swap_horiz Phoolan Devi Alternatives

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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

9.20 Excellent

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu was a South African Anglican archbishop and a leading religious voice against apartheid, the system of enfo...

20TH Century Nonviolent Religious South African

9.20 Excellent

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Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp)

Võ Nguyên Giáp was a Vietnamese revolutionary leader and military commander closely associated with the struggle against...

Military 20TH Century Vietnamese Anti Colonial

9.20 Excellent

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgom...

American Activist 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.18 Excellent

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Võ Nguyên Giáp

Võ Nguyên Giáp combined military command with a political role in Vietnam's struggle against colonial rule and later war...

20TH Century General Anti Colonialism Vietnamese Revolution

9.08 Excellent

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, widely known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major leader of India's struggle for independence from...

India Organizer 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.00 Excellent

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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

8.74 Great

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Kartini

Kartini was a prominent Javanese noblewoman and an early advocate for women's education and rights in Indonesia. Born in...

Education 20TH Century Feminism Indonesian Nationalism

8.73 Great

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Larbi Ben M'hidi

Larbi Ben M'hidi was an Algerian revolutionary leader and a key founding member of the National Liberation Front (FLN)....

20TH Century Fln Algerian Revolution Urban Guerrilla

8.72 Great

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Jacobo Árbenz

Jacobo Árbenz was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as president of Guatemala from 1951 until he w...

20TH Century Anti Imperialism Guatemalan Revolution Agrarian Reform

8.58 Great

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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

8.45 Great

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) was a British political activist who founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 19...

20TH Century Feminism Direct Action Suffrage

8.43 Great

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Walter Sisulu

Walter Sisulu was a pivotal figure in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. As an organizer within the African Nationa...

Organizer ANC 20TH Century South African

8.36 Great

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Ruth First

Ruth First was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, journalist, and academic who played a significant role...

20TH Century South African Feminist Martyr

7.91 Good

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and the wife of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Following the 191...

Russian 20TH Century Feminist Educator

7.26 Good

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Dolores Jiménez y Muro

Dolores Jiménez y Muro was a Mexican revolutionary and journalist active during the Mexican Revolution beginning in 1910...

20TH Century Mexican Feminist Anarchist

6.94 Fair

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Qiu Jin

Qiu Jin was a Chinese writer, poet, feminist, and anti-Qing revolutionary active in the years before the 1911 Revolution...

China 20TH Century Feminist Martyr

6.70 Fair

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Vilma Espín

Vilma Espín was a Cuban revolutionary, chemical engineer, and political organizer who lived from 1930 to 2007. She parti...

Cuban 20TH Century Feminist Cuba

6.68 Fair

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Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, political writer, and Bolshevik politician who worked...

Russia 20TH Century Feminist Diplomat

6.66 Fair

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Hilda Gadea

Hilda Gadea was a Peruvian economist, APRA activist, feminist, and socialist who became involved in Latin American polit...

20TH Century Peruvian Feminist Socialist

5.82 Mediocre