List of people associated with World War II

This is a list of people associated with World War II.

Albania

Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), communist resistance

Australia

Henry Gordon Bennett (1887-1962), Major General of Australian Imperial Forces
Thomas Blamey, General of Australian Imperial Forces
John Curtin (1885-1945), Prime Minister from 1941 until his death in 1945
Robert Menzies (1894-1978), Prime Minister 1939-1941
Leslie Morshead (1889-1959), Commander of the Rats of Tobruk, later head of Australian Imperial Forces

Austria

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Führer of Germany (Austrian-born)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946), SS officer
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi and Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands

Belgium

Leopold III (1901-1983)
Albert Guerisse, resistance organizer
Andreé de Jongh, Belgian resistance
Hubert Pierlot (1883-1963), Belgian Prime Minister
Edgard Potier (1903-1944), MI9 agent - Head of Possum Escape Line
Leopold Trepper (1904-1982) Head of Rote Kapelle

Brazil

Getulio Vargas (1883-1954), president

Bulgaria

Boris III (1894-1943)
Dobri Bozhilov, Prime Minister (1943-1944)
Georgi Dimitrov
Bogdan Filov, Prime Minister (1940-1943) and Regent (1943-1944)
Simeon II (1943-1946)
Todor Zhivkov (1911-1998)

Burma

U Aung San (1915-1947), Commander in Chief of the Burma Independence Army
U Ba Maw, prime minister during Japanese occupation

Canada

Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
George Beurling (1921-1948), fighter ace
Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
John Buchan, Governor General at the outset of the war
Peter Dmytruk (1920-1943), Flight Sergeant and French Resistance fighter
Charley Fox (born 1920), credited with wounding Erwin Rommel in an air attack in 1944
John Kenneth Macalister (1914-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), Prime Minister
John Gillespie Magee, Junior (1922-1941), American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and author of "High Flight"
Andrew George Latta (Andy) McNaughton (1887-1966), scientist, military commander, and diplomat
Frank Pickersgill (1915-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
Tommy Prince (1915-1977), Canada's most decorated aboriginal soldier, member of the US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade
Colonel James Layton Ralston (1881-1948), Minister of Defense
Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
Sir William Stephenson (1896-1989), head of British intelligence for the western hemisphere and Winston Churchill's personal representative to Franklin D. Roosevelt

China

Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975), Generalissimo of Kuomintang Forces; Chairman of the ROC
Soong May-ling (1898-2003), Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), communist ambassador to Kuomintang
Mao Zedong (1893-1976), communist leader
Pu Yi, last Emperor of China; puppet Emperor of Manchukuo
Wang Jingwei (1888-1944), head of Japanese supported collaborationist government

Czechoslovakia

Edvard Benes (1884-1948), Czech President-in-exile
Josef Frantisek, fighter ace
Emil Hácha, president
Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German politician
Karel Miroslav Kuttelwascher, fighter ace
Jan Masaryk (1886-1948), Czech Foreign Minister-in-exile
Ludvík Svoboda, general
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947), President of separatist Slovakia

Denmark

Christian X (1870-1947)
Fritz Clausen, Leader of the Danish Nazi Party
Sven Hassel (born 1917), penal regiment soldier

Egypt

Farouk (1920-1965), king

Ethiopia

Haile Selassie (1892-1975), Emperor of Ethiopia

Finland

Aksel Airo (1898-1985), HQ strategic planner
Adolf Ehrnrooth (1905-2004), infantry general
Mauno Koivisto (born 1923), infantryman and later president
C.G.E. Mannerheim (1867-1951), field marshal and later president
Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870-1956), diplomat
Risto Ryti (1889-1956), president
Hjalmar Siilasvuo (1892-1947)
Lauri Törni (1919-1965), infantry captain

