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Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu (1696-1788), French marshal, diplomat, and académicien; godson of Louis XIV, conqueror of Minorca in 1756, victor at Kloster Zeven 1757.
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (Ludwig Wilhelm, called Türkenlouis, "Turkish Louis"), ruled Baden-Baden from 1677 and won his greatest triumph over the Ottomans at Slankamen in 1691.
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Louis-Nicolas Davout (d'Avout), Duke of Auerstaedt and Prince of Eckmühl, French marshal (1770-1823); undefeated except alongside Suchet, victor of Auerstaedt 1806, governor of Hamburg, war minister in 1815.
Lucius D. Clay
Lucius DuBignon Clay was a US Army general and logistics specialist who served as Military Governor of Germany and directed the Berlin Airlift before acting as President Kennedy's representative.
Lucjan Żeligowski
Lucjan Żeligowski (1865–1947) was a Polish general and statesman who staged the 1920 "mutiny" seizing Vilnius, creating the Republic of Central Lithuania that joined Poland in 1922.
Ludwig Beck
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (1880–1944), German colonel general and chief of the Army General Staff 1935–1938, resigned over Hitler's Czechoslovakia war plans, led the military resistance with Goerdeler, and died after the failed 20 July 1944 coup.
Ludwig von Benedek
Ludwig August Ritter von Benedek (1804–1881) was an Austrian general of Hungarian descent, regarded before 1866 as the Habsburg monarchy's most trusted soldier and defeated at Königgrätz.
Madhavrao I
Madhavrao I, also known as Thorale Madhavrao, was the fourth Peshwa of the Maratha Empire from 1761 to 1772, reviving Maratha power after the Third Battle of Panipat.
Maher al-Assad (ماهر الأسد)
Maher al-Assad (ماهر الأسد), born 1968, is Bashar al-Assad's younger brother and former commander of Syria's Republican Guard and Fourth Armoured Division, who led crackdowns from 2011, was sanctioned by the US and EU, fled to Russia in December 2024, and was sentenced to death in absentia in August 2026.
Majid Ebn-e-Reza
Seyed Majid Ebn al-Reza (Majid Ebn-e-Reza) is an Iranian brigadier general and acting defense minister since March 2, 2026, appointed after Aziz Nasirzadeh was killed in US-Israeli strikes; he oversees ceasefire policy and indigenous missile and drone development.
Majid Khademi
Majid Khademi (مجید خادمی), born 1962, IRGC counterintelligence officer; led MODAFL intelligence protection (2018), IRGC-IPO (2022), and IRGC Intelligence Organization (June 2025); killed in US-Israeli strikes April 6, 2026; distinct from Ali Mohammad Khademi.
Majid Mousavi (مجید موسوی)
Majid Mousavi (مجید موسوی), full name Seyed Hossein Mousavi Eftekhari, is an IRGC brigadier general commanding the Aerospace Force since June 2025, succeeding the killed Amir Ali Hajizadeh; former deputy commander, sanctioned, wartime spokesman for Operation Nasr-2.
Malin Craig
Malin Craig (1875-1945) was a U.S. Army general, Chief of Staff 1935-1939 between MacArthur and Marshall; West Point 1898, cavalry officer, WWI I Corps chief of staff, modernized the Army and chose Marshall as successor.
Mamady Doumbouya
Mamady Doumbouya, born 1984, is Guinea's president and former special forces commander who led the 5 September 2021 coup against Alpha Condé, ruled the transition, won the December 2025 election with 86.7%, and was sworn in 17 January 2026.
Manlaibaatar Damdinsüren
Manlaibaatar Damdinsüren (Манлайбаатар Дамдинсүрэн), born Jamsrangiin Damdinsüren, was a Barga Mongol military commander, diplomat, and independence leader who liberated Khovd in 1912 and died in a Chinese prison in 1921.
Manoj Mukund Naravane
Manoj Mukund Naravane, 28th Chief of the Army Staff of India (31 December 2019 to 30 April 2022), led the army through the 2020 Galwan clash and Ladakh standoff; his unpublished Penguin memoir Four Stars of Destiny sparked a 2026 controversy.
Manto Mavrogenous
Manto Mavrogenous (Μαντώ Μαυρογένους) was a Greek heroine of the War of Independence, known as the Heroine of Mykonos, who funded the war with her inherited fortune.
Manuel Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general and de facto dictator 1983–1989, former CIA informant, PDF commander; indicted for drug trafficking, deposed by the December 1989 US invasion (Operation Just Cause), imprisoned in the US, France, and Panama, died 2017.
Mao Anying (毛岸英)
Mao Anying (毛岸英), 1922–1950, eldest son of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui; Soviet-trained Red Army tank officer, Russian interpreter to Peng Dehuai in the Korean War, killed in a 1950 US air strike, buried at Hoechang, subject of the egg fried rice controversy.
Marcin Kątski
Marcin Kazimierz Kątski, also spelled Kącki or Kontski (1636–1710), was a Polish nobleman who served as general of Crown artillery and commanded the guns at Vienna in 1683.
Marian Langiewicz
Marian Langiewicz (1827–1887) was a Polish general who proclaimed himself dictator of the January Uprising of 1863, commanding about 3,000 insurgents before his arrest by Austrian authorities.
Mariano Escobedo
Mariano Escobedo (1826–1902) was a Mexican general and politician who commanded the Army of the North during the French Intervention and accepted Maximilian's surrender at Querétaro in 1867.
Mariano Matamoros
Mariano Matamoros (1770–1814) was a Mexican priest and insurgent general, José María Morelos's chief lieutenant in the War of Independence, executed by the royalists in 1814.
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898-1970), French general and posthumous Marshal of France, commanded the 1st Free French Brigade at Bir Hakeim in 1942, led the FFI in 1944, governed liberated Paris, and later served as defense minister.
Mark Carleton-Smith
Mark Carleton-Smith (born 1964) is a retired British Army general, Chief of the General Staff 2018–2022, former Director Special Forces and 22 SAS commander, later Senior Advisor to CT Group and director of SafeLane Global.
Mark Milley
Mark Milley, born in 1958, is a retired United States Army general who served as the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023.
Mark W. Clark
Mark W. Clark (1896-1984), U.S. Army four-star general, commanded the Fifth Army and 15th Army Group in Italy, captured Rome in 1944, signed the 1953 Korean armistice as UN Command chief, and led The Citadel 1954-1965.
Marko Bezruchko
Marko Bezruchko (Марко Безручко, 1883–1944) was a Ukrainian general-horunzhy of the UNR Army, best known for commanding the defense of Zamość against Budyonny's cavalry in 1920.
Marko Miljanov
Marko Miljanov (Marko Miljanov Popović, Марко Миљанов Поповић; 1833–1901) was a Montenegrin vojvoda and writer from the Kuči tribe who commanded at the 1876 Battle of Fundina.
Martin Dempsey
Martin Edward Dempsey (born 1952) is a retired U.S. Army general, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2011-2015), 37th Army Chief of Staff, 1st Armored Division commander in Baghdad, and author of Radical Inclusion.