimbi b. 1934
Leon Trotsky b. 1879
Kwame Nkrumah b. 1909
Vasil Levski b. 1837
Emiliano Zapata b. 1879
Hristo Botev b. 1847
Raúl Castro b. 1931
Jomo Kenyatta b. 1893
Fidel Castro b. 1926
Sun Yat-sen b. 1866
Simón Bolívar b. 1783
Agostinho Neto b. 1922
Muammar Gaddafi b. 1942
Sándor Petőfi b. 1823
Zhou Enlai b. 1898
Kalpana Datta b. 1913
Miguel Malvar b. 1865
Doria Shafik b. 1908
Patrice Lumumba b. 1925
Mahatma Gandhi b. 1869
Ho Chi Minh b. 1890
Pancho Villa b. 1878
Vladimir Lenin b. 1870
Toussaint Louverture b. 1743
Emilio Aguinaldo b. 1869
José Rizal b. 1861
Ahmed Ben Bella b. 1916
Sukarno b. 1901
Lord Byron b. 1788
Kim Il Sung b. 1912
Nelson Mandela b. 1918
Samora Machel b. 1933
Subhas Chandra Bose b. 1897
Marcelo H. del Pilar b. 1850
Andrés Bonifacio b. 1863
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