List of Famous Spys

Igor Vyacheslavovich Sutyagin is a Russian arms control and nuclear weapons specialist. In 1998, he became the head of the subdivision for Military-Technical and Military-Economic Policy at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he worked before he was arrested for treason on accusations he had given information to a British company, although he had no access to classified documentation as a civilian researcher. Sutyagin spent 11 years in prison on espionage charges and was released by Russia in 2010 in exchange for the release of a group of spies arrested in the United States.

Dominique Prieur is a French military officer who was convicted of manslaughter over her part in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Prieur was also the first female French secret agent.

Sonja Wigert was a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1934 and 1960. She was a spy in World War II. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal portrayed her in the movie The Spy.

Takeo Yoshikawa was a Japanese spy in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Sylvia Raphael Schjødt was a South African-born Israeli Mossad agent, convicted of murder in Norway for her involvement in the Lillehammer affair.

Donald Heathfield and his wife Tracey Foley were sleeper KGB agents. It is unknown if the couple's two children knew their parents were embedded KGB spies living under false identities. He served as both a KGB and SVR operative until his disclosure in the United States in 2010.

Reino Häyhänen was a Soviet intelligence officer of the KGB who defected from the Soviet Union to the United States in May 1957. Häyhänen surrendered information on Soviet espionage activities that solved the Hollow Nickel Case for the FBI, and led to the arrest of his KGB partner Rudolf Abel and other Soviet spies in the United States and Canada.

Jeannie Yvonne Ghislaine Rousseau, married name Jeannie de Clarens, was an Allied intelligence agent in occupied France during World War II, a member of the "Druids" network led by Georges Lamarque.

Mustafa Mümin Aksoy Paşa, also known as Gavûr Mümin, was a member of the Kuva-yi Milliye, the irregular Turkish nationalist forces that fought in the Turkish War of Independence. He was also part of the Turkish Armed Forces. Aksoy was the son of Osmanzade İbrahim Bey', a nephew of Izimir's mayor Hacı Hasan Bey.

James Armistead Lafayette was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette. As a double agent, he was responsible for reporting the activities of Benedict Arnold – after he had defected to the British – and of Lord Cornwallis during the run-up to the Battle of Yorktown. He fed the British false information while disclosing very accurate and detailed accounts to the Americans.