Editing List of guerrillas

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'''List of notable [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] activists''', ordered by country:
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==Afghanistan==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Ahmad Massoud]]
|[[National Resistance Front of Afghanistan]]
|[[Panjshir Conflict]]
|-
|[[Ahmed Shah Massoud]]
|[[Northern Alliance|Northern Alliance]]
| rowspan="5" |[[Soviet–Afghan War]]
|-
|[[Gulbuddin Hekmatyar]]
|[[Mujahidin]]
|-
|[[Mullah Omar|Mohammed Omar]]
|[[Taliban]]
|-
|[[Osama bin Laden|Osama Bin Laden]]
|[[Al-Qaeda]]
|-
|[[Jalaluddin Haqqani]]
|[[Haqqani Network]]
|}

==Albania==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Enver Hoxha]]
|[[Party of Labor of Albania]]
|[[Balkans campaign (World War II)|Balkans in World War II]]
|-
|[[Skanderbeg]]
|Albanian feudal leader
|[[Albanian–Ottoman Wars (1432–1479)|Albanian-Ottoman war]]
|}

==Algeria==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Abdelkader El Djezairi|Abdel Kadir]]
|[[Emirate of Abdelkader]]
|[[French conquest of Algeria]]
|-
|[[Saadi Yacef]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Algerian War]]
| rowspan="2" |[[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|National Liberation Front]] 
|-
|[[Ali La Pointe]]
|}

==Angola==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Jonas Savimbi]]
|[[UNITA]]
|[[Angola Civil War]]
|}
==Arabia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[T. E. Lawrence]]
|[[British Army]]
|[[Arab Revolt]]
|}

==Argentina==

 
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Che Guevara]]
|[[July 26th Movement]]
|[[Cuban Revolution]]
|-
| [[Enrique Gorriarán Merlo]]
|[[People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)|People's Revolutionary Army]]
|[[Dirty War]]
|}

==Armenia==

*[[Armenian fedayi|Fedayi]]
*[[Armenian Revolutionary Federation|Dashnaks]]
*[[Social Democrat Hunchakian Party|Hunchaks]]
*[[Armenakan Party|Armenakans]]

==Assyria==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Malik Khoshaba]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Assyrian independence movement]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Persian campaign (World War I)|Persian campaign]]
|-
|[[Dawid Mar Shimun]]
|-
|[[Agha Petros]]
|-
|[[Shimun XIX Benyamin]]
|}

==Austria==

{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Andreas Hofer]]
|[[Schützen (military)|Schützen militia]]
|[[Napoleonic Wars]]
|-
|[[Otto Skorzeny]]
|[[Sonder Lehrgang Oranienburg]]
|[[World War II]]
|}

==Bangladesh==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Kader Siddique]] 
| rowspan="3" |[[Mukti Bahini]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Bangladesh Liberation War]]
|-
|[[Hemayet Uddin]] 
|-
|[[Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan]] 
|}

==Belgium==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Jacob Collaert]]
| [[Dunkirkers]] 
| [[Dutch Revolt]]
|}

==Bolivia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Tamara Bunke]]
| rowspan="3" |Ejército de Liberation Nacional de Bolivia
| rowspan="3" |[[Ñancahuazú Guerrilla]]
|-
|[[Che Guevara]]
|-
|[[Osvaldo Peredo]]
|}

==Brazil==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Anita Garibaldi]]
|[[Juliana Republic]]
|[[Ragamuffin War]]
|-
|[[Carlos Marighella]]
|[[Araguaia Guerrilla War]]
|[[Ação Libertadora Nacional]]
|-
|[[Giuseppe Garibaldi]]
|[[Riograndense Republic]]
|[[Ragamuffin War]]
|}

==Bulgaria==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Kaloyan of Bulgaria|Kaloyan]]
|[[Asen dynasty]]
|[[Uprising of Asen and Peter]]
|}

==Cambodia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Pol Pot]]
|[[Khmer Rouge]]
|[[Cambodian Civil War]]
|}

==Cameroon==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| [[Osende Afana]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Union of the Peoples of Cameroon]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Anglophone Crisis]]
|-
| [[Félix Moumié]]
|-
| [[Ernest Ouandié]]
|-
| [[Ruben Um Nyobé]]
|}

==Canada==
*[[North-West Rebellion]]
**[[Fine-Day]]
**[[Gabriel Dumont (Métis leader)|Gabriel Dumont]]
**[[Louis Riel]]
**[[Wandering Spirit (Cree leader)|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==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Goukouni Oueddei]]
| rowspan="3" |[[FROLINAT]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Chadian–Libyan War]]
|-
|[[Hissène Habré]]
|-
|[[Ibrahim Abatcha]]
|[[Chadian Civil War (1965–1979)|Chadian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Idriss Déby]]
|[[Patriotic Salvation Movement]]
|[[Chadian Civil War (1965–1979)|First Chadian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Rabih az-Zubayr]]
|Sudanese [[warlord]]
|[[Rabih War (1899–1901)|Rabih War]]
|-
|[[Youssouf Togoïmi]]
|[[Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad]]
|[[Insurgency in Chad (2016–present)|Insurgency in Chad]]
|}

== Chechnya ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Aslan Maskhadov]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]]
|[[First Chechen War]]
|-
|[[Second Chechen War]]
|-
|[[Dzhokhar Dudayev]]
|First Chechen War
|-
|[[Ahmed Zakaev]]
|Second Chechen War
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev]]
|Second Chechen War
|-
|First Chechen War
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Ibn al-Khattab]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya]]
|Second Chechen War
|-
|First Chechen War
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Abdul-Halim Sadulayev]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]]
|First Chechen War
|-
|Second Chechen War
|-
|[[Shamil Basayev]]
|[[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]]
|First Chechen War
|}

==Chile==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Galvarino Apablaza]]
|[[Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front]]
|[[Armed resistance in Chile (1973–1990)|Armed resistance in Chile]]
|-
|[[Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza]]
|[[Patriot Governments (Spanish American independence)|Patriots]]
|[[Chilean War of Independence]]
|-
|[[Miguel Enríquez (politician)|Miguel Enríquez]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)|Revolutionary Left Movement]] 
| rowspan="3" |[[Armed resistance in Chile (1973–1990)|Armed resistance in Chile]]
|-
|[[José Gregorio Liendo]]
|-
|[[Raúl Pellegrin]]
|[[Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front]]
|}

==China==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Mao Zedong]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Chinese Communist Party]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Chinese Civil War]]
|-
|[[Zhou Enlai]]
|-
|[[Sun Yat-sen]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Kuomintang]]
|[[1911 Revolution]]
|-
|[[Bai Chongxi]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Chinese Civil War]]
|-
|[[Chiang Kai-shek]]
|}

==Colombia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Jacobo Arenas]]
|[[National Liberation Army (Colombia)|National Liberation Army]] 
| rowspan="3" |[[Colombian conflict]]
|-
|[[Manuel Marulanda]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]]
|-
|[[Camilo Torres Restrepo|Camilo Torres]]
|}

==Cuba==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Fidel Castro]]
| rowspan="3" |[[July 26th Movement]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Cuban Revolution]]
|-
|[[Camilo Cienfuegos]]
|-
|[[Che Guevara]]
|-
| [[Antonio Maceo Grajales|Antonio Maceo]]
|[[Cuban Liberation Army]]
|[[Cuban War of Independence]]
|}

==Cyprus==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Georgios Grivas]]
| rowspan="4" |[[EOKA]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Cyprus Emergency]]
|-
|[[Grigoris Afxentiou]]
|-
|[[Kyriakos Matsis]]
|-
|[[Nikos Sampson]]
|}

==Dagestan==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Imam Shamil]]  
|[[Caucasian Imamate]]
|[[Murid War]]
|-
|[[Ibn al-Khattab]]
|[[Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya]]
| rowspan="2" |[[War in Dagestan (1999)|War in Dagestan]] 
|-
|[[Shamil Basayev]]
|[[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]]
|}

==Democratic Republic of the Congo==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]]
|[[AFDL|Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo]]
| rowspan="2" |[[First Congo War]]
|-
|[[Laurent Nkunda]]
|[[Rwandan Defence Forces]]
|-
|[[Pierre Mulele]]
|Simba rebel
|[[Simba rebellion]]
|}

==Dominican Republic==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Ramón Natera]]
| rowspan="2" | Constitutionalist faction
| rowspan="2" |[[Dominican Civil War]]
|-
|[[Gregorio Urbano Gilbert]]
|}

==Egypt==
*[[Inaros II|Inaros]] - (Egyptian rebel ruler) together with [[Classical Athens|Athenian]] allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against [[Persian Empire|Persians]].

