- Aung San
General Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San in Burmese) ; February 13 1915 – July 19 1947) was Burma's national hero, revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician. He was born to U Pha, a lawyer, and his wife Daw Su at Natmauk, Magwe district, in central Burma, then part of British India. His family was already known in the resistance movement, his great uncle Bo Min Yaung having fought the British annexation in 1886.
- Genghis Khan
(IPA: ; ; classic Mongolian: (see below for alternative spellings); ca. 1162 -August 18, 1227) was a Mongol "Khan" (ruler; posthumously "Khagan", emperor). Born with the name Temüüjin into the Borjigin clan, he became one of the most significant and successful military leaders in history. He united the Mongol tribes and founded the Mongol Empire, (1206 - 1368), the largest contiguous empire in world history.
- Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 - October 8, 1992), was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969 - 1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1964 - 1987. His most important legacy is the "Ostpolitik", a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. This policy caused considerable controversy in West Germany, …
- Witold Pilecki
Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 - May 25, 1948; pronounced ['vitɔld pi'leʦki]; codenames "Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold") was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the resistance movement, Secret Polish Army ("Tajna Armia Polska"), and a member of the Home Army ("Armia Krajowa"). During World War II, he became the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (c. 1270-August 23, 1305) was a knight and Scottish patriot, who led a resistance against the English occupation of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence. He is considered the greatest hero in Scotland's history. Wallace was the inspiration for the poem "The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie" by the 15th century minstrel Blind Harry. The 1995 film "Braveheart" is based on the poem.
- Louis Riel
Louis Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government that sought to preserve Métis rights and culture as their homelands in the Northwest came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence. The first such resistance was the Red River Rebellion of 1869-1870.
- Doku Umarov
Shaykh Doku Khamatovich Umarov is the underground President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Umarov has fought for more than a decade against the Russian Federation and is reported to have hundreds under his personal command, and with steady influence in the southwestern part of Chechnya, but previously little known in other parts of the republic. He is an adherent of Sufism and a follower of the Qadiri Sufi Order.
- John Parker
John P. Parker (1827 - February 4, 1900) was an African American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist who secretly participated in the Underground Railroad resistance movement. His house in Ripley, Ohio is a National Historic Landmark
- Anna Mae Aquash
Anna Mae Aquash (also Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or Anna Mae Pictou; first name also spelled Annie Mae; Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (b. in a small Indian village near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 27, 1945; d. mid-December 1975) was a Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became one of the most active and prominent female members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) during the early 1970s.
- Omar Mukhtar
Omar Mokhtar was from the tribe of Mnifa, born in a small village called Janzour located in the eastern part of Barqa- not to be confused with the city of western Libya called Janzour which is more well known. He was the leader of the resistance movement against the Italian military occupation of Libya for more than twenty years. In 1912, following the Italian capture of Libya from the occupying Turks the previous year, …
- Sheikh Mansur
Sheikh Al Mansur ("The Leader") was a Chechen leader who lead the resistance against Catherine the Great's imperialist expansion into the Caucasus during the late 18th century. He remains a legendary national hero of the Chechen people.
- Werner von Haeften
Werner Karl von Haeften (9 October 1908 - 20 July 1944) was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the July 20 Plot. Haeften and his brother Hans Bernd von Haeften were born in Berlin to Hans von Haeften, an army officer and President of the "Reichsarchiv". He studied law in his hometown and then worked for a bank in Hamburg until the outbreak of World War II, when he joined the German army.
- Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement during World War II, he is one of the best known and most translated post-war Polish writers.
- Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
Michał Tadeusz Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, Coat of arms of Trąby pseudonym Doktor, Stolarski, Torwid (b. January 5, 1893 in Lwów - May 22, 1964 in Casablanca, Morocco) was a Polish general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service". Michał served in the Polish Legions from 1914 until 1917, then in the POW (Polish Military Organization).
- Missak Manouchian
Missak Manouchian was an Armenian-French communist militant in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI) and the Resistance movement against the Nazi occupation of France.
- Elsa Triolet
Elsa Yur'evna Triolet (September 12 (or September 24) 1896 - June 16 1970) was a French writer, a wife of Louis Aragon and a sister of Lilya Brik. Born Elsa Kagan into a Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow, both sisters received excellent education and were able to speak fluent German and French and play the piano. Elsa graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture.
- Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
Franz Pfeffer von Salomon was the first commander of the SA. Von Salomon was a Freikorps member and veteran from World War I. He made a name for himself by organizing resistance groups to stop the French occupying the Ruhr. He was Gauleiter to Upper Bavaria and future leader of the SS; Heinrich Himmler was his secretary. Adolf Hitler made Salomon commander of the SA after he swore unconditional loyalty to him in 1926.
- Ruslan Gelayev
Ruslan Gelayev (b. Komsomolskoe, Soviet Union 1964 - d. February 28, 2004), aka Hamzat Gelayev, radio callsign Black Angel, was a Chechen field commander in the Chechen resistance movement against Russia. Gelayev was one of the first Chechen fighters awarded the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria's highest medal "Kioman Syi" (Honor of the Nation). He was known as a ruthless fighter, respected even by some of his enemies, but not as a terrorist.
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army. He is best remembered for his work as an emissary shuttling between the commanders of the Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London and other Allied governments which gained him the nickname "Courier from Warsaw", …
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky was the first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement. She is mostly remembered today for designing the so-called "Frankfurt Kitchen". She was born Margarete Lihotzky into a bourgeois family in Vienna. The daughter of a liberal-minded civil servant whose pacifist tendencies made him welcome the end of the Habsburg Empire and the founding of the republic in 1918, …
- Olivier Gendebien
Olivier Gendebien, born January 12, 1924 in Brussels, Belgium and died on October 2, 1998 in Les Baux de Provence, in the Bouches-du-Rhône "département" of France, was a war hero and race car driver.
- Leone Ginzburg
Leone Ginzburg was an Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg, and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.
- Kirsty Sword Gusmão
Kirsty Sword Gusmão until 1991, when she joined the Refugee Studies Program at Oxford University in England as assistant to the development coordinator. Later that year, she travelled to East Timor as a researcher and interpreter for a Yorkshire Television documentary film called "In Cold Blood: The massacre of East Timor", about political and social developments in the territory. From 1992 to 1996, Kirsty Sword lived and worked in Jakarta, Indonesia, …
- Rudi Čajavec
Rudi Čajavec was a Yugoslav pilot, best known as the first airman of Partisan air force. Rudi Čajavec was born in Zgošča, near Kakanj to a family that originally came from Hrvatsko Zagorje. Before the war he studied law at University of Zagreb where he participated in various left-wing groups and was arrested. He also finished school for reserve officers and was a trained pilot.
- Trieu Thi Trinh
Triệu Thị Trinh, also known as Triệu Ẩu (趙嫗) or Bà Triệu ("Lady Trieu") (225 - 248) was a female warrior in 3<sup>rd</sup> century Vietnam who managed to, for a time, successfully resist the Chinese during their occupation of Vietnam. She is described as the Vietnamese "Joan of Arc".
- Karl Sack
Karl Sack (born June 9, 1896 in Bosenheim (now Bad Kreuznach), executed April 9, 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp) was a German jurist and member of the resistance movement during World War II. Karl Sack studied law in Heidelberg where he joined a Burschenschaft and after a time in legal practice became a judge in Hesse. He married Wilhelmine Weber and had two sons.
- Jan Baalsrud
Jan Baalsrud (born 1917 - died 1988) was a commando in the Norwegian resistance trained by the British. He was born in Oslo and lived in Kolbotn from the 1930ies to the 1950ies. He arrived in Britain in 1941 where he joined the Norwegian Company Linge. In 1943, he and numerous other commandos embarked on a dangerous mission to destroy a German air control tower and recruit for the resistance movement. This mission was compromised when he and his fellow soldiers, …
- Supyan Abdullayev
Supyan Abdullayev (born November 8, 1956 in Kazakhstan) is the current Vice-President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He was appointed to this position on March 19, 2007 by President Doku Umarov. Abdullayev is commander of the Jundullah Brigade, linked to the Vedeno-based wing of the Chechen resistance movement. He is a member of the Chechen Tsarentoi teip which is of Dagestani origin. <br> [[be-x-old:Супян
- Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (commonly called H.N. Werkman; April 29 1882 - April 10 1945) was a Dutch artist, typographer and printer. Werkman was born in Leens, in the Dutch province of Groningen. In 1908, he established a printing and publishing house in Groningen that at its peak employed twenty workers. Financial setbacks forced its closure in 1923, after which Werkman started anew with a small workshop in the attic of a warehouse.
