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Ancient

Illyria

• Agron (250 BC–230 BC) The first king to unite the Illyrian tribes together and form a kingdom. During his rule Illyria was a strong kingdom which had a strong military force, especially naval. He successfully stopped the attacks of the Roman Empire and the Aetolians by keeping his kingdom free till his death.

Armenia

• Artaxias I (189 BC–159 BC) Armenian king, founded the Artaxiad Dynasty, the beginnings of the Armenian Golden Age.
• Tigranes the Great (95 BC–55 BC) Armenian king, extended the Kingdom of Armenia to its greatest extent.
• Vartan Mamikonian (d. 451) Sparapet, commander of Armenian forces during the Battle of Avarayr against the Sassanids which preserved Christianity in Armenia.
• Ashot II (914–928) Armenian king, defeated Arabs.
• Leo I, King of Armenia

Berbers

• Lusius Quietus governor of Judaea and one of Trajan's chief generals. See Kitos War.
• Masinissa (c. 238 BC – c. 148 BC) was the first King of Numidia, an ancient North African nation of ancient Libyan peoples, and is most famous for his role as a Roman ally in the Battle of Zama.

Britons

• Boudica c. 25 AD – c. 62 AD, Queen of the Iceni, led an uprising against the invading forces of the Roman Empire.

Carthage

• Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal.
• Hannibal, famed Punic general who was Rome's greatest enemy during the Second Punic War. Hannibal won major battles against the Roman Republic, including the Battle of Lake Trasimene, and the Battle of Cannae.

Ancient China

• Sun Tzu (Warring States period) General, author of "The Art of War"
• Wu Qi (Warring States period) General, author of "Wu-tzu"
• Sun Bin (Warring States period) General, author of "Sun Bin Bing Fa"
• Yue Yi (Warring States period) General, who almost single-handedly destroyed Qi
• Tian Dan (Warring States period) General, who single-handedly resurrected Qi from destruction
• Xiang Yu (Qin) General and rebel against Qin
• Ban Chao Han Dynasty general who led campaigns against the Xiongnu Confederation into Western Asia.
• Han Xin (Han Dynasty) Considered the best general of his time, helped Liu Bang defeat Xiang Yu
• Wei Qing (Han Dynasty) General under Emperor Wu of Han, best known for his decisive campaigns against the Huns
• Huo Qubing (Han Dynasty) General under Emperor Wu of Han
• Cao Cao (Three Kingdoms period) prime minister, military governor, and de facto ruler of the Wei Kingdom, military strategist
• Guan Yu (Three Kingdoms period) Legendary for his loyalty and martial prowess, and deified as the God of War in the Sui Dynasty
• Zhou Yu (Three Kingdoms period) Military strategist
• Zhuge Liang (Three Kingdoms period) Military strategist, adviser to Liu Bei
• Xie Xuan (Jin Dynasty (265–420)) Military strategist
• Ran Min (Southern and Northern Dynasties) One of few Chinese warlords in the north, well known for his genocide against the Jie people
• Li Jing (Tang Dynasty) General, military strategist, best known for his decisive campaign against the Göktürks
• Li Shiji (Tang Dynasty) General, military strategist, best known for conquering Goguryeo
• Yue Fei (Song Dynasty) General, military strategist

Ancient Egypt

• Mentuhotep II
• Senusret III
• Ahmose I
• Thutmose I
• Thutmose III
• Seti I
• Ramesses II
• Merneptah
• Ramesses III
• Shoshenq I
• Psamtik I
• Necho II
• Psammetichus II
• Ahmose II

Gaul

• Brennus (4th century), Gallic chieftain who sacked rome in 390BC.
• Vercingetorix (72 BC–46 BC), Gallic warlord who fought against Julius Caesar during the Gallic War.
• Ambiorix; Gallic leader that resisted Caesar's invasion of Eastern Gaul.

Germania

• Arminius (16 BC–21 AD), war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci.
• Alaric I (375–410), Gothic King, defeated several Roman armies and sacked the city of Rome.

Goths

• Fritigern (Western Gothic chieftain whose military victories in the Gothic War of 376–382)
• Alatheus (Greuthung chieftain and general)
• Saphrax (Ostrogoth duke and war leader)
• Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)

Ancient Greece

• Miltiades the Younger (550 BC–489 BC), Athenian general during the Persian Wars.
• Callimachus, Athenian general during the Greco-Persian Wars.
• Themistocles (525 BC–460 BC), Athenian admiral during the Persian Wars.
• Leonidas (d. 480 BC), Spartan king, leader of the 300 Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae.
• Eurybiades, Spartan general during the Persian Wars.
• Pausanias – Spartan general during the Persian Wars.
• Cimon (Athenian general)
• Callias (Athenian general)
• Pericles (Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War)
• Pyrrhus of Epirus (king of the Greek tribe of Molossians(from ca. 297 BC), Epirus (306–301, 297–272 BC) and Macedon (288–284, 273–272 BC))
• 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), author of History of 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)
• Lysander (Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War)
• Xenophon – Elected Commander of the Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries against Artaxerxes II of Persia
• Epaminondas; Theban general that defeated the spartans at the battle of Leuctra.
• Philip II of Macedon (Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great)
• Alexander the Great, King of Macedon who conquered the Achaemenid Empire and the Punjab and Indus.
• Ptolemy I Soter, One of Alexander's generals, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, he was the first ruler of the Ptolemaic Egypt.
• Demetrius I of Bactria, a Greek-born king who conquered much of what is now Iran, Pakistan and northern India. He was nicknamed "The Invincible".
• Memnon, Greek mercenary in Persian service.
• Xanthippus, Greek Mercenary General, fought for Carthage against Pyrrhus of Epirus.
• Antigonus I Monophthalmus, founder of the Antigonid Dynasty.
• Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Dynasty.
• The Diadochi

Huns

Modun (233–192), king of the Huns

• Attila the Hun (406–453), king of the Huns, often referred as "Scourge of God" by the Romans.
• Bleda (390–445), a Hun ruler, the brother of Attila the Hun.

India

• Divodas 'Atithingva' (15th century BC) He defeated the Shamber,who was the biggest enemy of Aryans . Divodas defeated him, destroyed his 999 castles and got first supremacy among Aryan Kings .
• Sudas (circa 15th century BC), Indian king who defeated the ten Rigvedic tribes in the Battle of the Ten Kings
• Mahapadmnanda (4th century BC) He uprooted all local Kshatriya dynasties and republics and form strongest Magadha empire of that time.
• Chandragupta Maurya (Sandrocottus) (c. 340–293 BC), Maurya King who conquered the Nanda Empire and northern Indian subcontinent, and defeated Seleucus I Nicator of the Seleucid Empire and other former generals of Alexander the Great.
• Ashoka the Great (c. 304 BC–232 BC), Maurya King who conquered Kalinga
• Kharavela (c. 193 BC) Emperor of Kalinga from Chedi Dynasty, who led many successful campaigns against Kingdoms of Magadha, Anga, Satavahanas and regions of Pandyan Empire. He is known to have forced the Indo-Greek king Demetrius to retreat from Mathura.
• Vasumitra (between approx 130 to 110 BC) He was the grand son of Pushyamitra, founder of Shunga dynasty. He defeated Greeks on the bank of river Indus .
• Vikramaditya (58–10 BC) He was the president of Republic of Malavas and organized a successful national resistance against Scythian invaders . He established 'Malav calendar' which is still practiced by Hindus as 'VIKRAM SAMVAT' or Vikram's calendar
• Karikala Chola (c.270 CE), Chola king who defeated the Pandya and Chera kings in the Battle of Venni and conquered the Singhalese kingdom
• Samudragupta 'the Napoleon of India' (319–380 AD), Gupta Empire king who conquered over 20 Indian, Scythian and Kushan kingdoms. His supremacy was used to accept by whole INDIAN SUBCONTINENT .
• Chandragupta II 'Vikramaditya (380–415 AD), Gupta king who conquered 21 Indian, Greek, Persian, Kamboja, Kirata and Transoxianan kingdoms . It is said that he reached up to Oxus river, according to Raghuvansham of Kaalidas and Mehroli iron pillar inscription
• Skandgupta (455–467 AD) He saved India from first Hun attack (Bheetari pillar inscription)
• Yashodharman (approx 550 AD) He led national resistance against Mihirgul ' the Hun ' and terminated Huns power from India
• Harshvardhana (606–650 AD) He won whole north India and established strongest empire of India at that time
• Lalitaditya 'Muktaapeed' (mid 8th century AD) He successfully stopped the invasion of Arabian and Tibetian invasion and established a large empire to defeat his north Indian rival ruler Yashoverman
• Govind 'the third ' (8th century AD) He not only sprayed Rashtrkuta empire in whole south India but defeated the Pratiharas and Palas also and impelled them to accept his supremacy . He was the strongest king of India at that time
• Mihirbhoj Pratihar (836–889 AD) He not only stopped Arabian invasion but did counterattack on Arabians of Sindh. As a result importance of Arabians as a political power terminated for ever . An Arabian traveler described him as 'biggest enemy of Islam on the Earth'
• Rajendra Chola (1012–1044 AD) Conquered south India and defeated the Northern Singhalese kingdoms of Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Andmaan, and a major part of the Shailendra empire [ Today's Indonesia and Malaysia]. He also had some success against Udisa and Bengal. He was also known for his naval ability.

Ancient Israel

• Joshua (circa 1200 BC), led Hebrew forces against Amalek and Canaan
• David (d. 965 BC), former mercenary commander, established an empire from Homs to Eilat
• Judas Maccabeus (d. 160 BC), leader of Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire
• Jonathan Maccabeus (d. 143 BC)
• Simon Maccabeus (d. 132 BC), took part in the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire led by his brothers. First prince of the Hasmonean Dynasty
• Simon Bar Giora (d. 70 CE), was a leader of revolutionary forces during the First Jewish-Roman War in the 1st century Judea
• John of Giscala (d. 70 CE), was a leader of revolutionary forces during the First Jewish-Roman War in the 1st century Judea
• Simon Bar Kokhba (d. AD 135), leader of the second Jewish rebellion against Rome

Japan

• Mononobe no Arakabi Minister and general. Crushed the rebellion of Tukushi no Iwai
• Ōno no Azumabito (Chinjufu Shogun) Constructed Fort Taga
• Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (Seii taishōgun)

Korea

• King Dongmyeongseong (Founder of the Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea)
• Myeongnim Dap-bu (Goguryeo general)
• Eulji Mundeok (Goguryeo general)
• Gang Yi-sik (Goguryeo general)
• Yeon Gaesomun (Goguryeo general)
• Yang Manchun (Goguryeo general)
• Gyebaek (Baekje general)
• Kim Yushin (Silla general)
• Kim Wonsul (Silla general, Kim Yushin's son)
• Dae Jo-yeong (Founder of the Balhae)
• Jang Bogo (Silla general)

Mesopotamia

• Gilgamesh King of Uruk
• Hammurabi King of Babylon conquered many native peoples.
• Nebuchadrezzar II King of the Chaldeans and conqueror of Judah.
• Tiglath-Pileser III King of Assyria. Conqueror of Israel, Syria, other lands that became Assyria, force Judah to pay tribute.
• Sargon King of Akkad. Created strong Akkadian kingdom.
• Ben-hadad King of Aram. Often fought Israel and, on occasion, Judah.

Persia (during Classical Antiquity)

Persian Empire

• Cyrus the Great (590 BC–529 BC), who conquered the Median Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Lydian Empire and Asia Minor founding the Persian Empire.
• Mardonius, Persian general during the Greco-Persian Wars
• Darius I of Persia (Darius the Great) (549 BC–486 BC), conquered all the territories between Asia Minor, Egypt, northern Greece and the Danube
• Xerxes I of Persia (Xerxes the Great) (519 BC–465 BC), conqueror of several Greek cities, burning Athens.
• Artaphernes, Persian general, brother of Darius I
• Darius III of Persia (Artashata) (380 BC–330 BC), It was under his rule that the Persian Empire was conquered during the Wars of Alexander the Great.
• Ariobarzan (d. 330 BC), Persian satrap. He commanded 700 Persian immortals who fought against Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Persian Gate. In this battle Ariobarzan successfully held the army of Alexander at bay for 30 days. Some historians have described him as the Leonidas of Persia.

Seleucid Empire

• Seleucus I Nicator (358BC–281BC),One of Alexander the Great's officers that fought in the Wars of the Diadochi after his death.
• Antiochus III the Great (241–187), Ruler of the Seleucid empire, fought aganist Ptolemaic Egypt and Rome. Also lead expeditions into Bactria and India.

Parthian Empire

• Mithridates the Great, expanded Parthia's control eastward by defeating King Eucratides of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. During his reign the Parthians took Herat (in 167 BC), Babylonia (in 144 BC), Media in (141 BC) and Persia in (139 BC). In 139 BC, Mithridates I captured the Seleucid King Demetrius II, and held him captive for 10 years while consolidating his conquests.
• Phraates II,defeated and killed Antiochus VII Sidetes in a battle in Media in 129 BC, which ended the Seleucid rule east of the Euphrates.
• Mithridates II, the Parthian Empire reached its greatest extent during his reign. He protected the kingdom from the Saka tribes, who occupied Bactria and the east of Iran and killed two of his predecessors in battle. He defeated King Artavasdes I of Armenia and conquered seventy valleys, making the heir to the Armenian throne, prince Tigranes, a political hostage. In 123 BC and 115 BC he received Chinese ambassadors sent by the Han emperor Wu Di to reopen the Silk Road through negotiations.
• 'Surena, Parthian general who defeated Marcus Licinius Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae.
• Phraates IV,initially lost territory to Roman general Mark Antony in 36 BC but quickly recovered Media Atropatene and drove Artaxias, the son of Artavasdes, back into Armenia when Mark Antony's war with Octavian broke out.
• Artabanus II, after a civil war with his predecessor Vonones I he succeeded to the throne.
• Vardanes I, in 43 he forced the city of Seleucia on the Tigris to submit. Civil war with his brother Gotarzes II of Parthia resulted in his assassination.
• Vologases IV, he reunited the two halves of the empire. He also reconquered the kingdom of Characene. He might have been the king who began compiling the writings of Zoroaster. In about 155 BC with a dispute over the kingdom of Armenia war began with Rome which Parthia lost in 166.
• Artabanus IV, defeated the Roman Empire under Marcus Opellius Macrinus at the Battle of Nisibis (217) after which the Romans gave up all their ambitions in the region, restored the booty, and paid a heavy contribution to the Parthians.