==El Salvador==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Farabundo Martí]]
|[[Communist Party of El Salvador]]
|[[La Matanza]]
|-
|[[Schafik Handal]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Salvadoran Civil War]]
|-
|[[Cayetano Carpio]] 
|-
|[[Joaquín Villalobos]]
|-
|[[Ana María]]
|}

==Eritrea==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Isaias Afewerki]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Eritrean People's Liberation Front]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Eritrean War of Independence]]
|-
|[[Hamid Idris Awate]]
|-
| [[Woldeab Woldemariam]]
|}

==Estonia==

{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| [[August Sabbe]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Forest brothers]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Occupation of the Baltic States]]
|-
| [[Ülo Voitka]]
|-
|[[Alfred Käärmann]]
|}

==Ethiopia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Hayelom Araya]]
|[[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]]
| rowspan="5" |[[Ethiopian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Kinfe Gebremedhin]]
|[[Tigray People's Liberation Front]]
|-
|[[Meles Zenawi]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]]
|-
|[[Siye Abraha]]
|-
|[[Debretsion Gebremichael]]
|[[Tigray 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==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| [[Rodrigo Asturias]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Guatemalan 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]]
* [[Pazhassi Raja|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==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Abdul Haris Nasution]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Indonesian National Revolution]]
|-
|[[Sudirman]] 
|}

==Iran==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Babak Khorramdin]]
|[[Khurramites]]
|[[Abbasid Caliphate]].
|-
|[[Hassan-i Sabbah]]
|[[Order of Assassins]]
|[[Nizari–Seljuk conflicts]]
|-
|[[Mostafa Chamran]]
|[[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]]
|[[Iran–Iraq War]]
|-
|[[Massoud Rajavi]]
|[[People's Mujahedin of Iran]]
|[[Iranian revolution]]
|-
|[[Rais-Ali Delvari]]
|
|[[Persian campaign (World War I)|Persian campaign]]  
|}

==Iraq==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Abu Muslim Khorasani|Abu Muslim]]
|[[Abbasid Caliphate]]
|[[Abbasid Revolution]]
|-
|[[Zayd ibn Ali]]
|[[Alids]]
|[[Revolt of Zayd ibn Ali]]
|-
|[[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Al-Qaeda in Iraq]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Iraq War]]
|-
|[[Abu Ayyub al-Masri]]
|-
|[[Abu Omar al-Baghdadi]]
|-
|[[Muqtada al-Sadr]]
|[[Mahdi Army]]
|-
|[[Abu Azrael]]
|[[Popular Mobilization Forces]]
|[[Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)|Iraqi insurgency]] 
|}

 

==Ireland==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] || rowspan="2" | [[Irish Republican Army (1917–22)|Irish Republican Army]] 
| rowspan="2" |[[Irish War of Independence]]
|-
|[[Tom Barry (soldier)|Tom Barry]]
|-
|[[Gerry Adams]] || rowspan="2" | [[IRA Army Council|Provisional IRA Army Council]] 
| rowspan="7" |[[The Troubles|Troubles]]
|-
|[[Martin McGuinness]] 
|-
|[[Seamus Costello]] || [[Official IRA]] 
|-
|[[Freddie Scappaticci]]|| rowspan="3" | [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]]
|-
|[[Bobby Sands]] 
|-
|[[Francis Hughes]] 
|-
|[[Dominic McGlinchey]] || [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] and later [[Irish National Liberation Army]]   
|-
|[[Frank Aiken]]
| [[Irish War of Independence]]
|[[Irish War of Independence]]
|-
|[[Billy Wright (loyalist)|Billy Wright]] || [[Loyalist Volunteer Force]] (LVF)
| rowspan="4" |[[The Troubles|Troubles]]
|-
|[[John Gregg (UDA)|John Gregg]] || rowspan="2" | [[Ulster Defence Association]] 
|-
|[[Johnny Adair]] 
|-
|[[Lenny Murphy]] || [[Ulster Volunteer Force]]
|}

==Israel==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Menachem Begin]]
|[[Irgun]]
| rowspan="11" |[[Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine|Jewish insurgency]]
|-
|[[Yitzhak Shamir]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Lehi (militant group)|Lehi]]
|-
|[[Avraham Stern]]
|-
|[[Yohai Ben-Nun]]
| rowspan="8" |[[Haganah]]
|-
|[[Haim Bar-Lev]]
|-
|[[Aharon Davidi]]
|-
|[[Yekutiel Adam]] 
|-
|[[Ariel Sharon]] 
|-
|[[Danny Matt]]
|-
|[[Mordechai Gur]]
|-
|[[Rafael 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]]
**[[Minamoto clan|Yoritomo]]
***[[Minamoto no Yoshitsune]]
***[[Minamoto no Noriyori]]
***[[Minamoto no Yoritomo]]
**[[Minamoto clan|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 (prime minister)|Lee Beom-seok]]
**[[Kim Won-bong]]
**[[Kim Hong-il (general)|Kim Hong-il]]
**[[Kim Il Sung]]
**[[Kim Chwa-chin]]
**[[Yun Hui-sun]]
*Others
**[[Choe Ik-hyeon]]
**[[Shin Dol-seok]]

==Kosovo==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Adem Jashari]]
| rowspan="9" |[[Kosovo Liberation Army]]
| rowspan="9" |[[Kosovo War|Kosovo war]]
|-
|[[Ramush Haradinaj]]
|-
|[[Agim Ceku]]
|-
|[[Agim Ramadani]]
|-
|[[Sali Çekaj]]
|-
|[[Hamëz Jashari]]
|-
|[[Bekim Berisha]]
|-
|[[Luan Haradinaj]]
|-
|[[Daut Haradinaj]]
|}

==Kenya==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Dedan Kimathi]]
| rowspan="3" |Mau Mau rebels
| rowspan="3" |[[Mau Mau rebellion]]
|-
|[[Waruhiu Itote]]
|-
|[[Musa Mwariama]]
|}

==Kurdistan==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Mahmud Barzanji]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Kurdistan Democratic Party]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Iraqi–Kurdish conflict]]
|-
|[[Mahmoud Ezidi]]
|-
|[[Foad Mostafa Soltani]]
|[[Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan]]
|[[1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran]]
|-
|[[Jalal Talabani]]
|[[Kurdistan Democratic Party]]
|[[Iraqi–Kurdish conflict]]
|-
|[[Nawshirwan Mustafa]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan]]
|[[Kurdish–Turkish conflict]]
|-
|[[Najmadin Shukr Rauf]]
|[[Iraqi–Kurdish conflict]]
|-
|[[Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan]]
| rowspan="2" |[[1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran]]
|-
|[[Sadegh Sharafkandi]]
|-
|[[Abdullah Öcalan]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Kurdistan Workers' Party]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Kurdish–Turkish conflict]]
|-
|[[Murat Karayılan]]
|-
|[[Cemil Bayık]]
|-
|[[Sakine Cansız]]
|-
|[[Mazlum Doğan]]
|-
|[[Mahsum Korkmaz]]
|}

==Laos==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Vang Pao|General Vang Pao]] 
|[[Laotian Civil War|Secret Army]]
|[[Laotian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Pa Chay Vue]]
|[[Hmong people|Hmong]] rebels
|[[Vue Pa Chay's revolt]]
|-
|[[Ong Kommandam|Ong Kommandan]]
| rowspan="2" |Phu Mi Bun Movement
| rowspan="2" |[[Holy Man's Rebellion]]
|-
|[[Ong Keo]]
|}

==Latvia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Pēteris Dzelzītis]]  
|[[Latvian partisans]]
|[[Guerrilla war in the Baltic states]]
|}

==Lebanon==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Hassan Nasrallah]]
|[[Hezbollah]]
|[[Lebanese Civil War]]
|}

==Lesotho==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Ntsu Mokhehle]]
|[[Lesotho Liberation Army]]
|BCP insurgency
|}

==Liberia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)|Charles Taylor]]
| rowspan="2" |[[National Patriotic Front of Liberia]]
|[[First Liberian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Sierra Leonean Civil War]]
|-
|[[Prince Johnson]]
|[[Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia]]
|First Liberian Civil War
|}

==Libya==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Omar Mukhtar]]
|[[Senussi|Senussi Brotherhood]]
|[[Second Italo-Senussi War]]
|}

==Lithuania==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Jonas Žemaitis]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters|Lithuanian Union of Freedom Fighters]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Lithuanian partisans]]
|-
|[[Adolfas Ramanauskas]]
|-
|[[Juozas Lukša]]
|}

==Malaysia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Chin Peng]]
|[[Malayan Communist Party]]
|[[Malayan Emergency]]
|}

==Mexico==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Subcomandante Marcos]] || [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]] 
|[[Zapatista uprising]]
|-
|[[Pancho Villa]] || rowspan="2" | [[Liberation Army of the South]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Mexican Revolution]]
|-
|[[Emiliano Zapata]] 
|-
|[[Lucio Cabañas]]
|[[Party of the Poor (Mexico)|Party of the Poor]]
|[[Mexican Dirty War]]
|-
| [[Miguel Hidalgo]] || [[Mexican Army]]
|[[Mexican War of Independence]].
|-
| [[Davy Crockett]] || rowspan="6" | [[Army of the Republic of Texas]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Texas Revolution]]
|-
| [[Sam Houston]] 
|-
| [[William Barret Travis]] 
|-
| [[Juan Seguín]] 
|-
| [[James Bowie]] 
|-
| [[James Fannin]] 
|-
| [[Victorio]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Apacheria]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Apache Wars]].
|-
| [[Geronimo]] 
|-
| [[Bernardo Reyes]]
|[[Reyistas]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Mexican Revolution]]
|-
| [[Francisco I. Madero]]
|[[Maderistas]]
|}

==Mongolia==
*[[Genghis Khan]]
*[[Tolui]]
*[[Jebe]]
*[[Subutai]]

