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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.
Mu Chong
Mu Chong (무정, 武亭) was a Korean communist military leader who commanded the Korean Volunteer Army from Yan'an and was purged by Kim Il Sung in 1950.
Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari (محمد عبد الكريم الغماري)
Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari (محمد عبد الكريم الغماري), alias Sayyid Hashim, was the Houthi chief of general staff from 2016, a US- and UN-sanctioned major general trained by the IRGC and Hezbollah, killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 28, 2025.
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Muhammad Ali Pasha (محمد علي باشا, c. 1769–1849), Albanian-born Ottoman wali of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, founder of modern Egypt and of a dynasty ruling until 1952; ended Mamluk power in 1811 and expanded Egyptian rule to Sudan and Syria.
Muhoozi Kainerugaba
Muhoozi Kainerugaba (General MK) is Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, son of President Yoweri Museveni, founder of the Patriotic League of Uganda, and the widely presumed heir whose declared 2031 presidential bid and 2026 actions dominate succession politics.
Mukund Varadarajan (முகுந்த் வரதராஜன்)
Major Mukund Varadarajan (முகுந்த் வரதராஜன்), 22 Rajput/44 Rashtriya Rifles officer, killed 25 April 2014 in the Qazipathri Shopian counter-terrorism operation, posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra; subject of the 2024 film Amaran.
Mustafa ben Ismail
Mustafa ben Ismail (Mustapha ben Ismaël), c. 1769 to 1843, was an Arab chieftain of the Douairs tribe who became a French general during the conquest of Algeria.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), Ottoman-Turkish general and statesman, founder and first President of Turkey (1923), victor of Gallipoli and the Sakarya battle, granted the surname Atatürk in 1934, architect of Turkey's secular reforms.
Mutaguchi Renya
Mutaguchi Renya (牟田口廉也, 1888–1966) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the field commander at the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident and commander of the catastrophic 1944 Imphal offensive.
Mutassim Gaddafi
Mutassim Gaddafi (Almuatesem Bellah Muammer Qadhafi), fourth son of Muammar Gaddafi and Libya's national security adviser, was captured by Misrata fighters outside Sirte on 20 October 2011 and died in custody; his killing remains under-investigated.
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.
Nader Shah (نادر شاه افشار)
Nader Shah (نادر شاه افشار), also Nader Qoli, Afsharid ruler of Iran 1736-1747; rose from Khorasan tribal origins, defeated Afghans, Ottomans, and Mughals, sacked Delhi in 1739, and was assassinated in 1747.
Nadja West
Nadja Y. West is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and physician, 44th Army Surgeon General (2015-2019), first Black Army Surgeon General, first Black female lieutenant general, and highest-ranking woman West Point graduate.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) was a major general of the Continental Army, quartermaster general, and commander of the Southern Department 1780-82, whose Carolinas campaign regained Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina from the British.
Nathaniel Lyon
Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), Union brigadier general in the Civil War, seized Camp Jackson in St. Louis, drove Missouri's pro-Confederate governor from Jefferson City, and was the first Union general killed in battle, at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861.
Nauman Zakariya
Nauman Zakariya (Nauman Zakaria) is a Pakistan Army lieutenant general, Armoured Corps, who commanded I Corps (Mangla)/Central Command from May 2024 and headed the Army Rocket Force Command; false 2025 rumors named him army chief.
Nguyễn Chí Thanh
Nguyễn Chí Thanh, born Nguyễn Vịnh (1914–1967), was a Vietnamese Senior General who led the General Political Department and then commanded the war in South Vietnam from 1964.
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (1930–1998), South Vietnamese brigadier general and National Police chief, executed Viet Cong suspect Nguyễn Văn Lém in Saigon on February 1, 1968; Eddie Adams's Pulitzer-winning photo made the moment iconic.
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyen Van Thieu (Nguyễn Văn Thiệu), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese general and president of the Republic of Vietnam 1967–1975; led the Second Republic, signed the 1973 Paris agreement under pressure, resigned and fled days before the fall of Saigon, and died in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Nick Carter (British Army officer)
General Sir Nick Carter (Nicholas Patrick Carter) is a retired British Army officer who led the Army 2020 restructuring, served as Chief of the General Staff 2014 to 2018, and was Chief of the Defence Staff from June 2018 to November 2021.
Nick Cowley
Nick Cowley (Nicholas David Guise Cowley, born 1978) is a British Army major general, GOC Army Individual Training Command and Commandant RMAS; ex-Queen's Royal Hussars and 16 Air Assault Brigade commander, OBE, founder of The Talent Tap.
Niklas Graf Salm
Niklas Graf Salm (1459–1530) was a Lower Austrian nobleman and soldier who, as supreme field commander of Archduke Ferdinand I, directed Vienna's defense against the Ottoman siege of 1529.
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.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (H. Norman Schwarzkopf) was a United States Army four-star general who led the coalition that liberated Kuwait from Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.