Notable Military Figures

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the military world.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Miltiadesc. 550-489 BC
Sun Tzuc. 544-c. 496 BC(Wu)
Themistoclesc. 524-459 BC(Themistokles)
Pericles495-429 BC(Perikles)
Leonidas?-480 BC
Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus?-4xx BC
Alcibiadesc. 450-404 BC
Alexander the Great356-323 BC
Pyrrhus of Epirusc. 319-272 BC
Hannibal Barca247-c. 182 BC
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus236-183 BC
Hamilcar Barca?-228 BC
Lucius Cornelius Sullac. 138-78 BC
Marcus Licinius Crassusc. 115-53 BC(Crassus)
Pompey the Great106-48 BC(Gnaeus)
Gaius Julius Caesar100-44 BC
Marcus Aemilius Lepidusc. 88-c. 12 BC
Marcus Antonius83-30 BC(Mark)
Spartacus?-71 BC
Sextus Pompeius67-35 BC
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippac. 63-12 BC
Vercingetorix?-46 BC
Arminius18 BC-21
Stilichoc. 359-408
Aetiusc. 390-454(Flavius)
Attila the Hun406-453
Belisarius500-565(Flavius)
Muhammad570-632
Khalid ibn al-Walidc. 592-642
Charles Martel?-741
Charlemagne742-814
Roland?-778
William I the Conquerorc. 1028-1087
Rodrigo "El Cid" Díaz de Vivarc. 1043-1099
Saladinc. 1137-1193(Salah ad-Din)
Genghis Khanc. 1162-1227(Temujin)
Aleksandr Nevskiy1220-1263(Alexander)
William Wallacec. 1270-1305
Timur1336-1405(Tamerlane)
Gjergj "Skanderbeg" Kastriotic. 1405-1468(Skander)
Jeanne of Arc1412-1431(Joan)
Francisco Pizarroc. 1471-1541
Hayreddin Barbarossac. 1478-1546(Khair ad Din)
Hernán Cortés1485-1547(Hernándo)
Süleyman I the Magnificent1494-1566(Sulayman, Suleiman)
Oda Nobunaga1534-1582
Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537-1598
Francis Drake1540-1596
Maurice of Orange1567-1625
Piet Hein1577-1629
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny1582-1622(Piotr)
Miyamoto Musashic. 1584-1645
Gustav II Adolf1594-1632(Gustavus, Adolph, Adolphus)
Bohdan Khmelnytsky1595-1657
Maarten Tromp1598-1653
Oliver Cromwell1599-1658
Michiel de Ruyter1607-1676
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne1611-1675(Turenne)
Ivan Mazepa1639-1709
John Churchill1650-1722
Prince Eugene of Savoy1663-1736
Pylyp Orlyk1672-1742
Maurice de Saxe1696-1750
Friedrich II the Great1712-1786(Frederick)
Kirill Razumovsky1728-1803(Kyrylo)
Aleksandr Suvorov1730-1800(Alexander)
George Washington1732-1799
Toussaint Louverture1743-1803
Kazimierz Pułaski1745-1779(Casimir, Michał, Władysław, Wiktor)
Mikhail Kutuzov1745-1813
Tadeusz Kościuszko1746-1817(Andrzej, Bonawentura)
John Paul Jones1747-1792
Lafayette1757-1834(Gilbert)
André Masséna1758-1817
Horatio Nelson1758-1805
Josias Rowley1765-1842
Michel Ney1769-1815
Arthur Wellesley1769-1852
Napoleon Bonaparte1769-1821
José de San Martín1778-1850
Simón Bolívar1783-1830
Winfield Scott1786-1866
Matthew C. Perry1794-1858(Calbraith)
David Farragut1801-1870
Robert E. Lee1807-1870(Edward)
Giuseppe Garibaldi1807-1882
George Meade1815-1872
William Tecumseh Sherman1820-1891
Ulysses S. Grant1822-1885(Simpson)
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson1824-1863
Ambrose Burnside1824-1881
Geronimo1829-1909(Goyaałé)
George Dewey1837-1917
George Armstrong Custer1839-1876
Paul von Hindenburg1847-1934
Heihachirō Tōgō1848-1934
Alfred von Tirpitz1849-1930
Josias von Heeringen1850-1926
Ferdinand Foch1851-1929
Philippe Pétain1856-1951(Henri, Benoni, Omer, Joseph)
Alfred Dreyfus1859-1935
John J. Pershing1860-1948(Joseph)
Eremia Grigorescu1863-1919
Erich Ludendorff1865-1937
Rüdiger von der Goltz1865-1946(Gustav, Adolf, Joachim)
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim1867-1951
Alexander Kolchak1874-1920(Aleksandr)
William D. Leahy1875-1959(Daniel)
Pancho Villa1878-1923(Francisco)
Symon Petliura1879-1926
Douglas MacArthur1880-1964
George C. Marshall1880-1959(Catlett)
Kliment Voroshilov1881-1969
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881-1938
Isoroku Yamamoto1884-1943
Mikhail Frunze1885-1925(Mihail, Sergei)
Chester W. Nimitz1885-1966(William)
Tomoyuki Yamashita1885-1946
George S. Patton1885-1945(Smith)
Raymond A. Spruance1886-1969(Ames)
Bernard Montgomery1887-1976
Erich von Manstein1887-1973
T. E. Lawrence1888-1935(Thomas, Edward)
Nestor Makhno1888-1934
Heinz Guderian1888-1954
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890-1969(Ike, David)
Charles de Gaulle1890-1970(André, Joseph, Marie)
Andriy Melnyk1890-1964
Yevhen Konovalets1891-1938
Karl Dönitz1891-1980
Erwin Rommel1891-1944
Arthur Harris1892-1984
Omar Bradley1893-1981
Georgy Zhukov1896-1974
Konstantin Rokossovsky1896-1968
Ivan Konev1897-1973
Vasily Chuikov1900-1982
Orde Wingate1903-1944(Charles)
Adolf Ehrnrooth1905-2004(Erik)
Simo Häyhä1905-2002
Roman Shukhevych1907-1950(Taras)
Stepan Bandera1909-1959
Võ Nguyên Giáp1911-2013
Lyudmila Pavlichenko1916-1974
Ivan Kozhedub1920-1991
Vasily Stalin1921-1962(Vasiliy)
Stansfield Turner1923-2018
Audie Murphy1925-1971
Matan Vilnai1944-
Pavao Miljavac1953-2022
Elazar Stern1956-
Yevgeny Prigozhin1961-2023(Yevgeniy)
Shamil Basayev1965-2006(Salman Voj, Idris)
Oleksandr Syrskyi1965-
Dmitry Utkin1970-2023
Valerii Zaluzhnyi1973-(Valeriy)
Andriy Biletskyy1979-
Denys Prokopenko1991-