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Javed Hassan
Lieutenant General Javed Hassan (retired), Pakistan Army officer who commanded FCNA during the 1999 Kargil conflict, led the NDU and NSPP, authored India: A Study in Profile (1990), and now advises UMT Lahore.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), French marshal and commander of the 1780 expédition particulière; landed at Newport July 11, 1780, and led French forces at the 1781 siege of Yorktown.
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765-1844), French general and marshal of France; I Corps commander at Waterloo whose corps missed Ligny and Quatre Bras; later governor-general of Algeria.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin, 1758–1806), Haitian revolutionary general born into slavery, proclaimed Haiti's independence on January 1, 1804, ruled as Emperor Jacques I under the 1805 constitution, and was assassinated at Pont-Rouge in 1806.
Jefferson C. Davis
Jefferson Columbus Davis (1828-1879), Union Civil War general and veteran of Fort Sumter, Pea Ridge, and Sherman's campaigns; killed General Bull Nelson in 1862 and abandoned freed slaves at Ebenezer Creek; later commanded Alaska and ended the Modoc War.
Jez Bennett
Jez Bennett is a British Army Royal Artillery lieutenant general, Deputy Commander and from 2026 acting commander of NATO's Allied Land Command in İzmir, former ARRC Chief of Staff, Director Capability, CB and CBE.
Ji Cheong-cheon
Ji Cheong-cheon (지청천, 1888–1957) was a Korean soldier and independence activist, commander-in-chief of the Korean Independence Army and later of the Korea Liberation Army during the Japanese colonial period.
Jock Lewes
Jock Lewes (John Steel Lewes, 1913-1941), British Army officer and co-founder of the SAS with David Stirling; its first training officer at Kabrit, inventor of the Lewes Bomb, killed in Libya 30 December 1941.
Johan Laidoner
Johan Laidoner was an Estonian general who led the army to victory in the 1918–1920 War of Independence and was deported by the Soviet Union in 1940.
Johann von Sporck
Johann von Sporck, also spelled Spork, was a Westphalian cavalry commander who served Bavaria and the Habsburg emperor from 1620 to 1675, rising from a farming family to Imperial Count.
Johann von Werth
Johann von Werth (Jan von Werth, Jean de Werth) was a German cavalry general of the Thirty Years' War, born a farmer's son in 1591 and made an imperial count.
Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948), German Generaloberst, led the 8th Army in Poland 1939, protested SS atrocities in memoranda, commanded 1st Army and Army Groups G and H in the West, and died by suicide at Nuremberg.
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne, nicknamed "Gentleman Johnny," was a British general, politician, and playwright whose 1777 surrender at Saratoga helped bring France into the American Revolutionary War.
John C. Pemberton
John Clifford Pemberton (1814–1881), Philadelphia-born West Pointer and Confederate lieutenant general, commanded the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and surrendered Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863.
John C. Raaen Jr.
John C. Raaen Jr., born John Carpenter Raaen Jr., is a retired Army major general who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and commanded US Army Armament Command.
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705–1782), Scottish soldier and peer; raised Highlanders in the 1745 rising and was British commander-in-chief in North America 1756–1757, recalled after the failed Louisbourg expedition.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), English general and Captain-General of allied forces in the War of the Spanish Succession; victor of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenaarde, and Malplaquet; ancestor of the Spencer-Churchill dukes.
John Eisenhower
John S. D. Eisenhower (1922-2013), son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was a U.S. Army officer, Ambassador to Belgium 1969-1971, and military historian, author of The Bitter Woods and ten books.
John F. Campbell (general)
John F. Campbell, also known as John Francis Campbell, is a retired United States Army four-star general who commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan from 2014 to 2016.
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (John Denton Pinkstone French, 1852–1925), British field marshal who commanded the British Expeditionary Force 1914–15, resigned after Loos, and served as last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1918–21, surviving an IRA ambush.
John Frost (British Army officer)
Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912-1993), British airborne officer of the Cameronians and Parachute Regiment, led the Bruneval Raid and 2nd Parachute Battalion at Arnhem; the Arnhem bridge was renamed John Frost Bridge.
John Henry Patterson (author)
John Henry Patterson (1867–1947), Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author, and Zionist, wrote The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) about the lions he killed in 1898, and commanded the Zion Mule Corps and Jewish Legion.
John Hunt, Baron Hunt
John Hunt, Baron Hunt (Henry Cecil John Hunt, 1910–1998), British Army officer and mountaineer who led the 1953 British Everest expedition; first DofE Award director; life peer 1966.
John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing (1860–1948), called Black Jack, commanded the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, insisted on independent American command, became General of the Armies and Chief of Staff, and won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for History.
John Joseph of Austria
John Joseph of Austria, also known as Juan José de Austria, was a Spanish general and political figure, the acknowledged illegitimate son of King Philip IV.
John Laurens
John Laurens (1754–1782), American Revolutionary War lieutenant colonel, aide-de-camp to George Washington, advocate of enlisting enslaved men with freedom, envoy to France, killed at the Combahee River; distinct from the Australian politician John Laurens (1821–1894).
John Paul Vann
John Paul Vann (born John Paul Tripp, 1924–1972), U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and later civilian pacification chief in South Vietnam; Ap Bac critic, III Corps pacification director, first civilian to command troops in a combat zone.
John Schofield
John McAllister Schofield (1831–1906), Union general, Medal of Honor recipient at Wilson's Creek, commander of the Army of the Ohio at Franklin and Nashville, Secretary of War 1868–1869, and Commanding General of the U.S. Army 1888–1895.
John Sedgwick
John Sedgwick (1813–1864), Union major general nicknamed "Uncle John," commanded the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac; killed at Spotsylvania on May 9, 1864, the highest-ranking Union officer to die in the Civil War.
John Stanley (British Army officer)
Captain John Stanley (1750–1783) was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to General John Burgoyne and was wounded and captured at Freeman's Farm in 1777.