Sassanid Empire

• Ardashir I, established the Sassanid Empire by conquering the Parthian Empire and defeating King Artabanus IV after several years of brutal warfare. Artabanus IV was killed in 216 ending the 400-year rule of the Parthian Empire. Ardashir I conquered the provinces of Sistan, Gorgan, Khorasan, Margiana (in modern Turkmenistan), Balkh, and Chorasmia. Bahrain and Mosul were also added to Sassanid possessions later as well. He defeated Roman Emperor Alexander Severus in 232 at the Battle near Ctesiphon.
• Shapur I conquered the Mesopotamian fortresses Nisibis and Carrhae and advanced into Syria. But was defeated by Timesitheus at the Battle of Resaena in 243. He defeated Roman emperor Philip the Arab (244–249) at the Battle of Misiche. In 253 he defeated Roman Emperor Valerian at the Battle of Barbalissos. This resulted in the conquest of Armenia and invasion of Syria, and he plundered Antioch. Valerian marched against him, but was defeated and captured at the Battle of Edessa by Shahpur I. The outcome of the battle was an overwhelming victory, with the entire 70,000-strong Roman force being slain or captured.
• Narseh, in 296, fed up with incursions made by the Armenian monarch Tiridates III, Narseh invaded Armenia.Surprised by the sudden attack, Tiridates fled his kingdom. The Roman emperor Diocletian dispatched his son-in-law Galerius with a large army to Tiridates's aid. Galerius invaded Mesopotamia, which Narseh had occupied hoping to check his advance. Three battles were fought subsequently, the first two of which were indecisive. In the third fought at Callinicum, Galerius suffered a complete defeat and was forced to retreat. Later Galerius would have his revenge and defeat Narseh. The end result was a peace treaty.
• Shapur II, led an expedition through Bahrain, defeated the combined forces of the Arab tribes of "Taghleb", "Bakr bin Wael", and "Abd Al-Qays" and advanced temporarily into Yamama in central Najd. He resettled these tribes in Kerman and Ahvaz. Arabs named him Shabur Dhul-aktaf which means "The owner of the shoulders" after this battle. A twenty-six year conflict (337–363) began in two series of wars with Roman Empire, the first from 337 to 350 against Constantius II. Although often victorious, Shapur II made scarcely any progress. The second series of war began in 359 with Shahpur II conquering Amida and he took Singara and some other fortresses in the next year (360). In 363 Emperor Julian defeated a superior Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, but was killed during his retreat at the Battle of Samarra. His successor Jovian (363–364) made an ignominious peace, by which the districts beyond the Tigris which had been acquired in 298 were handed over along with Nisibis and Singara, and the promise not to interfere in Armenia. The outcome was a strategic victory for Shahpur II. Shapur II invaded Armenia, where he took King Arshak II prisoner and forced him to commit suicide. Shapur II subdued the Kushans and took control of the entire area now known as Afghanistan and Pakistan. By his death in 379 the Sassinid Empire was stronger than ever before, considerably larger than when he came to the throne, the eastern enemies were pacified and had gained control over Armenia.

Ancient Rome

• Cincinnatus (519 BC – 430 BC?) was an ancient Roman political figure, serving as consul in 460 BC and Roman dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC. He saved Roman army and defeated the Aequians.
• Fabius Maximus (275 BC–203 BC), Roman general remembered for intimidating Hannibal with a stalking technique still known today as Fabian strategy.
• Scipio Africanus (Scipio Africanus Major) (235 BC–183 BC), defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in Second Punic War.
• Lucius Aemilius Paullus, known as "Macedonicus" for subduing and annexing the Kingdom of Macedon.
• Spartacus, known for leading a rebel slave upraising in the Third Servile War
• Marcus Licinius Crassus, suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus and entered into the political alliance known as the First Triumvirate.
• Scipio Asiaticus (2nd century BC), he was a brother of Scipio Africanus Maior, he got his nickname "Asiaticus" when he defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire
• Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228 BC–174 BC), Roman general
• Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Scipio Africanus Minor) (185 BC–129 BC), adopted grandson of Scipio Africanus, he was active during the Third Punic War
• Cato the Elder (234 BC, Tusculum–149 BC).
• Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (d. 115 BC), Roman Consul, conqueror of Macedon
• Gaius Marius (157 BC–86 BC), Roman general, reorganized the Roman Legion
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BC–78 BC), Roman general and dictator
• Quintus Sertorius (122 BC–72 BC), Roman general
• Pompey (106 BC–48 BC), Roman general, Caesar's greatest rival and leader of the Republican army during the civil war
• Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), Roman military leader and dictator, conquered Gaul and defeated his rival Pompey in a civil war.
• Mark Antony (83 BC–30 BC), Roman general and triumvir, served under Julius Caesar as his Master of Horse.
• Augustus (63 BC–14 AD), the first Roman Emperor, successor of Julius Caesar. He wasn't a military commander per se.
• Marcus Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC), Roman general that was Augustus' friend and leading general. Defeated Mark Antony at the decisive naval battle of Actium.
• Germanicus Julius Caesar (16 BC or 15 BC–19 AD), Roman general and commander of Germania, he was also the father of Caligula.
• Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93), Roman general that conquered large portions of Britain for the Roman Empire.
• Trajan (53–117), Roman Emperor, extended the Roman Empire to its greatest extent.
• Stilicho (359–408), a late Roman general.
• Aurelian (215–275), Roman Emperor, Reunited the Roman Empire after decades of civil war during the latter part of the third century and the beginning of the fourth.
• Constantine I (272)–337, Roman emperor. Famous for being the first Christian Roman Emperor. Helped to put an end to institutionalized persecution of Christians in the Empire.
• Valens (328–378), Roman emperor and military commander, killed in the Battle of Adrianople.
• Flavius Aetius (396–454), Roman general, checked the invasion of Attila the Hun.

Middle Ages

• Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
• Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl Toltec leader and conqueror
• Maharana Pratap Rana of Mewar
• Lapu-Lapu (Datu in Mactan Island, Philippines)
• George of Antioch (Sicilian admiral)
• Tran Hung Dao (Vietnamese Grand General, under his guidance, Vietnamese defeated the Mongols three times)
• Wolter von Plettenberg (Master of the Livonian Order)
• Hermann of Salza (Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)
• Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
• Władysław II Jagiełło (King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, winner of great battle with Teutonic Order Army – Grunwald 1410)
• Scanderbeg Albanian prince and general against the Ottoman encroachement in Europe 1443–1468
• Stephen the Great (Moldavia ruler)
• Vlad III the Impaler (Vlad is best known for his resistance against the Ottoman Empire and its expansion)
• Jan Zizka (Commander of Taborite Army in Bohemia's Hussite Wars)
• John Hunyadi (vlach-Hungarian general, governor of Hungary)
• Nicholas Zrinski/Zrinyi (Croatian-Hungarian military leader)
• Milos Obilic (Serbian Knight who killed Turkish Sultan Murad I during the Battle of Kosovo)
• Þórður kakali Sighvatsson (Icelandic chieftain and military leader in Iceland in 13th century)

Africa

• Sundiata Keita defeated Sosso king Sumanguru Kanté at the Battle of Kirina in 1235 and established the Mali Empire. Mali became one of the wealthiest Muslim kingdoms in the world at the time (roughly 1230–1450), exporting gold by the ton to North Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

• Shaka Zulu leader of the zulu nation.

Albania

• Lekë Dukagjini (1410–81) was an Albanian prince who fought against the Ottoman Empire.
• Skanderbeg (Albanian prince and general against the Ottoman encroachement in Europe 1443–1468)

Franks

• Clovis (First Christian King of the Franks)
• Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
• Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor)
• Philip II (King of France, Crusader, and Conqueror of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Maine)

China

• An Lushan (General during Emperor Xuanzong's reign, a Lushan is of Sogdian descent)
• Yue Fei (Chinese general during the Southern Song Dynasty) known for his legendary tattoo saying "Ultimate Loyalty, Serve your Country"
• Yang Ye (General serving the Later Han and Northern Song Dynasties)
• Han Shizhong (Chinese general during the Southern Song Dynasty) fought beside Yue Fei in the campaign to drive out the Jin Jurchen dynasty
• Zhu Yuanzhang (First Emperor of the Ming Dynasty) led the rebellion against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
• Sun Tzu (a heroic general of the king of Wu, Helü) Most famous for his work The Art of War, one of the most famous books on military strategy.

Korea

• Wang Geon (Founder of Goryeo Dynasty)
• Gang Jo
• Gang Gam-chan
• Yun Gwan
• Jeong Jung-bu
• Gyeong Dae-seung
• Choe Chung-heon
• Choe U
• Choe Mu-seon
• Choe Yeong
• Yi Ja-chun
• Yi Seong-gye (Founder of Joseon Dynasty)
• Yi Jong Mu
• Shin Rip
• Yi Sun-sin
• Kwon Yul
• Gwak Jae-woo
• Kim Si-min
• Yi Eok-gi
• Won Gyun
• Gang Hong-rip
• Im Gyeong Eop
• Shin Ryu

Bulgaria

• Tervel – crushed the Arab army, thus helped to relieve the Siege of Constantinople, 717–718.
• Krum – destroyed almost the entire Byzantine army in the Battle of Pliska in 811.
• Simeon the Great – Defeated and expelled the Magyars from the Balkans.

in 896, annihilated the entire Byzantine army in the Battle of Anchialus in 917.

• Ivan Asen I – recovered Bulgarian territories from the Byzantines and ultimately restored Bulgarian independence.
• Kaloyan- Also known as the 'Romanslayer', during the Fourth Crusade, he crushed the Latin Crusaders at the Battle of Adrianople and defeated them repeatedly afterwards thus sealing the fate of the gravely weakened Latin Empire.

Byzantine Empire

• Constantine I, first Roman emperor to be considered "Byzantine"
• Theodosius II, emperor
• Belisarius, one of the most acclaimed generals in history, served during the reign of Justinian I.
• Narses, general of Armenian origin, in service of Justinian I
• Mundus, general of Gepid origin, in service of Justinian I
• Maurice, Byzantine general and emperor
• Comentiolus, Byzantine general under emperor Maurice
• Heraclius, Byzantine general and emperor, defeated the Persians
• Constantine V, Byzantine emperor, defeated the Bulgars
• Michael Lachanodrakon, Byzantine general
• Nikephoros I, Byzantine emperor
• Nikephoros Phokas the Elder, Byzantine general, grandfather of later emperor and namesake
• Bardas Phokas the Elder, Byzantine general and father of Nikephoross II
• Bardas Phokas the Younger, Byzantine general of Armenian origin.
• Bardas Skleros, Byzantine general and rebel.
• John Kourkouas, Byzantine general, conqueror of Melitene
• Melias, Byzantine general of Armenian origin
• Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine general and emperor, conqueror of Crete and Cilicia
• Leo Phokas the Younger, brother of Nikephoros II and successful general
• John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine general and emperor of Armenian origin.
• Basil II (The Bulgar-Slayer), Byzantine emperor, conquered Bulgaria, defeated the Fatimids, annexed Armenia.
• Nikephoros Ouranos, leading general of Basil II, author of a Tactica
• Basil Boiannes, Byzantine general and catepan of Italy
• George Maniakes, 11th century Byzantine general
• Nikephoros Botaneiates, 11th century Byzantine general, later emperor
• Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder, 11th century Byzantine general
• Kekaumenos, Byzantine general of Armenian origin; author of the Strategikon.
• Philaretos Brachamios, Byzantine general of Armenian origin.
• Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine general and emperor
• John Doukas, Byzantine general
• Tatikios, 11th century Byzantine general
• John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor
• Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, campaigned in Hungary and in the Middle East and helped keep the empire from invasion.
• Andronikos Kontostephanos, leading Byzantine general under Manuel I Komnenos
• Roussel de Bailleul, Norman mercenary in Byzantine service
• Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine general
• Gregory Pakourianos, Byzantine general of Armenian origin.
• John III Doukas Vatatzes, emperor of Nicaea, reconquered many European provinces
• John Palaiologos, leading general of Michael VIII
• Alexios Strategopoulos, retook Constantinople from the Latin Empire.
• Alexios Philanthropenos, defeated the Turks in the 1290s.
• Michael Tarchaneiotes, defeated the Turks and the Angevins
• John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine general and emperor
• Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor, conquered the Principality of Achaea

Arabs

• Muhammad (Islamic prophet)
  • Battle of Badr
  • Battle of Uhud
  • Battle of the Trench
  • Battle of Khaybar
  • Conquest of Mecca
  • Battle of Hunayn
  • Siege of Ta'if
  • Battle of Tabouk

Rashidun Caliphate Generals

• Abu Bakr (First Caliph of Islam)
• Umar ibn al Khattab (Second Caliph of Islam)
• Uthman (Third Caliph of Islam)
• Ali ibn Abi Talib (Fourth Caliph of Islam)
• Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah – was Commander in Chief of the Rashidun army and the areas of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Southern Turkey. He defeated the Byzantine army in the Battle of Maraj-al-Rome and Yarmouk. He appointed Khalid ibn al-Walid as commander of his Mobile guard.
• Amr ibn al-Aas- defeated Byzantine forces in Egypt, under Theodore at the Battle of Heliopolis and the subsequent capitulation of Alexandria in November 641, Arab troops had taken over what was Roman Egypt.Later he defeated Manuel at Battle of Nikiou.
• Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas – defeated the Sassanid Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah.
• Yazid ibn Abu Sufyan
• Muawiyah I – sacked Caesarea Mazaca in 647 AD, Salamis of Cyprus in 650 and re-invaded the island in 654, taking Rhodes as well. His initial naval campaigns were very successful defeating the Byzantine navy off the coast of Lycia (655).
• Shurhabil ibn Hasana
• Qa'qa ibn Amr
• Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr – under leadership of Abdullah ibn Saad marched to Sbeitla, Tunisia, the capital of exarchate of Carthage, King Gregory. Gregory was defeated and killed in the Battle of Sufetula in 647.
• Dhiraar ibn Azwar
• Walid ibn Uqba – quelled a rebellion in Azerbaijan
• Asim ibn Amr
• Hakam ibn Amr – conquered Makran in 644 after defeating Hindu King of Sind Raja Rasal at a battle near River Indus.^{[citation needed]}
• Majasha ibn Masood – In 652, Balochistan (Iran) was re-conquered during the campaign against the revolt in Kermān.
• Abdul Rehman ibn Samrah – crushed a revolt in Zarang, Afghanistan.He conquered Kabul and Ghazni. At the same time another column moved towards the Quetta District in the north-western part of Balochistan (Pakistan) and in 654 conquered an area up to the ancient city of Dawar and Qandabil today known as Bolan.
• Abdullah ibn Aamir
• Khalid ibn al-Walid- won numerous battles for Arab Muslims in the Roman Syria, Roman Egypt and Persian fronts. He helped defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Yarmouk. This battle is also considered to be one of Khalid ibn al-Walid's most decisive victories.
• Abdullah ibn Saad – Tripolitania was taken, followed by Sufetula, 150 miles south of Carthage. Abdallah's booty-laden force returned to Egypt in 648. He defeated Constans II at the naval Battle of the Masts in 655.
• Al-Ahnaf Ibn Qays – helped complete the conquest of Khurasan by bringing Tustar and Marwir-Rawdh into the fold of Muslim Arab Empire and pushed Yazdgerd III all the way to Merv in Turkmenistan where he died bringing the Sassanian Imperial dynasty to an end.
• Al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin al-Muzani defeated the Persian Yazdgerd III at the Battle of Nihawānd.
• Salman ibn Rabiah
• Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah
• Ayadh ibn Ghanam – raided Armenia^{[citation needed]}
• Habib ibn Muslaimah – commanded a full-scale invasion up to the Black Sea. He conquered Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia during Caliph Umar's reign the territories emerged as an autonomous principality within the Muslim Arab Empire. During Caliph Uthman ibn Affan's reign, a revolt broke out, and Uthman commissioned Habib ibn Muslaimah again to re-conquer Armenia and Georgia.

Umayyad Caliphate Generals

• Yazid bin Muawiyah – First Arab Siege of Constantinople
• Umar ibn Sa'ad defeated Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680.
• Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad invaded Bukhara in 674; He also helped defeat Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680.
• Muslim bin Uqbah al-Murri took Medina after the Battle of al-Harrah in 683.
• Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik
• Mu'awiyah ibn Hisham
• Sulayman ibn Hisham
• Sa'id bin Uthman invaded Sughd in 676.
• Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf – crushed Ibn al-Zubair's revolt and helped reunite the Islamic Empire under the Umayyads.
• Qutayba ibn Muslim – conquered Turkestan
• Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah began raids in Kirman and the first exploratory Islamic forays into the Indian frontier. Under him the conquest of Makran, where susbstantial Azdi Arabs were settled, was consolidated and military incursions into Sindh penetrating up to Multan, in the Punjab in present day Pakistan, carried out.
• Muhammad ibn-Qasīm in 712 conquered Sindh after defeating Raja Dahir.
• Yazid ibn al-Muhallab
• Abu al-Muhajir Dinar
• Kusaila
• Uqba ibn Nafi – responsible for Islamic conquest of the Maghreb, including present-day western Algeria and Morocco in North Africa. He was also the nephew of Amr ibn al-Aas
• Hasan ibn al-Nu'man captured Carthage after defeating Ioannes the Patrician and Tiberios III at the Battle of Carthage in 698. Later he advanced into the Atlas Mountains.
• Tarif ibn Malluk
• Musa ibn Nusayr conqueror of North Africa (Ifriqiya).
• Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa
• Tariq ibn Ziyad defeated the Visigothic kingdom at the Battle of Guadalete.
• Ayyub ibn Habib al-Lakhmi
• Al-Djarrah ibn Abdullah
• Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi
• Yusuf ibn 'Amr al-Thaqafi defeated and killed Zayd ibn Ali at a battle in 740.
• Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani
• Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi
• Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi
• Munuza
• Alqama
• Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri
• Abd ar-Rahman I

Abbasid Caliphate Generals

• As-Saffah – established the Abbasid empire after defeating the Umayyads at Battle of the Zab in 750.
• Ziyad ibn Salih – defeated the Chinese Tang Dynasty at the Battle of Talas in 751 and took control of Syr Darya (Central Asia).
• Abu Muslim Khorasani
• Asad ibn al-Furat – began a major campaign for the conquest of Sicily.
• Harun al-Rashid defeats Nikephoros I at the Battle of Krasos in 805.
• Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan was defeated at the Battle of Rayy in March 811.
• Tahir ibn Husayn, a Persian general served under al-Ma'mun and led the armies that would defeat Caliph al-Amin at the Battle of Rayy in March 811, followed by the Siege of Baghdad in which Caliph al-Amin was killed and al-Ma'mun became the next Caliph.
• Abdullah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani, most famous for pacifying the lands of the Caliphate following the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun.
• Simjur al-Dawati, received the surrender of Zaranj from al- Mu'addal.
• Ghassan ibn Abbad, crushed a rebellion in Sind in 831–832.
• Muhammad ibn Humayd al-Tusi, defeated by Babak Khorramdin, a Persian revolutionary leader of the Khurramiyyah in 831.
• Al-Afshin laid Siege to Babak Castle, used siege machinery and naphtha-throwers, and finally stormed Babak Castle in August 837 defeating and capturing Babak Khorramdin who was later executed.
• Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Mu'sab, defeated the Khurramiyyah at Hamadan in 833.
• Ujayf ibn Anbasa
• Caliph Al-Mu'tasim defeated Byzantine emperor Theophilos with the help of general Al-Afshin on 21 July 838 at the Battle of Anzen. He then took Ancyra, followed by the Sack of Amorium a few weeks later.
• Al-Wathiq defeated Theoktistos at the Battle of Mauropotamos in 844.
• Bugha al-Kabir helped Calpihs Al-Wathiq and Al-Mutawakkil crush revolts. He attacked and burned Tiflis in 851–852.
• Al-Qummi crushed the Bujah African rebellion of Upper Egypt in 856.
• Al-Muwaffaq along with Musa bin Bugha defeated Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari at the Battle of Dair al-'Aqul in Iraq in 876.
• Ahmad ibn Tulun declared his independence from the Abbasid Caliphate in 874, amid chaos in Iraq due to the Zanj Rebellion establishing the Tulunid Dynasty of Egypt. In 877 he defeated Abbasid forces under Musa bin Bugha
• Muhammad bin Sulayman with naval support from frontier forces based in Tarsus invaded Egypt and Shaiban ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun was forced to retreat with his army to Fustat, where on 10 January 905 he surrendered unconditionally thus bringing an end to the Tulunid Dynasty of Egypt.
• Nasir ad-Daula the Hamdanid ruler of Al-Jazira supported Caliph Al-Muttaqi by restoring order in Baghdad between 940–941.
• Tuzun the Turk, took Baghdad and removed Caliph Al-Muttaqi in 944. He defeated the Buwayhids in a Battle at Wasit.
• Ahmad Mu'izz al-Daula the Buwayhid, took power in Baghdad after appeal from Caliph Al-Mustakfi to restore order in the city.

Mashriq Muslim Dynasties Generals

Zengid dynasty: 1127–1250

• Imad-ud-din Zengi- In 1144 took the crusader County of Edessa (see Siege of Edessa).
• Nur-ud-din Zengi, – defeated the Second Crusade, crushed the crusader army at the Battle of Inab, and killed Raymond of Antioch in 1149.

Ayyubid dynasty: 1171–1246

• Saladin
• Al-Adil I
• Al-Afdal
• Al-Kamil
• As-Salih Ayyub

Mamluks: 1250–1517

• Saif ad-Din Qutuz, defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260.
• Baibars, defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260. He fought a large crusader army and defeated it at the Battle of La Forbie. He also fought the Battle of al Mansurah during the Seventh Crusade. Fought and defeated the 7th, 8th, and 9th Crusades.
• Faris ad-Din Aktai
• Saif al-Din Qalawun, fought Abaqa Khan's army under Möngke Temur in the Second Battle of Homs and defeated him in 1281.
• Al-Ashraf Khalil – took the last crusader city of Acre ending the crusader kingdoms in 1291.
• Al-Nasir Muhammad, Battle of Marj al-Saffar
• Baibars II – defeated Kutlushah sent by Ghazan at the Battle of Marj al-Saffar in 1303 between Mongols and Mamluks.
• Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri was defeated by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I at the Battle of Marj Dabiq north of Aleppo, Syria in 1516.
• Tuman bay II was defeated by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I at the Battle of Ridanieh in 1517 thus ending the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.

Maghreb Muslim Dynasties Generals

• Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rustam
• Ubaydallah al-Mahdi Billah, founder of Fatimid Empire
• Idris I
• Jawhar as-Siqilli, conquered Egypt for the Fatimids and founded the city of Cairo.
• Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Almoravid general, defeated King Alfonso VI of León and Castile and the combined armies of León, Aragón and Castile on 23 October 1086, at the Battle of Sagrajas, halting the Christian advance for four generations in the Iberian Peninsula.
• Abd al-Mu'min, Almohad General and founder of the Almohad Empire.
• Yaqub al-Mansur, the Almohad General and Amir, defeated Castilian King Alfonso VIII at the Battle of Alarcos, on 18 July 1195.
• Al-Afdal Shahanshah was Fatimid vizier and commander of Egyptian forces during the First Crusade
• Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, defeated the Portuguese army under Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi and King Sebastian of Portugal at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir on 4 August 1578
• Ahmad al-Mansur
• Judar Pasha, defeated Askia Ishaq II of the Songhai Empire at The Battle of Tondibi, a decisive confrontation in Morocco's sixteenth-century invasion of the Sub-Saharan Empire.
• Al-Rashid, In 1666 he took Fes and ended the rule of the Saadi dynasty. Later he captured Marrakech in 1669 and occupied the Sous and the Little Atlas (Agadir, Morocco).
• Ahmed Bey
• Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri
• Lalla Fatma N'Soumer
• Omar Mukhtar

Afghan

Durrani Empire

• Ahmad Shah Abdali – defeated the Maratha Empire at the Battle of Panipat (1761). He established The Durrani Empire which was a large state that included territories within modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Khorasan province of Iran and a smaller section of western India.

Turkic Muslim Generals

Ghaznavid

• Mahmud of Ghazni

Ghurids

• Muhammad of Ghor- defeated Prithviraj Chauhan at the Second Battle of Tarain. He also conquered the Ghaznavid empire and extended his territory up to Lahore. Upon his death, Qutb-ud-din Aybak, Muhammad Ghori's most capable general, took control of Muhammad's Indian conquests and declared himself the first Sultan of Delhi thus establishing Sultanate of Delhi.

Seljuks

• Toğrül Beg – defeated the Ghaznavid Empire at the Battle of Dandanaqan and conquered Khorasan in 1040.
• Alp Arslan – defeated the Byzantine Empire and captured Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 preparing the way for the Turkish settlement in Anatolia.
• Malik Shah I
• Kilij Arslan I fought during the First Crusade and at the end of losing the First Crusade halted the Christian advance at the Battles of Mersivan and Heraclea in 1101.
• Abu Nasr Shams al-Muluk Duqaq of Damascus
• Kerbogha of Mosul
• Yaghi-Siyan of Antioch
• Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan of Aleppo
• Kilij Arslan II defeated Manuel I Komnenos at the Battle of Myriokephalon which was an unsuccessful, final effort by the Byzantines to recover the interior of Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks in 1176.
• Kayqubad I defeated Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu at Arzinjan on the Upper Euphrates at the Battle of Yassi Chemen in 1230.

Ortoqids

• Sokman ibn Artuq – defeated the crusaders at the Battle of Harran.
• Najm ad-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq – defeated Roger of Salerno at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119.

Danishmends

• Danishmend Gazi

Ottoman Empire

• Murad I – defeated Lazar of Serbia at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
• Bayezid I – defeated Allied Europe at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396.
• Murad II – took Thessaloniki, from the Venetians in 1423.He defeated Władysław III of Poland and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna in 1444 and Battle of Kosovo (1448).
• Mehmed II- he conquered Constantinople, bringing an end to the medieval Byzantine Empire in 1453.
• Gedik Ahmet Pasha – conquered the Principality of Theodoro and Genoese colonies in Cembalo, Soldaia, and Caffa in 1475.
• Kemal Reis – defeated the Venetians first at Battle of Zonchio in 1499 and at Battle of Modon in 1500.
• Selim I – marched to Iran in 1514 and defeated Shah Ismail at the Battle of Chaldiran.He attacked and destroyed the Mamluk Sultanate at the Battle of Marj Dabiq and Battle of Ridanieh in 1517.
• Suleiman the Magnificent- Belgrade fell in August 1521. He defeated Louis II of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács in 1526. He also defeated Habsburg Monarchy at the Battle of Szigetvár in 1566.
• Hayreddin Barbarossa – In February 1538, Pope Paul III succeeded in assembling a Holy League (comprising the Papacy, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice and the Maltese Knights) against the Ottomans, but Barbarossa defeated its combined fleet, commanded by Andrea Doria, at the Battle of Preveza.
• Piyale Pasha – defeated the Holy League at Battle of Djerba in 1560.
• Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, besieger of Malta 1565 and conqueror of Cyprus 1570–71.
• Mehmed III's armies conquered Erlau and defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces at the Battle of Mezőkeresztes in 1596.
• Murad IV recaptured Baghdad in 1638 in the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639.
• Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha – conquered Heraklion and ended the Cretan War (1645–1669).
• Baltacı Mehmet Paşa – won a major victory at the Battle of Prut against the Russians in 1710–1711.
• Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha – conquered the Morea in the Turkish-Venetian War (1714–1718).
• Ahmed al-Jazzar Pasha successfully defended Acre against Napoleon Bonaparte's Siege of Acre in 1799.
• Sultan Selim III defeated Admiral John Thomas Duckworth of the English navy at the First Battle of Dardanelles in 1807.
• Alemdar Mustafa Pasha lead his army of Albanians and Bosnians to Istanbul in 1808 in an attempt to reinstate Selim III as Sultan and restore his reforms.
• Mahmud Dramali Pasha – fought in the Greek War of Independence.
• Reşid Mehmed Pasha – fought in the Greek War of Independence and the Egyptian-Ottoman War.
• Omar Pasha – fought in the Crimean War.
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – defeated the Allies of World War I at the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. He stopped the Russians at the Battle of Bitlis in 1916. He was defeated at the Battle of Megiddo in 1918 therefore losing Palestine to the British in World War I.

others

• Mawdud ibn Altuntash Turkish general during the First Crusade
• Zahir ad-Din Toghtekin Turkic military leader during the First Crusade, who was Atabeg of Damascus and founder of the Burid dynasty of Damascus.

Normans

• King William I of England (Duke of Normandy conquered England. Was known as William the Bastard and later as William the Conqueror.
• Robert of Selby (Anglo-Norman general in the service of Sicily)
• Robert Guiscard (Norman conqueror of Naples and S. Sicily)

Vikings

• Cnut the Great (King of England, Denmark, Norway, and parts of Sweden)
• Rurik (founder of the Rus' rule in Eastern Europe)
• Erik the Red (colonizer of Greenland)
• Leif Ericson (explorer who is considered to be the first European to reach North America)
• Olaf Tryggvason (king of Norway from 995 to 1000. He forced thousands to convert to Christianity. He once burned London Bridge down out of anger because people were disobeying his orders)
• Bagsecg (A Viking who Invaded and pillaged in England in 870, But was killed in 871 at The Battle of Ashdown)
• Oleg of Novgorod (Varangian prince (or konung) who ruled all or part of the Rus people during the early tenth century, launched attack on Constantinople)

Persia (during the Middle Ages)

Sassanid Empire

• Yazdegerd II, defeated the Kidarites in 450 and drove them out beyond the Oxus River. Advancing his pro-Zoroastrian policy, he battled an uprising of Armenian Christians in the Battle of Vartanantz in 451 and killed Vartan Mamikonian the Armenian commander.
• General Sukra drove the Hephthalites out of Persia during the reign of Emperor Balash.
• Kavadh I joined the Ephthalites and began the Anastasian War against the Byzantine Empire. In 502 he took Theodosiopolis in Armenia; in 503 Amida on the Tigris. In 505 an invasion of Armenia by the western Huns from the Caucasus led to an armistice, during which the Romans paid subsidies to the Persians for the maintenance of the fortifications on the Caucasus. Iberian War began with the defection of Iberian king Gourgen to the Romans after three major battles. Kavadh I won the war against Byzantine Empire.
• al-Mundhir IV ibn al-Mundhir an Arab general helped Kavadh I defeat Roman general Belisarius at the Battle of Nisibis in 530.
• Azarethes defeated Roman general Belisarius in the Battle of Callinicum in 531. This defeat forced the Byzantine Empire to pay heavy tributes in exchange for a peace treaty.
• Khosrau I aka Anushiravan the Just,invaded Syria and sacked the great city of Antioch, deporting its people to Mesopotamia, where he built for them a new city near Ctesiphon under the name of "Khosrau-Antioch". The Lazic War was fought between the Byzantine and Sassanid Empire for controlling the region of Lazica what is now western Georgia. Lazic war lasted for twenty years, from 541 to 562, with varying success and ended in the Byzantine victory and peace treaty. Khosrau I destroyed the Hephthalite Empire and in 567 he conquered Bactria. Khosrau I conquered the city of Dara on the Euphrates in 573, but after a largely unsuccessful incursion of Anatolia in 576 he was heavily defeated by the Romans in a battle near Melitene.
• Vahriz was a Sassanid Persian general who in 570 freed Himyarite Kingdom of Yemen from the Ethiopians of Axum under Khosrau I directive.
• Bahram Chobin, successfully defeated a large Göktürk army in the First Perso-Turkic War in 588 taking Balkh and Herat. He rebelled against Khosrau II and took the throne as King Bahram VI for about a year till he was ousted by Khosrau II with the help of his ally Maurice.
• Khosrau Pervez, despite early victories against Byzantine Empire he was defeated by Heraclius at the Battle of Nineveh.
• Shahin commanded forces invading Roman territory in the Transcaucasus, winning a battle near Theodosiopolis in 607/8. Following the expulsion of Roman forces from that region, in 611 Shahin led an advance into Anatolia, capturing Caesarea, but was driven out by Roman counter-attack led by the Emperor Heraclius in the summer of 612 and forced to withdraw to Armenia. In 613 the Roman offensive pressed on into Syria, but the combined Persian armies under Shahin and Shahrbaraz crushingly defeated Heraclius near Antioch and again near the Cilician Gates. As a result, in 614 Shahin was able to campaign all the way across Anatolia to Chalcedon on the shore of the Bosphoros opposite Constantinople, and over the following years mounted further invasions of Anatolia, causing severe and widespread devastation. In the spring of 618, Iranian troops of Shahin and of Shahrbaraz entered Egypt and besieged Alexandria, which soon fell.
• Shahrbaraz took Damascus and Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire in 613 and 614 respectively, and the Holy Cross was carried away in triumph.
• Rhahzadh, was defeated by Heraclius at the Battle of Nineveh
• Bahman, defeated the Abu Ubaid of the Rashidun Caliphate at the Battle of the Bridge in 634. He was eventually defeated and killed at the Battle of Nihawānd.
• Rostam Farrokhzād, a powerful Sāsānian general and aristocrat from Armenia who in 631 conquered Armenia from its Byzantine governor Prince Varazdirot. He was defeated by Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah in 636 and Iraq annexed by Rashidun Caliphate.

Muslim Iran

• Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari, was the founder of the Saffarid dynasty in Sistan he defeated Ibrahim ibn Ilyas Samanid ruler of Herat in 867 who was sent by governor of Tahirid Khurasan, Muhammad ibn Tahir during the Abbasid Caliphate
• 'Ismail Samani, father of Tajiks took the city of Talas, the capital of the Karluk Turks in 893. Later established Samanid boundaries of Transoxiana and Khorasan by defeating the Saffarids.
• Imad al-Daula, defeated the Turkish general Yaqut from Abbasid Caliphate at Baghdad in 934 establishing Buwayhid Confederacy of Persian revivalists within Abbasid Caliphate.
• Shah Ala ad-Din Muhammad, by 1205 had conquered all of eastern Great Seljuq Empire and declared himself Shah In 1212 he defeated the Gur-Khan Kutluk and conquered the lands of the Kara-Khanid Khanate, now ruling a territory from the Syr Darya almost all the way to Baghdad, and from the Indus River to the Caspian Sea known as the Khwarezm Empire. It was he who brought the wrath of Genghis Khan to the Muslim world by killing his ambassadors.
• Jalal ad-Din Minkbarny with a badly equipped army decisively defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Parwan which forced Genghis Khan to face Jalal himself at the Battle of Indus in 1221.
• Ismail I, founded the Safavid Shia state in Azerbaijan in 1502, and had incorporated all of Iran by 1509.
• Shah ‘Abbas I, defeated the Uzbeks after 10 years of constant warfare at the battle of Herat in 1597. In 1603 he took Baghdad and in 1605 Basra from the Ottomans and by 1611 Shirvan and Kurdistan as well. In 1602, he expelled the Portuguese from Bahrain. In 1615, he killed more than 60,000 Georgians and deported a further 100,000 in Tblisi after a rebellion. A united army of the Turks and Tatars was completely defeated near Sultanieh in 1618. In 1622 he took the island of Hormuz from the Portuguese: much of the trade was diverted to the town of Bandar 'Abbas. The Persian Gulf was now a Persian Domain.
• Nadir Shah Afshar, rose to power during a period of anarchy in Persia after a rebellion by Afghans and both the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory for themselves. Nader reunited the Persian realm and removed the invaders. He became so powerful that he decided to depose the last members of the Safavid dynasty, which had ruled Persia for over 200 years, and become shah himself in 1736. His campaigns created a great Iranian Empire. In 1738 conquered Kandahar. Invaded the Mughal Empire and He defeated the Mughal army at the Battle of Karnal in February 1739, he was assassinated in 1747.
• Muhammad Khan Qajar, In 1795 he attacked Georgia and also captured Khorasan. Shah Rukh, ruler of Khurasan and grandson of Nadir Shah, was tortured to death. He was the First Persian ruler to make Tehran, then only a village, a capital.

Crusaders

• Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade
• Baldwin of Boulogne, a leader of the First Crusade
• Baldwin of Bourcq, leader of the First Crusade
• Balian of Ibelin, an important noble in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century.
• Bohemond of Taranto, a leader of the First Crusade
• Tancred, a leader of the First Crusade
• Raymond IV of Toulouse, a leader of the First Crusade
• Stephen, Count of Blois, a leader of the First Crusade
• Hugh of Payens, founder of the Knights Templar
• Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader
• Raymond III of Tripoli
• Raynald of Châtillon
• Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• Jobert of Syria, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
• Roger de Moulins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
• Richard I of England, King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, participated in the Third Crusade.
• Boniface of Montferrat, leader of the Fourth Crusade
• Frederick II, leader of the Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade
• Louis IX of France, leader of the Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade

Indonesia

• Raden Wijaya (1293–1309), the founder and the first Raja (king) of Majapahit, his army defeated Mongol army at Tuban East java in 1293
• Gajah Mada, (14th century), the Majapahit Prime Minister that united Nusantara (southeast Asia)
• Sultan Agung of Mataram or Sultan Agung Anyokrokusumo or Sultan Agung Hanyokrokusumo (1613–1645), He was the constructor of the Karta Palace, and the Royal Graveyard of Imogiri.
• Cut Nyak Dien, Commander of Aceh war against Dutch occupation^{[citation needed]}
• Pangeran Diponegoro, Commander of war against Dutch occupation during 1825–1830 at center of Java
• Pattimura, Commander of war against Dutch occupation at Saparua, Ambon.

India

• Lalitaditya Muktapida (8th century), Kashmiri king who conquered a number of Indian, Uttarakuru, Kamboja, Turkic, Tocharian, Tibetan and Dardic kingdoms.
• Devapala (9th century), Bengali Pala king who conquered the Northern Indian, North-East Indian, Andhra Pradesh, Huna and Kamboja kingdoms.
• Raja Raja Chola I (985 C.E. – 1014 C.E.), Chola king who Conquered Chera, Pandya kingdoms. Rajaraja invaded and burnt Sri Lanka to the ground in 993 CE. He also invaded Chalukyas, Kalinga and Vengi nations.
• Rajendra Chola I (11th century), Tamil Chola king and naval commander who conquered the Pala Empire, Srivijaya Empire, Sri Lanka, and the Chalukya, Rashtrakuta and Pandya dynasties.
• Bakhtiyar Khilji, laid the foundation of Muslim rule in Bengal by defeating Lakshman Sen in 1205.
• Zafar Khan (13th century), Muslim Indian general who defeated invaders from the Mongol Empire.
• Alauddin Khilji
• Tuluva Sri Krishna Deva Raya, Tulu: ತುಳುವಾ ಶ್ರೀ ಕೃಷ್ಣದೇವರಾಯ, Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಕೃಷ್ಣದೇವರಾಯ, Telugu: శ్రీకృష్ణదేవరాయ) also known as Krishna Raya (1509–1529 CE), was the famed Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire. The rule of Krishna Deva Raya marks a period of much military success in Vijayanagar history. On occasion, the king was known to change battle plans abruptly and turn a losing battle into victory

• Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur – conquered northern India after winning three battles namely; the Battle of Panipat, Battle of Khanwa and Battle of Ghaghra establishing the Mughal Empire.
• Sher Shah Suri – In 1539, he was able to defeat Humayun in the Battle of Chausa. Again in 1540, he defeated Humayun in the Battle of Kannauj, and went on to capture Delhi and Agra.
• Akbar the Great – defeated the Hindu leader Hemu at the Battle of Panipat (1556)
• Maharana Pratap the ruler of Mewar was defeated by Raja Man Singh at the Battle of Haldighati in 1576.
• Malik Ambar (1607–1626) He is known to have mobilized the Marathas and transformed them into warriors to fight against the mighty Mughal Empire. He is said to be the only general from the Deccan region to have challenged the might of the great Mughals who dominated India during the medieval age.
• Aurangzeb, Mughal ruler annexed the whole of Deccan.
• Guru Gobind Singh (22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708), was the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was a warrior, a poet, and a spiritual leader, who fought 11 battles with the Mughals and their Rajput alliances
• Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sikh king of the sovereign country of Punjab and the Sikh Empire
• Tipu Sultan, the 'Tiger of Mysore' fought the Anglo-Mysore Wars
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (a.k.a. Shivaji Raje Bhosle) (1627–1680), Maratha king who was the founder of Maratha empire in western India in 1674.
• Sambhaji (1657–1689), Maratha king who fought vigorously with the Mughals.
• Baji Rao I (1699–1740), peshwa who expanded Maratha empire in northern India in early 18th century.

