__NOTOC__ List of notable guerrilla activists, ordered by country: __NOTOC__
Afghanistan Guerrilla leader Movement WarAhmad MassoudNational Resistance Front of AfghanistanPanjshir ConflictAhmed Shah MassoudNorthern AllianceSoviet–Afghan WarGulbuddin HekmatyarMujahidinMohammed OmarTalibanOsama Bin LadenAl-QaedaJalaluddin HaqqaniHaqqani Network
Albania Guerrilla leader Movement WarEnver HoxhaParty of Labor of AlbaniaBalkans in World War IISkanderbegAlbanian feudal leaderAlbanian-Ottoman war
Algeria Guerrilla leader Movement WarAbdel KadirEmirate of AbdelkaderFrench conquest of AlgeriaSaadi YacefAlgerian WarNational Liberation Front Ali La Pointe
Angola Guerrilla leader Movement WarJonas SavimbiUNITAAngola Civil War Arabia Guerrilla leader Movement WarT. E. LawrenceBritish ArmyArab Revolt
Argentina
Guerrilla leader Movement WarChe GuevaraJuly 26th MovementCuban Revolution Enrique Gorriarán MerloPeople's Revolutionary ArmyDirty War
Armenia
Fedayi Dashnaks Hunchaks Armenakans
Assyria Guerrilla leader Movement WarMalik KhoshabaAssyrian independence movementPersian campaignDawid Mar ShimunAgha PetrosShimun XIX Benyamin
Austria
Guerrilla leader Movement WarAndreas HoferSchützen militiaNapoleonic WarsOtto SkorzenySonder Lehrgang OranienburgWorld War II
Bangladesh Guerrilla leader Movement WarKader Siddique Mukti BahiniBangladesh Liberation WarHemayet Uddin Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan
Belgium Guerrilla leader Movement WarJacob Collaert Dunkirkers Dutch Revolt
Bolivia Guerrilla leader Movement WarTamara BunkeEjército de Liberation Nacional de BoliviaÑancahuazú GuerrillaChe GuevaraOsvaldo Peredo
Brazil Guerrilla leader Movement WarAnita GaribaldiJuliana RepublicRagamuffin WarJoão AmazonasAraguaia Guerrilla WarPartido Comunista do BrasilGiuseppe GaribaldiRiograndense RepublicRagamuffin War
Bulgaria Guerrilla leader Movement WarKaloyanAsen dynastyUprising of Asen and Peter
Cambodia Guerrilla leader Movement WarPol PotKhmer RougeCambodian Civil War
Cameroon Guerrilla leader Movement War Osende AfanaUnion of the Peoples of CameroonAnglophone Crisis Félix Moumié Ernest Ouandié Ruben Um Nyobé
Canada North-West Rebellion Fine-Day Gabriel Dumont Louis Riel Wandering Spirit Other "Yank" Levy Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot - Quebec born member of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine who was a leader of the Acadian militia in their resistance to the Expulsion of the Acadians. Sébastien Rale Joseph Broussard - also went by the pseudonym Beausoleil.
Chad Guerrilla leader Movement WarGoukouni OueddeiFROLINATChadian–Libyan WarHissène HabréIbrahim AbatchaChadian Civil WarIdriss DébyPatriotic Salvation MovementFirst Chadian Civil WarRabih az-ZubayrSudanese warlordRabih WarYoussouf TogoïmiMovement for Democracy and Justice in ChadInsurgency in Chad
Chechnya Guerrilla leader Movement WarAslan MaskhadovChechen Republic of IchkeriaFirst Chechen WarSecond Chechen WarDzhokhar DudayevFirst Chechen WarAhmed ZakaevSecond Chechen WarZelimkhan YandarbiyevSecond Chechen WarFirst Chechen WarIbn al-KhattabArab Mujahideen in ChechnyaSecond Chechen WarFirst Chechen WarAbdul-Halim SadulayevChechen Republic of IchkeriaFirst Chechen WarSecond Chechen WarShamil BasayevChechen Republic of IchkeriaFirst Chechen War
Chile Guerrilla leader Movement WarGalvarino ApablazaManuel Rodríguez Patriotic FrontArmed resistance in ChileManuel Rodríguez ErdoízaPatriotsChilean War of IndependenceMiguel EnríquezRevolutionary Left Movement Armed resistance in ChileJosé Gregorio LiendoRaúl PellegrinManuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
China Guerrilla leader Movement WarMao ZedongChinese Communist PartyChinese Civil WarZhou EnlaiSun Yat-senKuomintang1911 RevolutionBai ChongxiChinese Civil WarChiang Kai-shek
Colombia Guerrilla leader Movement WarJacobo ArenasNational Liberation Army Colombian conflictManuel MarulandaRevolutionary Armed Forces of ColombiaCamilo Torres
Cuba Guerrilla leader Movement WarFidel CastroJuly 26th MovementCuban RevolutionCamilo CienfuegosChe Guevara Antonio MaceoCuban Liberation ArmyCuban War of Independence
Cyprus Guerrilla leader Movement WarGeorgios GrivasEOKACyprus EmergencyGrigoris AfxentiouKyriakos MatsisNikos Sampson
Dagestan Guerrilla leader Movement WarImam ShamilCaucasian ImamateMurid WarIbn al-KhattabArab Mujahideen in ChechnyaWar in Dagestan Shamil BasayevChechen Republic of Ichkeria
Democratic Republic of the Congo Guerrilla leader Movement WarLaurent-Désiré KabilaAlliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of CongoFirst Congo WarLaurent NkundaRwandan Defence ForcesPierre MuleleSimba rebelSimba rebellion
Dominican Republic Guerrilla leader Movement WarRamón Natera Constitutionalist factionDominican Civil WarGregorio Urbano Gilbert
Egypt Inaros - (Egyptian rebel ruler) together with Athenian allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against Persians.
