List of military commanders
See also: Military History
Antiquity
- Cyrus the Great (King of Persia who conquered Babylon)
- Artaphernes (Persian 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)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon)
- 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)
- Aspar (late Roman general)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- William Wallace (Scottish Knight 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 the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
- 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 (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)
Renaissance
- Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador)
- 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)
- Henri Maurice Comte-de-Saxe (France)
Great Empires
- Gustav II Adolph of Sweden
- Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
- Charles XII of Sweden
- 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
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Horatio Nelson British Navy Officer (late 1700 to 1805)
- George Washington
- 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
Early Modern Times
- 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)
- Shaka (Changed the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation)
- Sir George Howard (UK)
- Simón Bolívar (South American nationalist and general)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (South American and Italian independence wars general)
- 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)
- Pancho Villa
- Horatio Kitchener
- Yuan Shikai (China)
- Yamagata Aritomo (Japan)
- Douglas Haig (WWI UK)
- 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)
Mechanized Warfare
- Samuel T. Williams (US)
- 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)
- 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)
- Boshiro Hosogaya (WWII Japan)
- Walter Krueger (WWII US)
- Douglas MacArthur (WWII and Korea, US)
- Carl Gustav Mannerheim (WWII Finland)
- Mitsuru Ushijima (WWII Japan)
- Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK)
- Leslie Morshead (WW II Australia)
- 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)
- Yamamoto Isoroku (WWII Japan)
- Chen Yi
- Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
- Georgy Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union)
- Omar Mukhtar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians in WWII)
Early Space-Age Warfare
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander)
- Romeo Dallaire - Force Commander of UNAMIR who tried to stop the Rwandan Genocide
- 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 naval commanders
- List of samurai
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