Igor Sikorsky
Inventor, one of the first successful helicopters, grandfather of helicopters, inventor of multi-engine planes, the Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter is used by the US military
Æthelwulf
King of Wessex (West Saxons) from 839-858 AD, military commander of Northumbria who defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia at Kent, son of King Ecbert, 4 of his 5 sons became kings
795 AD-858 AD
Alan Sabrosky
US Marine officer, retired military veteran, 911 whistleblower
Albert Speer
Nazi army general, minister of armaments and war production for the Third Reich
General Alexander Farnese
Military general of the Spanish army, nobleman, Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586-1592, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578-1592
1545-1592 (47)
Dr. Anthony Tether
Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2001-2009
d60.darpa.mil
Sir Anthony Wagner
serving officer, military veteran, author, pioneer in genealogy and heraldry
1908-1995 (87)
heraldry.ca
Armando Diaz
Marshal of Italy, military general, Armistice of Villa Giusti (Padua), The Bollettino della Vittoria
Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich
Army general in the Imperial Russian Navy, military veteran, author of The Secret World Government or "The Hidden Hand"
1868-1926 (58)
Arthur H. McCollum
Navy officer, CIA intelligence officer, military veteran, religious Baptist missionary, wrote the memo to FDR an 8-step plan to invoke the Japanese into war with America, ultimately leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1898-1976 (78)
usni.org
Ashli Babbitt
Military veteran, conservative activist, fatally shot while entering the Washington US Capitol building on Jan 6 (J6)
Baron von Steuben
Inspector General, engineer, lieutenant, Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, army veteran, military veteran, famous for bayonette fighting, homosexual, openly gay, LGBTQ
1730-1794 (64)
battlefields.org
Barry Goldwater
Republican politician, former US senator, military veteran, author of The Conscience of a Conservative
1909-1998 (89)
Bernard Montgomery
British Army officer in Irish War of Independence, WWI/WWII, aka The Spartan General
Betsy Patton
wife of James Patton, and then married his friend Davy Crockett after James was killed in 1813
1788-1860 (72)
Black Elk
War leader who fought Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn
1863-1950 (87)
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Ruthenian nobleman, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth military commander of Ukrainian Cossacks, Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host
Braxton Bragg
Lieutenant colonel in the US army, general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War, Fort Bragg named after him
britannica.com
Brent Scowcroft
Lietuenant general, US army general, military veteran, US national security advisor, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
atlanticcouncil.org
King Canute ("Cnut the Great")
King of England from 1016-1035, King of Denmark from 1018-1035, King of Norway and Sweden from 1028-1035, viking warrior, military commander
985 AD-1035
englishmonarchs.co.uk
Carl Stiner
US army general, military veteran
campbellcountyvet.com
Cato the Elder/Censor
foe or enemy of Julius Caesar, military veteran aka Cato the Censor, Cato the Elder
Charles de Gaulle
President of France from 1959-1969, President of the French Republic from 1944-1946, statesman, army officer, military general during WWII against the German invasion
1890-1970 (80)
britannica.com
Charles Guthrie
Gold Stick-in-Waiting, British army officer, member of House of Lords of the United Kingdom from 2001-2020
Chester W. Nimitz
Admiral of the US Navy
1885-1966 (81)
history.navy.mil
Christopher, Lord Geidt living
Principal private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 2007-2017, Crossbench party politician, member of the UK House of Lords, chairman of the Council of Kings College London
1961- (64)
kcl.ac.uk
Christian Noyer living
Lawyer, attorney, naval officer, military veteran, honorary governor of the Banque de France, former chairman of the Bank of International Settlments
1950- (75)
group30.org
Christopher Miller
US Secretary of Defense from 2020-2021, director of the National Counterterrorism Center
defense.gov
Christopher Speer
Military veteran, army special ops, killed by Omar Kadhr in Afghanistan
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian military general, miltary strategist, pioneer in morality of war, author of On War, coined the phrase "war is the continuation of politics by other means"
1780-1831 (51)
britannica.com
Clay Shaw
US Army major general retired military veteran in 1946, CIA intelligence officer, businessman, established International Trade Mart, board member of Permindex, World Trade Development Committee, tried for conspiring to assassinate John F Kennedy (JFK) in 1967, gay male, LGBTQ
frenchquarterjournal.com
Colin Mackenzie
Army officer in the British East India Company, military veteran, engineer, orientalist, surveyor general of India after Tipu Sultan in 1799
1754-1821 (67)
Matthew C. Perry
US Navy, naval officer, army veteran, military veteran
britannica.com
Charles, Lord Cornwallis
British army general aka Lord Cornwallis, colonel of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, military officer for the British colonists during the American Revolutionary War, surrendered at the siege of Yorktown in 1781, governor of Bengal from 1786-1793 during the Permanent Settlement of Bengal
1738-1805 (67)
Crazy Horse
Lakota war leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn
1840-1877 (37)
Culper, Jr.
Loyalist spy for the British Army in the Culper Ring during the American Revolutionary War, famous for using iron gall ink (invisible ink) with gallic acid and iron sulphate
Daniel Lewin
Mathematician, entrepreneur, co-founder of Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network (CDN) and cloud computing services firm, ex-Israeli special forces, military veteran
1970-2001 (31)
Daniel Morgan
Pioneer, soldier, militia officer, Patriot sniper, sharpshooter, battlefield tactician, Brigadier General during the American Revolutionary War
1736-1802 (66)
battlefields.org
Dave Kleiman
Bitcoin pioneer, computer scientist, cypherpunk, crypto enthusiast, army veteran, early Bitcoin inventor, forensics expert, author of several cybersecurity books, died from ALS
Desmond Kuek living
Lieutenant general, military veteran of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), president and CEO of the SMRT Corporation from 2012-2018
1963- (62)
Dick Cheney living
Secretary of Defense under George Bush Sr. and 46th Vice President of the United States (from 2001-2009) under George W Bush, CEO of Halliburton
1941- (84)
britannica.com
Chancellor Dolfuss
German Chancellor during WWII, famous for reviewing the Hitler documents
Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford and again under George W Bush
1932-2021 (89)
Douglas Leese
British arms deal known as the Al Yamamah Deal, investment banker, financier, principal of Towers Financial
Douglas MacArthur
US army general, military veteran, conspiracy researcher, field marshal to the Philippine Army during the Red Scare (Cold War)
1880-1964 (84)
britannica.com
Dudley Knox
Navy captain, military veteran, one of FDR's trusted advisors
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Battle of Waterloo in 1815 defeated Napoleon Bonaparte, British Tory politician until 1834, soldier aka Arthur Wellesley, The Iron Duke, military commander of Great Britain from 1842–1852, statesman, 2x Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1769-1852 (83)
nam.ac.uk
Edward Rowny
Army lieutenant general during Polish extraction, military veteran, negotiator on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Elisha Ely Garrison
Lieutenant colonel, military veteran, author of Roosevelt, Wilson and the Federal Reserve Law in 1931
Emiliano Zapata
Mexican Revolutionary War, military veteran of the Zapatistan Army of National Liberation, Zapatismo movement
Ernest Shackleton
Royal Navy officer, military veteran, first person to reach the southern magnetic (south) pole of earth
Felipe Braun
Great Marshal of Montenegro, fought in the independence war of South America
1798-1869 (71)
L. Fletcher Prouty
Colonel in the US Air Force, military veteran, Chief of Special Operations for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, JFK whistleblower, banker, author of The Secret Team, Origins of Oil
1917-2001 (84)
Francis Cromie
MI6 intelligence officer, British Royal Navy commander, military veteran, POW, prison of war
Frank J. Sprague
Naval officer, military veteran, industrial engineer, inventor of the DC motor for electric trains, father of electric traction, electric railways, electric elevators
edisontechcenter.org
Frank Wisner
lawyer, attorney of Wall Street, co-founder of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intelligence officer in the 1950s, military veteran, US Office of Strategic Services in WWII
1909-1965 (56)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke of Austria-Hungary empire, politician who in Sarajevo was assassinated in 1914 by The Black Hand which escalated to begin World War I
1863-1914 (51)
history.com
Frederick Osborn
Major General, military veteran, co-founder of the Population Council
1889-1981 (92)
Frederick W. Lanchester
Aerospace engineer, military strategist, military veteran, scientist, aerodynamics, pioneer in automobiles, Britain's first automaker in 1896
1868-1946 (78)
britannica.com
Gaston de Foix
Duke of Nemours, duc de Nemours, military commander known as the Thunderbolt of Italy from 1489-1512
General Michael Flynn living
US Secretary of Defence aka Michael Flynn, military lieutenant general, author of 5G Warfare
1958- (67)
generalflynn.com
General Groves
US Army Corps of Engineers who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon, military veteran, civil engineer, helped to established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947 after running the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb during World War II (WWII), Operation Paperclip, helped to steal big science and create big pharmaceuticals
1896-1970 (74)
Robert E. "General" Lee
Confederate US Army general of Northern Virginia during the US Civil War, lieutenant colonel aka General Lee, miltary veteran in the Mexican-American War
1807-1870 (63)
George S. Patton
US army general aka General Patton, George Patton IV, military leader, descendent of James Patton a friend of Davy Crockett
