Notable Military Figures
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the military world.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miltiades | c. 550-489 BC |  | |
| Sun Tzu | c. 544-c. 496 BC | (Wu) | |
| Themistocles | c. 524-459 BC | (Themistokles) | |
| Pericles | 495-429 BC | (Perikles) | |
| Leonidas | ?-480 BC | | |
| Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus | ?-4xx BC | | |
| Alcibiades | c. 450-404 BC | | |
| Alexander the Great | 356-323 BC | | |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | c. 319-272 BC | | |
| Hannibal Barca | 247-c. 182 BC | | |
| Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus | 236-183 BC | | |
| Hamilcar Barca | ?-228 BC | | |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla | c. 138-78 BC | | |
| Marcus Licinius Crassus | c. 115-53 BC | (Crassus) | |
| Pompey the Great | 106-48 BC | (Gnaeus) | |
| Gaius Julius Caesar | 100-44 BC | | |
| Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | c. 88-c. 12 BC | | |
| Marcus Antonius | 83-30 BC | (Mark) | |
| Spartacus | ?-71 BC | | |
| Sextus Pompeius | 67-35 BC | | |
| Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa | c. 63-12 BC | | |
| Vercingetorix | ?-46 BC | | |
| Arminius | 18 BC-21 | | |
| Stilicho | c. 359-408 | | |
| Aetius | c. 390-454 | (Flavius) | |
| Attila the Hun | 406-453 | | |
| Belisarius | 500-565 | (Flavius) | |
| Muhammad | 570-632 | | |
| Khalid ibn al-Walid | c. 592-642 | | |
| Charles Martel | ?-741 | | |
| Charlemagne | 742-814 | | |
| Roland | ?-778 | | |
| William I the Conqueror | c. 1028-1087 | | |
| Rodrigo "El Cid" Díaz de Vivar | c. 1043-1099 | | |
| Saladin | c. 1137-1193 | (Salah ad-Din) | |
| Genghis Khan | c. 1162-1227 | (Temujin) | |
| Aleksandr Nevskiy | 1220-1263 | (Alexander) | |
| William Wallace | c. 1270-1305 | | |
| Timur | 1336-1405 | (Tamerlane) | |
| Gjergj "Skanderbeg" Kastrioti | c. 1405-1468 | (Skander) | |
| Jeanne of Arc | 1412-1431 | (Joan) | |
| Francisco Pizarro | c. 1471-1541 | | |
| Hayreddin Barbarossa | c. 1478-1546 | (Khair ad Din) | |
| Hernán Cortés | 1485-1547 | (Hernándo) | |
| Süleyman I the Magnificent | 1494-1566 | (Sulayman, Suleiman) | |
| Oda Nobunaga | 1534-1582 | | |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi | 1537-1598 | | |
| Francis Drake | 1540-1596 | | |
| Maurice of Orange | 1567-1625 | | |
| Piet Hein | 1577-1629 | | |
| Miyamoto Musashi | c. 1584-1645 | | |
| Gustav II Adolf | 1594-1632 | (Gustavus, Adolph, Adolphus) | |
| Bohdan Khmelnytsky | 1595-1657 | | |
| Maarten Tromp | 1598-1653 | | |
| Oliver Cromwell | 1599-1658 | | |
| Michiel de Ruyter | 1607-1676 | | |
| Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne | 1611-1675 | (Turenne) | |
| John Churchill | 1650-1722 | | |
| Prince Eugene of Savoy | 1663-1736 | | |
| Maurice de Saxe | 1696-1750 | | |
| Friedrich II the Great | 1712-1786 | (Frederick) | |
| Aleksandr Suvorov | 1730-1800 | (Alexander) | |
| George Washington | 1732-1799 | | |
| Toussaint Louverture | 1743-1803 | | |
| Kazimierz Pułaski | 1745-1779 | (Casimir, Michał, Władysław, Wiktor) | |
