Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Military Leaders & Strategists

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Mohammad Reza Zahedi

محمدرضا زاهدی

Iran

1960 – 2024 (63 years old)

Senior Iranian military commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who led the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon for over two decades, whose assassination in a targeted airstrike on Iran's consulate in Damascus triggered Iran's direct missile attacks on Israel.

Isfahan, Iran

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Marwan Abdel Karim Issa

مروان عبد الكريم عيسى

Palestine

1965 – 2024 (59 years old)

Palestinian militant commander nicknamed "The Shadow Man" who served as the deputy commander of Hamas's military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, under Mohammed Deif, helping plan the October 7 attacks.

Nuseirat, Gaza Strip

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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin

Евгений Викторович Пригожин

Soviet Union

1961 – 2023 (62 years old)

Russian oligarch, mercenary warlord, and founder of the Wagner Private Military Company whose forces spearheaded brutal battles in Ukraine and Africa, before leading an armed mutiny against the Russian defense establishment in June 2023.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri

أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري

Egypt

1951 – 2022 (71 years old)

Egyptian physician and terrorist ideologue who led the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, served as Osama bin Laden's strategic deputy in planning the September 11 attacks, and served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from 2011 until his death in 2022.

Kabul, Afghanistan

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John Shalikashvili

John Malchase David Shalikashvili

Poland

1936 – 2011 (75 years old)

General who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997, the first foreign-born person to hold America's highest military post, having risen from drafted private.

Arlington, United States

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Saad el-Shazly

سعد الدين الشاذلي

Egypt

1922 – 2011 (88 years old)

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.

Cairo, Egypt

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Marcel Bigeard

Marcel-Maurice Bigeard

France

1916 – 2010 (94 years old)

One of the most decorated soldiers in modern French history, a World War II French Resistance fighter and paratrooper commander at Dien Bien Phu and in Algeria.

Fréjus, France

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General of the Army Omar Bradley

Omar Nelson Bradley

United States

1893 – 1981 (88 years old)

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.

Arlington (Virginia), United States

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Ahmad Ismail Ali

أحمد إسماعيل علي

Egypt

1917 – 1974 (57 years old)

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.

Cairo, Egypt

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Mohamed Oufkir

محمد أوفقير

Morocco

1920 – 1972 (52 years old)

Highly decorated military commander, Minister of the Interior, and Minister of Defense who was King Hassan II's most powerful military figure until orchestrating the 1972 aviation coup attempt.

Figuig Region, Morocco

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Field Marshal William Slim (1st Viscount Slim)

William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Great Britain

1891 – 1970 (79 years old)

British Field Marshal who rebuilt the defeated 'Forgotten Army' into the victorious Fourteenth Army, routing the Imperial Japanese Army at Imphal and Kohima.

Windsor, United Kingdom

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike)

Dwight David Eisenhower

United States

1890 – 1969 (78 years old)

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.

Abilene (Kansas), United States

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Abdel Moneim Riad

عبد المنعم رياض

Egypt

1919 – 1969 (49 years old)

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.

Cairo, Egypt

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Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky

Константин Константинович Рокоссовский / Konstanty Rokossowski

Poland

1896 – 1968 (71 years old)

Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland who planned Operation Bagration, trapped Paulus at Stalingrad, and commanded the 1945 Victory Parade.

Moscow, Russia

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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Chester William Nimitz

United States

1885 – 1966 (80 years old)

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.

San Bruno (California), United States

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General Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

United States

1880 – 1964 (84 years old)

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.

Norfolk (Virginia), United States

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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (The Lion of Africa)

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck

Germany

1870 – 1964 (93 years old)

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.

Pronstorf (Schleswig-Holstein), Germany

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Djilali Bounaama

الجيلالي بونعامة

Algeria

1926 – 1961 (35 years old)

Former mine-worker and trade union leader who rose to command Wilaya IV, coordinating the massive street demonstrations of December 1960 that broke the back of colonial diplomacy.

Blida, Algeria

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