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Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਡਪੁਰੀ)
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਡਪੁਰੀ), 1940–2018, Indian Army brigadier, Maha Vir Chakra, who as a major led about 120 men of 23 Punjab defending Longewala in 1971 and was later played by Sunny Deol in Border.
Kumagai Naozane
Kumagai Naozane, also read Kumagai Jirō Naozane, was a Japanese warrior from Musashi Province who killed Taira no Atsumori at Ichi-no-Tani in 1184 and later became a monk.
Kunjali Marakkar
Kunjali Marakkar (Kunhali Marakkar) was the hereditary title of four Muslim naval admirals serving the Zamorin of Calicut, who led Malabar's naval resistance against the Portuguese from 1502 to 1600; Kunjali IV was beheaded at Goa in 1600.
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684-1757), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall under Frederick the Great; Dutch and Mecklenburg service, victor of Mollwitz 1741, fell at the Battle of Prague 6 May 1757.
Kurt Student
Kurt Student (1890–1978), German Luftwaffe Generaloberst and founder of the Fallschirmjäger paratroops; led Rotterdam 1940 and Crete 1941, ordered Cretan reprisals, and was convicted by a British court in 1946.
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934), German general and last Weimar chancellor (3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933), Reichswehr political operator behind presidential cabinets, murdered by the SS on 30 June 1934.
Kurt Zeitzler
Kurt Zeitzler (1895–1963), German Generaloberst; Chief of the Army General Staff (OKH) September 1942 to July 1944, succeeding Halder; panzer staff officer under Kleist; urged Stalingrad breakout, championed Kursk, broke with Hitler in 1944.
Kyaw Zaw
Kyaw Zaw, born Maung Shwe and known as Thakin Shwe, was a Burmese general and one of the Thirty Comrades who founded the Burma Independence Army.
Kyle Carpenter
Kyle Carpenter (born 1989), William Kyle Carpenter, retired US Marine corporal and Medal of Honor recipient who shielded a fellow Marine from a grenade in Marjah, Afghanistan, in 2010; youngest living recipient, awarded by Obama in 2014.
Kyle White (US soldier)
Kyle Jerome White (born 1987) is a former U.S. Army sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient for the November 9, 2007 Battle of Aranas, Nuristan, Afghanistan, with the 173rd Airborne Brigade; awarded by Obama in May 2014.
La Hire
La Hire (Étienne de Vignolles, c. 1390–1443) was a Gascon French commander of the Hundred Years' War, companion of Joan of Arc at Orléans and Patay, later bailli du Vermandois, and the jack of hearts in French playing cards.
Lachit Borphukan (লাচিত বৰফুকন)
Lachit Borphukan (লাচিত বৰফুকন), Ahom commander-in-chief born 24 November 1622, recovered Guwahati in 1667 and defeated Ram Singh I's Mughal army at the naval Battle of Saraighat in 1671, halting Mughal expansion into Assam.
Lafayette G. Pool
Lafayette G. Pool, also known as Lafayette Green Pool, was an American tank commander credited with destroying 258 German armored vehicles, including 12 tanks, in 1944.
Lai Wenguang
Lai Wenguang (赖文光, 1827–1868) was a Taiping general who became supreme leader of the Nian forces after 1864, defeating and killing the Mongol prince Sengge Rinchen in 1865.
Lajos Aulich
Lajos Aulich, also known as Ludwig Aulich, was a Hungarian general and the last Minister of War of the 1848–49 war of independence, hanged at Arad in 1849.
Lakshmi Sahgal
Lakshmi Sahgal (24 October 1914 – 23 July 2012), née Swaminadhan, Indian doctor who commanded the INA's all-female Rani of Jhansi Regiment and served as minister of women's affairs in Azad Hind; later CPI(M) activist and 2002 presidential candidate.
Lale Sokolov
Lale Sokolov (Ludwig Eisenberg, 1916–2006), Slovak Jewish Auschwitz survivor and one of the camp's prisoner tattooists, prisoner 32407, husband of Gita Furman (4562), later subject of Heather Morris's contested novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer (c. 1830–1863) was a Kabyle religious leader who organized and led the principal armed resistance to the French conquest of Greater Kabylia from 1851 until her capture in 1857.
Lamour Dérance
Lamour Dérance was an African-born insurgent chief of the Haitian Revolution who led guerrilla bands in western Saint-Domingue from 1791 until his arrest and killing under Dessalines.
Lance Schroyer
Richard "Lance" Schroyer, former Oklahoma Highway Patrol major and DHS adviser to Markwayne Mullin, was Trump's June 2026 nominee for ICE director; the White House withdrew the stalled nomination in September 2026.
Lapulapu
Lapulapu, also recorded as Çilapulapu, was a sixteenth-century chieftain of Mactan in the Philippines, celebrated as the first resister of Spanish colonization for the battle that killed Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.
Laskarina Bouboulina
Laskarina Bouboulina (Λασκαρίνα Μπουμπουλίνα), 1771-1825, Spetses shipowner and naval commander of the Greek War of Independence; built the corvette Agamemnon, blockaded Nafplio and Monemvasia, and was posthumously made an Admiral.
Last surviving United States war veterans
Last surviving United States war veterans: the final living US veteran of each war, from Daniel F. Bakeman (Revolutionary War, died 1869) to Frank Buckles (WWI, died 2011), with VA-verified Civil War namesakes Woolson and Crump and shrinking WWII cohorts.
Latif Yahia (لطيف يحيى)
Latif Yahia (لطيف يحيى), Iraqi-born author and former officer, claims he was Uday Hussein's body double 1987-1991; his memoirs inspired the 2011 film The Devil's Double, but former insiders dispute the story.
Laura J. Richardson
Laura J. Richardson is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, first woman to command U.S. Southern Command (2021-2024), former Army North commander, 101st Airborne assault helicopter battalion commander in Iraq, later USGLC advisory council co-chair.
Laura Secord
Laura Ingersoll Secord (1775–1868), Canadian heroine of the War of 1812, walked 32 km from Queenston on 22 June 1813 to warn Lieutenant FitzGibbon of an American attack, enabling the victory at Beaver Dams; recognized with £100 by the Prince of Wales in 1860.
Lauri Törni
Lauri Allan Törni (Larry A. Thorne, 1919–1965), Finnish Mannerheim Cross knight, Waffen-SS officer 1941 and 1945, and US Army Special Forces major killed in Vietnam; convicted of treason, pardoned 1948, buried at Arlington.
Laurie Bembenek
Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek (1958–2010), ex-Milwaukee police officer and Playboy Club waitress, convicted 1982 of murdering her husband's ex-wife; escaped Taycheedah prison 1990, captured in Thunder Bay, Ontario; freed via 1992 no-contest plea; post-conviction DNA and ballistics findings later undermined the case.
LaVoy Finicum
Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, Arizona rancher and spokesman for the 2016 Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, was shot dead by Oregon State Police on January 26, 2016, at an FBI roadblock after fleeing a traffic stop; the shooting triggered an FBI agent's trial and a DOJ Inspector General review.
Lavr Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов)
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов), 1870–1918, Russian general of infantry, Supreme Commander-in-Chief in August 1917, leader of the Kornilov affair against Kerensky's Provisional Government, and first commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army, killed at Ekaterinodar in 1918.