==Morocco==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Abd el-Krim]]
|[[Rif Republic]]
|[[Rif War]]
|-
|[[Mouha ou Hammou Zayani]]
|[[Qaid]]
|[[Zaian War]]
|-
|[[Mohammed Ameziane]]
|[[Riffians]]
|[[Second Melillan campaign]]

|}

==Mozambique==


{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Afonso Dhlakama]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Renamo]]
|[[Mozambican Civil War]]
|-
|[[Mozambican War of Independence]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Eduardo Mondlane]]
| rowspan="5" |[[Frelimo]]
|Mozambican Civil War
|-
|Mozambican War of Independence
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Samora Machel]]
|Mozambican Civil War
|-
| rowspan="2" |Mozambican War of Independence
|-
|[[Filipe Samuel Magaia]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[André Matsangaissa]]
|[[Frelimo]] <small>(1972–1975)</small>
|Mozambican Civil War
|-
|[[Renamo]] <small>(1975–1979)</small>
|Mozambican War of Independence
|}

==Myanmar==
*[[Khun Sa]]
*[[Saya San]]
*[[Johnny and Luther Htoo]]

==Namibia==
*[[Jakobus Morenga]]
*[[Hendrik Witbooi (Nama chief)|Hendrik Witbooi]]

==Nepal==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Prachanda]]
|[[Nepal Communist Party]]
|[[Nepalese Civil War]]
|}

==Netherlands==
*[[Pier Gerlofs Donia]]
*[[Wijerd Jelckama]]
*[[Abraham Blauvelt]]
*[[Michiel Andrieszoon]] - Dutch [[buccaneer]] active in the 1680s.
*[[Jan Willems (Dutch buccaneer)]]
*[[Cornelis Jol]]
*[[Roche Braziliano]]

==Nicaragua==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Adolfo Calero]]
|[[Contras]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Nicaraguan Revolution]]
|-
|[[Arlen Siu]]
|[[Sandinista National Liberation Front]]
|-
|[[Augusto César Sandino]]
|[[Army in Defense of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua]] 
|[[United States occupation of Nicaragua]]
|-
|[[Daniel Ortega]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Sandinista National Liberation Front]]
| rowspan="9" |[[Nicaraguan Revolution]]
|-
|[[Dora María Téllez]]
|-
|[[Edén Pastora]] 
| rowspan="2" |[[Contras]]
|-
|[[Enrique Bermúdez]]
|-
|[[Humberto Ortega]]
| rowspan="5" |[[Sandinista National Liberation Front]]
|-
|[[Joaquín Cuadra]]
|-
|[[Nora Astorga]]
|-
|[[Rigoberto Cruz]]
|-
|[[Carlos Fonseca]]
|}

==Nigeria==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Ateke Tom]]
|[[Ijaw people|Ijaw]] militia
| rowspan="3" |[[Conflict in the Niger Delta]]
|-
|[[Henry Okah]]
|[[Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta]]
|-
|[[Mujahid Dokubo-Asari]]
|[[Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force]]
|-
|[[Odumegwu Ojukwu]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Biafran Armed Forces]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Nigerian Civil War|Biafra war]]
|-
|[[Philip Effiong]]
|}

==Norway==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Martin Linge]]
|[[Royal Norwegian Army]]
|[[German occupation of Norway]]
|}

==Pakistan==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Ilyas Kashmiri]]
|[[Al-Qaeda]]
|[[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]]
|-
|[[Osama bin Laden]]
|[[Maktab al-Khidamat]]
|[[Soviet–Afghan War]]
|-
|[[Malik Munawar Khan Awan]]
|[[Azad Hind]]
|[[World War II]]
|-
|[[Nauroz Khan]]
|Kalat insurgents
|[[First Balochistan conflict]]
|-
|[[Allah Nazar Baloch]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Balochistan Liberation Front]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Insurgency in Balochistan]]
|-
|[[Balach Marri]]
|-
|[[Sher Mohammad Marri]]
|}

==Palestine==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni]]
|[[Army of the Holy War]]
|[[1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine]]
|-
|[[Yasser Arafat]]
|[[Palestine Liberation Organization]]
| rowspan="16" |[[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]
|-
|[[George Habash]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]]
|-
|[[Wadie Haddad]] 
|-
|[[Abu Nidal]]
|[[Abu Nidal Organization]]
|-
|[[Ahmed Yassin]] 
| rowspan="3" |[[Hamas]]
|-
|[[Yahya Ayyash]]
|-
|[[Mohammed Deif]] 
|-
|[[Ahmad Sa'adat]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]]
|-
|[[Abu Ali Mustafa]] 
|-
|[[Marwan Barghouti]]
|[[Palestine Liberation Organization]]
|-
|[[Khalil al-Wazir]] 
|[[Palestine Liberation Organization]]
|-
|[[Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil]]
|[[Hamas]]
|-
|[[Ali Hassan Salameh]] 
|[[Black September Organization]]
|-
|[[Zakaria Zubeidi]] 
|[[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades]]
|-
|[[Dalal Mughrabi]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Palestine Liberation Organization]]
|-
|[[Leila Khaled]]
|-
|[[Izz ad-Din al-Qassam]]
|[[Black Hand (Mandatory Palestine)|Black Hand]]  
|[[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine]]
|-
|[[Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi]]
|[[Hamas]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]
|-
|[[Omar Rezaq]]
|[[Abu Nidal Organization]]
|-
|[[Mahmoud Tawalbe]]
|[[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]]
|}

==Peru==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Abimael Guzmán]] 
|[[Shining Path]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Internal conflict in Peru]]
|-
|[[Héctor Béjar]]
|[[National Liberation Army (Peru)|National Liberation Army]]
|-
|[[Hugo Blanco (politician)|Hugo Blanco]]
|[[Workers' Revolutionary Party (Peru)|Workers' Revolutionary Party]]
|-
|[[Javier Heraud]]
|[[National Liberation Army (Peru)|National Liberation Army]]
|}

==Philippines==

*[[Wendell Fertig]]
*[[Gabriela Silang]]
*[[José María Sison]]
*[[Luis Taruc]]
*[[Emilio Aguinaldo]]
*[[Macario Sakay]]
*[[Andrés Bonifacio]]
*[[Baldomero Aguinaldo]]
*[[Gregorio del Pilar]]
*[[Antonio Luna]]
*[[Emilio Jacinto]]
*[[Juan Pajota]] - Filipino guerrilla leader who played a major role in the [[Raid at Cabanatuan]]
*[[Eduardo Joson]]

==Poland==
* [[Feliks Ankerstein]]
* [[Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum]]
* [[Edmund Charaszkiewicz]]
* [[Jerzy Dąbrowski (lieutenant colonel)|Jerzy Dąbrowski]]
* [[Henryk Dobrzański|Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański]]
* [[Franciszek Kamiński]]
* [[Tadeusz Komorowski]]
* [[Józef Kasparek]]
* [[Aleksander Józef Lisowski]]
* [[Leopold Okulicki]]
* [[Witold Pilecki]]
* [[Jan Piwnik]]
* [[Kazimierz Pużak]]
* [[Stefan Rowecki]]
* [[Avraham Stern]] (from [[Suwałki]]; backed by the [[Polish Army]] in 1938 & 1939)
* [[Emil August Fieldorf|Emil August Fieldorf "Nil"]]
* [[Joseph Epstein]] - Polish born activist who fought for the French Resistance in World War II
* [[Mordechai Anielewicz]]

==Portugal==
* [[Viriathus]]

==Romania==
*[[Mircea I of Wallachia]]
* [[Vlad III the Impaler|Vlad the Impaler]]
* [[Stephen III of Moldavia]]

==Rwanda==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Paul Kagame]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Rwandan Patriotic Front]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Rwandan Genocide]]
|-
|[[Fred Rwigyema]]
|}

==Scotland==
*[[First War of Scottish Independence]]
**[[William Wallace]]
**[[Robert I of Scotland]]
**[[James Douglas, Lord of Douglas|The Black Douglas]]
**[[Andrew Moray]]
**[[William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas|William the Hardy]]
**[[Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray|Thomas Randolph]]
**[[Simon Fraser (died 1306)|Simon Fraser]]
**[[John Comyn III of Badenoch|John Comyn]]
*[[Second War of Scottish Independence]]
**[[Andrew Murray (Scottish soldier)|Andrew Murray]]
**[[William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas|William Douglas]]
**[[Patrick V, Earl of March|Patrick V]]
**[[John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray|John Randolph]]
**[[Archibald Douglas (died 1333)|Archibald Douglas]]
*Others
**[[Andrew Barton (privateer)]] - notorious Scottish sailor who made raids against Portuguese ships.

==Sierra Leone==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Foday Sankoh]]
|[[Revolutionary United Front]]
|[[Sierra Leone Civil War]]
|}

==Singapore==
*[[Lim Bo Seng]], [[Force 136]]
*[[Tan Chong Tee]], [[Force 136]]

==South Africa==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Piet Joubert]]
| rowspan="8" |[[South African Republic|Transvaal]]
| rowspan="18" |[[Boer War|Boer Wars]]
|-
|[[Schalk Willem Burger]]
|-
|[[Piet Cronjé]]
|-
|
[[Joachim Ferreira]]
|-
|[[Francois Gerhardus Joubert]]
|-
|[[Nicolaas Smit]]
|-
|[[Jan Smuts]]
|-
|[[Louis Botha]]
|-
|[[Johannes Lötter]]
|[[Cape Colony]]
|-
|[[Christiaan de Wet]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Orange Free State]]
|-
|[[Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger]]
|-
|[[Jan Smuts]]
| rowspan="3" |[[South African Republic|Transvaal]]
|-
|[[Schalk Willem Burger]]
|-
|[[Christiaan Frederik Beyers]]
|-
|[[Koos de la Rey]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Orange Free State]]
|-
|[[Martinus Theunis Steyn]]
|-
|[[Gideon Scheepers]]
|-
|[[Deneys Reitz]]
|-
|[[Nelson Mandela]]
| rowspan="3" |[[African National Congress]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Apartheid]]
|-
|[[Walter Sisulu]]
|-
|[[Jacob Zuma]]
|-
|[[Joe Slovo]]
| rowspan="2" |[[South African Communist Party]]
|-
|[[Chris Hani]]
|-
|[[Potlako Leballo]]
|[[Pan Africanist Congress of Azania]]
|}

==Soviet Union==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Mikhail Frunze]]
|[[Red Army]]
|[[Basmachi movement|Basmachi revolt]]
|-
|[[Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky]] 
|Serb rebels
|[[Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877)|Herzegovina uprising]] 
|-
|[[Stepan Bandera]]
|[[Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists]]
|[[Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]]
|-
|[[Sydir Kovpak]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Red Army]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Russian civil war]]
|-
|[[Semyon Rudniev]]
|-
|[[Serge Obolensky]]
|[[White movement|Russian White Army]]
|}

==Spain==
*[[Aben Humeya]]
*[[Abo Hafs Omer Al-Baloty]]
*[[Juan Guartem]] - late 17th century Spanish renegade pirate
*[[Francisco Sabate]] - El Quico, Anarchist maquis fighter killed in 1960
*[[José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana]]
*[[Pelagius of Asturias]]
*[[Umar ibn Hafsun]]
*[[El Empecinado]]
*[[Johanne Galan|Johanne Galan "La Galana"]]
*[[Francisco Abad Moreno "Chaleco"]]
*[[Agustina de Aragón]]
*[[Vicente López Tovar]]
*[[Viriathus]]

==Sudan==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[John Garang]]
| rowspan="2" |[[South Sudan People's Defence Forces]]
|[[First Sudanese Civil War]]
|-
|[[Second Sudanese Civil War]]
|-
|[[Khalil Ibrahim]]
|[[Justice and Equality Movement]]
|[[War in Darfur]]
|-
|[[Muhammad Ahmad]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Mahdist State]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Mahdist War]]
|-
|[[Osman Digna]]
|-
|[[Rabih az-Zubayr]]
|[[Kanem-Bornu Empire]]
|[[Rabih War (1899–1901)|Rabih War]] 
|-
|[[Sebehr Rahma]]
|[[Mahdist State]]
|[[Mahdist War]]
|}

==Suriname==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Ronnie Brunswijk]]||[[ Jungle Commando]]||[[Surinamese Interior War]]
|}

==Syria==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Sultan al-Atrash]]
|Syrian rebels
|[[Great Syrian Revolt]]
|-
|[[Saladin]]
|[[Ayyubid dynasty]]
|[[Third Crusade]]
|}

==Thailand==
*See [[Bang Rachan]]
*[[Phraya Phichai]]

==Tunisia==
*[[Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i]]
*[[Abu Yazid]]
*[[Hannibal]]
*[[Mago Barca]]

==Turkey==
*[[Şeyh Bedrettin]]
*[[Hayreddin Barbarossa]] - famous [[admiral of the fleet]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]
*[[Dragut]]

==Uganda==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Yoweri Museveni]]||[[National Resistance Movement]]||[[Ugandan Bush War]]
|-
|[[Alice Auma]] ||[[Holy Spirit Movement]] ||[[War in Uganda (1986–1994)|War in Uganda ]]
|-
|[[Joseph Kony]]|| [[Lord's Resistance Army]]|| [[Lord's Resistance Army insurgency]]
|}

==Ukraine==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Nestor Makhno]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Russian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Maria Nikiforova]]
|}

==United Kingdom==
*[[Glyndŵr Rising]]
**[[Owain Glyndŵr]] in Wales
*[[American Revolution]]
**[[Banastre Tarleton]] – British Cavalry officer of the [[British Legion (American Revolution)]] in the [[American Revolution]]
**Lieutenant Colonel [[John Graves Simcoe]] of the [[Queen's Rangers]] in the [[American Revolution]]
**[[Christopher Carleton]] – led raids in the [[American Revolution]]
**[[Patrick Ferguson]]
**[[William Caldwell (ranger)|William Caldwell]]
**[[Bloody Bill Cunningham]]
**[[David Fanning (loyalist)|David Fanning]]
**[[Simon Girty]]
**[[John Butler (Ranger)|John Butler]]
**[[James De Lancey (loyalist)|James De Lancey]]
*[[War of 1812]]
**[[James FitzGibbon]]
**[[William Johnson Kerr]]
**[[Tecumseh]] – Native-American guerrilla leader who served the British in the War of 1812
**[[Phineas Riall]]
**[[Adam Muir (British Army officer)|Adam Muir]] – [[Battle of Maguaga]]
**[[James Gordon (Royal Navy officer)|James Gordon]]
**[[Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet|George Cockburn]]
**[[James Lucas Yeo]] – conducted 3 raids. The second British raid at Charlotte, New York, at the mouth of the Genesse River (June 15, 1813). Performed the raid at the [[battle of Fort Oswego]]. And the raid at Sodus, New York (June 19, 1813)
**[[Cecil Bisshopp]]
**[[William Caldwell (ranger)|William Caldwell]]
**[[John Brant (Mohawk leader)|John Brant]]
**[[Gordon Drummond]]
**[[William Mulcaster]]
**[[Charles de Salaberry]]
*[[World War I]]
**[[T. E. Lawrence]] (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabia
*[[World War II]]
**[[David Stirling]] – Scottish born officer who was the founder of the [[Special Air Service]]
**[[Tommy Macpherson]] – Scottish born British-army officer who conducted guerrilla operations in World War II
**[[Roy Farran]] – in command of [[Operations Wallace and Hardy]]
**[[Orde Wingate]] – (founder of the [[Chindits]]) in Palestine and [[Burma]]
**[[Mike Calvert]] – British soldier nicknamed "Mad Mike" who participated in Chindit operations and was influential in promoting the ideas of unconventional warfare by [[Orde Wingate]].
**[[Jack Churchill]] – British soldier named "Mad Jack" who fought in World War II armed with a [[longbow]], [[bagpipes]], and a [[Scottish broadsword]].
**[[Ursula Graham Bower]] – led the [[Naga people|Nagas]] against the Japanese during World War II
**[[Nancy Wake]] – New Zealand born female operative who joined the [[Special Operations Executive]] and participated in operations with the [[French Resistance]] in World War II
**[[Virginia Hall]] – American [[spy]] who worked with the [[Special Operations Executive]] in the [[European theatre of World War II]] before joining the American [[Office of Strategic Services]].
**[[Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet|Fitzroy Maclean]] worked with [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]] and Yugoslav Partisans during World War II
**[[Ivan Lyon]] – member of the [[Z Special Unit]]
**[[Robert Grainger Ker Thompson]] – famous [[British people|British]] military officer and [[counter-insurgency]] expert who served in the [[Burma Campaign]]
**[[Carol Mather]]
**[[John Durnford-Slater]]
*[[Malayan Emergency]]
**[[Robert Grainger Ker Thompson]] – famous [[British people|British]] military officer and [[counter-insurgency]] expert
*Other
**[[Henry Mainwaring]] – nicknamed "The Dread Pirate".
**[[Edward Davis (buccaneer)]] – English [[buccaneer]] active in the Caribbean during the 1680s.
**[[William Kyd]] – 15th-century English pirate active in Southwest England from the 1430s until the 1450s.
**[[John Nutt]] – notorious 17th-century English pirate who raided the coasts of Southern Canada and Western England for over three years before his capture.
**[[Henry Jennings]] – 18th-century English [[privateer]] from the colony of [[Bermuda]]
**[[Samuel Bellamy]] – "Black Bellamy"
**[[Howell Davis]] – Welsh pirate
**[[Charles Bellamy]] – English pirate raided colonial American shipping in New England and later off the coast of Canada.
**[[William Dampier]]
**[[Blackbeard]] – one of the most notorious pirates from England
**[[James Alday]]
**[[John Bear (pirate)]]
**[[William Rous]]
**[[William Parker (privateer)|William Parker]]
**[[Dick Turpin]]