Sri Lanka

• Parākramabāhu I (1123–1186), King of Polonnaruwa who unified the three sub kingdoms of the island and undertook military campaigns in southern India and in Myanmar.
• Gajabâhu I, King of Rajarata led a successful invasion of Chola territory.
• Dutthagamani Abhaya, King of Rajarata, unified the island and ended the first Chola occupation
• Vijayabâhu I, King of Polonnaruwa, unified the island and ended the second Chola occupation

Japan

• Takeda Shingen, daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japan. Known for the famous phrase "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire, and Immovable as a Mountain" on his standard; demonstrating his political and military strategies.
• Uesugi Kenshin daimyo during the Sengoku period Japan. Known as the "Dragon of Echigo for his prowess on the battlefield, considered the primary rival of Takeda Shingen.
• Sanada Yukimura, retainer of Takeda Shingen, praised as "a hero who may appear once in hundred years" and "crimson demon of war". In legend, he is the leader of the Sanada Ten Braves.
• Minamoto no Yoshitsune, general whose decisive victories brought down the Taira clan during the Genpei War.
• Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582), warlord during the Sengoku period of Japan. First of the three unifiers of Japan.
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi, seized control over Japan after the death of Oda Nobunaga.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu, finally ended the Sengoku period, pacified and united Japan, and founded the Tokugawa shogunate that would last over 250 years.
• Date Masamune, daimyo during the Edo period of Japan. He went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. He was more iconic for being called dokuganryu the one-eye dragon.

Mongols

• Genghis Khan, Great Khan of the Mongols, also known as Temüjin.
• Ögedei Khan, Second Great Khan of the Mongols
• Muqali, general, commanded Mongol campaigns in Manchuria)
• Subutai, general and childhood friend of Genghis Khan
• Jebe Noyon, general, participated in campaigns in Central Asia and Russia.
• Batu Khan, conqueror of Eastern Europe and first Khan of the Golden Horde.
• Berke, Khan of the Golden Horde
• Hulagu, Khan of the Ilkhanate
• Kitbuqa, general of the Ilkhanate, defeated in the Battle of Ain Jalut
• Burundai, general of the Golden Horde
• Nogai Khan, general and kingmaker of the Golden Horde
• Kublai Khan, Fifth Great Khan of the Mongols, finished the conquest of China.
• Mamai, general and kingmaker of the Golden Horde
• Qutlugh Khwaja, launched several attacks on both Delhi Sultanate and Ilkhanate.
• Uzbeg Khan longest-reigning Khan of the Golden Horde
• Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde
• Ghazan
• Kuchlug
• Tughlugh Timur
• Timur, 14th-century conqueror of much of western and central Asia, founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty, also known as Tamerlane

Vietnam

• Trưng sisters, The Trưng sisters (Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng; literally: two ladies Trưng) (c. 12 - AD 43) were leaders who rebelled against Chinese rule for three years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
• Ngô Quyền, general who led the struggle for independence against the Chinese In AD 938.
• Lý Thường Kiệt who defeated Song China in 1075.
• Tran Hung Dao, general during the Trần Dynasty. Lead the armies that thrice repelled Mongol invasions of Vietnam.
• Lê Lợi, A military commander and founder of the le dynasty, he is among the most famous figures from the medieval period of Vietnamese history.
• Nguyễn Huệ known as Emperor Quang Trung (光中皇帝; Quang Trung Hoàng đế ). He was also one of the most successful military commanders in Vietnam's history

Russian

• St. Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod (1236–1259), Grand Duke of Kiev (1249–1263), Grand Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal (1252–1263)
• Daniel of Galicia, King of Galicia–Volhynia
• Dovmont of Pskov, Prince of Pskov
• Igor Svyatoslavich, Prince of Novgorod-Sversky
• Ivan III the Great, Grand Duke of Moscow
• Ivan IV the Terrible, First Tsar of Russia
• Mstislav the Bold, Prince of Novgorod (1210–1218), Count of Halych (1215–1226)
• Oleg of Novgorod, Prince of Novgorod and Kiev
• Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian military leader
• Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky, Russian military leader
• Svyatoslav I of Kiev, Prince of Kiev
• St. Vladimir, Grand Duke of Kiev
• Yaroslav I the Wise, Grand Duke of Kiev

English

• Edward I of England (known as Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots)
• Edward III of England (English King in the Hundred Years' War)
• Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England, and general who defeated French troops during the Battle of Poitiers
• King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
• Henry VII of England was the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty. Henry's forces decisively defeated the Yorkist army under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
• John Byron, 1st Baron Byron
• William Marshal English knight and crusader. Victor at the Battle of Lincoln

Scottish

• William Wallace, Scottish Knight and freedom fighter
• Robert the Bruce, Scottish King and freedom fighter
• James Douglas, Lord of Douglas, Scottish knight, general, guerilla leader, and crusader

Irish

• Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, Irish high king and military commander.
• Brian Boru, King of Munster and gained the High Kingship of Ireland, victor at the Battle of Clontarf.
• Hugh O'Neill, 3rd earl of Tyrone (Irish nobleman and general, commander of Irish army in the 9 years war)
• Hugh Dubh O'Neill (commander of Irish forces in the Irish Confederate Army)
• Felim O'Neill of Kinard, a commander in the Confederate army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
• Eoghan Rua Ó Néill, a commander in the Spanish army and later led the Irish Confederate Army.

French

• Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of the Catholic Church)
• Gilles de Rais
• La Hire
• Bertrand du Guesclin (Breton knight and Constable of France)
• Louis VIII
• Philip II Augustus

Iberian

• Aben Humeya
• Abo Hafs Omer Al-Baloty
• Afonso I of Portugal
• Alfonso I of Asturias
• Alfonso II of Asturias
• Alfonso III of León
• Alfonso Fróilaz
• Alfonso IV of León
• Alfonso V of León
• Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir
• Aurelius of Asturias
• Bermudo I of Asturias
• Bermudo II of León
• Bermudo III of León
• El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
• Elvira Ramírez of León
• Fruela I of Asturias
• Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (Spanish general)
• Don John of Austria (Spanish admiral)
• Mauregatus of Asturias
• Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi
• Nepotian of Asturias
• Nuno Álvares Pereira
• Ordoño I of Asturias
• Ordoño II of León
• Ordoño III of León
• Ordoño IV of León
• Pelayo
• Ramiro I of Asturias
• Ramiro II of León
• Ramiro III of León
• Silo of Asturias
• Sancho I of León
• Umar ibn Hafsun
• Viriathus

Serbian

• Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia
• Lazar of Serbia

Welsh

• Llywelyn Fawr
• Hywel Dda
• Llywelyn ein Llyw Olaf^{[citation needed]}
• Dafydd ap Llywelyn
• Gruffydd ap Llywelyn
• Owain Fawr^{[citation needed]}
• Owain Goch
• Dafydd ap Gruffydd
• Rhodri ap Gruffyd^{[citation needed]}
• Cunedda
• Madoc ap Llywelyn
• Maelgwn Gwynedd
• Idwal Foel ap Anarawd
• Cadell ap Rhodri
• Rhodri the Great
• Owain ap Hywel
• Rhodri ap Hywel
• Edwin ap Hywel
• Ednyved Fychan^{[citation needed]}
• Merfyn Frych
• Anarawd ap Rhodri
• Cyngen ap Cadell

Modern era

Italian

• Alessandro Farnese
• Cesare Borgia

English

• Queen Elizabeth I
• Francis Drake
• John Hawkins
• Charles Howard
• Walter Raleigh
• George Clifford
• Horace Vere
• Edward Cecil
• Jacob Astley
• Robert Devereux
• George Villiers
• George Goring
• Robert Blake
• Oliver Cromwell
• Charles I
• Henry Ireton
• George Monck
• Henry Wilmot
• Thomas Horton
• Thomas Fairfax
• Henry Morgan

British

• Henri de Massue
• John Churchill
• George Rooke
• George Douglas-Hamilton
• William Shirley
• Edward Braddock
• James Abercrombie
• Jeffery Amherst
• George Howard
• Thomas Gage
• Guy Carleton
• Samuel Hood
• George Townshend
• Robert Clive
• Robert Prescott
• William Howe
• Henry Clinton
• Charles Cornwallis
• Horatio Nelson
• George Prévost
• Arthur Wellesley
• Stapleton Cotton
• Charles Napier
• Hugh Gough
• Henry Hardinge
• George Pollock
• FitzRoy Somerset
• George Elliot
• Colin Campbell
• Hugh Rose
• Robert Napier
• Frederic Thesiger
• Frederick Roberts
• Garnet Wolseley
• Charles George Gordon
• Evelyn Wood
• Redvers Buller
• Herbert Kitchener
• John French
• Edmund Allenby
• Douglas Haig
• George Milne

Persian

• Nadir Shah, Iran

Spanish

• Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador)
• Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca)

Aztec

• Cuauhtémoc (Aztec)

Mapuche

• Caupolicán (Mapuche) military leader of the Mapuche people of Chile during the Arauco War
• Lautaro (Mapuche) (Mapuche warrior and leader who fought and defeated the Spanish in a series of campaigns in southern Chile)

Lakota

• Chief Gall (Lakota)

Lithuanian

• Konstanty Ostrogski

Mbundu

• Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Warrior Queen of the Mbundu people; kept Portugal at bay)

Indian

• Shivaji (Ruler of the Maratha empire)
• Lachit Borphukan (Assam)
• Chilarai (Assam)

French

• Louis XIV of France (During his reign, he increased the power and influence of France in Europe, in three major wars)
• Gaston de Foix
• Henry IV
• Turenne
• The Great Condé
• Maréchal Luxembourg
• Vauban
• Maurice de Saxe
• Latouche Tréville
• Lafeyette
• André Messéna
• Moreau
• Michel Ney
• Jean Lannes
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Davout
• Patrice MacMohan
• Bazaine

Russian

• Peter The Great
• Alexander Menshikov
• Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
• Boris Sheremetev
• Grigory Potemkin
• Pyotr Rumyantsev
• Pyotr Saltykov
• Alexander Suvorov
• Fyodor Ushakov
• Peter Bagration
• Mikhail Barclay de Tolly
• Leonty von Bennigsen
• Mikhail Kutuzov
• Mikhail Miloradovich
• Aleksey Yermolov
• Alexander Menchikov
• Pavel Nakhimov
• Ivan Paskevich
• Mikhail Skobelev

Chinese

• Koxinga (Ming general, took over Taiwan)

Polish

• Jan Zamojski
• Stefan Batory (King of Poland)
• Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
• Stanisław Żółkiewski (polish magnate and hetman, captured Moscow)
• John III Sobieski (King of Poland, commander in Battle of Vienna and wars with Turkey)
• Augustus II (The Strong, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Lithuania)

Cossack

• Bohdan Khmelnytsky (hetman of Cossack Hetmanate, led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)

Austrian

• Prince Eugene of Savoy (Austria)
• Maria Theresa of Austria (Austrian Empress) War of the Austrian Succession, and Seven Year's War

Swedish

• Gustavus Adolphus (Swedish King in the Thirty Years' War)
• Johan Banér (Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War)
• Lennart Torstenson (Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War)
• Nils Brahe (Swedish General in the Thirty Years' War)

Dutch

• William I, Prince of Orange (commander in the Eighty Years' War, also known as William the Silent)
• Louis of Nassau, brother of William the Silent commander in the Eighty Years' War
• Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder, military commander in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
• Charles de Héraugière, the Eighty Years' War commander of a special force, which conquered Breda in a "Trojan Horse" action.
• Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe for the Dutch Republic
• Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, overall commander of the Dutch forces (Captain and Admiral-General) in the Eighty Years' War for the Dutch Republic
• Hendrik Casimir I van Nassau-Dietz, military commander in the Eighty Years' War, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
• Piet Pieterszoon Hein, vice-admiral and admiral during the Eighty Years' War
• Maarten Tromp, Admiral during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
• Michiel de Ruyter, The Netherlands (admiral in the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War

German

• Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu
• Frederick II of Prussia

Haitian

• Toussaint Louverture (leader of the Haitian Revolution)

American

• George Washington (American Revolutionary War)
• Nathanael Greene (American Revolutionary War)
• Horatio Gates (American Revolutionary War)
• Benedict Arnold American Revolutionary War)
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (American Revolutionary War)
• Kazimierz Pulaski (American Revolutionary War)
• Tadeusz Kościuszko (American Revolutionary War)
• John Stark (American Revolutionary War)
• John Barry (American Revolutionary War)
• John Paul Jones (American Revolutionary War)
• Richard Montgomery
• Daniel Morgan
• Henry Knox
• John Doughty
• Josiah Harmar
• Arthur St. Clair
• Anthony Wayne
• James Wilkinson
• Alexander Hamilton
• Henry Dearborn
• Jacob Brown
• Alexander Macomb
• Winfield Scott
• George Dewey
• John J. Pershing
• George B. McClellan
• David G. Farragut
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William T. Sherman
• David D. Porter
• Philip H. Sheridan
• Nelson A. Miles

Egyptian

• Murad Bey and Ibrahim Bey both of Georgian descent, jointly ruled Egypt and were defeated at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798 by the Napoleon Bonaparte. (Egypt, Napoleonic Wars)

Shawnee

• Tecumseh

Katipunero

• Andres Bonifacio (Katipunero)

Zulu

• Shaka (changed the Zulu tribe from a small clan into a nation)

Gran Colombian

• Simón Bolívar (South American nationalist and general)

Brazilian

• Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, duke of Caxias, (Brazilian soldier and politician)
• Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu (French-born Brazilian general)

Argentinian

• José de San Martín (South American nationalist and general, Liberator of Peru, Chile, and Argentina)

Chilean

• Bernardo O'Higgins (South American nationalist, together with José de San Martín freed Chile from Spanish rule during in the Chilean War for Independence)

Colombia

• Francisco de Paula Santander (Military and political leader of Colombia)

Mexican

• Miguel Hidalgo (Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence)
• Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon (Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence)
• Vicente Guerrero (Mexican leader of the Mexican War of Independence)
• Guadalupe Victoria (Mexican leader of the Mexican War of Independence)
• Ignacio Zaragoza (Mexican general who defended Puebla from the French Invasion)

Texan

• Stephen F. Austin (Texas Revolution))
• Sam Houston (Texas Revolution)

