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title full_name born died nationality occupation url
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