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Bruneian politician (1928-2002)

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Pashtun independence activist against British colonial rule in India

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Jordanian jihadist (1966–2006)

Hong Kong politician and social activist

Alfredo Reinado

East Timorese military commander (1968-2008)

Iranian sociologist and writer

Leader of the Shimabara Rebellion

Indian politician (1889-1964)

Korean independence activist (1879–1910)

Andrés Bonifacio

Filipino revolutionary leader (1863–1897)

Filipino pharmacist, propagandist and general

Burmese revolutionary leader

Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese politician, deposed state counsellor of Myanmar

Ayman al-Zawahiri

Egyptian Islamist militant and physician (1951–2022)

Indian economist, social reformer, jurist and politician (1891–1956)

Indian revolutionary (1797-1859)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Indian independence activist

Hong Kong activist and writer

West Papuan activist

Indian socialist revolutionary

Chinese psychologist

Chandra Shekhar Azad

Indian revolutionary (1906-1931)

Korean politician (1918-1975)

Leader of the Malayan Communist Party

20th-century Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist

Javanese prince who opposed Dutch colonialism

Chinese rebel leader

Emilio Aguinaldo

Philippine revolutionary leader who headed several insurgent governments

West Papuan independence activist

Leader of the Taiping Rebellion

İbrahim Kaypakkaya

Turkish Marxist–Leninist revolutionary (1949-1973)

Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

Figure in the Sikh Khalistan movement (1947–1984)

Kuwaiti-British terrorist and ISIS executioner (1988–2015)

Hong Kong businessman

Hong Kong political and human rights activist

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist

Kailash Satyarthi

Indian Social Campaigner

Indonesian heroine, feminist

Kittur Chennamma

Indian freedom fighter

Chinese human rights activist (1955–2017)

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

Turkish revolutionary (1945–1972)

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani activist and Nobel laureate

Malalai of Maiwand

National folk hero of Afghanistan who rallied local Pashtun fighters against the British troops

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Phan Đình Phùng

Vietnamese revolutionary

Queen of Jhansi

Persian-Londoner lawyer, activist (born 1947)

Subhas Chandra Bose

Indian nationalist leader and politician (1897–1945)

Chinese revolutionary and statesman (1866–1925)

Unknown Tiananmen Square protester

Tawakkol Karman

Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist

Thích Quảng Đức

Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death

Israeli politician, journalist and author (1923-2018)

Indian bandit who was charged allegedly for sandalwood smuggling (1952-2004)

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Leader of militant Tamil organisation in Sri Lanka (1954–2009)

Wang Dan (dissident)

Chinese protester

Chinese human rights activist (born 1950)

Tiananmen Square protest leader

Korean independence activist