- insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebel - a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
--1 is a kind of revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter; reformer, reformist, crusader, meliorist
--1 has particulars:mutineer; Young Turk; Turner, Nat Turner; Vesey, Denmark Vesey; Wallace, Sir William Wallace