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)
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)
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 of Hauteville (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)
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 de Broglie
Victor Marie, 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)
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)
Henry Jackson Hunt (U.S. Civil War)
Phillip H. Sheridan (US Civil War)
James Longstreet (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)
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 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 Mainstein (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)
Wesley Clark NATO Supreme Commander
Tommy Franks Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command - 2003 invasion of Iraq

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