| Mikhail Kutuzov | 1745-1813 | | |
| Tadeusz Kościuszko | 1746-1817 | (Andrzej, Bonawentura) | |
| John Paul Jones | 1747-1792 | | |
| Lafayette | 1757-1834 | (Gilbert) | |
| André Masséna | 1758-1817 | | |
| Horatio Nelson | 1758-1805 | | |
| Josias Rowley | 1765-1842 | | |
| Michel Ney | 1769-1815 | | |
| Arthur Wellesley | 1769-1852 | | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821 | | |
| José de San Martín | 1778-1850 | | |
| Simón Bolívar | 1783-1830 | | |
| Winfield Scott | 1786-1866 | | |
| Matthew C. Perry | 1794-1858 | (Calbraith) | |
| David Farragut | 1801-1870 | | |
| Robert E. Lee | 1807-1870 | (Edward) | |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | 1807-1882 | | |
| George Meade | 1815-1872 | | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | 1820-1891 | | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1822-1885 | (Simpson) | |
| Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson | 1824-1863 | | |
| Ambrose Burnside | 1824-1881 | | |
| Geronimo | 1829-1909 | (Goyaałé) | |
| George Dewey | 1837-1917 | | |
| George Armstrong Custer | 1839-1876 | | |
| Paul von Hindenburg | 1847-1934 | | |
| Heihachirō Tōgō | 1848-1934 | | |
| Alfred von Tirpitz | 1849-1930 | | |
| Josias von Heeringen | 1850-1926 | | |
| Ferdinand Foch | 1851-1929 | | |
| Philippe Pétain | 1856-1951 | (Henri, Benoni, Omer, Joseph) | |
| Alfred Dreyfus | 1859-1935 | | |
| John J. Pershing | 1860-1948 | (Joseph) | |
| Eremia Grigorescu | 1863-1919 | | |
| Erich Ludendorff | 1865-1937 | | |
| Rüdiger von der Goltz | 1865-1946 | (Gustav, Adolf, Joachim) | |
| Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | 1867-1951 | | |
| William D. Leahy | 1875-1959 | (Daniel) | |
| Pancho Villa | 1878-1923 | (Francisco) | |
| Douglas MacArthur | 1880-1964 | | |
| George C. Marshall | 1880-1959 | (Catlett) | |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 1881-1938 | | |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | 1884-1943 | | |
| Chester W. Nimitz | 1885-1966 | (William) | |
| Tomoyuki Yamashita | 1885-1946 | | |
| George S. Patton | 1885-1945 | (Smith) | |
| Raymond A. Spruance | 1886-1969 | (Ames) | |
| Bernard Montgomery | 1887-1976 | | |
| Erich von Manstein | 1887-1973 | | |
| T. E. Lawrence | 1888-1935 | (Thomas, Edward) | |
| Heinz Guderian | 1888-1954 | | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969 | (Ike, David) | |
| Charles de Gaulle | 1890-1970 | (André, Joseph, Marie) | |
| Karl Dönitz | 1891-1980 | | |
| Erwin Rommel | 1891-1944 | | |
| Arthur Harris | 1892-1984 | | |
| Omar Bradley | 1893-1981 | | |
| Georgy Zhukov | 1896-1974 | | |
| Konstantin Rokossovsky | 1896-1968 | | |
| Ivan Konev | 1897-1973 | | |
| Vasily Chuikov | 1900-1982 | | |
| Orde Wingate | 1903-1944 | (Charles) | |
| Adolf Ehrnrooth | 1905-2004 | (Erik) | |
| Võ Nguyên Giáp | 1911-2013 | | |
| Lyudmila Pavlichenko | 1916-1974 | | |
| Stansfield Turner | 1923-2018 | | |
| Audie Murphy | 1925-1971 | | |
| Matan Vilnai | 1944- | | |
| Pavao Miljavac | 1953-2022 | | |
| Elazar Stern | 1956- | |