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Michał Rola-Żymierski
Michał Rola-Żymierski, born Michał Łyżwiński, was a Polish military officer and communist activist who served as Marshal of Poland from 1945 and as defense minister from 1944 to 1949.
Mihail Savov
Mihail Savov (Михаил Савов) was a Bulgarian lieutenant general who served twice as Minister of War and whose order of 15 June 1913 opened the Second Balkan War.
Mikhail Kutuzov (Михаил Илларионович Голенищев-Кутузов)
Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1745–1813), Russian field marshal and Prince of Smolensk, commanded Russian forces at Borodino in 1812 and directed the strategy that destroyed Napoleon's invasion; died at Bunzlau in 1813.
Mikhail Osipov
Mikhail Osipov (Михаил Осипов; born 1859) was a Russian Imperial general and military topographer who in 1915 first published explicit solutions of Lanchester's attrition equations.
Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский)
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский), Soviet marshal (1935) and deep-operations theorist; Red Army Civil War front commander, executed 11 June 1937 in Stalin's fabricated 'military-fascist conspiracy' case, rehabilitated 1957.
Miklós Bercsényi
Miklós Bercsényi (Bercsényi Miklós, 1665–1725) was a Hungarian aristocrat, soldier, and statesman who served as chief general of the kuruc army and governor under Prince Ferenc II Rákóczi.
Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac
Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac (Миливоје Петровић Блазнавац) was a Serbian general and politician who served as regent of Serbia from 1868 to 1872 and as prime minister.
Movses Silikyan
Movses Silikyan (Մովսես Սիլիկյան), born Moisey Silikov, was a general of the Russian and Armenian armies who commanded the Armenian forces at Sardarabad in 1918.
Mykhailo Drapatyi (Михайло Васильович Драпатий)
Mykhailo Drapatyi (Михайло Васильович Драпатий), born 1982, is Ukraine's commander-in-chief since 22 July 2026, a Mariupol 2014 veteran and former Ground Forces commander who replaced Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Myron Tarnavsky
Myron Tarnavsky (Тарнавський, Мирон; 1869–1938) was a Ukrainian general from Galicia who commanded the Ukrainian Galician Army in the 1919 offensive that took Kyiv, and was court-martialed for an unauthorized armistice with Denikin.
Nikola Ivanov
Nikola Ivanov (Никола Иванов, 1861–1940) was a Bulgarian general best known for leading the capture of Adrianople during the First Balkan War of 1912–1913, and earlier served as Minister of War.
Nikola Zhekov
Nikola Zhekov (Никола Жеков) was a Bulgarian infantry general, minister of war in 1915 and commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian army on the Balkan Front from 1915 to 1918.
Nikolai Tarakanov (Николай Дмитриевич Тараканов)
Nikolai Dmitrievich Tarakanov (Николай Дмитриевич Тараканов), born 1934, is a Soviet major general of Civil Defense who commanded the 1986 Chernobyl roof cleanup and the 1988 Spitak rescue; played by Ralph Ineson in HBO's Chernobyl.
Nikolai Vatutin (Николай Фёдорович Ватутин)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin (Николай Фёдорович Ватутин, 1901–1944), Soviet general of the army; commanded Voronezh, Southwestern, and 1st Ukrainian Fronts at Stalingrad, Kursk, and the liberation of Kyiv; mortally wounded by Ukrainian nationalists in 1944; his monuments in Ukraine were dismantled from 2023.
Nikolai Yudenich
Nikolai Yudenich (Николай Николаевич Юденич, 1862–1933), Russian general of infantry, victor of Sarikamish, Erzurum, Trebizond, and Erzincan against the Ottomans; last Knight of the Order of St George 2nd class; led the White Northwest Army's failed 1919 offensives on Petrograd.
Nikolaos Zorbas
Nikolaos Zorbas (Νικόλαος Ζορμπάς, 1844–1920) was a Greek army officer and artillery colonel who led the Military League in the Goudi coup of 1909, opening the way for Venizelos.
Oleksandr Hrekov
Oleksandr Hrekov (Олександр Греків, also rendered Grekov; 1875 to 1959) was a Ukrainian general, Minister of Military Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and commander in the Chortkiv offensive of 1919.
Oleksandr Osetskyi
Oleksandr Osetskyi (Олександр Осецький, 1873–1936) was a Ukrainian general, a former Russian major general who served as acting commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian People's Republic army and later emigrated to Paris.
Oleksandr Syrskyi (Олександр Станіславович Сирський)
Oleksandr Syrskyi (Олександр Сирський), also known as Alexander Syrsky, is a Ukrainian colonel general who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 2024 until his dismissal in 2026.
Oskars Kalpaks
Oskars Kalpaks (1882–1919) was a Latvian colonel, first commander of the armed forces of Latvia's Provisional Government, killed in a friendly-fire clash near Airītes in 1919.
Pavel Batitsky (Павел Фёдорович Батицкий)
Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky (Павел Фёдорович Батицкий), Soviet Marshal (1968) and Hero of the Soviet Union (1965); WWII rifle corps commander, Commander-in-Chief of Air Defence Forces 1966–1978, and the officer who personally executed Lavrentiy Beria in December 1953.
Pavle Jurišić Šturm
Pavle Jurišić Šturm (Павле Јуришић Штурм), born Paul Šturm, was a Serbian army general of Sorbian origin who fought in seven wars, from 1876 to 1918.
Petar Bojović
Petar Bojović (Петар Бојовић; 1858–1945) was a Serbian field marshal, or vojvoda, who commanded the First Army in the breakthrough of the Salonika front and the liberation of Serbia in 1918.
Petar Nikolajević Moler
Petar Nikolajević Moler (Петар Николајевић Молер), born about 1775, was a Serbian revolutionary and church painter who served as president of the People's Chancellery from 1815 to 1816.
Petar Zrinski
Petar Zrinski (Zrínyi Péter) was a Croatian ban, military commander, and poet who led the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy against Habsburg absolutism and was beheaded in 1671.
Petre Dumitrescu
Petre Dumitrescu (1882-1950) was a Romanian army general who led the Third Army on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944, briefly commanded the German 6th Army, and was cleared of war crimes charges; distinct from an Iron Guardist namesake and a colonel imprisoned in 1959.
Piotr Wysocki
Piotr Wysocki was a Polish officer who founded a secret conspiracy and initiated the November Uprising against Russian rule in Warsaw on 29 November 1830.
Povilas Plechavičius
Povilas Plechavičius (1890–1973) was a Lithuanian general who organized Samogitian partisans in the war of independence, took part in the 1926 coup, and commanded the Territorial Defense Force in 1944.
Pyotr Bagration
Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (Пётр Иванович Багратион, 1765-1812), Russian general of infantry of the Georgian Bagratid family, Suvorov's lieutenant in 1799, commander of the 2nd Western Army in 1812, mortally wounded commanding the left wing at Borodino.
Pyotr Lacy
Pyotr Petrovich Lacy (Пётр Петрович Ласси), born Peter Edmund Lacy in County Limerick, Ireland, entered Russian service in 1700 and rose to field marshal, winning Vilmanstrand and Helsingfors.