Patriots were colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution. Many Patriots served in multiple capacities.

Statesmen and office holders

* John Adams *

Ethan Allen Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for ...

* John Dickinson * Benjamin Franklin *

Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795. Born out of wedlock in Charlest ...

* John Hancock * John Jay * Thomas Jefferson * Benjamin Kent * Richard Henry Lee * James Madison * William Paca *

Jonathan Shipley Jonathan Shipley (1714 – 6 December 1788) was a clergyman who held offices in the Church of England (including Dean of Winchester from 1760 to 1769), who became Bishop of Llandaff from January to September 1769 and Bishop of St Asaph from Sept ...

Businessmen and writers

* Samuel Adams *

* John Ames *

* Patrick Henry *

Timothy Matlack Timothy Matlack (March 28, 1736 – April 14, 1829) was an American politician, military officer and businessman. A brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War, Matlack served as Secretar ...

* Filippo Mazzei *

William Molineux William Molineux (c. 1713 – October 22, 1774) was a hardware merchant in colonial Boston of Irish descent best known for his role in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and earlier political protests Molineux was unusual among the Boston Whigs in havin ...

* James Otis Jr. * Thomas Paine * Molly Pitcher * Samuel Prescott * Paul Revere * Roger Sherman *

Elkanah Watson Elkanah Watson (January 22, 1758 – December 5, 1842) was a visionary traveler and writer, agriculturist and canal promoter, banker and businessman. He was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts and died at Port Kent, New York. He worked in Albany ...

Military officers

* Daniel Boone * Peter Francisco * John Gano * Nathanael Greene *

Nathan Hale Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American Patriot, soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured b ...

Elijah Isaacs Elijah Isaacs (17301799) was a farmer, politician from Wilkes County, North Carolina, and militia officer in Wilkes County Regiment of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution. Early life Elijah Isaacs was likely born near Berry ...

* John Paul Jones * Marquis de Lafayette * Charles Lee * Benjamin Loxley *

Francis Marion Brigadier-General Francis Marion ( 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, was an American military officer, planter and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the Ameri ...

Daniel Morgan Daniel Morgan (1735–1736July 6, 1802) was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia. One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he later commanded troops during the sup ...

* Andrew Pickens * John Parker * Israel Putnam *

Daniel Shays Daniel Shays (August 1747 September 29, 1825) was an American soldier, revolutionary and farmer famous for allegedly leading Shays' Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786� ...

Arthur St. Clair Arthur St. Clair ( – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-American soldier and politician. Born in Thurso, Scotland, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in Pennsylvania, where he held local office. During ...

* Thomas Sumter *

James Mitchell Varnum James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer, generalHeitman, ''Officers of the Continental Army'', 559. in the Continental Army, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country.Wilkins, ''Memoirs of the Rho ...

Joseph Bradley Varnum Joseph Bradley Varnum (January 29, 1750/1751September 21, 1821) was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as a U.S. representative and United States senator, and held leadership positions in both bodies. He was a member of the ...

Francis Vigo Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places *Rural Mu ...

* Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben *

George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of th ...

* Anthony Wayne

African-American Patriots

Crispus Attucks Crispus Attucks ( – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, commonly regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the Amer ...

William Flora William "Billy" Flora (fl. 1755–1818) was a free-born African American from Virginia who served as a soldier on the Patriot side in the American Revolutionary War. He fought under Colonel William Woodford in the Battle of Great Bridge in Dece ...

* James Armistead Lafayette *

Saul Matthews Saul Matthews was an enslaved African American who spied for the Continental Army during American Revolutionary War. He spied on the British, obtaining valuable information for the Patriots. As a result, Matthews was given his full freedom from s ...

* Salem Poor * Peter Salem *

Jack Sisson Jack Sisson (1821) was an enslaved African American who sided with the Patriots and served in the First Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War. Sisson was one of the key figures in the July 1777 capture of British General Ric ...

Prince Whipple Prince Whipple (1750–1796) was an African American slave and later freedman. He was a soldier and a bodyguard during the American Revolution under his enslaver General William Whipple of the New Hampshire Militia who granted him his freedom a ...

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