- Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf (born August 11 , 1943 , Delhi , India ) became ruler (head of state/chief executive) of Pakistan on October 12 , 1999 following a bloodless coup d'AAtat . He assumed the office of President of Pakistan on June 20 , 2001 . In order to legitimize and legalize his rule, he held a referendum on April 30 , 2002 thereby elected as President of Pakistan for duration of five years.
- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945.
- Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men of World history. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
- Genghis Khan
(IPA: ; ; classic Mongolian: (see below for alternative spellings); ca. 1162 -August 18, 1227) was a Mongol "Khan" (ruler; posthumously "Khagan", emperor). Born with the name Temüüjin into the Borjigin clan, he became one of the most significant and successful military leaders in history. He united the Mongol tribes and founded the Mongol Empire, (1206 - 1368), the largest contiguous empire in world history.
- Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as "Général de Gaulle", was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces.
- Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (also "Mao Tse-tung" in Wade-Giles;) was a Chinese Marxist military and political leader and philosopher, who led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao is also recognized as a poet and calligrapher. Regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, …
- Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 - April 5, 1975) was the Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He led the national government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1975. He commanded the Northern Expedition to unify China against the warlords and emerged victorious in 1928 as the overall leader of the Republic of China. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, …
- Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. He was born in Huntingdon, seventy miles north of London, into the ranks of the middle gentry, and remained relatively obscure for his first forty years, …
- David Miller
David Miller, born April 14 1973, is an American tenor, member of the operatic pop musical quartet "Il Divo". David is one of the most recognized and successful young American singers in the world. He was born in San Diego but grew up in Littleton, Colorado and was a graduate of Heritage High School in 1991. Even at school he participated in musicals, starring as the Rooster in "Annie" and Noah in "Two by Two".
- George Marshall
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, Jr. GCB (December 31 1880 - October 16 1959) was an American military leader, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall supervised the U.S. Army during the war and was the chief military advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- John Boyd
Colonel John (Richard) Boyd was a United States Air Force fighter pilot and military strategist of the late 20th century whose theories have been highly influential in the military and in business. Boyd was born on January 23, 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor's degree in economics and from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering.
- David Hackworth
David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 - May 4, 2005) known affectionately as "Hack", was a retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist.
- Laisenia Qarase
Laisenia Qarase was Prime Minister of Fiji from 2000 to 2006. After the coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry was quashed by the military, Qarase joined the Interim Military Government as a financial advisor on 9 June 2000, and was subsequently appointed Prime Minister on July 4. He subsequently won two parliamentary elections, but was deposed in a military coup on 5 December 2006. A native of Vanuabalavu Island in the Lau archipelago, …
- Kenneth Pollack
Kenneth Michael Pollack (born 1966) is a noted former CIA intelligence analyst and expert on Middle East politics and military analysis. He has served on the National Security Council staff and has written several articles and books on related topics. Kenneth Pollack was educated at Yale University, earning a B.A. in 1988. He went on to MIT, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1996. In government, Kenneth Pollack has served in a variety of roles.
- Carl von Clausewitz
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (June 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military historian and influential military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise "Vom Kriege" (complete text available here), translated into English as "On War" (complete text available here).
- Michel Aoun
Michel Naim Aoun (born 19 February 1935 in Beirut) is a Lebanese military commander and politician. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he served as Prime Minister and acting President of one of two rival governments that contended for power. He was defeated by Syria in the war of liberation and forced into exile. He returned to Lebanon on May 7, 2005, eleven days after the withdrawal of Syrian troops. Known as "The General," Aoun is currently a Parliament Member.
- Vera Wang
Vera Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. She was raised in an affluent family and attended The Chapin School as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history. Her mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris. Her father started and owned a chemical company.
- Richard Lee
Sir Richard Lee (1513-1575) was a military engineer. He was a commander of Henry VIII by whom he was knighted in 1544 and appointed surveyor of the King's works. Following the dissolution of St Albans Abbey he purchased the grounds of the abbey (the abbey church itself was sold by King Edward VI to the people of St Albans in 1553), Sopwell Priory and the rectorship of St Stephen's church (both of which were nearby).
- Thomas Barnett
Thomas P.M. Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist.
- David Weber
David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952. In his stories, he creates a consistent and rationally explained technology and society. Even when dealing with fantasy themes, the magical powers are treated like another technology with supporting rational laws and principles. Many of his stories have military, particularly naval, themes, and fit into the military science fiction genre.
- James Gandolfini
Although he acted on Broadway and in various films in the 1990s, Gandolfini's most-acclaimed role is that of Tony Soprano, the Mafia boss and family man in the multi-award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, which debuted in 1999. He has since starred in films such as 8 MM and The Mexican. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey, grew up in New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City.
- Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging; however, he escaped the hangman's noose around two hours before his scheduled execution by taking his life through the use of potassium cyanide.
- Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan, Khubilai Khan or "the last of the Great Khans", was a Mongol military leader. He was the fifth Khagan (1260–1294) of the Mongol Empire as well as the founder and the first Emperor (1271–1294) of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty. Born the second son of Tolui and Sorghaghtani Beki and the grandson of Genghis Khan, he succeeded his older brother Möngke in 1260. Kublai Khan's brother, Hulagu, conquered Persia and founded the Ilkhanate.
- James Hayward
James Hayward is the pseudonym of James Nice (b. 6 January 1966 in Essex), English writer on military and modern art history. Educated at the University of Glasgow prior to working in publishing and as a solicitor. Books by James Hayward include "The Bodies on the Beach" (1999), "Shingle Street" (2002), "Myths and Legends of the First World War" (2003) and "Myths and Legends of the Second World War" (2004).
- Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn was a military strategist and systems theorist employed at RAND Corporation, USA. His theories contributed to the development of the nuclear strategy of the United States.
- George Meade
George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 - November 6, 1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Seminole War and Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
- Sam Jones
Samuel Jones (December 17, 1819 - July 31, 1887) was the Confederate commander of the Department of Florida and South Georgia. Jones was born in Woodfield, Virginia. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1841. He died in Bedford Springs, Virginia, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
- Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield (born September 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad), is an American novelist and author of screenplays, principally of military historical fiction set in classical antiquity. His historical fiction is well-researched, but for the sake of dramatic flow, Pressfield may alter some details, like the sequence of events, or make use of jarring contemporary terms and place names, his stated aim being an attempt to capture the spirit of the times.
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the solar system. His epochal book, "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres"), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in all the history of science. Among the great polymaths of the Scientific Revolution, …
- Darrell Anderson
US Army Specialist Darrell Anderson (b. Lexington, Kentucky, 1982) is a United States Army deserter and anti-Iraq war activist. Anderson joined the U.S. Army in January 2003 to get money for college and to serve his country. He later served in Iraq with the US Army's 1st Armored Division. He was awarded a Purple Heart after being injured by shrapnel in a roadside bombing in April 2004.
- George Brett
George Howard Brett, (February 7, 1886 - 1963), was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II and was, for a short period, deputy commander of the major Allied command in South East Asia, the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM). During his career Brett received the Distinguished Service Medal, a Silver Star and a Distinguished Flying Cross.
- Jo Jones
Jo Jones (later known as Papa Jo Jones) was an American drummer, one of the most influential in the history of jazz.
- Guan Yu
Guan Yu (關羽) (160-219) was a Chinese military general under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. He played a significant role in the civil war that led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the establishment of Shu Han, of which Liu Bei was the first emperor. One of the best known Chinese historical figures throughout East Asia, Guan Yu's true life stories have largely given way to semi-fictional ones, …
- Victor Mature
Victor Mature, an American film actor, was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Tyrolean father, Marcellus George Mature, a cutler, and a Swiss-American mother, Clara Mature. He is often described as an early exemplar of the term "beefcake" due to his muscular physique and stolid onscreen manner. But unlike any of his contemporaries and his many successors, Mature always brought a sense of fragility, doubt and uncertainty to his characters.
- Peter Paret
Peter Paret is American military, cultural & art historian with a particular interest in the German history. Paret was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Dr. Hans Paret and Suzanne Aimée Cassirer, who divorced in 1932. The mother with her two children left Germany in 1932 to continue her studies with Sigmund Freud, and in 1934 married Siegfried Bernfeld, a prominent Viennese pyschoanalyst and educational reformer.
- Geoffrey Parker
Noel Geoffrey Parker (born 1943 in Nottingham, England) is a leading expert on military history. His best known book is "Military Revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800", first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. He holds his BA, MA, Ph.D. and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University where he studied under the historian, Sir John Huxtable Elliott. He has taught at the University of Illinois and Yale University.
- Sergei Khrushchev
Dr. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (b. 1935), son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, now resides in the United States where he is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Khrushchev holds several advanced engineering degrees. From the Ukrainian Academy of Science, he earned his Soviet doctoral degree, and he earned a Ph.D. from the Moscow Technical University.
- William Heath
William Heath (1795 - 1840) was a British artist. He was best known for his published engravings which included caricatures, political cartoons, and commentary on contemporary life. His early works often dealt with military scenes, but from about 1820 on he focused on satire. Some of his works were published under the pseudonym "Paul Pry". Heath helped found two early caricature magazines, "Glasgow" and "The Northern Looking Glass".
- Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel.
- Ta Mok
Ta Mok, which means "Grandfather Mok" in Khmer, was the "nom de guerre" of Chhit Choeun (c. 1926 - 21 July 2006), a senior figure in the leadership of the Khmer Rouge. His name has also been reported as Ek Choeun, Oeung Choeun and Ung Choeun, and he was also known as "Brother Number Five".