C.S.A

• P.G.T. Beauregard (US Civil War)
• Robert E. Lee (US Civil War)
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (US Civil War)
• Beverly Robertson (US Civil War)
• Braxton Bragg (US Civil War)
• Jubal Anderson Early (US Civil War)
• Richard Ewell (US Civil War)
• Joseph E. Johnston (US Civil War)
• George Pickett (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)
• Thomas Francis Meagher (US Civil War)
• Sterling Price (US Civil War)

Japan

• Ōyama Iwao (Russo-Japanese War)
• Nogi Maresuke (Russo-Japanese War)
• Tōgō Heihachirō (Russo-Japanese War)

Armenia

• Andranik Toros Ozanian (Balkan Wars, World War I, Armenia)

Serbia

• Radomir Putnik (Balkan Wars, World War I, Serbia)
• Petar Bojović (Balkan Wars, World War I, Serbia)
• Živojin Mišić (Serbo-Tuskish Wars, Serbo-Bulgarian War, Balkan Wars, World War I, Serbia)
• Stepa Stepanović (Serbo-Bulgarian War, Balkan Wars, World War I, Serbia)

Bulgaria

• Nikola Todorov Zhekov (World War I Bulgaria)
• Vladimir Vazov (World War I Bulgaria, never defeated; defeated superior Anglo-Greek forces at Doiran)

Ottoman

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Balkan Wars, World War I Ottoman Empire)
• İsmail Enver (World War I Ottoman Empire)

Australian

• John Monash (World War I Australia)

Canadian

• Arthur Currie (World War I)

Irish

• Michael Collins (Irish War of Independence)

Filipino

• Emilio Aguinaldo (First Philippine President, Philippine-Spanish War)
• Macario Sakay (Filipino General, 80 years of rebellion against Spain)
• Gabriela Silang (Filipina Revolutionary Leader)

Sudanese

• Osman Digna (Sudan)

Apache

• Geronimo (Apache)

Korean

• Kim Jwa-jin (Leader of the Northern Military Administration Office Army of Korea)
• Hong Beom-do (Leader of the Greater Korea Independence Army)

World War II and later

See also: Commanders of World War II

• Adan, Abraham (1947–1973 Israel)
• An, Nguyen Huu (First Indochina War and Vietnam War, Vietnam)
• Aung San (1915–1947)
• Anh, Le Duc (Vietnam War and Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Vietnam)
• Anders, Wladyslaw (World War II Poland)
• Alexander, Harold (World War II, UK)
• Auchinleck, Claude (World War II UK)
• Biao, Lin (World War II, China)
• Blamey, Thomas (World War II, Australia)
• Buckner Jr., Simon Bolivar (World War II, US)
• Bradley, Omar (World War II, US)
• Lord Alan Brooke (World War II, UK)
• K.M. Cariappa (World War II & 1st Indo-Pak War 1948, India)
• Castro, Fidel (1950s Cuba)
• Chuikov, Vasily (World War II Soviet Union)
• Clark, Mark (World War II US)
• Creagh, Michael (World War II UK)
• Crerar, Henry Duncan Graham (Canada's leading general during World War II)
• Cunningham, Alan Gordon (World War II UK)
• Cunningham, Andrew Brown (World War II UK)
• Dayan, Moshe (Israel)
• Peng Dehuai (World War II, Chinese Civil War and Korean War, China)
• Dempsey, Miles (World War II UK)
• De Wiart, Adrian Carton (World War II UK)
• Dumitrescu, Petre (World War II Romania)
• De, Zhu (Chinese communist revolutionary leader)
• Dinh, Nguyen Thi (Vietnam War, Vietnam)
• Dung, Van Tien (First Indochina War, Vietnam War and Sino-Vietnamese War, Vietnam)
• Eisenhower, Dwight (World War II US)
• Fraser, Simon (World War II UK)
• Freyberg, Bernard (World War I World War II NZ)
• Göring, Hermann (World War I World War II Germany)
• Gott, William (World War II UK)
• Giap, Vo Nguyen (First Indochina War and Vietnam War, Vietnam)
• Guevara, Che (1950s Cuba)
• Graziani, Rodolfo (World War II Italy)
• De Gaulle, Charles (World War II France)
• Guderian, Heinz (World War II Germany)
• Harris Arthur (World War II RAF)
• Heinrici, Gotthard (World War II Germany)
• Hitler, Adolf (World War II Germany)
• Horrocks, Brian (World War II UK)
• Kesselring, Albert (World War II Germany)
• Kjærnested, Guðmundur (Anglo-Icelandic Cod War's I, II & III Iceland)
• Koenig, Marie Pierre (World War II France)
• Konev, Ivan (World War II Soviet Union)
• Krueger, Walter (World War II US)
• de Lattre de Tassigny, Jean (World War II France)
• Leclerc, Philippe (France World War II)
• Leese, Oliver (World War II UK)
• MacArthur, Douglas (World War II and Korea, US)
• Maczek, Stanislaw (World War II Poland)
• McNaughton, Andrew (World War I, World War II Canada)
• Manekshaw, Sam (3rd Indo-Pak War 1971, India)
• Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil (Winter War and World War II Finland)
• Marshall, George (World War II US Army))
• Massoud, Ahmad Shah (1979–2001 Afghanistan)
• Ushijima, Mitsuru (World War II Japan)
• Model, Walther (World War II Germany)
• Montgomery, Bernard (World War II UK)
• Morshead, Leslie (World War II Australia)
• Mountbatten, Louis (World War II UK)
• Mukhtar, Omar (Libyan freedom fighter who fought against the Italians from 1911 to 1931)
• Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (World War II Japan)
• Nimitz, Chester (World War II US Navy)
• O'Connor, Richard (World War II UK)
• Papagos, Alexandros (World War II Greece)
• Patton, George (World War II US)
• Paulus, Friedrich (World War II Germany)
• Portal, Charles (World War II UK)
• Powell, Colin (Persian Gulf US)
• "Chesty" Puller (World War II US Marines)
• Rabin, Yitzhak (Israel)
• Ramos, Fidel (Korean War)
• Ridgway, Matthew (World War II and Korea, US)
• Ritchie, Neil (World War II UK)
• Rokossovsky, Konstantin (World War II Soviet Union)
• Rommel, Erwin (World War II Germany)
• von Rundstedt, Gerd (World War II Germany)
• von Manstein, Erich (World War II Germany)
• Stane, Franc Rozman (World War II Slovene partisans)
• Singh, Arjan (2nd Indo-Pak War 1965,India)
• William Slim (World War II UK)
• Sharon, Ariel (Israel)
• Schlemm, Alfred (World War II Germany)
• Spaatz Carl (World War II USAF)
• Spruance, Raymond (World War II US Navy)
• Student, Kurt (World War II Germany)
• Mihailović, Dragoljub "Draža" (World War II General of Serbian Royalists)
• Tito, Josip Broz (World War II Yugoslav partisans)
• Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (World War II, Korea, Congo & Cyprus, India)
• Vasilevsky, Aleksandr (World War II Soviet Union)
• Wavell, Archibald (World War II UK)
• Westmoreland, William (Vietnam War US)
• Woodward, Sandy (Falklands War)
• Vatutin, Nikolai (World War II Soviet Union)
• Voroshilov, Kliment (Winter War and World War II)
• Isoroku, Yamamoto (World War II Japan)
• Yi, Chen (World War II China )
• Tan, Le Trong (Vietnam War and Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Vietnam)
• Thanh, Chi Nguyen (First Indochina War and Vietnam War, Vietnam)
• Thai, Hoang Van (First Indochina War and Vietnam War, Vietnam)
• Zedong, Mao (Chinese communist leader)
• Zhukov, Georgy (World War II Soviet Union)
• Tra, Pham Van (Vietnam War and Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Vietnam)
• Tra, Tran Van (First Indochina War and Vietnam War, Vietnam)
• Maneckshaw, Sam ( 1971 Indo Pak WAR, India)
• Hans Frank Hitler's lawyer and later senior Nazi official in occupied Poland (Germany)
• Hermann Göring Reichsmarschall, Commander of the Luftwaffe, founder of the Gestapo. (Germany)
• Reinhard Heydrich chief of the Reich Main Security Office (head of the Gestapo) (Germany)
• Heinrich Himmler leader of the SS, key figure in the Holocaust and the "Final Solution" (Germany)
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose(Indian Liberation War, World War II, India)
• Ji Cheong-cheon (Leader of the Korean Liberation Army)
• Kim Wonbong (Leader of the Korean volunteer corps)
• Kim Tu-bong (Leader of the Korean volunteer army)
• Alfred Jodl senior nazi military commander (Germany)
• Erwin Rommel The "Desert Fox" German tank commander in Africa, and Field Marshal of Germany. Remained the toughest German commander to beat for the allies. Wrote the book Infantry Attacks. (Germany)
• Wilhelm Keitel military Field Marshal during World War II (Germany)
• Sudirman,First TNI General after Indonesian independence declaration (Indonesia)
• Yos Sudarso, Commander of Laut Aru battle. (Indonesia)
• Robert Wolter Monginsidi, Commander of Makassar battle (Indonesia)
• Sutomo, also known as Bung Tomo, commander of Surabaya battle against British Army (Indonesia)
• I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Commander of Puputan Margarana Battle against Dutch Army at Bali (Indonesia)
• Aleksandra Samusenko, World War II tank commander (Soviet Union)

