Prominent Sandinistas
- Bayardo Arce, hard-line National Directorate member in the 1980s
- Patrick Arguello, a Sandinista involved with the Dawson's Field hijackings
- Nora Astorga, Sandinista UN ambassador
- Idania Fernandez, member of the Rigoberto López Pérez Regional Command; killed in action
- Gioconda Belli, novelist and poet, handled media relations for the FSLN government
- Tomás Borge, one of the FSLN's founders, leader of the Prolonged People's War tendency in the 1970s, Minister of Interior in the 1980s
- Omar Cabezas, Sandinista leader; also an author and politician
- Ernesto Cardenal, poet and Franciscan priest; Minister of Culture in the 1980s
- Fernando Cardenal, a Jesuit priest and brother of Ernesto, directed the literacy campaign as Minister of Education
- Luis Carrión, 1980s National Directorate member
- Rigoberto Cruz (aka Pablo Ubeda), early FSLN member
- Joaquín Cuadra. internal front leader, later chief of staff of the army
- Miguel D'Escoto, a Maryknoll Roman Catholic priest; served as Nicaragua's foreign minister
- Carlos Fonseca, one of the FSLN's principal founders and leading ideologist in the 1960s
- Herty Lewites, former mayor of Managua, opponent of Daniel Ortega in 2005
- Silvio Mayorga, FSLN co-founder
- Daniel Ortega, post-revolution junta head, then President from 1985, lost presidential elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, but continues to control the FSLN party
- Humberto Ortega, leader of the FSLN Insurrectional Tendency (Tercerista) in the 1970s, chief strategist of the anti-Somoza urban insurrection; Minister of Defense in the 1980s during the Contra war
- Edén Pastora "Comandante Cero", social democratic guerrilla leader who joined the Terceristas during the anti-Somoza insurrection, broke with FSLN to lead center-left ARDE contra group based in Costa Rica during the early 1980s
- Sergio Ramirez, novelist and civilian Sandinista, architect of alliance with moderates in 1970s, Vice President in 1980s, opponent of Daniel Ortega in 1990s
- Henry Ruíz, "Comandante Modesto", FSLN rural guerrilla commander in the 1970s, member of the National Directorate in the 1980s
- Arlen Siu, killed in action
- Dora María Téllez
- Jaime Wheelock, leader of the FSLN Proletarian Tendency, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
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