Notable Military Figures

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the military world.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Gaius Julius Caesar100-44 BC
Muhammad570-632
Alexander the Great356-323 BC
Napoleon Bonaparte1769-1821
George Washington1732-1799
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881-1938
Genghis Khanc. 1162-1227(Temujin)
Charlemagne742-814
Jeanne of Arc1412-1431(Joan)
Charles de Gaulle1890-1970(André, Joseph, Marie)
Hernán Cortés1485-1547(Hernándo)
Simón Bolívar1783-1830
Saladinc. 1137-1193(Salah ad-Din)
Timur1336-1405(Tamerlane)
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890-1969(Ike, David)
Süleyman I the Magnificent1494-1566(Sulayman, Suleiman)
Ulysses S. Grant1822-1885(Simpson)
Hannibal Barca247-c. 182 BC
Francis Drake1540-1596
Sun Tzuc. 544-c. 496 BC(Wu)
Attila the Hun406-453
William I the Conquerorc. 1028-1087
Giuseppe Garibaldi1807-1882
Oliver Cromwell1599-1658
Pericles495-429 BC(Perikles)
Marcus Antonius83-30 BC(Mark)
Francisco Pizarroc. 1471-1541
Pompey the Great106-48 BC(Gnaeus)
Friedrich II the Great1712-1786(Frederick)
Spartacus?-71 BC
William Wallacec. 1270-1305
Charles Martel?-741
Horatio Nelson1758-1805
Erwin Rommel1891-1944
Arthur Wellesley1769-1852
Gustav II Adolf1594-1632(Gustavus, Adolph, Adolphus)
Gjergj "Skanderbeg" Kastriotic. 1405-1468(Skander)
José de San Martín1778-1850
Georgy Zhukov1896-1974
Arminius18 BC-21
Leonidas?-480 BC
Rodrigo "El Cid" Díaz de Vivarc. 1043-1099
Paul von Hindenburg1847-1934
Oda Nobunaga1534-1582
Aleksandr Nevskiy1220-1263(Alexander)
Miyamoto Musashic. 1584-1645
Douglas MacArthur1880-1964
George C. Marshall1880-1959(Catlett)
Philippe Pétain1856-1951(Henri, Benoni, Omer, Joseph)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537-1598
Marcus Licinius Crassusc. 115-53 BC(Crassus)
T. E. Lawrence1888-1935(Thomas, Edward)
Lucius Cornelius Sullac. 138-78 BC
Pyrrhus of Epirusc. 319-272 BC
Robert E. Lee1807-1870(Edward)
Alcibiadesc. 450-404 BC
Themistoclesc. 524-459 BC(Themistokles)
Karl Dönitz1891-1980
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus236-183 BC
Vercingetorix?-46 BC
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim1867-1951
Aleksandr Suvorov1730-1800(Alexander)
Aetiusc. 390-454(Flavius)
Khalid ibn al-Walidc. 592-642
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippac. 63-12 BC
Bohdan Khmelnytsky1595-1657
Bernard Montgomery1887-1976
Võ Nguyên Giáp1911-2013
Belisarius500-565(Flavius)
Hayreddin Barbarossac. 1478-1546(Khair ad Din)
Prince Eugene of Savoy1663-1736
Alexander Kolchak1874-1920(Aleksandr)
Geronimo1829-1909(Goyaałé)
Lafayette1757-1834(Gilbert)
Mikhail Kutuzov1745-1813
Alfred Dreyfus1859-1935
Nestor Makhno1888-1934
Stepan Bandera1909-1959
Pancho Villa1878-1923(Francisco)
Yevgeny Prigozhin1961-2023(Yevgeniy)
Ivan Mazepa1639-1709
Tadeusz Kościuszko1746-1817(Andrzej, Bonawentura)
Roland?-778
Isoroku Yamamoto1884-1943
Heinz Guderian1888-1954
Kliment Voroshilov1881-1969
Toussaint Louverture1743-1803
Hamilcar Barca?-228 BC
Stilichoc. 359-408
Erich Ludendorff1865-1937
Chester W. Nimitz1885-1966(William)
Konstantin Rokossovsky1896-1968
Erich von Manstein1887-1973
Ferdinand Foch1851-1929
George S. Patton1885-1945(Smith)
John Churchill1650-1722
Michel Ney1769-1815
Marcus Aemilius Lepidusc. 88-c. 12 BC
George Armstrong Custer1839-1876
Ivan Konev1897-1973
Mikhail Frunze1885-1925(Mihail, Sergei)
Miltiadesc. 550-489 BC
Symon Petliura1879-1926
William Tecumseh Sherman1820-1891
Simo Häyhä1905-2002
Maurice of Orange1567-1625
John J. Pershing1860-1948(Joseph)
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson1824-1863
André Masséna1758-1817
Lyudmila Pavlichenko1916-1974
Vasily Chuikov1900-1982
Omar Bradley1893-1981
Shamil Basayev1965-2006(Salman Voj, Idris)
David Farragut1801-1870
Maurice de Saxe1696-1750
Heihachirō Tōgō1848-1934
Sextus Pompeius67-35 BC
Alfred von Tirpitz1849-1930
Valerii Zaluzhnyi1973-(Valeriy)
Matthew C. Perry1794-1858(Calbraith)
Michiel de Ruyter1607-1676
Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus?-4xx BC
Tomoyuki Yamashita1885-1946
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne1611-1675(Turenne)
Audie Murphy1925-1971
George Meade1815-1872
Ivan Kozhedub1920-1991
John Paul Jones1747-1792
Winfield Scott1786-1866
Vasily Stalin1921-1962(Vasiliy)
Ambrose Burnside1824-1881
Oleksandr Syrskyi1965-
Kazimierz Pułaski1745-1779(Casimir, Michał, Władysław, Wiktor)
Raymond A. Spruance1886-1969(Ames)
Dmitry Utkin1970-2023
Arthur Harris1892-1984
Piet Hein1577-1629
George Dewey1837-1917
Zakhar Prilepin1975-
Roman Shukhevych1907-1950(Taras)
Maarten Tromp1598-1653
William D. Leahy1875-1959(Daniel)
Rüdiger von der Goltz1865-1946(Gustav, Adolf, Joachim)
Yevhen Konovalets1891-1938
Pylyp Orlyk1672-1742
Josias von Heeringen1850-1926
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny1582-1622(Piotr)
Orde Wingate1903-1944(Charles)
Andriy Melnyk1890-1964
Kirill Razumovsky1728-1803(Kyrylo)
Denys Prokopenko1991-
Adolf Ehrnrooth1905-2004(Erik)
Andriy Biletskyy1979-
Stansfield Turner1923-2018
Matan Vilnai1944-
Eremia Grigorescu1863-1919
Josias Rowley1765-1842
Elazar Stern1956-
Pavao Miljavac1953-2022