List of people associated with World War I

See: World War I

Table of contents

1 Australia 2 Austria-Hungary 2.1 Royalty 2.2 Military Leaders 2.3 Politicians 3 Belgium 4 Bulgaria 4.4 Royalty 4.5 Politicians 5 Canada 6 France 6.6 Military Leaders 6.7 Politicians 7 Germany 7.8 Monarch 7.9 Military Leaders 7.10 Political Leaders 7.11 Others 8 Greece 9 Italy 10 Japan 11 Netherlands 12 New Zealand 13 Ottoman Empire 14 Romania 15 Russia 15.12 Monarchs 15.13 Military Leaders 15.14 Political Leaders and others 16 Serbia 17 South Africa 18 United Kingdom 18.15 Royalty 18.16 Military Leaders 18.17 Political Leaders 18.18 Others 19 United States of America

Australia

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Sir Talbot Hobbs, (1864-1938), General
• Billy Hughes, (1862-1952), Prime Minister
• Sir John Monash, (1865-1931), Commander, Australian Forces
• Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885-1952), War reporter
• Sir Charles Rosenthal, (1875-1954), Commander, 2nd Division

Austria-Hungary

(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)

Royalty

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1863-1914), heir to the throne whose murder brought on the war.
• Emperor Franz Josef, (1830-1916)
• Emperor Karl, (1887-1922)
• Empress Zita (1892-1989)

Military Leaders

• Franz Conrad von Hötzendorff, (1852-1925), Chief of Staff (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
• Artur Arz von Straussenburg, (1857-1935), Chief of Staff (1917-1918)
• Oskar Potiorek, (1853-1933), General

Politicians

• Friedrich Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Count Julius Andrassy the Younger (1860-1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
• Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)
• Baron Istvan Burian, (1851-1922), Foreign Minister (1915-1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916-1918)
• Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinitz (1863-1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916-1917)
• Count Ottokar Czernin, (1872-1932), Foreign Minister (1916-1918)
• Count Moric Esterhazy (1881-1960), Minister-President of Hungary (1917)
• Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862-1931), Minister-President of Austria (1917-1918)
• Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865-1935), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
• Count Michael Karolyi (1875-1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
• Ernst von Koerber (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
• Heinrich Lammasch (1853-1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
• Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
• Count Karl von Stürgkh (1859-1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911-1916)
• Count Istvan Tisza (1861-1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913-1917)
• Sandor Wekerle (1848-1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917-1918)

Belgium

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• King Albert I, (1875-1934)
• Baron Charles de Broqueville, (1860-1940), Prime Minister
• Victor Deguise, (1855-1922), General
• Gerard Leman, (1851-1920), General
• Gabrielle Petit, (1893-1916), Executed Spy

Bulgaria

(Entered the War on: October 12, 1915)

Royalty

• Ferdinand I

Politicians

• Alexander Malinov, (1867-1938), Prime Minister (1908-1911, 1918)
• Vasil Radoslavov, (1854-1929), Prime Minister
• Alexander Stamboliski, (1879-1923), anti-monarchist
• Nikola Zhekov, (1864-1949), Commander-in-Chief

Canada

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Billy Bishop, (1884-1956), ace credited with 72 victories
• Sir Robert Borden, (1854-1937), Prime Minister (1911-1920)
• Henri Bourassa, (1868-1952), led French Canadian opposition to conscription
• Sir Arthur Currie, (1875-1933), Commander, Canadian Forces
• Sir Sam Hughes, (1853-1921), Minister of Militia and Defense
• John McCrae, (1872-1918), doctor and poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
• Henry Norwest (1884-1918), one of the most famous snipers in World War I
• Francis Pegahmagabow (1891-1952), the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
• Tommy Ricketts, (1901-1967), at age 17, he was the youngest soldier to ever receive the Victoria Cross
• Sir Richard Turner, (1871-1948), Chief of Canadian General Staff

France

(Entered the War on: August 3, 1914)

Military Leaders

• Edouard de Castelnau, (1851-1944), General
• Auguste Dubail, (1851-1934), General
• Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856-1942), Marshall
• Ferdinand Foch, (1851-1929), General and Supreme Allied Commander
• Joseph Gallieni, (1849-1916), General
• Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, (1852-1931), Commander-in-Chief
• Hubert Lyautey, (1854-1934), War Minister
• Charles Mangin, (1866-1925), General
• Michael Maunoury, (1847-1923), General
• Robert Georges Nivelle, (1856-1924), Commander-in-Chief
• Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), Commander-in-Chief
• Maurice Sarrail, (1856-1929), General

