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title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Haym Salomon | Haym Salomon | 1740 | 1785 | Polish | Jewish businessman and political financial broker who, along with English-born Robert Morris, was a prime financier of the rebel American side during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon |
Bar Kokhba revolt | The Bar Kokhba revolt | null | null | null | rebellion by the Jews of the Roman province of Judea, led by Simon bar Kokhba, against the Roman Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt |
John Garfield | John Garfield | 1913 | 1952 | American | actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield |
Kathy Acker | Kathy Acker | 1947 | 1997 | American | experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Acker |
Simon bar Giora | Simon bar Giora | null | null | null | leader of one of the major Judean rebel factions during the First Jewish–Roman War in 1st-century Roman Judea, who vied for control of the Jewish polity while attempting to expel the Roman army, but incited a bitter internecine war in the process | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_bar_Giora |
Mordechai Anielewicz | Mordechai Anielewicz | 1919 | 1943 | null | leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization (, ŻOB), which led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish insurrection during the Second World War, which inspired further rebellions in both ghettos and extermination camps | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Anielewicz |
Francis Bond Head | Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet KCH PC | 1793 | 1875 | null | Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bond_Head |
Felix Aderca | Felix Aderca or F. Aderca | null | null | Romanian | novelist, playwright, poet, journalist and critic, noted as a representative of rebellious modernism in the context of Romanian literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Aderca |
Simon of Peraea | Simon of Peraea | null | null | null | former slave of Herod the Great who rebelled and was killed by the Romans some time after Herod's death in 4 BC. Some have identified him as possibly being the messiah of Gabriel's Revelation, but this is disputed | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_of_Peraea |
Gustavo Gorriti | Gustavo Andrés Gorriti Ellenbogen | 1948 | n/a | null | Left-wing Peruvian journalist known for his reporting on rebel groups, government corruption, and drug trafficking | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Gorriti |
Samiri (Islamic figure) | Samiri or the Samiri | null | null | null | is a phrase used by the Quran to refer to a rebellious follower of Moses who created the golden calf and attempted to lead the Hebrews into idolatry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samiri_(Islamic_figure) |
Louisa Benson Craig | Louisa Charmaine Benson Craig | 1941 | 2010 | Burmese | two-time beauty pageant winner and Karen rebel leader of Jewish and Karen ancestry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Benson_Craig |
Lukuas | Lukuas | null | null | null | one of the leaders of Jewish rebels during the Kitos War, also known as the Second Jewish War, in the 2nd century AD. The narrative of the revolt under Lukuas is told by Eusebius of Caesarea, Michael Syrus, Bar Hebraeus and Cassius Dio, with the latter giving him a quite different Greek name of "Andreas" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukuas |