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Mohammad Marani
Mohammad Marani (محمد مارانی) is an IRGC Ground Forces brigadier general, not the academic Mohammad Marandi. He commanded the IRGC Quds Headquarters in Sistan-Baluchestan and Kerman from 2015 to 2020, then Medina Headquarters in southern Iran.
Moshe Dayan (משה דיין)
Moshe Dayan (משה דיין), 1915–1981, Israeli military commander and politician: fourth IDF Chief of Staff (1953–1958), defense minister during the 1967 Six-Day War, foreign minister 1977–1979, architect of the Egypt peace treaty.
Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari (محمد عبد الكريم الغماري)
Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari (محمد عبد الكريم الغماري), alias Sayyid Hashim, was the Houthi chief of general staff from 2016, a US- and UN-sanctioned major general trained by the IRGC and Hezbollah, killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 28, 2025.
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Muhammad Ali Pasha (محمد علي باشا, c. 1769–1849), Albanian-born Ottoman wali of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, founder of modern Egypt and of a dynasty ruling until 1952; ended Mamluk power in 1811 and expanded Egyptian rule to Sudan and Syria.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), Ottoman-Turkish general and statesman, founder and first President of Turkey (1923), victor of Gallipoli and the Sakarya battle, granted the surname Atatürk in 1934, architect of Turkey's secular reforms.
Mutassim Gaddafi
Mutassim Gaddafi (Almuatesem Bellah Muammer Qadhafi), fourth son of Muammar Gaddafi and Libya's national security adviser, was captured by Misrata fighters outside Sirte on 20 October 2011 and died in custody; his killing remains under-investigated.
Nader Shah (نادر شاه افشار)
Nader Shah (نادر شاه افشار), also Nader Qoli, Afsharid ruler of Iran 1736-1747; rose from Khorasan tribal origins, defeated Afghans, Ottomans, and Mughals, sacked Delhi in 1739, and was assassinated in 1747.
Ofer Winter (עופר וינטר)
Ofer Winter (עופר וינטר, born 1971) is a retired IDF brigadier general, former Givati Brigade and 98th Division commander, and founder of the right-wing Amcha Yisrael (People of Israel) party for the 27 October 2026 Israeli election.
Omar Pasha
Omar Pasha, also Omer Pasha (Ömer Lütfi Paşa), born Mihajlo Latas, was an Ottoman field marshal of Serb origin who led Ottoman armies in the Crimean War.
Qasem Soleimani (قاسم سلیمانی)
Qasem Soleimani (قاسم سلیمانی, 1957–2020), Iranian major general and Quds Force commander from 1997/98, architect of Iran's Axis of Resistance in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen; killed in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020.
Rodolphe Haykal (رودولف هيكل)
Rodolphe Haykal (رودولف هيكل), born 1969 in Beirut, is a Lebanese army general appointed Commander in Chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces on 13 March 2025, overseeing the 'Shield of the Homeland' Hezbollah disarmament plan and army diplomacy.
Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu
Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu (born 1961, Artvin) is a Turkish army general and 32nd Chief of the General Staff, appointed 5 August 2025 after serving as Land Forces Commander and Deputy Chief of the General Staff.
Yahya Saree
Yahya Saree (يحيى سريع), brigadier general and Houthi (Ansar Allah) military spokesman since 2018, announces the group's missile, drone, and Red Sea shipping attacks; his claims are frequently unverified or false, and his accounts were suspended by Twitter in 2022 and X in 2026.
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi (יפעת תומר-ירושלמי)
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi (יפעת תומר-ירושלמי), Israeli IDF Military Advocate General 2021–2025, first woman in the post, second female major general; resigned October 2025 after admitting leaking the Sde Teiman abuse video, later formally dismissed.
Yitzhak Rabin (יצחק רבין)
Yitzhak Rabin (יצחק רבין), 1922–1995, Israeli general and prime minister (1974–1977, 1992–1995), IDF chief of staff in the Six-Day War, signer of the 1993 Oslo Accord, 1994 Nobel Peace laureate, assassinated by Yigal Amir on November 4, 1995.
Yonatan Netanyahu
Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu (Hebrew: יונתן נתניהו), 1946–1976, Israeli Sayeret Matkal lieutenant colonel, Medal of Distinguished Service recipient, and older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, killed commanding the Entebbe rescue, renamed Operation Yonatan.