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Lewis Nixon III
Lewis Nixon III (1918–1995), U.S. Army captain and Easy Company intelligence officer, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; D-Day, Market Garden, Varsity veteran; Band of Brothers figure.
Lewis Powell (conspirator)
Lewis Thornton Powell (aliases Lewis Paine/Payne), 1844-1865, Confederate soldier and Lincoln assassination conspirator who stabbed Secretary of State Seward on April 14, 1865, and was hanged July 7, 1865.
Li Guang (Han dynasty general)
Li Guang (李广) was a Han dynasty general who fought the Xiongnu over seventy times, called the "Flying General", and died in 119 BC without a marquisate.
Li Xin (Qin)
Li Xin (李信) was a young, daring general of Qin under King Ying Zheng in the unification wars of 230–221 BCE; he captured the Yan heir Dan and led 200,000 men, with Meng Tian, against Chu after underestimating it against Wang Jian's 600,000.
Lientur
Lientur, also recorded as Blanqueado, was a mestizo Mapuche toqui, or war leader, who fought the Spanish in Chile's Arauco War from 1618 to 1625.
Lillian Bonsignore
Lillian Bonsignore, 37th FDNY Fire Commissioner sworn in January 6, 2026 under Mayor Zohran Mamdani; former FDNY Chief of EMS Operations (2019-2022), first openly gay commissioner, advocate of EMS pay parity.
Lin Biao (林彪)
Lin Biao (林彪) was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China. He was designated Mao Zedong's successor in 1969, but died in a plane crash in Mongolia in 1971.
Lionel Crabb
Lionel "Buster" Crabb (1909–1956), British Royal Navy clearance diver and George Medal holder, vanished diving under the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze at Portsmouth in an MI6 mission; not the psychologist Lawrence Crabb.
Lisa Franchetti
Lisa Marie Franchetti: 33rd US Chief of Naval Operations (November 2023 to February 2025), first woman as Navy service chief and Joint Chiefs member; retired admiral later on Cincinnati Financial's board, removed by Hegseth without explanation.
List of active duty United States four-star officers
Active duty U.S. four-star officers (O-10 Generals and Admirals) hold the top military posts: Chairman JCS, service chiefs, combatant commanders. Statutory caps total 27 service billets plus joint positions; 36 served as of September 2025.
List of American spies
List of American spies: survey of Americans who spied for the United States (Culper Ring, Civil War Union agents, OSS) and Americans who spied against it (Rosenbergs, Ames, Hanssen, Montes, Rocha).
List of British police officers killed in the line of duty
British police officers killed in the line of duty are recorded in the UK Police Roll of Honour, 4,677 names kept by the Police Remembrance Trust, commemorated at the UK Police Memorial and National Police Memorial Day.
List of Delta Force members
List of Delta Force members: publicly identified operators of 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force, CAG), including founder Charles Beckwith, commanders Boykin, Bargewell and Miller, Medal of Honor recipients Gordon and Shughart, and memoirist Eric Haney.
List of German field marshals
Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) was the highest military rank in the German Empire and Wehrmacht, abolished in 1945; promotion was possible only in wartime, and 27 officers were promoted between 1936 and 1945.
List of Knights Templar
List of Knights Templar: named members of the medieval military order founded around 1119 by Hugues de Payens and Godfrey de Saint-Omer, covering grand masters such as Reginald de Vichiers and Jacques de Molay, provincial masters, officers, and why the lost archives make the list incomplete.
List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars
Last surviving veterans of wars: the VA's official list (Bakeman, Woolson, Buckles), the widespread fraud problem among claimants, last Medal of Honor recipients Puckett and Williams, and World War II veteran population projections.
List of last surviving World War II veterans
Last surviving World War II veterans: the final living WWII servicemembers worldwide. 16.4 million Americans served; 30,607 remained in 2026. Notable last survivors include Lawrence Brooks, Donald Rose, and Pearl Harbor survivors.
List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States
The list of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States records felonious and accidental deaths, tracked by the FBI and NLEOMF since 1786.
List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II
World War II Medal of Honor recipients: 473 men from all services awarded the U.S. highest valor decoration for 1941–1945 actions, including 332 Army recipients, plus later upgrades such as the 1997 and 2000 racial-bias reviews.
List of mercenaries
The list of mercenaries covers combatants who fight outside the hiring organization for monetary pay, spanning ancient Greece, the condottieri, and modern private military companies like the Wagner Group.
List of militaries that recruit foreigners
Militaries that recruit foreigners: over 20 countries enlist non-citizens, including the US (LPRs, MAVNI), UK (Commonwealth, Gurkhas), Australia, France's Foreign Legion, and wartime recruiters Russia and Ukraine.
List of military figures by nickname
A reference compilation indexing military commanders, admirals, and service members by nicknames rather than formal names, from Torquatus and Charles Martel to Rommel, the Desert Fox.
List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War
Military leaders of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783): Continental commanders Washington, Greene, Gates, Knox, Lincoln, and Ward; British leaders Cornwallis and Howe; French allies Lafayette and Rochambeau; militia and naval commanders.
List of Muslim military leaders
List of Muslim military leaders: commanders from Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphs (amir al-mu'minin) through Saladin to modern figures such as Pakistan's Asim Munir and JNIM's Iyad Ag Ghali.
List of Old West gunfighters
Old West gunfighters list: Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, John Wesley Hardin, and forgotten gunmen, drawn from O'Neal's 255-entry encyclopedia, with myth-versus-record context.
List of presidents of the United States by military service
Presidential military service record: 31 of the men who served as U.S. president were veterans, 16 were not; eight served in World War II, seven in the Civil War; George H.W. Bush was the last combat veteran and last active-duty president.
List of serving generals of the Bangladesh Army
Roster of serving Bangladesh Army general officers: four-star Chief of Army Staff General Waqar-Uz-Zaman (since 23 June 2024), the lieutenant and major generals holding CGS, PSO, QMG, NDC, and division command posts, and the February 2026 reshuffles.
List of serving generals of the Pakistan Army
Roster of serving Pakistan Army general officers: two full generals, 27 lieutenant generals, around 160 major generals, ranked by seniority; topped by Field Marshal Asim Munir as Chief of Defence Forces since December 2025.
List of snipers
List of snipers: named military marksmen including Timothy Murphy, Vasili Zaitsev, Simo Häyhä, Carlos Hathcock, and Rob Furlong, whose 2,430-meter shot in Afghanistan in March 2002 is the record confirmed in these sources.
List of United States Army four-star generals
United States Army four-star generals (rank of General, O-10): the Army's most senior officers, capped by 10 U.S.C. §525/526, numbering 14 in 2018; includes chiefs of staff, combatant commanders, and first Hispanic four-star Richard Cavazos.