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List of important people in the era of the American Revolution
This is a list of people who were involved in some important or notable way with the American Revolution and/or the American Revolutionary War.
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American Patriot military
- Ethan Allen
- Benedict Arnold
- Horatio Gates
- Nathanael Greene
- Alexander Hamilton
- John Paul Jones
- John Laurens
- "Lighthorse" Henry Lee
- Francis Marion
- James Monroe
- Daniel Morgan
- John Stark
- George Washington
See also: Continental Army; Category:Continental Navy officers
Americans on the frontier
American Patriot politicians and writers
- John Adams
- Samuel Adams
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Hancock
- Patrick Henry
- Thomas Jefferson
- Robert Morris
- Thomas Paine
See also: Founding Fathers of the United States
American Loyalists
British and Loyalist leaders
Government officials
Commanders in chief in North America
Naval leaders
- Marriott Arbuthnot
- Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves
- Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
- Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
- George Brydges Rodney
Other military officers
- Benedict Arnold
- John Burgoyne
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- Henry Hamilton
- Banastre Tarleton
French leaders
- Comte d'Estaing (admiral)
- Comte de Grasse (admiral)
- Marquis de Lafayette (Continental Army officer)
- Jacques-Donatien Le Ray (diplomat)
- Louis XVI of France (king)
- Comte de Rochambeau (commander of French army in America)
- Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (foreign minister)
Other leaders allied with the Americans
Native American leaders
- Joseph Brant (Mohawk)
- Blue Jacket (Shawnee)
- Cornplanter (Seneca)
- Cornstalk (Shawnee)
- Dragging Canoe (Cherokee/Chickamauga)
- Dunquat (the Wyandot "Half-King")
- Guyasuta (Seneca)
- Red Jacket (Seneca)
- White Eyes (Lenape)
- Captain Pipe (Lenape)
- Buckongahelas (Lenape)
Women
- Abigail Adams
- Molly Brant (Mohawk) (Her entry at Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
- Margaret Corbin
- Jane McCrae
- "Molly Pitcher"
- Betsy Ross
- Deborah Sampson
- Nancy Ward (Cherokee)
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Phyllis Wheatley (African-American poet)
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