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Isaac Brock
Sir Isaac Brock was a British major-general born in Guernsey who commanded Upper Canada's forces, captured Detroit in August 1812, and was killed at Queenston Heights eight weeks later.
Isaac C. Kidd
Isaac C. Kidd (Isaac Campbell Kidd Sr., 1884–1941), US Navy rear admiral killed on the bridge of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941; first Navy flag officer to die in World War II; posthumous Medal of Honor; namesake of three destroyers.
Ishida Mitsunari (石田三成)
Ishida Mitsunari (石田三成, 1560–1600), Japanese administrator and one of Hideyoshi's Five Commissioners, led the Western Army at Sekigahara in 1600, was defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu and executed in Kyoto.
Ismail Ibn Sharif
Moulay Ismail (Ismail Ibn Sharif, إسماعيل بن الشريف, 1645–1727) was Sultan of Morocco 1672–1727, third sultan of the Alaouite dynasty; built Meknes as capital, created the 'Abid al-Bukhari slave army, and left a 1727–1757 succession crisis.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, 1884-1943), Japanese Combined Fleet commander-in-chief, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, advocate of naval aviation, defeated at Midway, killed by US P-38s in Operation Vengeance, April 18, 1943.
Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote
The sleeping giant quote, attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor, is apocryphal, originating in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, though consistent with his documented views.
Israel Tal (ישראל טל)
Israel Tal (ישראל טל, "Talik"), 1924–2010, IDF major general, Armored Corps commander 1964–1969, Six Day War division commander, deputy Chief of Staff in 1973, and father of the Merkava tank.
Itō Sukenori
Itō Sukenori, also rendered Itō Sukeyuki or Itō Yūkō, was a Japanese admiral who commanded the Combined Fleet at the Battle of the Yalu in the First Sino-Japanese War.
Ivan Gonta
Ivan Gonta (Іван Гонта), died 1768, was a Cossack captain in Polish service who joined Maksym Zalizniak in leading the 1768 Koliivshchyna uprising in Right-Bank Ukraine.
Ivan Konev (Иван Степанович Конев)
Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Иван Степанович Конев, 1897–1973), Soviet Marshal, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, commanded the 1st Ukrainian Front at Berlin and Prague, led Warsaw Pact forces 1955–1960, suppressed Hungary 1956, and commanded Soviet forces in Germany 1961–1962.
Ivan Kononov (Иван Никитич Кононов)
Ivan Nikitich Kononov (Иван Никитич Кононов) was a Don Cossack Red Army major who defected with his regiment to the Germans in 1941 and ended the war as a Wehrmacht major-general.
Ivan Mordisco
Iván Mordisco (Néstor Gregorio Vera Fernández, born 1974) leads the Estado Mayor Central, the largest FARC dissident group in Colombia; first commander to reject the 2016 peace deal, EMC chief since Gentil Duarte's 2022 death, repeatedly reported dead but alive.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad (عز الدين الحداد)
Izz al-Din al-Haddad (عز الدين الحداد), aka Abu Suhaib or 'The Ghost,' born 1970, led Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades from 2025 and helped plan October 7; Israel killed him in a Gaza City airstrike on May 15, 2026.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (عزت إبراهيم الدوري)
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (عزت إبراهيم الدوري), born 1942 in Ad Dawr, Iraq, was vice-chairman of Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council 1979-2003, then led the Ba'athist Naqshbandi Army insurgency until his death in 2020.
J. D. Tippit
J. D. Tippit (1924-1963), Dallas police patrolman in Oak Cliff, killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963, about 45 minutes after the Kennedy assassination, at 10th Street and Patton Avenue.
J. E. B. Stuart
J. E. B. Stuart (1833–1864), "Jeb," was the Confederate major general commanding the cavalry corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, famed for the 1862 Ride around McClellan, Chancellorsville, the Brandy Station and Gettysburg controversies, and death at Yellow Tavern.
J. F. R. Jacob
Lieutenant General J. F. R. Jacob (Jacob Farj Rafael Jacob, 1923–2016), Indian Army officer of Baghdadi Jewish origin; as Chief of Staff, Eastern Command, he planned the 1971 campaign and negotiated the 16 December 1971 surrender of 93,000 Pakistani troops in Dhaka; later governor of Punjab.
J. H. Morgan
J. H. Morgan (John Hartman Morgan, 1876–1955) was a British brigadier-general and barrister who investigated German atrocities in 1914 and advised the Nuremberg war crimes commission.
Jaan Maide
Jaan Maide (1896–1945) was an Estonian military officer who served as commander-in-chief of the Estonian Armed Forces under Otto Tief's government in 1944, was arrested by the Soviets, and executed in 1945.
Jack Barsky
Jack Barsky, born Albrecht Dittrich (1949), East German KGB illegal who lived undercover in the US from 1978 under a dead child's identity, refused recall in 1988, was caught via the Mitrokhin archive in 1997, and later became a corporate CIO and author.
Jack Keane
Jack Keane (John F. Keane) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and former vice chief of staff who, with Frederick Kagan, devised and promoted the 2007 Iraq troop surge of 30,000 troops, later chairing the Institute for the Study of War and serving as a Fox News analyst.
Jack McGurn
Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, born Vincenzo Gibaldi in Sicily, was Al Capone's chief Chicago hitman, suspected planner of the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre with the "Blonde Alibi" Louise Rolfe, and was shot dead in a bowling alley in 1936.
Jack Ward
Jack (John) Ward, English pirate turned Ottoman corsair known as Captain Ward or Yusuf Reis; based at Tunis from 1603, raided Venetian shipping, built a marble palace, never returned to England.
Jacklyn H. Lucas
Jacklyn Harold "Jack" Lucas (1928-2008), US Marine Medal of Honor recipient, youngest Marine and youngest recipient since the Civil War; dove on two grenades at Iwo Jima, February 20, 1945, age 17, after underage enlistment at 14.
Jacob C. Miller
Jacob C. Miller (1840–1917), Union Civil War soldier, Medal of Honor recipient with Company G, 113th Illinois Infantry for the volunteer storming party charge at Vicksburg on May 22, 1863; also survived a Chickamauga head wound.
Jacques de Molay
Jacques de Molay (c. 1243–1314), last Grand Master of the Knights Templar: entered the order at Beaune in 1265, led it from 1292, was arrested 13 October 1307 by Philip IV, absolved at Chinon in 1308, and burned in Paris on 18 March 1314 after retracting his confession.
Jagtar Singh Hawara (ਜਗਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਹਵਾਰਾ)
Jagtar Singh Hawara (ਜਗਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਹਵਾਰਾ), Babbar Khalsa International operations chief in India, convicted in the 1995 assassination of Punjab chief minister Beant Singh; death sentence commuted to life in 2010, held in Delhi's Mandoli jail amid parole proceedings.
Jai Singh I
Mirza Raja Jai Singh I (1611–1667), Kachhwaha Rajput ruler of Amber and senior Mughal general under Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb; forced Shivaji into the Treaty of Purandar (1665) and invaded Bijapur.
Jake Lansky
Jake Lansky, brother of mob financier Meyer Lansky, managed casinos in Broward County Florida, Havana's Hotel Nacional, and was named in the 1955 Thunderbird Hotel hidden-ownership case in Las Vegas.
Jakobus Onnen
Jakobus Albertus Onnen (1906-1943), East Frisian schoolteacher and SS-Unterscharführer in Einsatzgruppe C, identified in 2025 as the gunman in the Holocaust photo 'The Last Jew in Vinnitsa', shot at Berdychiv on 28 July 1941; killed near Zhytomyr in 1943.