List of soldiers
This is a list of noted soldiers, organized for the country with which they are usually associated.
Lists according to nationality
- : George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Colin Powell, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Zachary Taylor, George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, Frederick Townsend Ward, Harry Truman, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Thomas Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Norman Schwarzkopf, Alvin York, Creighton Abrams, Audie Murphy
- : Roméo Dallaire
- : Muhammad Ali Pasha, Saladin, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Baibars, Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Amr ibn al-A'as, Khalid ibn Walid, Sa`d ibn Abī Waqqās, Yazid ibn Abu Sufyan, Abdullah ibn Aamir, Ahmed Ibn Tulun
- : Atif Dudakovic, Sefer Halilovic, Avdo Palic, Juka Prazina, Muderis, Rasim Delic
- : Montgomery, Lawrence of Arabia, Mountbatten, Wellington, Churchill
- : Sun Tzu, Qin Shihuang, Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Han Jian, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yun Chang, Zhao Zi Long, Zhuge Liang, Lv Bu, Sima Qian, Li Shimin, An Lvshan, Ji jvguang, Yuan Conghuan, Genghis Khan, Dorgon, Nuraci, Cao Cao, Zeng Guofan, Frederick Townsend Ward, Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek,Bai Congxi, Mao Zedong, Zhu de, Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai
- : Alois Eliáš, Otakar Jaroš, Jan Kubiš, Karel Kuttelwascher, Josef Mašín, Prokop the Great, Prokop the Lesser, Ludvík Svoboda, Albrecht von Wallenstein, Jan Žižka
- : Aksel Airo, Adolf Ehrnrooth, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Lauri Törni
- : Napoleon Bonaparte, Lazare Carnot, Louis Nicolas Davout, Ferdinand Foch, Joachim Murat, Charles de Gaulle, Michel Ney
- : Erwin Rommel, Heinz Guderian, Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Siegfried Müller
- : Ardeshir Tarapore, Arun Khetarpal, Bana Singh, Albert Ekka, Gurbachan Singh Salaria, Abdul Hamid (soldier), Hoshiar Singh, Jadu Nath Singh, Joginder Singh (Subedar), Karam Singh, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, Piru Singh, Rama Raghoba Rane, Ramaswamy Parameshwaran, Sanjay Kumar (soldier), Shaitan Singh, Som Nath Sharma, Dhan Singh Thapa, Vikram Batra, Yogendra Singh Yadav
- : Cyrus, Surena, Shahrbaraz of Persia, Reza Shah, Rostam Farrokhzād, Abbas Mirza, Xerxes I
- : Owen Roe O'niell, Tom Barry, Michael Collins, Oscar Traynor, Arthur Wellington, Brian Boru
- : see List of Chief of the General Staff (many of them are famous) and Other famous generals and soldiers.
- : Oyama Iwao, Tojo Hideki
- : Ǔlji Mundŏk
- : Viriathus, Afonso Henriques, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Afonso de Albuquerque, Sebastian of Portugal, Mouzinho de Albuquerque, Costa Gomes, Francisco Daniel "Danny" Roxo
- : Arkan
- : Jozef Gabčík, Milan Rastislav Štefánik
- : Gustavus Adolphus, Jacob De la Gardie, Johan Banér, Charles XII
- : Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, Alparslan,Yavuz Sultan Selim,Fevzi Çakmak...
Fictional soldiers
- Jaroslav Hašek: The Good Soldier Svejk
- Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier
- Rostam: Shahnameh
- Richard Sharpe: ''the central character in the "Sharpe" novels by Bernard Cornwell
Abanian: Adem Jashari