List of guerrillas

List of notable guerrillas, ordered by country:

A

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Jonas Savimbi

Arabia

Argentina

Austria

Andreas Hofer
Otto Skorzeny - involved in many unconventional operations in World War 2

B

Bangladesh

Kader Siddique in Tangail
Hemayet Uddin in Faridpur
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan in Narsingdi
Afser Uddin in Mymensing
Khondoker Baten in Tangail
Akber Hussein Miah in Jinaidah
Latif Mirza in Sirajganj
Cpt. Halim Chowdhary in Manikganj
Zia Uddin in Sundarban
Kamal uddin Ahmed in Dhaka

Belgium

Jacob Collaert - Flemish admiral who served as a privateer and one of the Dunkirkers in Spanish Habsburg service during the Dutch Revolt.

Bolivia

Brazil

Bulgaria

Kaloyan

C

Cambodia

Pol Pot

Cameroon

Osende Afana
Félix Moumié
Ernest Ouandié
Ruben Um Nyobé

Canada

Joseph Broussard - also went by the pseudonym Beausoleil.
Gabriel Dumont
Louis Riel
"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.

Chad

Chechnya

Aslan Maskhadov
Dzhokhar Dudayev
Akhmed Zakayev
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
Imam Shamil in Daghestan
Amir Ibn al-Khattab
Sheikh Abdul Halim
Shamil Basayev

Chile

China

Sun Tzu - ancient Chinese general and military strategist who authored The Art of War
Mao Zedong
Zhou Enlai
Sun Yat-sen
Bai Chongxi
Chiang Kai-shek
Gan Ning
Cao Cao
Zang Ba

Colombia

Cuba

Cyprus

Georgios Grivas

D

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominican Republic

E

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

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

Haile Selassie I
Hayelom Araya
Kinfe Gebremedhin
Meles Zenawi
Sebhat Nega
Siye Abraha

F

Finland

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.
Jean-Louis Le Loutre
Pierre Georges - member of the French Communist Party during World War 2
Charles de Gaulle
Nancy Wake
Georges Cadoudal
Joseph Epstein
Jean-Baptiste du Casse
Jean Fleury

Frisia

G

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 2 for Nazi Germany
Franz von Rintelen
Johann Ewald
Carl von Clausewitz

Greece

Guatemala

Rodrigo Asturias
Comandante Rolando Morán

Guinea

Samory Touré

H

Haiti

Benoît Batraville
Charlemagne Péralte
Toussaint L'ouverture
Francois Mackandal
Vincent Oge
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Francois Capois
Henri Christophe
Sans-Souci
Dutty Boukman

I

Republic of India

Shivaji Maharaj in

Maharashtra

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja in Kerala
Sangolli Rayanna in Karnataka
Charu Mazumder
Komaram Bheem in Andhra Pradesh
Alluri Sita Rama Raju in Andhra Pradesh
Malik Ambar
Patel Sudhakar Reddy
Sakhamuri Appa Rao
Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan
Sayeed Salahudeen
Abdul Hamid Sheikh
Yasin Malik
Ahsan Dar

Indonesia

General Sudirman - military commander of Republican Indonesian forces during Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch in the 1940s
Abdul Haris Nasution

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Irish Republican

Michael Collins - Irish Republican Army guerrilla leader during British rule of Ireland
Tom Barry
Gerry Adams - suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member
Martin McGuinness - suspected Provisional IRA Army Council member
Seamus Costello - Official IRA member
Stakeknife - senior Provisional IRA member and British government informant, alleged to be Freddie Scappaticci
Bobby Sands - Provisional IRA member and hunger striker
Francis Hughes - Provisional IRA member and later hunger striker
Dominic McGlinchey - Provisional IRA and later INLA leader

Ulster Loyalist

Billy Wright - Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) leader
John Gregg - senior Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, attempted to assassinate Gerry Adams
Johnny Adair - aka "Mad Dog", UDA commander

Israel

Menahem ben Judah - leader of the Sicarri
Judas Maccabeus - Jewish priest who led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167-160 BCE)
Avraham Stern
Menachem Begin
Yitzhak Shamir
Avraham Botzer
Ze'ev Almog
Ami Ayalon
Ehud Barak
Ariel Sharon
Danny Matt
Yekutiel Adam
Ehud Barak
Yohai Ben-Nun
Yonatan Netanyahu
Rafael Eitan
Mordechai Gur

Italy

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 2

J

Japan

Genkō War
- Kusunoki Masashige
Boshin War
World War 2
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Hiroo Onoda
Other
- Fūma Kotarō
- Tateoka Doshun

K

Korea

Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
- Gwak Jae-u
- Kim Myeon
- Hyujeong
- Jo Heon
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

