- Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States. - Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. - Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870) was a career U.S. Army officer and the most celebrated general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Lee was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756-1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773-1829). He was a descendant of Thomas More and of King Robert II of Scotland through the Earls of Crawford. - John Paul
John Paul (December 9, 1883 - February 13, 1964) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, son of John Paul [1839-1901]. Born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Paul attended private and public schools. He was graduated from Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1903 and was an instructor in that institution in 1903 and 1904. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1906. - Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 - May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, … - John Adams
John Adams (July 1, 1825-November 30, 1864), was an officer in the United States Army. With the onset of the American Civil War, he resigned his commission and joined the Confederate States Army, rising to the rank of brigadier general before being killed in action. Adams was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Irish immigrant parents. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1846, ranking 25th in his class. - David Petraeus
David Howell Petraeus (born November 7, 1952) is a general in the United States Army and commander of Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I), the four-star post that oversees all U.S. forces in the country. He was confirmed to that position by the Senate in a vote of 81-0 on January 26 2007. He replaced General George Casey who was subsequently confirmed as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. - Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, … - John Henry
John Henry (c. 1776 - 1853), was a spy and adventurer of mysterious origins. It is reputed that he was born in Dublin, Ireland, probably between 1750 and 1775, although 1776 is the more accepted year. Henry came to Philadelphia about 1793, edited "Brown's Philadelphia Gazette", and afterward was commissioned a captain in the United States Army, in 1798, during the Quasi-War with France. Henry commanded an artillery company under General Ebenezer Stevens, … - Pat Tillman
Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 - April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. Tillman was the first professional football player to be killed in combat since the death of Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills, who died in the Vietnam War in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from Specialist to Corporal. - George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 - December 21, 1945) was a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France and Germany, 1943-45. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded major units of North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. - Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War after achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. A Southern slaveholder who opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, … - Tommy Franks
Tommy Franks, the allied commander, has since admitted this operation was designed to �degrade� Iraqi air defences in the same way as the air attacks that began the 1991 Gulf war. - John J. Pershing
John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 - July 15, 1948) was an officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person, while still alive, to rise to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army-General of the Armies-equivalent only to the posthumous rank of George Washington. - Muqtada Al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi‘a cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He is also the son-in-law of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir As-Sadr. While he does not hold any official title in the Iraqi government, he is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country. - John Abizaid
John Philip Abizaid (born April 1, 1951) is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), overseeing American military operations in a 27-country region, from the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, to South and Central Asia, covering much of the Middle East. CENTCOM oversees 250,000 US troops. Abizaid succeeded General Tommy Franks as Commander, USCENTCOM, on July 7, 2003, … - George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876) was a United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Promoted at an early age to a temporary war-time rank of brigadier general, and later made a permanent Lt. Colonel, he was a flamboyant and aggressive commander during numerous Civil War battles, known for his personal bravery in leading charges against opposing cavalry. - Omar Bradley
General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley KBE (February 12, 1893 - April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General of the Army of the United States Army. He was the last surviving five star officer of the United States. - Jessica Lynch
Jessica Dawn Lynch (born April 26, 1983 in Palestine, West Virginia) is a former Quartermaster Corps Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army. Lynch became famous after her widely publicized recovery by U.S. special operations forces. - William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the enemy, … - William Clark
William Clark (February 1, 1891 - October 10, 1957) was a U.S. federal judge. Clark was born on February 1, 1891 in Newark, New Jersey. He got successive degrees at Harvard University, starting with a B.A. at the age of 20 in 1911, followed by an M.A. a year later, and finally an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1915. Two years later, when World War I broke out, he joined the U.S. Army, where he stayed until 1918. In 1920, Clark started out the practice of law in Newark, … - Eric Shinseki