==United States==
*[[French and Indian War]]
**[[Kingdom of Great Britain]], [[British America]], and [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] allies
***[[John Stark]]
***[[John Armstrong Sr.]]
***[[Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina|Eyre Massey]]
***[[Sayenqueraghta]]
***[[Robert Rogers (British Army officer)|Robert Rogers]]
***[[Daniel Morgan]]
**[[Kingdom of France]], [[New France]], and [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] allies
***[[Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau|Jean Erdman]]
***[[François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery|Francois-Marie]]
***[[Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu]]
***[[Jean-Daniel Dumas]]
***[[Charles Michel de Langlade]]
***[[Pontiac (Ottawa leader)|Pontiac]]
*[[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]
**[[George Washington]]
**[[John Parker (captain)|John Parker]]
**[[Benjamin Cleveland]]
**[[Elijah Clarke]]
**[[John Sevier]]
**[[Ethan Allen]]
**[[William Campbell (general)|William Campbell]]
**[[Francis Marion]]
**[[Andrew Pickens (congressman)|Andrew Pickens]]
**[[Thomas Sumter]]
**[[Samuel Whittemore]]
**[[William Richardson Davie]]
**[[James Williams (Revolutionary War)|James Williams]]
**[[Isaac Shelby]]
**[[John Schenck]]
**[[William Russell (Kentucky politician)|William Russell]]
**[[Andrew Jackson]]
**[[Philemon Dickinson]]
**[[William Moultrie]]
**[[John Sullivan (general)|John Sullivan]]
**[[Seth Warner]]
**[[Marinus Willett]]
**[[Nathanael Greene]]
**[[Daniel Morgan]]
**[[Return J. Meigs Sr.]]
**[[William Barton (soldier)|William Barton]]
**[[John Glover (general)|John Glover]]
**[[Edward Hand]]
**[[William Maxwell (Continental Army general)|William Maxwell]] – American Continental general whose guerrilla actions are notable in the [[Forage War]], [[Battle of Cooch's Bridge]], and [[Battle of Connecticut Farms]].
**[[Henry Lee III]]
**[[Allan McLane]]
**[[Benjamin Tallmadge]]
**[[William Washington]]
**[[David Wooster]]
**[[Timothy Murphy (sniper)|Timothy Murphy]] – his exploits of guerrilla-like actions are shown in ''What Manner of Men: Forgotten Heroes of the American Revolution'' by Fred J. Cook in Chapter III
**[[Thomas Knowlton]]
**[[John Stark]]
**[[Anthony Wayne]] – led a famous surprise night attack in the [[Battle of Stony Point]].
**[[Adam Hyler]] – German who immigrated to America and became a privateer harassing the British fleet by destroying ships, capturing crews, and conducting raids.
**[[George Wait Babcock]]
**[[Jeremiah O'Brien]] – led the first American attack in the [[Raid on St. John (1775)]]
**[[Gustavus Conyngham]] – Irish-born American officer in the continental navy and a privateer who has been called "the most successful of all Continental Navy Captains."
**[[John Rathbun]] – officer in the Continental Navy whose most well known exploit was his own raid at Nassau. Not to be confused with the first [[Raid of Nassau]]
**[[John Barry (naval officer)|John Barry]]
**[[Herbert Woodbury]]
**[[Noah Stoddard]]
**[[John Paul Jones]]
**[[Jonathan Haraden]] – his unconventional type of warfare at sea are mentioned in ''What Manner of Men: Forgotten Heroes of the American Revolution'' by Fred J. Cook in chapter IX.
**[[Nicholas Biddle (naval officer)|Nicholas Biddle]]
**[[Joshua Barney]]
**[[David Hawley]]
**[[Morgan's Riflemen]]
**[[Whitcomb's Rangers]]
**[[1st Continental Light Dragoons]]
**[[2nd Continental Light Dragoons]]
**[[Lee's Legion]]
**[[Militia (United States)|American Militia]]
**[[Privateer|American Privateers]]
*[[Northwest Indian War]]
**[[United States]]
***[[Charles Scott (governor)|Charles Scott]]
***[[James Wilkinson]]
***[[John Hardin]]
***[[Benjamin Logan]]
***[[William Wells (soldier)|William Wells]]
**[[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]
***[[Little Turtle]]
***[[Buckongahelas]]
***[[Egushawa]]
***[[Blue Jacket]]
*[[Quasi-War]]
**[[Silas Talbot]]
**[[Isaac Hull]]
**[[Daniel Carmick]]
**[[Stephen Decatur Sr.]]
**[[Benjamin Stoddert]]
**[[David Porter (naval officer)|David Porter]]
*[[First Barbary War]]
**[[John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772)|John Rodgers]]
**[[Andrew Sterett]]
**[[USS Heermann|Lewis Heermann]]
**[[Stephen Decatur]]
**[[Thomas Macdonough]]
**[[William Eaton (soldier)|William Eaton]]
*[[War of 1812]]
**[[Andrew Jackson]]
**[[Alexander Macomb (general)|Alexander Macomb]]
**[[Benjamin Forsyth]]
**[[Daniel Appling]]
**[[Battle of Conjocta Creek|Lodowick Morgan]]
**[[Bennet C. Riley]]
**[[Alexander Smyth]]
**[[Jacob Brown (general)|Jacob Brown]]
**[[Peter B. Porter]]
**[[John Coffee]]
**[[Philip Reed (politician)|Philip Reed]]
**[[Azariah C. Flagg]]
**[[Richard Mentor Johnson]]
**[[Ninian Edwards]]
**[[Davy Crockett]]
**[[Caleb Hopkins (colonel)|Caleb Hopkins]]
**[[Joseph Bartholomew (major general)|Joseph Bartholomew]]
**[[John Tipton]]
**[[John Ketcham (Indiana surveyor)|John Ketcham]]
**[[William Dudley (colonel)|William Dudley]]
**[[Nathan Boone]]
**[[Thomas Hinds]]
**[[Buckner F. Harris]]
**[[Lewis Cass]]
**[[Samuel Dale]]
**[[John Williams (Tennessee politician)|John Williams]]
**[[William Whitley]]
**[[John Swift (general)|John Swift]]
**[[Benjamin Mooers]]
**[[Benjamin Howard (Missouri politician)|Benjamin Howard]]
**[[John Floyd (Georgia politician)|John Floyd]]
**[[Isaac Shelby]]
**[[Battle of St. Regis|Guilford Dudley Young]]
**[[Battle of Matilda|Elisah Griffen]]
**[[Norfolk, Virginia|Richard Lawson]]
**[[Benajah Mallory]]
**[[Joseph Willcocks]]
**[[Abraham Markle]]
**[[William McIntosh]]
**[[Pushmataha]]
**[[Red Jacket]]
**[[Raid On Philipsburg|Isaac Clark]]
**[[Battle of Plattsburgh|George McGlassin]]
**[[James Miller (general)|James Miller]]
**[[George Croghan (soldier)|George Croghan]]
**[[George Edward Mitchell]]
**[[William Russell (Kentucky politician)|William Russell]]
**[[William Orlando Butler]]
**[[John E. Wool]]
**[[John Miller (Missouri politician)|John Miller]]
**[[James Wilkinson]]
**[[Nathaniel Towson]]
**[[John B. Campbell]]
**[[William Henry Harrison]]
**[[Duncan McArthur]]
**[[Andrew Holmes (army officer)|Andrew Holmes]]
**[[Daniel Bissell (general)|Daniel Bissell]] – American general who used the cover of the woods and tactical maneuvers to successfully raid/destroy the enemy grain and flower in the [[Battle of Cook's Mills]].
**[[William Pinkney]] – commanded American riflemen who concealed themselves by the shrubbery on the low ground near the river at Bladensburg bridge. Pinckney's concealed riflemen poured deadly volleys into exposed masses of British troops crossing the bridge. This is mentioned in ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 28'' edited by Henry Mills Alden page 439. This is also confirmed in a well documented history book ''Lossing's War of 1812: Lossing’s Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812'' written by Benson Lossing Chapter XXXIX.
**[[Regiment of Riflemen]]
**[[United States Rangers in the War of 1812|United States Rangers]]
**[[Regiment of Light Dragoons (United States)|1st Regiment of Light Dragoons]]
**[[2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons (United States)|2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons]]
**[[Canadian Volunteers]]
**[[Militia (United States)|American Militia]]
**[[Privateer|American Privateers]]
**[[Isaac Chauncey]]
**[[Arthur Sinclair]]
**[[Charles Stewart (American Navy officer)|Charles Stewart]]
**[[Johnston Blakeley]]
**[[William Henry Allen]]
**[[David Porter (naval officer)|David Porter]]
**[[Melancthon Taylor Woolsey]]
**[[Stephen Decatur]]
**[[John Percival]]
**[[Francis Gregory]]
**[[Jesse Elliot]]
**[[Joseph Tarbell]] – conducted a hit-and-run night attack on the British navy with gunboats and riflemen with mixed or limited results. This is mentioned in the history book ''The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History'' by Spencer C. Tucker page 123.
**[[William Josephus Stafford]]
**[[Joshua Hailey]]
**[[George R. Roberts (privateer)|George R. Roberts]]
**[[Thomas Boyle]]
**[[James DeWolf]]
**[[Joshua Barney]]
**[[Otway Burns]]
**[[Bill Johnston (pirate)|Bill Johnston]] – Canadian amphibious guerrilla/pirate who fought for the American side.
**[[John Ordronaux (privateer)|John Ordronaux]] – very successful French-born [[privateer]] who preyed on British merchant ships, outran about seventeen British warships, and brought back to the US goods worth $250,000 and $300,000.
**[[American privateer Holkar|J. Rowland]] – raided British shipping and vessels
**[[Surprise (1813 privateer)|Clement Cathell]]
**[[Surprise (1813 privateer)|James Barnes]]
**[[Surprise (1813 privateer)|Samuel Barstow]]
**[[HMS Anaconda (1813)|George W. Burbank]]
**[[HMS Anaconda (1813)|Nathanial Shaler]]
*[[Texas Revolution]]
**[[United States of America|American volunteers]], [[Texas|Texan Revolutionaries]], and [[Tejanos|allies]]
***[[Sam Houston]]
***[[William B. Travis]] – commander of the Texans at the [[Fall of the Alamo]].
***[[James Bowie]]
***[[Davy Crockett]] – famous frontiersmen, fought and died at the [[Fall of the Alamo]].
***[[Amon B. King]] – [[Battle of Refugio]]
***[[Ira Westover]]
***[[William Ward (Texas soldier)|William Ward]]
***[[Richard Andrews (soldier)|Richard Andrews]]
***[[Noah Smithwick]]
***[[Deaf Smith]]
***[[John Coker (soldier)|John Coker]]
***[[Moses Lapham]]
***[[Moseley Baker]]
***[[Frank W. Johnson]]
***[[James Grant (Texas politician)|James Grant]]
***[[Mirabeau B. Lamar]]
***[[Juan Seguín]]
***[[Manuel N. Flores]]
***[[Plácido Benavides]]
***[[John Henry Moore (Texas settler)|John Henry Moore]]
**[[Mexico]]
***[[José de Urrea]]
***[[Carlos de la Garza]]
***[[Manuel Fernández Castrillón]] – used his fellow Mexican marksmen to snipe and harass the Texan insurgents in the [[Siege of Béxar]]. Mentioned in '''Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution''' by Stephen L. Hardin in Chapter 5.
***[[Battle of San Patricio|Rafael Pretalia]]
*[[Seminole Wars]]
**[[United States of America]]
***[[William S. Harney]]
***[[Bennet C. Riley]]
***[[Joseph Marion Hernandez]] – commanded an American force that made two successful stealthy raids/assaults on the Seminoles. Mentioned in ''History of the Second Seminole war, 1835–1842'' by John K. Mahon pages 211-214
***[[Andrew Jackson]] – disguised his ship with a [[false flag|British flag]] to lure [[Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo)|Hillis Hadjo]] into a trap and successful capture.
***[[Gabriel J. Rains]]
**[[Seminole]]s and their allies
***[[Micanopy]]
***[[Osceola]] – Native American freedom fighter
***[[Thlocklo Tustenuggee]]
***[[Billy Bowlegs]]
***[[Ar-pi-uck-i]] – [[Seminole]] guerrilla leader who used cover, concealment, and evasive tactics in [[Battle of Lake Okeechobee|Lake Okeechobee]], [[Battles of the Loxahatchee|Loxahtchee]], and [[Battle of Pine Island Ridge|Pine Island Ridge]]
***[[John Horse]]
***[[Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo)|Hillis Hadjo]]
*[[Mexican–American War]]
