Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Saad el-Shazly
(ุณุนุฏ ุงูุฏูู ุงูุดุงุฐูู)
Brilliant Egyptian military strategist and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces who meticulously planned and executed Operation Badr, successfully crossing the Suez Canal and shattering the Bar Lev Line in October 1973.
General of the Army Omar Bradley
(Omar Nelson Bradley)
Five-star General of the Army hailed as 'The G.I.'s General' who commanded 1.3 million soldiers in the Twelfth United States Army Group across Western Europe.
Ahmad Ismail Ali
(ุฃุญู
ุฏ ุฅุณู
ุงุนูู ุนูู)
Egyptian Field Marshal and Minister of War who served as Supreme Commander of the Egyptian and Syrian unified forces during the 1973 October War, coordinating the strategic crossing of the Suez Canal.
Field Marshal William Slim (1st Viscount Slim)
(William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim)
British Field Marshal who rebuilt the defeated 'Forgotten Army' into the victorious Fourteenth Army, routing the Imperial Japanese Army at Imphal and Kohima.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike)
(Dwight David Eisenhower)
Five-star General of the Army and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe who planned Operation Overlord (D-Day) and directed the liberation of Western Europe in WWII.
Abdel Moneim Riad
(ุนุจุฏ ุงูู
ูุนู
ุฑูุงุถ)
Egyptian Chief of Staff acclaimed as the 'Golden General', who rebuilt Egypt's armed forces after the 1967 defeat and was killed in action leading soldiers on the front lines of the Suez Canal in 1969.
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
(ะะพะฝััะฐะฝัะธะฝ ะะพะฝััะฐะฝัะธะฝะพะฒะธั ะ ะพะบะพััะพะฒัะบะธะน / Konstanty Rokossowski)
Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland who planned Operation Bagration, trapped Paulus at Stalingrad, and commanded the 1945 Victory Parade.
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
(Chester William Nimitz)
Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet who orchestrated the victory at Midway and directed the Central Pacific drive to victory in WWII.
General Douglas MacArthur
(Douglas MacArthur)
Five-star General of the Army who liberated the Philippines ('I shall return'), accepted Japan's surrender on the USS Missouri, and led the Inchon landing.
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (The Lion of Africa)
(Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck)
General in the Imperial German Army who conducted an undefeated four-year guerrilla campaign in East Africa with 14,000 men against 300,000 Allied troops.
General George C. Marshall
(George Catlett Marshall Jr.)
General of the Army hailed by Winston Churchill as the 'organizer of victory' in WWII, who expanded the US Army to 8.5 million men and created the Marshall Plan.
General Sudirman
(Raden Soedirman)
First Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian National Armed Forces who led an epic seven-month guerrilla campaign carried on a litter through the Javanese jungle while suffering from severe tuberculosis.
John J. Pershing (General of the Armies)
(John Joseph Pershing)
Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I who insisted on an independent US military command and won the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (Marshal Leclerc)
(Philippe de Hauteclocque, marรฉchal Leclerc)
Marshal of France and heroic Free French commander of the 2nd Armored Division (2e DB) who liberated Paris and Strasbourg, fulfilling the Oath of Kufra.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (The Desert Fox)
(Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel)
Field Marshal hailed as 'The Desert Fox' whose tactical brilliance leading the Afrika Korps and mobile armored warfare won Tobruk and Gazala.
Marshal Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
(ๅฑฑๆฌไบๅๅ
ญ)
Marshal Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy who pioneered naval carrier aviation and planned the Pearl Harbor raid.
Field Marshal Edmund Allenby (1st Viscount Allenby)
(Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby)
British field marshal nicknamed 'The Bull' who commanded the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, won the Battle of Megiddo, and entered Jerusalem on foot in 1917.
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
(Thomas Edward Lawrence)
British archaeologist, officer, and irregular warfare strategist who mobilized the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire and authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom.