LIST OF INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS :

1.Ahmadullah Shah : He led in various battles including the Battle of

Chinhat, the Siege of Lucknow, the Capture of Lucknow, and the Chapati
Movement.
2.Ahmad Hasan Amrohi : He was the first principal of Madrasa Shahi and
a founding member of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi's Thamratut-Tarbiyat.[3]
3.Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi : He was appointed the first general secretary
of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and was imprisoned for eight times for
participating in the freedom struggle.[4]
4.Alekh Patra : A nationalist, he was jailed for burning a police
station.
5.Alluri Sitarama Raju : He led the Rampa Rebellion of 1922
6.Ambika Chakrabarty : A revolutionary, he took part in the Chittagong
armoury raid.
7.Amarendranath Chatterjee : A revolutionary, he raised funds and took
part in the Indo-German Conspiracy.
8.Ananth Laxman Kanhere : A revolutionary assassin, he was executed by
the colonial government for the murder of British officer A. M. T.
Jackson.
9.Ananta Singh : A revolutionary, he participated in the Chittagong
armoury raid.
10.Annie Mascarene : An activist and politician, she was arrested
several times while campaigning for independence.
11.Aruna Asaf Ali : An educator and activist who is widely remembered
for hoisting the INC flag during the Quit India Movement, 1942.
12.Asaf Ali A : nationalist, he campaigned for independence.
13.Ashfaqulla Khan : A founding member of the HRA, he was executed for
taking part in the Kakori conspiracy.
14.Atulkrishna Ghosh : A revolutionary, he took part in the Indo-
German Conspiracy.
15.B. R. Ambedkar : Politician who campaigned and negotiated for
independence, and was pivotal in formation of the Indian Constitution.
16.Badal Gupta : A revolutionary, he died in an attack on police at
Writers' Building.
17.Bagha Jatin : A founding member of Anushilan Samiti, convicted in
the Howrah-Sibpur conspiracy case and a participant in the Indo-German
Conspiracy.
18.Baikuntha Shukla : A revolutionary, he was executed for murdering a
government witness.
19.Bal Gangadhar Tilak : [The Father of Indian Unrest] A staunch
nationalist, he campaigned for complete Swaraj (self-rule).
20.Bankim Chandra Chatterji : A nationalist, he wrote Vande Mataram
which inspired many activists and became the national song of India.
21.Barindra Kumar Ghosh : A revolutionary organizer, he was convicted
in the Alipore bomb case.
22.Basawon Singh : An activist, he was convicted in the Lahore
Conspiracy Case trial.
23.Batukeshwar Dutt : A Indian revolutionary participating in an armed
struggle against British rule in India, he threw a bomb in the Central
Assembly in 1929.
24.Benoy Basu : A revolutionary, he died following an attack on police
at Writers' Building.
25.Bhagat Singh : A socialist revolutionary who worked with several
revolutionary organisations and became prominent in the Hindustan
Republican Association (HRA).
26.Bhagwati Charan Vohra : A revolutionary ideologue and bomb-maker,
he wrote the article "The Philosophy of Bomb".
27.Bhavabhushan Mitra : Ghadar Mutiny[citation needed]
28.Bhikaiji Cama : was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in a large, affluent
Parsi Zoroastrian family.[5] While in London recovering from the
plague, she met Dadabhai Naoroji, then president of the British
Committee of the Indian National Congress, and for whom she came to
work as private secretary. Together with Naoroji and Singh Rewabhai
Rana, Cama supported the founding of Varma's Indian Home Rule Society
in February 1905. She was denied re-entry to India after refusing to
sign a statement pledging she would not participate in nationalist
activities and, while in exile, Cama wrote, published (in the
Netherlands and Switzerland) and distributed revolutionary literature
for the movement, including Bande Mataram (founded in response to the
Crown ban on the poem Vande Mataram) and later Madan's Talwar (in
response to the execution of Madan Lal Dhingra).[6] These weeklies
were smuggled into India through the French colony of Pondichéry.