- Herbert Wehner
Herbert Richard Wehner (July 11 1906 - January 19 1990) was a German politician. He was a member of the German Communist Party (KPD) as a young man. Between 1933 and 1935 he participated in the communist resistance against the National Socialist (Nazi) regime. In 1935 he went into exile in Moscow. After being sent to Sweden on party business in 1941, he was arrested and interned in 1942.
- Maximilien Rubel
Maximilien Rubel was a famous Marxist historian. He was educated in law and philosophy in Vienna and Chernivtsi before moving to France to take German studies at the Sorbonne, from which he received his Licence-dès-lettres in 1934. He became a French citizen in 1937, and shortly after began publishing the literary magazine "Verbe-Cahiers humains", before being drafted into the French Army.
- Åsa Linderborg
Åsa Natacha Linderborg is a Swedish historian and political writer. She has a Marxist view on history and politics and has been active in the Swedish Left Party. Linderborg has worked at Uppsala University and currently writes for "Aftonbladet". Linderborg was an outspoken critic against the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent presence of coalition forces in the country. She has continued to expressed her support for the Iraqi insurgency, …
- Allard Oosterhuis
Allard Lambertus Oosterhuis (February 19 1902, the Netherlands-January 1 1967, Ireland) was a Dutch resistance hero during World War II. In 1922 Oosterhuis went to Amsterdam to study medicine and after his study he became a doctor in Delfzijl. Thanks to his work as a cruiser, with his ships "Cascade" and "Libelle," he was able to put up a smuggling route for the resistance between the harbour of Delfzijl and Stockholm.
- Fritz Theilen
Fritz Theilen, born September 27 1927, was a German member of the anti-Nazi resistance group the Edelweißpiraten during World War II. Born to working-class parents, he joined the Deutsches Jungvolk division of the Hitler Youth in 1937, and was excluded for resisting orders in 1940. He started an apprenticeship at the local Ford Motor Company auto plant in 1941. In 1942 he joined the Edelweißpiraten.
- Nasser Amin
Nasser Amin is a Muslim postgraduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, England, and a writer and broadcaster, who won a long-running case against his university over the right to free speech.
- Cheeseekau
Cheeseekau was a war chief of the Kispoko division of the Shawnee tribe. Also known as Pepquannakek (Gunshot), Popoquan (Gun), Sting, and Chiksika, he was identified in many historical records simply as Shawnee Warrior. Although primarily remembered as the eldest brother and mentor of Tecumseh, who became famous after Cheeseekau's death, Cheeseekau was a well-known leader in his own time.
- Kai Holst
Kai Christian Middelthon Holst (24 February 1913 - 27 June 1945) was a Norwegian resistance fighter and member of Milorg. He was from Lillehammer and became a central leader of the resistance movement from the autumn of 1942, when many of the leaders were arrested by the Germans. Holst was the person with detailed knowledge about the resistance movement in Norway, and he played a vital role in the reorganisation of Milorg. He had to escape to Sweden in the autumn of 1943.
- Hussein Khalili
Hussein Khalili (born 1973) is a Palestinian member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Hussein worked with others to establish a base for the ISM in regions where armed resistance dominated. The ISM was able to be established in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem. The purpose was to try to protect civilians from the aggression of the Israeli occupation forces, …
- Per Bergsland
Sgt Per Bergsland (born on January 17 1919, died June 9 1992) was a Norwegian POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. A member of the RAF 332nd Squadron stationed at North Weald airfield, Bergsland's Spitfire "VB AB269 AH:D" was shot down by a German FW-190 during the Dieppe Raid on August 19 1942. After arriving at the POW camp, he gave his name as 'Rocky Rockland' to the Germans, …
- Robert Bernardis
Robert Bernardis was an Austrian resistance fighter involved in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler in the July 20 Plot in 1944. Bernardis began his military career as a lieutenant in Enns, Austria. After the Austrian Anschluss in 1938, he accepted the new régime. However, once the Second World War had begun, experiences at the front such as witnessing the murder of civilians changed his mind and he became involved in the resistance movement against Third Reich.