Revolutionary · 1870 – 1924
Vladimir Lenin
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Joseph Stalin
91Joseph Stalin was the Soviet dictator who industrialized the USSR, led it to victory in World War II, and built a vast empire in Eastern Europe — but also presided over a totalitarian state that killed millions through purges, gulags, and engineered famine.
Why His successor, who transformed Lenin's revolutionary state into a totalitarian empire.
Karl Marx
95Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary whose theories of historical materialism and class struggle, set out in The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, became among the most influential and contested ideas in modern history.
Why The philosopher whose ideas Lenin built upon and applied to the Russian Revolution.
Napoleon Bonaparte
94Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose during the French Revolution, crowned himself Emperor, and dominated European affairs for over a decade.
Why The revolutionary-turned-ruler whose career Lenin both studied and consciously sought to avoid repeating.
Cicero
88Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator and philosopher whose speeches and writings defined Latin prose, transmitted Greek philosophy to Rome, and championed the values of the Roman Republic.
Why Also a statesman & philosopher · Comparable historical impact
Francis Bacon
82Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman and writer who served as Lord Chancellor and, in works such as the Novum Organum and his Essays, founded the modern scientific method of reasoning from evidence and experiment.
Why Also a philosopher & statesman · Comparable historical impact
Niccolò Machiavelli
88Niccolò Machiavelli was a Renaissance Italian diplomat, political philosopher and writer whose treatise The Prince founded modern political science and gave his name to ruthless statecraft.
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Leon Trotsky
85Leon Trotsky was the Russian revolutionary who helped lead the October Revolution alongside Lenin, organized and commanded the Red Army through the Russian Civil War, and was later expelled by Stalin, becoming the most famous critic of Stalinist communism before his assassination in Mexico.
Why Also a revolutionary · Active in the same era
Sun Yat-sen
85Sun Yat-sen was the Chinese revolutionary and statesman who overthrew the Qing dynasty, founded the Republic of China, and became the founding father of both mainland China and Taiwan — revered by both Communists and Nationalists as the father of the Chinese nation.
Why Also a revolutionary & statesman · Active in the same era
Deng Xiaoping
89Deng Xiaoping was the Chinese leader who reversed Mao Zedong's catastrophic policies after 1978, opening China to market reforms that transformed it from a poor agrarian country into the world's second-largest economy.
Why Also a statesman & revolutionary · Active in the same era
Francisco de Miranda
78Francisco de Miranda was the Venezuelan revolutionary who became the forerunner of Spanish American independence, fighting across three continents before returning home to lead Venezuela's first republic — a visionary who preceded Bolívar and inspired the liberation of Latin America.
Why Also a revolutionary & statesman · Active in the same era
Che Guevara
83Che Guevara was the Argentine Marxist revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba, theorized guerrilla warfare as the path to revolution in the developing world, and became an iconic symbol of rebellion after his execution in Bolivia in 1967.
Why Also a revolutionary · Active in the same era
Mao Zedong
90Mao Zedong was the founder of the People's Republic of China, who led the Chinese Communist Party to victory in the civil war, proclaimed the PRC in 1949, and then imposed radical revolutionary policies that caused tens of millions of deaths.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
George Washington
91George Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution and the first President of the United States, whose leadership and restraint shaped the new republic.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Giuseppe Garibaldi
84Giuseppe Garibaldi was the Italian nationalist military leader who united southern Italy with the north through his bold expedition of the Thousand, becoming the military hero of Italian unification and one of the most celebrated revolutionary figures of the 19th century.
Why Also a revolutionary · Active in the same era
Ho Chi Minh
88Ho Chi Minh was the Vietnamese revolutionary leader who led the resistance against French colonial rule and then American military intervention, founding the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and becoming the unifying symbol of Vietnamese independence.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Maximilien Robespierre
86Maximilien Robespierre was the French revolutionary leader who dominated the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, using revolutionary justice to execute thousands including Louis XVI — before being overthrown and guillotined himself in Thermidor.
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Toussaint Louverture
87Toussaint Louverture was the Haitian revolutionary leader who rose from slavery to lead the only successful slave revolt in history, defeating French, Spanish, and British armies to lay the foundations for Haiti's independence as the world's first Black republic.
Why Also a revolutionary · Active in the same era
Abraham Lincoln
92Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through its Civil War, preserved the Union, and abolished slavery before his assassination in 1865.
Why Also a statesman · Active in the same era
Alexander Hamilton
87Alexander Hamilton was the American Founding Father who designed the United States financial system, co-wrote the Federalist Papers, founded the first national bank, served as the first Secretary of the Treasury, and was killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804.
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Charles de Gaulle
89Charles de Gaulle was the French military and political leader who refused to accept France's defeat in 1940, led the Free French resistance from London, liberated Paris, and later founded the Fifth Republic as president, restoring French national pride and global standing.
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Chiang Kai-shek
82Chiang Kai-shek was the Chinese Nationalist leader who unified China in the late 1920s, led the country through the Japanese invasion in World War II, but lost the Chinese Civil War to Mao Zedong and retreated to Taiwan, which he ruled until his death.
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Duke of Wellington
87The Duke of Wellington was the British general who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, ending the Napoleonic Wars, and who subsequently served as Prime Minister of Britain — the only man to hold both the highest military and civilian offices in British history.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
92Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression with the New Deal and through most of World War II, serving an unprecedented four terms and reshaping the role of the federal government in American life.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
92Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher whose radical critiques of morality, religion, and truth—including the proclamation that "God is dead" and the ideal of the Übermensch—made him one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the modern era.
Why Also a philosopher · Active in the same era