[citation needed] On 22 August 1907, Cama attended the second
Socialist Congress at Stuttgart, Germany, where she described the
devastating effects of a famine that had struck the Indian
subcontinent. In her appeal for human rights, equality and for
autonomy from Great Britain, she unfurled what she called the "Flag of
Indian Independence".[n 1]
29.Bhupendranath Datta : A revolutionary, he was editor of newspaper
Jugantar Patrika.
30.Bhupendra Kumar Datta : A revolutionary, editor of the publications
of Anushilan Samiti.
31.Bina Das : A revolutionary, she attempted to assassinate
Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson.
32.Binod Bihari Chowdhury : A revolutionary, he took part in the
Chittagong armoury raid.
33.Bipin Chandra Pal : A staunch nationalist, he was a founding member
of the swadeshi movement and campaigned for complete Swaraj Swadeshi
movement.
34.Chandra Shekhar Azad : When the HRA leadership were arrested
following the Kakori train robbery, he reorganized the group and
operated it until his death.
35.Chittaranjan Das : He founded the Swaraj Party and became the
leader of the Non-cooperation Movement in Bengal.
36.Chowdary Satyanarayana : He was an Indian freedom fighter, anti-
colonial nationalist, politician, legislature in Andhra Pradesh
Assembly (1955–62, 1967–72) and a human rights activist.
37.Dadabhai Naoroji : Known as the Grand Old Man of India, Dadabhai
Naoroji was born in Navsari, Gujarat within a Parsi Zoroastrian
family. He was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and
writer who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the United
Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895 and the first Asian to
be a British MP, other than the Anglo-Indian MP David Ochterlony Dyce
Sombre, who was disenfranchised for corruption after nine months in
office. Naoroji is renowned for his work in the Indian National
Congress, of which he was one of the founding members and thrice —
in 1886, 1893, and 1906 — elected president. Dadabhai Naoroji is
regarded as one of the most important Indians during the birth of the
nascent independence movement. In his writings, he came to the
conclusion that the exertion of foreign rule over India was not
favourable for the nation, and that independence (or at the very
least, responsible government) would be the better path for India.
38.Dhan Singh Gurjar : He was the police chief of Meerut, who
participated in the 1857 rebellion and led initial actions against the
British East India Company in Meerut.
39.Dheeran Chinnamalai : An indigenous governor, he took part in
guerrilla warfare against the British East India Company.
40.Dinesh Gupta : A revolutionary, he was executed following an attack
on police at Writers' Building.
41.Durgawati Devi : A revolutionary, she helped operate a bomb
factory.
42.Feroze Gandhi : Born Feroze Jehangir Gandhi within the Parsi
Zoroastrian community, Feroze was an Indian freedom fighter,
politician and journalist. He published the newspapers The National
Herald and The Navjivan. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Feroz changed the
spelling of his surname from "Ghandy" to "Gandhi" after joining the
Indian Independence movement. He was imprisoned in 1930, along with
Lal Bahadur Shastri (the 2nd Prime Minister of India), head of
Allahabad District Congress Committee, and lodged in Faizabad Jail for
nineteen months. Soon after his release, he was involved with the
agrarian no-rent campaign in the United Province (now Uttar Pradesh)
and was imprisoned twice, in 1932 and 1933, while working closely with
Nehru. Feroze served as a member of the provincial parliament between
1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of
India's parliament. His wife, Indira Gandhi (daughter of Jawaharlal
Nehru), and their elder son Rajiv were both Prime Ministers of India.
43.Ganesh Damodar Savarkar : Founder of the Abhinav Bharat Society. He
led an armed movement against the British colonial government in
India, he was sentenced to transportation for life as a result. Was
the brother of
44.Veer Savarkar.
45.Ganesh Ghosh : A revolutionary, he participated in the Chittagong
armoury raid.
46.George Joseph (Kerala) : An activist, he led the non-
cooperation movement in Madurai.
47.Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi : Activist, author and jurist.
48.Seth Harchandrai Vishandas : A Sindhi politician and influential
mayor of Karachi, he fought for Muslim-Hindu unity and the
independence movement, particularly in opposing the Simon Commission
of 1912. He died while travelling (against doctor's advice) to vote
for its boycott.
49.Hemchandra Kanungo : A nationalist, convicted in the Alipore bomb
case.
50.Hemu Kalani : A student revolutionary who was executed for
attempted rail sabotage.
