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Herzi Halevi
Herzi Halevi (הרצי הלוי), Israeli general, 23rd IDF Chief of Staff from 16 January 2023 to March 2025; led the army through the October 7 Hamas attack, took responsibility for its failures, and resigned, succeeded by Eyal Zamir.
Hester Leggatt
Hester May Murray Leggatt (1905-1995) was an MI5 secretary in section B1a who wrote the fictional love letters carried by the corpse in the 1943 Operation Mincemeat deception; identified by Ben Macintyre and honored with a 2023 plaque.
Heukchi Sangji
Heukchi Sangji (흑치상지, 630–689) was a Baekje noble who became a Tang dynasty general, rising to Duke of Yan before dying in Empress Wu's purges.
Hieronim Lubomirski
Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski (c. 1647 – 1706) was a Polish magnate and Grand Crown Hetman who fought under John III Sobieski at Vienna in 1683.
Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三)
Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三), 1835–1869, vice-commander of the Shinsengumi, the "Demon Vice-Commander" of Bakumatsu Kyoto; led the corps in the Boshin War, became vice-minister of the army in the Hakodate government, and died 11 May 1869 at the Battle of Hakodate.
Hiroaki Uchikura
Hiroaki Uchikura (内倉 浩昭, born 1965) is a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force general serving as the 8th Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff since 2025.
Hiroo Onoda (小野田寛郎)
Hiroo Onoda (小野田寛郎, 1922–2014), Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer and holdout, fought guerrilla warfare on Lubang Island, Philippines, until March 1974, relieved of duty by former commander Taniguchi; later a Brazilian rancher and youth-camp founder.
Hoàng Công Chất
Hoàng Công Chất (黃公質, 1706–1767 or 1769) was a Vietnamese peasant rebel leader whose 1739 uprising against the Trịnh lords made Mường Thanh (Điện Biên) his base.
Hoàng Văn Thái
Hoàng Văn Thái, born Hoàng Văn Xiêm, was a Vietnamese general who served as the first Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army from 1945.
Hong Bok-won
Hong Bok-won (홍복원, 1206–1258), originally named Hong Bok-ryang, was a Goryeo military officer who surrendered to the Mongol Empire in 1231, guided five invasions of Goryeo, and governed surrendered Goryeo populations in Liaodong.
Hong Sa-ik
Hong Sa-ik (洪思翊) was a Korean career officer who rose to lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army and was hanged in Manila in 1946 as a class B war criminal.
Hongi Hika
Hongi Hika (1772–1828) was a chief and war leader of the Ngāpuhi iwi of northern New Zealand whose pursuit of muskets drove the first phase of the intertribal Musket Wars.
Horace Woodring
Horace Lynn "Woody" Woodring (1926-2003) was the U.S. Army private first class who drove General Patton's 1938 Cadillac limousine in the December 9, 1945 Mannheim truck collision that led to Patton's death; he was cleared of responsibility.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates (1727–1806), British-born Continental Army major general, accepted Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777, led the Board of War during the Conway Cabal, and was routed at Camden in 1780.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), British Royal Navy vice-admiral and duke of Bronte; victor of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, killed aboard HMS Victory on 21 October 1805.
Hosokawa Takakuni
Hosokawa Takakuni (細川高国, 1484–1531) was a Japanese Sengoku warlord who served as kanrei of the Muromachi shogunate, dominating Kyoto from 1508 until his defeat in 1527; he died in 1531.
Hossein Salami (حسین سلامی)
Hossein Salami (حسین سلامی) was an Iranian major general and commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from April 2019 until he was killed in Israeli strikes on 13 June 2025.
Howard Triest
Howard H. Triest (Hans Heinz Triest, 1923-2016), German-born Jewish American soldier, Nuremberg trials interpreter for psychiatrists Kelley and Goldensohn; parents murdered at Auschwitz; subject of Journey to Justice and Helen Fry's book.
Hristo Uzunov
Hristo Uzunov (Христо Узунов), born in Ohrid in 1878, was a Macedonian teacher and voivoda who led the TMORO chetas in the Ohrid district during the Ilinden Uprising of 1903.
Hubert Gough
General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (1870-1963), British cavalry officer and Fifth Army commander in the First World War; central figure of the 1914 Curragh incident, led early Passchendaele, dismissed after the March 1918 German offensive.
Hugh Aloysius Drum
Hugh Aloysius Drum (1879–1951), U.S. Army lieutenant general: youngest officer of his era via McKinley commission, First Army chief of staff in World War I, Eastern Defense Command head, passed over for Marshall in 1939, and namesake of Fort Drum, New York.
Hugh Dowding
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), RAF air chief marshal; built the Dowding System radar air-defence network and led Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain, removed November 1940.
Hugh Thompson Jr.
Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. (1943–2006), American Army warrant officer and OH-23 helicopter pilot of the 123rd Aviation Battalion who halted the My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968, saved civilians, reported the killings, and received the Soldier's Medal in 1998.
Hugo Sperrle
Hugo Sperrle (Wilhelm Hugo Sperrle, 1885–1953) was a German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall, first Condor Legion commander and Luftflotte 3 chief through France and Britain; acquitted at Nuremberg's High Command case in 1948.
Hugues de Payens
Hugues de Payens (Hugo de Paganis, died 24 May 1136), Champagne knight and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar, founded the order in Jerusalem around 1118-1119 with Geoffroi de Saint-Omer and won church recognition at the 1129 Council of Troyes.
Hunter Davidson
Hunter Davidson (1826-1913), US, Confederate, and Argentine naval officer; first commander of Maryland's Oyster Navy (1868), target of Gus Rice's 1871 murder attempt, author of the 1870 oyster management report.
Huo Qubing
Huo Qubing (霍去病), 140–117 BC, was a Western Han general and nephew of Wei Qing whose cavalry campaigns broke Xiongnu power in the Hexi Corridor.
Husband E. Kimmel
Husband E. Kimmel (1882–1968), American admiral, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet and Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; relieved, retired as rear admiral, and spent decades contesting the dereliction-of-duty charge.
Hussein Kamel al-Majid
Hussein Kamel al-Majid (حسين كامل المجيد), Iraqi lieutenant general, Saddam Hussein's cousin and son-in-law, headed Iraq's WMD programs, defected to Jordan in August 1995, prompted major UN disclosures, and was killed in Iraq in 1996 after returning.
Hyde Parker (admiral)
Sir Hyde Parker (1739–1807) was a British admiral who commanded the Jamaica Station and led the Baltic fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.