Politicians

• Aristide Briand, (1862-1932), Prime Minister (1909-11, 1913, 1915-17, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1929)
• Joseph Caillaux, (1863-1944), Prime Minister (June 1911 - Janurary 1912), pacifist
• Georges Clemenceau, (1841-1929), Prime Minister (1917-1920)
• Théophile Delcassé, (1852-1923), Foreign Minister (1914-1915)
• Gaston Doumergue,
• Jean Jaures, (1859-1914), Socialist party leader, pacifist
• Alexandre Millerand, (1859-1943), Minster of War (1912-13, 1914-15)
• Paul Painlevé, (1863-1933), Prime Minister (September 1917 - November 1917)
• Stephen Pichon,
• Raymond Poincaré, (1860-1934), President (1913-1920)
• Alexandre Ribot, (1842-1923), Prime Minister (March 1917 - September 1917)
• René Viviani, (1862-1925), Prime Minister (1914-1915)

Germany

(Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

Monarch

• Emperor Wilhem II

Military Leaders

• Erich von Falkenhayn
• Hermann von François
• Wilhelm Groener
• Paul von Hindenburg, (1847-1934), general, president
• Admiral Franz von Hipper, Commander, High Seas Fleet
• Max Hoffmann
• Erich Ludendorff, general
• Helmuth von Moltke, (1800-1891), German soldier
• Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
• Otto Liman von Sanders, (1855-1929), General
• Alfred von Schlieffen, (1833-1913), Pre-war Chief of General Staff
• Alfred von Tirpitz, (1849-1930), Naval Minister
• Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

Political Leaders

• Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867-1929), Imperial Chancellor (1918)
• Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Imperial Chancellor (1909-1917)
• Prince Bernhard von Bülow, former Imperial Chancellor (1900-1909), Ambassador to Italy (1914-1915), rival
• Friedrich Ebert, (1871-1925), Social Democratic leader, Imperial Chancellor (1918), later First President of the Weimar Republic
• Matthias Erzberger, leader of the left wing of the Catholic Centre Party
• Count Georg von Hertling, Imperial Chancellor (1917-1918)
• Richard von Kühlmann, Foreign Secretary (1917-1918)
• Georg Michaelis, Imperial Chancellor (1917)
• Gottlieb von Jagow, Foreign Secretary (1913-1916)
• Philipp Scheidemann, Social Democratic Leader, later first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919)
• Gustav Stresemann, (1878-1929), leader of the imperialist wing of the National Liberal Party, later a major statesman of the Weimar Republic
• Arthur Zimmermann, Foreign Secretary (1916-1917)

Others

• Anthony Fokker, (1890 - 1939), Aircraft builder
• Manfred von Richthofen, (1892-1918), fighter ace

Greece

(Entered the War on: June 29, 1917)

• King Constantine I
• King Alexander
• Joannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), military dictator
• Eleutherios Venizelos, prime minister

Italy

(Entered the War on: May 23, 1915)

• Pietro Cadorna
• Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869-1947)
• Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
• Antonio Salandra
• Giovanni Giolitti
• Baron Sidney Sonnino
• Vittorio Orlando
• Luigi Boselli
• Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce

Japan

(Entered the War on: August 23, 1914)

• Emperor Yoshihito
• Mitsuomi Kamio
• Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, prime minister (1914-1916)
• Count Masatake Terauchi, prime minister (1916-1918)
• Takashi Hara, (1918-1921)

Netherlands

(Neutral Country)

• Jelles Troelstra
• Mata Hari, spy
• Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), Queen

New Zealand

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence
• Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), Highly decorated solider
• William Massey, Prime Minister
• Sir Andrew Russell, General

Ottoman Empire

(Entered the War on: October 31, 1914)

• Kemal Atatürk, (1881-1938), Turkish leader
• Sultan Mehmed V
• Sultan Mehmed VI
• Enver Pasha, Minister of War
• Said Halim Pasha, Grand Vizier
• Talaat Pasha, Minister of Interior

Romania

(Entered the War on: August 27, 1916)

• Alexandru Averescu
• Ion Bratianu
• Carol I
• Ferdinand I, (1865-1927), King of Romania (1924-1927)
• Constantine Prezan