Kenya

Kurdistan

L

Laos

General Vang Pao in Kingdom of Laos
Pa Chay Vue

Latvia

Pēteris Dzelzītis - Latvian soldier during World War 2

Lebanon

Hassan Nasrallah

Lesotho

Ntsu Mokhehle

Liberia

Charles Taylor
Prince Johnson

Libya

Omar Mukhtar

Lithuania

Jonas Žemaitis
Adolfas Ramanauskas
Juozas Lukša
Lionginas Baliukevičius
Juozas Vitkus-Kazimieraitis
Jonas Misiūnas-Žalias Velnias
Vaclovas Voveris-Žaibas

M

Malaysia

Mexico

Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico
Pancho Villa of the Mexican Revolution.
Emiliano Zapata of the Mexican Revolution.
Lucio Cabañas
Miguel Hidalgo of the Mexican War of Independence.
Davy Crockett of the Texas Revolution, died at the Fall of the Alamo.
Sam Houston of the Texas Revolution.
William Barret Travis of the Texas Revolution, died at the Fall of the Alamo.
Juan Seguín of the Texas Revolution.
James Bowie of the Texas Revolution, died at the Fall of the Alamo.
James Fannin of the Texas Revolution, murdered in the Goliad Massacre.
Victorio: Apache chief and warlord, active in both Mexico and the United States. Apache Wars.
Geronimo of the Apache Wars, active in both Mexico and the United States.
Bernardo Reyes, warlord during the Mexican Revolution.
Francisco I. Madero, revolutionary general during the Mexican Revolution.

Mongolia

Morocco

Abd el-Krim

Mozambique

Myanmar

N

Namibia

Jakobus Morenga
Hendrik Witbooi

Nepal

Prachanda

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

Nigeria

Norway

Martin Linge

P

Pakistan

Palestine

Peru

Abimael Guzmán (Presidente Gonzalo)
Tupac Amaru

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
Datu Ampuanagus
Felomino Venus
Shanley Matthew G. Lumagod
Uriel P. Pascual

Spanish-Filipino guerilla leader who played a role during the uprising in city 17 against the combine

Omar Michael Q. Atis

A Cebuano guerrilla

Juan Pajota - Filipino guerrilla leader who played a major role in the Raid at Cabanatuan

Poland

Feliks Ankerstein
Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum (If asked: by ethnic Poles, his middle name was Mieczysław; if by Jews Mordechaj; in fact, it was Moryc or in English: Morris)
Edmund Charaszkiewicz
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 "Nil"
Joseph Epstein - Polish born activist who fought for the French Resistance in World War 2
Mordechai Anielewicz

Portugal

Viriathus

R

Romania

Rwanda

S

Singapore

South Africa

Louis Botha
Christiaan de Wet
Jan Smuts in the Second Boer War
Boer Second Boer War
Koos de la Rey
Nelson Mandela
Potlako Leballo
Deneys Reitz
Walter Sisulu
Jacob Zuma
Joe Slovo
Chris Hani
African National Congress (ANC)
African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)

Soviet Union

Mikhail Frunze
Stepniak - Russian radical
Stepan Bandera
Viktor Leonov - Soviet sailor whose experiences as a Soviet Naval Scout would be a precursor to the Russian special operations called the Spetsnaz
Sydir Kovpak
Semyon Rudniev
Vasily Zaitsev - Soviet Sniper who killed 225 enemy soldiers

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
Hermanos Quero - urban guerrilla fighters in Granada (1940–1947)
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana
Pelagius of Asturias
Umar ibn Hafsun
El Empecinado
Johanne Galan "La Galana"
Francisco Abad Moreno "Chaleco"
Agustina de Aragón
Vicente López Tovar
Viriathus

Sudan

Suriname

Ronnie Brunswijk

Syria

Sultan al-Atrash

T

Thailand

See Bang Rachan
Phraya Phichai

Tunisia

Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i
Abu Yazid
Hannibal
Mago Barca

Turkey

Orhan Yılmazkaya
Necdet Adalı
Taylan Özgür
Erdal Eren
Şeyh Bedrettin
Hayreddin Barbarossa - famous admiral of the fleet of the Ottoman Empire.
Dragut
Hayri Durmuş
Ali Haydar Yıldız
Dursun Karataş
Sabahat Karataş
Cafer Cangöz
Gülnaz Yıldız
Ayçe İdil Erkmen
Hasan Ocak
Önder Babat
Deniz Gezmiş
Hüseyin İnan
İbrahim Kaypakkaya
Yusuf Aslan
Mahir Çayan
Sinan Cemgil
Ulaş Bardakçı
Mihri Belli
Nubar Ozanyan