51.Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi : He founded the Khaksar Movement in
British India.
52.Jatindra Nath Das : An activist and revolutionary, he died during a
hunger strike while awaiting trial for the Lahore conspiracy case.
53.Jawahar Lal Nehru : An activist, he campaigned for independence and
became India's first prime minister.
54.Jayi Rajaguru : A prominent figure of the Indian independence
movement in the state of Odisha.
55.Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee : A revolutionary, he was imprisoned for
the Kakori conspiracy.
56.Kali Charan Banerjee : A Bengali Christian politician, he regularly
addressed the Indian National Congress annual sessions in moulding the
policy of national movement.[relevant?]
57.Kalpana Datta : Involved in the Indian Independence Movement; also
part of the Chittagong armoury raid planning.
58.Kamal Nath Tewari : He was a freedom fighter and after independence
he was elected as Member of Parliament from Bagaha (Now Valmikinagar)
and Bettiah (Now Paschimi Champaran) Constituency respectively he was
also in the panel of LokSabha Speaker and Was the President of
Estimate Comitee .
59.Kamarajar : He was a freedom fighter and after independence he
became as chief minister of Tamil Nadu and his rule for 9 years was
the golden rule of Tamil Nadu.
60.Kartar Singh Sarabha : A revolutionary, he helped with the Ghadar
Party paper and the attempted Ghadar Mutiny.
61.Kazi Nazrul Islam : A nationalist, he called for revolution in his
poetic works and publications.
62.Khudiram Bose : One of the youngest revolutionary martyrs, he was
executed following an attempted assassination bombing which
accidentally killed two bystanders instead of his intended target, the
Viceroy of Bengal .
63.Kittur Chennamma : An Indian freedom fighter and rani of the
Kittur, a former princely state in Karnataka. She led an armed force
against the British East India Company in 1824 in defiance of the
doctrine of lapse in an attempt to maintain Indian control over the
region, but was defeated in the third war and died in prison.
64.Komaram Bheem : A tribal leader, he fought for the liberation of
Hyderabad.
65.Krishnaji Gopal Karve : A revolutionary, he was executed as an
accomplice to the murder of A. M. T. Jackson.
66.Babu Kunwar Singh : A Rajput military commander in the Indian
Rebellion of 1857.
67.Kushal Konwar : An organizer of the Quit India movement, he was
judged the mastermind of a troop train derailment and hanged.
68.Lala Lajpat Rai : A staunch nationalist, he was a founding member
of the swadeshi movement and campaigned for complete Swaraj Swadeshi
movement.
69.Maulvi Liaquat Ali : A leader of the Sepoy Mutiny, he captured
Khusro Bagh in Allahabad and declared the independence of India.
70.Lokenath Bal : A revolutionary, he participated in the Chittagong
armoury raid.
71.Madan Lal Dhingra : An activist and revolutionary fighting against
British colonial rule in Inida, Dhingra assassinated British official
Curzon Wyllie.
72.Madhusudan Das : A leader from the Christian community in Odisha,
popularly known as "Utkal Gourab". He was the first graduate and
advocate of Odisha.[relevant?]
73.Mahmud Hasan Deobandi : He and his students launched the Silk
Letter Movement and laid the foundation of Jamia Millia Islamia on 29
October 1920.[7]
74.Mangal Pandey : He rebelled against his British Indian army
commanders and was executed.
75.Manmath Nath Gupta : A member of the HRA, he took part in the Kakori
conspiracy.
76.Maruthu Pandiyar : The brothers Periya and Chinna Marudhu were
Tamil Nadu chieftains said to have invented the valari.[8] They were
the first to issue a proclamation against the British.[9][unreliable
source?][dubious – discuss]
77.Matangini Hazra : An activist with the Quit India Movement, she was
fatally shot by British Indian police.
78.Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone : He is the First Freedom Fighter from
Kattalankulam in Thoothukudi District, was an early Chieftain and
freedom fighter against the British presence in Tamil Nadu. Born into
a yadav community family, he became a military leader in the town of
Ettayapuram, and was defeated in battle there against the British and
Maruthanayagam's forces. He was executed in 1759
In his memory, the government of Tamil Nadu conducts a Pooja ceremony
every year on 11 July. A documentary film based on his life was
released in 2012.