Russia

(Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

Monarchs

• Emperor Nicholas II, (1868-1918)
• Empress Alexandra, (1872-1918)

Military Leaders

• Mikhail Alekseev
• Aleksei Brusilov
• Yuri Danilov
• Anton Denikin
• Alexander Kolchak, Admiral
• Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870-1918), Russian general
• Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich
• Paul von Rennenkampf
• Alexander Samsonov
• Peter Wrangel
• Nikolai Yudenich

Political Leaders and others

• Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888-1938), Bolshevik Leader
• Victor Chernov, Socialist Revolutionary Leader
• Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister (1914-1916)
• Alexander Guchkov, Octobrist leader
• Lev Kamenev
• Aleksandr Kerensky, ((1881-1970), second head of the Provisional Government (1917)
• Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Leader
• Alexander Krivoshein, Minister of Agriculture
• Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924), Bolshevik leader
• Prince Georgy Lvov, first Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
• Nikolai Maklakov, Minister of the Interior
• Julius Martov, Menshevik Leader
• Paul Miliukov, Kadet leader
• Alexander Protopopov, Minister of the Interior
• Vladimir Purishkevich, right wing political leader, assassin of Rasputin
• Grigori Rasputin, (1872-1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
• Sergei Sazonov, Foreign Minister (1910-1916)
• Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
• Boris Stürmer, Prime Minister (1916)
• Alexander Trepov, Prime Minister (1916)
• Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940), Bolshevik leader
• Prince Felix Yusupov, murderer of Rasputin
• Grigory Zinoviev, (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik

Serbia

(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)

• King Peter I, (1844-1921), Serbian monarch
• Crown Prince Alexander, (1888-1934), Serbian monarch
• Dragutin Dimitrijevic, (1877-1917), founder and leader of Black Hand society
• Zivojin Misic, (1855-1921), Field Marshal
• Nikola Pasic, (1845-1926), Prime Minister
• Gavrilo Princip, (1894-1918), the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand of Austria
• Radomir Putnik, (1847-1917), Chief of General Staff
• Peter Vasic, (1862-1931), Colonel
• Bosa Yankovich, General

South Africa

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, (1894-1921),Fighter Pilot
• Louis Botha, (? - 1919), Prime Minister
• Sir Henry Lukin, (1860-1925), General
• Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), Prime Minister
• Sir Jacob Louis Van Deventer, (1874-1922), General

United Kingdom

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

Royalty

• King George V
• Queen Mary

Military Leaders

• Edmund Allenby, (1861-1936), British soldier
• David Beatty, (1871-1936), admiral
• Julian Byng, (1862-1935), general
• John Fisher, (1841-1920), admiral
• John French, Commander of the BEF (1914-1915)
• Hubert Gough, general
• Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), Commander of the BEF (1915-1918)
• John Jellicoe, (1859-1935), admiral
• Horatio Kitchener, (1850-1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
• Hubert Plumer, (1857-1932), field marshall
• Sir William Robertson, (1860-1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff
• Sir Henry Wilson,

Political Leaders

• Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister (1908-1916)
• Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930), Foreign Secretary
• Sir Roger Casement, Irish independence leader
• Winston Churchill, (1911-1915), Prime Minister from 1940
• Lord Curzon, (1859-1925), Unionist politician
• John Dillon, Irish Home Rule leader
• Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary
• Andrew Bonar Law, (1858-1923), Unionist Party leader
• David Lloyd George, (1916-1922), politician
• Lord Milner, politician
• John Redmond, (1856-1918), Irish Home Rule leader

Others

• T. E. Lawrence, (1888-1935), led the Arab revolt
• Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), English poet
• W. H. R. Rivers, (1864-1922), Psychiatrist

United States of America

(Entered the War on: April 6, 1917)

• William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), Secretary of State
• Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and ''The Sun Also Rises'
• Edward House, advisor to President Wilson
• Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948), Republican, 1907-1910
• Field E. Kindley, (1895-1920), Ace
• Robert Lansing, (1864-1928), Secretary of State
• John Pershing, (1860-1948), commander of the AEF
• Eddie Rickenbacker, (1890-1973), Ace
• Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924), 28th (1913-1921) President
• Leonard Wood, General
• Sgt. Alvin York, highly decorated war hero

See also: List of people associated with World War II