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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, led India’s struggle for independence from British rule. His philos...

India Organizer 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.8 Brilliant

2

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a pivotal figure in modern history. He led the Turkish nationalist movement that established t...

Turkey 20TH Century Turkish Founder

9.2 Excellent

3

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was a pivotal American civil rights activist. Her courageous refusal to yield her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala...

American Activist 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.2 Excellent

4

Bhimrao Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ambedkar was a pivotal 20th-century Indian figure who spearheaded the Dalit civil rights movement. He played a c...

Indian 20TH Century Reformer Social Revolution

9.2 Excellent

5

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu was a prominent 20th-century Anglican archbishop and South African revolutionary. His lifelong dedication t...

20TH Century Nonviolent Religious South African

9.2 Excellent

6

Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp)

Võ Nguyên Giáp was a prominent 20th-century Vietnamese military strategist and revolutionary leader. He directed the Vie...

Military 20TH Century Vietnamese Anti Colonial

9.2 Excellent

7

Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen was a pivotal 20th-century figure instrumental in establishing modern China. He spearheaded the Xinhai Revol...

China 20TH Century Republican Nationalist

9.0 Excellent

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Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh was a key figure in 20th-century Vietnam. He spearheaded the Vietnamese communist movement, ultimately leadi...

20TH Century Vietnam Leader Communist

8.9 Great

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Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara served as President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Rising through the army, he spearheaded a radical...

20TH Century President Africa Burkina Faso

8.9 Great

10

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata was a pivotal figure in Mexico’s 20th-century revolution. As a leading agrarian rebel, he championed the...

20TH Century Mexican Mexico Rebel

8.8 Great

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Václav Havel

Václav Havel was a prominent 20th-century figure instrumental in the transition of Czechoslovakia to democracy. As a pla...

20TH Century Democracy Velvet Czechia

8.8 Great

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Tadeusz Kościuszko

Tadeusz Kościuszko was a 18th-century Polish military engineer and revolutionary figure. He served as a key American all...

Military Polish 18TH Century Independence

8.8 Great

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Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito remains a pivotal figure in 20th-century history. He spearheaded the Yugoslav Partisans’ resistance agai...

20TH Century Leader Partisan Yugoslav

8.7 Great

14

Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa was a Polish electrician and Solidarity leader who led the 1980 Gdańsk strike, won the 1983 Nobel Peace Priz...

Poland 20TH Century Solidarity Labor

8.6 Great

15

Steve Biko

Steve Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist who helped found SASO in 1968 and shaped the Black Consciousness...

South Africa Activist 20TH Century Anti Apartheid

8.6 Great

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Jacek Kuroń

Jacek Kuroń was a Polish democratic dissident who co-founded the Workers' Defence Committee in 1976, significantly inspi...

Polish 20TH Century Solidarity Labor

7.9 Good

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Li Dazhao

Li Dazhao was a Chinese Marxist scholar at Peking University, a co-founder of the Communist Party in 1921, and was execu...

China Intellectual 20TH Century Founder

7.6 Good

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Chen Duxiu

Chen Duxiu was a Chinese intellectual who founded New Youth in 1915 and became the first general secretary of the Chines...

China Intellectual 20TH Century Founder

7.5 Good

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Peng Dehuai

Chinese Communist general who commanded forces in the Korean War and was purged by Mao after openly criticizing the Grea...

Military 20TH Century Chinese Dissident

7.1 Good

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Władysław Gomułka

Polish communist leader Władysław Gomułka guided Poland through a period of de-Stalinization in 1956, briefly raising ho...

Polish 20TH Century Leader Communist

6.4 Fair