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Bowe Bergdahl
Bowe Bergdahl (Robert B. Bergdahl), U.S. Army sergeant who left his Afghanistan post in June 2009, was held nearly five years by the Haqqani network, released in a May 2014 Guantanamo prisoner exchange, and convicted of desertion in 2017.
Brad Colbert
Brad Colbert is a retired U.S. Reconnaissance Marine who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård in HBO's Generation Kill.
Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant (Harry Harbord Morant, born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902), Australian drover, Bulletin balladist, and Bushveldt Carbineers lieutenant executed by firing squad on 27 February 1902 for murdering Boer prisoners in the Boer War.
Brendan Hughes
Brendan "the Dark" Hughes (1948–2008), Belfast IRA commander; organized Bloody Friday and the Four Square Laundry attack, led the 1980 Maze hunger strike, and later accused Gerry Adams of ordering Jean McConville's disappearance.
Brett Crozier
Brett Crozier, US Navy captain, commanded USS Theodore Roosevelt until relieved April 2, 2020 after his leaked COVID-19 plea letter ('Sailors do not need to die'); never reinstated, barred from future command; acting Navy Secretary Modly resigned over the affair.
Brinley Newton-John
Brinley Newton-John (1914-1992), Welsh-born professor of German literature, Bletchley Park Hut 3 intelligence officer in the El Alamein intelligence effort, MI5 file via Klaus Fuchs link, and father of Olivia Newton-John.
Bronislav Kaminski (Бронислав Владиславович Каминский)
Bronislav Kaminski (Бронислав Владиславович Каминский, 1899–1944), also Bronisław Kaminski, led the Lokot Autonomy and the RONA (Russian National Liberation Army) brigade, later a Waffen-SS unit, noted for anti-partisan atrocities, the 1944 Ochota massacre in Warsaw, and his execution by the Germans.
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape
Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888–1981), Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet; destroyed the Scharnhorst at North Cape 1943, commanded the British Pacific Fleet, signed Japan's surrender, and was First Sea Lord 1948–1951.
Bruce Shand
Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-2006), British Army major with the 12th Royal Lancers, twice Military Cross winner, Dunkirk veteran, German POW 1942-45, wine merchant, and father of Queen Camilla.
Bruno Mussolini
Bruno Mussolini (1918–1941), third son of Benito Mussolini, was an Italian bomber pilot in Ethiopia, Spain, and World War II; he commanded the 274ª Squadriglia and died in a Piaggio P.108B crash at Pisa on 7 August 1941.
Bruno Streckenbach
Bruno Streckenbach (1902–1977), SS-Gruppenführer, headed RSHA Office I (Personnel), commanded Einsatzgruppe I in Poland 1939, was first BdS in Kraków, organized Einsatzgruppen training at Pretzsch, and died untried in Hamburg.
Buford Pusser
Buford Hayse Pusser, McNairy County, Tennessee sheriff 1964-1970 and subject of the Walking Tall films, died in a 1974 crash; in 2025 Tennessee authorities concluded he likely killed his wife Pauline in the 1967 ambush.
Bùi Thị Xuân
Bùi Thị Xuân (裴氏春, died 1802) was a Vietnamese female general of the Tây Sơn rebellion and the only woman made a Đô đốc under that dynasty.
Bussa
Bussa, also recorded as Busso or Bussoe, was an African-born enslaved man who led Barbados's 1816 slave rebellion and was named a National Hero in 1998.
C. Sylendra Babu (சி. சிலேந்திர பாபு)
C. Sylendra Babu (சி. சிலேந்திர பாபு), retired IPS officer (1987 batch, Tamil Nadu cadre) and 30th law-and-order DGP of Tamil Nadu from 30 June 2021 to 2023; PhD in criminology; issued 2023 medical-negligence arrest circular.
C. V. Anand
C. V. Anand, 1991-batch IPS officer of the Telangana cadre, twice Hyderabad Police Commissioner, former Cyberabad commissioner and civil supplies commissioner, appointed Telangana Director General of Police on 1 May 2026.
C. Wade McClusky
C. Wade McClusky (1902-1976), US Navy rear admiral and Enterprise Air Group commander, led 33 SBD dive bombers at Midway on 4 June 1942, following the destroyer Arashi to the Japanese carriers; Navy Cross recipient.
Caleb Brewster
Caleb Brewster (1747-1827), Setauket-born whaleboat captain and Continental Army lieutenant, was Culper Spy Ring courier 725, the only member the British identified, ferrying intelligence across Long Island Sound and raiding Forts Franklin, St. George, and Slongo.
Calico Jack
Calico Jack was the nickname of John Rackham, an English pirate captain active in the Bahamas and Caribbean from 1718 to 1720, executed in Jamaica.
Calvin Graham
Calvin Leon Graham (1930-1992), youngest U.S. serviceman of World War II, enlisted in the Navy at 12, fought aboard USS South Dakota at Guadalcanal, won the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, then spent decades restoring his record.
Cambridge Five
The Cambridge Five were Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, Cambridge-educated Soviet spies inside British intelligence. Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951, Philby fled to Moscow in 1963, Blunt confessed 1964, Cairncross was named in 1981.
Camilla Hall
Camilla Hall (1945-1974), also called Camilla Christine Hall or Gabi, was a Minnesota-born social worker and artist who joined the Symbionese Liberation Army with Patricia Soltysik, took part in the 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping and Hibernia Bank robbery, and died in the May 17, 1974 Los Angeles police shootout.
Camilo Torres Restrepo
Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929–1966), Colombian Catholic priest, sociologist, and ELN guerrilla; co-founded Colombia's first sociology faculty, led the Frente Unido, and died in his first combat; precursor of liberation theology.
Candice DeLong
Candice DeLong (born 1952) is a retired FBI special agent and criminal profiler, head profiler in San Francisco, who worked the Tylenol murders and Unabomber cases, wrote Special Agent (2001), and hosts Deadly Women and the Killer Psyche podcast.
Cao Cao
Cao Cao (曹操, Mengde, c. 155–220 CE), late Eastern Han warlord, chancellor, and poet, controlled Emperor Xian, unified northern China, founded Wei's basis, lost at Red Cliffs 208, and is the villain of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Cao Thắng
Cao Thắng, also known as Cao Tất Thắng, was a Vietnamese military commander of peasant origin, Phan Đình Phùng's principal lieutenant in the Hương Khê uprising against French rule.
Captain Tom Moore
Captain Sir Tom Moore (Thomas Moore), British WWII veteran who walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden in April 2020, raising £39m for NHS Charities Together, was knighted, died February 2021, and whose family's Captain Tom Foundation was later sanctioned by the Charity Commission.
Caratacus
Caratacus (Caractacus, Caradawg), Catuvellauni war leader and son of Cunobelin, resisted the Roman conquest of Britain 43–51 AD alongside brother Togodumnus, was betrayed by Queen Cartimandua, and was spared by Claudius in Rome.
Carl Brashear
Carl Brashear (1931–2006), also Carl Maxie Brashear, was a U.S. Navy master chief boatswain's mate, first African American Master Diver (1970) and first amputee recertified as a Navy diver (1968) after losing his leg in the 1966 Palomares hydrogen-bomb recovery; subject of Men of Honor.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951), Finnish baron, field marshal and statesman: Russian Imperial cavalry officer and Asian explorer, 1918 White commander, Regent 1918–1919, commander-in-chief 1939–1944, sixth President of Finland 1944–1946.