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John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Benedict Arnold
army officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War (1740–1801)

Jan Karski
Polish World War II officer, resistance fighter and diplomat (1914–2000)

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish poet, playwright and statesman (1758–1841)
Daniel Shays
American soldier, revolutionary, leader of Shays' Rebellion
Richard Caswell
1st and 5th governor of North Carolina 1729-1789
Jacob Leisler
Leader of the Leisler Rebellion, de facto governor of New York (1640-1691)
Toypurina
Toypurina (1760–1799) was a Kizh medicine woman from the Jachivit village. She is notable for her opposition to the colonial rule by Spanish missionaries in California, and for her part in the planned 1785 rebellion against the Mission San Gabriel. She recruited six of the eight villages whose men participated in the attack.
Dahteste
Dahteste (circa 1860–1955) was a Chokonen Apache woman warrior.