France

Georges Bidault, French Resistance activist
Denise Bloch (1915-1945), French Resistance and SOE agent
Pierre Boisson, general and governor of Equatorial Africa
Andrée Borrel (1919-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
Pierre Brossolette, French Resistance
Eliane Plewman (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
Mathilde Carré, French Resistance double agent
Edouard Daladier, prime minister
Madeleine Damerment (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
François Darlan (1881-1942), admiral, Vice Premier under Vichy
Joseph Darnand, head of Vichy France Milice
Marcel Déat (1894-1955), Fascist leader
Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), leader of the Free French Forces and Gaullist French Resistance
Henri Dentz, Vichy France general in Syria
Jacques Doriot (1898-1945), Fascist leader
Pierre-Etienne Flandin (1889-1958), French conservative politician, foreign minister of Vichy.
Maurice Gamelin, general
Henri Giraud, general who escaped a German POW camp and became the leader of liberated North Africa until displaced by De Gaulle.
Charles Huntziger (1880-1941), General
Max Hymans (1900-1961) French resistance leader
Noor Inayet Khan, SOE agent
Marie Pierre Koenig, General and coordination of resistance activities
Pierre Laval, Vichy France Foreign Minister and Prime Minister
Philippe Leclerc, General of Free French Forces
Jean Moulin (1899-1943), French Resistance leader
Maurice Papon (1910 - ), Nazi collaborator, convicted war criminal
Henri Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), leader of Vichy France
Paul Reynaud (1878-1966), last Prime Minister of the Third Republic.
Lilian Rolfe (1914-1945), SOE agent
Odette Sansom (1912-1995), French Resistance and SOE agent
Violette Szabo (1921-1945), SOE agent
Paul Touvier (1915-1996), Nazi collaborator and only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity
Susan Travers (born 1909)
Nancy Wake (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
Maxime Weygand (1867-1965), general