**[[United States of America]]
***[[Fabius Stanly]] – American naval lieutenant who led raids against the [[Mexicans|Mexican]] armed forces.
***[[Joseph Lane]] – [[United States Army]] American general who led a hit and run surprise attack on the [[Mexicans|Mexican]] armed forces at the [[Skirmish at Matamoros]]
***[[John Coffee Hays]] – Hay's well planned ambush mentioned in ''Mixed Blessing: the Role of the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War, 1846–1848'' written by Ian B. Lyles, pages 43–44
***[[Samuel Hamilton Walker]]
***[[Albert G. Blanchard]] – feigned retreat luring the Mexicans into [[John Coffee Hays]]' ambush in ''Mixed Blessing: the Role of the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War, 1846–1848'' written by Ian B. Lyles, pages 43–44
***[[California Republic|Ezekiel "Stuttering Zeke" Merritt]] – conducted a hit-and-run raid capturing 170 horses. Mentioned in historic book '''Bear Flag Lieutenant: The Life Story of Henry L. Ford [1822-1860]''' written by Fred Blackburn Rogers page 263.
***[[William B. Ide]]
***[[Battle of Olómpali|Henry Ford]] – conducted 3 incursions/raids on enemy houses/bases destroying enemy weapons, capturing prisoners, and rescuing hostages before returning to friendly lines. Mentioned in ''Bear Flag Lieutenant: The Life Story of Henry L. Ford (1822–1860)'' written by Fred Blackburn Rogers pages 268–270.
***[[Benjamin McCulloch]]
***[[John C. Fremont]]
***[[Tunis Craven]]
**[[Mexico]]
***[[Joaquín Rea]]
***[[Antonio Canales Rosillo]]
***[[Jose Mariano Salas]] – Mexican commander who commanded Mexican partisans called "Guerrillas of Vengeance" which is mentioned in the history book "U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War" page 15.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.army.mil/html/books/073/73-3/CMH_Pub_73-3.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910023037/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/073/73-3/CMH_Pub_73-3.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 10, 2015|title=The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War, The Occupation Of Mexico May 1846-July 1848|website=history.army.mil }}</ref>
***[[Celedonio Dómeco de Jarauta]]
***[[José Antonio Carrillo]]
***[[José María Flores]]
***[[Manuel Pineda Munoz]] – commanded Mexican forces that used guerrilla tactics in the [[Battle of Mulegé]]
*[[Utah War]]
**[[Lot Smith]]
**[[Daniel H. Wells]]
**[[Brigham Young]]
**[[Isaac C. Haight]]
**[[John D. Lee]]
*[[American Civil War|Civil War]]
**[[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]
***[[Bloody Bill Anderson]]
***[[Champ Ferguson]]
***[[William Quantrill]]
***[[Daniel Showalter|Dan Showalter]]
***[[John Singleton Mosby]]
***[[John Hunt Morgan]]
***[[John Hanson McNeill]] – led an independent irregular Confederate military company called [[McNeill's Rangers]] commissioned under the [[Partisan Ranger Act]]
***[[Earl Van Dorn]]
***[[Stovepipe Johnson|Adam Rankin Johnson]] – gained notoriety for his incursion known as the [[Newburgh Raid]] where he gained the nickname "Stovepipe Johnson"
***[[Archie Clement]]
***[[Joseph C. Porter]] – Confederate officer who was a key leader in the guerrilla campaigns in northern Missouri
***[[John Mobberly]]
***[[Jack Hinson]] – Confederate partisan sniper
***[[John Jackson Dickison]] – at times called by scholars or historians as "the Swamp Fox of the Confederacy" or "the Confederate Swamp Fox"
***[[William McWaters]] – Confederate guerrilla who with his fellow bushwackers conducted a successful but controversial sabotage mission known as the [[Platte Bridge Railroad Tragedy]]
***[[Joseph Wheeler]]
***[[Jubal Early]]
***[[J. E. B. Stuart]]
***[[Harry Gilmor]]
***[[Mary Jane Green]]
***[[Wade Hampton III]]
***[[Richard Montgomery Gano]]
***[[Stand Watie]]
***[[James Iredell Waddell]]
***[[Raphael Semmes]]
**[[United States of America|Union]]
***[[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]]
***[[Charles R. Jennison]]
***[[James Henry Lane (Union general)|James H. Lane]]
***[[Daniel R. Anthony]]
***[[Newton Knight]]
***[[Owen Brown (abolitionist, born 1824)|Owen Brown]]
***[[Benjamin Grierson]]
***[[William B. Cushing]]
***[[Samuel C. Means]] – captain of the [[Loudoun Rangers]]
***[[Henry Young (major)|Henry Young]]
***[[Harriet Tubman]] – female African American who infiltrated slave territory bringing slaves to safe zones, played a major role in the [[Raid on Combahee Ferry]], and provided critical intelligence to the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]].
***[[James Montgomery (colonel)|James Montgomery]] – Union [[Jayhawker]] who was in command of the Union forces in the [[Raid on Combahee Ferry]] and conducted other raids against the confederates.
***[[Henry Baxter]]
***[[James J. Andrews]]
***[[Abel Streight]]
***[[Hugh Judson Kilpatrick]]
***[[Gouverneur K. Warren]] – Union Army general who executed a deadly ambush in the [[Battle of Bristoe Station]]
***[[William Henry Powell (soldier)|William Henry Powell]]
***[[William W. Averell]]
***[[Samuel P. Carter]]
***[[George W. Taylor (general)|George W. Taylor]]
***[[Samuel P. Cox]]
***[[George Stoneman]]
***[[James H. Wilson]]
***[[Thomas R. Kerr]]
***[[John R. Kelso]] – his exploits of covert guerilla-like actions are mentioned in his book '''Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso's Civil War''' written by himself.
***[[Ishmael Day]]
***[[Theophilus Lyle Dickey]]
***[[James Madison Wells]]
***[[Malinda Blalock]]
***[[Daniel Ellis (Unionist)|Daniel Ellis]]
***[[Fielding Hurst]]
***[[Christopher Haun]]
***[[Edward E. Potter]]
***[[Seth Ledyard Phelps]]
***[[Opothleyahola]]
***[[William Sloan Tough]]
*[[Powder River Expedition (1865)]]
**[[United States]]
***[[Patrick E. Connor]] – American brigadier general who led a surprise raid-like incursion in the [[Battle of the Tongue River]]; the incursion has had some controversy and debate.
***[[Jim Bridger]] – army scout alongside [[Frank North]] who scouted and discovered the [[Arapaho]] village allowing [[Patrick E. Connor]] to make his controversial surprise attack in the [[Battle of the Tongue River]]
***[[Frank North]] – led a successful dawn surprise-like attack with his [[Pawnee Scouts]] on the [[Cheyenne]] which became known as the [[Powder River Massacre]] which also might have some controversy or debate.
**[[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]
***[[Red Cloud]] – very important leader of the [[Oglala]] Lakota people.
***[[Morning Star (chief)|Dull Knife]] – great chief of the [[Cheyenne]] who alongside [[Red Cloud]] harassed the Americans at the [[Battle of Bone Pile Creek]].
***[[Sitting Bull]]
***[[Hook Nose|Roman Nose]] – alongside [[Sitting Bull]] led the Native Americans in ambushing, harassing, and skirmishing against the U.S. armed forces in the [[Powder River Battles (1865)|Powder River Battles]]
*[[Snake War]]
**[[United States]]
***[[George Crook]]
***[[Billy Chinook]] – chief and member of the [[Wasco-Wishram|Wasco]] tribe and served the [[United States]] as a [[First Sergeant]] of the U.S. Army Wasco Scouts
**[[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]
***[[Paulina (Paiute leader)]]
***[[Wahveveh]]
*[[Great Sioux War of 1876]]
**[[United States]]
***[[Ranald S. Mackenzie]]
***[[George Crook]]
***[[Frank North]] – organized and commanded the [[Pawnee Scouts]]
***[[Wesley Merritt]] – planned an ambush which let to little to no high body count in the [[Battle of Warbonnet Creek]]
**[[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]
***[[Crazy Horse]]
***[[Sitting Bull]]
***[[Little Wolf]]
***[[American Horse (elder)]]
*[[Apache Wars]]
**[[United States]]
***[[George Crook]]
***[[George Morton Randall]] – American Captain who led a well coordinated surprise attack on the [[Apache]] and their allies in the [[Battle of Turret Peak]].
***[[James Henry Tevis]] – pioneer who led a militia of 30 men in a surprise attack on the Apache in the [[Battle of the Mimbres River]]
***[[James H. Whitlock]] – [[Battle of Mount Gray]]
***[[Al Sieber]]
***[[Howard B. Cushing]]
***[[Nantaje]]
**[[Apache]] and their allies
***[[Flechas Rayada]]
***[[Mangas Coloradas]] – [[Apache]] tribal chief who led raids and ambushes against the [[Mexicans]] and [[Americans]]
***[[Cochise]] – chief or leader of the Chokonen band of the [[Chiricahua Apache]] who also led raids and ambushes against the [[Mexicans]] and [[Americans]]
***[[Victorio]]
***[[Nana (chief)]]
***[[Chato (Apache)]]
***[[Juh]]
***[[Baishan (Apache)]]
***[[Geronimo]] – Native American freedom fighter
*[[Philippine–American War]]
**[[Frederick Funston]] – American brigadier general who planned, led, and executed the raid that captured [[Emilio Aguinaldo]].
**[[United States Armed Forces]] – led a rear surprise attack/ambush decimating an army of would be ambushers in the [[Battle of Lonoy]]
**[[Elwell Stephen Otis]] – American commander of a hit-and-run raid-like mission that successfully destroyed a Filipino artillery gun in the [[Battle of Olongapo]]
**[[Hiram I. Bearss]]
*[[World War 1]]
**[[Theodore Roosevelt Jr.]] – planned and ordered a successful raid at Cantigny that captured 33 prisoners and documents with intelligence. This is mentioned in ''Infantry in Battle'' by [[Charles T. Lanham]], pages 43–47
**[[Michael Valente]]
**[[John L. Barkley]] – his exploit of surprising/ambushing and decimating an army of Germans are mentioned in his memoir written by himself and an article ''One Man’s Ambush'' written by [[Edward G. Lengel]]
**[[Hiram I. Bearss]]
*[[United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924)|United States occupation of the Dominican Republic]]
**[[James P. Parker]]
**[[Richard Wainwright (Spanish–American War naval officer)|Richard Wainwright]] – was in command of a commando amphibious raid in the [[Santo Domingo Affair]]
**[[Ernest Calvin Williams]] – American marine who led a commando like assault in the [[Battle of San Francisco de Macoris]]
**[[Santo Domingo Affair|Albert S. Mclemore]]
*[[United States occupation of Nicaragua]]
**[[Chesty Puller]]
**[[Harold C. Roberts]] – surprised bandits, used fire and maneuver tactics including use of cover, and attempted an ambush.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sandinorebellion.com/pcdocs/1928a/PC280405c-Roberts.html|title=The Sandino Rebellion, 1927–1934|website=www.sandinorebellion.com}}</ref>
**[[Evans Carlson]]
**[[Merritt Edson]]
**[[Wilburt S. Brown]]
*[[United States occupation of Haiti]]
**[[Herman H. Hanneken]]
**[[William Robert Button]]
**[[Chesty Puller]]
**[[Gerald C. Thomas]]
**[[Smedley Butler]]
**[[Ross Lindsey Iams]] – took part with [[Samuel Gross (Medal of Honor)|Samuel Gross]] in [[Smedley Butler]]'s surprise raid like commando assault in the [[Battle of Fort Rivière]]
**[[Samuel Gross (Medal of Honor)|Samuel Gross]]
*[[World War II]]
**[[Aaron Bank]] – famous officer of the [[Office of Strategic Services]] who is considered the founder of the [[United States Army Special Forces]] also known as the "Green Berets".
**[[Donald Blackburn]] – American advisor to the [[Philippine Commonwealth Army]] who conducted a guerrilla insurgency on the island of [[Luzon]] against the [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese]].
**[[James M. Cushing]]
**[[Evans Carlson]] – commander of the [[Marine Raiders]] whose notable unconventional warfare type of successes were the [[Raid on Makin Island]] and the [[Carlson's patrol]].
**[[William Orlando Darby]] – [[United States Army]] [[officer]] who led the famous "Darby's Rangers" which would evolve into the [[U.S. Army Rangers]].
**[[Joseph Beyrle]] – American [[paratrooper]] who conducted his own sabotage like warfare behind German lines before fighting alongside the [[Red Army]] after escaping German captivity a few times.
**[[Merritt Edson]]
**[[Carl F. Eifler]]
**[[Wendell Fertig]] – American [[civil engineer]] who organized and commanded an America-Filipino guerrilla army on the [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese]] – occupied, southern Philippine island of [[Mindanao]].
**[[Roger Hilsman]] – American who served in the [[Merrill's Marauders]] and then with the [[Office of Strategic Services]] as a guerrilla leader in the [[China Burma India Theater]] of [[World War II]]
**[[Virginia Hall]] – American female spy who worked as an agent for the American [[Office of Strategic Services]] in Europe after previously working for the British [[Special Operations Executive]].
**[[William R. Peers]]
**[[Russell W. Volckmann]] – [[United States Army]] infantry officer and a leader of the guerrilla resistance in the Philippines and considered a co-founder of the [[United States Army Special Forces]]
**[[Hugh B. Miller]] – U.S. naval officer stranded on an island who systematically ambushed and attacked [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese soldiers]] with just hand grenades and a bayonet.
**[[Robert Prince (captain)|Robert Prince]] – American officer in the U.S. Army's [[6th Ranger Battalion]] who was the main architect of the plan for the [[Raid at Cabanatuan]].
**[[Henry Mucci]] – colonel of [[United States Army Rangers]] who led the [[Raid at Cabanatuan]] with [[Robert Prince (captain)|Robert Prince]] as the planner of the mission.
**[[Peter J. Ortiz]]
**[[Ray C. Hunt]]
**[[Victor H. Krulak]]
**[[Edwin Ramsey]]
**[[Iliff David Richardson]]
**[[Arthur W. Wermuth]]
**[[Robert Lapham]]
**[[Jack Hendrick Taylor]] – sometimes considered or referred to as the "first Navy SEAL".
**[[Richard Winters]] – took part in an ambush against a German horse drawn supply convoy. Mentioned in ''Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest'' written by Stephen E. Ambrose page 91. Also mentioned in ''Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends'' written by Dick Hill pages 62–64. Conducted a commando-like hit-and-run raid destroying four artillery guns successfully in the [[Brécourt Manor Assault]]. And successfully ambushed and wiped out a 7-man German machine gun crew at another battle. Mentioned in ''Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters'' written by Dick Winters pages 137–138.
**[[William Guarnere]]
**[[Chick Parsons]]
**[[Arthur D. Simons]]
**[[Samuel V. Wilson]]
**[[Vincent R. Kramer]]
**[[Clyde A. Thomason]]
**[[Jack Hawkins (U.S. Marine Corps officer)|Jack Hawkins]]
**[[John H. Yancey]]
**[[Oscar F. Peatross]]
**[[Robert Halperin]]
**[[Elizabeth Peet McIntosh]]
**[[Serge Obolensky]]
**[[Walter R. Mansfield]]
*[[Korean War]]
**[[Donald Nichols (spy)|Donald Nichols]]
**[[Merrill Newman]]
**[[Colt Terry]] – whose experience of unconventional warfare in the [[Korean War]] before becoming a Green Beret are shown in ''Colt Terry, Green Beret'' written by Charles D. Patton published at the Texas A&M University Press
**[[Robert H. Barrow]] – came up with a cunning tactic that allow his marines to ambush/surprise and kill more than 50 enemy troops. Mentioned in ''U.S. Marines in the Korean War'' by [[Charles Richard Smith]] pages 203-204
**[[Donkey Squads (Korean War)|Colonel John McGee]]
**[[Tony Poe]]
**[[Vincent R. Kramer]]
**[[Charles George]]
**[[Eugene F. Clark]]
**[[Underwater Demolition Team]]s
**[[Korean War Ranger Companies]]
**[[Joint Advisory Commission, Korea|JACK]]
**[[Special Activities Center|CIA SAC]]
**[[2nd Battalion, 1st Marines]]
*[[Vietnam War]]
**[[Rudy Boesch]] – operative in Seal Team 2 in [[Vietnam War]]
**[[David Hackworth]] – involved in the creation and command of [[Tiger Force]]
**[[Carlos Hathcock]] – [[United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper]] who has 93 confirmed kills
**[[Tony Poe]] – legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's [[Special Activities Division]]
**[[Colt Terry]] – one of the original [[Green Berets]] whose successful unconventional type of warfare exploits are mentioned in his official biography ''Colt Terry, Green Beret'' written by Charles D. Patton published at the Texas A&M University Press.
**[[Roy Boehm]] – first officer in charge of Seal Team two.
**[[Richard J. Meadows]]
**[[John Plaster]]
**[[Richard Marcinko]]
**[[Ira A. Hunt Jr.]]
**[[George Bacon (CIA officer)|George Bacon]]
**[[Michael D. Healy]]
**[[Billy Waugh]]
**[[Harry Griffith Cramer Jr.]]
**[[Thomas R. Norris]]
**[[Robert J. Pruden]]
**[[Arthur D. Simons]]
**[[William Colby]]
**[[Edward James Land]]
**[[Chuck Mawhinney]]
**[[Henry Kissinger]] – [[Campaign 139]]
**[[Billy Walkabout]]
*[[Laotian Civil War]]
**[[George Bacon (CIA officer)|George Bacon]]
**[[James William Lair]]
**[[Pat Landry]]
**[[Bill Young (CIA officer)|Bill Young]]
**[[Tony Poe]] – legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's [[Special Activities Division]]
**[[Dick Holm]]
*[[United States invasion of Grenada]]
**[[Stephen Trujillo]]
**[[Delta Force]]
**[[SEAL Team Six]]
**[[75th Ranger Regiment]]
*[[United States Invasion of Panama]]
**[[Larry Vickers]]
**[[Eldon Bargewell]]
**[[Gary L. Harrell]]
**[[Peter Schoomaker]]
**[[Operation Acid Gambit|Delta Force]]
**[[Operation Nifty Package|American Navy SEALs]]
**[[7th Special Forces Group (United States)|American 7th SFG]]
*[[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]]
**[[Matt Bissonnette (author)|Matt Bissonnette]]
**[[Brandon Webb (author)|Brandon Webb]]
**[[Robert J. O'Neill]]
**[[Nicholas Irving]]
**[[Edward Byers]]
**[[Robert Harward]]
**[[Francis J. Wiercinski]] – took part in a successful ambush wiping out nine enemy combatants while commanding his unit alongside a U.S. Special Operations Force team. Mentioned in '''A Different Kind of War: The US Army in Operation Enduring Freedom: October 2001 – September 2005''' by Donald Wright pages 148–149.
**[[Joseph Votel]]
**[[Jonathan Idema]] – controversial American non commissioned reserve special operations vigilante.
**[[Brent Bennett]]
**[[Jason Amerine]]
**[[Gary Berntsen]]
**[[Gary Schroen]]
**[[Jim Gant]]
**[[Ann Scott Tyson]]
**[[Marcus Luttrell]]
**[[4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division]]
**[[2nd Ranger Battalion]]
**[[3rd Ranger Battalion]]
**[[26th Infantry Regiment (United States)|26th Infantry Regiment]]
**[[List of operations conducted by Delta Force|Delta Force]]
**[[List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six|Seal Team 6]]
*[[Iraq War]]
**[[Kevin Lacz]]
**[[Rorke Denver]]
**[[Chris Kyle]]
**[[Robert J. O'Neill]]
**[[Carl Higbie]] – led the raid capturing the [[Butcher of Fallujah]]. Author of Enemies, Foreign & Domestic: A SEAL's Story and Battle on the Home Front.
**[[Timothy Kellner]]
**[[Ethan Place]]
**[[Tyrone S. Woods]]&nbsp;
**[[Jocko Willink]]
**[[Thomas Payne (soldier)|Thomas Payne]] – took part in a successful commando raid that rescued 70 prisoners and killed 20 enemies in [[Operation Inherent Resolve]].
**[[Joshua Wheeler]]
**[[Michael A. Monsoor]]
**[[Jack Coughlin (author)|Jack Coughlin]]
**[[162nd Infantry Regiment (United States)|162nd Infantry Regiment]]
**[[List of operations conducted by Delta Force|Delta Force]]
**[[List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six|Seal Team 6]]
*[[Symbionese Liberation Army]]
**[[Donald DeFreeze]]
**[[Camilla Hall]]
**[[Emily Harris]]
**[[Patricia Soltysik]]
**[[Willie Wolfe]]
*[[Weather Underground]]
**[[List of Weatherman members]]
*[[Black Panther Party]]
**[[Huey P. Newton]]
*Others
**[[Michael G. Vickers]] – legendary paramilitary officer in first Afghan war from the CIA's [[Special Activities Division]]
**[[Touch the Clouds]] – Native American warrior
**[[Orlando Bosch]] – [[Cuba]], America and South America
**[[Nat Turner]] – leader of slave rebellion
**[[Daniel Boone]] – famous frontiersmen, Indian fighter, and [[American Revolutionary War]] hero.
**[[Billy the Kid]]
**[[Railroad Bill]]
**[[Devil Anse Hatfield]]
**[[James–Younger Gang]]
**[[Jesse James]]
**[[Cole Younger]]
**[[Apache Kid]] – renegade Apache during the [[Renegade period of the Apache Wars]]
**[[Pancho Villa]]
**[[Queho]]
**[[Robert Clay Allison]]
**[[Ike Clanton]]
**[[Billy Clanton]]
**[[John Henry "Doc" Holliday]]
**[[Dangerfield Newby]]
**[[Daniel Shays]]
**[[Denmark Vesey]]
**[[Dan Seavey]] – also known as "Roaring" Dan Seavey" who was a notorious [[timber pirate]] involved in poaching, human trafficking, and hijacking etc.
**[[Lewis Wetzel]] – scout, frontiersman, and [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] fighter
**[[William Hardin]] – [[American Revolutionary War]] soldier, farmer, rancher, marksman, hunter, and Native American killer
**[[John L. Bullis]]
**[[James Smith (frontiersman)|James Smith]]
**[[Grayston Lynch]]
**[[Edward Lansdale]]
**[[Frederick Russell Burnham]]
**[[Caesar (Planet of the Apes)]] Notable commander of an army which included [[Gorrillas|guerillas]]

