swap_horiz Surya Sen Alternatives

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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

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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

8.4 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

Oliver Tambo

Oliver Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid leader who headed the ANC in exile from 1967 and helped build internatio...

South Africa Organizer ANC 20TH Century

8.2 Great

5

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer and activist in the United States, deported in 1919 for anti-war and ra...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Writer

8.2 Great

6

Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton was an Illinois Black Panther leader who built the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago before police killed him du...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Black Panther

8.1 Great

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Sukarno

Sukarno was an Indonesian nationalist who proclaimed independence from the Netherlands in 1945 and served as Indonesia's...

20TH Century President Indonesia Independence

8.0 Great

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Rani Lakshmibai

Rani Lakshmibai was the queen of Jhansi who became a major leader in the 1857 Indian Rebellion against British East Indi...

India 19TH Century Rebellion Independence

7.8 Good

9

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist leader in Maharashtra who helped found the Home Rule League in 1916 and pr...

India Organizer 20TH Century Independence

7.8 Good

10

Aung San

Aung San was a Burmese nationalist leader who helped found the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League and negotiated Burma...

20TH Century General Independence Myanmar

7.8 Good

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Manuela Sáenz

Manuela Sáenz was an Ecuadorian revolutionary who aided Bolívar's campaigns and helped save him from an assassination at...

Organizer 19TH Century Independence Ecuador

7.7 Good

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Subhas Chandra Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist who led the Indian National Army from 1943, seeking to end British rule du...

India 20TH Century Independence Nationalist

7.7 Good

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Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez

Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez was a Mexican conspirator whose warning helped trigger the 1810 Hidalgo revolt against Spanish...

Organizer 19TH Century Mexico Independence

7.6 Good

14

Mohammad Hatta

Mohammad Hatta was an Indonesian nationalist and economist who co-proclaimed independence in 1945 and became the country...

20TH Century Indonesia Independence Nationalist

7.6 Good

15

Kim Gu

Kim Gu was a Korean independence activist who led the Korean Provisional Government in exile and opposed the peninsula's...

Organizer 20TH Century Korea Independence

7.3 Good

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Chandrashekhar Azad

Chandrashekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary who led the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and died in a 193...

India Organizer 20TH Century Independence

7.0 Good

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Ram Prasad Bismil

Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian revolutionary and poet who helped plan the 1925 Kakori train robbery and was executed by...

India 20TH Century Independence Poet

6.8 Fair

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Ashfaqulla Khan

Ashfaqulla Khan was an Indian revolutionary and Hindustan Republican Association member executed in 1927 for his role in...

India 20TH Century Independence Martyr

6.7 Fair

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V. D. Savarkar

V. D. Savarkar was an Indian nationalist and Hindutva ideologue sentenced in 1911 to the Andaman Cellular Jail for anti-...

India 20TH Century Independence Nationalist

6.7 Fair

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Udham Singh

Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary who assassinated Michael O'Dwyer in London in 1940, citing the 1919 Jallianwala...

India 20TH Century Independence Martyr

6.6 Fair