Germany

Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), was a German officer of the SS and the Gestapo sent to occupied France where he became known as The Butcher of Lyon
Bayerlein, Fritz, Panzer general
Ludwig Beck (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot
Johannes Blaskowitz, Colonel General
Hugo Bleicher, German counter-intelligence operative in France
Fedor von Bock, Field marshal
Juana Bormann (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps.
Martin Bormann (1900-1945?), highest ranking Nazi party administrator, Nuremburg defendant in absentia
Herta Bothe, camp guard at Bergen-Belsen
Hans Bothmann (1911-1946), a Commandant of the Chelmno death camp in central Poland
Dr. Karl Brandt, ran the German T-4 Euthanasia Program
Eva Braun (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress (and wife for a day)
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), rocket scientist
Hermine Braunsteiner (1919-1999) - "The Stomping Mare"
Wilhelm Canaris (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr
Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp
John Demjanuk, notorious guard at the German extermination camps
Rudolf Diels (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo
Sepp Dietrich, SS general
Karl Dönitz (1891-1980), Admiral, masterminded U-Boat warfare, Nuremburg defendant
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), top level bureaucrat
Theodor Eicke (1892-1943), a Commandant of the Dachau death camp and head of the SS Death's-Head Units
Nikolaus Falkenhorst, colonel general and commander of German troops in Norway
Eugen Fischer (1874-1967), Professor of Anthropology who promoted racial purity
Hans Frank (1900-1946), lawyer for Adolf Hitler, Nazi Governor-General of General Government in occupied Poland, Nuremburg defendant
Walter Frank (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer, he was president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany
Kurt Franz (1917-1998), Deputy Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp
Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), Reich Minister of the Interior, Nuremburg defendant
Hans Fritzsche (1900-1953), Nazi party official who served in the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda, Nuremburg defendant
Walther Funk (1890-1960), was Adolf Hitler's personal advisor on economic affairs and a state secretary of the Propaganda Ministry, Nuremburg defendant
Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe fighter ace
Hans Bernd Gisevius (1904-1974), diplomat
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Chancellor of Germany, propaganda chief for the Nazis
Amon Leopold Goeth, SS officer
Hermann Göring (1893-1946), commander of Luftwaffe, Nuremburg defendant
Irma Grese (1923-1945), a Senior SS Supervisor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Heinz Guderian (1888-1954), Panzer general
Erich Hartmann, fighter pilot; the most successful fighter ace in history
Karl Hass (1912-2004) - mass murderer
Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), Hitler's deputy, Nuremburg defendant
Werner Heyde, involved in human experimentations
Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), head of Gestapo
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Führer of Germany
Erich Hoepner, (1886-1944), general
Rudolf Höß, first commandant of the extermination camps
Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), general, Chief of Operation Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces, Nuremburg defendant
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946) chief of the German Security Service, Nuremburg defendant
Herbert Kappler (1907-1978) – Gestapo head in Rome
Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946), Field Marshal, Nuremburg defendant
Albert Kesselring (1881-1960), Field Marshal, commander of German troops in Italy
Günther von Kluge, Field Marshal
Ilse Koch (1906-1967), the wife of Karl Otto Koch, Commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
Karl Otto Koch (1897-1945) first commandant at Buchenwald Extermination camp
Josef Kramer (1906-1945), was the head of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Otto Kretschmer (1912-1998), U-boat commander
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950), German industrialist and weapons manufacturer
Alfried Krupp (1907-1967), arms manufacturer
Hans Langsdroff, Commander of Graf Spee
Arthur Liebehenschel (1901-1948), a Commandant of both the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps
Robert Ley (1890-1945), Nazi party chief who set up the German Labor Front(1890-1945), Nuremburg defendant (committed suicide before trial)
Maria Mandel (1912-1947), chief-guard of Birkenau women's camp
Maj Karl Plagge, German Army officer [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4432075.stm)
Erich von Manstein (1887-1973), Field Marshal
Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who performed experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz extermination camp
Walther Model (1891-1945), Field Marshal
Konrad Morgen (1910-1976), "bloodhound judge"
Werner Mölders, Luftwaffe fighter ace
Konstantin von Neurath (1873-1956), Foreign Minister of Germany, Nuremburg defendant
Herta Oberheuser (1911-1978), a doctor
Josef Oberhauser, commander of the Belzec extermination camp
Friedrich Paulus, Field Marshal and commander of German troops in Stalingrad
Erich Priebke (1913-) - mass murderer
Erich Raeder (1876-1960) Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, Nuremburg defendant
Walther von Reichenau, field marshal
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) Nazi foreign minister, Nuremburg defendant
Lothar Rendulic
Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), NSDAP party member, who organized Adolf Hitler's "Brownshirts"
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), Field Marshal, "Desert Fox"
Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), Nazi ideologist, Nuremburg defendant
Rudolf Rösseler, publisher and Soviet spy
Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953), Field Marshal
Walter Schellenberg, SS general and secret service officer
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), Nazi industrialist turned humanitarian
Baldur von Schirach (1907-1974), leader of the Hitler Youth movement, Nuremburg defendant
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892-1946), a lawyer, and Commissioner of the Occupied Netherlands, Nuremburg defendant
Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975), Commando lieutenant colonel
Hans and Sophie Scholl (1917-1943), anti-nazis
Richard Sorge (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
Albert Speer (1905-1981), architect and coordinator of war production, Nuremburg defendant
Franz Stangl (1908-1971) a Commandant at Sobibór extermination camp in Poland
Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-1944), Colonel and member of the July Plot
Julius Streicher (1885-1946), founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper, "Der Sturmer", Nuremburg defendant
Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909-1944), member of the Kreisau Circle executed for his role in the July 20 Plot to kill Hitler
Ernst Udet, inspector general of the Luftwaffe
Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919-1945), guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Christian Wirth, commander of the Belzec extermination camp

Greece

George II (1935-1947)
Ioannis Metaxas (1871-1941), military dictator
Alexander Papagos, General and commander-in-chief of Greek army
Georgios Papandreou, in Greek resistance and government-in-exile

