A revolutionary is somebody who opposes current form of government and wishes to change it. There are two main alternatives of revolution: One may take the form of peaceful protest (like Gandhi) or a rather violent uprising (like Che Guevara).

List of known revolutionaries

• Abimael Guzmán
• Andrés Bello
• Assata Shakur
• Augusto Sandino
• Aung San
• Ayatollah Khomeini
• Ben Bella
• Benjamin Franklin
• Che Guevara
• Emiliano Zapata
• Farabundo Martí
• Fidel Castro
• Francisco de Miranda
• Francisco I. Madero
• Frantz Fanon
• Friedrich Engels
• George Danton
• George Washington
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Ho Chi Minh
• Huang Xing
• Jean Jacques Dessalines
• Jean-Paul Marat
• Jesus
• John Adams
• Jonas Savimbi
• José Martí
• Karl Marx
• Kossuth
• Leila Khalid
• Leon Trotsky
• Li Dazhao
• Mao Zedong
• Marcus Garvey
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Michael Collins
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Mirabal sisters
• Nat Turner
• Pancho Villa
• Patrick Henry
• Pavel Axelrod
• Peter Kropotkin
• Phoolan Devi
• Qiu Jin
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Samuel Adams
• Simón Bolívar
• Simón Rodríguez
• Spartacus
• Sun Yatsen
• Tecumseh
• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Sankara
• Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Tupac Amaru
• Vladimir Ilich Lenin
• Walter (Wat) Tyler
• Zhou Enlai

Revolutionary groups

• Black Panther Party
• White Panther Party
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
• The Weathermen