El Salvador Guerrilla leader Movement WarFarabundo MartíCommunist Party of El SalvadorLa MatanzaSchafik HandalFarabundo Martí National Liberation FrontSalvadoran Civil WarCayetano Carpio Joaquín VillalobosAna María
Eritrea Guerrilla leader Movement WarIsaias AfewerkiEritrean People's Liberation FrontEritrean War of IndependenceHamid Idris Awate Woldeab Woldemariam
Estonia
Guerrilla leader Movement War August SabbeForest brothersOccupation of the Baltic States Ülo VoitkaAlfred Käärmann
Ethiopia Guerrilla leader Movement WarHayelom ArayaEthiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic FrontEthiopian Civil WarKinfe GebremedhinTigray People's Liberation FrontMeles ZenawiEthiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic FrontSiye AbrahaDebretsion GebremichaelTigray People's Liberation Front
Finland Paavali Halonen Lauri Törni Pekka Vesainen
France François le Clerc - 16th-century French privateer known as "Jambe de Bois" (Peg Leg) who is credited as the first pirate in the modern era to have a "peg leg". Bertrand du Guesclin Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot - Quebec born member of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine who was a leader of the Acadian militia in the resistance to the Expulsion of the Acadians. Sébastien Rale Jean-Louis Le Loutre Pierre Georges - member of the French Communist Party during World War II Charles de Gaulle Nancy Wake Georges Cadoudal Joseph Epstein Jean-Baptiste du Casse Jean Fleury Jean Ango Jeanne de Clisson
Frisia Pier Gerlofs Donia Wijerd Jelckama
Germany Arminius - Germanic chieftain who orchestrated the legendary ambush against the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Klein Henszlein - German pirate from 1560 to 1573 who raided shipping in the North Sea Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Thomas Müntzer Otto Skorzeny - Austrian elite operative who conducted unconventional operations in World War II for Nazi Germany Franz von Rintelen Johann Ewald Carl von Clausewitz Felix von Luckner
Greece Athanasios Diakos Geórgios Karaïskákis Manolis Glezos Markos Botsaris Odysseas Androutsos Theodoros Kolokotronis Antonis Vratsanos Daskalogiannis
Guatemala Guerrilla leader Movement War Rodrigo AsturiasGuatemalan National Revolutionary UnityGuatemalan Civil War Rolando Morán
Haiti Charlemagne Péralte Toussaint L'ouverture Francois Mackandal Vincent Oge Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Jacques Dessalines Francois Capois Henri Christophe Sans-Souci Dutty Boukman
India Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja in Kerala Sangolli Rayanna in Karnataka Komaram Bheem in Andhra Pradesh Alluri Sita Rama Raju in Andhra Pradesh Malik Ambar Patel Sudhakar Reddy Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Sayeed Salahudeen Yasin Malik
Indonesia Guerrilla leader Movement WarAbdul Haris NasutionEmergency Government of the Republic of IndonesiaIndonesian National RevolutionSudirman
Iran Guerrilla leader Movement WarBabak KhorramdinKhurramitesAbbasid Caliphate.Hassan-i SabbahOrder of AssassinsNizari–Seljuk conflictsMostafa ChamranIslamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsIran–Iraq WarMassoud RajaviPeople's Mujahedin of IranIranian revolutionRais-Ali DelvariPersian campaign
Iraq Guerrilla leader Movement WarAbu MuslimAbbasid CaliphateAbbasid RevolutionZayd ibn AliAlidsRevolt of Zayd ibn AliAbu Musab al-ZarqawiAl-Qaeda in IraqIraq WarAbu Ayyub al-MasriAbu Omar al-BaghdadiMuqtada al-SadrMahdi ArmyAbu AzraelPopular Mobilization ForcesIraqi insurgency
