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Dimitrios Ypsilantis
Dimitrios Ypsilantis (Δημήτριος Υψηλάντης) was a Greek prince and soldier of the Greek Revolution of 1821, brother of Alexandros Ypsilantis. He commanded the final battle at Petra in 1829 and died in Nafplio in 1832.
Dinesh Singh Rana
Lieutenant General Dinesh Singh Rana, Indian Army officer; Garhwal Rifles (commissioned 1987); former DG Defence Intelligence Agency (2023), 18th CINCAN (2025), 23rd Colonel of the Garhwal Rifles, and Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command.
Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский)
Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский, 1577/1578–1642), Rurikid prince and commander of the Second Militia led with Kuzma Minin that liberated Moscow from the Polish garrison in October 1612.
Dmitry Yazov (Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов)
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов), 1923–2020, last Marshal of the Soviet Union and last USSR defense minister (1987–1991), appointed after the Rust affair, advocate of the defensive doctrine, and GKChP August 1991 coup member.
Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau
Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (1755–1813) was a French general, son of the marshal de Rochambeau of the American Revolutionary War, and the last French captain-general of Saint-Domingue.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), American five-star General of the Army, led Southwest Pacific forces in WWII, governed occupied Japan 1945–1951, commanded UN forces in Korea, and was relieved by President Truman in April 1951.
Douglas Macgregor
Douglas Macgregor, retired U.S. Army colonel, led 2nd ACR's Cougar Squadron at the 1991 Battle of 73 Easting and wrote the Army reform book Breaking the Phalanx (1997); later a Pentagon adviser under Trump and Ukraine war commentator.
Dragutin Dimitrijević (Драгутин Димитријевић)
Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis (Драгутин Димитријевић), 1876-1917, Serbian colonel and intelligence chief, organizer of the 1903 May Overthrow, Black Hand leader, executed after the 1917 Salonika Trial, rehabilitated in 1953.
Drastamat Kanayan
Drastamat Kanayan, known as General Dro, was an Armenian military commander and politician who fought in World War I, served as Minister of War, and commanded the Armenian Legion in World War II.
Draža Mihailović
Draža Mihailović (Dragoljub Mihailović, Дража Михаиловић), 1893–1946, Serbian general who led the royalist Chetnik Yugoslav Army in the Homeland in WWII, was executed for collaboration in 1946 and judicially rehabilitated in Belgrade in 2015.
Dương Văn Minh
Dương Văn Minh (Big Minh, 1916–2001), South Vietnamese general who led the 1963 coup against Diem, was chief of state in 1963–64, and as last president surrendered Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Dušan Simović
Dušan Simović (1882–1962) was a Yugoslav army general who led the 27 March 1941 coup and served as prime minister of Yugoslavia, in exile in London.
Ebrahim Zolfaghari
Ebrahim Zolfaghari (ابراهیم ذوالفقاری), also spelled Ibrahim Zolfaghari, is an IRGC-affiliated Iranian officer and spokesperson of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Iran's joint military command, prominent in the 2026 US-Israel-Iran war and the subject of disproven Israeli AI-persona claims.
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe (1861–1936), British field marshal known as 'the Bull'; EEF commander who took Beersheba, Jerusalem and won Megiddo (76,000 prisoners), then High Commissioner for Egypt 1919–1925.
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880–1959), British Army officer, Royal Artillery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1939–40, Archangel commander, Persia 1920–21, C-in-C Home Forces 1940.
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, also known as Baron Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who led the 2nd Army on the Eastern Front during World War I.
Edward Shames
Edward Shames was an American Army officer of Easy Company, 101st Airborne, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day and was the last surviving Band of Brothers officer.
Edward Śmigły-Rydz
Edward Śmigły-Rydz was a Polish military commander, Marshal of Poland from 1936, who led the Polish armed forces against Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939.
Edwin Walker
Edwin Walker, also known as General Edwin Walker, was a United States Army major general from Texas who enforced school desegregation at Little Rock in 1957.
Ella Waweya
Ella Waweya (إيلا واوية), "Captain Ella," is a Muslim Arab IDF lieutenant colonel from Qalansawe who became the Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesperson in February 2026, replacing Avichay Adraee.
Elwell Stephen Otis
Elwell Stephen Otis (1838–1909), American major general and lawyer, Harvard LL.B. and 140th New York Infantry veteran, was military governor of the Philippines August 1898–May 1900, issuing the 'benevolent assimilation' proclamation.
Emilio Jacinto
Emilio Jacinto y Dizon (1875–1899), alias Pingkian, pen name Dimas-Ilaw, Filipino revolutionary called the Brains of the Katipunan; Bonifacio's secretary, author of the Kartilya ng Katipunan, editor of Kalayaan, died of malaria in Laguna.
Emilio Mola
Emilio Mola Vidal (1887-1937), Spanish general born in Cuba, directed the July 1936 coup against the Second Republic, coined 'fifth column,' commanded the Nationalist Army of the North, and died in a 1937 plane crash.
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka (1926–1967) was a Ghanaian soldier who led the 1966 coup that overthrew President Kwame Nkrumah and served on the National Liberation Council.
Emory Upton
Emory Upton (1839–1881), Union brevet major general and Army reformer, wrote the 1867 infantry tactics, The Armies of Asia and Europe (1878), and the posthumous Military Policy (1904) that shaped the Root Reforms.
Enrique Loynaz del Castillo
Enrique Loynaz del Castillo was a Cuban general of the Ejército Libertador who fought in the War of Independence of 1895 and wrote the Himno Invasor, later serving as a diplomat.
Enver Pasha
Enver Pasha (Enver Paşa, Ismail Enver, 1881-1922), Ottoman war minister and Young Turk triumvir, led the empire into World War I with Germany, commanded the disastrous Sarikamish campaign, and died fighting in Central Asia in 1922.
Eremia Grigorescu
Eremia Grigorescu (1863–1919) was a Romanian artillery general who commanded the 1st Army to victory at the Battle of Mărășești in 1917 and authored the motto "Pe aici nu se trece."
Eric Shinseki
Eric K. Shinseki (born 1942, Kauai, Hawaii): retired four-star general, 34th U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1999-2003) and Army Transformation leader, later 7th Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009-2014), famous for his 2003 Iraq troop estimate and 2014 VA resignation.
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937), German general and Erster Generalquartiermeister of the Third OHL, Tannenberg co-victor, de facto leader of Germany's 'silent dictatorship' 1916–18, later Kapp and Munich putsch figure and author of Der totale Krieg.