List of people associated with World War II

Table of contents

1 Albania 2 Australia 3 Austria 4 Belgium 5 Brazil 6 Bulgaria 7 Burma 8 Canada 9 China 10 Czechoslovakia 11 Denmark 12 Egypt 13 Ethiopia 14 Finland 15 France 16 Germany 17 Greece 18 Hungary 19 India 20 Iraq 21 Ireland 22 Italy 23 Japan 24 Malta 25 Manchuria 26 The Netherlands 27 New Zealand 28 Norway 29 Palestine 30 Philippines 31 Poland 32 Portugal 33 Romania 34 South Africa 35 Soviet Union 36 Spain 37 Sweden 38 Turkey 39 United Kingdom 40 United States 41 Vietnam 42 Yugoslavia 43 References 44 See also

Albania

• Enver Hoxha, (1908-1985), communist resistance

• 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

• Adolf Hitler, (1889-1945), Führer of Germany (Austrian-born)
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, (1903-1946), SS officer
• Artur von Seyss-Inquart, Nazi and Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands

• Leopold III, (1901-1983)
• Albert Guerisse, resistance organizer
• Andreé de Jongh, Belgian resistance
• Edgard Potier (1903-1944), SOE agent
• Leopold Trepper, Head of Rote Kapelle

• Getulio Vargas, (1883-1954), president

• Boris III, (1894-1943)
• Georgi Dimitrov
• Simeon II, (1943-1946)
• Todor Zhivkov, (1911-1998)

• 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
• 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 John Layton Ralston (1881-1948), Minister of Defense
• Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis

• 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

• Eduard 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

• Christian X, (1870-1947)
• Sven Hassel, (born 1917), penal regiment soldier

• Farouk, (1920-1965), king

• Haile Selassie, (1892-1975), Emperor of Ethiopia

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Albrecht 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

• George II, (1935-1947)
• Ioannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), military dictator
• Alexander Papagos, General and commander-in-chief of Greek army
• Georgios Papandreou, in Greek resistance and government-in-exile

• Miklos Horthy, (1868-1957), regent
• Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944), Partisan

• Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian nationalist
• Mohandas Gandhi, (1869-1948), Independence leader
• Ayub Khan
• Yahya Khan, (1917-1980)
• Jawaharlal Nehru, (1889-1964)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• William Dobbie, British governor
• Mabel Strickland

• Zhang Xueliang, (1901-2001)

• Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
• Karel Doorman, (1889-1942), admiral
• Wilhelmina I, (1880-1962), Queen
• Princess Juliana (future Queen Juliana)
• Anne Frank, (1929-1945), genocide victim and diarist
• Marinus van der Lubbe, (1909-1934) scapegoated for Reichstag fire

• 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
• 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
• 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

• Carl Fleischer, general
• Haakon VII, (1872-1957)
• Vidkun Quisling, (1887-1945), Nazi collaborator
• Henry Oliver Rinnan, double agent

• David Ben Gurion, (1886-1973), Zionist leader
• Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

• Sergio Osmena, Vice-president
• Manuel L. Quezon, (1878-1944), president

• 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

• Ion Antonescu, (1882-1946), marshal and military dictator

• Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), prime minister
• John Vorster

• 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
• Nikolay Kuznetsov, admiral
• Vasili Kuznetsov, general
• Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs before Molotov
• Kirill Meretskov, marshall in Winter War
• Vyacheslav Molotov, (1890-1986), Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs
• Ivan Petrov, general
• Konstantin Rokossovsky, marshal
• 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

• Francisco Franco, (1892-1975), military dictator

• Folke Bernadotte, (1895-1948), count and diplomat
• Per Albin Hansson, (1885-1946), prime minister
• Raoul Wallenberg, (born 1912), diplomat

• Elyesa Bazna, double-agent
• Ismet Inonu, (1884-1973), president

• 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)
• 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

• 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 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

• Bao Dai, (died 1997), Emperor of Assam
• Ho Chi Minh, (1890-1969)

• Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic, (died 1946)
• Peter II
• Draza Mihajlovic, General of the Cetniks
• Dusan Simovic, General and head of Yugoslavian government-in-exile
• Josip Broz Tito, (1892-1980), communist resistance leader

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• List of people associated with World War I