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Greville Wynne
Greville Wynne (1919-1990), British engineer and MI6-recruited businessman, was courier to GRU colonel Oleg Penkovsky; arrested 1962, sentenced to eight years, exchanged for Gordon Lonsdale in 1964; memoirs widely doubted.
Guan Yu (关羽)
Guan Yu (关羽, d. 219), also Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, was a minor Three Kingdoms general deified into one of imperial China's major gods of war, wealth, and trust, with a temple cult tied to commerce and finance.
Gudrun Burwitz
Gudrun Burwitz (Gudrun Himmler, 1929–2018) was Heinrich Himmler's daughter and a leading figure of Stille Hilfe, the network aiding convicted and fugitive Nazi criminals, also briefly a BND secretary.
Guillermón Moncada
Guillermón Moncada, full name Guillermo Moncada, was a Cuban general known as the "ebony giant" who fought in all three of Cuba's wars of independence against Spain.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (گلبدین حکمتیار)
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (گلبدین حکمتیار), Afghan Islamist leader and founder of Hezb-e Islami, chief ISI-favored mujahideen recipient in the 1980s, 'Butcher of Kabul' in the 1992-96 civil war, post-2001 insurgent, and 2016 peace-deal returnee.
Gündüz Alp
Gündüz Alp (Gündüzalp), early Ottoman dynastic ancestor named as Ertuğrul Gazi's father in Ahmedî, Enverî, and Karamanî Mehmed Paşa, confirmed by Osman's coin inscription, against the Süleyman Şah tradition.
Gunichi Mikawa (三川軍一)
Gunichi Mikawa (三川軍一, 1888–1981), Imperial Japanese Navy vice admiral, Eighth Fleet commander at Rabaul; led the lopsided Japanese victory at Savo Island, 8–9 August 1942, sinking four Allied cruisers, later commanded Southwest Area Fleet and was detained postwar as a B-class war criminal.
Günther von Kluge
Günther von Kluge, also Hans Günther von Kluge (1882–1944), German Wehrmacht field marshal; commanded 4th Army in Poland and France, Army Group Center 1941–43, and OB West in 1944; refused the 20 July plotters and died by poison in August 1944.
Gust Avrakotos
Gust Avrakotos (Gustav Lascaris Avrakotos, 1938-2005) was a Greek-American CIA case officer, 'Dr. Dirty,' who ran Operation Cyclone's Afghan program in the mid-1980s with Congressman Charlie Wilson, arming the mujahideen against the Soviets.
Gustav Schwarzenegger
Gustav Schwarzenegger (17 August 1907 – 13 December 1972), Austrian police chief and Gendarmerie commander at Thal, father of Arnold Schwarzenegger; Nazi Party applicant of 1938, SA member from May 1939, and Feldgendarmerie master sergeant in the Wehrmacht, with no war crimes found against him.
Gustav Wagner
Gustav Franz Wagner (1911–1980), Austrian SS-Oberscharführer, deputy commandant and quartermaster of Sobibor death camp, absent during the 1943 uprising; fled to Brazil, identified 1978 by survivor Szmajzner, extradition denied by Brazilian courts, died officially by suicide in 1980, never tried.
Guy Burgess
Guy Burgess (1911–1963), codenames Mädchen, Paul, Hicks, was a British diplomat and intelligence figure in the Cambridge Five spy ring; he fled with Donald Maclean to Moscow on 25 May 1951 and died there in 1963.
Guy Gibson
Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson (1918–1944) was the RAF officer who formed and led 617 Squadron on the 1943 Dambusters raid (Operation Chastise), won the Victoria Cross, wrote Enemy Coast Ahead, and died in a 1944 Mosquito crash.
Gwanchang
Gwanchang (관창) was a sixteen-year-old Silla hwarang and son of general Kim Pum-il, whose death at the Battle of Hwangsanbeol in 660 rallied the Silla army to victory.
Gyanendra Pratap Singh
Gyanendra Pratap Singh (GP Singh), born 1967, is a 1991-batch IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, former Assam DGP (2023) and Director General of the CRPF since January 2025; distinct from namesakes in UP police and court records.
Gyorche Petrov
Gyorche Petrov (Ѓорче Петров), born Georgi Petrov Nikolov, was a Macedonian revolutionary, teacher, and historian who led the VMRO movement and was assassinated in Sofia in 1921.
György Kmety
György Kmety, known as Ismail Pasha in Ottoman service, was a Hungarian honvéd general of the 1848–1849 War of Independence who later defended Kars in 1855.
H. R. McMaster
H.R. McMaster (Herbert Raymond McMaster), retired US Army lieutenant general and military historian; Gulf War Battle of 73 Easting Silver Star recipient, Tal Afar counterinsurgency commander, author of Dereliction of Duty, and Trump's national security adviser 2017–2018.
Hajduk Veljko
Hajduk Veljko (Serbian: Хајдук Вељко), born Veljko Petrović around 1780, was a Serbian voivode and hero of the First Serbian Uprising against Ottoman rule, killed at Negotin in 1813.
Hal Moore
Hal Moore (1922–2017), U.S. Army lieutenant general, commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Ia Drang (1965), earned the Distinguished Service Cross, and co-authored We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.
Hamazasp Babadzhanian
Hamazasp Babadzhanian (1906–1977) was a Soviet military commander of Armenian origin who became Chief Marshal of the Armored Troops in 1975 and led the Soviet Army's tank forces from 1969 until his death.
Hambirrao Mohite
Hambirrao Mohite (Hansaji Mohite, 1630–1687), Maratha senapati under Shivaji and Sambhaji; brother of Soyarabai, father of Tarabai; appointed 1674 after Prataprao Gujar, killed at Wai.
Hamid Gul (حمید گل)
Hamid Gul (حمید گل), 1936–2015, Pakistani lieutenant general and ISI director-general 1987–1989 who channeled US-Saudi aid to the Afghan mujahideen, founded the IJI alliance, and later championed the Taliban.
Hamid Idris Awate
Hamid Idris Awate, called the Father of the Eritrean Revolution, was an Eritrean guerrilla commander who fired the first shots of the independence war on September 1, 1961.
Hamilcar Barca
Hamilcar Barca (Barcid, c. 270–228 BC), Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal; commanded in Sicily 247 BC, crushed the mercenary revolt 237, founded Carthage's Spanish empire, died in battle 228.
Hamvira Deva
Hamvira Deva (ହାମ୍ବୀର ଦେବ) was a crown prince and general of the Gajapati kingdom of Odisha, eldest son of Kapilendra Deva, who captured Warangal in 1460 and later revolted against his brother Purushottamadeva.
Hamza Kastrioti
Hamza Kastrioti was a fifteenth-century Albanian nobleman and nephew of Skanderbeg who served as his close commander, defected to Sultan Mehmed II, and was captured in 1457.
Hang Tuah
Hang Tuah is a Malay warrior and admiral associated with the Malacca Sultanate and celebrated in the epic Hikayat Hang Tuah. UNESCO describes the work as a traditional Malay epic and a.
Hani Hanjour (هاني صالح حسن حنجور)
Hani Hanjour (هاني صالح حسن حنجور), Saudi-born commercial pilot born in Ta'if in 1972, was identified by US congressional, FBI, and 9/11 Commission findings as the hijacker pilot who flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Hannibal
Hannibal Barca (247–182 BCE), Carthaginian general, son of Hamilcar Barca; invaded Italy across the Alps in 218 BCE with 37 elephants, destroyed a Roman army at Cannae in 216, and was finally defeated by Scipio Africanus at Zama in 202.