Djamila Bouhared (born 1935) joined the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) while a student. She was injured in a shootout and captured by French troops In 1957. Convicted of terrorism, she was sentenced to death, but her execution was blocked after a media campaign led by her French lawyer. She was released in 1962 and was regarded as a hero in Algeria. She is portrayed in the film, La Bataille d'Alger (1966).
Francis Jeanson (born 1922) is a French philosopher, He served in the French army of liberation during the Second World War and also took an active part during the Algerian war on the side of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN).
Paul Nizan (1905 - 1940) was a French philosopher and writer. Killed at the battle of Dunkirk in 1940.
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930) was a Futurist poet in Russia. He became known as the Poet of the Revolution. He committed suicide in April 1930.
Andrey Sinyavskiy was one of the most important figures in the Soviet literary dissident movement. He was a literary scholar working at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, and a prominent specialist in the literature of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary period. His first writings, under a pseudonym, reached the West in the late 1950s.