swap_horiz Vilma Espín Alternatives

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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

2

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

3

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

4

Ruth First

South African anti-apartheid activist and journalist assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by South African securit...

20TH Century South African Feminist Martyr

7.9 Good

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

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

8

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

9

Frank País

Frank País was a Cuban revolutionary organizer who led urban resistance for the July 26 Movement in Santiago de Cuba bef...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Urban

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

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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

12

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

13

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

14

Haydée Santamaría

Haydée Santamaría was a Cuban revolutionary who survived the 1953 Moncada attack and later founded the Casa de las Améri...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Cuba

7.1 Good

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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