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Antiquity
- Thutmose I (d. 1492 BC), conqueror of the Hyksos tribe in the Nile-Delta and Nubia (present day Sudan)
- Thutmose III (d. 1425 BC), "Napoleon" of Egypt, conquering large territories in the Middle-East until the Euphrates river and Nubia
- Ramesses II (1302 BC–1213 BC), he conquered Nubia, until the 1st cataract and waged campaigns in the Near-East (present-day Israel, Palestine and Syria)
- Merneptah (d. 1203 BC), son of Ramesses II, he waged war in the Levant and the eastern Libya
- Joshua (circa 1200 BC), led Hebrew forces against Amalek and Canaan.
- David (d. 965 BC), conquered an empire from Homs to Eilat
- Judah Maccabee (d. 160 BC), leader of Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire
- Jonathan Maccabeus (d. 143 BC)
- Simon Maccabeus (d. 132 BC), took part in the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire led by his brothers. First prince of the Hasmonean Dynasty
- Simon Bar Kokhba (d. 135 AC), leader of the second Jewish rebellion against Rome
- Sun Tzu (ca 6th century BC), Chinese general in the Ages of the Warring States and author of "The Art of War"
- Zhuge Liang (Chinese military strategist during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Qin Shi Huang (First emperor of the Qin)
- Xiang Yu (Chinese general during the fall of the Qin)
- Meng Yi (Chinese general of the Qin)
- Guan Yu (Chinese general during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Lu Bu (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Cao Cao (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Sun Quan (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Zhao Yun (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Wang Mang (General and rebel during the Han)
- Samudragupta ( King of India )
- Ashoka (Emperor of India)
- Cyrus the Great (590 BC–529 BC), king of Persia who conquered Babylon
- Darius I of Persia (549 BC–486 BC), conquered all the territories between Asia Minor, north Greece and the Danube
- Xerxes I of Persia (519 BC–465 BC), conqueror of several Greek cities, including the (then) mighty Athens
- Artaphernes, persian general, brother of Darius I
- Surena (Parthian general)
- Miltiades (550 BC–489 BC), athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Callimachus, athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Themistocles (525 BC–460 BC), athenian admiral during the Persian Wars
- Leonidas (d. 480 BC), Spartan king and general during the Persian Wars
- Eurybiades, spartan general during the Persian Wars
- Pausanias (Spartan general during the Persian Wars)
- Mardonius (Persian general during the Persian Wars)
- Cimon (Athenian general)
- Callias (Athenian general)
- Pericles (Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Demosthenes (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Cleon (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Nicias (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thucydides (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Brasidas (Spartan general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Alcibiades (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Phormio (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thrasybulus (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Lycophron (Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesain War)
- Xenophon – Elected Commander of the Ten Thousand
- Epaminondas (Theban general)
- Philip II of Macedon (Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
- Ptolemy I Soter, One of Alexander the Great's generals, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, he was the first king
- Demetrius I of Bactria, a Greek-born king who conquered much of what is now Iran, Pakistan and northern India. He was nicknamed "The Invincible"
- Memnon (Greek mercenary in Persian service)
- Pyrrhus of Epirus (King of Epirus who invaded Italy)
- Hamilcar Barca, (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the First Punic War)
- Hannibal Barca (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the Second Punic War)
- Hasdrubal Barca, son of Hamilcar Barca and brother to Hannibal, at first, he stayed in Hispania to repell any Roman invaders. Later on, he followed his brother to Italy. He's sometimes called the 2nd Hannibal
- Fabius Maximus (275 BC–203 BC), roman general
- Scipio Africanus (Scipio Africanus Major) (235 BC–183 BC), defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in Second Punic War)
- Scipio Asiaticus (2nd century BC), he was a brother of Scipio Africanus Maior, he got his nickname "Asiaticus" when he defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228 BC–174 BC), roman general
- Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Scipio Africanus Minor) (185 BC–129 BC), adopted grandson of Scipio Africanus, he was active during the Third Punic War
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (d. 115 BC), roman Consul, conqueror of Macedon
- Gaius Marius (157 BC–86 BC), roman general, reorganized the Roman Legion
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BC–78 BC), roman general and dictator
- Quintus Sertorius (122 BC–72 BC), roman general
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 BC–48 BC), roman general
- Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), roman military leader and dictator
- Vercingetorix (72 BC–46 BC), gallic warlord who led a rebellion against Rome
- Augustus Caesar (63 BC–14 AD), the first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar
- Marcus Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC), roman general serving Augustus)
- Arminius (16 BC–21 AD), war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci
- Trajan (53–117), Roman Emperor
- Stilicho (359–408), also a late Roman general
- Alaric I (375–410), gothic King, sacked Rome
- Aëtius (396–454), roman general, defeated Attila
- Attila the Hun (406–453), king of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God"
Middle ages
- Muhammad (Prophet of Islam)
- Umar ibn al Khattab (Second Caliph of Islam)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (Fourth Caliph of Islam)
- Tariq ibn Ziyad (Berber General at the Battle of Guadalete)
- Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
- Clovis (First Christian King of the Franks)
- Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
- Ulji Moonduk (Korean General)
- Yang Man-chun (Korean General)
- Kim Yu-shin (Korean General)
- Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
- Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor)
- King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
- Wang Geon (King of Korea)
- General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
- Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
- Mundus (another general under Justinian)
- Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl Toltec leader and conqueror
- Basil II Byzantine emperor
- Basil Boiannes (Byzantine general and catapan of Italy)
- George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
- Nicephorus Botaniates (11th century Byzantine general, later emperor)
- Nicephorus Bryennius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Taticius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Roussel de Bailleul (Norman mercenary in Byzantine service)
- Robert Guiscard (Norman conqueror of Naples and S. Sicily)
- Godfrey of Bouillon (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Boulogne (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Bourcq (leader of the First Crusade)
- Bohemond of Taranto (leader of the First Crusade)
- Tancred (leader of the First Crusade)
- Raymond IV of Toulouse (leader of the First Crusade)
- Stephen, Count of Blois (leader of the First Crusade)
- Hughes de Payens (founder of the Knights Templar)
- George of Antioch (Sicilian admiral)
- Robert of Selby (Anglo-Norman general in the service of Sicily)
- Michael Palaeologus (Byzantine general)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader)
- Raymond III of Tripoli (Crusader general)
- Raynald of Chatillon (Crusader general)
- Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar)
- Jobert of Syria (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Roger de Moulins (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
- al-Afdal Shahanshah (Fatimid vizier)
- Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
- Yoon Gwan (Korean General)
- Boniface of Montferrat (leader of the Fourth Crusade)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (leader of the Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade)
- Hermann of Salza (Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)
- Yi Seong-gye (Emperor of Korea)
- Yi Sun-shin (Korean Admiral)
- Kwon Yul (Marshal of Korea)
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Japanese general whose decisive victories brought down the Taira clan during the Gempei War)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japanese general, he seized control over Japan after the death of Oda Nobunaga)
- John III Sobieski (King of Poland Savior of Vienna and Western European civilization)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (daimyo, the first to unite the whole Japan and a founder of a shogunate that lasted over 250 years)
- Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Ögedei Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Subutai Bahadur (General and childhood friend of Genghis Khan)
- Batu Khan (Mongolian conqueror)
- Tran Hung Dao (Vietnamese Grand General, under his guidance, Vietnamese defeated the Mongols twice)
- Kublai Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols, conqueror of China)
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- Wolter von Plettenberg (Master of the Livonian Order)
- Edward I of England (known as the Hammer of the Scots)
- William Wallace (Scottish Knight and freedom fighter)
- Robert the Bruce (Scottish King and freedom fighter)
- Khair ad Din (Also known as Barbarossa, an Admiral in the Ottoman Empire)
- Khalid ibn al-Walid (Muslim Arab soldier and general, undfeated throughout his career)
- Louis IX of France (leader of the Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade)
- Edward III of England (English King in the Hundred Years' War)
- Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
- Scanderbeg Albanian prince and general against the Ottoman encroachement in Europe 1443-1468
- Stephen the Great Moldavia ruler
- Mehmed II the Conqueror (Ottoman Sultan, conquered Constantinople in 1453)
- Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier during the reign of Suleiman and Selim II)
- Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of theCatholic Church)
- El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
- Tamerlane (Timur Lenk, Mongol-Turk conqueror)
- King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
- Jan Zizka (Commander of Taborite Army in Bohemia's Hussite Wars)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)
- Alp Arslan (Sultan of the Seljuk Empire)
- Don John of Austria (Spanish admiral)
- Lapu-Lapu (Datu in Mactan Island, Phils.)
Early Modern Era
- Nadir Shah, Iran
- Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador)
- Konstanty Ostrogski
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)
- Shivaji (Ruler of the Maratha empire)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (English Admiral under Queen Elizabeth I)
- Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca)
- Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
- Louis II de Condé
- Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
- Koxinga (Ming general, took over Taiwan)
- Jan Sobieski
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (Austria)
- Maurice, comte de Saxe (France)
- Oliver Cromwell (English Civil War)
- Albrecht von Wallenstein (general in the Thirty Years' War)
- Johan t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly(general in the Thirty Year's War)
- Louis of Nassau, brother of William the Silent commander in the Eighty Years' War
- Charles de Héraugière, the Eighty Years' War commander of a special force, which conquered Breda in a "Trojan Horse" action.
- Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe for the Dutch Republic
- Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, overall commander of the Dutch forces (Captain and Admiral-General) in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange,Stadtholder, military commander in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Hendrik Casimir I van Nassau-Dietz, military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein, vice-admiral and admiral during the Eighty Years' War
- Maarten Tromp, Admiral during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
- Michiel de Ruyter, The Netherlands (admiral in the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War
- Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (Austria)
- Duke of Marlborough (War of the Spanish Succession)
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
- Alexander Menshikov
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Peter Rumyantsev
- Alexander Suvorov
- Feodor Ushakov
- George Washington
- John Stark (Victor at the Battle of Bennington)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
- * Jean Baptiste Bessieres
- * Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
- * Joachim Murat
- * Louis Nicolas Davout
- * Louis Alexandre Berthier
- * Michel Ney
- * Jean Lannes
- * Auguste Marmont
- * Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- * Nicolas Oudinot
- * Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
- * Guillaume Brune
- * Jean Baptiste Jourdan
- * André Masséna
- * Louis Gabriel Suchet
- Jose de San Martin (Argentine General. Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
- Isaac Brock (British major general in Canada during War of 1812)
- François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie
- Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Peter Wittgenstein
- Petr Bagration
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (Russian Field Marshal)
- Andres Bonifacio (Katipunero)
- Shaka (Changed the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation)
- Sir George Howard (UK)
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (Caucasian wars)
- Simón Bolívar (South American nationalist and general)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (South American and Italian independence wars general)
- Zuo Zongtang (Chinese general)
- Zeng Guofan (Chinese military commander)
- Li Hongzhang (Chinese general)
- Winfield Scott (Mexican-American War)
- P.G.T. Beauregard (US Civil War)
- Robert E. Lee (US Civil War)
- Ulysses S. Grant (US Civil War)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (US Civil War)
- William Tecumseh Sherman (US Civil War)
- George McClellan (US Civil War)
- A.E. Burnside (US Civil War)
- Beverly Robertson (US Civil War)
- Braxton Bragg (US Civil War)
- Joseph E. Johnston (US Civil War)
- Henry Jackson Hunt (US Civil War)
- Phillip H. Sheridan (US Civil War)
- James Longstreet (US Civil War)
- Joseph Gilbert Totten (US Civil War)
- Thomas Franics Meagher (US Civil War)
- Sir Harry Smith (UK)
- Pavel Nakhimov (Crimean War)
- Mikhail Skobelev (Central Asian wars)
- Joseph Gurko (Bulgarian war)
- Pancho Villa
- Horatio Kitchener
- Yuan Shikai (China)
- Yamagata Aritomo (Japan)
- Kemal Atatürk (Balkan Wars, WWI Turkey)
- Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
- Aleksei Brusilov (WWI Russia)
- Ferdinand Foch (WWI France)
- Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany)
- Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (WWI Germany Never Defeated lead campaign in East Africa)
- Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)
- John Monash (WW1 Australia)
- Arthur Currie (WWI Canada)
- John J. Pershing (WWI US)
- Erich von Falkenhayn (WWI Germany)
- William S. Harney (US)
- Sterling Price (US Civil War)
- Hermann von François (German general, World War I)
- Helmuth von Moltke (Prussian/German general, Franco-Prussian War)
- Patrice MacMahon (Marshal of France, Franco-Prussian War)
- Michael Collins (Irish War of Independence)
- Emilio Aguinaldo (First Philippine President, Philippine-Spanish War)
- Macario Sakay (Filipino General;80 years of rebellion against Spain)
- Gabriela Silang (Filipina Revolutionary Leader)
- Baibars (Mamluke General)
World War 2 - 1990
- Abraham Adan (1947-1973 Israel)
- Harold Alexander (WWII UK)
- Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK)
- Harvey Ball (WWII US)
- Lin Biao (WWII China)
- Thomas Blamey (WWII Australia)
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (WWII US)
- Omar Bradley (WWII US)
- Adrian Carton De Wiart (WWII UK)
- Fidel Castro (1950s Cuba)
- Vasily Chuikov (WWII Soviet Union)
- Mark Clark (WWII US)
- Michael O'Moore Creagh (WWII UK)
- Walther Model (WWII Germany)
- Henry Duncan Graham Crerar (Canada's leading general during WWII)
- Alan Gordon Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Andrew Brown Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Moshe Dayan (Israel)
- Peng Dehuai(WWII, Chinese Civil War and Korean War, China)
- Miles Dempsey (WWII UK)
- Petre Dumitrescu (WWII Romania)
- Zhu De (Chinese communist revolutionary leader)
- Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
- Simon Fraser (WWII UK)
- Bernard Freyberg (WWI WWII NZ)
- Hermann Goering(WWI WWII Germany)
- William Gott (WWII UK)
- Vo Nguyen Giap (North Vietnam)
- Che Guevara (1950s Cuba)
- Rodolfo Graziani (WWII Italy)
- Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
- Brian Horrocks (WWII UK)
- Albert Kesselring (WWII Germany)
- Ivan Konev (WWII Soviet Union)
- Walter Krueger (WWII US)
- Oliver Leese (WWII UK)
- Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
- Sam Manekshaw (Indo-Pak War 1971, India)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Winter War and WWII Finland)
- Mitsuru Ushijima (WWII Japan)
- Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
- Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
- Louis Mountbatten (WWII UK)
- Omar Mukhtar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians in WWII)
- Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (WWII Japan)
- Chester Nimitz (WWII US Navy)
- Richard O'Connor (WWII UK)
- George Patton (WWII US)
- Friedrich Paulus (WWII Germany)
- "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
- Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
- Fidel Ramos (Korean War)
- Matthew B. Ridgway (WWII and Korea, US)
- Neil Ritchie (WWII UK)
- Konstantin Rokossovsky (WWII Sovet Union)
- Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
- Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
- Erich von Manstein (WWII Germany)
- Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
- Arjan Singh (India)
- William Slim (WWII UK)
- Ariel Sharon (Israel)
- Alfred Schlemm (WWII Germany)
- Raymond Spruance (WWII US)
- Kurt Student (WWII Germany)
- Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky (WWII Soviet Union)
- Archibald Wavell (WWII UK)
- William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
- Sandy Woodward (Falklands War)
- Nikolai Vatutin (WWII Soviet Union)
- Kliment Voroshilov (Winter War and WWII)
- Yamamoto Isoroku (WWII Japan)
- Chen Yi(WWII China )
- Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
- Georgy Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)
After 1990
- Peter de la Billiere (Gulf War UK)
- Colin Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gulf War US)
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
- Roméo Dallaire - Canadian Force Commander of UNAMIR who tried to stop the Rwandan Genocide
- Subcomandante Marcos leader of the Zapatista Rebellion
- Wesley Clark NATO Supreme Commander
- Tommy Franks Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command - 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Mike Jackson Chief Of Staff of the British Army
- Peter John Cosgrove Led the international forces (INTERFET) in a peace keeping role in East Timor
- Mullah Omar led Taliban forces against U.S. and Northern Alliance.
See also
- Joshua (circa 1200 BC), led Hebrew forces against Amalek and Canaan.
- David (d. 965 BC), conquered an empire from Homs to Eilat
- Judah Maccabee (d. 160 BC), leader of Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire
- Jonathan Maccabeus (d. 143 BC)
- Simon Maccabeus (d. 132 BC), took part in the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire led by his brothers. First prince of the Hasmonean Dynasty
- Simon Bar Kokhba (d. 135 AC), leader of the second Jewish rebellion against Rome
- Sun Tzu (ca 6th century BC), Chinese general in the Ages of the Warring States and author of "The Art of War"
- Zhuge Liang (Chinese military strategist during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Qin Shi Huang (First emperor of the Qin)
- Xiang Yu (Chinese general during the fall of the Qin)
- Meng Yi (Chinese general of the Qin)
- Guan Yu (Chinese general during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Lu Bu (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Cao Cao (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Sun Quan (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Zhao Yun (Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms era)
- Wang Mang (General and rebel during the Han)
- Samudragupta ( King of India )
- Ashoka (Emperor of India)
- Cyrus the Great (590 BC–529 BC), king of Persia who conquered Babylon
- Darius I of Persia (549 BC–486 BC), conquered all the territories between Asia Minor, north Greece and the Danube
- Xerxes I of Persia (519 BC–465 BC), conqueror of several Greek cities, including the (then) mighty Athens
- Artaphernes, persian general, brother of Darius I
- Surena (Parthian general)
- Miltiades (550 BC–489 BC), athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Callimachus, athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Themistocles (525 BC–460 BC), athenian admiral during the Persian Wars
- Leonidas (d. 480 BC), Spartan king and general during the Persian Wars
- Eurybiades, spartan general during the Persian Wars
- Pausanias (Spartan general during the Persian Wars)
- Mardonius (Persian general during the Persian Wars)
- Cimon (Athenian general)
- Callias (Athenian general)
- Pericles (Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Demosthenes (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Cleon (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Nicias (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thucydides (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Brasidas (Spartan general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Alcibiades (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Phormio (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thrasybulus (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Lycophron (Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesain War)
- Xenophon – Elected Commander of the Ten Thousand
- Epaminondas (Theban general)
- Philip II of Macedon (Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
- Ptolemy I Soter, One of Alexander the Great's generals, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, he was the first king
- Demetrius I of Bactria, a Greek-born king who conquered much of what is now Iran, Pakistan and northern India. He was nicknamed "The Invincible"
- Memnon (Greek mercenary in Persian service)
- Pyrrhus of Epirus (King of Epirus who invaded Italy)
- Hamilcar Barca, (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the First Punic War)
- Hannibal Barca (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the Second Punic War)
- Hasdrubal Barca, son of Hamilcar Barca and brother to Hannibal, at first, he stayed in Hispania to repell any Roman invaders. Later on, he followed his brother to Italy. He's sometimes called the 2nd Hannibal
- Fabius Maximus (275 BC–203 BC), roman general
- Scipio Africanus (Scipio Africanus Major) (235 BC–183 BC), defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in Second Punic War)
- Scipio Asiaticus (2nd century BC), he was a brother of Scipio Africanus Maior, he got his nickname "Asiaticus" when he defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228 BC–174 BC), roman general
- Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Scipio Africanus Minor) (185 BC–129 BC), adopted grandson of Scipio Africanus, he was active during the Third Punic War
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (d. 115 BC), roman Consul, conqueror of Macedon
- Gaius Marius (157 BC–86 BC), roman general, reorganized the Roman Legion
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BC–78 BC), roman general and dictator
- Quintus Sertorius (122 BC–72 BC), roman general
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 BC–48 BC), roman general
- Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), roman military leader and dictator
- Vercingetorix (72 BC–46 BC), gallic warlord who led a rebellion against Rome
- Augustus Caesar (63 BC–14 AD), the first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar
- Marcus Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC), roman general serving Augustus)
- Arminius (16 BC–21 AD), war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci
- Trajan (53–117), Roman Emperor
- Stilicho (359–408), also a late Roman general
- Alaric I (375–410), gothic King, sacked Rome
- Aëtius (396–454), roman general, defeated Attila
- Attila the Hun (406–453), king of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God"
Middle ages
- Muhammad (Prophet of Islam)
- Umar ibn al Khattab (Second Caliph of Islam)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (Fourth Caliph of Islam)
- Tariq ibn Ziyad (Berber General at the Battle of Guadalete)
- Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
- Clovis (First Christian King of the Franks)
- Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
- Ulji Moonduk (Korean General)
- Yang Man-chun (Korean General)
- Kim Yu-shin (Korean General)
- Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
- Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor)
- King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
- Wang Geon (King of Korea)
- General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
- Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
- Mundus (another general under Justinian)
- Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl Toltec leader and conqueror
- Basil II Byzantine emperor
- Basil Boiannes (Byzantine general and catapan of Italy)
- George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
- Nicephorus Botaniates (11th century Byzantine general, later emperor)
- Nicephorus Bryennius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Taticius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Roussel de Bailleul (Norman mercenary in Byzantine service)
- Robert Guiscard (Norman conqueror of Naples and S. Sicily)
- Godfrey of Bouillon (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Boulogne (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Bourcq (leader of the First Crusade)
- Bohemond of Taranto (leader of the First Crusade)
- Tancred (leader of the First Crusade)
- Raymond IV of Toulouse (leader of the First Crusade)
- Stephen, Count of Blois (leader of the First Crusade)
- Hughes de Payens (founder of the Knights Templar)
- George of Antioch (Sicilian admiral)
- Robert of Selby (Anglo-Norman general in the service of Sicily)
- Michael Palaeologus (Byzantine general)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader)
- Raymond III of Tripoli (Crusader general)
- Raynald of Chatillon (Crusader general)
- Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar)
- Jobert of Syria (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Roger de Moulins (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
- al-Afdal Shahanshah (Fatimid vizier)
- Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
- Yoon Gwan (Korean General)
- Boniface of Montferrat (leader of the Fourth Crusade)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (leader of the Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade)
- Hermann of Salza (Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)
- Yi Seong-gye (Emperor of Korea)
- Yi Sun-shin (Korean Admiral)
- Kwon Yul (Marshal of Korea)
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Japanese general whose decisive victories brought down the Taira clan during the Gempei War)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japanese general, he seized control over Japan after the death of Oda Nobunaga)
- John III Sobieski (King of Poland Savior of Vienna and Western European civilization)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (daimyo, the first to unite the whole Japan and a founder of a shogunate that lasted over 250 years)
- Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Ögedei Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Subutai Bahadur (General and childhood friend of Genghis Khan)
- Batu Khan (Mongolian conqueror)
- Tran Hung Dao (Vietnamese Grand General, under his guidance, Vietnamese defeated the Mongols twice)
- Kublai Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols, conqueror of China)
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- Wolter von Plettenberg (Master of the Livonian Order)
- Edward I of England (known as the Hammer of the Scots)
- William Wallace (Scottish Knight and freedom fighter)
- Robert the Bruce (Scottish King and freedom fighter)
- Khair ad Din (Also known as Barbarossa, an Admiral in the Ottoman Empire)
- Khalid ibn al-Walid (Muslim Arab soldier and general, undfeated throughout his career)
- Louis IX of France (leader of the Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade)
- Edward III of England (English King in the Hundred Years' War)
- Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
- Scanderbeg Albanian prince and general against the Ottoman encroachement in Europe 1443-1468
- Stephen the Great Moldavia ruler
- Mehmed II the Conqueror (Ottoman Sultan, conquered Constantinople in 1453)
- Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier during the reign of Suleiman and Selim II)
- Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of theCatholic Church)
- El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
- Tamerlane (Timur Lenk, Mongol-Turk conqueror)
- King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
- Jan Zizka (Commander of Taborite Army in Bohemia's Hussite Wars)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)
- Alp Arslan (Sultan of the Seljuk Empire)
- Don John of Austria (Spanish admiral)
- Lapu-Lapu (Datu in Mactan Island, Phils.)
Early Modern Era
- Nadir Shah, Iran
- Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador)
- Konstanty Ostrogski
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)
- Shivaji (Ruler of the Maratha empire)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (English Admiral under Queen Elizabeth I)
- Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca)
- Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
- Louis II de Condé
- Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
- Koxinga (Ming general, took over Taiwan)
- Jan Sobieski
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (Austria)
- Maurice, comte de Saxe (France)
- Oliver Cromwell (English Civil War)
- Albrecht von Wallenstein (general in the Thirty Years' War)
- Johan t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly(general in the Thirty Year's War)
- Louis of Nassau, brother of William the Silent commander in the Eighty Years' War
- Charles de Héraugière, the Eighty Years' War commander of a special force, which conquered Breda in a "Trojan Horse" action.
- Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe for the Dutch Republic
- Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, overall commander of the Dutch forces (Captain and Admiral-General) in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange,Stadtholder, military commander in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Hendrik Casimir I van Nassau-Dietz, military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein, vice-admiral and admiral during the Eighty Years' War
- Maarten Tromp, Admiral during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
- Michiel de Ruyter, The Netherlands (admiral in the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War
- Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (Austria)
- Duke of Marlborough (War of the Spanish Succession)
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
- Alexander Menshikov
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Peter Rumyantsev
- Alexander Suvorov
- Feodor Ushakov
- George Washington
- John Stark (Victor at the Battle of Bennington)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
- * Jean Baptiste Bessieres
- * Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
- * Joachim Murat
- * Louis Nicolas Davout
- * Louis Alexandre Berthier
- * Michel Ney
- * Jean Lannes
- * Auguste Marmont
- * Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- * Nicolas Oudinot
- * Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
- * Guillaume Brune
- * Jean Baptiste Jourdan
- * André Masséna
- * Louis Gabriel Suchet
- Jose de San Martin (Argentine General. Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
- Isaac Brock (British major general in Canada during War of 1812)
- François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie
- Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Peter Wittgenstein
- Petr Bagration
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (Russian Field Marshal)
- Andres Bonifacio (Katipunero)
- Shaka (Changed the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation)
- Sir George Howard (UK)
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (Caucasian wars)
- Simón Bolívar (South American nationalist and general)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (South American and Italian independence wars general)
- Zuo Zongtang (Chinese general)
- Zeng Guofan (Chinese military commander)
- Li Hongzhang (Chinese general)
- Winfield Scott (Mexican-American War)
- P.G.T. Beauregard (US Civil War)
- Robert E. Lee (US Civil War)
- Ulysses S. Grant (US Civil War)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (US Civil War)
- William Tecumseh Sherman (US Civil War)
- George McClellan (US Civil War)
- A.E. Burnside (US Civil War)
- Beverly Robertson (US Civil War)
- Braxton Bragg (US Civil War)
- Joseph E. Johnston (US Civil War)
- Henry Jackson Hunt (US Civil War)
- Phillip H. Sheridan (US Civil War)
- James Longstreet (US Civil War)
- Joseph Gilbert Totten (US Civil War)
- Thomas Franics Meagher (US Civil War)
- Sir Harry Smith (UK)
- Pavel Nakhimov (Crimean War)
- Mikhail Skobelev (Central Asian wars)
- Joseph Gurko (Bulgarian war)
- Pancho Villa
- Horatio Kitchener
- Yuan Shikai (China)
- Yamagata Aritomo (Japan)
- Kemal Atatürk (Balkan Wars, WWI Turkey)
- Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
- Aleksei Brusilov (WWI Russia)
- Ferdinand Foch (WWI France)
- Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany)
- Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (WWI Germany Never Defeated lead campaign in East Africa)
- Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)
- John Monash (WW1 Australia)
- Arthur Currie (WWI Canada)
- John J. Pershing (WWI US)
- Erich von Falkenhayn (WWI Germany)
- William S. Harney (US)
- Sterling Price (US Civil War)
- Hermann von François (German general, World War I)
- Helmuth von Moltke (Prussian/German general, Franco-Prussian War)
- Patrice MacMahon (Marshal of France, Franco-Prussian War)
- Michael Collins (Irish War of Independence)
- Emilio Aguinaldo (First Philippine President, Philippine-Spanish War)
- Macario Sakay (Filipino General;80 years of rebellion against Spain)
- Gabriela Silang (Filipina Revolutionary Leader)
- Baibars (Mamluke General)
World War 2 - 1990
- Abraham Adan (1947-1973 Israel)
- Harold Alexander (WWII UK)
- Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK)
- Harvey Ball (WWII US)
- Lin Biao (WWII China)
- Thomas Blamey (WWII Australia)
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (WWII US)
- Omar Bradley (WWII US)
- Adrian Carton De Wiart (WWII UK)
- Fidel Castro (1950s Cuba)
- Vasily Chuikov (WWII Soviet Union)
- Mark Clark (WWII US)
- Michael O'Moore Creagh (WWII UK)
- Walther Model (WWII Germany)
- Henry Duncan Graham Crerar (Canada's leading general during WWII)
- Alan Gordon Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Andrew Brown Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Moshe Dayan (Israel)
- Peng Dehuai(WWII, Chinese Civil War and Korean War, China)
- Miles Dempsey (WWII UK)
- Petre Dumitrescu (WWII Romania)
- Zhu De (Chinese communist revolutionary leader)
- Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
- Simon Fraser (WWII UK)
- Bernard Freyberg (WWI WWII NZ)
- Hermann Goering(WWI WWII Germany)
- William Gott (WWII UK)
- Vo Nguyen Giap (North Vietnam)
- Che Guevara (1950s Cuba)
- Rodolfo Graziani (WWII Italy)
- Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
- Brian Horrocks (WWII UK)
- Albert Kesselring (WWII Germany)
- Ivan Konev (WWII Soviet Union)
- Walter Krueger (WWII US)
- Oliver Leese (WWII UK)
- Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
- Sam Manekshaw (Indo-Pak War 1971, India)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Winter War and WWII Finland)
- Mitsuru Ushijima (WWII Japan)
- Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
- Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
- Louis Mountbatten (WWII UK)
- Omar Mukhtar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians in WWII)
- Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (WWII Japan)
- Chester Nimitz (WWII US Navy)
- Richard O'Connor (WWII UK)
- George Patton (WWII US)
- Friedrich Paulus (WWII Germany)
- "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
- Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
- Fidel Ramos (Korean War)
- Matthew B. Ridgway (WWII and Korea, US)
- Neil Ritchie (WWII UK)
- Konstantin Rokossovsky (WWII Sovet Union)
- Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
- Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
- Erich von Manstein (WWII Germany)
- Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
- Arjan Singh (India)
- William Slim (WWII UK)
- Ariel Sharon (Israel)
- Alfred Schlemm (WWII Germany)
- Raymond Spruance (WWII US)
- Kurt Student (WWII Germany)
- Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky (WWII Soviet Union)
- Archibald Wavell (WWII UK)
- William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
- Sandy Woodward (Falklands War)
- Nikolai Vatutin (WWII Soviet Union)
- Kliment Voroshilov (Winter War and WWII)
- Yamamoto Isoroku (WWII Japan)
- Chen Yi(WWII China )
- Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
- Georgy Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)
After 1990
- Peter de la Billiere (Gulf War UK)
- Colin Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gulf War US)
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
- Roméo Dallaire - Canadian Force Commander of UNAMIR who tried to stop the Rwandan Genocide
- Subcomandante Marcos leader of the Zapatista Rebellion
- Wesley Clark NATO Supreme Commander
- Tommy Franks Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command - 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Mike Jackson Chief Of Staff of the British Army
- Peter John Cosgrove Led the international forces (INTERFET) in a peace keeping role in East Timor
- Mullah Omar led Taliban forces against U.S. and Northern Alliance.
See also
- Samudragupta ( King of India )
- Ashoka (Emperor of India)
- Cyrus the Great (590 BC–529 BC), king of Persia who conquered Babylon
- Darius I of Persia (549 BC–486 BC), conquered all the territories between Asia Minor, north Greece and the Danube
- Xerxes I of Persia (519 BC–465 BC), conqueror of several Greek cities, including the (then) mighty Athens
- Artaphernes, persian general, brother of Darius I
- Surena (Parthian general)
- Miltiades (550 BC–489 BC), athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Callimachus, athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Themistocles (525 BC–460 BC), athenian admiral during the Persian Wars
- Leonidas (d. 480 BC), Spartan king and general during the Persian Wars
- Eurybiades, spartan general during the Persian Wars
- Pausanias (Spartan general during the Persian Wars)
- Mardonius (Persian general during the Persian Wars)
- Cimon (Athenian general)
- Callias (Athenian general)
- Pericles (Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Demosthenes (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Cleon (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Nicias (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thucydides (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Brasidas (Spartan general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Alcibiades (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Phormio (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thrasybulus (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Lycophron (Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesain War)
- Xenophon – Elected Commander of the Ten Thousand
- Epaminondas (Theban general)
- Philip II of Macedon (Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
- Ptolemy I Soter, One of Alexander the Great's generals, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, he was the first king
- Demetrius I of Bactria, a Greek-born king who conquered much of what is now Iran, Pakistan and northern India. He was nicknamed "The Invincible"
- Memnon (Greek mercenary in Persian service)
- Pyrrhus of Epirus (King of Epirus who invaded Italy)
- Hamilcar Barca, (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the First Punic War)
- Hannibal Barca (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the Second Punic War)
- Hasdrubal Barca, son of Hamilcar Barca and brother to Hannibal, at first, he stayed in Hispania to repell any Roman invaders. Later on, he followed his brother to Italy. He's sometimes called the 2nd Hannibal
- Fabius Maximus (275 BC–203 BC), roman general
- Scipio Africanus (Scipio Africanus Major) (235 BC–183 BC), defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in Second Punic War)
- Scipio Asiaticus (2nd century BC), he was a brother of Scipio Africanus Maior, he got his nickname "Asiaticus" when he defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228 BC–174 BC), roman general
- Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Scipio Africanus Minor) (185 BC–129 BC), adopted grandson of Scipio Africanus, he was active during the Third Punic War
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (d. 115 BC), roman Consul, conqueror of Macedon
- Gaius Marius (157 BC–86 BC), roman general, reorganized the Roman Legion
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BC–78 BC), roman general and dictator
- Quintus Sertorius (122 BC–72 BC), roman general
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 BC–48 BC), roman general
- Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), roman military leader and dictator
- Vercingetorix (72 BC–46 BC), gallic warlord who led a rebellion against Rome
- Augustus Caesar (63 BC–14 AD), the first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar
- Marcus Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC), roman general serving Augustus)
- Arminius (16 BC–21 AD), war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci
- Trajan (53–117), Roman Emperor
- Stilicho (359–408), also a late Roman general
- Alaric I (375–410), gothic King, sacked Rome
- Aëtius (396–454), roman general, defeated Attila
- Attila the Hun (406–453), king of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God"
Middle ages
- Muhammad (Prophet of Islam)
- Umar ibn al Khattab (Second Caliph of Islam)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (Fourth Caliph of Islam)
- Tariq ibn Ziyad (Berber General at the Battle of Guadalete)
- Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
- Clovis (First Christian King of the Franks)
- Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
- Ulji Moonduk (Korean General)
- Yang Man-chun (Korean General)
- Kim Yu-shin (Korean General)
- Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
- Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor)
- King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
- Wang Geon (King of Korea)
- General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
- Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
- Mundus (another general under Justinian)
- Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl Toltec leader and conqueror
- Basil II Byzantine emperor
- Basil Boiannes (Byzantine general and catapan of Italy)
- George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
- Nicephorus Botaniates (11th century Byzantine general, later emperor)
- Nicephorus Bryennius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Taticius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Roussel de Bailleul (Norman mercenary in Byzantine service)
- Robert Guiscard (Norman conqueror of Naples and S. Sicily)
- Godfrey of Bouillon (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Boulogne (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Bourcq (leader of the First Crusade)
- Bohemond of Taranto (leader of the First Crusade)
- Tancred (leader of the First Crusade)
- Raymond IV of Toulouse (leader of the First Crusade)
- Stephen, Count of Blois (leader of the First Crusade)
- Hughes de Payens (founder of the Knights Templar)
- George of Antioch (Sicilian admiral)
- Robert of Selby (Anglo-Norman general in the service of Sicily)
- Michael Palaeologus (Byzantine general)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader)
- Raymond III of Tripoli (Crusader general)
- Raynald of Chatillon (Crusader general)
- Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar)
- Jobert of Syria (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Roger de Moulins (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
- al-Afdal Shahanshah (Fatimid vizier)
- Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
- Yoon Gwan (Korean General)
- Boniface of Montferrat (leader of the Fourth Crusade)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (leader of the Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade)
- Hermann of Salza (Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)
- Yi Seong-gye (Emperor of Korea)
- Yi Sun-shin (Korean Admiral)
- Kwon Yul (Marshal of Korea)
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Japanese general whose decisive victories brought down the Taira clan during the Gempei War)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japanese general, he seized control over Japan after the death of Oda Nobunaga)
- John III Sobieski (King of Poland Savior of Vienna and Western European civilization)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (daimyo, the first to unite the whole Japan and a founder of a shogunate that lasted over 250 years)
- Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Ögedei Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Subutai Bahadur (General and childhood friend of Genghis Khan)
- Batu Khan (Mongolian conqueror)
- Tran Hung Dao (Vietnamese Grand General, under his guidance, Vietnamese defeated the Mongols twice)
- Kublai Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols, conqueror of China)
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- Wolter von Plettenberg (Master of the Livonian Order)
- Edward I of England (known as the Hammer of the Scots)
- William Wallace (Scottish Knight and freedom fighter)
- Robert the Bruce (Scottish King and freedom fighter)
- Khair ad Din (Also known as Barbarossa, an Admiral in the Ottoman Empire)
- Khalid ibn al-Walid (Muslim Arab soldier and general, undfeated throughout his career)
- Louis IX of France (leader of the Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade)
- Edward III of England (English King in the Hundred Years' War)
- Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
- Scanderbeg Albanian prince and general against the Ottoman encroachement in Europe 1443-1468
- Stephen the Great Moldavia ruler
- Mehmed II the Conqueror (Ottoman Sultan, conquered Constantinople in 1453)
- Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier during the reign of Suleiman and Selim II)
- Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of theCatholic Church)
- El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
- Tamerlane (Timur Lenk, Mongol-Turk conqueror)
- King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
- Jan Zizka (Commander of Taborite Army in Bohemia's Hussite Wars)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)
- Alp Arslan (Sultan of the Seljuk Empire)
- Don John of Austria (Spanish admiral)
- Lapu-Lapu (Datu in Mactan Island, Phils.)
