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Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (أبو حفص الهاشمي القرشي)
Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (أبو حفص الهاشمي القرشي), also spelled al-Qurayshi, is the nom de guerre of the Islamic State's fifth caliph, announced 3 August 2023; his identity is unconfirmed, with some UN Member States identifying him as Abdul Qadir Mumin of IS Somalia Province.
Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari (أبو حذيفة الأنصاري)
Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari (أبو حذيفة الأنصاري), nom de guerre of the Islamic State's official spokesman from August 2023, reportedly identified as Yemeni Mithaq Thabit Haytham al-Hujayli and killed in a September 2026 Say'un raid.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (أبو إبراهيم الهاشمي القرشي)
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Abdullah Qardash, Amir Muhammad Sa'id al-Mawla), second caliph of the Islamic State from 31 October 2019, killed himself in a U.S. raid on his Atmeh, Syria hideout on 3 February 2022, succeeded by Abu al-Hasan.
Abu Lulu
Abu Lulu, born Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris and called the "Butcher of El Fasher", is a Sudanese Rapid Support Forces brigadier general filmed executing captives in October 2025.
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (أبو مهدي المهندس), born Jamal Jafaar Mohammed Ali Ebrahimi, was an Iraqi militia commander who founded Kataib Hezbollah and was killed in an American strike near Baghdad in 2020.
Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (طه صبحي فلاحة)
Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (طه صبحي فلاحة, Taha Subhi Falaha, 1977–2016) was a Syrian jihadist, spokesman of the Islamic State, its chief propagandist, and head of external operations, killed by an airstrike near al-Bab, Syria in August 2016.
Abu Mohammad al-Julani
Abu Mohammad al-Julani (أبو محمد الجولاني), born Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa in 1982, founded al-Qaeda's Syrian branch Jabhat al-Nusra, led Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, toppled Assad in 2024, and became Syria's transitional president.
Abu Obaida (Hamas)
Abu Obaida (أبو عبيدة), nom de guerre of Hudhayfa Samir al-Kahlout, was the masked spokesman of Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades from 2004 until his death in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on August 30, 2025; a successor took the same name.
Abu Omar al-Shishani (თარხან თაიმურაზის ძე ბათირაშვილი)
Abu Omar al-Shishani, or Tarkhan Batirashvili, was a Chechen-Georgian military commander for the Islamic State. He led IS forces in northern Syria until his death in 2016.
Adam Kadyrov
Adam Kadyrov (born 2007), son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, holds Chechnya's Security Council secretary post and other security positions; known for the 2023 Zhuravel beating, rapid appointments, and January 2026 Grozny car crash.
Adam Yahiye Gadahn
Adam Yahiye Gadahn, born Adam Pearlman in California and known as Azzam al-Amriki, was an American al-Qaeda propagandist, media adviser, and spokesman, indicted for treason in 2006 and likely killed in January 2015.
Adem Jashari
Adem Jashari (Komandanti Legjendar) was a Kosovo Liberation Army leader killed at Prekaz on 5–7 March 1998. His family's deaths became Kosovo's central resistance symbol, marked annually at the Adem Jashari Memorial Complex and studied as national memory politics.
Adil Raja
Adil Farooq Raja (Adil Raja), born 1978 in Peshawar, is a UK-based Pakistani journalist and YouTuber (Soldier Speaks) and former Pakistan Army major who became a military critic after 2022, losing a UK libel case and being convicted and proscribed in Pakistan.
Adolf Heusinger
Adolf Heusinger (1897–1982), German general; Wehrmacht OKH operations chief 1940–44, wounded in the 20 July 1944 Hitler plot; first Generalinspekteur of the Bundeswehr 1957 and NATO Military Committee chairman 1961–64.
Adolfas Ramanauskas
Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, code name Vanagas (the Hawk), was a Lithuanian partisan commander born in the United States who signed the 1949 LLKS declaration and was executed by the Soviets in 1957.
