- Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 - 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605.
- Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Davis believed that corruption had destroyed the old Union and that the Confederacy had to be pure to survive. During his presidency, Davis was never able to find a strategy that would defeat the larger, more industrially developed Union.
- Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette, and later becoming Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, was the Queen consort of France, as the wife of Louis XVI. She was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. She was a direct descendant of powerful European royalty, including Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, to whom she can trace her ancestry back through both her parents.
- Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (ca. 1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, were part of the complex beginning of the considerable political and religious upheaval which was the English Reformation, with Anne herself actively promoting the cause of Church reform.
- Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War. He was noted for making unsubstantiated claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government.
- Mordechai Vanunu
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently abducted in Rome by Israeli Mossad agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried in secret and convicted of treason.
- People'S Court
The People's Court (German: "Volksgerichtshof") was a court established by German dictator Adolf Hitler. The "People's Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law. The court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses", which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, and defeatism.
- Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey, formally Jane of England, a grand-niece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned Queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days in July 1553. Though Jane's accession, pursuant to the Will of King Edward VI, may have breached the laws of England, many powers of the land proved willing to accept her as Queen of England, even if only as part of a power-struggle to stop Henry's elder daughter, Princess Mary, a Roman Catholic, …
- William Smith
William Smith was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, later Lower Canada, from 1786 until his death. He was the son of Judge William Smith of New York and the brother of Joshua Hett Smith, the supposed “dupe” of Benedict Arnold and Major John André.
- Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (b. April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who engaged in spying for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for a period of at least 15 years. He is currently in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, …
- Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard, also called Katherine Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (1540-1542), and sometimes known by his reference to her as "the rose without a thorn". Her birth date and place of birth is unknown, (occasionally cited as 1521, probably in London). She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, a poor younger son of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Catherine married Henry VIII on 28 July 1540, at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, …
- Sophie Scholl
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 - 22 February 1943), along with her brother Hans Scholl, were members of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. They were both convicted of treason and executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s she has been celebrated as one of those Germans who actively opposed the Third Reich during the Second World War.
- Welshman Ncube
Welshman Ncube (born July 7, 1961) is a leading member of a small faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, a Zimbabwe political party. He has been a member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Bulawayo North East since the 2000 elections. Ncube is an academic lawyer who has been Professor of Law at the University of Zimbabwe from 1992 and Secretary-General of the MDC from 1999.
- Ari Ben-Menashe
Ari Ben-Menashe is the author of "Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network", a book purporting to describe his involvement in Iran-Contra and other intelligence operations. An Iraqi Jew who was educated in Israel, he is a former Israeli government employee, and has said that he worked for the intelligence services. He has also said he was a "troubleshooter" for former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir.
- Thaksin Shinawatra
Thai businessman and politician, is the former Prime Minister of Thailand, the former leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party, and current owner of the Manchester City Football Club. Thaksin is wanted back in Thailand to face criminal charges of abuse of power and corruption during his reign as Prime Minister. Thaksin started his career in the Thai Police, and later became a successful entrepreneur, establishing Shin Corporation and Advanced Info Service, …
- Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval (28 June 1883 - 15 October 1945) was a French politician and four times Prime Minister of France, the final time being under the Vichy government. Judged for Collaborationism after World War II, he was found guilty of high treason and executed after the war.
- Genrikh Yagoda
Genrikh Grigor'evich Yagoda (born Yenokh (Enoch) Gershonovich Ieguda ; ; 1891 - March 15 1938) was the head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, from 1934 to 1936. Yagoda was born in Rybinsk in a Jewish family, and joined the Bolsheviks in 1907. After the October Revolution of 1917, he rose through the ranks of the "Cheka" (the NKVD's predecessor), becoming Felix Dzerzhinsky's second deputy in September 1923.
- William Tyndale
William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall) (ca. 1494-September 6, 1536) was a 16th century Protestant reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number of partial and complete English translations had been made from the 7th century onward, Tyndale's was the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution.
- Iva Toguri D'Aquino
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American, was most identified with "Tokyo Rose", a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately a dozen English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. Identified by the press as Tokyo Rose after the war, she was detained for a year by the U.S. military before being released for lack of evidence.
- Adam Yahiye Gadahn
Adam Yahiye Gadahn is an American-born English-language spokesman for the al-Qaeda organization. He is notable for his suspected appearances as "Azzam the American" (ʿAzzām al-Amrīki, عزام الأمريكي), a spokesperson in 2004-2006 videotapes which claim to be messages from Al Qaeda to the United States. In 2004, he was added to the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list. On October 11, 2006 he was removed from that list, …
- Thomas Scott
Thomas Scott (baptised 18 October 1746 - July 29 1824) was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in the parish of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland and studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London. He was called to the bar in 1793. In 1800, he was appointed attorney general in Upper Canada. He was appointed to the Executive Council for the province in 1805. The following year, he became Chief Justice for Upper Canada and was appointed to the Executive Council.
- Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink (September 15, 1954 – January 19, 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper "Agos" (Ակօս), Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey.
- Igor Sutyagin
Igor Sutyagin was a Russian academic analyst of military technology. In 1998 he became the head of the subdivision for Military-Technical and Military-Economic Policy at the U.S. and Canada Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he worked before he was arrested for treason. With a degree in physics as well as history, Sutyagin worked on topics relating to U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons development, deployment, and control, …
- Henry Olonga
Henry Khaaba Olonga (born 3 July, 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia) was a cricket player for Zimbabwe. He made his international debut in a Test match against Pakistan at Harare in 1995, at age 18 years, 212 days, becoming the youngest player to represent Zimbabwe. He helped Zimbabwe to its first ever Test victory in that game. That year, he was no-balled for throwing in a Test match, and rebuilt his action before returning to cricket.