Hungary

László Bárdossy (1890-1946), Prime Minister 1941-1942
Miklós Horthy (1868-1957), Regent
Miklós Kállay (1887-1967), Prime Minister 1942-1944
Géza Lakatos (1890-1967), Prime Minister 1944
Ferenc Szálasi (1897-1946), Fascist leader, Prime Minister 1944-1945
Hannah Szenes (1921-1944), Partisan
Döme Sztójay (1883-1946), Prime Minister 1944
Pál Teleki (1879-1941), Prime Minister 1939-1941

India

Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian nationalist
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), Independence leader
Ayub Khan
Yahya Khan (1917-1980)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)

Iraq

el-Gaylani Rashid Ali

Ireland

Eamon de Valera (1932-1948; 1951-54; 1957-1959), Taoiseach
Leopold Kerney, Minister to Madrid involved in conducting negotiations with Germany over Irish neutrality and possible assistance with recovery of the "lost counties" of Ulster

Italy

Vittorio Ambrosio, general
Amadeo of Aosta, Duke and Commander of Italian armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia
Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956), field marshal
Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya
Annibale Bergonzoli, Lieutenant-General at Bardia
Junio Valerio Borghese, Naval lieutenant commander
Francisco Cavalera
Ugo Cavallero, Chief of General Staff
Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944), diplomat
Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947)
Roberto Farinacci, Fascist leader of Cremona
Umberto (1904-1983), Prince of Piedmont - Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom (de facto monarch) from 1943
Maria José, Princess of Piedmont - tried to negotiate separate peace with the United States
Carlo Favagrossa
Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Il Duce
Vittorio Revetra
Achille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party

Japan

Hatazo Adachi, Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in New Guinea
Korechika Anami, General and Minister of War in the end of the war
Mitsuo Fuchida, commander of Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor
Minory Genda, fighter commander
Haryoshi Hyakutake, lieutenant general in Guadalcanal
Masaharu Homma, general in invasion of the Philippines
Masaki Honda, Lieutenant general in Burma
Koichi Kido, Lord Privy Seal
Mineschi Koga, admiral, successor of Yamamoto
Kuniaki Koiso (1880-1950), lieutenant general
Nabutake Kondo, admiral in Guadalcanal
Fumimaro Konoye (1891-1945), statesman
Tadamichi Kuribayashi, general in the Battle of Iwo Jima
Takeo Kurita, admiral in the Battle of Midway
Hirohito (1901-1989), emperor
Yosuke Matsuoka, Foreign minister
Guinichi Mikawa, Vice Admiral in the Battle of Savo Island
Osami Nagano, Fleet admiral, Chief of the Naval General Staff
Chuichi Nagumo (1886-1944), Admiral
Kichisaburo Nomura, Admiral
Takijiro Onishi, admiral
Hiroo Onoda, (born 1922), post-war straggler
Jisaburo Ozawa, Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
Saburo Sakai, Zero fighter ace
Kazuo Sakamaki, first POW to the Americans
Yoshitsugu Saito, general in Saipan
Mamoru Shigemitsu, Foreign minister
Shigetaro Shimada, Admiral, Minister of the Navy
Hajime Sugiyama, general and Army Chief of Staff
Kantaro Suzuki (1867-1948), prime minister
Raizo Tanaka, Rear Admiral and destroyer commander
Hisaichi Terauchi (1879-1945), Field Marshal and supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army
Shigenori Togo, Foreign minister
Hideki Tojo (1884-1948), general and military prime minister
Tokyo Rose
Soemu Toyoda, admiral
Yoshijiro Umezu, general
Mitsuru Ushijima, general in the defense of Okinawa
Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943), admiral
Tomoyuki Yamashita, lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines

Malta

William Dobbie, British governor
Mabel Strickland

Manchuria

Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001)

The Netherlands

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
Karel Doorman (1889-1942), admiral
Wilhelmina I (1880-1962), Queen
Princess Juliana (future Queen Juliana)
Anne Frank (1929-1945), genocide victim and diarist
Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934), scapegoated for Reichstag fire