U

Uganda

Ukraine

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 - who led raids in the American Revolution
- Patrick Ferguson
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 - was 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 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.
- Fitzroy Maclean worked with Tito and Yugoslav Partisans during World War 2
- Ivan Lyon - member of the Z Special Unit
- Robert Grainger Ker Thompson - famous 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 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

United States

James–Younger Gang
- Jesse James
- Cole Younger
Revolutionary War
- John Parker
- Benjamin Cleveland
- Elijah Clarke
- John Sevier
- Ethan Allen
- William Campbell
- Francis Marion
- Andrew Pickens
- Thomas Sumter
- Samuel Whittemore
- William Richardson Davie
- James Williams
- Isaac Shelby
- John Schenck
- Philemon Dickinson
- Marinus Willett
- William Moultrie
- Nathanael Greene
- Daniel Morgan
- Return J. Meigs Sr.
- William Barton
- John Glover
- Edward Hand
- William Maxwell - an 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
- 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 - an 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 - an 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
- 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.

Northwest Indian War
- United States
  - Charles Scott (governor) - led the Blackberry Campaign which was a series of raids against the Western Confederacy
  - James Wilkinson - statesman and soldier who led a raid against the Native Americans in the Battle of Kenapacomaqua.
  - John Hardin
  - Benjamin Logan
- Native Americans
  - Little Turtle - famous Sagamore chief who used decoys, hit and run maneuvers, and effective ambushes in his engagements against the Americans in the Harmar campaign.
  - Buckongahelas
  - Egushawa
  - Blue Jacket

First Barbary War
- Andrew Sterett - officer in the United States Navy flying British colors as a ruse deceived and surprise attacked Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in the Action of 1 August 1801.
- Stephen Decatur - American naval Lieutenant who led a surprise hit and run raid in the Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor successfully destroying the USS Philadelphia previously captured by Tripolitans.

War of 1812
- Alexander Macomb
- Benjamin Forsyth
- Daniel Appling
- Duncan McArthur
- John Coffee
- Philip Reed
- Azariah C. Flagg
- Richard Mentor Johnson
- Jacob Brown
- Alexander Smyth - American brigadier general who directed American raids across the Niagara River in the Battle of Frenchman's Creek which produced some good results which had little to no lasting effect.
- Andrew Holmes (army officer) - American army officer who led his mounted raiders to victory in the Battle of Longwoods.
- George McGlassin - American captain who led 50 Americans on a hit and run night raid across the Saranac River disabling some British artillery in the Battle of Plattsburgh
- Daniel Bissell - an 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
- John B. Campbell - an American soldier who led a surprise foray in the Battle of the Mississinewa and a controversial incursion in the Raid on Port Dover.
- Lodwick Morgan - took the British by surprise and repulsed them in the Battle of Conjocta Creek
- Thomas C. Hoomes - American militia captain who laid 2 barges to lure the British into an ambush.Mentioned in "Defending the Old Dominion: Virginia and Its Militia in the War of 1812" by Stuart L. Butler page 496
- Captain James Massey - American militia captain who used hit and run engagement like tactics to harass the enemy. Mentioned in The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815 by William Matthew Marine in page 55
- Regiment of Riflemen
- Melancthon Taylor Woolsey - American naval officer who prepared an effective ambush against the British in concert with Daniel Appling in the Battle of Big Sandy Creek.
- Otway Burns - American privateer who would later become a North Carolina State Senator
- Thomas Boyle - one of the most successful Baltimore privateerss who conducted unconventional incursions at sea capturing British shipping and bringing them back to the United States.
- David Porter (naval officer) - American naval officer whose usual tactic was to raise British colors to surprise and capture British ships.
- Jesse Elliot - American naval officer who commanded a hit and run raid that successfully captured HMS Caledonia and successfully destroyed HMS Detroit.
- John Percival - American naval officer who used a fishing boat Yankee with about 36 armed volunteers hidden in the deck cabin to deceive, surprise/ambush, and successfully capture HMS Eagle
- John Ordronaux (privateer) - 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.
- William Josephus Stafford - American privateer who commanded Dolphin and successfully captured many British shipping bringing them back to the United States.
- Francis Gregory - his exploits of raiding and sabotaging British ships are mentioned in Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy by Benjamin Armstrong in pages 84-89.
- Midshipman James McGowan-ambushed 2 enemy vessels. Bringing them back to American lines. Shown in the book Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy pages 115-116

Mexican-American War
- Fabius Stanly - American naval lieutenant who led raids against the Mexican armed forces.
- Joseph Lane - United States Army American general who led a hit and run surprise attack on the 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

