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List of people associated with World War IISee: World War II
Albania
Australia
- Henry Gordon Bennett, Major General of Australian Imperial Forces
- Thomas Blamey, General of Australian Imperial Forces
- John Curtin, (1885-1945), Prime Minister from 1941 until his death in 1945
- Robert Menzies, (1894-1978), Prime Minister 1939-1941
- Leslie Morshead, (1889-1959), Commander of the Rats of Tobruk, later head of the Second AIF
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma
- U Aung San, (1915-1947), Commander in Chief of the Burma Independence Army
- U Ba Maw, prime minister during Japanese occupation
Canada
- Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
- George Beurling, (1921-1948), fighter ace
- Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- Peter Dmytruk (1920-1943), Flight Sergeant and French Resistance fighter
- John Kenneth Macalister (1914-1944 , SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, (1874-1950), Prime Minister
- John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and author of "High Flight"
- Andrew George Latta (Andy) McNaughton, (1887-1966), scientist, military commander, and diplomat
- Frank Pickersgill (1915-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- Tommy Prince (1915-1977), Canada's most decorated aborignal soldier, member of the US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade
- Colonel James Layton Ralston (1881-1948), Minister of Defense
- Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
China
- Chiang Kai-Shek, (1887-1975), Generalissimo of Kuomintang Forces; Chairman of the ROC
- Soong May-ling, (1898-2003), Madame Chiang Kai-shek
- Zhou Enlai, (1898-1976), communist ambassador to Kuomintang
- Mao Zedong, (1893-1976), communist leader
- Pu Yi, last Emperor of China; puppet Emperor of Manchukuo
- Wang Jingwei, (1888-1944), head of Japanese supported collaborationist government
Czechoslovakia
- Edvard Benes, (1884-1948), Czech President-in-exile
- Josef Frantisek, fighter ace
- Emil Hacha, president
- Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German politician
- Karel Miroslav Kuttelwascher , fighter ace
- Jan Masaryk, (1886-1948), Czech Foreign Minister-in-exile
- Ludvik Svoboda, general
- Jozef Tiso, (1887-1947), President of separatist Slovakia
Denmark
Egypt
Ethiopia
Finland
- Aksel Airo, (1898-1985), HQ strategic planner
- Adolf Ehrnrooth, (born 1905), infantry general
- Mauno Koivisto, (born 1923), infantryman and future president
- Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, (1867-1951), Field Marshal and later president
- Juho Kusti Paasikivi, (1870-1956), diplomat
- Risto Ryti, (1889-1956), president
- Hjalmar Siilasvuo, (1892-1947)
- Lauri Törni, (1919-1965), Infantry captain
France
- Georges Bidault, French Resistance activist
- Denise Bloch (1915-1945), French Resistance and SOE agent
- Pierre Boisson, general and governor of Equatorial Africa
- Andrée Borrel (1919-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
- Pierre Brossolette, French Resistance
- Eliane Plewman (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
- Mathilde Carré, French Resistance double agent
- Edouard Daladier, prime minister
- Madeleine Damerment (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
- Jean Francois Darlan, (1881-1942), admiral
- Joseph Darnand, head of Vichy France Milice
- Charles De Gaulle, (1890-1970), leader of the Free French Forces and Gaullist French Resistance
- Henri Dentz, Vichy France general in Syria
- Maurice Gustave Gamelin, general
- Henri Giraud, general who escaped from Germans
- Max Hymans, (1900-1961) French resistance leader
- Noor Inayet Khan, SOE agent
- Marie Pierre König, General and coordination of resistance activities
- Pierre Laval, Vichy France Foreign Minister
- Philippe Leclerc, General of Free French Forces
- Jean Moulin, (1899-1943), French Resistance leader
- Maurice Papon, (1910 - ), Nazi collaborator, convicted war criminal
- Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), leader of Vichy France
- Lilian Rolfe, (1914-1945), SOE agent
- Odette Sansom (1912-1995), French Resistance and SOE agent
- Violette Szabo, (1921-1945), SOE agent
- Paul Touvier, (1915-1996), Nazi collaborator and only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity
- Susan Travers, (born 1909)
- Nancy Wake, (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
- Maxime Weygand, (1867-1965), general
Germany
- Klaus Barbie, (1913-1991), was a German officer of the SS and the Gestapo sent to occupied France where he became known as The Butcher of Lyon
- Bayerlein, Fritz, Panzer general
- Ludwig Beck, (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot
- Johannes Blaskowitz, Colonel General
- Hugo Bleicher, German counter-intelligence operative in France
- Fedor von Bock, Field marshal
- Juana Bormann, (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps.
- Martin Bormann, (1900-unknown), highest ranking Nazi party administrator
- Herta Bothe, camp guard at Bergen-Belsen
- Hans Bothmann (1911-1946), a Commandant of the Chelmno death camp in central Poland
- Dr. Karl Brandt, ran the German T-4 Euthanasia Program
- Eva Braun, (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress
- Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), rocket scientist
- Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
- Wilhelm Canaris, (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr
- Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp
- John Demjanuk, notorious guard at the German extermination camps
- Rudolf Diels, (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo
- Sepp Dietrich, SS general
- Karl Dönitz, (1891-1980), Admiral, masterminded U-Boat warfare
- Adolf Eichmann, (1906-1962), top level bureaucrat
- Theodor Eicke, (1892-1943), a Commandant of the Dachau death camp and head of the SS Death's-Head Units
- Nikolaus Falkenhorst, colonel general and commander of German troops in Norway
- Eugen Fischer, (1874-1967), Professor of Anthropology who promoted racial purity
- Hans Frank, (1900-1946), (1900-1945), lawyer for Adolf Hitler
- Walter Frank, (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer, he was president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany
- Kurt Franz, (1917-1998), Deputy Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp
- Wilhelm Frick, (1877-1946), Reich Minister of the Interior
- Hans Fritzsche, (1900-1953), Nazi party official who served in the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda
- Walther Funk, (1890-1960), was Adolf Hitler's personal advisor on economic affairs and a state secretary of the Propaganda Ministry
- Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe fighter ace
- Hans Bernd Gisevius, (1904-1974), diplomat
- Joseph Goebbels, (1897-1945), Chancellor of Germany, propaganda chief for the Nazis
- Amon Leopold Goeth, SS officer
- Hermann Göring, (1893-1946), commander of Luftwaffe
- Irma Grese, (1923-1945), a Senior SS Supervisor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
- Heinz Guderian, (1888-1954), Panzer general
- Erich Hartmann, fighter pilot; the most successful fighter ace in history
- Rudolf Hess, (1894-1987), Hitler's deputy
- Werner Heyde, involved in human experimentations
- Reinhard Heydrich, (1904-1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia
- Heinrich Himmler, (1900-1945), head of Gestapo
- Adolf Hitler, (1889-1945), Führer of Germany
- Rudolf Höss, first commandant of the extermination camps
- Alfred Jodl, (1890-1946), general, Chief of Operation Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, (1903-1946) chief of the German Security Service
- Wilhelm Keitel, (1882-1946), Field Marshal
- Albert Kesselring, (1881-1960), Field Marshal, commander of German troops in Italy
- Gunther von Kluge, Field Marshal
- Ilse Koch, (1906-1967), the wife of Karl Otto Koch, Commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
- Karl Otto Koch, (1897-1945) first commandant at Buchenwald Extermination camp
- Josef Kramer (1906-1945), was the head of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Otto Kretschmer, (1912-1998), U-boat commander
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950), German industrialist and weapons manufacturer
- Alfried Krupp (1907-1967), arms manufacturer
- Hans Langsdroff, Commander of Graf Spee
- Arthur Liebehenschel, (1901-1948), a Commandant of both the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps
- Robert Ley (1890-1945), Nazi party chief who set up the German Labor Front(1890-1945)
- Maria Mandel (1912-1947), chief-guard of Birkenau women's camp
- Erich von Manstein, (1887-1973), Field Marshal
- Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who performed experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz extermination camp
- Walther Model, (1891-1945), Field Marshal
- Konrad Morgen, (1910-1976), "bloodhound judge"
- Werner Mölders, Luftwaffe fighter ace
- Konstantin von Neurath, (1873-1956), Foreign Minister of Germany
- Herta Oberheuser, (1911-1978), a doctor
- Josef Oberhauser, commander of the Belzec extermination camp
- Friedrich Paulus, Field Marshal and commander of German troops in Stalingrad
- Erich Raeder, (1876-1960) Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy
- Walther von Reichenau, field marshal
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, (1893-1946) Nazi foreign minister
