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Conrad Heyer
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 – February 19, 1856), Maine farmer and Revolutionary War veteran of the 25th Continental Regiment, photographed in 1852; credited as earliest-born American photographed, though the Delaware crossing claim is unsupported.
Conscientious objector
Conscientious objector: a person refusing military service or bearing arms on moral, ethical, or religious grounds. Covers sincerity tests, US and international law (Bayatyan 2011), alternative service standards, and history from 1916 Britain to South Korea and Ukraine.
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.
Constantine Dobrowolski
Constantine Dobrowolski (1906–1944?), Red Army artillery captain who defected to Nazi Germany in August 1941, became 'Agent 30' and 'the Butcher' in Chernihiv, and was grandfather of MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli.
Cor van Gogh
Cor van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's youngest brother, a railway engineer and goldfield worker in the Transvaal who served the Boers and died in Brandfort in 1900.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witco), Oglala Lakota war leader c. 1840–1877: Fetterman Fight, Rosebud, Little Bighorn flanking attack, May 1877 surrender, September 5, 1877 bayoneting at Fort Robinson, no confirmed photographs, Crazy Horse Memorial.
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.
Cressida Dick
Dame Cressida Dick, British police officer, first woman and first openly LGBT Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (2017–2022), gold commander at the 2005 de Menezes shooting, resigned February 2022 after Sadiq Khan withdrew confidence.
Cristóvão Jacques
Cristóvão Jacques (c. 1480 – c. 1530) was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator who commanded royal coastguard expeditions to Brazil from 1516 to 1528 to expel French brazilwood traders.
Crixus
Crixus, a Gallic gladiator and slave, was a principal lieutenant of Spartacus in the Third Servile War (73-71 BC). He split off with about 30,000 men in 72 BC and died with some 20,000 followers near Mount Garganus against Quintus Arrius; Spartacus honored him with funeral gladiatorial games.
Croesus
Croesus (Kroisos), last king of Lydia ca. 560-546 BCE, son of Alyattes, famed for wealth and first gold-silver coinage; defeated by Cyrus the Great, Sardis fell 547/546, fate disputed.
Curt Renshaw
Curt Anthony Renshaw is a United States Navy vice admiral, surface warfare officer, and Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, 5th Fleet, and Combined Maritime Forces since October 2025; previously commanded USS Independence, USS Robert Smalls, and Carrier Strike Group Eight.
Curtis LeMay
Curtis Emerson LeMay (1906–1990), U.S. Air Force general, led the 1945 firebombing of Japan including Operation Meetinghouse, built Strategic Air Command 1948–1957, served as Air Force chief of staff 1961–1965, and was George Wallace's 1968 running mate.
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.
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (1748–1810), British admiral, Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar in Royal Sovereign, who took command on Nelson's death and held the Mediterranean command until dying at sea in 1810.
Cyril Holland
Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 1885-1915), elder son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd; name changed after the 1895 trial; Royal Field Artillery officer killed by a sniper at Aubers/Festubert, 9 May 1915.
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.
D. C. Stephenson
D. C. Stephenson (David Curtis Stephenson, 1891–1966), Grand Dragon of the 1920s Indiana Ku Klux Klan; convicted of second-degree murder in 1925 for Madge Oberholtzer's death, his prison leaks destroyed Klan-backed Indiana politicians.
Dae Do-su
Dae Do-su (대도수) was an early Goryeo military official and general who defeated the Khitan at Anyungjin in 993 and fought them at the Western Capital in 1010.
Daeng Parani
Daeng Parani was an 18th-century Bugis prince of Luwu descent, eldest of the five Opu Bugis brothers who led the 1721 Bugis campaign that restored Raja Sulaiman to the Johor throne.
Dahomey Amazons
Dahomey Amazons (Agojie, Agodjie, Mino, Gbeto) were the all-female warrior corps of the Kingdom of Dahomey in present-day Benin, first recorded in 1729, expanded under King Ghezo, and ended by the French in 1892.
Daimyo
Daimyo (大名, daimyō): powerful territorial lords of premodern Japan; in the Edo period, Tokugawa-subordinate houses with at least 10,000 koku assessed rice income, ruling domains under the Bakuhan system until abolition in 1871.
Dakota Meyer
Dakota Louis Meyer (born 1988) is a U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient for the September 8, 2009 Battle of Ganjgal, Afghanistan, where he made five trips into an ambush zone, saved 36 lives, and recovered four fallen Americans; he reenlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 2025.
Dalal Mughrabi (دلال المغربي)
Dalal Mughrabi (دلال المغربي), Fatah militant born in Beirut, led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel, hijacking buses; 35–38 civilians died. She was killed in the attack and is commemorated in Palestinian schools and squares.
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.
Dale Dye
Dale Dye, retired USMC captain and Vietnam veteran, founded Warriors Inc. in 1985, Hollywood's leading military advisory firm, training actors for Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air.
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.
Damyan Gruev
Damyan Gruev, known as Dame Gruev (Дамян Груев), was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia who co-founded IMRO in Salonica in 1893 and led it until his death in 1906.
Daniel A. Dailey
Daniel A. Dailey, 15th Sergeant Major of the Army (January 2015 to August 2019), career infantryman and combat veteran of Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom who drove NCO development reforms including STEP and the Basic Leader Course, later an AUSA vice president.
Daniel Chipenda
Daniel Chipenda (Daniel Júlio Chipenda, 1931–1996) was an Angolan politician who commanded the MPLA's Eastern Front, led the breakaway Eastern Revolt, and joined the FNLA.