Paul Revere
American silversmith, engraver & early industrialist best remembered as a Patriot in the American Revolution.
Jacques René Hébert
French journalist & leader of the French Revolution born in 1757.
Jayaprakash Narayan
Indian activist, theorist, socialist, & political leader of the mid-1970s opposition against Indira Gandhi.
Louis Charles Delescluze
French revolutionary leader, journalist, & military commander of the Paris Commune, born in 1809.
Jane Addams
American settlement activist, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, & author born in 1860.
Gavrillo Principe
Bosnian Serb revolutionary known for assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria & his wife in 1914.
Emiliano Zapata
Mexican leader of the Liberation Army of the South & inspiration for the Zapatismo movement.
Jan Zajíc
Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest in 1969.
Nelson Mandela
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary & the country’s first black president from 1994-99.
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer, & polymath born in 1861. Considered one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines.