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Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), Mexican revolutionary leading the Liberating Army of the South; author of the Plan de Ayala, Villa's ally in 1914, assassinated at Chinameca, inspiration for land reform and the EZLN.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (1869-1964), Filipino revolutionary leader and first president of the Philippines; led the Katipunan in Cavite, declared independence June 12, 1898, was captured in 1901, and collaborated with Japan in World War II.
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.
Enrique Tarrio
Enrique Tarrio, Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, Cuban-American former national chairman of the Proud Boys; led the group 2018-2022, burned a BLM banner at a Black church, was convicted of seditious conspiracy for January 6, sentenced to 22 years, and pardoned by Trump in January 2025.
Enriquillo
Enriquillo (c. 1498 – c. 1535) was a Taíno cacique of Hispaniola who led a rebellion against Spanish rule in the Caribbean from 1519 to 1533.
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.
Eoin McGonigal
Eoin Christopher McGonigal (1920–1941), Irish Royal Ulster Rifles lieutenant, No. 11 Commando and original SAS officer; died of wounds aged 20 on Operation Squatter in Libya, commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.
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."
Erhard Milch
Erhard Milch (1892–1972), German Generalfeldmarschall, State Secretary of the Reich Air Ministry, Lufthansa director, and Generalluftzeugmeister who ran Luftwaffe aircraft production, used slave labor, and was sentenced to life imprisonment at the 1947 Milch Trial, released 1954.
Eric O'Neill
Eric O'Neill, former FBI counterintelligence operative, went undercover as Robert Hanssen's assistant in 2001 and retrieved the Palm Pilot evidence that convicted America's most damaging spy; later attorney, cybersecurity expert, and author of Gray Day.
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.
Eric Slover
Eric A. Slover, U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 and 160th SOAR Night Stalker MH-47 pilot, received the Medal of Honor for leading the January 3, 2026 Caracas raid that captured Nicolás Maduro, absorbing four armor-piercing rounds while landing.
Erich Koch
Erich Koch (1896–1986), Nazi Gauleiter of East Prussia and Reichskommissar for Ukraine 1941–1944, Hitler's largest territorial ruler; his brutal occupation rule caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in Poland and up to four million in Ukraine; sentenced to death in Warsaw in 1959, died in Polish prison.
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.
Erich Mielke
Erich Mielke (1907–2000), German communist and KPD member, Minister for State Security of East Germany 1957–1989, head of the Stasi; convicted 1993 for the 1931 Bülowplatz police killings.
Erich Raeder
Erich Raeder (1876–1960), German Großadmiral, headed the German Navy from 1928 to 1943, led the Kriegsmarine in World War II, was credited with Weserübung, resigned in 1943, and was sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg.
Erich von Manstein
Erich von Manstein (Fritz Erich von Lewinski, 1887–1973), German field marshal, planner of the 1940 Sichelschnitt Ardennes thrust, commander of 11th Army and Army Group South, convicted war criminal, and leading postwar promoter of the clean Wehrmacht myth through his memoir Lost Victories.
Erich Wagner
Erich Wagner (1912–1959), SS-Sturmbannführer and Buchenwald camp doctor 1939–1941, wrote the 1940 Jena dissertation Ein Beitrag zur Tätowierungsfrage on 800 tattooed prisoners; he selected and killed tattooed inmates for their skin and died by suicide in custody.
Erik Prince
Erik Prince, American former Navy SEAL, founded Blackwater (later Xe) in 1997; his contractors were central to the 2004 Fallujah ambush and the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqi civilians, and he later proposed privatizing the Afghanistan war and building private forces in Ukraine and Haiti.
Erik S. Kristensen
Erik S. Kristensen, Navy SEAL lieutenant commander, SEAL Team 10 task unit commander in Afghanistan, led the ill-fated June 28, 2005 rescue during Operation Red Wings, killed when his MH-47 was shot down; Naval Academy 1995 graduate, BUD/S class 233.
Ernest Medina
Ernest Medina, US Army captain, commanded Charlie Company, 1/20th Infantry, at the 1968 My Lai massacre, Son My village, Quang Ngai. Charged with murder March 1970; acquitted of all charges, including command responsibility, at Fort McPherson on 22 September 1971.
Ernő Kiss
Ernő Kiss (Kiss Ernő) was a Hungarian lieutenant general of Armenian descent who led the first honvéd forces in the 1848–1849 Revolution and was one of the thirteen Martyrs of Arad, executed on 6 October 1849.
Ernő Poeltenberg
Ernő Poeltenberg (Ernst Poelt, Ritter von Poeltenberg) was an Austrian-born cavalry officer who became a Hungarian general and was hanged at Arad on 6 October 1849.
Ernst Gideon von Laudon
Ernst Gideon von Laudon was an Austrian field marshal of Livonian birth who fought Frederick the Great in the Seven Years' War and captured Belgrade in 1789.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), Austrian lawyer and SS-Obergruppenführer, headed the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) from January 1943, controlling the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD; convicted at Nuremberg of war crimes and crimes against humanity and hanged 16 October 1946.
Ernst Põdder
Ernst Põdder (1879–1932) was an Estonian major general who led the Defence League, won the Battle of Cēsis in 1919, and crushed the 1924 communist coup attempt.