Ireland Guerrilla leader Movement WarMichael Collins Irish Republican Army Irish War of IndependenceTom BarryGerry Adams (allegedly) Provisional IRA Army Council TroublesMartin McGuinness Seamus Costello Official IRA Dominic McGlinchey Provisional Irish Republican Army and later Irish National Liberation ArmyFrank Aiken Anti-Treaty Irish Republican ArmyIrish War of Independence Irish Civil WarBilly Wright Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)TroublesJohn Gregg Ulster Defence Association Johnny Adair Lenny Murphy Ulster Volunteer Force
Israel Guerrilla leader Movement WarMenachem BeginIrgunJewish insurgencyYitzhak ShamirLehiAvraham SternYohai Ben-NunHaganahHaim Bar-LevAharon DavidiYekutiel Adam Ariel Sharon Danny MattMordechai GurRafael Eitan
Italy Spartacus Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Mazzini Carmine Crocco Ninco Nanco Licio Visintini - decorated Italian naval officer who conducted unconventional amphibious warfare like missions against allied shipping in World War II
Japan Genpei War Yoritomo Minamoto no Yoshitsune Minamoto no Noriyori Minamoto no Yoritomo Yoshinaka Minamoto no Yoshinaka Minamoto no Yukiie Taira clan Taira no Kiyomori Genkō War Kusunoki Masashige Boshin War Tatsumi Naofumi Hosoya Jūdayū Hayashi Tadataka World War II Tadamichi Kuribayashi Hiroo Onoda Other Fūma Kotarō Tateoka Doshun Ōishi Yoshio Mochizuki Chiyome Tsuneo Mori
Korea Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) Kwak Chaeu Hyujeong Cho Hŏn Chŏng Munbu Japanese colonial rule of Korea Ji Cheong-cheon Lee Beom-seok Kim Won-bong Kim Hong-il Kim Il Sung Kim Chwa-chin Yun Hui-sun Others Choe Ik-hyeon Shin Dol-seok
Kosovo Guerrilla leader Movement WarAdem JashariKosovo Liberation ArmyKosovo warRamush HaradinajAgim CekuAgim RamadaniSali ÇekajHamëz JashariBekim BerishaLuan HaradinajDaut Haradinaj
Kenya Guerrilla leader Movement WarDedan KimathiMau Mau rebelsMau Mau rebellionWaruhiu ItoteMusa Mwariama
Kurdish regions Guerrilla leader Movement WarMahmud BarzanjiKurdistan Democratic PartyIraqi–Kurdish conflictMahmoud EzidiFoad Mostafa SoltaniKomala Party of Iranian Kurdistan1979 Kurdish rebellion in IranJalal TalabaniKurdistan Democratic PartyIraqi–Kurdish conflictNawshirwan MustafaPatriotic Union of KurdistanKurdish–Turkish conflictNajmadin Shukr RaufIraqi–Kurdish conflictAbdul Rahman GhassemlouDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan1979 Kurdish rebellion in IranSadegh SharafkandiAbdullah ÖcalanKurdistan Workers' PartyKurdish–Turkish conflictMurat KarayılanCemil BayıkSakine CansızMazlum DoğanMahsum Korkmaz
Laos Guerrilla leader Movement WarGeneral Vang Pao Secret ArmyLaotian Civil WarPa Chay VueHmong rebelsVue Pa Chay's revoltOng KommandanPhu Mi Bun MovementHoly Man's RebellionOng Keo
Latvia Guerrilla leader Movement WarPēteris DzelzītisLatvian partisansGuerrilla war in the Baltic states
Lebanon Guerrilla leader Movement WarHassan NasrallahHezbollahLebanese Civil War
Lesotho Guerrilla leader Movement WarNtsu MokhehleLesotho Liberation ArmyBCP insurgency
Liberia Guerrilla leader Movement WarCharles TaylorNational Patriotic Front of LiberiaFirst Liberian Civil WarSierra Leonean Civil WarPrince JohnsonIndependent National Patriotic Front of LiberiaFirst Liberian Civil War
Libya Guerrilla leader Movement WarOmar MukhtarSenussi BrotherhoodSecond Italo-Senussi War
Lithuania Guerrilla leader Movement WarJonas ŽemaitisLithuanian Union of Freedom FightersLithuanian partisansAdolfas RamanauskasJuozas Lukša
Malaysia Guerrilla leader Movement WarChin PengMalayan Communist PartyMalayan Emergency
Mexico