List of military commanders
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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)
- Ashoka (Emperor of India)
- 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)
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Japanese general whose decisive victories brought down the Taira clan during the Gempei War)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japanese general, he seized control over Japan after the death of Oda Nobunaga)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (daimyo, the first to unite the whole Japan and a founder of a shogunate that lasted over 250 years)
- 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)
- Gustavus Adolphus 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)
- Sam Manekshaw (Indo-Pak War 1971, India)
- 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, Canadian
- 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