Rulers & Leaders (3)
23 entries in the Historical Figures compendium.
Paul RevereSilversmith, patriot, and midnight rider of the American Revolution.Thomas MüntzerGerman preacher and revolutionary leader of the Peasants' War.Wolfe ToneRevolutionary exponent of Irish independence and republican icon.Guy FawkesEnglish Catholic conspirator in the failed Gunpowder Plot.William WilberforceBritish politician and leader of the slave trade abolition movement.Jacques Pierre BrissotFrench revolutionary who led the Girondins and founded an abolitionist society.Pierre-Joseph CambonFrench statesman who helped end Robespierre's reign.Georges DantonFrench revolutionary orator and first president of the Committee of Public Safety.Camille DesmoulinsFrench journalist and revolutionary who sparked the Storming of the Bastille.Jean-Paul MaratRadical journalist and revolutionary martyr of the French Revolution.Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeauFrench orator and revolutionary leader, advocate of constitutional monarchy.Alexander SelkirkScottish castaway whose survival inspired Robinson Crusoe.Charles Edward StuartStuart claimant who led the failed Jacobite Rising of 1745.Abd el-KrimRiffian leader who pioneered guerrilla warfare and led the Rif Republic.Ayman al-ZawahiriEgyptian surgeon who led al-Qaeda after bin Laden.Albert LuthuliSouth African anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.Winnie MandelaAnti-apartheid activist and controversial 'Mother of the Nation.'Terry FoxCanadian amputee runner who inspired global cancer fundraising.William Lyon MackenzieReformer, rebel, and first mayor of Toronto.Marcus GarveyJamaican activist who founded UNIA and promoted black nationalism.Camilo CienfuegosCuban revolutionary second only to Fidel Castro.Mumia Abu-JamalAmerican activist and journalist convicted of murdering a police officer.Susan B. AnthonyAmerican social reformer and women's rights activist.
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