List of figures in nationalism

Early thinkers

• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• Johann Gottfried von Herder
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Jeanne d'Arc

Pre-19th century nationalism

• Pasquale Paoli (Corsica)
• Tiradentes (Brazil)
• Theobald Wolfe Tone (Ireland)

19th century nationalism

• Eugenio Maria de Hostos (Puerto Rico)
• Abd-el-Kader (Algeria)
• Ramon Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rico)
• José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
• Simón Bolívar (South America)
• José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (Paraguay)
• Theodor Herzl (Jews)
• Lola Rodriguez de Tio (Puerto Rico)
• Miguel Hidalgo (Mexico)
• Lajos Kossuth (Hungary)
• Jose De Diego (Puerto Rico - 19th and 20th Century)
• José Martí (Cuba)
• Segundo Ruiz Belvis (Puerto Rico)
• Francisco de Miranda (South America)
• Francisco Morazán (Honduras/Central America)
• José María Morelos (Mexico)
• Antonio Nariño (Colombia)
• Daniel O'Connell (Ireland)
• Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile/South America)
• Ernest Renan (France: Especially his 1882 Sorbonne lecture Qu'est-ce qu'une nation ? What is a nation? English translations are widely anthologised
• José de San Martín (South America)
• Stefan Stambolov (Bulgaria)
• Hristo Botev {Bulgaria)
• Vasil Levski (Bulgaria)
• Ante Starčević (Croatia)
• Ľudovít Štúr (Slovakia)
• Antonio José de Sucre (South America)
• Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico - 19th and 20th Century)

National unification

• Eugenio Maria de Hostos (Antilles' Confederacy)
• Otto von Bismarck (Germany)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (Italy)
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japan)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (Japan)
• Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier (Canada)
• Giuseppe Mazzini (Italy)
• Oda Nobunaga (Japan)
• Qin Shihuangdi (China)
• Pedro Albizu Campos (Latina American unity)
• Simon Bolivar (Gran Colombia)

Nationalist leaders of 20th century nation states

• Michel Aflaq (Arabs)
• Kemal Atatürk (Turkey)
• Todor Alexandrov (Bulgaria and Macedonia}
• Ivan Mihailov (Bulgaria and Macedonia}
• Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria)
• Hastings Kamuzu Banda (Malawi)
• Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria)
• David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
• Habib Bourguiba (Tunisia)
• Jānis Čakste (Latvia)
• Michael Collins (Ireland)
• Eamon de Valera (Ireland)
• Gnassingbé Eyadema (Togo)
• King Faisal I (Iraq)
• King Ghazi (Iraq)
• Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)
• Mykhailo Hrushevsky (Ukraine)
• Alija Izetbegović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan)
• Modibo Keita (Mali)
• Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya)
• Kim Il-sung (Korea)
• Patrice Lumumba (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• Norman Manley (Jamaica)
• King Muhammad V (Morocco)
• Mujibur Rahman (Bangladesh)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt/Arabs)
• Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
• Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana)
• Sam Nujoma (Namibia)
• Milton Obote (Uganda)
• Sylvanus Olympio (Togo)
• Sir Lynden Pindling (The Bahamas)
• Louis Rwagasore (Burundi)
• Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso)
• Antanas Smetona (Lithuania)
• Sukarno (Indonesia)
• Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea)
• Franjo Tuđman (Croatia)
• Eric Williams (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh)

20th century nationalist regimes

• Joaquín Balaguer (Dominican Republic)
• Stepan Bandera (Ukraine)
• Chiang Kai-shek (China)
• Todor Zhivkov (Bulgaria)
• Francisco Franco (Spain)
• Andrej Hlinka (Slovakia)
• Miklós Horthy (Hungary)
• Gerardo Machado (Cuba)
• Daniel Malan (South Africa)
• Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (El Salvador)
• Ioannis Metaxas (Greece)
• Slobodan Milosevic (Serbia)
• Ante Pavelić (Croatia)
• Juan Perón (Argentina)
• Juan Velasco Alvarado (Peru)
• Augusto Pinochet (Chile)
• Reza Shah (Iran)
• António de Oliveira Salazar (Portugal)
• Jozef Tiso (Slovakia)
• Tojo Hideki (Japan)
• Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic)
• Manuel Fraga (Galiza)

20th century nationalist resistance

• James Connolly (Ireland)
• Marcus Garvey (Pan Africanist who lived in Jamaica, the United States and the United Kingdom)
• Henri Bourassa (Canada)
• Ruben Berrios Martinez (Puerto Rico)
• Yasser Arafat (Palestine)
• Emilio Aguinaldo (Philippines)
• Mullah Mustafa Barzani (Kurdistan)
• Mahatma Gandhi (India)
• Isaias Afewerki (Eritrea)
• Dedan Kimathi (Kenya)
• Francis Ona (Bougainville)
• Juan M. Dalmau Ramirez (Puerto Rico)
• Augusto César Sandino (Nicaragua)
• Andimba Toivo ja Toivo (Namibia)
• Michael Collins (Ireland)
• Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico)
• Sean MacStiofain (Ireland)
• Cathal Goulding (Ireland)
• Manuel Rodriguez Orellana (Puerto Rico)
• Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• Fernando Martin (Puerto Rico)
• Robert Sobukwe (South Africa)
• Gilberto Concepcion de Gracia (Puerto Rico)
• Lolita Lebron (Puerto Rico)
• René Lévesque (Canada/Québec)

21st century nationalists

• Ruben Berrios Martinez (Puerto Rico)
• Hugo Chávez (Venezuela)
• Ollanta Humala (Peru)
• David Orchard (Canada)
• Gerry Adams (Ireland)
• Mark Durkan (Ireland)
• Nick Griffin (Britain)
• Mel Hurtig (Canada)
• Maude Barlow (Canada)

Nationalist politicians

• Ruben Berrios Martinez (Puerto Rico)
• Sabino Arana (Basques)
• Christoph Blocher (Switzerland)
• Umberto Bossi (Italy)
• Anto Đapić (Croatia)
• Roman Dmowski (Poland)
• Gianfranco Fini (Italy)
• Dariush Forouhar (Iran)
• Juan M. Dalmau Ramirez (Puerto Rico)
• Pim Fortuyn (Netherlands)
• Jörg Haider (Austria)
• Shintaro Ishihara (Japan)
• Dimitar Stoyanov (Bulgaria)
• Volen Siderov (Bulgaria)
• Jean-Marie Le Pen (France)
• Vladimír Mečiar (Slovakia)
• Tomislav Nikolić (Serbia)
• Željko Ražnatović "Arkan" (Yugoslavia)
• Claro M. Recto (Philippines)
• Maria de Lourdes Santiago (Puerto Rico)
• Antun Saadeh (Lebanon)
• Vojislav Šešelj (Serbia)
• Corneliu Vadim Tudor (Romania)
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Russia)
• Alex Salmond (Scotland)
• Ieuan Wyn Jones (Wales)

Anti-nationalists

• Arthur C. Clarke
• Albert Einstein
• Stanley Hauerwas
• Vladimir Lenin
• George Orwell

Others

• Muammar al-Qaddafi (Libya)
• Winston Churchill (Britain)
• Dimitar Spisarevski (Bulgaria)
• John Diefenbaker (Canada)
• Charles de Gaulle (France)
• Liah Greenfeld
• Zeev Jabotinsky
• Eduard Limonov
• Gavrilo Princip (Serbia)
• Joseph Stalin (former Soviet Union)
• Malcolm X (African Americans)
• Pedro Albizu Campos (Puerto Rico)