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Chhatrasal
Chhatrasal (Chhatrasal Bundela, 1649-1731), Bundela Rajput Maharaja who fought the Mughals, founded a kingdom in Bundelkhand from Panna and Mau, and allied with Peshwa Baji Rao I against Muhammad Khan Bangash in 1729.
Choe Yong-gon
Choe Yong-gon (최용건) was a North Korean military leader who commanded the unified military headquarters in 1947 and served as Minister of National Defense during the Korean War.
Christian Freuding
Christian Freuding (born 1971, Weiden in der Oberpfalz) is a German Army lieutenant general and the 22nd Inspekteur des Heeres since 1 October 2025, leading about 63,000 soldiers from Strausberg; formerly head of the Defense Ministry's Ukraine staff and Planning and Command Staff.
Christopher C. Miller
Christopher C. Miller is a retired Army Special Forces colonel and former NCTC director who served as Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense from November 9, 2020 to January 20, 2021, overseeing the Afghanistan drawdown, the Pentagon transition halt, and the January 6 National Guard response.
Christopher G. Cavoli
Christopher G. Cavoli, also known as Chris Cavoli, is a retired US Army four-star general who served as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2022 to 2025.
Christopher LaNeve
General Christopher C. LaNeve, 40th Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (since February 2026) and acting Chief of Staff (since April 2026), University of Arizona ROTC 1990, former commander of Eighth Army and the 82nd Airborne Division.
Chun Doo-hwan (전두환)
Chun Doo-hwan (전두환), 1931–2021, South Korean general and Fifth Republic president 1980–1988; led the December 12, 1979 coup, suppressed the 1980 Gwangju uprising, was sentenced to death in 1996, and was pardoned in 1997.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981), British field marshal nicknamed the Auk, commanded Middle East Forces 1941–42, defeated Rommel at Operation Crusader and First El Alamein, then led the Indian Army through Burma support and the 1947 partition.
Claus von Stauffenberg
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), German colonel and aristocrat who led the 20 July 1944 Hitler assassination plot (Operation Valkyrie), was wounded in Tunisia in 1943, and was executed in the Bendlerblock courtyard.
Clint Lorance
Clint Allen Lorance, former U.S. Army first lieutenant, 82nd Airborne, convicted at a 2013 court-martial of murder for a July 2012 Afghanistan motorcycle shooting, pardoned by Trump November 15, 2019; Tenth Circuit ruled pardon acceptance is not a guilt confession.
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (Goltz Paşa), Prussian field marshal and military writer (1843-1916), author of Das Volk in Waffen (The Nation in Arms), reorganizer of the Ottoman army 1883-1896, and commander of Ottoman forces at the siege of Kut in Mesopotamia, where he died in 1916.
Constantin Prezan
Constantin Prezan was a Romanian general who commanded the Northern Army in 1916, rebuilt the army for its 1917 victories, and became the first Marshal of Romania in 1930.
Creighton Abrams
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (1914–1974), U.S. Army general; World War II 37th Tank Battalion commander who relieved Bastogne, MACV commander in Vietnam 1968–1972, 27th Army chief of staff 1972–1974, namesake of the M1 Abrams tank.
Curtis Scaparrotti
Curtis M. Scaparrotti (born 1956), retired U.S. Army four-star general; NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and EUCOM commander 2016–2019; previously led U.S. Forces Korea 2013–2016; West Point 1978.
Cyrille Youchtchenko
Cyrille Youchtchenko (born 1967) is a French général de brigade commanding the Foreign Legion since 1 August 2023; Saint-Cyr graduate, veteran of Central Africa, Afghanistan, 4e RE, 2e REI, and 13e DBLE.
Dalbir Singh Suhag (दलबीर सिंह सुहाग)
Dalbir Singh Suhag is a former Indian Army general who served as the 26th Chief of the Army Staff. He led operations against militant camps in 2015 and 2016.
Damdin Sükhbaatar
Damdin Sükhbaatar (Дамдины Сүхбаатар) was a Mongolian military and state leader, founder of the Mongolian People's Army and a leader of the 1921 revolution ending Chinese control.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan (c. 1735/1736–1802) was an American Revolutionary War general, rifle corps commander at Saratoga, and victor over Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens (1781) using three-line defense in depth; not the murdered journalist or the historian.
Daniel P. Driscoll
Daniel P. Driscoll, American former Army officer and venture capitalist from Boone, North Carolina; 26th Secretary of the Army (confirmed February 25, 2025), Yale Law graduate, Iraq War armor officer, launched the Army Transformation Initiative, resigned August 31, 2026.
David Hackworth
David Haskell Hackworth (1930-2005), U.S. Army colonel and one of America's most decorated soldiers of Korea and Vietnam, who denounced the war on TV in 1971, wrote About Face, and became a military journalist.
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (1601–1682), Scottish Covenanter general; cavalry colonel under Gustavus Adolphus, victor of Philiphaugh 1645, commander defeated at Dunbar 1650, captured at Worcester, ennobled 1661.
David Petraeus
David Petraeus, full name David Howell Petraeus, is a retired United States Army general who commanded the 2007 Iraq surge and led the CIA from 2011 to 2012.
Daya Ram Thapar
Daya Ram Thapar (1894–1965) was an Indian military physician who served in the Indian Medical Service and retired as Director General of the Armed Forces Medical Services of India.
Denys Prokopenko (Денис Геннадійович Прокопенко)
Denys Prokopenko (Денис Прокопенко), call sign Redis, Ukrainian National Guard brigadier general commanding 1st Corps Azov; Hero of Ukraine 2022, Azovstal commander, former Russian captive.
Desmond Hayde
Desmond E. Hayde (1926-2013), Indian Army officer of Irish-Indian descent, commanded 3 Jat at the Battle of Dograi in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, won the Maha Vir Chakra, retired as Brigadier in 1978, and wrote The Battle of Dograi and Batapore.
Desta Damtew
Ras Desta Damtew (ደስታ ዳምጠው) was an Ethiopian aristocrat and general, a son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, who led southern resistance to the Italian invasion and was executed in 1937.
Dezydery Chłapowski
Dezydery Chłapowski (1788–1879) was a Polish general and agricultural reformer who fought under Napoleon and in the November Uprising, then transformed his Turew estate with crop rotation, shelterbelts, and modern farming methods.
Dhiraj Seth (धीरज सेठ)
General Dhiraj Seth (धीरज सेठ), PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, is the 31st Chief of the Army Staff of India, in office from 30 June 2026. An Armoured Corps officer commissioned into 2nd Lancers in 1986, he is the first tankman to lead the Army since 1997.
Dietrich von Choltitz
Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (1894–1966), German general of infantry and last Wehrmacht commander of Paris, surrendered the city to Leclerc on 25 August 1944 without executing Hitler's destruction order; his 'savior of Paris' reputation is now heavily revised.
Dimitrios Plapoutas
Dimitrios Plapoutas (Δημήτριος Πλαπούτας, also known as Koliopoulos, 1786–1864) was a Greek revolutionary chieftain and general of the War of Independence of 1821 and a close collaborator of Theodoros Kolokotronis.