Despots, Dictators, Revolutionaries & Rebels

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1881-1938
Military leader, author, revolutionary statesman and founder of the Republic of Turkey, he introduced sweeping progressive reform transforming Turkey into a modern secular industrial nation.
10,000 Turkish Lira (1982)

Thanks walk2dwater, I too was wondering who the guy on the reverse of the note was.
He helped build some beautiful places, lived to almost 100 years of age, quite an age for the times.
I've visited the 'blue mosque' in Istanbul, I wonder if that was one of Sinan's designs.

Eta - it was in fact designed by one of Sinan's understudies

Very nice!

Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez or "La Corregidora" 1768-1829
An insurgent & important fugure in the Mexican War of Independence against Spain in the early 1800's.
She was sympathetic to the plight of Amer-Indians & other native people's who were suppressed by the Spanish, societies were formed, meetings held and revolutionary ideas were to the fore.
Her house became the official meeting place of the revolutionary conspiracy.
She was one of the first women to appear on Mexican stamps, "La Corregidora" is on this Mexico 5 peso (1972)

Thanks walk2dwater, she kind of reminds me of the Colombian lady I posted a few pages back in this thread.
Staying in The Americas..
Floriano Peixoto 1839-1895
Brazil's 2nd President, a soldier & politician also known as
'The Iron Marshal'.
An authoritarian leader who suppressed rebellions among the Brazilian military, he was unpopular & also had a personality cult surrounding him- 'florianista'.
Peixoto features on this banknote with the National Congress buildings in Brasilia on the reverse vignette.

Brazil 100 Cruzeiro (1974)

King Philip II of Spain 1527-1598
Regarded by his enemies as a despotic monster, capable of barbarity via The Inquisition, he saw his main role as defender of Catholic Europe against The Ottoman Empire & The Protestant Reformation.
Famously sending an Armada in a failed attempt to invade England.
One of the most powerful monarchs of his era, Felipe II is on this Spain 100 Peseta (1925)


*apologies if image is a little blurred, it exceeded the 300kb limit*

Nice add "Scots." Looks like a large format?

Anton De Kom 1898-1945
A Surinamese Resistance fighter & Anti-Colonialist Author, he served in a Dutch Cavalry Regiment in the 1920's, later becoming an activist & author.
He joined with the Dutch Resistance during WWII, was captured in 1944 & sent to a German Concentration Camp where he died of Tuberculosis in 1945.
He was buried in a mass grave & in 1960 after his remains were found they were transferred to the Cemetery of Honours in The Netherlands.
Streets & Squares, a University & monuments all bear his name.
He is on this banknote along with some militia figures
Suriname 100 Gulden (1986)