See also: Military History

Antiquity

• Cyrus the Great (King of Persia who conquered Babylon)
• Artaphernes (Persian general)
• Sun Tzu (Legendary chinese general)
• Themistocles (Athenian admiral during the Persian Wars)
• Miltiades (Athenian general during the Persian Wars)
• Callimachus (Athenian general during the Persian Wars)
• Leonidas (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)
• Epaminondas (Theban general)
• Philip II of Macedon (Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great)
• Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
• Qin Shi Huang (First emperor of Qin)
• Hannibal Barca (Military commander of ancient Carthage, involved in the Second Punic War)
• Scipio Africanus (Defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in Second Punic War)
• Fabius Maximus (Roman general)
• Titus Quinctius Flamininus (Roman general)
• Marius (Roman general)
• Julius Caesar (Roman military leader and dictator)
• Pompey (Roman general)
• Augustus Caesar (The first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar)
• Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus, Roman Emperor)
• Stilicho (also a late Roman general)
• Alaric (Gothic King, sacked Rome)
• Arminius (War chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci)
• Attila the Hun (King of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God")

Middle Ages

• Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
• Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
• Ögedei Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
• Batu Khan (Mongolian conqueror)
• 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)
• 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)
• Mehmed II the Conqueror (Ottoman Sultan, conquered Constantinople in 1453)
• Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (Bosnian military leader, Ottoman Grand Vizier during the reign of Suleiman and Selim II)
• Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of Catholic Church)
• El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
• Tamerlane (Timur Lenk, Mongolian 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)

Early Modern Era

• 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
• Jan Sobieski
• Eugene of Savoy
• Maurice, comte de Saxe (France)
• Oliver Cromwell (English Civil War)
• Albrecht von Wallenstein (general in the Thirty Years' War)
• Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (Austria)
• Duke of Marlborough (War of the Spanish Succession)
• Gustav II Adolph of Sweden
• Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
• Alexander Menshikov
• Charles XII of Sweden
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Peter Rumyantsev
• Alexander Suvorov
• Feodor Ushakov
• George Washington
• 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
• 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

Napoleonic Wars until World War 2

• 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)
• 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)
• 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 von Hindenburg (WWI Germany)
• Arthur Currie (WWI Canada)
• John J. Pershing (WWI US)
• Erich von Falkenhayn (WWI Germany)
• William S. Harney (US)
• Sterling Price (US Civil War)

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)
• Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (WWII US)
• Omar Bradley (WWII US)
• Adrian Carton De Wiart (WWII UK)
• Moshe Dayan (Israel)
• Petre Dumitrescu (WWII Romania)
• Zhu De (Chinese communist revolutionary leader)
• Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US)
• Simon Fraser (WWII UK)
• William Gott (WWII UK)
• Vo Nguyen Giap (North Vietnam)
• Rodolfo Graziani (WWII Italy)
• Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany)
• Walter Krueger (WWII US)
• Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (WWII Finland)
• Mitsuru Ushijima (WWII Japan)
• Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
• Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
• Omar Mukhtar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians in WWII)
• Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (WWII Japan)
• Chester Nimitz (WWII US Navy)
• George Patton (WWII US)
• "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine)
• Matthew B. Ridgway (WWII and Korea, US)
• Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany)
• Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany)
• Erich von Manstein (WWII Germany)
• Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans)
• Kurt Student (WWII Germany)
• Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans)
• William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US)
• Samuel T. Williams (US)
• Yamamoto Isoroku (WWII Japan)
• Chen Yi
• Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
• Georgy Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)

After 1990

• Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
• Romeo Dallaire - Force Commander of UNAMIR who tried to stop the Rwandan Genocide
• Ratko Mladic Bosnian Serb commander
• 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

See also

• List of British Field Marshals
• List of German Field Marshals
• List of Swedish Field Marshals
• List of Russian Field Marshals
• List of naval commanders
• List of samurai