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.

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

• Daniel Boone
• Daniel Brodhead
• George Rogers Clark
• Colonel William Crawford
• Simon Girty
• Edward Hand

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

• Benedict Arnold
• Henry Clinton
• Joseph Galloway
• Thomas Hutchinson
• John Wentworth

British and Loyalist leaders

Government officials

• King George III of Great Britain
• Frederick North, Lord North
• George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville

Commanders in chief in North America

• Thomas Gage
• William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
• Henry Clinton
• Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester

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

• Johann de Kalb
• Thaddeus Kosciuszko
• Francisco de Miranda
• Casimir Pulaski
• Friedrich von Steuben

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)