List of people associated with World War I

See: World War I

[edit]

Australia

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

C.E.W. Bean (1879-1968) Official Australian war correspondent
Henry Gordon Bennett (1887-1962) Commander, 3rd Infantry Brigade
William Throsby Bridges (1861-1915) Commander, Australian Imperial Force, Australian 1st Division
Henry George Chauvel (1865-1945), Commander, Anzac Mounted Division, Desert Mounted Corps
Sir Talbot Hobbs, (1864-1938), Commander, Australian 5th Division
Billy Hughes, (1862-1952), Prime Minister
John Simpson Kirkpatrick, (1892-1915), Stretcher bearer
The Hon. James Whiteside M'Cay, (1864-1930), Commander, Australian 5th Division
Sir John Monash, (1865-1931), Commander, Australian 3rd Division, Australian Corps
Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885-1952), War reporter
Sir Charles Rosenthal, (1875-1954), Commander, Australian 2nd Division

[edit]

Austria-Hungary

(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)

[edit]

Royalty

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1863-1914), heir to the throne whose murder brought on the war.
Emperor Franz Josef, (1830-1916)
Emperor Karl, (1887-1922)
Empress Zita (1892-1989)

[edit]

Military Leaders

Svetozar Boroevic von Bojna, field marshal
Viktor von Dankl, Colonel General
Franz Rohr von Denta, field marshal
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, (1852-1925), Chief of Staff (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
Hermann Kövess, field marshal
Artur Arz von Straussenburg, (1857-1935), Chief of Staff (1917-1918)
Oskar Potiorek, (1853-1933), General

[edit]

Politicians

Friedrich Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
Count Julius Andrassy the Younger (1860-1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)
Baron István Burian, (1851-1922), Foreign Minister (1915-1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916-1918)
Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinitz (1863-1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916-1917)
Count Ottokar Czernin, (1872-1932), Foreign Minister (1916-1918)
Count Moric Esterhazy (1881-1960), Minister-President of Hungary (1917)
Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862-1931), Minister-President of Austria (1917-1918)
Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865-1935), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
Count Michael Karolyi (1875-1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
Ernst von Koerber (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
Heinrich Lammasch (1853-1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
Count Karl von Stürgkh (1859-1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911-1916)
Count István Tisza (1861-1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913-1917)
Sandor Wekerle (1848-1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917-1918)

[edit]

Belgium

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

King Albert I, (1875-1934)
Baron Charles de Broqueville, (1860-1940), Prime Minister
Victor Deguise, (1855-1922), General
Gerard Leman, (1851-1920), General
Gabrielle Petit, (1893-1916), Executed Spy

[edit]

Bulgaria

(Entered the War on: October 12, 1915)

[edit]

Royalty

Ferdinand I

[edit]

Politicians

Alexander Malinov, (1867-1938), Prime Minister (1908-1911, 1918)
Vasil Radoslavov, (1854-1929), Prime Minister
Alexander Stamboliski, (1879-1923), anti-monarchist
Nikola Zhekov, (1864-1949), Commander-in-Chief
Stefan Panaretov, (1853-1931), diplomat

[edit]

Military leaders

Nikolaus Jekov, general
Georg Stojanov Todorov

[edit]

Canada (includes Newfoundland)

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

Harry Banks (1896–1916?) supposed victim of German crucifixion
William Barker (1894–1930) was a fighter ace and Victoria Cross recipient
Billy Bishop (1884–1956), ace credited with 72 victories
Sir Robert Borden (1854–1937) Prime Minister (1911–1920)
Henri Bourassa (1868–1952) led French Canadian opposition to conscription
Filip Konowal (1888–1959) Ukrainian-Canadian Victoria Cross recipient
Sir Arthur Currie (1875–1933) Commander, Canadian Forces
Sir Sam Hughes (1853–1921) Minister of Militia and Defense
John McCrae (1872–1918) doctor and poet, author of "In Flanders Fields"
Henry Norwest (1884–1918) one of the most famous snipers in World War I
Francis Pegahmagabow (1891–1952) the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) last soldier killed in World War I (shot two minutes before the announcement of the Armistice)
Tommy Ricketts (1901–1967) at age 17, he was the youngest soldier to ever receive the Victoria Cross
Sir Richard Turner (1871–1948) Chief of Canadian General Staff

[edit]

France

(Entered the War on: August 3, 1914)

[edit]

Military Leaders

Edouard de Castelnau, (1851-1944), General
Auguste Dubail, (1851-1934), General
Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856-1942), Marshall
Ferdinand Foch, (1851-1929), General and Supreme Allied Commander
Joseph Gallieni, (1849-1916), General
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, (1852-1931), Commander-in-Chief
Hubert Lyautey, (1854-1934), War Minister
Charles Mangin, (1866-1925), General
Michael Maunoury, (1847-1923), General
Robert Georges Nivelle, (1856-1924), Commander-in-Chief
Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), Commander-in-Chief
Maurice Sarrail, (1856-1929), General

[edit]

Politicians

Aristide Briand, (1862-1932), Prime Minister (1909-11, 1913, 1915-17, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1929)
Joseph Caillaux, (1863-1944), Prime Minister (June 1911 - January 1912), pacifist
Georges Clemenceau, (1841-1929), Prime Minister (1917-1920)
Théophile Delcassé, (1852-1923), Foreign Minister (1914-1915)
Gaston Doumergue,
Jean Jaures, (1859-1914), Socialist party leader, pacifist
Alexandre Millerand, (1859-1943), Minster of War (1912-13, 1914-15)
Paul Painlevé, (1863-1933), Prime Minister (September 1917 - November 1917)
Stephen Pichon,
Raymond Poincaré, (1860-1934), President (1913-1920)
Alexandre Ribot, (1842-1923), Prime Minister (March 1917 - September 1917)
René Viviani, (1862-1925), Prime Minister (1914-1915)

