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Jan Kubiš
Jan Kubiš was a Czechoslovak army non-commissioned officer in the paratroop group Anthropoid whose 1942 attack fatally wounded Reinhard Heydrich in Prague; he died a month later defending a church hideout.
Jan Roháč of Dubá
Jan Roháč of Dubá (Jan Roháč z Dubé) was a Bohemian nobleman and Hussite commander, hanged in Prague in 1437 after leading the last resistance to King Sigismund.
Jan Smuts
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950), South African statesman, soldier, and philosopher; twice prime minister (1919–24, 1939–48), founder-figure of the League of Nations, Commonwealth, and United Nations, and author of the holism philosophy.
Jan Syrový
Born 1888, Jan Syrový was a highly influential Czechoslovak general, serving as the first in his post as Chief of the General Staff and PM during the Munich crisis.
Jan Tarnowski
Jan Tarnowski, full name Jan Amor Tarnowski, was a Polish magnate and soldier who served as Grand Hetman of the Crown and won the Battle of Obertyn in 1531.
Jan Žižka
Jan Žižka (c. 1360–1424) was a Czech Hussite commander who led the radical wing of the Hussite revolution, defeated several papal crusades, and never lost a battle in the field.
Jane Sandanski
Jane Sandanski (Јане Сандански) was a Macedonian revolutionary leader who headed IMRO's left, federalist wing, best known for organizing the 1901 kidnapping of American missionary Ellen Stone.
Janequeo
Janequeo is a Mapuche woman remembered in Chilean tradition as a warrior who led forces against Spanish settlements around Villarrica in the Arauco War from about 1587.
Jānis Balodis
Jānis Balodis (1881–1965) was a Latvian general who commanded the army during the War of Independence, then served as Minister of War and deputy prime minister under Kārlis Ulmanis.
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (ਜਰਨੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਭਿੰਡਰਾਂਵਾਲੇ)
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (ਜਰਨੈਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਭਿੰਡਰਾਂਵਾਲੇ), born 1947, headed the Damdami Taksal from 1977, was positioned by Congress leaders against the Akali Dal, moved into the Golden Temple in 1982, and died in Operation Blue Star in June 1984.
Jason Fox
Jason Fox (Foxy), born 1976 in Plymouth, is a former Royal Marine and Special Boat Service sergeant, SAS: Who Dares Wins instructor, author of Battle Scars, Rock2Recovery co-founder and PTSD advocate.
Jasper Jeffers
Jasper Jeffers III (born 1970) is a US Army major general, Virginia Tech-commissioned infantry and Ranger officer, former SOCCENT commander, Lebanon ceasefire overseer, and since January 2026 commander of the International Stabilization Force in Gaza.
Jaswant Singh Rawat
Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat (1941 to 1962) of the Garhwal Rifles was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra for seizing a Chinese machine gun at Nuranang in the 1962 war.
Javed Hassan
Lieutenant General Javed Hassan (retired), Pakistan Army officer who commanded FCNA during the 1999 Kargil conflict, led the NDU and NSPP, authored India: A Study in Profile (1990), and now advises UMT Lahore.
Javier Peña
Javier Peña, retired DEA Special Agent, worked in Bogota from 1988 against the Medellin cartel and Pablo Escobar; Narcos consultant with Steve Murphy, later Texas SAC, memoir Manhunters.
Jay Tarriela
Jay Tristan Tarriela is a Philippine Coast Guard rear admiral and, since February 2023, the Coast Guard's spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea, leading its transparency initiative publicizing Chinese maritime actions and countering disinformation; promoted to rear admiral in February 2026.
Jean de Carrouges
Jean IV de Carrouges, Norman knight who won the last judicial duel sanctioned by the Parlement of Paris on 29 December 1386, killing Jacques Le Gris, whom he accused of raping his wife Marguerite de Thibouville; died at Nicopolis in 1396.
Jean de Dunois
Jean de Dunois, the Bâtard d'Orléans (c. 1402/1403–1468), illegitimate son of Duke Louis I of Orléans, defender of Orléans and comrade of Joan of Arc, count of Dunois and Longueville and Charles VII's grand chambellan.
Jean Le Vasseur
Jean Le Vasseur, also written Levasseur, was a French Huguenot engineer and flibustier who seized Tortuga in 1640, governing the buccaneer base until his assassination around 1652.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), French marshal and commander of the 1780 expédition particulière; landed at Newport July 11, 1780, and led French forces at the 1781 siege of Yorktown.
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765-1844), French general and marshal of France; I Corps commander at Waterloo whose corps missed Ligny and Quatre Bras; later governor-general of Algeria.
Jean-Baptiste du Casse
Jean-Baptiste du Casse, also spelled Jean-Baptiste Ducasse (1646–1715), was a French naval officer and privateer best known as governor of Saint-Domingue from 1691 and as a commander in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Jean-Baptiste Sans Souci
Jean-Baptiste Sans Souci (died 1803) was an African-born, probably Kongo commander of the Haitian Revolution who led insurgent forces from 1791 until Henri Christophe had him killed in 1803.
Jean-François Papillon
Jean-François Papillon (died 1805) was a principal leader of the early Haitian Revolution, commanding insurgent enslaved forces in northern Saint-Domingue from 1791 and serving as a general in the Spanish army.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin, 1758–1806), Haitian revolutionary general born into slavery, proclaimed Haiti's independence on January 1, 1804, ruled as Emperor Jacques I under the 1805 constitution, and was assassinated at Pont-Rouge in 1806.
Jeanne de Clisson
Jeanne de Clisson (née de Belleville, 1300–1359), the Lioness of Brittany, a French noblewoman who after her husband Olivier IV's 1343 execution raided French shipping for 13 years with the black-hulled, red-sailed Black Fleet.
Jeetendra Mishra
Jeetendra Mishra is a retired Indian Air Force Air Marshal (SYSM, AVSM, VSM), commissioned 6 December 1986, who led Western Air Command during Operation Sindoor and became the first full-time CEO of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust in September 2026.
Jefferson C. Davis
Jefferson Columbus Davis (1828-1879), Union Civil War general and veteran of Fort Sumter, Pea Ridge, and Sherman's campaigns; killed General Bull Nelson in 1862 and abandoned freed slaves at Ebenezer Creek; later commanded Alaska and ended the Modoc War.
Jeffrey Miller (shooting victim)
Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Kent State University student, age 20, killed May 4, 1970 by Ohio National Guard fire; subject of John Filo's Pulitzer-winning photo with Mary Ann Vecchio.
Jeffrey Trail
Jeffrey Trail (1969–1997) was a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Gulf War veteran, and gay naval officer, the first of Andrew Cunanan's five murder victims, killed April 27, 1997, in Minneapolis.