• Home >
  • Biographies >
  • Government & Politics >
  • World Leaders >
  • Biographies: U.S. Military Leaders

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

 

U.S. Military Leaders

  • Alexander, William, American Revolutionary general
  • Anderson, Robert, American army officer
  • Armistead, Lewis Addison, Confederate general
  • Armstrong, John, American army officer
  • Arnold, Henry Harley, American general, chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces
  • Atkinson, Henry, American army officer
  • Bainbridge, William, American naval officer
  • Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, American politician and Union general in the Civil War
  • Barney, Joshua, American naval officer and privateer
  • Barry, John, U.S. naval officer in the American Revolution
  • Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, Confederate general
  • Bliss, Tasker Howard, American army officer and statesman
  • Bradley, Omar Nelson, U.S. general
  • Bragg, Braxton, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War
  • Brown, Jacob Jennings, American general
  • Buchanan, Franklin, American naval officer
  • Buell, Don Carlos, Union general in the Civil War
  • Burnside, Ambrose Everett, Union general in the U.S. Civil War
  • Butler, Benjamin Franklin, American politician and Union general in the Civil War
  • Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, Union general in the Civil War
  • Carlson, Evans Fordyce, U.S. marine officer
  • Carr, Eugene Asa, Union general in the U.S. Civil War
  • Carrington, Henry Beebee, U.S. army officer and historian
  • Carter, Samuel Powhatan, American naval officer and Union general in the Civil War
  • Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, Union general in the Civil War
  • Chennault, Claire Lee, American general
  • Clark, George Rogers, American Revolutionary general
  • Clark, Mark Wayne, U.S. general
  • Clark, Wesley K., American soldier, political figure
  • Clay, Lucius DuBignon, American general
  • Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne, Confederate general
  • Clinton, James, American Revolutionary general
  • Cox, Jacob Dolson, Union general in the Civil War and American statesman
  • Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas, Union general in the Civil War
  • Crook, George, U.S. general
  • Curtis, Samuel Ryan, Union general in the Civil War
  • Cushing, William Barker, Union naval hero in the Civil War
  • Custer, George Armstrong, American army officer
  • Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, American naval officer
  • Davis, Benjamin Oliver, American general
  • Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr., American air force general
  • Davis, Charles Henry, American naval officer and scientist
  • Davis, Jefferson, American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy
  • Dearborn, Henry, American general and cabinet member
  • Decatur, Stephen, American naval officer
  • Dewey, George, American admiral
  • Dodge, Grenville Mellen, Union general in the Civil War and railroad builder
  • Du Pont, Samuel Francis, American naval officer
  • Early, Jubal Anderson, Confederate general
  • Eisenhower, Dwight David, American general and 34th President of the United States
  • Ewell, Richard Stoddert, Confederate general
  • Farragut, David Glasgow, American admiral
  • Fiske, Bradley Allen, American naval officer and inventor
  • Foote, Andrew Hull, American naval officer
  • Forrest, Nathan Bedford, Confederate general
  • Fox, Gustavus Vasa, American naval officer
  • Funston, Frederick, U.S. general
  • Gates, Horatio, American Revolutionary general
  • Geary, John White, American politician and Union general in the Civil War
  • Grant, Ulysses Simpson, commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War and 18th President
  • Greene, Nathanael, American Revolutionary general
  • Gruenther, Alfred Maximilian, U.S. general
  • Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr., American general and public official
  • Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr., American general and public official
  • Hale, Nathan, American soldier
  • Halleck, Henry Wager, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Halsey, William Frederick, Jr., American admiral
  • Hampton, Wade, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Hancock, Winfield Scott, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Hardee, William Joseph, American army officer
  • Harney, William Selby, American general
  • Hazen, William Babcock, American general
  • Hill, Ambrose Powell, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Hill, Daniel Harvey, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Hood, John Bell, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Hooker, Joseph, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Hopkins, Esek, American Revolutionary naval hero
  • Howard, Oliver Otis, Union general in the Civil War
  • Howell, John Adams, American naval officer and inventor
  • Hull, Isaac, American naval officer
  • Jackson, Stonewall, Confederate general
  • Johnston, Albert Sidney, Confederate general
  • Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, Confederate general
  • Jones, John Paul, American naval hero
  • Kalb, Johann, American general in the Revolution
  • Kearny, Philip, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Kearny, Stephen Watts, American general in the Mexican War
  • Kimball, William Wirt, American naval officer
  • King, Ernest Joseph, American admiral, commander in chief of the U.S. fleet
  • Knox, Henry, American Revolutionary officer