New Zealand

Leslie Andrew (1897-1969), Commander the 22nd Battalion of the Second NZEF
Roderick Carr (1891-1971), Air Marshal and Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force
Arthur Coningham (1895-1948), Air Marshal and commander of UK Western Desert Air Force
Peter Fraser (1884-1950), Prime Minister from March 1940
Bernard Freyberg (1889-1963), general and commander of NZ corps
Alfred Hulme (1911-1982), Sergeant awarded Victoria Cross
F. H. Maynard
Sir Keith Park, RAF sector commander during the Battle of Britain
Michael Joseph Savage, (1872-1940), Prime Minister until his death in March 1940
Lloyd Allan Trigg, awarded Victoria Cross on recommendation of German submarine commander
Charles Upham, Army Captain awarded Victoria Cross and bar
Nancy Wake, (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis

Norway

Carl Gustav Fleischer, (1883-1942), General, Norwegian commander in Northern Norway 1940
Jens Christian Hauge, head of Milorg
Haakon VII, (1872-1957)
C.J. Hambro, politician
Leif Larsen, (1901-1991), Shetland's Larsen, Naval officer
Martin Linge, commander of SOE Norwegian Independent Company 1
Max Manus, resistance fighter
Vidkun Quisling, (1887-1945), Nazi collaborator
Henry Oliver Rinnan, (1915-1947), double agent for Gestapo
Arvid Storsveen, leader of XU
Gunnar Sønsteby, resistance fighter

Palestine

David Ben Gurion, (1886-1973), Zionist leader
Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Philippines

Sergio Osmena, Vice-president
Manuel L. Quezon, (1878-1944), president

Poland

Wladyslaw Anders, lieutenant general and leader of Free Polish army
Mordechaj Anielewicz, (1919-1943), commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization during the Warsaw ghetto uprising
Józef Beck, minister of foreign affairs
Wojciech Jaruzelski, (born 1923), was drafted into Soviet Polish Army
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general and leader of Warsaw Uprising
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of Polish government-in-exile
Edward Rydz-Śmigly, marshal and army commander
Wladyslaw Sikorski, General and head of the Polish government-in-exile
Henryk Sławik, nicknamed "Polish Wallenberg", Polish diplomat who saved 5.000 Jews.
Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), highly decorated SOE agent
Karol Józef Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II

Portugal

António de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister and fascist dictator
Aristides Sousa Mendes, diplomat, saved 30,000 jews by issuing visas against government directives

Romania

Ion Antonescu, (1882-1946), marshal and military dictator
Mihai Antonescu, Deputy prime minister and foreign minister

South Africa

Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), prime minister
John Vorster

