Military
Explore notable people associated with Military: military careers, key missions, historical events and the consequences of their decisions.
John Clifford Pemberton
USA
USAGeneral of the Confederate Army
Vera Salbieva
Soviet officer
Pamela Ann Melroy
USA
USAAstronaut
Fransisko Coronado
Spain
SpainSpanish conquistador.
Dagobert Sigmund Wurmser
Austria
AustriaAustrian Field Marshal
Paul Conrath
Germany
GermanyGerman officer, participant in the First and Second World Wars, general of the parachute troops
Johan Arnold Zoutman
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch admiral
Miroslav Germashevskiy
Poland
PolandFirst Polish cosmonaut
Gerd Rundshtedt
Germany
GermanyField Marshal of the German Army.
Helmut Dorner
Germany
GermanyGerman officer, participant in World War II, Oberführer
Gagik Stepanyan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian Fedayeen
Anton Gubenko
Ukraine
UkraineFighter pilot, Heroes of the People's Liberation War in China
Anatoliy Zaitsev
Georgia
GeorgiaChief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Abkhazia
George Grivas
Greece
GreeceHead of the EOKA organization, General of the Greek Army
Simo Hayha
Finland
FinlandMost prolific sniper of World War II
Vasiliy Batyev
Fighter pilot
Sadao Araki
Japan
JapanJapanese statesman and military leader
Stepan Karnach
Fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union
Anatolij Nefedov
Ukraine
UkraineFighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Heroes of the Soviet-Finnish war
Leonid Sevrukov
Fighter pilot
Tracy Caldwell-Dyson
USA
USAAmerican female astronaut
Svetomir Dukich
Serbia
SerbiaGeneral of the Chetnik movement.
Philip Vian
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish Admiral of the Fleet, participant in both World Wars
Nikolay Kirtok
Ukraine
UkraineSquadron commander of the 143rd Guards Assault Aviation Regiment
Lothar Arnauld de la Periere
Germany
GermanyGerman naval officer, hero of World War I, vice admiral
Edward Codrington
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish admiral.
Vasiliy Kryuchkov
Squadron Commander of the 163rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
Aimo Lahti
Finland
FinlandFinnish small arms designer, self-taught engineer, chief gunsmith and major general
Linda Maxine Godwin
USA
USAAmerican female astronaut
Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustadten
Austria
AustriaAustro-Hungarian Colonel General
Polina Osipenco
Russia
RussiaPilot, Hero of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Duhanov
Soviet military leader, lieutenant general
Oka Gorodovikov
Soviet cavalryman, colonel general
Josef Bursik
Czech
CzechMajor General of the Czechoslovak People's Army (1990).
Jeck Danlap
USA
USASpy
Henry Zeschau
Great Britain
Great BritainSaxon lieutenant general (1810).
Evrenos
Turkey
TurkeyFamous Ottoman commander
Fridrih Kolbe
Germany
GermanySpy
Walt Cunningham
USA
USANASA astronaut
Jose Enrique De la Pena
Mexico
MexicoLieutenant Colonel of the Mexican Army
Ivan Klimanov
Russia
RussiaFighter pilot
Alexander Korobkov
Soviet military leader, commander of the 4th Army, major general
Tuleugali Abdubekov
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanSniper, Hero of the Soviet Union
Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters
Canada
CanadaCanadian officer, tank ace, commander of the Sherman Firefly tank
Beverly Robertson
USA
USAAmerican cavalryman of the Southern Army
Neil Armstrong
USA
USAAmerican astronaut
Shearl Dekan
France
FranceCount, division general
Arthur Roy Brown
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish Canadian pilot, captain, ace of the First World War
Jerald Vindzorskiy
Great Britain
Great BritainAnglo-Norman knight, an active participant in the Norman conquest of South Wales at the end of the 11th - beginning of the 12th century.
Nikolay Belogub
Ukraine
UkraineTanker of the Volkhov Front