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List of United States Marine Corps four-star generals
Marine Corps four-star generals: officers in the grade of general (O-10), first held by Thomas Holcomb in 1944, permanently fixed for the Commandant in 1947, extended to the Assistant Commandant in 1969 and unified commands in 1985.
List of United States Navy four-star admirals
United States Navy four-star admirals: officers holding the grade of admiral under 10 U.S.C. § 601, including the CNO, VCNO, and fleet and combatant commanders; 215 Naval Academy graduates have reached the rank, with Howard the first woman.
List of United States Navy SEALs
List of United States Navy SEALs: notable current and former members of the Naval Special Warfare teams founded in 1962, spanning Vietnam veterans like Rudy Boesch, Medal of Honor recipients such as Michael P. Murphy, and recent losses including Chambers and Ingram.
Little Turtle
Little Turtle (Mihšihkinaahkwa) was a Miami war leader and chief who led victories over the United States Army in the Northwest Indian War before negotiating the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
Liu Bei
Liu Bei (劉備, Xuande, 161–223) was a late Eastern Han warlord who founded Shu Han, one of the Three Kingdoms, proclaiming himself emperor in 221 after the 208 Red Cliffs alliance with Sun Quan and the 214 conquest of Yi Province.
Liu Zhang (Eastern Han warlord)
Liu Zhang (刘璋) was an Eastern Han warlord who governed Yi Province, the Sichuan basin, from 194 until Liu Bei conquered it from him in 214.
Ljubiša Savić
Ljubiša Savić Mauzer (Љубиша Савић, 1958–2000) was a Bosnian Serb commander of the Panteri Guard and post-war Republika Srpska chief of uniformed police, dismissed by IPTF in 1998 over torture, assassinated in Bijeljina in 2000.
Lloyd Austin
Lloyd James Austin III (born 1953) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and the 28th Secretary of Defense (2021-2025), the first African American in the role; former CENTCOM commander, Silver Star recipient, confirmed 93-2 with a congressional waiver.
Lloyd M. Bucher
Lloyd M. Bucher, also known as Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, was a U.S. Navy officer who commanded the USS Pueblo. He surrendered the ship to North Korea in 1968.
Lon Horiuchi
Lon Horiuchi, former FBI Hostage Rescue Team sniper who fired the 1992 Ruby Ridge shots that killed Vicki Weaver; charged with Idaho involuntary manslaughter, case ended on Supremacy Clause immunity; also led Sierra One snipers at Waco.
Lord Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten (Earl Mountbatten of Burma, "Dickie") was a British admiral and statesman: WWII Chief of Combined Operations and Dieppe planner, Supreme Allied Commander SEAC 1943-46, last Viceroy and first Governor-General of India 1947-48, First Sea Lord 1955-59, assassinated by the IRA in 1979.
Lothar von Richthofen
Lothar Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen (1894-1922), German WWI fighter ace and younger brother of the Red Baron, credited with 40 aerial victories with Jasta 11; died in a 1922 civil aviation crash near Hamburg.
Lou Conter
Lou Conter (Louis Anthony Conter, 1921-2024) was a US Navy lieutenant commander, the last living survivor of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, a Black Cat PBY pilot with 200 combat missions, and founder of the Navy's first SERE program.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha (1862–1919), Boer general and statesman; victor of Colenso, signatory of Vereeniging, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa 1910–1919, suppressor of the 1914 rebellion, conqueror of German South-West Africa.
Louis Delgrès
Louis Delgrès (1766–1802) was a French Republican military officer of mixed race who led Guadeloupe's 1802 resistance against Napoleon's expedition to restore slavery, dying with 300 companions at Matouba rather than surrender.
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu (1696-1788), French marshal, diplomat, and académicien; godson of Louis XIV, conqueror of Minorca in 1756, victor at Kloster Zeven 1757.
Louis Haefliger
Louis Haefliger (1904–1993) was a Swiss bank accountant and volunteer Red Cross delegate who alerted American troops, saving some 40,000 inmates of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in May 1945.
Louis Palander
Louis Palander (Adolf Arnold Louis Palander af Vega, 1842–1920) was a Swedish admiral who captained the Vega on Nordenskiöld's 1878–1880 expedition, the first to sail the entire Northeast Passage.
Louis Till
Louis Till, father of Emmett Till, was a U.S. Army private executed by court-martial in Italy in 1945 for rape and murder; his LT signet ring later identified his son's body, and his 1955 disclosure was used against the Till family.
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (Ludwig Wilhelm, called Türkenlouis, "Turkish Louis"), ruled Baden-Baden from 1677 and won his greatest triumph over the Ottomans at Slankamen in 1691.
Louis Zamperini
Louis Zamperini (1917-2014), also known as Louie, was an American Olympic 5,000m runner (1936 Berlin), WWII B-24 bombardier, 47-day Pacific raft survivor, and tortured Japanese POW later famous through Hillenbrand's Unbroken.
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Louis-Nicolas Davout (d'Avout), Duke of Auerstaedt and Prince of Eckmühl, French marshal (1770-1823); undefeated except alongside Suchet, victor of Auerstaedt 1806, governor of Hamburg, war minister in 1815.
Loyd Jowers
Loyd Jowers (1926-2000) was a Memphis restaurateur, owner of Jim's Grill near the Lorraine Motel, who claimed in 1993 he took part in a conspiracy to kill Martin Luther King Jr.; a 1999 civil jury found him liable, but the Justice Department deemed his claims not credible.
Lü Bu (吕布)
Lü Bu (呂布, Fengxian), late Eastern Han warrior-warlord born in Wuyuan; served and killed Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, fled Chang'an after the 192 plot, and was besieged and executed at Xiapi in 198–199.
Lucas Philippe
Lucas Philippe, French police officer and contrôleur général, is the 31st President of INTERPOL, elected 27 November 2025 in Marrakech for a term until 2029, succeeding Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi.
Lucius Artorius Castus
Lucius Artorius Castus, Roman equestrian officer of the late 2nd-early 3rd century known from two Dalmatian inscriptions; served in Britain with legio VI Victrix; proposed by Malone, Littleton, and Malcor as a prototype of King Arthur, a link most scholars reject.
Lucius D. Clay
Lucius DuBignon Clay was a US Army general and logistics specialist who served as Military Governor of Germany and directed the Berlin Airlift before acting as President Kennedy's representative.
Lucjan Żeligowski
Lucjan Żeligowski (1865–1947) was a Polish general and statesman who staged the 1920 "mutiny" seizing Vilnius, creating the Republic of Central Lithuania that joined Poland in 1922.
Lucky Bisht
Lucky Bisht (Laxman Singh Bisht), Indian ex-NSG commando claiming to be former RAW agent "Agent Lima"; jailed 2011 for the Pargai-Arya double murder, acquitted 2018; subject of Zaidi's 2023 book R.A.W. Hitman; now a Bollywood writer-producer.
Lucky Luciano
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897–1962), born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily, was an Italian-born American mobster who reorganized the Mafia into the Five Families and created the Commission.