George Henry Hodgson
Royal Navy officer awarded the Polar Medal of Honour, military veteran of the First Opium War from 1839-1842
1817-1848 (31)
George C. Marshall
US Secretary of State, military veteran, foreign affairs, The Marshall Plan, formally European Recovery Program from 1948–51
history.state.gov
Gerald Grosvenor
6th Duke of Westminster, aristocratic billionaire businessman, Territory Army general
1951-2016 (65)
Germanicus
Roman army general for the Claudian patricians, military campaigns in what was known as Germania
15 BC-19 AD
Giuliano della Rovere
Genoese military leader who helped the French army cross the Alps in 1498 for King Charles VIII of France
Henry Knox
Founding Father of the United States, military veteran, senior general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, founder of the Society of the Cincinnati
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott
Military officer, journalist, lawyer, freemasonry, buddhist, theosophist, co-founder and 1st president of the Theosophical Society
1832-1907 (75)
britannica.com
King Henry V of England
King of England from 1413-1422, Lord of Ireland, military commander during the Hundred Years War against France resulting in the rise of the British empire
King Henry VIII
King of England from 1509-1547, known as the father of the Royal Navy, Supreme Head of the Church of England, excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII which led to the English Reformation and the separation of papal authority (Catholic Church), had 6 wives and known for divorcing or killing his wives, his second wife was Anne Boleyn, created the Anglican church to have his first marriage annulled, his daughter was known as "Bloody" Mary Tudor, or Queen Mary I of England
1491-1547 (56)
Hermann Göring
Chief of Luftwaffe in Hitler's Nazi Germany, pioneer of the Four-Year Plan with IG Farben
Hernán Cortés
Castillian Spanish conquistador, explorer to Mexico, military leader who conquered Montezuma and the Aztecs of Mexico in 1520, led an expedition for the King of Castile to collapse the Aztec Empire
1485-1547 (62)
history.com
Adolf Hitler
Führer, dictator, chancellor of Germany in 1933, German Labour Front organization founded Volkswagen in 1933, military veteran, message courier injuired twice in battle (partially blinded by a gas attack), supreme commander of the Wehrmacht German armed forces, nationalist politician of the Third Reich, National Socialists German Workers Party (Nazi Party), sentenced for 5 years (served 12 months) in 1924, writer, author of Mein Kampf (My Struggle/My Fight), Bohemian son of a customs officer who died when he was 13, artist, homeless painter of hand drawings at 20
1889-1945 (56)
britannica.com
Hussein bin Ali
Arab leader of the Banu Hashemite family, military veteran in the Great Arab Revolt
Isaac Babel
Prose writer, poet, author of Red Cavalry, political commentator, politics, commisar in the Red Army, arrested in 1939, died in a Siberian prison camp in 1941
1894-1941 (47)
spartacus-educational.com
Isaac Davis
Gunsmith, militia officer, military veteran, captain of the Minutemen from Acton during the American Revolutionary War
1745-1775 (30)
Isabel Perón
46th President of Argentina aka Isabelita from 1974-1976, Justicialist Party politician, VP and First Lady of the Argentine Republic from 1973-1974, she was the first woman to serve as a president of a country in the world, ousted in a 1976 military coup and exiled to Spain in 1981
James Baker, III
Political advisor at Carlyle Group, former US Secretary of State, Office of Net Assessment
Capt. James Callaway
military officer of the Missouri Rangers in the War of 1812, grandson of Daniel Boone
1783-1815 (32)
James Forrestal
American patriot, Catholic nationalist, financier, Wall Street banker, 1st US Secretary of Defense, US Secretary of the Navy
1892-1949 (57)
King James IV of Scotland
King of Scotland from 1488-1513, died in the Battle of Flodden
1473-1513 (40)
James Patton
military veteran of the War of 1812, fought for Andrew Jackson during the Creek Indian War in 1813 against the Red Sticks, disputed information whether he was killed-in-action (KIA) during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 (or sometime in November of 1813), married his cousin Elizabeth in 1809 and birthed George Patton I (the 1st) who is the direct bloodline patriarchy for General Patton (George Patton IV)
1784-1813 (29)
Jennings C. Wise
Virginia army officer, lawyer, attorney, military veteran, author of Woodrow Wilson: Disciple of Revolution in 1938
1881-1968 (87)
archivesspace.vmi.edu
Joel Skousen
Survivalist, political scientist, strategic relocation, marine corps officer, FBI intelligence officer
John Boyd
US Air Force fighter pilot, Pentagon consultant, military strategist in WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War
1927-1997 (70)
Sir John French