  • Lane, Joseph, American general in the Mexican War
  • Lawrence, James, American naval hero
  • Leahy, William Daniel, American naval officer and diplomat
  • Lee, Fitzhugh, Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War
  • Lee, Henry, American Revolutionary soldier
  • Longstreet, James, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Luce, Stephen Bleecker, American naval officer
  • MacArthur, Douglas, American general
  • Macdonough, Thomas, American naval officer
  • Marion, Francis, American Revolutionary soldier, known as the Swamp Fox
  • Marshall, George Catlett, American general and cabinet member
  • Marshall, George Catlett, American general and cabinet member
  • Mayo, Henry Thomas, American naval officer
  • McClellan, George Brinton, Union general in the American Civil War
  • McClernand, John Alexander, Union general in the American Civil War
  • McPherson, James Birdseye, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Meade, George Gordon, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Mercer, Hugh, American Revolutionary general
  • Miles, Nelson Appleton, American army officer
  • Milroy, Robert Huston, Union general
  • Mitchell, William, American army officer and pilot
  • Morgan, Daniel, American Revolutionary general
  • Moultrie, William, American Revolutionary general
  • Murphy, Audie, soldier, actor, world war II figure
  • Myers, Richard Bowman, American Air Force general
  • Nimitz, Chester William, American admiral
  • Patton, George Smith, Jr., American general
  • Patton, George Smith, Jr., American general
  • Pemberton, John Clifford, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Perry, Matthew Calbraith, American naval officer
  • Perry, Oliver Hazard, American naval officer
  • Pershing, John Joseph, American army officer and commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I
  • Pickett, George Edward, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Pleasonton, Alfred, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Pope, John, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Porter, David Dixon, American admiral
  • Powell, Colin Luther, U.S. army general and government official
  • Preble, Edward, American naval officer
  • Putnam, Rufus, American Revolutionary general
  • Rawlins, John Aaron, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Rickover, Hyman George, American admiral
  • Ridgway, Matthew Bunker, U.S. general
  • Rodgers, Christopher Raymond Perry, American naval officer
  • Rodgers, John, American naval officer
  • Rosecrans, William Starke, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Sampson, William Thomas, American naval officer
  • Schofield, John McAllister, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, military Leader
  • Scott, Hugh Lenox, U.S. army officer
  • Scott, Winfield, American general
  • Semmes, Raphael, American naval officer
  • Shaw, Robert Gould, Union hero in the American Civil War
  • Sheridan, Philip Henry, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Sherman, William Tecumseh, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Sigsbee, Charles Dwight, American naval officer
  • Sims, William Sowden, American naval officer
  • Smith, Edmund Kirby, American soldier, Confederate general in the Civil War
  • Smith, Holland McTyeire, American general
  • Smith, Walter Bedell, U.S. general
  • Spruance, Raymond Ames, American admiral
  • Stark, Harold Raynsford, American admiral
  • Stilwell, Joseph Warren, American general
  • Stockdale, James Bond, U.S. naval officer
  • Stoneman, George, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Stuart, James Ewell Brown, Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War
  • Sullivan, John, American Revolutionary general
  • Taylor, Maxwell Davenport, U.S. general
  • Terry, Alfred Howe, American general
  • Thomas, George Henry, Union general in the American Civil War
  • Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, American general
  • Walke, Henry, American naval officer
  • Ward, Artemas, American general in the American Revolution
  • Wayne, Anthony, American Revolutionary general
  • Wedemeyer, Albert Coady, American general
  • Westmoreland, William Childs, U.S. general
  • Wheeler, Joseph, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Whipple, Abraham, American Revolutionary naval officer
  • Whiting, William Henry Chase, Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Wilkes, Charles, American naval officer and explorer
  • Wilkinson, James, American general
  • Winslow, Cameron McRae, American naval officer
  • Winslow, John Ancrum, American naval officer
  • Wood, Leonard, American general and administrator
  • Worth, William Jenkins, American army officer
  • York, Alvin Cullum, American soldier known as Sergeant York

 

.com/biography/us-military-persons.html

Sources +

Our Common Sources

Douglas MacArthur

  • People in the News
  • Recent Obituaries

Related Links

Military Personnel Veterans Memorial Day Veterans Day America’s Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans The Medal of Honor American Wars Worldwide Conflicts and Wars

Biographies by Category

Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

  • Military Personnel
  • Veterans
  • Memorial Day
  • Veterans Day
  • America’s Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans
  • The Medal of Honor
  • American Wars
  • Worldwide Conflicts and Wars

Biographies by Category

 

.com/biography/us-military-persons.html

Sources +

Our Common Sources

Our Common Sources

Biographies: Notable Business Biographies

  • Biographies: Notable Business Biographies

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales