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Kuldip Singh Brar (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਰਾੜ)
Kuldip Singh Brar (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਰਾੜ), born 1934 in Lahore, is a retired Indian Army lieutenant general who commanded Operation Blue Star in June 1984, wrote Operation Bluestar: The True Story, and survived a 2012 London assassination attempt.
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਡਪੁਰੀ)
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਡਪੁਰੀ), 1940–2018, Indian Army brigadier, Maha Vir Chakra, who as a major led about 120 men of 23 Punjab defending Longewala in 1971 and was later played by Sunny Deol in Border.
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684-1757), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall under Frederick the Great; Dutch and Mecklenburg service, victor of Mollwitz 1741, fell at the Battle of Prague 6 May 1757.
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934), German general and last Weimar chancellor (3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933), Reichswehr political operator behind presidential cabinets, murdered by the SS on 30 June 1934.
Kurt Zeitzler
Kurt Zeitzler (1895–1963), German Generaloberst; Chief of the Army General Staff (OKH) September 1942 to July 1944, succeeding Halder; panzer staff officer under Kleist; urged Stalingrad breakout, championed Kursk, broke with Hitler in 1944.
Kyaw Zaw
Kyaw Zaw, born Maung Shwe and known as Thakin Shwe, was a Burmese general and one of the Thirty Comrades who founded the Burma Independence Army.
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.
Lajos Aulich
Lajos Aulich, also known as Ludwig Aulich, was a Hungarian general and the last Minister of War of the 1848–49 war of independence, hanged at Arad in 1849.
Lakshmi Sahgal
Lakshmi Sahgal (24 October 1914 – 23 July 2012), née Swaminadhan, Indian doctor who commanded the INA's all-female Rani of Jhansi Regiment and served as minister of women's affairs in Azad Hind; later CPI(M) activist and 2002 presidential candidate.
Laura J. Richardson
Laura J. Richardson is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, first woman to command U.S. Southern Command (2021-2024), former Army North commander, 101st Airborne assault helicopter battalion commander in Iraq, later USGLC advisory council co-chair.
Lavr Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов)
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов), 1870–1918, Russian general of infantry, Supreme Commander-in-Chief in August 1917, leader of the Kornilov affair against Kerensky's Provisional Government, and first commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army, killed at Ekaterinodar in 1918.
Lawrence G. Ferguson
Lawrence G. (Gil) Ferguson, U.S. Army lieutenant general from Tupelo, Mississippi; Air Force Academy 1990 cross-commission into Army; Special Forces officer; commanded 1st SFC and took USASOC command November 24, 2025.
Lázár Mészáros
Lázár Mészáros (Mészáros Lázár; 1796–1858) was a Hungarian hussar officer and statesman who, as the first Hungarian minister of war, organized the honvéd army of 1848–49.
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.
Leonard Skierski
Leonard Kazimierz Skierski (1866–1940) was a Polish general who served in the Imperial Russian Army, commanded the 4th Army after the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, and was murdered in the Katyn massacre in 1940.
Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood (1860–1927), American physician-general, Medal of Honor recipient in the Geronimo campaign, commander of the Rough Riders, military governor of Cuba, Army Chief of Staff 1910–1914, and 1920 Republican presidential contender.
Leonid Govorov (Леонид Александрович Говоров)
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Леонид Александрович Говоров, 1897–1955), Soviet Marshal and Hero of the Soviet Union; artillery specialist who commanded the 5th Army at Moscow and the Leningrad Front, breaking the blockade, later headed Soviet air defense.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), Episcopal bishop of Louisiana and Confederate lieutenant general, West Point classmate of Jefferson Davis; led corps at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign; killed at Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 14, 1864.
Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau, the "Old Dessauer" (der alte Dessauer), 1676–1747, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Prussian Generalfeldmarschall; reformed the Prussian infantry with the iron ramrod and cadenced step, won Kesselsdorf 1745.
Leopold Joseph von Daun
Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766) was an Austrian field marshal and president of the Hofkriegsrat, best known for repeatedly defeating Frederick II of Prussia in the Seven Years' War.
Leopold Okulicki
Leopold Okulicki, pseudonym Niedźwiadek, was a Polish brigadier general and the last commander of the Home Army, dissolving it in 1945 before his Soviet arrest.
Leopoldo Galtieri
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri (1926–2003), Argentine army general and de facto president 1981–1982, third junta head; ordered the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas invasion, lost the war, resigned, was sentenced to 12 years in 1986, pardoned by Menem, arrested again in 2002.
Lesley J. McNair
Lesley J. McNair (1883–1944), U.S. Army lieutenant general, commanded Army Ground Forces and trained the ninety WWII divisions; killed by friendly fire near Saint-Lô during Operation Cobra, July 25, 1944.
Leslie Groves
Leslie Groves (1896-1970), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lieutenant general, built the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project from September 1942, selecting Oak Ridge, Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oppenheimer, until the 1947 Atomic Energy Commission takeover.
Levin August von Bennigsen
Levin August von Bennigsen (Leonty Leontyevich Bennigsen, 1745-1826), Hanoverian-born Russian general; commanded at Pultusk, Eylau, Friedland, Borodino, Tarutino, and Leipzig; made count in 1813.
Lew Wallace
Lewis "Lew" Wallace (1827–1905), Union major general at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Monocacy, governor of New Mexico Territory, minister to the Ottoman Empire, and author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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.
Lloyd Austin
Lloyd James Austin III (born 1953) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and the 28th Secretary of Defense (2021-2025), the first African American in the role; former CENTCOM commander, Silver Star recipient, confirmed 93-2 with a congressional waiver.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha (1862–1919), Boer general and statesman; victor of Colenso, signatory of Vereeniging, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa 1910–1919, suppressor of the 1914 rebellion, conqueror of German South-West Africa.
Louis Delgrès
Louis Delgrès (1766–1802) was a French Republican military officer of mixed race who led Guadeloupe's 1802 resistance against Napoleon's expedition to restore slavery, dying with 300 companions at Matouba rather than surrender.