swap_horiz Manuel Marulanda Vélez Alternatives

1

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary who led the Red Army after 1917, opposed Stalin from exile, and was assassinate...

Russia 20TH Century Marxist Commander

8.6 Great

2

Che Guevara

Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who helped lead Cuba's 1959 revolution and later fought in Congo and...

Cuban 20TH Century Marxist Argentina

8.3 Great

3

Augusto César Sandino

Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who fought the U.S. Marine occupation from 1927 to 1933 and insp...

20TH Century Nicaragua Nationalist Guerrilla

8.2 Great

4

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary general who led the División del Norte and became a central figure in the 1910...

20TH Century General Mexican Mexico

8.1 Great

5

Omar Mukhtar

Omar Mukhtar was a Libyan Senussi leader who fought Italian colonial rule in Cyrenaica for years before his capture and...

20TH Century Libya Guerrilla Anti Colonial

7.7 Good

6

Dedan Kimathi

Dedan Kimathi was a Kenyan Mau Mau leader who organized armed resistance to British colonial rule and was executed by co...

20TH Century Kenya Guerrilla Anti Colonial

7.7 Good

7

Carlos Fonseca

Carlos Fonseca was a Nicaraguan revolutionary who co-founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1961 against th...

20TH Century Nicaragua Marxist Founder

7.6 Good

8

José Mujica

José Mujica was a former Uruguayan Tupamaro guerrilla prisoner who served as Uruguay's president from 2010 to 2015 and l...

20TH Century President Uruguay Guerrilla

7.6 Good

9

Camilo Cienfuegos

Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary commander who helped take Yaguajay in 1958 and entered Havana after Batista'...

Cuban 20TH Century Cuba Commander

7.4 Good

10

Celia Sánchez

Celia Sánchez was a Cuban revolutionary who organized support for the Granma expedition and became a key member of Fidel...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Cuba

7.3 Good

11

Vilma Espín

Vilma Espín was a Cuban revolutionary and chemical engineer who fought in the July 26 Movement and founded the Federatio...

Cuban 20TH Century Feminist Cuba

7.3 Good

12

Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht was a German socialist who opposed World War I, co-founded the Spartacus League, and was killed after th...

Germany Organizer 20TH Century Marxist

7.3 Good

13

Carlos Marighella

Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian communist guerrilla and author of the 1969 Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, killed...

20TH Century Leftist Brazil Marxist

6.8 Fair

14

Tomás Borge

Tomás Borge was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and last surviving FSLN founder, later serving as interior minister after the...

20TH Century Nicaragua Founder Sandinista

6.7 Fair

15

Miguel Enríquez

Miguel Enríquez was a Chilean physician and co-founder of the MIR, killed in a 1974 firefight with Pinochet's security f...

20TH Century Marxist Chile Guerrilla

6.7 Fair

16

Régis Debray

French Marxist theorist who accompanied Che Guevara's Bolivian guerrilla force in 1967, was captured and imprisoned, and...

French 20TH Century Marxist Theorist

6.7 Fair

17

George Habash

George Habash was a Palestinian physician and Arab nationalist who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales...

20TH Century Marxist Palestine Palestinian

6.6 Fair

18

Salvador Cayetano Carpio

Salvador Cayetano Carpio was a Salvadoran labor leader who founded the FPL guerrilla organization in 1970, later part of...

20TH Century Marxist El Salvador Guerrilla

6.5 Fair

19

Camilo Torres Restrepo

Camilo Torres Restrepo was a Colombian priest and sociologist who joined the ELN guerrillas and died in combat in 1966,...

20TH Century Leftist Colombia Guerrilla

6.4 Fair

20

Manuel Marulanda

Colombian guerrilla leader Manuel Marulanda co-founded the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 1964, leading it as...

20TH Century Colombian Founder Guerrilla

3.8 Poor