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Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist, and Bolshevik leader in the Russian Revolution and ensuing civil war. He chaired the Petrograd Soviet in 1917, served as Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, and organized the Red Army. After losing the struggle for power to Jose...

Chris Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, and military pilot who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and later served aboard the International Space Station. In 2013 he became the first Canadian to command the station. Hadfield also became widely known for explaining daily life and sc...

Commander Sam Shore is a central character in "Stingray," a 1964 British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson using their Supermarionation puppetry technique. As the head of Marineville's World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP), he directs the underwater defense opera...

Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834) was a French aristocrat and military officer who played a major role in two major geopolitical events of the late 18th century. He traveled to the American colonies in 1777 to volunteer in the Continental Army, eventually becoming a trusted major general under George...

Commander Wilbur Zero is a fictional character from the 1962 British science-fiction television series "Fireball XL5," created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson using Supermarionation puppetry. He serves as the operational chief of the World Space Patrol, operating primarily from Space City to direct mis...

Subhas Chandra Bose was a prominent Indian nationalist leader who sought the complete independence of India from British colonial rule. Differing from Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience, Bose advocated for armed resistance. During World War II, he allied with the Axis power...

Zhu De was a Chinese Communist military leader and a principal founder of the Chinese Red Army, which later developed into the People's Liberation Army. He joined forces with Mao Zedong at Jinggangshan, participated in the Long March, and held senior command roles during the Second Sino-Japanese War...

Georgios Karaiskakis was a Greek military commander and a prominent figure in the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule. He was especially active in Roumeli, or Central Greece, where he led irregular forces and became one of the revolution's important regional commanders. Karaiskakis was mo...

Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary commander who fought with Fidel Castro's rebel forces during the Cuban Revolution. He became widely known for leading a column westward from the Sierra Maestra and for the capture of Yaguajay in December 1958, an action that helped weaken Fulgencio Batista...

Nestor Makhno was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and military commander active during the Russian Civil War. His predominantly peasant Revolutionary Insurgent Army fought occupying forces, White armies, Ukrainian nationalists, and, at different times, Bolshevik troops while defending an anarchi...

Buenaventura Durruti was a prominent Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and militant who played a crucial role in the labor movement leading up to the Spanish Civil War. As a leading figure within the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), he commanded a militia column that fought against Francisco Fran...

Huang Xing was a Chinese revolutionary leader and a founding member of the Tongmenghui, an anti-Qing secret society established by Sun Yat-sen. He played a central military role during the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, most notably organizing and leading armed uprisings against the imperial government. Of...

Shane Weston is a fictional World Intelligence Network operative in Joe 90, the British Supermarionation television series produced by Century 21. The character belongs to the series' espionage and scientific-adventure setting, in which the World Intelligence Network provides the institutional conte...