Utah War

Civil War
- Confederacy
  - Bloody Bill Anderson
  - Champ Ferguson
  - Samuel S. Hildebrand
  - William Quantrill
  - 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
  - Evan MacLeod
  - Earl Van Dorn
  - 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 - a 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"
- Union
  - John Brown
  - Charles R. Jennison
  - James H. Lane
  - Daniel R. Anthony
  - Benjamin Grierson
  - William B. Cushing
  - Samuel C. Means - captain of the Loudoun Rangers
  - Daniel M. Keyes - the next man that would take Samuel C. Means's place as captain of the Loudoun Rangers.
  - Richard R. Blazer - commander of the Blazer's Scouts
  - 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.
  - 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 - a Union Army general who executed a deadly ambush in the Battle of Bristoe Station
  - William Henry Powell
  - William W. Averell
  - Samuel P. Carter
  - George W. Taylor

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
  - Red Cloud - very important leader of the Oglala Lakota people.
  - Dull Knife - great chief of the Cheyenne who alongside Red Cloud harassed the Americans at the Battle of Bone Pile Creek.
  - Sitting Bull
  - 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

Snake War
- United States
  - George Crook
  - Billy Chinook - chief and member of the Wasco tribe and served the United States as a First Sergeant of the U.S. Army Wasco Scouts
- 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 - Merritt planned an ambush which let to little to no high body count in the Battle of Warbonnet Creek
- Native Americans
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
- 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 decimating an army of would be ambushers in the Battle of Lonoy
- Elwell Stephen Otis - was the American commander of a hit-and-run raid-like mission that successfully destroyed a Filipino artillery gun in the Battle of Olongapo

World War I
- 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 Trueman Lanham pages 43-47
- Michael Valente

United States occupation of the Dominican Republic
- Ernest Calvin Williams - an American marine who led a commando like assault in the Battle of San Francisco de Macoris

United States occupation of Haiti

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 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 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 2
- 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 Japanese soldiers with just hand grenades and a bayonet.
- Robert Prince - an 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 - a colonel of United States Army Rangers who led the Raid at Cabanatuan with 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
- Edwin Ramsey
- Robert Lapham

Korean War
- 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
- Colonel John McGee - affiliated with the Korean partisan force known as Donkey Squads
- Korean War Ranger Companies

Vietnam War
- Captain David F. Winecoff - Commander of Company H, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines in who initiated a successful ambush of a NVA truck convoy in Operation Dewey Canyon
- 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 - the first officer in charge of Seal Team two.
- Richard J. Meadows
- John Plaster
- Richard Marcinko
- Ira A. Hunt Jr.
- George Bacon
- Michael D. Healy
- Thomas H. Keith - a Navy Seal whose exploits of successful ambushes and raids are mentioned in his book SEAL Warrior: The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday written by himself and J. Terry Riebling

Laotian Civil War

War in Afghanistan
- Matt Bissonnette
- Brandon Webb
- Robert J. O'Neill
- Nicholas Irving
- Edward Byers
- Robert Harward
- Justin R. Smith- Second Lieutenant of 2nd platoon of 1st battalion,26th infantry who initiated a successful ambush of an enemy column.This is shown in Vanguard Of Valor : Small Unit Actions In Afghanistan vol.1 by Donald P. Wright in Chapter 2

Iraq War
- Kevin Lacz
- Rorke Denver
- Chris Kyle
- Robert J. O'Neill
- Carl Higbie
- Timothy Kellner
- Ethan Place
- Tyrone S. Woods
- Jocko Willink

Symbionese Liberation Army
- Donald DeFreeze
- Camilla Hall
- Emily Harris
- Russ Little
- 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
- Robert Rogers - French and Indian War
- Touch the Clouds - Native American warrior
- Orlando Bosch - Cuba, America and South America
- Tony Poe - legendary paramilitary officer in Vietnam from the CIA's Special Activities Division
- Geronimo - Native American freedom fighter
- Osceola - Native American freedom fighter
- Nat Turner - leader of slave rebellion
- Davy Crockett - famous frontiersmen, fought and died at the Fall of the Alamo.
- Daniel Boone - famous frontiersmen, Indian fighter, and American Revolutionary War hero.
- William B. Travis - commander of the Texans at the Fall of the Alamo.
- Billy the Kid
- Railroad Bill
- Devil Anse Hatfield
- 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.

Uruguay

Raúl Sendic during the 1960s and '70s in Uruguay

V

Venezuela

Gustavo Machado Morales - an editor of the Communist Party of Venezuela's newspaper from 1948 to 1983
Rafael Simón Urbina - a Venezuelan rebel who waged a guerrilla insurgency against the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez.

Vietnam

W

Western Sahara

Y

Yugoslavia

Z

Zimbabwe

Joshua Nkomo
Robert Mugabe
Nhamoinesu Tinosekwa

External links

List of United States Civil War guerrillas US Civil War guerrillas

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