Notable Military Figures

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