==Uruguay==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
| [[José Mujica]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Tupamaros]] 
| rowspan="2" |[[Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay]]
|-
|[[Raúl Sendic]]
|}

==Venezuela==
*[[Gustavo Machado Morales]] - founder of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]]
*[[Rafael Simón Urbina]] - [[Venezuelan]] rebel who waged a guerrilla insurgency against the dictator [[Juan Vicente Gómez]] 
*[[José Dionisio Cisneros]]
*[[José Manuel Hernández]]
*[[Rafael de Nogales]]
*[[Douglas Bravo]]
*[[Carlos the Jackal]]
*[[Teodoro Petkoff]]
*[[Narciso Lopez]]
*[[Olga Luzardo]]
*[[Fabricio Ojeda]]
*[[Paul del Rio]]

==Vietnam==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Ho Chi Minh]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Việt Minh|Vietminh]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Indochina War]]
|-
|[[Võ Nguyên Giáp]]
|}

==Western Sahara==

{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Mohamed Abdelaziz (Sahrawi politician)|Mohamed Abdelaziz ]]
|[[Polisario]]
|[[Western Sahara War]]
|-
|[[Ma al-'Aynayn]]
|[[Qadiriyya]]
|[[French conquest of Morocco]]
|-
|[[El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed]]
|[[Polisario]]
|[[Western Sahara War]]
|-
|[[Brahim Gali]]
|[[Polisario]]
|[[Western Sahara War]]
|}

==Yugoslavia==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Draža Mihailović]]
|Royal Patriotic Army of Yugoslavia
| rowspan="2" |[[Balkans campaign (World War II)|Balkans in World War II]]
|-
|[[Josip Broz Tito]]
|[[Yugoslav Partisans]]
|}

==Zimbabwe==
{| class="wikitable"
! Guerrilla leader!! Movement!! War
|-
|[[Joshua Nkomo]]
|[[ZAPU]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Rhodesian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Robert Mugabe]]
|[[ZANU]]
|}

==See also==
*[[List of condottieri]]
*[[List of conquistadors]]
*[[List of guerrilla movements]]
*[[List of military commanders]]
*[[List of revolutions and rebellions]]
*[[List of samurai]]
*[[List of usurpers]]
*[[Blitzkrieg]]
*[[Oliver Cromwell]]
*[[Hajduk]]
*[[Klepht]]
*[[Maoism]]
*[[Martial Race]]
*[[Nonviolence]]
*[[Partisan (military)]]
*[[Reagan Doctrine]]
*[[Erwin Rommel]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://members.tripod.com/~Penningtons/roster.htm US Civil War guerrillas List of United States Civil War guerrillas]

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