Eric Ken Shinseki (born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army General and served as the 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1999 - 2003). He is the first Asian American in U.S. history to be a four-star general, and the first to lead one of the four U.S. military services. - Ehren Watada
Ehren Watada is a First Lieutenant (1LT) of the United States Army who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq for his unit's assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Watada said he believed the war to be illegal and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, it would make him party to war crimes. At the time he refused to deploy, he was assigned to duty with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, … - Joe Wilson
Addison Graves Wilson, Sr., usually known as Joe Wilson (born July 31, 1947) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina, currently representing the state's 2nd congressional district (map), in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district is based in the state capital, Columbia, and stretches to the resort towns of Beaufort and Hilton Head Island. - Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796), was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony." - Ricardo Sanchez
Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sánchez was a United States Army general who served as the commander of coalition forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the United States Army when he retired on 1 November 2006. At the time of his retirement, Lieutenant General Sanchez called his career a casualty of the Abu Ghraib scandal. - Richard
Richard (Dick) Richards was born in Ogden, Utah. He was active in the Republican and politics from the late 1960s until the 1980s, and served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1981 to 1983. He served in the United States Army from 1952 until 1955, finishing his service as an officer with the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Before being drafted he had been active in politics, organizing the Junior Republican League while studying at Weber State College in Ogden, … - Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffrey (b. November 17 1942, Taunton, Massachusetts) is a retired United States Army General. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the United States Military Academy, where he had been the Bradley Professor of International Security Studies from 2001 to 2005. He is also a NBC and MSNBC military analyst as well as a consultant for BR McCaffrey Associates. In addition to serving as a professor at the USMA, … - Creighton Abrams
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72 which saw U.S. troop strength fall from 530,000 to 30,000. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until shortly before his death in 1974. In honor of Abrams, the U.S. Army named the XM1 main battle tank after him as the M1 Abrams. - Robert Allen
Robert Allen (March 15, 1811 - August 5, 1886) was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as a brigadier general during the American Civil War. - John Moore
Brigadier General, John Moore, MD (August 18, 1826 - March 18, 1907) was a leading United States Army physician during the American Civil War who rose to become Surgeon General of the Army in the late 1880s. John Moore was born in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended Indiana State University and graduated in 1845. He had graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati in 1844. - Max Cleland
Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a former U.S. Senator, disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, and a critic of the Bush Administration. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a presidentially appointed position. - William S. Wallace
William Scott Wallace is a 4-star General of the United States Army. He commands the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Fort Monroe, Virginia. - John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. - Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek-immigrant parents in Brookline, Massachusetts and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts' history - Ralph Peters
Ralph Peters (b. 1952) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel, novelist and essayist. He has sometimes written under the nom-de-plume Owen Parry. - Lynndie England
Lynndie Rana England is a United States Army reservist who served in the 372nd Military Police Company. She was one of several soldiers convicted by the Army courts-martial in connection with the torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the occupation of Iraq. England held the rank of specialist while serving in Iraq. Along with other soldiers, she was found guilty of inflicting sexual, physical and psychological abuse on Iraqi prisoners of war. - William Jones
William Jones (born in 1975) is a American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Chilly Willy. He is most famous for his stint in Extreme Championship Wrestling. He temporarily left wrestling to enlist in the United States Army, and was sent to Iraq. While serving in Iraq he was wounded and received the Purple Heart. In April 2004, Jones returned from Iraq and decided to return to wrestling. - Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes (born 10 November 1944 in Canutillo, Texas) represents the Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Reyes served in the United States Army and he later worked for the U.S. Border Patrol. In 1993, serving as the Chief Patrol Agent of the El Paso Border Patrol Sector, Reyes led the Border Patrol to position agents on the border to intercept illegal immigrants. He is a Vietnam War veteran. - Jim Jones
Jim Jones (born May 13, 1942 in Twin Falls, Idaho) is a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court and a former Attorney General of Idaho. Jones is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Northwestern University School of Law. He served as an officer in the United States Army in Vietnam in the late 1960s, where he received several decorations including the Army Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star.
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