Famous Soldiers

• Allen, John R.

  The Marine who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan after Petraeus

• Austin, Lloyd

  The first Black American to be Defense Secretary

• Barak, Ehud

  Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001

• Bergdahl, Bowe

  The U.S. soldier who was a POW in Afghanistan

• Berry, Albert

  The first man to parachute out of an airplane

• Clark, Wesley K.

  Former NATO commander and presidential hopeful

• Corbett, Thomas "Boston"

  The soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth

• Custer, George Armstrong

  The man in command at Custer's Last Stand

• Davis, Jefferson

  President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War

• Dreyfus, Alfred

  The French captain wrongly accused of treason in 1894

• England, Lynndie

  The woman US soldier from the Abu Ghraib photos

• Flynn, Michael

  The former National Security Advisor who pled guilty to a felony in 2017

• Groban, Florent

  The Army Captain awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2015

• Hale, Nathan

  Revolutionary War hero who said "I only regret that I have but one life..."

• Hasan, Nidal Malik

  The suspect in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood

• Jones, James L.

  Barack Obama's National Security Advisor, 2009-10

• Kyle, Chris

  The author of American Sniper

• Lim Bo Seng

  Patriotic WWII hero of Singapore

• Lynch, Jessica

  POW rescued in 2003's Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Manning, Bradley

  The soldier accused of leaking Afghanistan documents to Wikileaks

• Mitchell, William "Billy"

  "Father of the U.S. Air Force"

• Murphy, Audie

  The most-decorated American soldier of World War II

• Owen, Wilfred

  English poet of World War I

• Prince, Erik

  Founder and former head of Blackwater Worldwide

• Pulaski, Casimir

  Polish general of the Revolutionary War

• Rabin, Yitzhak

  Prime Minister of Israel, 1974-1977 and 1992-1995

• Richthofen, Manfred von

  WW I flying ace known as "The Red Baron"

• Russell, Harold

  The disabled vet in The Best Years of Our Lives

• Shamir, Yitzhak

  Prime Minister of Israel, 1983-1984 and 1986-1992

• Sharon, Ariel

  Prime minister of Israel, 2001-2006

• Shaw, Robert Gould

  Civil War leader of the African-American 54th Massachusetts Infantry

• Spartacus

  The gladiator who led a slave army against the legions of Rome

• Stauffenberg, Claus von

  The German colonel who almost killed Hitler

• Tillman, Pat

  The NFL-playing soldier killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan

See: Index by Occupation