Early Modern Era
- Nadir Shah, Iran
- Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador)
- Konstanty Ostrogski
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)
- Shivaji (Ruler of the Maratha empire)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (English Admiral under Queen Elizabeth I)
- Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca)
- Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
- Louis II de Condé
- Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
- Koxinga (Ming general, took over Taiwan)
- Jan Sobieski
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (Austria)
- Maurice, comte de Saxe (France)
- Oliver Cromwell (English Civil War)
- Albrecht von Wallenstein (general in the Thirty Years' War)
- Johan t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly(general in the Thirty Year's War)
- Louis of Nassau, brother of William the Silent commander in the Eighty Years' War
- Charles de Héraugière, the Eighty Years' War commander of a special force, which conquered Breda in a "Trojan Horse" action.
- Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe for the Dutch Republic
- Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, overall commander of the Dutch forces (Captain and Admiral-General) in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange,Stadtholder, military commander in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Hendrik Casimir I van Nassau-Dietz, military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein, vice-admiral and admiral during the Eighty Years' War
- Maarten Tromp, Admiral during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
- Michiel de Ruyter, The Netherlands (admiral in the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War
- Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (Austria)
- Duke of Marlborough (War of the Spanish Succession)
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
- Alexander Menshikov
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Peter Rumyantsev
- Alexander Suvorov
- Feodor Ushakov
- George Washington
- John Stark (Victor at the Battle of Bennington)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
- * Jean Baptiste Bessieres
- * Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
- * Joachim Murat
- * Louis Nicolas Davout
- * Louis Alexandre Berthier
- * Michel Ney
- * Jean Lannes
- * Auguste Marmont
- * Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- * Nicolas Oudinot
- * Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
- * Guillaume Brune
- * Jean Baptiste Jourdan
- * André Masséna
- * Louis Gabriel Suchet
- Jose de San Martin (Argentine General. Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
- Isaac Brock (British major general in Canada during War of 1812)
- François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie
- Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Peter Wittgenstein
- Petr Bagration
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (Russian Field Marshal)
- Andres Bonifacio (Katipunero)
- Shaka (Changed the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation)
- Sir George Howard (UK)
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (Caucasian wars)
- Simón Bolívar (South American nationalist and general)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (South American and Italian independence wars general)
- Zuo Zongtang (Chinese general)
- Zeng Guofan (Chinese military commander)
- Li Hongzhang (Chinese general)
- Winfield Scott (Mexican-American War)
- P.G.T. Beauregard (US Civil War)
- Robert E. Lee (US Civil War)
- Ulysses S. Grant (US Civil War)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (US Civil War)
- William Tecumseh Sherman (US Civil War)
- George McClellan (US Civil War)
- A.E. Burnside (US Civil War)
- Beverly Robertson (US Civil War)
- Braxton Bragg (US Civil War)
- Joseph E. Johnston (US Civil War)
- Henry Jackson Hunt (US Civil War)
- Phillip H. Sheridan (US Civil War)
- James Longstreet (US Civil War)
- Joseph Gilbert Totten (US Civil War)
- Thomas Franics Meagher (US Civil War)
- Sir Harry Smith (UK)
- Pavel Nakhimov (Crimean War)
- Mikhail Skobelev (Central Asian wars)
- Joseph Gurko (Bulgarian war)
- Pancho Villa
- Horatio Kitchener
- Yuan Shikai (China)
- Yamagata Aritomo (Japan)
- Kemal Atatürk (Balkan Wars, WWI Turkey)
- Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
- Aleksei Brusilov (WWI Russia)
- Ferdinand Foch (WWI France)
- Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany)
- Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (WWI Germany Never Defeated lead campaign in East Africa)
- Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)
- John Monash (WW1 Australia)
- Arthur Currie (WWI Canada)
- John J. Pershing (WWI US)
- Erich von Falkenhayn (WWI Germany)
- William S. Harney (US)
- Sterling Price (US Civil War)
- Hermann von François (German general, World War I)
- Helmuth von Moltke (Prussian/German general, Franco-Prussian War)
- Patrice MacMahon (Marshal of France, Franco-Prussian War)
- Michael Collins (Irish War of Independence)
- Emilio Aguinaldo (First Philippine President, Philippine-Spanish War)
- Macario Sakay (Filipino General;80 years of rebellion against Spain)
- Gabriela Silang (Filipina Revolutionary Leader)
- Baibars (Mamluke General)
World War 2 - 1990
- Abraham Adan (1947-1973 Israel)
- Harold Alexander (WWII UK)
- Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK)
- Harvey Ball (WWII US)
- Lin Biao (WWII China)
- Thomas Blamey (WWII Australia)
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (WWII US)
- Omar Bradley (WWII US)
- Adrian Carton De Wiart (WWII UK)
- Fidel Castro (1950s Cuba)
- Vasily Chuikov (WWII Soviet Union)
- Mark Clark (WWII US)
- Michael O'Moore Creagh (WWII UK)
- Walther Model (WWII Germany)
- Henry Duncan Graham Crerar (Canada's leading general during WWII)
- Alan Gordon Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Andrew Brown Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Moshe Dayan (Israel)
- Peng Dehuai(WWII, Chinese Civil War and Korean War, China)
- Miles Dempsey (WWII UK)
- Petre Dumitrescu (WWII Romania)
- Zhu De (Chinese communist revolutionary leader)
- Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
- Simon Fraser (WWII UK)
- Bernard Freyberg (WWI WWII NZ)
- Hermann Goering(WWI WWII Germany)
- William Gott (WWII UK)
- Vo Nguyen Giap (North Vietnam)
- Che Guevara (1950s Cuba)
- Rodolfo Graziani (WWII Italy)
- Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
- Brian Horrocks (WWII UK)
- Albert Kesselring (WWII Germany)
- Ivan Konev (WWII Soviet Union)
- Walter Krueger (WWII US)
- Oliver Leese (WWII UK)
- Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
- Sam Manekshaw (Indo-Pak War 1971, India)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Winter War and WWII Finland)
- Mitsuru Ushijima (WWII Japan)
- Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
- Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
- Louis Mountbatten (WWII UK)
- Omar Mukhtar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians in WWII)
- Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (WWII Japan)
- Chester Nimitz (WWII US Navy)
- Richard O'Connor (WWII UK)
- George Patton (WWII US)
- Friedrich Paulus (WWII Germany)
- "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
- Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
- Fidel Ramos (Korean War)
- Matthew B. Ridgway (WWII and Korea, US)
- Neil Ritchie (WWII UK)
- Konstantin Rokossovsky (WWII Sovet Union)
- Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
- Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
- Erich von Manstein (WWII Germany)
- Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
- Arjan Singh (India)
- William Slim (WWII UK)
- Ariel Sharon (Israel)
- Alfred Schlemm (WWII Germany)
- Raymond Spruance (WWII US)
- Kurt Student (WWII Germany)
- Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky (WWII Soviet Union)
- Archibald Wavell (WWII UK)
- William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
- Sandy Woodward (Falklands War)
- Nikolai Vatutin (WWII Soviet Union)
- Kliment Voroshilov (Winter War and WWII)
- Yamamoto Isoroku (WWII Japan)
- Chen Yi(WWII China )
- Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
- Georgy Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)
After 1990
- Peter de la Billiere (Gulf War UK)
- Colin Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gulf War US)
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
- Roméo Dallaire - Canadian Force Commander of UNAMIR who tried to stop the Rwandan Genocide
- Subcomandante Marcos leader of the Zapatista Rebellion
- Wesley Clark NATO Supreme Commander
- Tommy Franks Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command - 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Mike Jackson Chief Of Staff of the British Army
- Peter John Cosgrove Led the international forces (INTERFET) in a peace keeping role in East Timor
- Mullah Omar led Taliban forces against U.S. and Northern Alliance.