Soviet Union

Alexei Antonov, Chief of General Staff at the end of the war
I.Kh.Bagramian, (1897-1982)
Lavrenty Beria, (1899-1953), chief of NKVD, head of Soviet atomic bomb project
Semion Mikhailovich Budennyi, (1883-1973)
Nikolay Bulganin, political marshal
Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906- 1945) Youngest Russian Front Commander and Marshal.
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900 -1982), commanded the 62nd Russian army to victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.
Leonid Govorov, (1897-1955), marshal, liberator of Leningrad
Filipp Golikov, (1900-1980), Commander of the Front
V.N. Gordov, (1896-1950), Commander of the Front
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Kuznetsov, admiral
M.P. Kirponos, (1891-1941), Commander of the Front
D.T. Kozlov, (1903-1970), Commander of the Front
I.S. Konev, (1897-1973), marshal, Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front which took Berlin
F.Ya. Kostenko, (1896-1942), Commander of the Front
P.A. Kurochkin, (1900-1989), Commander of the front
F.I. Kuznetsov, (1896-1961), Commander of the Front
Vasili Kuznetsov, general
Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs before Molotov
Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov
R.Ya. Malinovskiy, (1898-1967), marshal, Commander of the Front
I.I. Maslennikiv, (1900-1954), Commander of the Front
K.S. Melnik, (1900-1971), Commander of the Front
Kirill Meretskov, (1897-1968), marshal, chief commander in Winter War
Vyacheslav Molotov, (1890-1986), People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
D.K. Pavlov, (1897-1941), Commander of the Western Front, court-martialled on Stalin's orders, accused of the German army's break through the Soviet front lines, sentenced to death
Ye.I. Petrov, (1896-1958), general of the army, Commander of the Front
Konstantin Rokossovsky, marshal
M.M. Popov, (1902-1969), Commander of the Front
M.A. Purkayev, (1894-1953), Commander of the Front
M.Ya. Reiter, (1896-1950), Commander of the Front
K.K. Rokossovskiy, (1896-1968), Commander of the Front
D.I. Ryabishev, (1894-1985), Commander of the Front
Richard Sorge, (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953)
Semyon Timoshenko, (1895-1970), marshal, Commander of the Front
Andrey Tupolev, (1888-1972), aircraft designer
A.M. Vasilevskiy, (1895-1977), Commander of the Front
Nikolay Vatutin, (1901-1944), general in the relief of Stalingrad
Andrey Vlasov, Lieutenant general in the Red Army, and the commander of the German-backed Russian Liberation Army
Kliment Voroshilov, (1881-1969), Marshal
Andrey Yeremenko, (1892-1970), marshal and front line general in Stalingrad
M.G. Yefremov, (1897-1942), Commander of the Front
Vasily Zaitsev, sniper
G.F. Zakharov, (1897-1957), Commander of the Front
Georgy Zhukov, (1896-1974), marshal and chief of the Red Army

Spain

Francisco Franco, (1892-1975), military dictator

Sweden

Folke Bernadotte, (1895-1948), count and diplomat
Per Albin Hansson, (1885-1946), prime minister
Raoul Wallenberg, (born 1912), diplomat

Turkey

Elyesa Bazna, double-agent
Ismet Inonu, (1884-1973), president

United Kingdom

Augustus Agar,V.C., seagoing captain who saw much acton
A. V. Alexander, (1885-1965), First Lord of the Admiralty 1940-1045, 1945-1946
Harold Alexander, (1891-1969), Field Marshal
Geoffrey Appleyard, commando major
Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), Deputy Prime Minister
Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), Field Marshal
Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), Royal Air Force pilot with no legs
Ralph A. Bagnold, (1896-1990)
Stanley Baldwin, politician and ex-prime minister
Eric Arthur Blair, (George Orwell), (1903-1950) author, journalist, propagandist
Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
Donald Bennett, Air Vice-Marshal of RAF
Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and National Service
Tom Bird, Lieutenant at Tobruk
William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, Commander of Narvik Expedition
Alan Brooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal
Frederick Browning, lieutenant general of airborne troops
Maurice Buckmaster, colonel of Special Operations Executive
Adrian Carton De Wiart, General, Norweigan Campaign
Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), Prime Minister at the start of the war
Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield (1873-1967), Minister for Coordination of Defence 1939-1940
Peter Churchill, SOE agent
Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, Prime Minister 1940-1945
Dudley Clarke, creator of the British Commandos
Walter Cowan, Admiral, still on active service at 73
Victor Crutchley, (1893-1986), admiral
John Cunningham, RAF group captain and night-fighter ace
William Dobbie, governor of Malta
Eric Dorman-Smith
Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), Secretary of State for War 1940, Foreign Secretary 1940-1945
Duke of Windsor, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
Princess Elizabeth, (born 1926), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
Queen Elizabeth, (1900-2002), (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), consort of King George VI
Ian Fleming, instigator of the scheme to capture Rudolf Hess
George VI, (1895-1952)
William Gott
Sir P.J. Grigg, (1890-1964), Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office 1939-1942, Secretary of State for War 1942-1945
Rex King-Clark
Arthur Harris, "Bomber", Air Chief Marshall of Bomber Command
B.H. Liddell Hart, (1895-1970), Masterminded modern tank warfare, copied by Germans as Blitzkrieg
Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War 1937-1940
James Johnson, RAF fighter ace
Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes First head of Commandoes
Miles Lampson
John Lapsley
Robert Laycock, General of the "Layforce" of Commandos
Rea Leakey
Christopher Lee, (born 1922), volunteered to fight in the Winter war
Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal and fighter commander
Fitzroy Maclean
David Margesson (1890-1965), Secretary of State for War 1940-1942
Leo Marks, (1920-2001)
Eric Maschwitz (1901-1969), patriotic lyricist (A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square)
Frank Merrill, Brigadier general and leader of "Merrill's Marauders"
Spike Milligan, Royal Artillery gunner, musician and comedian
Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), Field Marshal
Oswald Mosley (1896-1980), British fascist leader
Louis Mountbatten, (1900-1979), Vice-admiral
Airey Neave (1916-1979)
Richard O'Connor
Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff
Dudley Pound, Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
Dan Ranfurly
Odette Sansom (1912-1995), SOE agent
Sir Archibald Sinclair, (1890-1970), Liberal leader, Secretary of State for Air 1940-1945
William Slim, general in Burmese front
Oliver Stanley, (1896-1950), Secretary of State for War 1940
David Stirling, (1915-1990), commando colonel and founder of Special Air Service
Alan Turing, (1912-1954), cryptographer
Susan Travers, (born 1909), French Foreign Legion member
Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979)
Evelyn Waugh, great novelist and brave but so-so soldier
Archibald Wavell, field marshal
Henry Maitland Wilson, (1881-1964), field marshal
Orde Wingate, major general and founder of Chindits
Edward Yeo-Thomas, (1901-1964), SOE agent

