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Military
organization primarily tasked with preparing for and conducting war
80 entities
5 domains
Human
75
Napoleon
Person
French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
Joan of Arc
Person
French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
Muammar Gaddafi
Person
Military officer and former Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya (1969-2011)
Simón Bolívar
Person
Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
Sun Tzu
Person
6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist
Chiang Kai-shek
Person
Chinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC (1887–1975)
Pliny the Elder
Person
Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)
Oliver Cromwell
Person
English military and political leader (1599–1658)
Augusto Pinochet
Person
Chilean military officer and politician (1915–2006)
Hermann Göring
Person
German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
Carl von Clausewitz
Person
German-Prussian general and military theorist (1780–1831)
James Stewart
Person
American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
Philippe Pétain
Person
French military and political leader (1856–1951)
Josephus
Person
Roman–Jewish historian and military leader (c. 37–c. 100)
Qasem Soleimani
Person
Iranian military officer (1957–2020)
Mobutu Sese Seko
Person
Congolese politician and military officer, the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997 (1930 – 1997)
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Person
Polish military and political official, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 to 1989
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Person
Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)
Charles Martel
Person
Frankish military and political leader (c. 688–741)
Skanderbeg
Person
Albanian noble and military commander (1405–1468)
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Person
Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)
Ferdinand Foch
Person
French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929)
Rodrigo Díaz de Villarreal
Person
11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader
Alexander Nevsky
Person
political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)
Ratko Mladić
Person
convicted war criminal and general of the Bosnian Serb military (1942–2026)
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Person
Tajik military leader (1953–2001)
Josef Mengele
Person
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Moshe Dayan
Person
Israeli military leader and politician (1915–1981)
Abdelkader El Djezairi
Person
Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883)
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Person
Arab Muslim military general (d. 642)
Alexander Kolchak
Person
Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Person
Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817)
Gaius Marius
Person
Roman general, statesman and military reformer (157-86 BC)
Olusegun Obasanjo
Person
Nigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79)
Alfredo Stroessner
Person
military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Person
Ukrainian military, political and statesman, Hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, head of Ukraine (1648–1657) during the Hetmanship
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Person
Soviet and Polish military commander (1896-1968)
Pietro Badoglio
Person
Italian Military General Officer and Marshal of the Royal Italian Army from 1916-1943 during both World Wars and Prime Minister of Italy from 1943-1944 (1871-1956)
Ernst Röhm
Person
German Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934)
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Person
Philosopher, military and political leader (1767-1794)
Jochi
Person
military leader; eldest son of Genghis Khan
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella
Person
Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
Symon Petliura
Person
Ukrainian military leader (1879–1926)
Ibrahim Traoré
Person
military leader of Burkina Faso since 2022
Ivan Konev
Person
Soviet military commander (1897-1973)
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Person
Mexican politician and military leader (1794-1876)
Yuan Shikai
Person
Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)
Antonio José de Sucre
Person
Venezuelan military and politician (1795–1830)
Anton Denikin
Person
Russian military and political leader (1872–1947)
Aleksey Brusilov
Person
Russian and Soviet military commander
Zhuge Liang
Person
Chinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)
Gregory Potyomkin
Person
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Person
Ukrainian military officer (born 1973)
Ali Larijani
Person
Iranian politician and military officer (1958–2026)
Simo Häyhä
Person
Finnish military sniper (1905–2002)
Rodion Malinovsky
Person
Soviet military commander
Ante Pavelić
Person
Croatian fascist general and military dictator (1889–1959)
Sani Abacha
Person
nigerian military ruler (1943-1998)
Semyon Timoshenko
Person
Soviet military commander (1895-1970)
'Amr ibn al-'As
Person
Arab military commander and governor (c.573–664)
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
Person
Angolan political and military leader (1934-2002)
Wilhelm Canaris
Person
German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)
Lin Biao
Person
Chinese Communist military commander and politician
Robert Clive
Person
British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)
Leopoldo Galtieri
Person
military, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Person
French military engineer (1633–1707)
Iskandar Ali Mirza
Person
Pakistani politician, statesman and military general (1899–1969)
Robert Ley
Person
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Person
Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
Władysław Sikorski
Person
Polish military and political leader (1881-1943)
Dmitriy Ustinov
Person
Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)
Jan Žižka
Person
Czech Hussite military leader (circa 1360 - 1424)
Yoav Gallant
Person
Israeli politician and former military officer (born 1958)
Barry Goldwater
Person
American politician and military officer (1909–1998)
Ioannis Metaxas
Person
Greek military officer and politician (1871–1941)
