swap_horiz Pol Pot 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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

13

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

14

Djamila Bouhired

Djamila Bouhired (born 1935) is an Algerian militant and nationalist who served as a courier and operative for the Natio...

20TH Century Fln Algerian Revolution Urban Resistance

8.36 Great

15

Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) was a Palestinian author, journalist, and leading member of the Popular Front for the Liber...

20TH Century Writer Pflp Palestinian Revolutionary

8.36 Great

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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

8.32 Great

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Pierre Mulele

Pierre Mulele was a Congolese political figure and revolutionary associated with the Kwilu rebellion in the former Repub...

20TH Century Congolese Martyr Guerrilla

5.73 Mediocre

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Abimael Guzmán

Abimael Guzmán was a Peruvian Marxist-Leninist-Maoist militant and philosophy professor who founded the Communist Party...

20TH Century Peru Insurgent Shining Path

4.92 Poor

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Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha (1908–1985) ruled Albania as head of its communist Party of Labour from 1944 until his death in 1985, servin...

20TH Century Albanian Communist Isolationist

3.14 Poor

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Ieng Sary

Ieng Sary was a Cambodian communist politician and senior leader of the Khmer Rouge. During Democratic Kampuchea, the st...

20TH Century Founder Cambodian Maoist

1.31 Poor