Study of Heroic Rebels

Heroic rebels that exists or have existed in real life and for each one present them in as much detail as possible, exclude Malala, Zorro but include Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, Nelson Mandela and Ned Turner.

1. Julian Assange12: Born Julian Paul Hawkins on July 3, 1971, in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Assange was raised in several towns in Australia until his family settled in Melbourne in his mid-teens. He became involved in the hacker community and was convicted for hacking in 1996.

2. Edward Snowden34: Born on June 21, 1983, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, U.S., Snowden is an American intelligence contractor and whistleblower who in 2013 revealed the existence of secret wide-ranging information-gathering programs conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA). He demonstrated an aptitude with computers and was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2006. He was given a top-secret clearance and in 2007 was posted to Geneva, where he worked as a network security technician under a diplomatic cover.

3. Malcolm X56: Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. He was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, advocating Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. He was raised in several foster homes or with relatives after his father’s death and his mother’s hospitalization.

4. Nelson Mandela78: Born on July 18, 1918, in Mvezo, South Africa, Mandela was a Black nationalist and the first Black president of South Africa (1994–99). His negotiations in the early 1990s with South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk helped end the country’s apartheid system of racial segregation and ushered in a peaceful transition to majority rule. Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993 for their efforts.

5. Nat Turner910: Born on October 2, 1800, Turner was an enslaved African-American preacher who led a four-day rebellion of enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. Turner’s rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels killed between 55 and 65 White people, making it the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history.

6. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara11: An Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, Guevara was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution. His stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

7. Maximilien Robespierre11: A French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.

8. Rosa Luxemburg11: A Polish Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist, Luxemburg was a co-founder of the anti-war Spartacus League (Spartakusbund) which eventually became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

9. Mahatma Gandhi11: An Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, Gandhi employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British Rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

10. Spartacus12: A Thracian gladiator who, along with Crixus, Gannicus, Castus, and Oenomaus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.