United States

Henry Arnold, (1886-1950), USAAF general
Donald Blakeslee, fighter ace
Richard Bong, (1920-1945), USAAF fighter ace
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, (1912-1988), USMC aviator
Omar Bradley, (1893-1981), general
Lewis Hyde Brereton, Major general
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., infantry general in the Aleutian Islands
Arleigh Burke, (1901-1996), US Navy commander
George H. W. Bush, (born 1924), US Navy pilot
Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), financier
Claire Chennault, (1893-1958), USAAF major general and organizer of Flying Tigers
Mark W. Clark, (1896-1984) US Army general
Clarence Craft
William O. Darby
William Joseph Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
James Doolittle, (1896-1993), lieutenant general
Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), refugee and scientist
Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969)
Bonner Fellers
James Forrestal, (1892-1949), secretary of the Navy
William Frederick Friedman, (1891-1969), US cryptographer
Varian Fry (1907-1967) ran escape scheme in wartime France that helped approximately 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to flee
George H. Gay, (1917-1994), US Navy pilot
Roy Geiger, marine commando general
Leslie Groves, (1896-1970), general and supervisor of Manhattan Project
William Halsey, (1882-1959), vice-admiral in Pacific
William Averell Harriman, US ambassador to Moscow
Ira Hayes, (1923-1955)
Courtney Hodges
William Joyce, (1906-1946), "lord Haw-Haw"
George Kenney, Army Air Force General
Frank Knox, (1874-1944), Secretary of the Navy 1940-1944
Lyman Lemnitzer, (1899-1988), General
Douglas MacArthur, (1880-1964), General
George Marshall, (1880-1959)
Bill Mauldin, (1921-2003)
Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier
Chester Nimitz, (1885-1966), Admiral
Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967), physicist in Manhattan Project
Matthew Bunker Ridgway, (1895-1993), general
George Patton, (1885-1945), tank general
Ernest Pyle, (1900-1945), war correspondent
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882-1945), President of the United States until his death in April 1945
Charles Ryder
Carl Spaatz (1891-1974), Army Air Force General
Joseph Stilwell, General and Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff
John S. Thach (1905-1981), naval aviator and ace, inventor of Thach Weave aerial combat tactic
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), President of the United States from April 1945
Lucian Truscott
Jonathan Wainwright (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
Fred Walker
Walton Walker, commander