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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

2

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

8.4 Great

3

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary executed by the British in 1931 after the Lahore Conspiracy Case made...

India 20TH Century Independence Socialist

8.3 Great

4

Ahmed Kathrada

Ahmed Kathrada was a key figure in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. He served as an African National Congress (AN...

ANC 20TH Century South African Anti Apartheid

8.2 Great

5

Bram Fischer

Bram Fischer was a 20th-century South African lawyer renowned for his defense of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid...

20TH Century South African Lawyer Communist

8.1 Great

6

Robert Sobukwe

South African anti-apartheid leader Robert Sobukwe founded the Pan Africanist Congress in 1959, splitting from the ANC t...

20TH Century South African Leader Pac

7.8 Good

7

Imre Nagy

Hungarian communist politician Imre Nagy served as Prime Minister during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, where he attempted...

Hungarian 20TH Century Martyr Communist

7.8 Good

8

Joe Slovo

South African anti-apartheid activist Joe Slovo led the Umkhonto we Sizwe armed wing and became the first white member o...

Military 20TH Century South African Communist

7.7 Good

9

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

10

Qiu Jin

Qiu Jin was a Chinese feminist, poet, and anti-Qing revolutionary, executed in 1907 after a failed uprising linked to he...

China 20TH Century Feminist Martyr

7.3 Good

11

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya was the wife of Vladimir Lenin and a highly influential figure in dev...

Russian 20TH Century Feminist Educator

7.3 Good

12

Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian Bolshevik feminist who became Soviet commissar for social welfare in 1917 and later a...

Russia 20TH Century Feminist Diplomat

7.2 Good

13

Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who was executed during Stalin's...

Russian 20TH Century Theorist Martyr

7.2 Good

14

Mehdi Ben Barka

Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka led the radical wing of the National Union of Popular Forces before his infamous, st...

20TH Century Moroccan Pan African Socialist

7.2 Good

15

Pedro Albizu Campos

Puerto Rican attorney Pedro Albizu Campos led the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, organizing fierce but suppressed pro-i...

20TH Century Independence Nationalist Martyr

7.1 Good

16

Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras was a prominent Cuban revolutionary who served as Minister of the Interior during the 1933 revolution,...

Cuban 20TH Century Socialist Martyr

7.1 Good

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Julio Antonio Mella

Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella co-founded the original Cuban Communist Party in 1925 and remains a celebrated m...

Student Cuban 20TH Century Martyr

7.0 Good

18

Dolores Jiménez y Muro

Dolores Jiménez y Muro was a Mexican revolutionary and journalist who co-founded the Mexican Liberal Party in 1911 and a...

20TH Century Mexican Feminist Anarchist

6.9 Fair

19

Sophia Perovskaya

Sophia Perovskaya was a Russian socialist revolutionary who belonged to the Narodnaya Volya group and helped orchestrate...

Russian 19TH Century Feminist Martyr

6.8 Fair

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Grigory Zinoviev

Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev was a close ally of Vladimir Lenin who headed the Communist Internation...

Russian 20TH Century Martyr Bolshevik

6.7 Fair