International Brigades - Notable Associated People

Notable Associated People

  • Anton Ackermann - Leader of the Political School of the Int. Brigades.
  • Todor Angelov
  • Shapour Bakhtiar - Last Prime Minister of Iran under the Pahlavi Dynasty
  • Hans Beimler - After his death the XI International Brigade was named in his honour.
  • Norman Bethune - Canadian doctor with the Mac-Paps
  • Herman Bottcher - Awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses during World War II
  • Willy Brandt - West German Chancellor from 1969–1974, Nobel Peace Prize 1971, 1976 until 1992 Leader of the Socialist International
  • Ernst Busch - singer of broadcasted battle songs - "Voice of the XI Brigade"
  • Robert Capa war photographer
  • Edward A. Carter, Jr. - Earned the Medal of Honor in World War II.
  • Fred Copeman
  • Vladimir Ćopić - 1937 commander of the XV Int. Brigade
  • John Cornford
  • Georgi Damyanov - Commander of the Albacete base under the nom de guerre of Colonel Belov
  • Carmelo Delgado Delgado - Puerto Rican Nationalist
  • Charles Donnelly - poet
  • Janos Galicz - General "Gal"
  • Bill Gannon - Irish Republican and Communist
  • Pierre Georges - Colonel "Fabien"
  • Nordahl Grieg - Norwegian writer
  • David Guest
  • Paul René Gauguin (1911–1976), painter and graphic designer, grandson of Paul Gauguin
  • Ernest Hemingway - author and war reporter
  • Jack Jones - political commissar of the Major Attlee Company of the XV International Brigade
  • James Robertson Justice - British actor
  • Ali Kelmendi - Albanian Communist
  • Bernard Knox - English classicist; moved to the United States and joined the Army after the Civil War
  • František Kriegel - Czechoslovak politician
  • Arthur H. Landis - fantasy and non-fiction author, wrote Spain! The Unfinished Revolution, Order of Friendship of Peoples recipient
  • Oliver Law
  • Laurie Lee
  • Luigi Longo - 1936 political commissar of Garibaldi Battalion, and 1937–38 of all International Brigades
  • Petro Marko - Albanian novelist (Hasta la Vista)
  • André Marty - Stalinist chief commissar, nicknamed "Butcher of Albacete"
  • Guido Nonveiller
  • Ferenc Münnich (political commissar of Rakosi Battalion) became Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Hungary from 1958 to 1961.
  • Conlon Nancarrow - American-born composer
  • George Nathan
  • George Orwell - British writer
  • Abe Osheroff - American activist
  • Randolfo Pacciardi - 1936–37 commander of the Garibaldi Battalion
  • Ezekias Papaioannou - later general secretary of AKEL
  • Koča Popović - Yugoslav Surrealist, Partisan Commander, General of the JNA, and Vice-President of Yugoslavia.
  • László Rajk -political commissar of the Rakosi Battalion; became Hungarian foreign secretary, was accused of espionage, and shot after a show trial in Hungary in 1949.
  • Heinrich Rau - 1938 commander of the XI International Brigade
  • Ludwig Renn - German writer - 1936 commander of the Thälmann Battalion in the Battle of Madrid, then chief of staff XI International Brigade
  • Paul Robeson - troop entertainer/fundraiser/honorary member
  • Henri Rol-Tanguy - Colonel Rol
  • Valter Roman
  • Esmond Romilly - English upper-class communist
  • Franc Rozman - Slovenian Partisan general, national hero
  • Frank Ryan - Irish Republican Army man led the Connolly Column
  • Mehmet Shehu - Later Albanian Communist Prime Minister
  • Humphrey (Hugh) Slater
  • George Sossenko
  • Žikica Jovanović Španac - Serb Yugoslav activist
  • Stephen Spender
  • Sygmunt Stein, Yiddish-speaking journalist, former member of the Komintern and member of the Botwin battalion
  • Manfred Stern - General "Kléber" - 1936 commander of the first ("XI") Int. Brigade — called "Savior of Madrid" by the international press, then quietly replaced and his name later no longer mentioned.
  • Karol Świerczewski - General "Walter"
  • Gerda Taro war photographer
  • Asim Vokshi - Albanian commander of the Garibaldi Battalion
  • Simone Weil
  • Tom Wintringham
  • Milton Wolff - last commander of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion
  • Wilhelm Zaisser - General "Gomez" - 1936 commanding XIII International Brigade, 1937 the international forces in Spain
  • David Alfaro Siqueiros - Stalinist muralist Mexican and member of the Mexican Communist Party
  • Mate Zalka - General "Lukacs" - 1936 commander XII International Brigade

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