Flashcards: Outlaws

Vincent "Ivanhoe" Martin (1924-1948), known as "Rhyging", was a Jamaican criminal who became a legendary outlaw and folk hero, often regarded as the "original rude boy".

Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands: highway robbery and plunder.

Fra Diavolo (lit. Brother Devil; 7 April 1771–11 November 1806), is the popular name given to Michele Pezza, a famous Neapolitan guerrilla leader who resisted the French occupation of Naples, proving an “inspirational practitioner of popular insurrection”.

Panayot Ivanov Hitov (Bulgarian: Панайот Иванов Хитов) (1830 – March 22, 1918) was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and voivode.

(For other uses, see Ned Kelly (disambiguation).) Edward "Ned" Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger of Irish descent.

Banditry is the life and practice of bandits.

Juraj Jánošík (first name also Juro or Jurko, Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjuraj ˈjaːnɔʃiːk]; Polish: Jerzy Janosik Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ jaˈnɔɕik], Hungarian: Jánosik György; baptised January 25, 1688, died March 17, 1713) was a famous Slovak highwayman.

It was at the age of 23 (1836) when he first was sent to jail in Szeged.

Louis Mandrin (pronounced lwi mɑ̃dʁɛ̃; February 11, 1725 – May 26, 1755) was a French smuggler (highwayman) from Dauphiné.

Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский) is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and published after Pushkin’s death in 1841.

Andrij Savka (transliterated)/Andrew Sawka (translated)/Андрій Савка (Ukrainian) is a Lemko bandit and folk hero from Dukla.

James Arcene (ca. 1862 – June 18, 1885) was the youngest person sentenced to death, who was subsequently executed for the crime, in the United States.

Ustym Yakymovych Karmаliuk (or Karmeliuk Ukrainian: Устим Якимович Кармалюк (Кармелюк)) (March 10, 1787 – October 22, 1835) was a Ukrainian peasant outlaw who became a folk hero.

Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (a Hellenization of the Aramaic bar abba בר אבא, literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the Father" respectively) is a figure mentioned in the accounts of the Passion of Christ, in which he is an insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of releasing Jesus.

Phoolan Devi (Hindi: फूलन देवी, Phūlan Dēvi) (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as "Bandit Queen", was an Indian bandit and later a Member of Parliament.

Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger (born October 8, 1938) is a founding member (1957) of the Oakland, California, U.

The Moon Man is a fictional pulp magazine character who appeared in Ten Detective Aces magazine, published by A.

Bulla Felix was a legendary Italian bandit leader active around 205–207 AD, during the reign of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus.

Viacheslav Valerievich Datsik (Russian: Вячесла́в Вале́рьевич Да́цик, IPA: [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈdatsɨk]; born February 13, 1980 in Slantsy) is a Russian former kickboxer and mixed martial artist.

Angie Sanselmente Valencia also known as Angie Sanclemente Valencia (born 25 May 1979) is a former Colombian beauty queen and lingerie model believed to be the ringleader of one of the world's largest drug syndicates.

Colonel Plug (1700s? - 1820?) also, known as Colonel Fluger and "The Last of the Boat-Wreckers", existed, sometime, between the 1790s-1820, was the legendary river pirate, who ran a criminal gang, on the Ohio River, in a cypress swamp, near the mouth of the Cache River.

Antonis Katsantonis (Greek: Αντώνης Κατσαντώνης; c. 1775 – 1808) was a notable Greek klepht who lived in the era before the Greek War of Independence.