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Józef Hauke-Bosak
Józef Hauke-Bosak (1834–1871) was a Polish general who served in the Imperial Russian Army before commanding insurgent units in southern Poland during the January Uprising of 1863.
Józef Poniatowski
Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813) was a Polish general and Marshal of France who commanded the Duchy of Warsaw's army and died at the Battle of Leipzig.
Józef Sowiński
Józef Sowiński (1777–1831) was a Polish artillery general and one-legged veteran of Borodino who died defending Warsaw's Wola redoubt during the November Uprising against Russia in 1831.
Józef Wysocki
Józef Wysocki (1809–1873) was a Polish general who commanded the Polish Legion in Hungary during the Revolution of 1848 and took part in the 1830 and 1863 risings.
József Alvinczi
József Alvinczi (1735–1810) was a Hungarian field marshal of the Habsburg army who led the failed Austrian attempts to relieve Napoleon's siege of Mantua in 1796–1797.
Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales
Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (1770–1831) was an Argentine general born in Spain who organized guerrilla warfare in Upper Peru and led liberating campaigns in the Peruvian highlands.
Juan Carlos Valencia González
Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias "Pelón" or "El R-3"/"O3", is the alleged CJNG cartel leader, stepson of El Mencho, a U.S.-born dual citizen indicted in Washington D.C. in 2020 and still a fugitive with a $25 million U.S. reward.
Juan de Ayala
Juan Manuel de Ayala y Aranza (1745–1797) was a Spanish naval officer and cartographer who in 1775 commanded the first European voyage known to have entered San Francisco Bay.
Juan Pujol García
Juan Pujol García, codenamed Garbo by the British and Arabel by the Germans, was a Spanish double agent in World War II who invented a 27-agent fictitious network for the Abwehr, helped deceive Germany about the Normandy landings, and was decorated by both sides.
Juba (sniper)
Juba was the American nickname for an alleged Islamic Army in Iraq sniper or sniper team in Baghdad (2005–2007), famous for propaganda videos of attacks on US troops; claimed kills ranged from 37 to over 700 and were never verified.
Judas Maccabeus (יהודה המכבי)
Judas Maccabeus (יהודה המכבי, Judah Maccabee) led the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucids after Mattathias's death, won Emmaus and Beth-Zur, rededicated the Temple on 25 Kislev (origin of Hanukkah), and died at Elasa in 160 BCE.
Juhayman al-Otaybi
Juhayman al-Otaybi (1936-1980), Saudi dissident and former National Guard corporal, led the November 20, 1979 seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque, proclaiming his brother-in-law al-Qahtani the Mahdi; executed January 9, 1980.
Jules Brunet
Jules Brunet (1838–1911), French horse artillery officer of the first French military mission to Japan (1867); defected to the Tokugawa shogunate in the Boshin War and advised the Republic of Ezo's defense, later became a French general and an inspiration for The Last Samurai.
Julia Nesheiwat
Julia Nesheiwat, American energy and national security official; 10th White House Homeland Security Advisor (2020-2021), Florida's first Chief Resilience Officer, Army intelligence veteran with a Bronze Star, and TC Energy executive.
Julien Fédon
Julien Fédon was a free man of color and plantation owner in British Grenada who led Fédon's Rebellion against British rule from 1795 to 1796, escaping capture and dying abroad.
Julio Aro
Julio Aro is an Argentine veteran of the 1982 Falklands War who drove the identification of over 100 anonymous Argentine soldiers buried at the Darwin Cemetery.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American couple executed in 1953 for conspiring to spy for the Soviet Union; Venona files confirm Julius's espionage while evidence indicates Ethel did not actively spy.
Julius Jacob von Haynau
Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786–1853) was an Austrian general, nicknamed the Hyena of Brescia, who crushed the Hungarian Revolution and ordered the 1849 Arad executions.
Julius Kuperjanov
Julius Kuperjanov (1894–1919) was an Estonian military officer who formed a partisan battalion that retook Tartu in the War of Independence, dying at 24 after the Battle of Paju.
Julius Mkhwanazi
Julius Mkhwanazi, suspended then dismissed deputy chief of South Africa's Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD), not to be confused with KZN commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, faces five criminal cases including murder and the R14.9 million Killarney gem theft.
Juliusz Rómmel
Juliusz Rómmel (1881–1967) was a Polish divisional general, praised as a cavalry commander in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, who commanded Army Łódź and the defense of Warsaw in September 1939.
Junio Valerio Borghese
Junio Valerio Borghese (1906-1974), Italian prince and naval officer, commanded the Scirè and Decima Flottiglia MAS manned-torpedo raids (Gibraltar, Alexandria 1941), led the RSI-era Decima, was tried in 1948-49, and founded the Fronte Nazionale behind the attempted golpe Borghese of 7-8 December 1970; died in Cadiz, Spain.
Juozas Vitkus
Juozas Vitkus, codename Kazimieraitis (1901–1946), was a Lithuanian lieutenant colonel who organized and led the anti-Soviet partisans of southern Lithuania and was killed by Soviet security forces in 1946.
K. M. Cariappa
Kodandera Madappa Cariappa (Kipper), 1899–1993, first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from 15 January 1949 and Field Marshal from 1986; led Western Command in the 1947–48 Kashmir war.
K. Vijay Kumar
K. Vijay Kumar (born 1952) is a retired 1975-batch IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre who led Operation Cocoon that killed Veerappan in 2004, headed the CRPF (2010–12), served as MHA Senior Security Adviser on Left Wing Extremism, was Adviser to the J&K Governor (2018–20), wrote Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand, and received the Padma Shri in 2026.
Kabanbay Batyr
Kabanbay Batyr (Қабанбай батыр), also known as Daraboz, was a Kazakh warrior-hero of the eighteenth century who fought the Dzungar invasions and later organized trade with Qing China.
Kadan
Kadan, also known as Khadan, was a Mongol prince, a son of Ögedei Khan, who commanded an army in the 1241–1242 invasion of Central Europe.
Kajiwara no Kagesue
Kajiwara no Kagesue (梶原景季, 1162–1200), often called Kajiwara Genta Kagesue, was a Japanese warrior, eldest son of Kajiwara Kagetoki, famed for the plum branch he carried at Ichi-no-Tani.
Kakutsa Cholokashvili
Kakutsa Cholokashvili (ქაქუცა ჩოლოყაშვილი), born Kaikhosro Cholokashvili, was a Georgian nobleman and colonel who led anti-Soviet guerrilla resistance, commanded the failed 1924 uprising, and died in French exile in 1930.
Kalaivani Rajaratnam
Kalaivani Rajaratnam (Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, Dhanu), 1968-1991, Sri Lankan Tamil LTTE suicide bomber who killed former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi with a belt bomb at Sriperumbudur on 21 May 1991, dying in the blast.