Year(s)	Name	Party	War(s)				Battle(s)
1982	Hew Pike	United Kingdom	Falklands War				Battle of Mount Longdon
	Michael Scott (British Army officer)						Battle of Mount Tumbledown
	Nick Vaux						Battle of Mount Harriet
1983	Hudson Austin	Grenada	Cold War				Invasion of Grenada
	Joseph Metcalf, III	United States
	Ronald Reagan
1983–1991	Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
			Gulf War				Battle of Khafji
1984	Hossein Kharrazi	Iran	Persian Gulf Conflict		Iran–Iraq War		Battle of the Marshes
	Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale	Khalistan movement	Operation Blue Star
	Kanwar Pal Singh Gill	Punjab Police (India)
	Kuldip Singh Brar	Indian Army
	Shabeg Singh	Khalistan movement
1988	Ali Sayad Shirazi	Iran	Persian Gulf Conflict		Iran–Iraq War		Operation Mersad
	Massoud Rajavi	People's Mujahedin of Iran
1989–1990	George H. W. Bush	United States	United States invasion of Panama
	Manuel Noriega	Panamanian Public Forces
	Maxwell R. Thurman	United States
1991	Anton Tus	Croatia	Breakup of Yugoslavia	Yugoslav Wars	Croatian War of Independence		Battle of the Barracks
	Blago Zadro						Battle of Vukovar
	Fahd of Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	Gulf War				Battle of Khafji
	Goran Hadžić	Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia	Breakup of Yugoslavia	Yugoslav Wars	Croatian War of Independence		Battle of Vukovar
	H. R. McMaster	United States	Gulf War				Battle of 73 Easting
	Khalid bin Sultan	Saudi Arabia					Battle of Khafji
	Marko Babić (soldier)	Croatia	Breakup of Yugoslavia	Yugoslav Wars	Croatian War of Independence		Battle of Vukovar
	Montgomery Meigs	United States	Gulf War				Battle of Medina Ridge
	Salah Aboud Mahmoud	Iraq					Battle of 73 Easting
							Battle of Khafji
	Veljko Kadijević	Yugoslav People's Army	Breakup of Yugoslavia	Yugoslav Wars	Croatian War of Independence		Battle of the Barracks
	Veselin Šljivančanin						Battle of Vukovar
	Života Panić
1991–1993	Željko Ražnatović	Republic of Serbian Krajina					Operation Maslenica
		Serb Volunteer Guard					Battle of Vukovar
1991–1995	Mile Mrkšić	Republic of Serbian Krajina			Bosnian War		Operation Storm
					Croatian War of Independence
		Yugoslav People's Army					Battle of Vukovar
1991–2003	Saddam Hussein	Ba'ath Party	War on Terror		Iraq War		2003 invasion of Iraq
		Iraq	Gulf War				Battle of Khafji
1992	Giorgi Karkarashvili	Georgian Armed Forces	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict		War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)		Battle of Gagra
	Sultan Sosnaliyev	Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus
1992–1994	Stanislav Galić	Republika Srpska	Breakup of Yugoslavia	Yugoslav Wars	Bosnian War		Siege of Sarajevo
1992–1995	Mustafa Hajrulahović Talijan	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1993	Agim Çeku	Croatia			Croatian War of Independence		Operation Maslenica
	Gurgen Daribaltayan	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	Nagorno-Karabakh War				Battle of Kalbajar
	Janko Bobetko	Croatia	Breakup of Yugoslavia	Yugoslav Wars	Croatian War of Independence		Operation Maslenica
	Mohamed Farrah Aidid	Somali National Alliance	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	Operation Gothic Serpent	Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
	Monte Melkonian	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	Nagorno-Karabakh War				Battle of Kalbajar
	Shamil Asgarov	Azerbaijan
	William F. Garrison	United States	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	Operation Gothic Serpent	Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
1994–1995	Akhmed Zakayev	Chechen Republic of Ichkeria	First Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)
	Lev Rokhlin	Russia
	Pavel Grachev
	Salman Raduyev	Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
	Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev
1994–1996	Dragomir Milošević	Republika Srpska	Breakup of Yugoslavia		Yugoslav Wars	Bosnian War	Siege of Sarajevo
1994–2000	Anatoly Kvashnin	Russia	First Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)
			Second Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)
	Aslan Maskhadov	Chechen Republic of Ichkeria	First Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)
			Second Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)
	Ruslan Gelayev		First Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)
			Second Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)
1994–2005	Shamil Basayev		First Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)
			Second Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)
		Yarmuk Jamaat					2005 Nalchik raid
1994–2008	Vladimir Shamanov	Russia	First Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)
			Georgian–Abkhazian conflict				Battle of the Kodori Valley
1995	Atif Dudaković	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Breakup of Yugoslavia		Yugoslav Wars	Bosnian War	Operation Storm
						Croatian War of Independence
	Fikret Abdić	Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia				Bosnian War
						Croatian War of Independence
	Zvonimir Červenko	Croatia				Bosnian War
						Croatian War of Independence
1999	Agim Ramadani	Kosovo Liberation Army			Kosovo War		Battle of Košare
	Pervez Musharraf	Pakistan	Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts				Kargil War
	Ved Prakash Malik	India
1999–2000	Ibn Al-Khattab	Chechen Republic of Ichkeria	Second Chechen War				Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)
	Mikhail Malofeyev	Russia
	Viktor Kazantsev
2001	Abdul Majid Rouzi	Northern Alliance	Afghan civil war		War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		Battle of Qala-i-Jangi
			War on Terror
	Abdul Rashid Dostum		Afghan civil war
							Fall of Mazari Sharif
			War on Terror				Battle of Qala-i-Jangi
							Fall of Mazari Sharif
	Atta Muhammad Nur		Afghan civil war
			War on Terror
	Bismillah Khan Mohammadi		Afghan civil war				Battle of Tora Bora
			War on Terror
	Gul Agha Sherzai	Afghanistan	Afghan civil war				Fall of Kandahar
			War on Terror
	Hamid Karzai		Afghan civil war				Battle of Tarin Kowt
							Fall of Kandahar
			War on Terror				Battle of Tarin Kowt
							Fall of Kandahar
	Ismail Khan	Northern Alliance	Afghan civil war				2001 uprising in Herat
			War on Terror
	Jason Amerine	United States	Afghan civil war				Battle of Tarin Kowt
			War on Terror
	Mohammad Mohaqiq	Northern Alliance	Afghan civil war				Fall of Mazari Sharif
			War on Terror
	Osama bin Laden	Al-Qaeda	Afghan civil war				Battle of Tora Bora
			War on Terror
	Yahya Rahim Safavi	Iran	Afghan civil war				2001 uprising in Herat
			War on Terror
2001–2003	Tommy Franks	United States	Afghan civil war
							Battle of Tora Bora
							Fall of Kabul
							Fall of Kandahar
							Fall of Mazari Sharif
			War on Terror		Iraq War		2003 invasion of Iraq
					War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		2001 uprising in Herat
							Battle of Tora Bora
							Fall of Kabul
							Fall of Kandahar
							Fall of Mazari Sharif
2002	Aviv Kochavi	Israel	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Second Intifada	Operation Defensive Shield	Battle of Nablus
	Franklin L. Hagenbeck	United States	Afghan civil war		War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		Operation Anaconda
			War on Terror
	Mahmoud Tawalbe	Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Second Intifada	Operation Defensive Shield	Battle of Jenin
	Shaul Mofaz	Israel					Battle of Nablus
	Yasser Arafat	Fatah
	Yitzhak Gershon	Israel					Battle of Nablus
	Zakaria Zubeidi	al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades					Battle of Jenin
2003	Ahmed Chalabi	Iraqi National Congress	War on Terror		Iraq War	2003 invasion of Iraq
	Ali Hassan al-Majid	Iraq					Battle of Nasiriyah
	Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari	Kurdistan Democratic Party
	Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti	Iraqi Armed Forces
	Brian Burridge	United Kingdom
	George W. Bush	United States
	Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri	Ba'ath Party
	Jalal Talabani	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
	Kosrat Rasul Ali
	Massoud Barzani	Kurdistan Democratic Party
	Qusay Hussein	Fedayeen Saddam
	Uday Hussein
2003–2004	Richard F. Natonski	United States					Battle of Nasiriyah
						Second Battle of Fallujah
2004	Abdullah al-Janabi	al-Qaeda in Iraq				First Battle of Fallujah
		Ba'ath Party				Second Battle of Fallujah
	Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai	Pakistan Army			War in North-West Pakistan		Battle of Wana
	Ayman al-Zawahiri	Al-Qaeda
	James Mattis	United States			Iraq War		Second Battle of Fallujah
	James T. Conway						First Battle of Fallujah
	Nek Muhammad Wazir	Taliban			War in North-West Pakistan		Battle of Wana
2004–2005	Abu Musab al-Zarqawi	al-Qaeda in Iraq			Iraq War		Battle of Al Qaim
							First Battle of Fallujah
2005	Anzor Astemirov	Yarmuk Jamaat	Second Chechen War				2005 Nalchik raid
	Ilyas Gorchkhanov
2006	Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiid	Ethiopia	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2006–2009)		Battle of Bandiradley
			War on Terror
	Abu Ayyub al-Masri	al-Qaeda in Iraq			Iraq War		Operation Together Forward
	David Fraser (soldier)	Canadian Army	Afghan civil war		War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		Operation Mountain Thrust
			War on Terror
	George W. Casey, Jr.	United States Army			Iraq War		Operation Together Forward
	Mohamed Afrah Qanyare	Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War	Advance of the Islamic Courts Union		Battle of Mogadishu (2006)
			War on Terror
	Mohamud Muse Hersi	Puntland	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2006–2009)		Battle of Bandiradley
			War on Terror
	Musa Sudi Yalahow	Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War	Advance of the Islamic Courts Union		Battle of Mogadishu (2006)
			War on Terror
	Rahmatullah Raufi	Afghan National Army	Afghan civil war		War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		Operation Mountain Thrust
			War on Terror
2006–2007	Akhtar Mohammad Osmani	Taliban	Afghan civil war				Operation Mountain Fury
			War on Terror
	David Richards (British Army officer)	United Kingdom	Afghan civil war
			War on Terror
2006–2008	Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale	Somalia	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2006–2009)		Battle of Kismayo (2008)
			War on Terror
		Transitional Federal Parliament	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War			Battle of Jilib
							Battle of Ras Kamboni
							Fall of Kismayo
			War on Terror		Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa		Battle of Ras Kamboni
					War in Somalia (2006–2009)		Battle of Jilib
							Battle of Ras Kamboni
							Fall of Kismayo
	Dan Halutz	Israel Defense Forces	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Second Intifada	2006 Israel–Gaza conflict
						2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Muqtada al-Sadr	Mahdi Army	War on Terror	Iraq War	Iraqi insurgency	Civil war in Iraq	Battle of Basra (2008)
					Iraq spring fighting of 2008
					Operation Together Forward
2006–2009	Ismail Haniyeh	Hamas	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Gaza War
					Second Intifada	2006 Israel–Gaza conflict
						2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Khaled Mashal				Gaza War
					Second Intifada	2006 Israel–Gaza conflict
						2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Mohammed Deif				Gaza War
					Second Intifada		2006 Israel–Gaza conflict
	Yoav Galant	Israel Defense Forces			Gaza War
					Second Intifada	2006 Israel–Gaza conflict
						2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
2006–2011	Sharif Sheikh Ahmed	Islamic Courts Union	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War	Advance of the Islamic Courts Union		Battle of Mogadishu (2006)
					War in Somalia (2006–2009)		Battle of Jilib
							Battle of Ras Kamboni
							Fall of Kismayo
			War on Terror		Advance of the Islamic Courts Union		Battle of Mogadishu (2006)
					Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa		Battle of Ras Kamboni
					War in Somalia (2006–2009)		Battle of Jilib
							Battle of Ras Kamboni
							Fall of Kismayo
		Transitional Federal Government	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–)		Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
2006–2012	Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki	Al-Shabaab	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Operation Linda Nchi
			War on Terror
		Ras Kamboni Brigades	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa			War in Somalia (2006–2009)
			War on Terror
	Hassan Dahir Aweys	Al-Shabaab	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa			War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Operation Linda Nchi
			War on Terror
		Hizbul Islam	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa				Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
		Islamic Courts Union	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa			Advance of the Islamic Courts Union	Battle of Mogadishu (2006)
			War on Terror
	Sheikh Mukhtar Robow	Al-Shabaab	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa			War in Somalia (2006–2009)
						War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
							Operation Linda Nchi
			War on Terror			War in Somalia (2006–2009)
						War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
							Operation Linda Nchi
2007	Abboud Qanbar	Iraqi Army			Iraq War	Operation Phantom Thunder	Operation Imposing Law
	Abdirahman Janaqow	Islamic Courts Union	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2006–2009)	Battle of Ras Kamboni
			War on Terror		Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
					War in Somalia (2006–2009)
	Abdul Matin (Taliban leader)	Taliban	Afghan civil war		War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		Battle of Musa Qala
			War on Terror
	Abdul Salaam Alizai		Afghan civil war
			War on Terror
	Abu Youssef Sharqieh	Jund al-Sham			2007 Lebanon conflict
	Ahmed Hassani al-Yemeni	Soldiers of Heaven			Iraq War	Iraqi insurgency	Battle of Najaf (2007)
	Andrew Mackay (British Army officer)	United Kingdom	Afghan civil war		War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		Battle of Musa Qala
			War on Terror
	Dadullah	Taliban	Afghan civil war				Operation Achilles
			War on Terror
	Dan K. McNeill	United States	Afghan civil war
			War on Terror
	David Petraeus	United States Army			Iraq War	Operation Phantom Thunder	Operation Imposing Law
	Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim	Soldiers of Heaven				Iraqi insurgency	Battle of Najaf (2007)
	François al-Hajj	Lebanon			2007 Lebanon conflict
	Jacko Page	United Kingdom	Afghan civil war			War in Afghanistan (2001–present)	Operation Achilles
			War on Terror
	Michel Suleiman	Lebanon				2007 Lebanon conflict
	Patrick M. Walsh	Maritime Security Operations	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2006–2009)	Battle of Ras Kamboni
			War on Terror			Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
						War in Somalia (2006–2009)
	Shaker al-Abssi	Fatah al-Islam				2007 Lebanon conflict
	Timothy F. Ghormley	United States	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2006–2009)	Battle of Ras Kamboni
			War on Terror		Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
					War in Somalia (2006–2009)
	Yusuf Mohammed Siad	Islamic Courts Union	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2006–2009)
			War on Terror		Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
					War in Somalia (2006–2009)
2007–2008	William J. Fallon	United States
2008	Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye	Union of Forces for Democracy and Development–Fundamental	Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)				Battle of N'Djamena (2008)
	Ali Ghaidan Majid	Iraq	War on Terror	Iraq War	Iraqi insurgency	Civil war in Iraq	Battle of Basra (2008)
					Iraq spring fighting of 2008
	Anatoly Khrulyov	Russia	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict			2008 South Ossetia war	Battle of Tskhinvali
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict
	Davit Kezerashvili	Georgia (country)	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict
						Battle of the Kodori Valley
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict			2008 South Ossetia war	Battle of Tskhinvali
	Eliezer Shkedi	Israel Defense Forces	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Second Intifada	2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Isaias Afewerki	Eritrea	Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict
	Ismaïl Omar Guelleh	Djibouti
	Mahamat Nouri	Union of Forces for Democracy and Development	Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)				Battle of N'Djamena (2008)
	Mamuka Kurashvili	Georgia (country)	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict		2008 South Ossetia war		Battle of Tskhinvali
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict
	Marat Kulakhmetov	Russia	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict
	Mikheil Saakashvili	Georgia (country)	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict
	Mohan al-Furayji	Iraq	War on Terror	Iraq War	Iraqi insurgency	Civil war in Iraq	Battle of Basra (2008)
					Iraq spring fighting of 2008
	Nouri al-Maliki				Iraqi insurgency	Civil war in Iraq
					Iraq spring fighting of 2008
	Sebhat Ephrem	Eritrea	Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict
	Sergei Bagapsh	Abkhazia	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict			Battle of the Kodori Valley
	Sulim Yamadayev	Russia				2008 South Ossetia war	Battle of Tskhinvali
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict
	Timane Erdimi	Rally of Democratic Forces (rebel group)	Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)				Battle of N'Djamena (2008)
	Vano Merabishvili	Georgia (country)	Georgian–Abkhazian conflict		2008 South Ossetia war		Battle of Tskhinvali
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict
	Zaza Gogava		Georgian–Abkhazian conflict
			Georgian–Ossetian conflict
2008–2009	Abu Zakaria al-Jamal	Hamas	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Gaza War
	Ahmed Jabari
					Second Intifada	2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Babacar Gaye	United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Congo Civil War	Second Congo War		Kivu conflict	2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
	Ehud Barak	Israel	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Gaza War
	Ehud Olmert
					Second Intifada	2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Eli Marom	Israel Defense Forces			Gaza War
	Eyal Eisenberg
	Gabi Ashkenazi
					Second Intifada	2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Ido Nehoshtan				Gaza War
	Idriss Déby	Chad	Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)				Battle of Am Dam
		Military of Chad					Battle of N'Djamena (2008)
	Ignace Murwanashyaka	Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda	Congo Civil War	Second Congo War		Kivu conflict	2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
	Jagath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka Armed Forces	Sri Lankan Civil War	Eelam War IV	Northern Theater of Eelam War IV	2008–2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive	Battle of Chalai
							Battle of Mullaitivu (2009)
	José Eduardo dos Santos	Angola	Congo Civil War	Second Congo War		Kivu conflict	2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
	Joseph Kabila	Democratic Republic of the Congo
	Laurent Nkunda	National Congress for the Defence of the People
	Mahmoud al-Zahar	Hamas	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Gaza War
					Second Intifada	2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict	Operation Hot Winter
	Nizar Rayan				Gaza War
	Osama Mazini
	Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah	Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
	Robert Mugabe	Zimbabwe	Congo Civil War	Second Congo War		Kivu conflict	2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
	Said Seyam	Hamas	Arab–Israeli conflict		Israeli–Palestinian conflict		Gaza War
	Sarath Fonseka	Sri Lanka Armed Forces	Sri Lankan Civil War	Eelam War IV	Northern Theater of Eelam War IV	2008–2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive	Battle of Chalai
							Battle of Mullaitivu (2009)
	Tawfik Jaber	Hamas	Arab–Israeli conflict		Israeli–Palestinian conflict		Gaza War
	Velupillai Prabhakaran	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam	Sri Lankan Civil War	Eelam War IV	Northern Theater of Eelam War IV	2008–2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive	Battle of Chalai
							Battle of Mullaitivu (2009)
	Yuval Diskin	Shin Bet	Arab–Israeli conflict		Israeli–Palestinian conflict		Gaza War
2008–2011	Khalil Ibrahim	Justice and Equality Movement	2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum
			Sudan–SPLM-N conflict (2011)
2008–2012	Omar al-Bashir	Sudan	2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum
		Sudan People's Armed Forces	Sudan–SPLM-N conflict (2011)
2009	Hifazat Ullah Khan	Pakistan Air Force	War on Terror		War in North-West Pakistan		Second Battle of Swat
	Masood Aslam	Pakistan Army
	Maulana Fazlullah	Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
	Mohammed Yusuf (Boko Haram)	Boko Haram	Nigerian Sharia conflict				2009 Nigerian sectarian violence
	Muslim Khan	Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi	War on Terror		War in North-West Pakistan		Second Battle of Swat
	Nandana Udawatta	Sri Lanka Armed Forces	Sri Lankan Civil War	Eelam War IV	Northern Theater of Eelam War IV	2008–2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive	Battle of Mullaitivu (2009)
	Rao Qamar Suleman	Pakistan Air Force	War on Terror		War in North-West Pakistan		Second Battle of Swat
2009–2011	Ali Muhammad Mujawar	Yemen	South Yemen insurgency
			War on Terror				Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
	Ali Salim al-Beidh	South Yemen Movement	South Yemen insurgency
	John Abizaid	United States	War on Terror
	Yasin Said Numan	South Yemen Movement	South Yemen insurgency
2009–2012	Ali Abdullah Saleh	Military of Yemen	Arab Spring		2011–2012 Yemeni uprising		Battle of Sana'a (2011)
		Yemen	South Yemen insurgency
			War on Terror				Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
2010	Bruce Golding	Jamaica Constabulary Force	2010 Kingston unrest
	Christopher Coke	Shower Posse
	Nick Carter (British Army officer)	United Kingdom	Afghan civil war		War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		Operation Moshtarak
			War on Terror
	Stanley A. McChrystal	United States	Afghan civil war
			War on Terror
2010–2011	Abdihakim Mohamoud Haji-Faqi	Transitional Federal Government	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
	Abdikarim Yusuf Adam		Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War
			War on Terror
	Abdullah Mehdar	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula				Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
	Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki	Al-Shabaab	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
	Alassane Ouattara	Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire	Second Ivorian Civil War
		Rally of the Republicans	2010–2011 Ivorian crisis
	Anwar al-Awlaki	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula	War on Terror				Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
	Choi Young-jin	United Nations	2010–2011 Ivorian crisis
		United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire	Second Ivorian Civil War
	Cyprien Hakiza	Burundi	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
	Fazul Abdullah Mohammed	Al-Qaeda	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War
			War on Terror
	Fredrick Mugisha	Uganda	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War
			War on Terror
	Fuad Mohamed Qalaf	Hizbul Islam	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War
			War on Terror
	Gilbert Aké	Ivorian Popular Front	Second Ivorian Civil War
	Guillaume Soro	Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire	2010–2011 Ivorian crisis
			Second Ivorian Civil War
	Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad	Al-Shabaab	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
	Laurent Gbagbo	Ivorian Popular Front	Second Ivorian Civil War
		National Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire	2010–2011 Ivorian crisis
	Nasir al-Wuhayshi	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula	War on Terror		Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
	Nathan Mugisha	Uganda	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
	Omar Mo’allim Nur	Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War
			War on Terror
	Omar Muhammad Farah		Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War
			War on Terror
	Qasim al-Raymi	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula				Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
	Said Ali al-Shihri
	Sheikh Ali Dhere	Al-Shabaab	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
			War on Terror
2010–2012	Moktar Ali Zubeyr		Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
							Operation Linda Nchi
			War on Terror				Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
							Operation Linda Nchi
2011	Abdelhakim Belhadj	Tripoli Brigade	Arab Spring		2011 Libyan civil war	2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
	Abdel Rahman Abdel Hamid	Libyan Army				Second Gulf of Sidra offensive	Battle of Sirte (2011)
	Abdul Ati al-Obeidi	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
	Abdul Fatah Younis	National Liberation Army (Libya)				Battle of Bin Jawad
						Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road
						Battle of Ra's Lanuf
						First Battle of Benghazi
						Fourth Battle of Brega
						Third Battle of Brega
	Abdul Hafiz Ghoga	National Transitional Council
	Abdul Hassan	National Liberation Army (Libya)				Battle of the Misrata frontline	Battle of Tawergha
	Abdullah II of Jordan	Jordan				2011 military intervention in Libya
	Abdullah Senussi	Libyan Army				Battle of the Misrata frontline	Battle of Zliten
	Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi				2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Ellamy
							Opération Harmattan
							Operation Mobile
							Operation Odyssey Dawn
							Operation Unified Protector
		Libyan Army				Second Gulf of Sidra offensive	Battle of Sirte (2011)
	Abu Oweis	Tripoli Brigade				2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
	Abuzed Omar Dorda	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
	Ahmad Ramadan
	Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi	Libyan Army
	Alain Juppé	France				2011 military intervention in Libya
	Ali Attalah Obeidi	National Liberation Army (Libya)				Battle of the Misrata frontline
	Ali Sharif al-Rifi	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi				2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Ellamy
							Opération Harmattan
							Operation Mobile
							Operation Odyssey Dawn
							Operation Unified Protector
	Al-Saadi Gaddafi	Libyan Armed Forces				2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
						2011 military intervention in Libya
						First Battle of Benghazi
		Libyan Army				First Gulf of Sidra offensive
	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	NATO				2011 military intervention in Libya
	André Deschamps (RCAF officer)	Canada					Operation Mobile
	Baghdadi Mahmudi	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
	Barack Obama	United States				2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Odyssey Dawn
	Carter Ham
	Charles Bouchard	Canada					Operation Unified Protector
		NATO				2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
	Daou al-Salhine al-Jadak	National Liberation Army (Libya)				Battle of Bani Walid
	David Cameron	United Kingdom				2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Ellamy
	David Johnston	Canada					Operation Mobile
	Édouard Guillaud	France					Opération Harmattan
	Elrick Irastorza
	Fares Mana'a	Houthis			2011–2012 Yemeni uprising		Battle of Sa'dah
	François Fillon	France			2011 Libyan civil war	2011 military intervention in Libya	Opération Harmattan
	George Athor	South Sudan Democratic Movement	Sudanese nomadic conflicts			2011–2012 South Sudan tribal clashes
	Ghanem Ibrahim al-Hassan	Syrian Army	Arab Spring		2011–2012 Syrian uprising		2011–2012 Idlib clashes
	Grete Faremo	Norway			2011 Libyan civil war	2011 military intervention in Libya
	Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani	Qatar
	Hamid Hassy	National Liberation Army (Libya)				Ra's Lanuf raid
						Second Gulf of Sidra offensive	Battle of Sirte (2011)
							Second Battle of Bin Jawad
	Harald Sunde (general)	Norway				2011 military intervention in Libya
	Harry Harris (admiral)	United States					Operation Odyssey Dawn
	Hasan al-Kabir al-Gaddafi	Libyan Armed Forces
	Helle Thorning-Schmidt	Denmark
	Hussein Darbouk	National Liberation Army (Libya)				First Battle of Zawiya
	Jalal al-Digheily	National Transitional Council
	James G. Stavridis	United States				2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Unified Protector
	Jean-Paul Paloméros	France					Opération Harmattan
	Jens Stoltenberg	Norway
Khaled Kaim	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Khalid Shahmah	National Liberation Army (Libya)
Khalifa Belqasim Haftar		First Gulf of Sidra offensive
		Third Battle of Brega
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	United Arab Emirates	2011 military intervention in Libya
Khamis Gaddafi	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi		Operation Ellamy
			Opération Harmattan
			Operation Mobile
			Operation Odyssey Dawn
			Operation Unified Protector
	Libyan Armed Forces	2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
		Battle of Misrata
		First Battle of Zawiya
	Libyan Army	Battle of the Misrata frontline	Battle of Zliten
		Zliten uprising
Knud Bartels	Denmark
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Liam Fox	United Kingdom	2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Ellamy
Mahdi al-Arabi	Libyan Armed Forces	First Battle of Zawiya
	Libyan Army	2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Second Battle of Zawiya
		Zawiya raid
Mahdi al-Harati	Tripoli Brigade	2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
Mahmoud Jibril	National Transitional Council
Mansour Dhao	Libyan Armed Forces	Second Gulf of Sidra offensive	Battle of Sirte (2011)
Margaret H. Woodward	United States	2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Odyssey Dawn
Massoud Abdelhafid	Libyan Army	Fezzan campaign	Battle of Sabha
Mohamed Abu Al-Quasim al-Zwai	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Mohamed Gayth	Libyan Armed Forces	First Battle of Zawiya
Mohammed Ali Madani	National Liberation Army (Libya)	2011 Nafusa Mountains Campaign
Moussa Ibrahim	History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi		2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Ellamy
			Opération Harmattan
			Operation Mobile
			Operation Odyssey Dawn
			Operation Unified Protector
	Libyan Armed Forces	2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
	Politics of Libya	Second Gulf of Sidra offensive	Battle of Sirte (2011)
Muftah Anaqrat	Libyan Armed Forces	First Battle of Zawiya
Mustafa Abdul Jalil	National Transitional Council
Mustafa Bin Dardef	National Liberation Army (Libya)	Second Gulf of Sidra offensive	Battle of Sirte (2011)
Mutassim Gaddafi	Libyan Armed Forces	2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
	Libyan Army	Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road
		Fourth Battle of Brega
		Second Gulf of Sidra offensive	Battle of Sirte (2011)
Nicolas Sarkozy	France	2011 military intervention in Libya	Opération Harmattan
Omar El-Hariri	National Liberation Army (Libya)
Peter MacKay	Canada	2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Mobile
Philip Hammond	United Kingdom		Operation Ellamy
Pierre-François Forissier	France		Opération Harmattan
Ralph Jodice	United States		Operation Unified Protector
Rinaldo Veri	Italy
Robert Gates	United States		Operation Odyssey Dawn
Saif al-Arab Gaddafi	Libyan Army
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi	Libyan Armed Forces	2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive	Battle of Tripoli (2011)
		2011 military intervention in Libya
		Battle of Bani Walid
Salih Rajab al-Mismari	Libyan Army
Samuel J. Locklear	United States	2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Odyssey Dawn
Silvio Berlusconi	Italy
Stephen Harper	Canada	2011 military intervention in Libya	Operation Mobile
Stuart Peach	United Kingdom		Operation Ellamy
Suleiman Mahmoud	National Liberation Army (Libya)	Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road
		Battle of the Misrata frontline	Battle of Zliten
Sverker Göranson	Sweden	2011 military intervention in Libya
Traian Băsescu	Romania
2011–2012	Abdelaziz al-Hilu	Sudan People's Liberation Movement (northern sector)	Sudan–SPLM-N conflict (2011)
	Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi	Politics of Yemen	Arab Spring		2011–2012 Yemeni uprising		Battle of Sana'a (2011)
	Adel Safar	Politics of Syria			2011–2012 Syrian uprising
	Ahmed Mohamed Islam	Raskamboni movement	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Operation Linda Nchi
			War on Terror
	Ahmed Saleh	Republican Guard (Yemen)	Arab Spring		2011–2012 Yemeni uprising		Battle of Sana'a (2011)
	Ali Habib Mahmud	Syrian Navy			2011–2012 Syrian uprising
	Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar	Political parties in Yemen			2011–2012 Yemeni uprising		Battle of Sana'a (2011)
	Assef Shawkat	Syrian Army			2011–2012 Syrian uprising
	Bashar al-Assad	Politics of Syria					Damascus clashes
	Burhan Ghalioun	Syrian National Council
	Dawoud Rajiha	Syrian Army
	Haitham al-Maleh	Syrian National Council
	Hilde Frafjord Johnson	United Nations Mission in South Sudan	Sudanese nomadic conflicts			2011–2012 South Sudan tribal clashes
	Hussein Arab Isse	Transitional Federal Government	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Operation Linda Nchi
			War on Terror
	Ibrahim al-Afghani	Al-Shabaab	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa
			War on Terror
	Maher al-Assad	Republican Guard (Syria)	Arab Spring		2011–2012 Syrian uprising		Damascus clashes
	Malik Agar	Sudan People's Liberation Movement (northern sector)	Sudan–SPLM-N conflict (2011)
	Mohamed Yusuf Haji	Kenya	Conflicts in the Horn of Africa		Somali Civil War	War in Somalia (2009–2012)	Operation Linda Nchi
			War on Terror
	Riad al-Asaad	Free Syrian Army	Arab Spring		2011–2012 Syrian uprising		Damascus clashes
							Siege of Homs
	Riek Machar	Armed forces of South Sudan	Sudanese nomadic conflicts			2011–2012 South Sudan tribal clashes
	Sadiq al-Ahmar	Political parties in Yemen	Arab Spring		2011–2012 Yemeni uprising		Battle of Sana'a (2011)
	Salva Kiir Mayardit	Armed forces of South Sudan	Sudanese nomadic conflicts			2011–2012 South Sudan tribal clashes
	Samir Nashar	Syrian National Council	Arab Spring			2011–2012 Syrian uprising
	Walid Muallem	Politics of Syria

Further reading

• Golitsyn, Nikolai S. (1875) (Russian). The great generals of history (Великие полководцы истории) at Runivers.ru in DjVu format

See also

• List of British Field Marshals
• List of German Field Marshals
• List of Swedish Field Marshals
• List of Russian Field Marshals
• Marshal of the Soviet Union
• List of samurai
• List of usurpers
• List of guerrillas
• List of condottieri
• List of conquistadors
• List of revolutions and rebellions
• Martial Race
• List of wars
• List of women who led a revolt or rebellion