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Vladimir Lenin
Revolutionary & head of government
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Ho Chi Minh
Revolutionary & statesman
Che Guevara
Revolutionary & guerrilla leader
Toussaint Louverture
General & revolutionary leader
Emiliano Zapata
Revolutionary & guerrilla leader
Michael Collins
Revolutionary & statesman
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Fidel Castro
Revolutionary & head of state
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran
Pancho Villa
Revolutionary general
Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso
Augusto César Sandino
Revolutionary leader
Vasil Levski
Revolutionary
Andrés Bonifacio
Revolutionary leader
Pridi Banomyong
Prime Minister of Thailand
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Revolutionary leader & first ruler of independent Haiti
Henri Christophe
King of Haiti
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Alexandre Petion
President of the Republic of Haiti
Daniel Ortega
President of Nicaragua
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Sam Nujoma
First President of Namibia
Amilcar Cabral
Anti-colonial leader & agricultural engineer
Jon Sigurdsson
Leader of the Icelandic independence movement
Milan Rastislav Stefanik
Slovak politician, aviator & astronomer
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Alexander Dubcek
Leader of Czechoslovakia
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