79.Mazhar Nanautawi : He was among the founding figures of Mazahir

Uloom. He participated in the Battle of Shamli.[10]
80.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Father of the Nation, he was the
preeminent leader of nonviolent civil disobedience and led the final
struggle of India to independence.
81.Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi : The founder of Darul Uloom Deoband, he
participated in the Battle of Shamli.[10]
82.Mithuben Petit : Hailing from the Parsi Zoroastrian community,
Mithuben Petit was a female activist in the Indian independence
movement,[11][12] who famously participated in Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi
March.[13][14] Petit along with Mahatma Gandhi's wife, Kasturba
Gandhi, and Sarojini Naidu played a major part in the Salt March,[15]
with Kasturba Gandhi beginning the march at Sabarmati, Sarojini Naidu
lifting the salt for the first time at Dandi on 6 April 1930 and Petit
standing behind Mahatma Gandhi when he repeated the violation at
Bhimrad on 9 April 1930. The march was one of the most important event
in the Indian independence movement.[11] In a time when women were
required to take a back seat (due to the patriarchal culture at that
time in India), Petit was one of the three women who played a pivotal
role in the march and the civil disobedience against tax on salt.[15]
Petit participated in the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 which was a no-
tax campaign against the British Raj where she worked under the
guidance of Sardar Patel.[16]
83.Mufti Abdul Razzaq : He participated in the freedom struggle taking
part in a fight against the British near Bhopal's Qazi camp.[17]
84.Pazhassi Raja : He used guerrilla warfare to fight the British in
the Cotiote War (Kottayathu war, 1793–1805) to preserve the
independence of his kingdom. He was killed at Mavila Thodu at the
present Kerala-Karnataka border.[18]
85.Prabhavati Devi : A Gandhian leader, she was the wife of activist
Jayaprakash Narayan.
86.Prafulla Chaki : A revolutionary, he killed two innocents in a
mistargetted assassination bombing.
87.Pritilata Waddedar : A Bengali revolutionary, she led the attack on
the European Club in Pahartali and committed suicide to avoid capture.
88.Puli Thevar : He is notable for leading a revolt against Company
rule at 1757 in India.he was the first Indian to fight against the
British.

89.Raja Nahar Singh : A Great Jat Ruler of the princely state of

Ballabhgarh, he had secured the road from Delhi Gate (Delhi) to
Bhadrapur (Bharatpur), who drove the British away from the parganas of
Pali (Rajasthan), Palwal and Fatehpur.[19][circular reference]
90.Rajendra Lahiri : A revolutionary, he participated in the Kakori
conspiracy.
91.Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav : A veteran freedom fighter, Shri Yadav
participated in India's freedom struggle.[20]
92.Ram Prasad Bismil : The founder of the HRA, he led the Kakori
conspiracy in an attempt to raise funds for revolutionary operations.
93.Ramesh Chandra Jha : An activist, he was a member of the Quit India
movement.
94.Rani of Jhansi : One of the Pivotal Leaders of the First war of
Independence of 1857.
95.Rash Behari Bose : A revolutionary, he helped form the Indian
National Army in Imperial Japan.
96.Rosamma Punnoose : An activist, she campaigned for independence.
97.Roshan Singh : A revolutionary who was among those executed for the
Kakori conspiracy, though he had not taken part in it.
98.S. Satyamurti : A politician, he campaigned for independence.[21]
99.Sachindra Bakshi : A member of the HRA, he took part in the Kakori
conspiracy.
100.Sangolli Rayanna : The army chief of Kittur, who fought the
British East India Company until his death.
101.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel : The Iron man of India, he fought for
independence and Unified India into one sovereign Nation .
102.Sarojini Naidu : An activist, she called for independence in her
writing and was a major figure of the civil disobedience movement.
103.Sah Mal A : Rebel of Baraut, led 3,500 local Jat peasants who
fought against British soldiers of the East India Company.
104.Shambhu Dutt Sharma : A former British Indian Army officer, he
joined the Quit India Movement in 1942.