- Alexander Nikitin
Aleksander Nikitin, a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist, started to co-operate with Norwegian environmental Bellona Foundation in 1994. He was arrested in February 1996 by Russian FSB and charged with treason through espionage for his contributions to a Bellona report on the nuclear safety within the Russian Northern Fleet.
- Jonathan Dayton
Jonathan Dayton (October 16, 1760-October 9, 1824) was an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. He was the youngest person to sign the United States Constitution and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving as the third Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and later the U.S. Senate. Arrested in 1807 for treason in connection with Aaron Burr's conspiracy, Dayton was never tried but his political career never recovered.
- Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French general, later Chief of State of Vichy France ("Chef de l'État Français"), from 1940 to 1944. Due to his military leadership in World War I, he was viewed as a hero in France, but his actions during World War II resulted in a conviction and death sentence for treason, …
- Mesfin Woldemariam
Professor Mesfin Woldemariam (also spelled Mesfin Wolde Mariam; born 1930) is an Ethiopian peace activist, who has been actively engaged in a peaceful movement to bring justice, equality and peace for all the people in his country. He is a founding member of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRC), and later founded the Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice.
- John Devoy
John Devoy (1842-1928) was an Irish rebel leader and exile. Devoy was born near Kill, County Kildare. In 1861 he travelled to France with an introduction from T. D. Sullivan to John Mitchel. Devoy joined the French Foreign Legion and served in Algeria for a year before returning to Ireland to become a Fenian organiser in Naas, County Kildare. In 1865, when many Fenian leaders were arrested, James Stephens, founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), …
- John Nelson
Blessed John Nelson (1534-Feb. 3, 1578) was an English Jesuit martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Nelson was from Skelton, near York. He was nearing 40 when he left for Douai in 1573 for training as a priest. Two of his four brothers would later follow him there to become priests. He was ordained at Binche in Hainaut by Monsignor Louis de Berlaymont, Archbishop of Cambrai, on June 11, 1576. The next November, he left for his mission, …
- José Martí
José Julián Martí y Pérez was a leader of the Cuban independence movement from Spain and as well a renowned poet and writer. He is considered the Cuban people's National hero. He is often referred to as the Apostle of Cuban Independence. In many literary circles he is considered the Father of Modernismo predating and influencing Rubén Darío and influencing other poets such as Gabriela Mistral.
- Valentin Danilov
Valentin Danilov (born 1951) - Russian physicist. On November 2004, he was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years for espionage. Many scientists and human rights organizations, both in Russia and worldwide claimed this sentence is ridiculous, because the information he passed to China was, in fact, declassified in 1992. Valentin Danilov was the head of the Thermo-Physics Centre at Krasnoyarsk State Technical University.
- Anthony Babington
Anthony Babington (October 24, 1561 - September 20, 1586) was convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary I of Scotland. The "Babington Plot" and Mary's alleged involvement in it were the basis of the treason charges against her which led to her execution. Born into a wealthy Catholic family to Henry Babington and Mary Darcy in Dethick, Derbyshire, England, he was their third son.
- Mildred Gillars
"Axis Sally was a female radio personality during World War II. Born Mildred Elizabeth Sisk in Portland, Maine, she took the name Mildred Gillars as a small child after her mother remarried and moved to New York City where young Mildred dreamed of becoming an actress, but met with little success. Gillars studied drama at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH, but dropped out before graduating.
- John Fortescue
Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394 - c. 1476), English lawyer, the second son of Sir John Fortescue, of an ancient Devon family, was born at Norris, near South Brent, in Somerset. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. During the reign of Henry VI he was three times appointed one of the governors of Lincoln's Inn. In 1441 he was made a king's sergeant at law, and in the following year chief justice of the king's bench. As a judge Fortescue was recommended for his wisdom, …
- Robert Aske
Robert Aske (1500 - July 12 1537) was an English lawyer who became the leader of rebellion in York. He led the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 and was executed by Henry VIII for treason in 1537.
- Edmund Dudley
Edmund Dudley (c. 1462 - August 17, 1510), minister of Henry VII of England, was a grandson of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley. After studying at Oxford and at Gray's Inn, Dudley came under the notice of Henry VII, and is said to have been made a privy councillor at the early age of twenty-three. In 1492 he helped to negotiate the Peace of Etaples with France and soon became prominent in assisting the king to check the lawlessness of the barons.
- Joni Madraiwiwi
Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi (born 1957) was the Vice-President of Fiji from 2004 to 2006. He was sworn in on 10 January 2005, following his nomination by President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo and his subsequent approval by the Great Council of Chiefs on 15 December 2004. He was appointed to complete the unexpired term of his predecessor, Ratu Jope Seniloli, …
- Scribonia
Scribonia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia Sulla, the granddaughter of Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC.
- Jacob Leisler
Jacob Leisler (ca. 1640 - May 16, 1691) was a German-born American colonist. Beginning in 1689, he led an insurrection dubbed Leisler's Rebellion in colonial New York, seizing control of the colony until he was captured and executed in New York City for treason against William and Mary. Much controversy exists among historians regarding both the facts and the significance of Leisler's brief career as ruler in New York.