counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist - a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution

dynamiter, dynamitist - a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause

Girondist - a member of the moderate republican party during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins

freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel - a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

radical - a person who has radical ideas or opinions

Charlotte Corday, Corday, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont - French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793)

Danton, Georges Jacques Danton - French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)

Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, Guevara - an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution; active in other Latin American countries; was captured and executed by the Bolivian army (1928-1967)

Mao Tsetung, Mao Zedong, Mao - Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)

Jean Paul Marat, Marat - French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793)

Jose Julian Marti, Marti - Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895)

Karl Marx, Marx - founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

Comte de Mirabeau, Honore-Gabriel Victor Riqueti, Mirabeau - French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791)

Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, Robespierre - French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794)

Leon Trotsky, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Trotsky - Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)

Doroteo Arango, Francisco Villa, Pancho Villa, Villa - Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)

Emiliano Zapata, Zapata - Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919)

Chou En-lai, Zhou En-lai - Chinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976)