List of political dissidents

This is a list of political dissidents - people who have engaged in political dissent, questioning or criticizing government policy or the dominant political faction.
Modern era
Azerbaijan
* Elnur Majidli
Argentina
* Jacobo Timerman
Brazil
* Leonel Brizola
Bulgaria
* Georgi Markov
Canada
*Yves Engler
Cameroon
*Ateba Ayene
*Frankbeff
*Gilbert Baongla
Chad
* Outel Bono
China
See also List of Chinese dissidents
*Han Dongfang
*Harry Wu
*Wei Jingsheng
*Yang Jianli
*Zhang Xueliang
*Zhao Changqing
Colombia
*Íngrid Betancourt
*Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Cuba
*Oswaldo Payá
Czech Republic
* Václav Havel
Dominican Republic
* Jesús de Galíndez
El Salvador
* Óscar Romero
France
*Dieudonné M'bala M'bala
*Alain Soral
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
India
* Jayaprakash Narayan
*Mahatma Gandhi
*Bhagat Singh
*B. R. Ambedkar
*Subhas Chandra Bose
*Jawaharlal Nehru
*Kanhaiya Kumar
*Umar Khalid
*Shehla Rashid
*Pratap Bhanu Mehta
*Arundhati Roy
*Varavara Rao
*Akhil Gogoi
*Anna Hazare
*Disha Ravi
*Kobad Ghandy
*Romila Thapar
Indonesia
*Pramoedya Ananta Toer
*Muhammad Rizieq Shihab
Kenya
*Miguna Miguna
*David Ndii
Korea
*Empress Myeongseong
*Kim Dae-jung
*Kim Young-sam
Haiti
* Jean-Bertrand Aristide
* Gérard Jean-Juste
Hungary
*Anna Kéthly
*Pál Maléter
*Tivadar Soros
Malawi
* Chakufwa Chihana
* Orton Chirwa
* Attati Mpakati
Malaysia
*Anwar Ibrahim
*Navin Pillai
Morocco
* Mehdi Ben Barka
* Nasser zafzafi
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
* Tarek Fatah
Peru
* Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
Philippines
* Benigno Aquino, Jr.
* Corazon Aquino
* Jaime Sin
* Antonio Trillanes
Poland
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Russia / Soviet Union
* Mikhail Agursky
* Vasily Aksyonov
* Lyudmila Alexeyeva
* Andrei Amalrik
* Chabua Amirejibi
* Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
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* Mykola Bakay
* Anna Barkova
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* Arkadiy Belinkov
* Yuri Bezmenov
* Larisa Bogoraz
* Alexander Bolonkin
* Yelena Bonner
* Leonid Borodin
* Alexei Borovoi
* Vladimir Bougrine
* Joseph Brodsky
* Vladimir Bukovsky
* Valery Chalidze
* Vadim Charushev
* Lev Chernyi
* Boris Chichibabin
* Viacheslav Chornovil
* Lydia Chukovskaya
* Vladimir Danchev
* Yuli Daniel
* Vadim Delaunay
* David Devdariani
* Ivan Drach
* Yuri Druzhnikov
* Mustafa Dzhemilev
* Ivan Dziuba
* Abulfaz Elchibey
* Alexander Esenin-Volpin
* Eliyahu Essas
* Efim Etkind
* Benjamin Fain
* Viktor Fainberg
* Moysey Fishbein
* Ilya Gabay
* Balys Gajauskas
* Yuri Galanskov
* Alexander Galich
* Zviad Gamsakhurdia
* Alexander Ginzburg
* Yevgenia Ginzburg
* Semyon Gluzman
* Natalya Gorbanevskaya
* Pyotr Grigorenko
* Vasily Grossman
* Igor Guberman
* Tengiz Gudava
* Paruyr Hayrikyan
* Ivan Hel
* Oleksa Hirnyk
* Mykola Horbal
* Bohdan Horyn
* Mykhailo Horyn
* Grigory Isayev
* Boris Kagarlitsky
* Romas Kalanta
* Sofiya Kalistratova
* Ihor Kalynets
* Vitaliy Kalynychenko
