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Alexander Selkirk
18th-century Scottish sailor and castaway
Alexander Ypsilantis
Early 19th-century Greek revolutionary and commander
André Rigaud
Haitian military leader (1761–1811)
Anne Bonny
18th-century female pirate
Anne Hutchinson
17th-century American religious figure and colonist
Arabanoo
Indigenous Australian man forcibly abducted by European settlers to facilitate communication and relations between the Aborigines and the Europeans
Bartholomew Roberts
Welsh pirate
Bartolomé de las Casas
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
Blackbeard
English pirate
Catherine Flon
Haitian flag designer
Charles Edward Stuart
Pretender to the English throne
Claude Duval
French highwayman
Dick Turpin
English highwayman (1705–1739)
Fletcher Christian
Mutineer on HMS Bounty (1764–1793)
Francisco de Miranda
Venezuelan military leader
Granville Sharp
British abolitionist
Guy Fawkes
English participant in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
Hannikel
German outlaw
Hatuey
Hispaniolan Cacique (died 2014)
Henry Morgan
Welsh privateer and political office holder
Hongi Hika
New Zealand Maori chief
James Hind
English highwayman
James Mckenzie (outlaw)
New Zealand outlaw
John Adams (mutineer)
British seaman and mutineer, last survivor of the Bounty mutineers (1767–1829)
John Caesar
Australian bushranger
John Nevison
English highwayman (1639–1684)
John Rackham
Pirate captain famous for his female crew
José Gervasio Artigas
Uruguayan military leader during the War for Independence; national hero
José María Morelos
Mexican priest and rebel leader of Mexican War of Independence
Joshua Hill (Pitcairn Island leader)
Pitcairn Island politician
Juraj Jánošík
Slovak outlaw
Konstantinos Kanaris
Greek politician (c. 1790 – 1877)
Laskarina Bouboulina
Heroine of the Greek War of Independence
Li Zicheng
17th-century Chinese rebel leader (1606–1645)
Louis Mandrin
French outlaw
Manto Mavrogenous
Greek revolutionary (1796-1848)
Musquito
Indigenous Australian bushranger and resistance leader
Nathan Hale
Soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
Paul Revere
American silversmith and Patriot in the American Revolution
Pemulwuy
Aboriginal Australian military leader (c. 1750–1802)
Popé
Tewa religious leader
Rigas Feraios
Greek philosopher (1757-1798)
Saigō Takamori
Japanese samurai and politician (1828–1877)
Sakamoto Ryōma
Japanese samurai and politician (1836–1867)
Stenka Razin
Cossack leader
Te Rauparaha
Māori chief and war leader of Ngāti Toa (1760s–1849)
Theodoros Kolokotronis
Greek revolutionary leader (1770–1843)
Thomas Müntzer
German preacher and theologian (c. 1489 - 1525)
Titus Oates
English minister and perjurer who fabricated a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill Charles II
William Kidd
Scottish privateer (1654–1701)
William Walker (filibuster)
19th-century American filibuster, physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary
William Wilberforce
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Wu Sangui
17th-century Chinese general and rebel
Xaver Hohenleiter
German criminal
Yemelyan Pugachev
Leader of a Russian peasant uprising (1742-1775)
Zhang Xianzhong
Chinese peasant leader and ruler in Sichuan (1606–1647)
Zheng Yi Sao
Chinese pirate (1775–1844)