See also
- Miltiades (550 BC–489 BC), athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Callimachus, athenian general during the Persian Wars
- Themistocles (525 BC–460 BC), athenian admiral during the Persian Wars
- Leonidas (d. 480 BC), Spartan king and general during the Persian Wars
- Eurybiades, spartan general during the Persian Wars
- Pausanias (Spartan general during the Persian Wars)
- Mardonius (Persian general during the Persian Wars)
- Cimon (Athenian general)
- Callias (Athenian general)
- Pericles (Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Demosthenes (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Cleon (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Nicias (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thucydides (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Brasidas (Spartan general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Alcibiades (Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War)
- Phormio (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Thrasybulus (Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
- Lycophron (Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesain War)
- Xenophon – Elected Commander of the Ten Thousand
- Epaminondas (Theban general)
- Philip II of Macedon (Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
- Ptolemy I Soter, One of Alexander the Great's generals, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, he was the first king
- Demetrius I of Bactria, a Greek-born king who conquered much of what is now Iran, Pakistan and northern India. He was nicknamed "The Invincible"
- Memnon (Greek mercenary in Persian service)
- Pyrrhus of Epirus (King of Epirus who invaded Italy)
- Hamilcar Barca, (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the First Punic War)
- Hannibal Barca (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the Second Punic War)
- Hasdrubal Barca, son of Hamilcar Barca and brother to Hannibal, at first, he stayed in Hispania to repell any Roman invaders. Later on, he followed his brother to Italy. He's sometimes called the 2nd Hannibal
- Fabius Maximus (275 BC–203 BC), roman general
- Scipio Africanus (Scipio Africanus Major) (235 BC–183 BC), defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in Second Punic War)
- Scipio Asiaticus (2nd century BC), he was a brother of Scipio Africanus Maior, he got his nickname "Asiaticus" when he defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228 BC–174 BC), roman general
- Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Scipio Africanus Minor) (185 BC–129 BC), adopted grandson of Scipio Africanus, he was active during the Third Punic War
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (d. 115 BC), roman Consul, conqueror of Macedon
- Gaius Marius (157 BC–86 BC), roman general, reorganized the Roman Legion
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BC–78 BC), roman general and dictator
- Quintus Sertorius (122 BC–72 BC), roman general
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 BC–48 BC), roman general
- Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), roman military leader and dictator
- Vercingetorix (72 BC–46 BC), gallic warlord who led a rebellion against Rome
- Augustus Caesar (63 BC–14 AD), the first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar
- Marcus Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC), roman general serving Augustus)
- Arminius (16 BC–21 AD), war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci
- Trajan (53–117), Roman Emperor
- Stilicho (359–408), also a late Roman general
- Alaric I (375–410), gothic King, sacked Rome
- Aëtius (396–454), roman general, defeated Attila
- Attila the Hun (406–453), king of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God"
Middle ages
- Muhammad (Prophet of Islam)
- Umar ibn al Khattab (Second Caliph of Islam)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (Fourth Caliph of Islam)
- Tariq ibn Ziyad (Berber General at the Battle of Guadalete)
- Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
- Clovis (First Christian King of the Franks)
- Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
- Ulji Moonduk (Korean General)
- Yang Man-chun (Korean General)
- Kim Yu-shin (Korean General)
- Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
- Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor)
- King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
- Wang Geon (King of Korea)
- General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
- Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
- Mundus (another general under Justinian)
- Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl Toltec leader and conqueror
- Basil II Byzantine emperor
- Basil Boiannes (Byzantine general and catapan of Italy)
- George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
- Nicephorus Botaniates (11th century Byzantine general, later emperor)
- Nicephorus Bryennius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Taticius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Roussel de Bailleul (Norman mercenary in Byzantine service)
- Robert Guiscard (Norman conqueror of Naples and S. Sicily)
- Godfrey of Bouillon (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Boulogne (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Bourcq (leader of the First Crusade)
- Bohemond of Taranto (leader of the First Crusade)
- Tancred (leader of the First Crusade)
- Raymond IV of Toulouse (leader of the First Crusade)
- Stephen, Count of Blois (leader of the First Crusade)
- Hughes de Payens (founder of the Knights Templar)
- George of Antioch (Sicilian admiral)
- Robert of Selby (Anglo-Norman general in the service of Sicily)
- Michael Palaeologus (Byzantine general)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader)
- Raymond III of Tripoli (Crusader general)
- Raynald of Chatillon (Crusader general)
- Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar)
- Jobert of Syria (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Roger de Moulins (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
- al-Afdal Shahanshah (Fatimid vizier)
- Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
- Yoon Gwan (Korean General)
- Boniface of Montferrat (leader of the Fourth Crusade)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (leader of the Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade)
- Hermann of Salza (Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)
- Yi Seong-gye (Emperor of Korea)
- Yi Sun-shin (Korean Admiral)
- Kwon Yul (Marshal of Korea)
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Japanese general whose decisive victories brought down the Taira clan during the Gempei War)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japanese general, he seized control over Japan after the death of Oda Nobunaga)
- John III Sobieski (King of Poland Savior of Vienna and Western European civilization)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (daimyo, the first to unite the whole Japan and a founder of a shogunate that lasted over 250 years)
- Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Ögedei Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Subutai Bahadur (General and childhood friend of Genghis Khan)
- Batu Khan (Mongolian conqueror)
- Tran Hung Dao (Vietnamese Grand General, under his guidance, Vietnamese defeated the Mongols twice)
- Kublai Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols, conqueror of China)
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- Wolter von Plettenberg (Master of the Livonian Order)
- Edward I of England (known as the Hammer of the Scots)
- William Wallace (Scottish Knight and freedom fighter)
- Robert the Bruce (Scottish King and freedom fighter)
- Khair ad Din (Also known as Barbarossa, an Admiral in the Ottoman Empire)
- Khalid ibn al-Walid (Muslim Arab soldier and general, undfeated throughout his career)
- Louis IX of France (leader of the Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade)
- Edward III of England (English King in the Hundred Years' War)
- Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
- Scanderbeg Albanian prince and general against the Ottoman encroachement in Europe 1443-1468
- Stephen the Great Moldavia ruler
- Mehmed II the Conqueror (Ottoman Sultan, conquered Constantinople in 1453)
- Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier during the reign of Suleiman and Selim II)
- Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of theCatholic Church)
- El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
- Tamerlane (Timur Lenk, Mongol-Turk conqueror)
- King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
- Jan Zizka (Commander of Taborite Army in Bohemia's Hussite Wars)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)
- Alp Arslan (Sultan of the Seljuk Empire)
- Don John of Austria (Spanish admiral)
- Lapu-Lapu (Datu in Mactan Island, Phils.)
Early Modern Era
- Nadir Shah, Iran
- Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador)
- Konstanty Ostrogski
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)
- Shivaji (Ruler of the Maratha empire)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (English Admiral under Queen Elizabeth I)
- Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca)
- Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
- Louis II de Condé
- Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
- Koxinga (Ming general, took over Taiwan)
- Jan Sobieski
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (Austria)
- Maurice, comte de Saxe (France)
- Oliver Cromwell (English Civil War)
- Albrecht von Wallenstein (general in the Thirty Years' War)
- Johan t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly(general in the Thirty Year's War)
- Louis of Nassau, brother of William the Silent commander in the Eighty Years' War
- Charles de Héraugière, the Eighty Years' War commander of a special force, which conquered Breda in a "Trojan Horse" action.
- Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe for the Dutch Republic
- Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, overall commander of the Dutch forces (Captain and Admiral-General) in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange,Stadtholder, military commander in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Hendrik Casimir I van Nassau-Dietz, military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein, vice-admiral and admiral during the Eighty Years' War
- Maarten Tromp, Admiral during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
- Michiel de Ruyter, The Netherlands (admiral in the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War
- Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (Austria)
- Duke of Marlborough (War of the Spanish Succession)
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
- Alexander Menshikov
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Peter Rumyantsev
- Alexander Suvorov
- Feodor Ushakov
- George Washington
- John Stark (Victor at the Battle of Bennington)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
- * Jean Baptiste Bessieres
- * Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
- * Joachim Murat
- * Louis Nicolas Davout
- * Louis Alexandre Berthier
- * Michel Ney
- * Jean Lannes
- * Auguste Marmont
- * Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- * Nicolas Oudinot
- * Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
- * Guillaume Brune
- * Jean Baptiste Jourdan
- * André Masséna
- * Louis Gabriel Suchet
- Jose de San Martin (Argentine General. Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
- Isaac Brock (British major general in Canada during War of 1812)
- François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie
- Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Peter Wittgenstein
- Petr Bagration
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (Russian Field Marshal)
- Andres Bonifacio (Katipunero)
- Shaka (Changed the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation)
- Sir George Howard (UK)
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (Caucasian wars)
- Simón Bolívar (South American nationalist and general)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (South American and Italian independence wars general)
- Zuo Zongtang (Chinese general)
- Zeng Guofan (Chinese military commander)
- Li Hongzhang (Chinese general)
- Winfield Scott (Mexican-American War)
- P.G.T. Beauregard (US Civil War)
- Robert E. Lee (US Civil War)
- Ulysses S. Grant (US Civil War)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (US Civil War)
- William Tecumseh Sherman (US Civil War)
- George McClellan (US Civil War)
- A.E. Burnside (US Civil War)
- Beverly Robertson (US Civil War)
- Braxton Bragg (US Civil War)
- Joseph E. Johnston (US Civil War)
- Henry Jackson Hunt (US Civil War)
- Phillip H. Sheridan (US Civil War)
- James Longstreet (US Civil War)
- Joseph Gilbert Totten (US Civil War)
- Thomas Franics Meagher (US Civil War)
- Sir Harry Smith (UK)
- Pavel Nakhimov (Crimean War)
- Mikhail Skobelev (Central Asian wars)
- Joseph Gurko (Bulgarian war)
- Pancho Villa
- Horatio Kitchener
- Yuan Shikai (China)
- Yamagata Aritomo (Japan)
- Kemal Atatürk (Balkan Wars, WWI Turkey)
- Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
- Aleksei Brusilov (WWI Russia)
- Ferdinand Foch (WWI France)
- Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany)
- Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (WWI Germany Never Defeated lead campaign in East Africa)
- Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)
- John Monash (WW1 Australia)
- Arthur Currie (WWI Canada)
- John J. Pershing (WWI US)
- Erich von Falkenhayn (WWI Germany)
- William S. Harney (US)
- Sterling Price (US Civil War)
- Hermann von François (German general, World War I)
- Helmuth von Moltke (Prussian/German general, Franco-Prussian War)
- Patrice MacMahon (Marshal of France, Franco-Prussian War)
- Michael Collins (Irish War of Independence)
- Emilio Aguinaldo (First Philippine President, Philippine-Spanish War)
- Macario Sakay (Filipino General;80 years of rebellion against Spain)
- Gabriela Silang (Filipina Revolutionary Leader)
- Baibars (Mamluke General)
World War 2 - 1990
- Abraham Adan (1947-1973 Israel)
- Harold Alexander (WWII UK)
- Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK)
- Harvey Ball (WWII US)
- Lin Biao (WWII China)
- Thomas Blamey (WWII Australia)
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (WWII US)
- Omar Bradley (WWII US)
- Adrian Carton De Wiart (WWII UK)
- Fidel Castro (1950s Cuba)
- Vasily Chuikov (WWII Soviet Union)
- Mark Clark (WWII US)
- Michael O'Moore Creagh (WWII UK)
- Walther Model (WWII Germany)
- Henry Duncan Graham Crerar (Canada's leading general during WWII)
- Alan Gordon Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Andrew Brown Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Moshe Dayan (Israel)
- Peng Dehuai(WWII, Chinese Civil War and Korean War, China)
- Miles Dempsey (WWII UK)
- Petre Dumitrescu (WWII Romania)
- Zhu De (Chinese communist revolutionary leader)
- Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
- Simon Fraser (WWII UK)
- Bernard Freyberg (WWI WWII NZ)
- Hermann Goering(WWI WWII Germany)
- William Gott (WWII UK)
- Vo Nguyen Giap (North Vietnam)
- Che Guevara (1950s Cuba)
- Rodolfo Graziani (WWII Italy)
- Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
- Brian Horrocks (WWII UK)
- Albert Kesselring (WWII Germany)
- Ivan Konev (WWII Soviet Union)
- Walter Krueger (WWII US)
- Oliver Leese (WWII UK)
- Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
- Sam Manekshaw (Indo-Pak War 1971, India)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Winter War and WWII Finland)
- Mitsuru Ushijima (WWII Japan)
- Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
- Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
- Louis Mountbatten (WWII UK)
- Omar Mukhtar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians in WWII)
- Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (WWII Japan)
- Chester Nimitz (WWII US Navy)
- Richard O'Connor (WWII UK)
- George Patton (WWII US)
- Friedrich Paulus (WWII Germany)
- "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
- Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
- Fidel Ramos (Korean War)
- Matthew B. Ridgway (WWII and Korea, US)
- Neil Ritchie (WWII UK)
- Konstantin Rokossovsky (WWII Sovet Union)
- Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
- Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
- Erich von Manstein (WWII Germany)
- Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
- Arjan Singh (India)
- William Slim (WWII UK)
- Ariel Sharon (Israel)
- Alfred Schlemm (WWII Germany)
- Raymond Spruance (WWII US)
- Kurt Student (WWII Germany)
- Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky (WWII Soviet Union)
- Archibald Wavell (WWII UK)
- William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
- Sandy Woodward (Falklands War)
- Nikolai Vatutin (WWII Soviet Union)
- Kliment Voroshilov (Winter War and WWII)
- Yamamoto Isoroku (WWII Japan)
- Chen Yi(WWII China )
- Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
- Georgy Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)
After 1990
- Peter de la Billiere (Gulf War UK)
- Colin Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gulf War US)
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
- Roméo Dallaire - Canadian Force Commander of UNAMIR who tried to stop the Rwandan Genocide
- Subcomandante Marcos leader of the Zapatista Rebellion
- Wesley Clark NATO Supreme Commander
- Tommy Franks Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command - 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Mike Jackson Chief Of Staff of the British Army
- Peter John Cosgrove Led the international forces (INTERFET) in a peace keeping role in East Timor
- Mullah Omar led Taliban forces against U.S. and Northern Alliance.
See also
- Fabius Maximus (275 BC–203 BC), roman general
- Scipio Africanus (Scipio Africanus Major) (235 BC–183 BC), defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in Second Punic War)
- Scipio Asiaticus (2nd century BC), he was a brother of Scipio Africanus Maior, he got his nickname "Asiaticus" when he defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228 BC–174 BC), roman general
- Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Scipio Africanus Minor) (185 BC–129 BC), adopted grandson of Scipio Africanus, he was active during the Third Punic War
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (d. 115 BC), roman Consul, conqueror of Macedon
- Gaius Marius (157 BC–86 BC), roman general, reorganized the Roman Legion
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BC–78 BC), roman general and dictator
- Quintus Sertorius (122 BC–72 BC), roman general
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 BC–48 BC), roman general
- Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), roman military leader and dictator
- Vercingetorix (72 BC–46 BC), gallic warlord who led a rebellion against Rome
- Augustus Caesar (63 BC–14 AD), the first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar
- Marcus Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC), roman general serving Augustus)
- Arminius (16 BC–21 AD), war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci
- Trajan (53–117), Roman Emperor
- Stilicho (359–408), also a late Roman general
- Alaric I (375–410), gothic King, sacked Rome
- Aëtius (396–454), roman general, defeated Attila
- Attila the Hun (406–453), king of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God"
Middle ages
- Muhammad (Prophet of Islam)
- Umar ibn al Khattab (Second Caliph of Islam)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (Fourth Caliph of Islam)
- Tariq ibn Ziyad (Berber General at the Battle of Guadalete)
- Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
- Clovis (First Christian King of the Franks)
- Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
- Ulji Moonduk (Korean General)
- Yang Man-chun (Korean General)
- Kim Yu-shin (Korean General)
- Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
- Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor)
- King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
- Wang Geon (King of Korea)
- General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
- Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
- Mundus (another general under Justinian)
- Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl Toltec leader and conqueror
- Basil II Byzantine emperor
- Basil Boiannes (Byzantine general and catapan of Italy)
- George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
- Nicephorus Botaniates (11th century Byzantine general, later emperor)
- Nicephorus Bryennius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Taticius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Roussel de Bailleul (Norman mercenary in Byzantine service)
- Robert Guiscard (Norman conqueror of Naples and S. Sicily)
- Godfrey of Bouillon (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Boulogne (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Bourcq (leader of the First Crusade)
- Bohemond of Taranto (leader of the First Crusade)
- Tancred (leader of the First Crusade)
- Raymond IV of Toulouse (leader of the First Crusade)
- Stephen, Count of Blois (leader of the First Crusade)
- Hughes de Payens (founder of the Knights Templar)
- George of Antioch (Sicilian admiral)
- Robert of Selby (Anglo-Norman general in the service of Sicily)
- Michael Palaeologus (Byzantine general)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader)
- Raymond III of Tripoli (Crusader general)
- Raynald of Chatillon (Crusader general)
- Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar)
- Jobert of Syria (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Roger de Moulins (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
- al-Afdal Shahanshah (Fatimid vizier)
- Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
- Yoon Gwan (Korean General)
- Boniface of Montferrat (leader of the Fourth Crusade)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (leader of the Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade)
- Hermann of Salza (Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)
- Yi Seong-gye (Emperor of Korea)
- Yi Sun-shin (Korean Admiral)
- Kwon Yul (Marshal of Korea)
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Japanese general whose decisive victories brought down the Taira clan during the Gempei War)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japanese general, he seized control over Japan after the death of Oda Nobunaga)
- John III Sobieski (King of Poland Savior of Vienna and Western European civilization)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (daimyo, the first to unite the whole Japan and a founder of a shogunate that lasted over 250 years)
- Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Ögedei Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Subutai Bahadur (General and childhood friend of Genghis Khan)
- Batu Khan (Mongolian conqueror)
- Tran Hung Dao (Vietnamese Grand General, under his guidance, Vietnamese defeated the Mongols twice)
- Kublai Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols, conqueror of China)
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- Wolter von Plettenberg (Master of the Livonian Order)
- Edward I of England (known as the Hammer of the Scots)
- William Wallace (Scottish Knight and freedom fighter)
- Robert the Bruce (Scottish King and freedom fighter)
- Khair ad Din (Also known as Barbarossa, an Admiral in the Ottoman Empire)
- Khalid ibn al-Walid (Muslim Arab soldier and general, undfeated throughout his career)
- Louis IX of France (leader of the Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade)
- Edward III of England (English King in the Hundred Years' War)
- Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
- Scanderbeg Albanian prince and general against the Ottoman encroachement in Europe 1443-1468
- Stephen the Great Moldavia ruler
- Mehmed II the Conqueror (Ottoman Sultan, conquered Constantinople in 1453)
- Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier during the reign of Suleiman and Selim II)
- Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of theCatholic Church)
- El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
- Tamerlane (Timur Lenk, Mongol-Turk conqueror)
- King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
- Jan Zizka (Commander of Taborite Army in Bohemia's Hussite Wars)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)
- Alp Arslan (Sultan of the Seljuk Empire)
- Don John of Austria (Spanish admiral)
- Lapu-Lapu (Datu in Mactan Island, Phils.)
Early Modern Era
- Nadir Shah, Iran
- Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador)
- Konstanty Ostrogski
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)
- Shivaji (Ruler of the Maratha empire)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (English Admiral under Queen Elizabeth I)
- Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca)
- Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
- Louis II de Condé
- Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
- Koxinga (Ming general, took over Taiwan)
- Jan Sobieski
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (Austria)
- Maurice, comte de Saxe (France)
- Oliver Cromwell (English Civil War)
- Albrecht von Wallenstein (general in the Thirty Years' War)
- Johan t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly(general in the Thirty Year's War)
- Louis of Nassau, brother of William the Silent commander in the Eighty Years' War
- Charles de Héraugière, the Eighty Years' War commander of a special force, which conquered Breda in a "Trojan Horse" action.
- Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe for the Dutch Republic
- Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, overall commander of the Dutch forces (Captain and Admiral-General) in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange,Stadtholder, military commander in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
- Hendrik Casimir I van Nassau-Dietz, military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein, vice-admiral and admiral during the Eighty Years' War
- Maarten Tromp, Admiral during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
- Michiel de Ruyter, The Netherlands (admiral in the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War
- Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (Austria)
- Duke of Marlborough (War of the Spanish Succession)
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
- Alexander Menshikov
- Charles XII of Sweden
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Peter Rumyantsev
- Alexander Suvorov
- Feodor Ushakov
- George Washington
- John Stark (Victor at the Battle of Bennington)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
- * Jean Baptiste Bessieres
- * Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
- * Joachim Murat
- * Louis Nicolas Davout
- * Louis Alexandre Berthier
- * Michel Ney
- * Jean Lannes
- * Auguste Marmont
- * Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- * Nicolas Oudinot
- * Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
- * Guillaume Brune
- * Jean Baptiste Jourdan
- * André Masséna
- * Louis Gabriel Suchet
- Jose de San Martin (Argentine General. Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
- Isaac Brock (British major general in Canada during War of 1812)
- François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie
- Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Peter Wittgenstein
- Petr Bagration
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (Russian Field Marshal)
- Andres Bonifacio (Katipunero)
- Shaka (Changed the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation)
- Sir George Howard (UK)
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (Caucasian wars)
- Simón Bolívar (South American nationalist and general)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (South American and Italian independence wars general)
- Zuo Zongtang (Chinese general)
- Zeng Guofan (Chinese military commander)
- Li Hongzhang (Chinese general)
- Winfield Scott (Mexican-American War)
- P.G.T. Beauregard (US Civil War)
- Robert E. Lee (US Civil War)
- Ulysses S. Grant (US Civil War)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (US Civil War)
- William Tecumseh Sherman (US Civil War)
- George McClellan (US Civil War)
- A.E. Burnside (US Civil War)
- Beverly Robertson (US Civil War)
- Braxton Bragg (US Civil War)
- Joseph E. Johnston (US Civil War)
- Henry Jackson Hunt (US Civil War)
- Phillip H. Sheridan (US Civil War)
- James Longstreet (US Civil War)
- Joseph Gilbert Totten (US Civil War)
- Thomas Franics Meagher (US Civil War)
- Sir Harry Smith (UK)
- Pavel Nakhimov (Crimean War)
- Mikhail Skobelev (Central Asian wars)
- Joseph Gurko (Bulgarian war)
- Pancho Villa
- Horatio Kitchener
- Yuan Shikai (China)
- Yamagata Aritomo (Japan)
- Kemal Atatürk (Balkan Wars, WWI Turkey)
- Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
- Aleksei Brusilov (WWI Russia)
- Ferdinand Foch (WWI France)
- Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany)
- Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (WWI Germany Never Defeated lead campaign in East Africa)
- Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)
- John Monash (WW1 Australia)
- Arthur Currie (WWI Canada)
- John J. Pershing (WWI US)
- Erich von Falkenhayn (WWI Germany)
- William S. Harney (US)
- Sterling Price (US Civil War)
- Hermann von François (German general, World War I)
- Helmuth von Moltke (Prussian/German general, Franco-Prussian War)
- Patrice MacMahon (Marshal of France, Franco-Prussian War)
- Michael Collins (Irish War of Independence)
- Emilio Aguinaldo (First Philippine President, Philippine-Spanish War)
- Macario Sakay (Filipino General;80 years of rebellion against Spain)
- Gabriela Silang (Filipina Revolutionary Leader)
- Baibars (Mamluke General)
World War 2 - 1990
- Abraham Adan (1947-1973 Israel)
- Harold Alexander (WWII UK)
- Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK)
- Harvey Ball (WWII US)
- Lin Biao (WWII China)
- Thomas Blamey (WWII Australia)
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (WWII US)
- Omar Bradley (WWII US)
- Adrian Carton De Wiart (WWII UK)
- Fidel Castro (1950s Cuba)
- Vasily Chuikov (WWII Soviet Union)
- Mark Clark (WWII US)
- Michael O'Moore Creagh (WWII UK)
- Walther Model (WWII Germany)
- Henry Duncan Graham Crerar (Canada's leading general during WWII)
- Alan Gordon Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Andrew Brown Cunningham (WWII UK)
- Moshe Dayan (Israel)
- Peng Dehuai(WWII, Chinese Civil War and Korean War, China)
- Miles Dempsey (WWII UK)
- Petre Dumitrescu (WWII Romania)
- Zhu De (Chinese communist revolutionary leader)
- Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
- Simon Fraser (WWII UK)
- Bernard Freyberg (WWI WWII NZ)
- Hermann Goering(WWI WWII Germany)
- William Gott (WWII UK)
- Vo Nguyen Giap (North Vietnam)
- Che Guevara (1950s Cuba)
- Rodolfo Graziani (WWII Italy)
- Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
- Brian Horrocks (WWII UK)
- Albert Kesselring (WWII Germany)
- Ivan Konev (WWII Soviet Union)
- Walter Krueger (WWII US)
- Oliver Leese (WWII UK)
- Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
- Sam Manekshaw (Indo-Pak War 1971, India)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Winter War and WWII Finland)
- Mitsuru Ushijima (WWII Japan)
- Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
- Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
- Louis Mountbatten (WWII UK)
- Omar Mukhtar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians in WWII)
- Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (WWII Japan)
- Chester Nimitz (WWII US Navy)
- Richard O'Connor (WWII UK)
- George Patton (WWII US)
- Friedrich Paulus (WWII Germany)
- "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
- Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
- Fidel Ramos (Korean War)
- Matthew B. Ridgway (WWII and Korea, US)
- Neil Ritchie (WWII UK)
- Konstantin Rokossovsky (WWII Sovet Union)
- Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
- Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
- Erich von Manstein (WWII Germany)
- Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
- Arjan Singh (India)
- William Slim (WWII UK)
- Ariel Sharon (Israel)
- Alfred Schlemm (WWII Germany)
- Raymond Spruance (WWII US)
- Kurt Student (WWII Germany)
- Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky (WWII Soviet Union)
- Archibald Wavell (WWII UK)
- William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
- Sandy Woodward (Falklands War)
- Nikolai Vatutin (WWII Soviet Union)
- Kliment Voroshilov (Winter War and WWII)
- Yamamoto Isoroku (WWII Japan)
- Chen Yi(WWII China )
- Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
- Georgy Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)
After 1990
- Peter de la Billiere (Gulf War UK)
- Colin Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gulf War US)
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
- Roméo Dallaire - Canadian Force Commander of UNAMIR who tried to stop the Rwandan Genocide
- Subcomandante Marcos leader of the Zapatista Rebellion
- Wesley Clark NATO Supreme Commander
- Tommy Franks Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command - 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Mike Jackson Chief Of Staff of the British Army
- Peter John Cosgrove Led the international forces (INTERFET) in a peace keeping role in East Timor
- Mullah Omar led Taliban forces against U.S. and Northern Alliance.
See also
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