- Lothar Rendulic
- Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), NSDAP party member, who organized Adolf Hitler's "Brownshirts"
- Erwin Rommel, (1891-1944), Field Marshal, "Desert Fox"
- Alfred Rosenberg, (1893-1946), Nazi ideologist
- Rudolf Rösseler, publisher and Soviet spy
- Gerd von Rundstedt, (1875-1953), Field Marshal
- Walter Schellenberg, SS general and secret service officer
- Oskar Schindler, (1908-1974), humanitarian
- Baldur von Schirach, (1907-1974), leader of the Hitler Youth movement
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, (1892-1946), a lawyer, and Commissioner of the Occupied Netherlands
- Otto Skorzeny, (1908-1975), Commando lieutenant colonel
- Hans and Sophie Scholl, (1917-1943), anti-nazis
- Richard Sorge, (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
- Albert Speer, (1905-1981), architect and coordinator of war production
- Franz Stangl, (1908-1971) a Commandant at Sobibor extermination camp in Poland
- Claus von Stauffenberg, (1907-1944), Colonel and member of the July Plot
- Julius Streicher (1885-1946), founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper, "Der Sturmer"
- Ernst Udet, inspector general of the Luftwaffe
- Elisabeth Volkenrath, (1919-1945), guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Christian Wirth, commander of the Belzec extermination camp
Greece
Hungary
India
Iraq
Ireland
- Eamon de Valera, (1932-1948; 1951-54; 1957-1959), Taoiseach
- Leopold Kerney, Minister to Madrid involved in conducting negotiations with Germany over Irish neutrality and possible assistance with recovery of the "lost counties" of Ulster
Italy
- Vittorio Ambrosio, general
- Amadeo of Aosta, Duke and Commander of Italian armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Pietro Badoglio, (1871-1956), field marshal
- Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya
- Annibale Bergonzoli, Lieutenant-General at Bardia
- Valerio Borghese, Naval lieutenant commander
- Francisco Cavalera
- Ugo Cavallero, Chief of General Staff
- Galeazzo Ciano, (1903-1944), diplomat
- Victor Emmanuel III, (1869-1947)
- Umberto, (1904-1983), Prince of Piedmont - Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom (de facto monarch) from 1943
- Maria José, Princess of Piedmont - tried to negotiate separate peace with the United States
- Carlo Favagrossa
- Rodolfo Graziani, (1882-1955)
- Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
- Vittorio Revetra
Japan
- Hatazo Adachi, Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in New Guinea
- Korechika Anami, General and Minister of War in the end of the war
- Mitsuo Fuchida, commander of Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor
- Minory Genda, fighter commander
- Haryoshi Hyakutake, lieutenant general in Guadalcanal
- Masaharu Homma, general in invasion of Philippines
- Masaki Honda, Lieutenant general in Burma
- Koicho Kido, Lord Privy Seal
- Mineschi Koga, admiral, successor of Yamamoto
- Kuniaki Koiso, (1880-1950), lieutenant general
- Nabutake Kondo, admiral in Guadalcanal
- Fumimaro Konoye, (1891-1945), statesman
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi, general in the Battle of Iwo Jima
- Takeo Kurita, admiral in the Battle of Midway
- Chuichi Nagumo, (1886-1944), Admiral
- Hirohito, (1901-1989), emperor
- Yosuke Matsuoka, Foreign minister
- Guinichi Mikawa, Vice Admiral in the Battle of Savo Island
- Kichisaburo Nomura, Admiral
- Takijiro Onishi, admiral
- Hiroo Onoda, (born 1922), post-war straggler
- Jisaburo Ozawa, Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile Flee in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Saburo Sakai, Zero fighter ace
- Yoshitsugu Saito, general in Saipan
- Mamoru Shigemitsu, Foreign minister
- Hajime Sugiyama, general and Army Chief of Staff
- Kantaro Suzuki, (1867-1948), prime minister
- Raizo Tanaka, Rear Admiral and destroyer commander
- Hisaichi Terauchi, (1879-1945), Field Marshal ad supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army
- Shigenori Togo, Foreign minister
- Hideki Tojo, (1884-1948), general and military prime minister
- Tokyo Rose
- Soemu Toyoda, admiral
- Yoshijiro Umezu, general
- Mitsuru Ushijima, general in the defense of Okinawa
- Isoroku Yamamoto, (1884-1943), admiral
- Tomoyuki Yamashita, lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and Philippines
Malta
Manchuria
The Netherlands
New Zealand
- Leslie Andrew, (1897-1969), Commander the 22nd Battalion of the Second NZEF
