page_title: Outlaw (stock character)
section_title: List of famous outlaws
hierarchical_section_title: Outlaw (stock character) / List of famous outlaws
caption_attribution_description: Español: La obra representa la Cueva del Gato, situada en la provincia de Málaga, (Spain).
context_page_description: Though the judgment of outlawry is obsolete, romanticised outlaws became stock characters in several fictional settings.
  This was particularly so in the United States, where outlaws were popular subjects of newspaper coverage and stories in the 19th century, and 20th century fiction and Western films. Thus, "outlaw" is still commonly used to mean those violating the law or, by extension, those living that lifestyle, whether actual criminals evading the law or those merely opposed to "law-and-order" notions of conformity and authority.
  The colloquial sense of an outlaw as bandit or brigand is the subject of a monograph by British author Eric Hobsbawm: Hobsbawm's book discusses the bandit as a symbol, and mediated idea, and many of the outlaws he refers to, such as Ned Kelly, Mr. Dick Turpin, and Billy the Kid, are also listed below.
  The point about social bandits is that they are peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society, and are considered by their people as heroes, as champions, avengers, fighters for justice, perhaps even leaders of liberation, and in any case as men to be admired, helped and supported.
context_section_description: The stereotype owes a great deal to English folklore precedents, in the tales of Robin Hood and of gallant highwaymen.  But outlawry was once a term of art in the law, and one of the harshest judgments that could be pronounced on anyone's head.
caption: La cueva del Gato (The cave of the Cat), 1860 painting by Manuel Barrón y Carrillo depicting the hideout of the Andalusian bandolero of Spain
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