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Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg
Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701) was an Austrian imperial field marshal best known for commanding the defense of Vienna against the Ottoman siege of 1683.
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), the "Desert Fox," German field marshal of the Afrika Korps in North Africa and Army Group B in Normandy; forced to commit suicide after the July 20, 1944 plot; subject of a contested chivalry myth.
Erwin von Witzleben
Erwin von Witzleben (Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben), German field marshal (1881-1944), Commander in Chief West, highest-ranking officer executed after the failed 20 July 1944 Hitler assassination plot.
Esek Hopkins
Esek Hopkins (1718–1802), Rhode Island sea captain and brother of Stephen Hopkins, was the first commander in chief of the Continental Navy, led the 1776 New Providence raid, commanded the slave ship Sally, was censured and dismissed by Congress, and later served in Rhode Island politics.
Esteban Arze
Esteban Arze, or Esteban Mariano Arze Alba y Uriona, was a criollo military leader who commanded forces during the 1810 Cochabamba uprising and subsequently won the battle at Aroma.
Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen (1738–1789), American Revolutionary militia leader who commanded the Green Mountain Boys, captured Fort Ticonderoga with Benedict Arnold in 1775, was captured at Montreal, and championed Vermont statehood; author of Reason the Only Oracle of Man.
Eugene Sledge
Eugene B. Sledge (1923–2001), Mobile-born Marine mortarman of K/3/5, 1st Marine Division at Peleliu and Okinawa, biology professor at Montevallo, author of the classic WWII memoir With the Old Breed (1981).
Eumenes (Εὐμένης)
Eumenes (Εὐμένης) of Cardia, c. 361–316 BC, Greek secretary to Philip II and Alexander the Great, later satrap of Cappadocia-Paphlagonia and a Diadoch general; defeated Craterus, besieged at Nora, executed by Antigonus.
Ewen Montagu
Ewen Montagu (Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, 1901-1985) was a British barrister and naval intelligence lieutenant commander who, with Charles Cholmondeley, created Operation Mincemeat and wrote The Man Who Never Was.
Ezequiel Zamora
Ezequiel Zamora (1817–1860) was a Venezuelan popular leader and military strategist who led the 1846 peasant insurrection under the slogan "tierra y hombres libres" and commanded Federal War forces.
Fabian Ver
Fabian Ver, born Fabian Crisologo Ver, was a Filipino general and cousin of Ferdinand Marcos who served as chief of staff of the Philippine armed forces.
Fabien Mandon
Fabien Mandon (born 1969), French Air and Space Force général d'armée aérienne, is France's Chief of the Defence Staff since 1 September 2025; former personal military chief of staff to Macron, fighter pilot, first aviator CEMA since Douin.
Fabio Rispoli
Fabio Rispoli, Italian midfielder born in Milan in 2006, Como 1907 academy product, nephew of Giuseppe Greco; loan spells at Virtus Verona, Catanzaro, and FC Südtirol in Serie B; Italy Under-21 debut in 2026.
Faiz Hameed (فیض حمید)
Faiz Hameed (فیض حمید), retired Pakistani lieutenant general and ISI director general June 2019 to October 2021 under Imran Khan; arrested 2024 over the Top City case and sentenced to 14 years by military court in December 2025.
Fannie Masemola
Sehlahle Fannie Masemola is a South African police general who has served as National Commissioner of the South African Police Service since 1 April 2022, after three decades of operational policing.
Fanny Kaplan (Фанни Ефимовна Каплан)
Fanny Kaplan (Фанни Ефимовна Каплан), born Feiga Roytblat, Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary who shot and wounded Lenin in Moscow on 30 August 1918 and was executed without trial; her guilt is disputed.
Fayyaz Hussain Shah
Syed Fayyaz Hussain Shah, Pakistani Army lieutenant general of the 4 Sindh Regiment (80th PMA Long Course), ex-IG Frontier Corps North and IG Training and Evaluation, Commander IV Corps Lahore from January 2025.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, alias Harun Fazul (born 1974, Comoros; died 8 June 2011, Mogadishu), Comorian al-Qaida operative and mastermind of the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam; led al-Qaida in East Africa until killed by Somali police.
Fedor von Bock
Fedor von Bock (1880–1945), German Generalfeldmarschall; commanded Army Group North in Poland, Army Group B in France 1940, Army Group Center at Moscow 1941, and Army Group South 1942; twice dismissed by Hitler; died in a British air attack in May 1945.
Felix Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский)
Felix Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский), "Iron Felix" (1877–1926), Polish-born Bolshevik who founded and led the Cheka, directed the Red Terror, later headed transport and industry, and is being rehabilitated in Russia.
Félix Rodríguez (soldier)
Félix Rodríguez (Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutía), Cuban-born CIA paramilitary officer of the Bay of Pigs, present at Che Guevara's 1967 capture and execution in Bolivia; later Iran-Contra figure under alias Max Gomez.
Felix Steiner
Felix Steiner (1896–1966), German Waffen-SS general born in Stallupönen, East Prussia; trained the SS-Verfügungstruppe on storm-battalion tactics, commanded Division Wiking and III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps, defied Hitler's 1945 Berlin relief order, and later wrote apologist works rehabilitating the Waffen-SS.
Felix Yusupov
Felix Yusupov, Russian prince and husband of Irina Alexandrovna, organized Rasputin's 1916 murder at his Moika Palace and later shaped its legend through memoirs written in French exile.
Ferdinand Schörner
Ferdinand Schörner (Johann Ferdinand Schörner, 1892–1973) was a German field marshal, the last Heer officer promoted during the war, who commanded army groups on the Eastern Front and was named in Hitler's testament.
Ferhad Şamî
Ferhad Şamî, also known as Farhad Shami, is a Syrian Kurdish journalist who serves as spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces and directs its media center.
Fernão Carrilho
Fernão Carrilho (c. 1640 – c. 1703) was a Portuguese colonial soldier and sertanista who fought fugitive-slave communities in northeastern Brazil and led three expeditions against the Quilombo dos Palmares.
Filip Totyu
Filip Totyu (Филип Тотю), born Todor Todorov Stanchev (1830–1907), was a Bulgarian hajduk voivode and national revolutionary against Ottoman rule, remembered as "the terror of the Turkish Empire."
First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff: professional head of the Royal Navy, chairing the Navy Board. Held since May 2025 by General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, the first Royal Marine in the post; predecessor Admiral Tony Radakin served 2019-2021.
Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian (1764–1793) was an English Royal Navy master's mate who led the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty in 1789 and later founded the mutineer settlement on Pitcairn Island.
Flor Crombet
Flor Crombet, born Francisco Adolfo Crombet Tejera (1851–1895), was a Cuban independence general who fought in all three of Cuba's nineteenth-century wars against Spain and commanded the 1895 expedition that landed Antonio Maceo in Cuba.