- Roderick Carr, (1891-1971), Air Marshal and Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force
- Arthur Coningham, (1895-1948), Air Marshal and commander of UK Western Desert Air Force
- Peter Fraser, (1884-1950), Prime Minister from March 1940
- Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), general and commander of NZ corps
- Alfred Hulme, (1911-1982), Sergeant awarded Victoria Cross
- F. H. Maynard
- Sir Keith Park, RAF sector commander during the Battle of Britain
- Michael Joseph Savage, (1872-1940), Prime Minister until his death in March 1940
- Lloyd Alan Trigg, awarded Victoria Cross on recommendation of German submarine commander
- Charles Upham, Army Captain awarded Victoria Cross and bar
- Nancy Wake, (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
Norway
- Carl Fleischer, general
- Haakon VII, (1872-1957)
- Vidkun Quisling, (1887-1945), Nazi collaborator
- Henry Oliver Rinnan, double agent
Palestine
Philippines
Poland
- Wladyslaw Anders, lieutenant general and leader of Free Polish army
- Mordecai Anielewicz, (1919-1943)
- Jozef Beck
- Wojciech Jaruzelski, (born 1923), was drafted into Soviet Polish Army
- Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski, general and leader of Warsaw Uprising
- Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of Polish government-in-exile
- Edward Rydz-Smigly, marshal and army commander
- Wladyslaw Sikorski, General and head of the Polish government-in-exile
- Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), highly decorated SOE agent
- Karol Józef Wojty, Pope John Paul II
Portugal
Romania
South Africa
Soviet Union
- Alexei Antonov, Chief of General Staff at the end of the war
- Lavrenty Beria, (1899-1953), chief of NKVD
- Nikolay Bulganin, political marshal
- Vasili Chuikov, general and commander of Stalingrad
- Leonid Govorov, marshal, liberator of Leningrad
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nikolai Kuznetsov, admiral
- Vasili Kuznetsov, general
- Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs before Molotov
- Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov
- Kirill Meretskov, marshall in Winter War
- Vyacheslav Molotov, (1890-1986), Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs
- Ivan Petrov, general
- Konstantin Rokossovsky, marshal
- Richard Sorge, (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
- Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953)
- Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal
- Andrey Tupolev, (1888-1972), aircraft designer
- Nikolay Vatutin, general in the relief of Stalingrad
- Andrey Vlasov, Lieutenant general and German-backed Russian Liberation Army
- Kliment Voroshilov, (1881-1969), Marshal
- Andrey Yeremenko, marshal and front line general in Stalingrad
- Vasily Alexandrovich Zaitsev, sniper
- Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, (1896-1974), marshal and chief of the Red Army
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
- Elyesa Bazna, double-agent
- Ismet Inonu, (1884-1973), president
United Kingdom
- Harold Alexander, (1891-1969), Field Marshal
- Geoffrey Appleyard, commando major
- Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), Deputy Prime Minister
- Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), Field Marshal
- Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), Royal Air Force pilot with no legs
- Ralph A. Bagnold, (1896-1990)
- Stanley Baldwin, politician and ex-prime minister
- Eric Arthur Blair, (George Orwell), (1903-1950) author, journalist, propagandist
- Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
- Donald Bennett, Air Vice-Marshal of RAF
- Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and National Service
- Tom Bird, Lieutenant at Tobruk
- Alan Brooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal
- Frederick Browning, lieutenant general of airborne troops
- Maurice Buckmaster, colonel of Special Operations Executive
- Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), Prime Minister at the start of the war
- Peter Churchill, SOE agent
- Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), Prime Minister from 1940
- Dudley Clarke, creator of the British Commandos
- John Cunningham, RAF group captain and night-fighter ace
- William Dobbie, governor of Malta
- Eric Dorman-Smith
- Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), Foreign Secretary
- Duke of Windsor, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
- Princess Elizabeth, (born 1926), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