105.Shaukat Ali : An activist and revolutionary, he campaigned for
independence and supplied weapons to revolutionaries.[22]
106.Shivaram Rajguru : A revolutionary, he was an HSRA member and
assassinated a British police officer in the Indian Imperial Police.
107.Shyamji Krishna Varma : A nationalist, he founded the Indian Home
Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
108.Subhas Chandra Bose : A nationalist, he founded the Indian Legion
in Nazi Germany and revamped the Indian National Army in Imperial
Japan.
109.Sri Aurobindo : A nationalist, he was arrested for leading the
Alipore bomb conspiracy.
110.Subodh Roy : A revolutionary, he took part in the Chittagong
armoury raid and later the Tebhaga movement.
111.Subramania Bharati : A writer and activist who created many
patriotic and nationalistic songs during the independence movement.
112.Sukhdev Thapar : A revolutionary, he was a senior member of HSRA
and participated in several actions before his execution.
113.Surendranath Tagore : A nationalist, he served as treasurer of the
Anushilan Samiti.
114.Surya Sen : President of INC Chittagong Branch, he led the
Chittagong armoury raid.
115.Sushila Chain Trehan : An activist, she was a leading member of
Arya Samaj and also fought for women's rights.
116.Swami Shraddhanand : An activist, he started a protest in front of
a posse of Gurkha soldiers at the Clock Tower in Chandni Chowk.[23]
117.Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu : An Indian politician, he became known
as "Andhra Kesari" (lion of Andhra) for leading protests against the
Simon Commission in Madras.
118.Tara Rani Srivastava : An activist, she was part of the Quit India
movement.
119.Titumir : A freedom fighter who led a campaign against British
rule during the 19th century, he eventually built a bamboo fort in
Narikelberia village which became the subject of Bengali folk legend.
Titumir died of wounds following the storming of the fort by British
soldiers.
120.Titusji : An activist, he was among the 78 marchers selected
by Mahatma Gandhi to take part in the 1930 Salt March.
121.T. V. Thomas : One of the first generation trade union leaders in
Kerala and was actively involved in the Indian independence movement.
[relevant?]
122.Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar : A leader of the socialist All
India Forward Bloc, he was arrested and jailed by the British.
123.Ubaidullah Sindhi : An activist, he sought independence through
foreign alliance in the Silk Letter Movement.
124.Udham Singh : A revolutionary assassin, he was executed for the
Caxton Hall shooting.
125.Ullaskar Dutta : A revolutionary bomb-maker, he was convicted in
the Alipore bomb case.
126.Umaji Naik Khomane : First Ramoshi Freedom Fighter who fought
against British Council Umaji Naik also known as honorofically vishwa
krantiveer narveer Raje Umaji Naik (7 September 1791 – 3 February
1832) was an Indian revolutionary who challenged the British rule in
India around 1826 to 1832.He was one of the earliest freedom fighter
of India.He fought against East India company and company rule
127.Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy : He led an uprising in Andhra Pradesh
in 1846 and was executed by the British.[24]
128.Uzair Gul Peshawari : An activist, he was imprisoned for the Silk
Letter Movement.[25]
129.V. O. Chidambaram Pillai A : hardline politician of the Indian
National Congress (INC), he launched the Swadeshi Steam Navigation
Company in defiance of the British trade monopoly.[26]
130.Vanchinathan : A revolutionary assassin, he committed suicide after
killing a British colonial administrator and tax collector, Robert
Ashe.
131.Vasudev Balwant Phadke : A Ramoshi revolutionary, he organized an
insurgent group against British rule
132.Velu Nachiyar : She was a queen of Sivaganga estate from c.
1780–1790. She was the first Indian queen to wage war with the East
India Company in India.She is known by Tamils as Veeramangai ("brave
woman")
133.Veerapandiya Kattabomman : He refused to accept the
sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged a war against
the British.[8]
134.Vinayak Damodar Savarkar : He was an Independence activist,
politician and a Hindu Nationalist. He published books advocating
complete Indian independence by revolutionary means. One of the books
he published called The Indian War of Independence about the Indian
rebellion of 1857. In 1910, Savarkar was arrested and ordered to be
extradited to India for his connections with the revolutionary freedom
group India House. He was later sentenced to a total 50 years
imprisonment at the Cellular Jail