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Simon Hamilton (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Sir Simon Peter Hamilton, KBE, is a British Army officer and Deputy Chief of the General Staff since April 2026, formerly interim CEO and Director General Land at Defence Equipment & Support.
Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin
Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, known as "Mr. SS", is an Indonesian retired three-star general born in Makassar in 1952 who became Indonesia's 27th defense minister under President Prabowo in October 2024.
Stanisław Maczek
Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994) was a Polish general who commanded the 1st Armoured Division in the Normandy campaign and the liberation of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Stanisław Sosabowski
Stanisław Sosabowski was a Polish brigadier general who created the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade and led it at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in 1944.
Stanisław Szeptycki
Stanisław Szeptycki (1867–1950) was a Polish count and general who commanded the Polish Legions, led the Polish General Staff, and served as Minister of Military Affairs.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Stanley A. McChrystal, retired U.S. Army four-star general; former JSOC commander and ISAF commander in Afghanistan; resigned in 2010 after Rolling Stone's 'The Runaway General'; now leads McChrystal Group and teaches at Yale.
Stepa Stepanović
Stepa Stepanović (Степа Степановић, 1856–1929) was a Serbian field marshal who commanded the Second Army, winning the Battle of Cer in 1914 and breaking the Salonika front in 1918.
Stephen J. Townsend
Stephen J. Townsend (born 1959) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, fifth commander of U.S. Africa Command 2019-2022, earlier TRADOC chief and commander of the anti-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve coalition.
Sterling Price
Sterling Price (1809–1867), Missouri governor 1853–1857 and major general of the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army, won Wilson's Creek and Lexington in 1861, lost Pea Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, and the 1864 Missouri raid at Westport, then exiled to Mexico rather than surrender.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824–1863), Confederate lieutenant general commanding the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Nicknamed at First Manassas, famed for the 1862 Valley Campaign and Harpers Ferry, mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville.
Straubenzee family
Van Straubenzee family, Dutch-origin British family founded by Philip William Casimir van Straubenzee (c.1745); produced generals including Sir Charles Thomas van Straubenzee and politician Sir William van Straubenzee, MP for Wokingham.
Sudirman
Sudirman, born Raden Soedirman in 1916, was the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian armed forces, leading the guerrilla war against the Dutch while ill with tuberculosis.
Svetozar Boroević
Svetozar Boroević, also Svetozar Borojević (1856–1920), was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal from Croatia who held the Isonzo front against Italian offensives from 1915 to 1917.
Syed Aamer Raza
General Syed Aamer Raza (سیڈ عامر رضا) is a four-star Pakistan Army officer and first Commander National Strategic Command, appointed July 24, 2026; former Chief of the General Staff, IV Corps commander, HIT chairman, Nishan-i-Imtiaz (Military) recipient.
Symon Petliura (Симон Васильович Петлюра)
Symon Petliura (Симон Васильович Петлюра), Ukrainian statesman, supreme otaman and Directory president 1918–1920, Paris exile leader, assassinated by Scholem Schwarzbard in 1926; acquitted at the 1927 trial.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林忠道)
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林忠道) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army who commanded the defense of Iwo Jima against the American invasion of 1945.
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko (Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, 1746–1817) was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer and general, a hero of the American Revolution at Saratoga and West Point and leader of Poland's 1794 uprising against Russia.
Tadeusz Kutrzeba
Tadeusz Kutrzeba was a Polish divisional general, military theorist, and historian who commanded the Poznań Army in 1939 and led the Battle of the Bzura, the campaign's largest Polish offensive.
Tadeusz Pełczyński
Tadeusz Pełczyński (1892–1985) was a Polish general who headed interwar military intelligence and counterintelligence and served as chief of staff and deputy commander of the wartime Home Army.
Tadeusz Rozwadowski
Tadeusz Rozwadowski was a Polish general, Chief of the General Staff during the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, later imprisoned after resisting Piłsudski's 1926 coup.
Takenaka Shigeharu
Takenaka Shigeharu, known as Takenaka Hanbei (竹中半兵衛), was a Sengoku-period Japanese military strategist who seized Inabayama Castle with a small band in 1564, served Oda Nobunaga under Hideyoshi, and died in 1579.
Theodor Busse
Theodor Busse (1897–1986), German general of infantry; chief of staff of Army Group South under Manstein, commander of the Ninth Army at Seelow Heights and the Halbe breakout, later West German civil defense leader.
Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke (1892–1943) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, Dachau commandant, and Inspector of Concentration Camps who created the Nazi camp model, and commander of the SS Division Totenkopf until his death at Kharkov.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Theodore Roosevelt III, 1887-1944), eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was an Army brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient who landed in the first wave on Utah Beach on D-Day and served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico, and Governor General of the Philippines.
Theodoros Grivas
Theodoros Grivas (Θεόδωρος Γρίβας, 1797–1862), also known as Theodorakis Grivas, was a Greek armatolos, general, and politician who fought in the 1821 Revolution and led the 1854 Epirus revolt.
Thomas Carden
Thomas M. Carden Jr. is a U.S. Army National Guard general, first four-star Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2026), formerly Adjutant General of Georgia and Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage (1719/1720–1787), British general, commander-in-chief in North America 1763–1775 and royal governor of Massachusetts 1774–1775; ordered the Concord expedition and the costly Battle of Bunker Hill.
Thomas Picton
Sir Thomas Picton (1758–1815) was a Welsh soldier and first British governor of Trinidad, convicted of torture in 1806 and killed at Waterloo in 1815.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, 1762-1806), French Revolutionary general born enslaved in Saint-Domingue, father of novelist Alexandre Dumas; general from 1793, Army of the Alps, Egypt cavalry commander, imprisoned at Taranto.
Tikka Khan (ٹکا خان)
Tikka Khan (ٹکا خان, 1915–2002), Pakistani general, first Chief of Army Staff (1972–76); Eastern Command commander and martial law administrator in East Pakistan, 1971, remembered as the 'Butcher of Bengal'.