List of political dissidents

Political dissidents are people severely persecuted by governments or other organizations for political reasons.

They are not necessarily the only or most important dissidents, but they become famous or semi-famous often through the stories told by themselves or by others.

Ancient Era

*Jesus Christ
*Saint John the Baptist
*Martin Luther

Modern Era

Argentina

* Jacobo Timerman

Brazil

* Leonel Brizola

Bulgaria

* Georgi Markov

Chad

* Outel Bono

China

"See also List of Chinese dissidents"
*Harry Wu
*Han Dongfang
*Wei Jingsheng
*Zhang Xueliang
*Zhao Changqing

Colombia

*Íngrid Betancourt
*Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

Czech Republic

* Václav Havel

Dominican Republic

* Jesús de Galíndez

El Salvador

* Óscar Romero

Germany

*Martin Luther
*Thomas Müntzer
*Karl Marx
*Friedrich Engels
*Ferdinand Lassalle
*Jacob Grimm
*Wilhelm Grimm
*Wilhelm Liebknecht
*Clara Zetkin
*Rosa Luxemburg
*Karl Liebknecht
*Kurt Tucholsky
*Ernst Thälmann
*Adolf Hitler
*Carl von Ossietzky
*Max Hoelz
*Erich Mühsam
*Liselotte Herrmann
*Rudi Dutschke

Ghana

* J. B. Danquah

Greece

* Gregoris Lambrakis

Indonesia

*Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Korea

*Empress Myeongseong
*Kim Dae-jung
*Kim Young-sam

Haiti

* Jean-Bertrand Aristide
* Gérard Jean-Juste

Hungary

*Anna Kéthly
*Pál Maléter
*Tivadar Soros

India

*Mahatma Gandhi
*Jawaharlal Nehru
*Arundhati Roy

Malawi

* Chakufwa Chihana
* Orton Chirwa
* Attati Mpakati

Malaysia

*Anwar Ibrahim

Morocco

* Mehdi Ben Barka

Myanmar

*Aung San Suu Kyi

Nicaragua

* Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
* Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

Nigeria

* Hafsat Abiola
* Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
* Obafemi Awolowo
* Ken Saro-Wiwa

Pakistan

* Benazir Bhutto
* Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan

Peru

* Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre

Philippines

* Benigno Aquino, Jr.
* Corazon Aquino
* Jaime Cardinal Sin
* Antonio Trillanes

Poland

* Jacek Kuroń
* Lech Wałęsa

Russia / Soviet Union

*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
*Andrei Sakharov
*Anton Chekhov
*Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*Gary Kasparov
*Leon Trotsky
*Sergey Kirov
*Valery Sablin
*Zviad Gamsakhurdia
*Vyacheslav Chornovil
*Aleksandr Ginzburg
*Eduard Limonov

Senegal

* Abdoulaye Wade

Serbia

* Dobrica Ćosić

Singapore

"See also List of Singaporean dissidents"
*Chee Soon Juan

South Africa

*Nelson Mandela
*Helen Suzman
*Walter Sisulu
*Oliver Tambo
*Chris Hani
*Ruth First
*Joe Slovo
*Winnie Mandela
*Bram Fischer
*Stephen Biko
*Donald Woods
*Desmond Tutu

Syria

* Riad al-Turk

Taiwan

* Chen Shui-bian
* Lei Chen

Tunisia

*Sihem Bensedrine
*Néjib Chebbi
*Hamma Hammami
*Moncef Marzouki
*Zouhair Yahyaoui

United States

*Thomas Paine
*John Brown
*Joseph Smith, Jr.
*Nicola Sacco and Bart Vanzetti
*Woody Guthrie
*Martin Luther King, Jr.
*Malcolm X
*Chief Joseph
*Roger Williams
*Sitting Bull
*Tecumseh
*Joe Hill
*Pete Seeger
*Mumia Abu-Jamal
*Ted Kaczynski

Venezuela

* Rómulo Betancourt
* Leonardo Ruiz Pineda

Vietnam

*Dương Thu Hương
*Nguyen Dan Que
*Nguyen Van Ly