Revolutionary Leader
Explore 3 of history's most influential revolutionary leader, ranked by historical influence. Each figure links to a full biography, feats, trivia and similar people.
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.
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.
Fidel Castro
84Fidel Castro was the Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959 and then ruled Cuba as a communist state for nearly five decades, becoming the longest-serving non-royal head of government in the 20th century and a towering symbol of Cold War confrontation.