British Army officer, viscount at Deal Castle, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1852-1925 (73)
John Graves Simcoe
British Army general aka John Simcoe, 1st lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (Ontario) from 1791-1796
1752-1806 (54)
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
John III Sobieski
King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674-1696, military commander in the battles at Vienna
1629-1696 (67)
britannica.com
John Jacob Astor V
Lieutenant-Colonel military officer, entrepreneur, owner of newspapers, his grandfather was John Jacob Astor III
1886-1971 (85)
John Lehman living
US Secretary of the Navy from 2003-2004, military veteran, member of the 9/11 Commission (911 commission)
1942- (83)
John McCrae
Poet who wrote "In Flanders Fields" in 1915, writer, doctor, physician, surgeon, military veteran, lieutenant colonel, soldier who fought and died in World War I
1872-1918 (46)
veterans.gc.ca
John Nagl living
Lieutenant colonel, military operations of psychological warfare counterinsurgency expert, military veteran, retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army, former headmaster at the Haverford School, author of Knife Fights
1966- (59)
John Parker (farmer)
Farmer, gunsmith, militia officer, captain for the Patriots at the Battle of Lexington, MA in 1775
1729-1775 (46)
John Paul Jones (Navy)
Royal Navy, Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, one of the greatest naval commanders in US history, naval officer of the Ranger warship, military veteran
1747-1792 (45)
John Pearson
3rd Viscount Cowdray, Lieutenant Colonel for the British army, military veteran, polo player, businessman, heir to the Pearson publishing family dynasty
1910-1995 (85)
John Poindexter
retired US naval officer, national security advisor for Ronald Reagan, responsible for U.S. Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was shutdown by congress, convicted during Iran-Contra, known as the godfather of modern surveillance
John Robert Osborn
Sergeant Major, soldier, military veteran
veterans.gc.ca
Jorge Rafael Videla
President of the Argentine Republic from 1976-1981, military veteran, commander of the Military Junta army, coup d'état of Isabel Perón
Josef Mengele
SS officer during WWII, military veteran, known as Todesengel (the Angel of Death) at Auschwitz (Poland)
Joseph Murphy
US Army major, military veteran, USMC, COVID whistleblower, exposed documents on the Wuhan Institue of Virology lab
Joseph Plumb Martin
Militia officer, military veteran, General during the American Revolutionary War
history.com
Justin I
Byzantine emperor (Eastern Roman emperor) from 518-527 AD, army commander of Anastasius
450 AD-527 AD
H. Keith Melton living
US Navy, military, intelligence officer, historian, author of Spycraft
1944- (81)
King James II of England (VII of Scotland)
King James VII and II of England, Duke of York, King of England and Ireland (as James II of England) and King of Scotland (as James VII of Scotland) from 1685-1688 until deposed during the Glorius Revolution, commander of the Royal Navy from 1660-1673, Jacobean Archbishop of Canterbury
1633-1701 (68)
royal.uk
Kirill Vladimirovich
Grand Duke of Russia, grandson of Emperor Alexander II, Naval Guards, military veteran
Kyle Rittenhouse
won landmark case in self-defense court trial
freekyleusa.org
Laura Secord
War of 1812 civil servant, messenger, walked 31 kilometres (31 km) in 1813, Canadian hero known for the chocolate confectionary in her name
T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
British Army lieutenant colonel aka Lawrence of Arabia, army officer, military veteran, Orientalist, author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1922
smithsonianmag.com
King Leonidas I
King of Sparta from 490-480 BCE, military veteran of the 300 Spartans, Molon labe, Battle of Thermopylae of the Spartans vs. Achaemenid Persian Empire led by Xerxes I
-480 BCE
britannica.com
Lester Crown living
billionaire heir, chairman of General Dynamics, co-owner of the Rockefeller Center with Tishman Speyer
1925- (100)
Licio Gelli
Grand Orient of Italy, freemasonry, industrialist, anti-communist aka Jelly, fascist banker known for the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, Grand Master and co-founder of the P2 lodge (Propaganda Due), fought in the Spanish Civil War
1919-2015 (96)
politico.eu
Little Crow
Mdewakanton Dakota chief during the Dakota War of 1862 against the United States
1810-1863 (53)
usdakotawar.org
L.L. Lemnitzer living
US Army general during the Gulf of Tonken, military veteran aka Major Lemnitzer, Lyman Lemnitzer, noteable for the CIA Operation Northwoods of attack drones in Cuba during JFK's Bay of Pigs
1899- (126)
jcs.mil
Lloyd Austin living
Lord Byng, Julian
1st Viscount Byng of Vimy from 1921-1926, lieutenant general aka Julian Byng, military veteran
Lord Fisher
First Sea Lord aka John Fisher, admiral for the British Royal Navy
1841-1920 (79)
firstworldwar.com