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Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar
Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar (1726-1805), Scottish general and MP who commanded the East India Company army at the Battle of Buxar in 1764, later led the Madras army, and spent about £120,000 improving the Novar estate in Ross-shire.
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German Generaloberst, creator of the panzer arm and author of Achtung Panzer! (1937); led the 1940 Ardennes thrust and Panzer Group 2 in Barbarossa; later Chief of the General Staff; his memoir Panzer Leader fueled the clean Wehrmacht myth.
Helmut Harff
Helmut Harff (1939–2018) was a German Bundeswehr brigadier general, nicknamed "Habicht", who led the first German UNOSOM II contingent in Somalia (1993) and German KFOR forces entering Kosovo (1999), later heading the BDI defense committee.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891) was a Prussian field marshal who led the general staff for 31 years and directed the wars against Denmark, Austria, and France.
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (Moltke der Juengere), 1848-1916, German Chief of the General Staff 1906-1914, nephew of Moltke the Elder; led the 1914 invasion of France, ordered the Marne retreat, and is central to the Schlieffen Plan controversy.
Helmuth Weidling
Helmuth Weidling (1891–1955), German General der Artillerie; LVI Panzer Corps commander at Seelow Heights, then combat commander of Berlin from 24 April 1945; surrendered the city to Soviet forces on 2 May 1945 and died in Soviet captivity in Vladimir.
Henning von Tresckow
Henning von Tresckow (1901-1944) was a German Wehrmacht general major, chief of staff officer of Army Group Centre, leading organizer of the military resistance to Hitler, failed bomber of Hitler's plane in March 1943, and co-architect of the 20 July 1944 Valkyrie plot.
Henri Winkelman
Henri Gerard Winkelman (1876–1952), Dutch general, commander-in-chief of land and sea forces during the German invasion of May 1940; signed the capitulation at Rijsoord on 15 May 1940, held governmental authority from 13 May, and was a POW at Oflag IV-B Königstein until 1945.
Henry Hozier
Sir Henry Montague Hozier (1838–1907), British colonel, Times war correspondent, military author (The Seven Weeks' War, The Russo-Turkish War), Secretary of Lloyd's 1874–1890, and father of Clementine Churchill.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox (1750–1806), Boston bookseller turned Continental Army chief of artillery, hauled 60 tons of cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to break the Siege of Boston, and served as the first U.S. secretary of war, 1789–1794.
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (1864-1925), British general, son of the Assyriologist H. C. Rawlinson; commanded IV Corps at Ypres and Neuve Chapelle, the Fourth Army on the Somme 1916 and at Amiens 1918, then British forces in India until his death.
Henry Reeve (soldier)
Henry Reeve, known as "Enrique el Americano", was an American from Brooklyn who fought for Cuban independence in the Ten Years' War, rising to brigadier general.
Henry Worsley (explorer)
Henry Worsley (1960–2016), British Army lieutenant colonel and polar explorer, distantly related to Frank Worsley; died of peritonitis 30 miles short of completing the first solo, unsupported, unassisted crossing of Antarctica.
Henryk Dembiński
Henryk Dembiński (1791–1864) was a Polish general and engineer who commanded cavalry in the November Uprising and held senior commands in the Hungarian revolution of 1848–1849.
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), British field marshal who conquered the Sudan at Omdurman in 1898, commanded in the Boer War and India, and as Secretary of State for War raised the New Armies of 1914 before drowning on HMS Hampshire.
Hermann Balck
Hermann Balck (Georg Otto Hermann Balck) was a German panzer general in World War II, commander of the 11th Panzer Division, 4th Panzer Army, and 6th Army.
Hermann Fegelein
Hermann Fegelein (Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein, 1906-1945), Waffen-SS general, commander of the SS Cavalry Brigade that murdered over 20,000 Jewish civilians in 1941, and Hitler's brother-in-law via Gretl Braun; executed for desertion in the Berlin bunker, 28 or 29 April 1945.
Hermann Hoth
Hermann Hoth (1885-1971), German Generaloberst; commanded Panzer Group 3 in Barbarossa, 17th Army, and 4th Panzer Army (Stalingrad relief, Kursk); dismissed December 1943 after Kiev fell; convicted 1948 in the Nuremberg High Command trial.
Hermenegildo Galeana
Hermenegildo Galeana was a Mexican insurgent commander of the War of Independence, one of José María Morelos's principal lieutenants, born in 1762 and killed in 1814.
Herzi Halevi
Herzi Halevi (הרצי הלוי), Israeli general, 23rd IDF Chief of Staff from 16 January 2023 to March 2025; led the army through the October 7 Hamas attack, took responsibility for its failures, and resigned, succeeded by Eyal Zamir.
Hieronim Lubomirski
Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski (c. 1647 – 1706) was a Polish magnate and Grand Crown Hetman who fought under John III Sobieski at Vienna in 1683.
Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三)
Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三), 1835–1869, vice-commander of the Shinsengumi, the "Demon Vice-Commander" of Bakumatsu Kyoto; led the corps in the Boshin War, became vice-minister of the army in the Hakodate government, and died 11 May 1869 at the Battle of Hakodate.
Hiroaki Uchikura
Hiroaki Uchikura (内倉 浩昭, born 1965) is a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force general serving as the 8th Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff since 2025.
Hoàng Văn Thái
Hoàng Văn Thái, born Hoàng Văn Xiêm, was a Vietnamese general who served as the first Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army from 1945.
Hong Sa-ik
Hong Sa-ik (洪思翊) was a Korean career officer who rose to lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army and was hanged in Manila in 1946 as a class B war criminal.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates (1727–1806), British-born Continental Army major general, accepted Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777, led the Board of War during the Conway Cabal, and was routed at Camden in 1780.
Hossein Salami (حسین سلامی)
Hossein Salami (حسین سلامی) was an Iranian major general and commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from April 2019 until he was killed in Israeli strikes on 13 June 2025.
Hubert Gough
General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (1870-1963), British cavalry officer and Fifth Army commander in the First World War; central figure of the 1914 Curragh incident, led early Passchendaele, dismissed after the March 1918 German offensive.
Hugh Aloysius Drum
Hugh Aloysius Drum (1879–1951), U.S. Army lieutenant general: youngest officer of his era via McKinley commission, First Army chief of staff in World War I, Eastern Defense Command head, passed over for Marshall in 1939, and namesake of Fort Drum, New York.
Hussein Kamel al-Majid
Hussein Kamel al-Majid (حسين كامل المجيد), Iraqi lieutenant general, Saddam Hussein's cousin and son-in-law, headed Iraq's WMD programs, defected to Jordan in August 1995, prompted major UN disclosures, and was killed in Iraq in 1996 after returning.