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Lai Wenguang
Lai Wenguang (赖文光, 1827–1868) was a Taiping general who became supreme leader of the Nian forces after 1864, defeating and killing the Mongol prince Sengge Rinchen in 1865.
Lê Đức Thọ
Lê Đức Thọ (Phan Dinh Khai, 1911–1990), Vietnamese communist leader and North Vietnam's chief Paris negotiator with Henry Kissinger; co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, which he declined, the only person ever to refuse the Peace Prize.
Lin Biao (林彪)
Lin Biao (林彪) was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China. He was designated Mao Zedong's successor in 1969, but died in a plane crash in Mongolia in 1971.
Manlaibaatar Damdinsüren
Manlaibaatar Damdinsüren (Манлайбаатар Дамдинсүрэн), born Jamsrangiin Damdinsüren, was a Barga Mongol military commander, diplomat, and independence leader who liberated Khovd in 1912 and died in a Chinese prison in 1921.
Mao Anying (毛岸英)
Mao Anying (毛岸英), 1922–1950, eldest son of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui; Soviet-trained Red Army tank officer, Russian interpreter to Peng Dehuai in the Korean War, killed in a 1950 US air strike, buried at Hoechang, subject of the egg fried rice controversy.
Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信)
Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信, born 1901), Imperial Japanese Army staff officer behind the Malaya–Singapore campaign, linked to the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan; escaped prosecution, became a Diet member, and vanished in Laos in 1961.
Min Aung Hlaing (မင်းအောင်လှိုင်)
Min Aung Hlaing (မင်းအောင်လှိုင်), born 1956 in Dawei, Myanmar's commander-in-chief since 2011, led the February 2021 coup, ruled via the State Administration Council, became acting president in 2024 and president in 2026, sanctioned by the US and UK and facing an ICC warrant application.
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満)
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満, 1887–1945), Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general, commanded the 120,000-strong 32nd Army in the defense of Okinawa (April–June 1945) behind the Shuri Line and committed hara-kiri with chief of staff Isamu Cho on Hill 89 on 22 June 1945.
Mu Chong
Mu Chong (무정, 武亭) was a Korean communist military leader who commanded the Korean Volunteer Army from Yan'an and was purged by Kim Il Sung in 1950.
Mutaguchi Renya
Mutaguchi Renya (牟田口廉也, 1888–1966) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the field commander at the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident and commander of the catastrophic 1944 Imphal offensive.
Nguyễn Chí Thanh
Nguyễn Chí Thanh, born Nguyễn Vịnh (1914–1967), was a Vietnamese Senior General who led the General Political Department and then commanded the war in South Vietnam from 1964.
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (1930–1998), South Vietnamese brigadier general and National Police chief, executed Viet Cong suspect Nguyễn Văn Lém in Saigon on February 1, 1968; Eddie Adams's Pulitzer-winning photo made the moment iconic.
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyen Van Thieu (Nguyễn Văn Thiệu), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese general and president of the Republic of Vietnam 1967–1975; led the Second Republic, signed the 1973 Paris agreement under pressure, resigned and fled days before the fall of Saigon, and died in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Ōshima Yoshimasa
Ōshima Yoshimasa (大島義昌) was a Japanese army general from Chōshū who fought in the Boshin, Sino-Japanese, and Russo-Japanese Wars and served as the first Kwantung Governor from 1906 to 1912.
Otozō Yamada (山田乙三)
Otozō Yamada (山田乙三, 1881–1965), Japanese cavalry general and last commander of the Kwantung Army (1944–45); convicted at the 1949 Khabarovsk bacteriological warfare trial, sentenced to 25 years, released 1956.
Pangeran Antasari
Pangeran Antasari was a Banjar noble who led the war against Dutch rule in southern Borneo from 1859 until his death in 1862, and is an Indonesian National Hero.
Peng Dehuai (彭德怀)
Peng Dehuai (彭德怀, 1898–1974), Chinese Communist marshal and defense minister, commanded the Chinese People's Volunteers throughout the Korean War (1950–53), was purged in 1959 for criticizing the Great Leap Forward at Lushan, died imprisoned in 1974, and was rehabilitated in 1978.
Phin Choonhavan
Phin Choonhavan (ผิน ชุณหะวัณ) was a Thai army officer who rose to field marshal, led the royalist coup of November 1947, and dominated Thai military politics until removed in 1957.
Praphas Charusathien
Praphas Charusathien was a Thai field marshal and politician, Interior Minister from 1957 to 1973, who with Thanom Kittikachorn ruled Thailand until the 1973 uprising.
Prince Kan'in Kotohito
Prince Kan'in Kotohito (閑院宮載仁親王, 1865–1945) was a Japanese imperial prince and field marshal who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.
Raja Mahdi
Raja Mahdi, also spelled Raja Mahadi, was a Selangor prince who led one side in the Klang War, the Selangor civil war of 1866 to 1874.
Sanada Yukimura (真田 幸村)
Sanada Yukimura (真田幸村), historically Sanada Nobushige (1567–1615), was a Sengoku samurai, second son of Sanada Masayuki, who built the Sanada-maru outwork at the Siege of Osaka and died charging Tokugawa Ieyasu's headquarters in 1615.
Shunroku Hata (畑俊六)
Shunroku Hata (畑俊六, 1879–1962), Japanese field marshal and artillerist; War Minister 1939–40, commander of the China Expeditionary Army 1941–44 during Operation Ichigō; sentenced to life imprisonment at the Tokyo trial, paroled 1954.
Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin
Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, known as "Mr. SS", is an Indonesian retired three-star general born in Makassar in 1952 who became Indonesia's 27th defense minister under President Prabowo in October 2024.
Sudirman
Sudirman, born Raden Soedirman in 1916, was the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian armed forces, leading the guerrilla war against the Dutch while ill with tuberculosis.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林忠道)
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林忠道) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army who commanded the defense of Iwo Jima against the American invasion of 1945.
Takenaka Shigeharu
Takenaka Shigeharu, known as Takenaka Hanbei (竹中半兵衛), was a Sengoku-period Japanese military strategist who seized Inabayama Castle with a small band in 1564, served Oda Nobunaga under Hideyoshi, and died in 1579.
Trần Quang Diệu
Trần Quang Diệu (1760–1802) was a Vietnamese general of the Tây Sơn dynasty, one of its seven famed commanders, executed after refusing to serve Emperor Gia Long.
Trần Văn Trà
Trần Văn Trà, born Nguyễn Chấn and known as Ba Trà (1919–1996), was a Vietnamese Senior Lieutenant General who commanded the B-2 Front and helped take Saigon in 1975.
Twan Mrat Naing (ထွန်းမြတ်နိုင်)
Twan Mrat Naing (ထွန်းမြတ်နိုင်), also spelled Tun Myat Naing, co-founded the Arakan Army in April 2009 in Kachin State and leads it as Commander-in-Chief and ULA chairman, seeking confederation status for Arakan.