[edit]

Germany

(Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

[edit]

Monarch

Emperor Wilhelm II

[edit]

Military Leaders

Otto von Below
Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of Staff 1914 - 1916
Hermann von François
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Field Marshal
Wilhelm Groener
Paul von Hindenburg, (1847-1934), general, president
Admiral Franz von Hipper, Commander, High Seas Fleet
Max Hoffmann
Alexander von Kluck, General
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Erich Ludendorff, General
August von Mackensen, Field Marshal
Helmuth von Moltke, (1848-1916), Chief of Staff, 1906 - 1914
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
Otto Liman von Sanders, (1855-1929), General
Alfred von Schlieffen, (1833-1913), Pre-war Chief of General Staff
Alfred von Tirpitz, (1849-1930), Naval Minister
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

[edit]

Political Leaders

Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867-1929), Imperial Chancellor (1918)
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Imperial Chancellor (1909-1917)
Prince Bernhard von Bülow, former Imperial Chancellor (1900-1909), Ambassador to Italy (1914-1915), rival
Friedrich Ebert, (1871-1925), Social Democratic leader, Imperial Chancellor (1918), later First President of the Weimar Republic
Matthias Erzberger, leader of the left wing of the Catholic Centre Party
Count Georg von Hertling, Imperial Chancellor (1917-1918)
Richard von Kühlmann, Foreign Secretary (1917-1918)
Georg Michaelis, Imperial Chancellor (1917)
Gottlieb von Jagow, Foreign Secretary (1913-1916)
Philipp Scheidemann, Social Democratic Leader, later first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919)
Gustav Stresemann, (1878-1929), leader of the imperialist wing of the National Liberal Party, later a major statesman of the Weimar Republic
Arthur Zimmermann, Foreign Secretary (1916-1917)

[edit]

Others

Anthony Fokker, (1890 - 1939), Aircraft builder
Manfred von Richthofen, (1892-1918), fighter ace

[edit]

Greece

(Entered the War on: June 29, 1917)

King Constantine I
King Alexander
Joannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), military dictator
Eleutherios Venizelos, prime minister

[edit]

Italy

(Entered the War on: May 23, 1915)

Luigi Cadorna, General
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869-1947)
Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
Antonio Salandra, Prime Minister
Giovanni Giolitti
Baron Sidney Sonnino, Foreign Minister
Vittorio Orlando
Luigi Boselli
Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
Armando Diaz, General
Gabriele d'Annunzio, novelist and poet
Francesco Baracca, fighter ace
Ottavio Bottecchia, soldier, later Tour de France winner

[edit]

Japan

(Entered the War on: August 23, 1914)

Emperor Yoshihito
Mitsuomi Kamio
Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, prime minister (1914-1916)
Count Masatake Terauchi, prime minister (1916-1918)
Takashi Hara, (1918-1921)

[edit]

Netherlands

(Neutral Country)

Jelles Troelstra
Mata Hari, spy
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), Queen

[edit]

New Zealand

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence
Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), Highly decorated soldier
William Massey, Prime Minister
Sir Andrew Russell, General

[edit]

Ottoman Empire

(Entered the War on: October 31, 1914)

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, (1881-1938), Turkish leader
Sultan Mehmed V
Sultan Mehmed VI
Enver Pasha, Minister of War
Said Halim Pasha, Grand Vizier
Talaat Pasha, Minister of Interior

[edit]

Romania

(Entered the War on: August 27, 1916)

Alexandru Averescu
Ion I.C. Bratianu
Vasile Stoica
Carol I
Ferdinand I, (1865-1927), King of Romania (1924-1927)
Constantine Prezan

[edit]

Russia

(Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

[edit]

Monarchs

Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918), abdicated in 1917
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch Romanov (1878-1918), refused the throne after Nicholas' abdication
Empress Alexandra (1872-1918)

[edit]

Military Leaders

Mikhail Alekseev
Aleksei Brusilov
Yuri Danilov
Anton Denikin
Alexander Kolchak, Admiral
Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870-1918), Russian general
Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich
Paul von Rennenkampf
Alexander Samsonov
Peter Wrangel
Nikolai Yudenich

[edit]

Political Leaders and others

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888-1938), Bolshevik Leader
Victor Chernov, Socialist-Revolutionary Party Leader
Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister (1914-1916)
Alexander Guchkov, Octobrist leader
Lev Kamenev
Aleksandr Kerensky, (1881-1970), second head of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Leader
Alexander Krivoshein, Minister of Agriculture
Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924), Bolshevik leader
Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov, first Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
Nikolai Maklakov, Minister of the Interior
Julius Martov, Menshevik Leader
Pavel Miliukov, Kadet leader
Alexander Protopopov, Minister of the Interior
Vladimir Purishkevich, right wing political leader, assassin of Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin, (1872-1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
Sergei Sazonov, Foreign Minister (1910-1916)
Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
Boris Stürmer, Prime Minister (1916)
Alexander Trepov, Prime Minister (1916)
Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940), Bolshevik leader
Prince Felix Yusupov, murderer of Rasputin
Grigory Zinoviev, (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik

[edit]

Serbia

(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)

King Peter I, (1844-1921), Serbian monarch
Crown Prince Alexander, (1888-1934), Serbian monarch
Dragutin Dimitrijevic, (1877-1917), founder and leader of Black Hand society
Zivojin Misic, (1855-1921), Field Marshal
Nikola Pasic, (1845-1926), Prime Minister
Gavrilo Princip, (1894-1918), the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand of Austria and triggered the war
Radomir Putnik, (1847-1917), Chief of General Staff
Peter Vasic, (1862-1931), Colonel
Bosa Yankovich, General