- Queen Elizabeth, (1900-2002), (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), consort of King George VI
- Ian Fleming, instigator of the scheme to capture Rudolf Hess
- George VI, (1895-1952)
- William Gott
- Rex King-Clark
- Arthur Harris, "Bomber", Air Chief Marshall of Bomber Command
- B.H. Liddell Hart, (1895-1970), Masterminded modern tank warfare, copied by Germans as Blitzkrieg
- Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War
- James Johnson, RAF fighter ace
- Miles Lampson
- John Lapsley
- Robert Laycock, General of the "Layforce" of Commandos
- Rea Leakey
- Christopher Lee, (born 1922), volunteered to fight in the Winter war
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal and fighter commander
- Fitzroy Maclean
- Leo Marks, (1920-2001)
- Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), patriotic lyricist (A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square)
- Frank Merrill, Brigadier general and leader of "Merrill's Marauders"
- Bernard Montgomery, (1887-1976), Field Marshal
- Oswald Mosley, (1896-1980), British fascist leader
- Louis Mountbatten, (1900-1979), Vice-admiral
- Airey Neave, (1916-1979)
- Richard O'Connor
- Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff
- Dudley Pound, Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
- Dan Ranfurly
- Odette Sansom, (1912-1995), SOE agent
- William Slim, general in Burmese front
- David Stirling, (1915-1990), commando colonel and founder of Special Air Service
- Alan Turing, (1912-1954), cryptographer
- Susan Travers, (born 1909), French Foreign Legion member
- Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979)
- Archibald Wavell, field marshal
- Henry Maitland Wilson, (1881-1964), field marshal
- Orde Wingate, major general and founder of Chindits
- Edward Yeo-Thomas, (1901-1964), SOE agent
United States
- Henry Arnold, (1886-1950), USAAF general
- Donald Blakeslee, fighter ace
- Richard Bong, (1920-1945), USAAF fighter ace
- Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, (1912-1988), USMC aviator
- Omar Bradley, (1893-1981), general
- Lewis Hyde Brereton, Major general
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, infantry general in the Aleutian Islands
- Arleigh Burke, (1901-1996), US Navy commander
- George H. W. Bush, (born 1924), US Navy pilot
- Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
- Claire Chennault, (1893-1958), USAAF major general and organizer of Flying Tigers
- Clarence Craft
- William O. Darby
- William Joseph Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
- James Doolittle, (1896-1993), lieutenant general
- Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), refugee and scientist
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969)
- Bonner Fellers
- James Forrestal, (1892-1949), secretary of the Navy
- William Frederick Friedman, (1891-1969), US cryptographer
- Varian Fry (1907-1967) ran escape scheme in wartime France that helped approximately 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to flee
- George H. Gay, (1917-1994), US Navy pilot
- Roy Geiger, marine commando general
- Leslie Groves, (1896-1970), general and supervisor of Manhattan Project
- William Halsey, (1882-1959), vice-admiral in Pacific
- William Averell Harriman, US ambassador to Moscow
- Ira Hayes, (1923-1955)
- William Joyce, (1906-1946), "lord Haw-Haw"
- Lyman Lemnitzer, (1899-1988), General
- Douglas MacArthur, (1880-1964), General
- George Marshall, (1880-1959)
- Bill Mauldin, (1921-2003)
- Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier
- Chester Nimitz, (1885-1966), Admiral
- Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967), physicist in Manhattan Project
- Matthew Bunker Ridgway, (1895-1993), general
- George Patton, (1885-1945), tank general
- Ernest Pyle, (1900-1945), war correspondent
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882-1945), President of the United States until his death in April 1945
- Charles Ryder
- Carl Spaatz, (1891-1974), Army Air Force General
- Joseph Stillwell, General and Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff
- John S. Thach, (1905-1981), naval aviator and ace, inventor of Thach Weave aerial combat tactic
- Harry S. Truman, (1884-1972), President of the United States from April 1945
- Lucian Truscott
- Jonathan Wainwright, (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
- Fred Walker
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
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