Adrian Carton de Wiart
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880–1963), Belgian-born British Army general and Victoria Cross recipient at La Boiselle 1916; fought the Boer War and both World Wars, wounded 11 times, lost an eye and a hand, escaped a POW camp, and wrote Happy Odyssey.
Adrian Schoolcraft
Adrian Schoolcraft, former NYPD officer (81st Precinct, Brooklyn) who secretly recorded 117 roll calls in 2008-2009 exposing quotas and crime downgrading; after reporting to Internal Affairs he was involuntarily committed to Jamaica Hospital for six days, later settling with the city for $600,000 plus back pay.
Aetius (magister militum)
Flavius Aetius (c. 390-454), western Roman magister utriusque militiae and Patrician, dominated the Western Empire's politics, used Hunnic allies, and checked Attila in Gaul in 451 before being killed by Valentinian III.
Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque (c. 1453–1515), Portuguese nobleman and second governor of Portuguese India (1508–1515), conquered Goa, Malacca, and Ormuz, made Goa the capital of the Estado da India, and founded the Portuguese empire in the Indian Ocean.
Aftab Ahmed Khan (आफ़ताब अहमद ख़ान)
Aftab Ahmed Khan (आफ़ताब अहमद ख़ान), Maharashtra IPS officer (1963 batch), led the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex encounter killing gangster Maya Dolas and founded Mumbai's Anti Terrorism Squad in 1990; died January 2022, age 81.
Afzal Khan (افضل خان) (general)
Afzal Khan (افضل خان), died November 1659, was a general of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur who fought in the Karnatak campaigns and was killed by Shivaji at a truce meeting below Pratapgad in 1659.
Agent 355
Agent 355, from Culper Spy Ring code for "lady" (not a personal codename), is a supposed female American Revolutionary War spy. Only one 1779 Woodhull letter mentions her; her identity and even her espionage are unproven.
Aghbyur Serob
Aghbyur Serob (Աղբյուր Սերոբ), born Serob Vardanyan, was an Armenian fedayi commander who organized village self-defense in Bitlis and died besieged at Sasun in 1899.
Agüeybaná II
Agüeybaná II, also called Agüeybaná El Bravo, was the principal Taíno cacique of Puerto Rico who led the island's first indigenous revolt against Spain in 1511.
Agus Subiyanto
Agus Subiyanto (born 1967, Cimahi) is an Indonesian Army general, Kopassus-trained, Army Chief of Staff from 25 October 2023 and TNI Commander (Panglima TNI) since 22 November 2023 under Keppres 102/TNI/2023.
Ahmad Massoud (احمد مسعود)
Ahmad Massoud (احمد مسعود), son of commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, leads Afghanistan's National Resistance Front against the Taliban; founded August 2021 in Panjshir, exiled in Tajikistan after September 2021, now guerrilla warfare and Vienna Process diplomacy.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani (Ahmad Shah Abdali, c. 1722–1772), founder of the Durrani Empire and of the Afghan state, elected king at Kandahar in 1747 after Nader Shah's assassination; won Panipat in 1761.
Ahmad Shah Massoud (احمد شاه مسعود)
Ahmad Shah Massoud (احمد شاه مسعود), the Lion of Panjshir, was an Afghan Tajik mujahideen commander, defense minister 1992–2001, and Northern Alliance leader against the Soviets and Taliban, assassinated by al-Qaeda on 9 September 2001.
Ahmed Ghailani
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (Fupi), Tanzanian al-Qaeda operative in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania; only Guantanamo detainee tried in US civilian court, convicted 2010 on one conspiracy count, serving life.
Ahmed Khadr (أحمد سعيد خضر)
Ahmed Said Khadr (أحمد سعيد خضر), Al Kanadi, was an Egyptian-born Canadian al-Qaeda financier on the UN 1267 list, killed by Pakistani forces in South Waziristan in 2003; father of the Khadr sons, including Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr.