Notable Military Figures

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the military world.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Adolf Ehrnrooth1905-2004(Erik)
Aetiusc. 390-454(Flavius)
Alcibiadesc. 450-404 BC
Aleksandr Nevskiy1220-1263(Alexander)
Aleksandr Suvorov1730-1800(Alexander)
Alexander the Great356-323 BC
Alfred Dreyfus1859-1935
Alfred von Tirpitz1849-1930
Ambrose Burnside1824-1881
André Masséna1758-1817
Arminius18 BC-21
Arthur Harris1892-1984
Arthur Wellesley1769-1852
Attila the Hun406-453
Audie Murphy1925-1971
Belisarius500-565(Flavius)
Bernard Montgomery1887-1976
Bohdan Khmelnytsky1595-1657
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim1867-1951
Charlemagne742-814
Charles de Gaulle1890-1970(André, Joseph, Marie)
Charles Martel?-741
Chester W. Nimitz1885-1966(William)
David Farragut1801-1870
Douglas MacArthur1880-1964
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890-1969(Ike, David)
Elazar Stern1956-
Eremia Grigorescu1863-1919
Erich Ludendorff1865-1937
Erich von Manstein1887-1973
Erwin Rommel1891-1944
Prince Eugene of Savoy1663-1736
Ferdinand Foch1851-1929
Francis Drake1540-1596
Francisco Pizarroc. 1471-1541
Friedrich II the Great1712-1786(Frederick)
Gaius Julius Caesar100-44 BC
Genghis Khanc. 1162-1227(Temujin)
George Armstrong Custer1839-1876
George Dewey1837-1917
George C. Marshall1880-1959(Catlett)
George Meade1815-1872
George S. Patton1885-1945(Smith)
George Washington1732-1799
Georgy Zhukov1896-1974
Geronimo1829-1909(Goyaałé)
Giuseppe Garibaldi1807-1882
Gjergj "Skanderbeg" Kastriotic. 1405-1468(Skander)
Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus?-4xx BC
Gustav II Adolf1594-1632(Gustavus, Adolph, Adolphus)
Hamilcar Barca?-228 BC
Hannibal Barca247-c. 182 BC
Hayreddin Barbarossac. 1478-1546(Khair ad Din)
Heihachirō Tōgō1848-1934
Heinz Guderian1888-1954
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne1611-1675(Turenne)
Hernán Cortés1485-1547(Hernándo)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537-1598
Horatio Nelson1758-1805
Isoroku Yamamoto1884-1943
Ivan Konev1897-1973
Jeanne of Arc1412-1431(Joan)
John Churchill1650-1722
John Paul Jones1747-1792
John J. Pershing1860-1948(Joseph)
José de San Martín1778-1850
Josias Rowley1765-1842
Josias von Heeringen1850-1926
Karl Dönitz1891-1980
Kazimierz Pułaski1745-1779(Casimir, Michał, Władysław, Wiktor)
Khalid ibn al-Walidc. 592-642
Konstantin Rokossovsky1896-1968
Lafayette1757-1834(Gilbert)
Leonidas?-480 BC
Lucius Cornelius Sullac. 138-78 BC
Lyudmila Pavlichenko1916-1974
Maarten Tromp1598-1653
Marcus Licinius Crassusc. 115-53 BC(Crassus)
Marcus Aemilius Lepidusc. 88-c. 12 BC
Marcus Antonius83-30 BC(Mark)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippac. 63-12 BC
Matan Vilnai1944-
Matthew C. Perry1794-1858(Calbraith)
Maurice of Orange1567-1625
Maurice de Saxe1696-1750
Michel Ney1769-1815
Michiel de Ruyter1607-1676
Mikhail Kutuzov1745-1813
Miltiadesc. 550-489 BC
Muhammad570-632
Miyamoto Musashic. 1584-1645
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881-1938
Napoleon Bonaparte1769-1821
Nguyên Giáp1911-2013
Oda Nobunaga1534-1582
Oliver Cromwell1599-1658
Omar Bradley1893-1981
Orde Wingate1903-1944(Charles)
Pancho Villa1878-1923(Francisco)
Paul von Hindenburg1847-1934
Pavao Miljavac1953-2022
Pericles495-429 BC(Perikles)
Philippe Pétain1856-1951(Henri, Benoni, Omer, Joseph)
Piet Hein1577-1629
Pompey the Great106-48 BC(Gnaeus)
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus236-183 BC
Pyrrhus of Epirusc. 319-272 BC
Raymond A. Spruance1886-1969(Ames)
Robert E. Lee1807-1870(Edward)
Rodrigo "El Cid" Díaz de Vivarc. 1043-1099
Roland?-778
Rüdiger von der Goltz1865-1946(Gustav, Adolf, Joachim)
Saladinc. 1137-1193(Salah ad-Din)
Sextus Pompeius67-35 BC
Simón Bolívar1783-1830
Spartacus?-71 BC
Stansfield Turner1923-2018
Stilichoc. 359-408
Süleyman I the Magnificent1494-1566(Sulayman, Suleiman)
Tadeusz Kościuszko1746-1817(Andrzej, Bonawentura)
Themistoclesc. 524-459 BC(Themistokles)
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson1824-1863
T. E. Lawrence1888-1935(Thomas, Edward)
Timur1336-1405(Tamerlane)
Tomoyuki Yamashita1885-1946
Toussaint Louverture1743-1803
Sun Tzuc. 544-c. 496 BC(Wu)
Ulysses S. Grant1822-1885(Simpson)
Vasily Chuikov1900-1982
Vercingetorix?-46 BC
William I the Conquerorc. 1028-1087
William D. Leahy1875-1959(Daniel)
William Tecumseh Sherman1820-1891
William Wallacec. 1270-1305
Winfield Scott1786-1866