* Dina Kaminskaya
* Ivan Kandyba
* Ephraim Kholmyansky
* Yuliy Kim
* Lev Kopelev
* Boris Korczak
* Anatoly Koryagin
* Nahum Korzhavin
* Merab Kostava
* Lina Kostenko
* Sergei Kovalev
* Zoya Krakhmalnikova
* Victor Krasin
* Yuri Kublanovsky
* Jüri Kukk
* Eduard Kuznetsov
* Anatoly Kuznetsov
* Alexander Lavut
* Alexander Lerner
* Yaroslav Lesiv
* Eugene Levich
* Eduard Limonov
* Pavel Litvinov
* Levko Lukyanenko
* Kronid Lyubarsky
* Michail J. Makarenko
* Vasyl Makukh
* Guram Mamulia
* Nadezhda Mandelstam
* Osip Mandelstam
* Anatoly Marchenko
* Valeriy Marchenko
* Myroslav Marynovych
* Gregori Maximoff
* Roy Medvedev
* Zhores Medvedev
* Naum Meiman
* Alexander Men
* Yosef Mendelevitch
* Andrei Mironov
* Ion Moraru
* Viktor Muravin
* Lev Navrozov
* Viktor Nekipelov
* Viktor Nekrasov
* Alexander Nekrich
* Valeriya Novodvorskaya
* Vasile Odobescu
* Alexander Ogorodnikov
* Bulat Okudzhava
* Yuri Orlov
* Lagle Parek
* Boris Pasternak
* Gleb Pavlovsky
* Yekaterina Peshkova
* Leonid Plyushch
* Viktoras Petkus
* Alexandr Podrabinek
* Grigory Pomerants
* Vladimir Pribylovsky
* Dmitri Prigov
* Anatoly Pristavkin
* Boris Pustyntsev
* Irina Ratushinskaya
* Eliyahu Rips
* Arseny Roginsky
* Maria Rozanova
* Mykola Rudenko
* Yuly Rybakov
* Ain Saar
* Valery Sablin
* Andrei Sakharov
* Dmitri Savitski
* Shmuel Schneurson
* Victor Serge
* Efraim Sevela
* Igor Shafarevich
* Varlam Shalamov
* Avital Sharansky
* Natan Sharansky
* Vladimir Shelkov
* Yuriy Shukhevych
* Danylo Shumuk
* Andrei Sinyavsky
* Vladimir Slepak
* Victor Sokolov
* Sergei Soldatov
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* Vladimir Strelnikov
* Aleksandras Štromas
* Vasyl Stus
* Sultan Galiev
* Nadiya Svitlychna
* Vasyl Symonenko
* Les Tanyuk
* Alexander Tarasov
* Valery Tarsis
* Enn Tarto
* Lev Timofeev
* Valentin Turchin
* Andrei Tverdokhlebov
* Tatyana Velikanova
* Tomas Venclova
* Georgi Vins
* Georgi Vladimov
* Vladimir Voinovich
* Michael Voslenski
* Gleb Yakunin
* Venedikt Yerofeyev
* Yevgeny Zamyatin
* Alexander Zinoviev
* Yosyf Zisels
Saudi Arabia
* Jamal Khashoggi
* Omar Bin Abdulaziz
Senegal
* Abdoulaye Wade
Serbia
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* Milovan Dilas
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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
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Tunisia
*Sihem Bensedrine
*Néjib Chebbi
*Hamma Hammami
*Moncef Marzouki
*Zouhair Yahyaoui
United States
*John McAfee
*Thomas Paine
*John Brown
*Joseph Smith
*Nicola Sacco and Bart Vanzetti
*Martin Luther King Jr.
*Malcolm X
*Chief Joseph
*Roger Williams
*Sitting Bull
*Tecumseh
*Joe Hill
*Pete Seeger
*Assata Shakur
*Mumia Abu-Jamal
*Ted Kaczynski
*Elliott Madison
*Noam Chomsky
*Chelsea Manning
*Howard Zinn
*Edward Snowden
*Lyndon LaRouche
*Paul Craig Roberts
*Angela Davis
*Jacob Appelbaum
Venezuela
* Rómulo Betancourt
* Leonardo Ruiz Pineda
Vietnam
*DÆ°Æ¡ng Thu HÆ°Æ¡ng
*Nguyen Dan Que
*Nguyen Van Ly
*Thich Nhat Hanh
Australia
*Julian Assange

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