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Andon Dimitrov
Andon Dimitrov (Андон Димитров) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, lawyer, and educator who founded the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in Salonika in 1893 and served on its Central Committee.
Andranik Ozanian
Andranik Ozanian (Անդրանիկ Օզանյան), known simply as Andranik, was an Armenian fedayi commander and national hero, born in 1865 and active until his death in 1927.
András Hadik
András Hadik (1710–1790) was a Hungarian field marshal in Habsburg service, best known for his 1757 raid that seized and ransomed Berlin during the Seven Years' War, and later President of the Vienna Hofkriegsrat.
Andreas Hofer
Andreas Hofer, known as the Sandwirt, was a Tyrolean innkeeper who commanded the 1809 insurrection against Bavarian and French rule, winning victories at the Bergisel near Innsbruck.
Andreas Miaoulis
Andreas Miaoulis (Ανδρέας Μιαούλης, 1769–1835), born Andreas Vokos, was a Hydra shipowner and admiral who commanded the Greek fleet during the War of Independence from 1822 to 1827.
Andreas Peter Hovgaard
Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1853–1910) was a Danish naval officer and polar explorer who joined Nordenskiöld's Vega voyage and led the Dijmphna expedition, which wintered in the Kara Sea.
Andrew Haldane
Andrew Allison 'Ack-Ack' Haldane (1917-1944), US Marine captain commanding K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu; two Silver Stars; killed on Hill 140, not the Bank of England economist.
Andrew McCabe
Andrew G. McCabe, American former FBI official, deputy director from February 2016 and acting director May 9 to August 2, 2017 between James Comey and Christopher Wray; fired March 2018 after an Inspector General report.
Andrew Parker Bowles
Andrew Parker Bowles (born 27 December 1939) is a retired British Army brigadier of the Household Cavalry and first husband of Queen Camilla; commanded the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment during the 1982 Hyde Park bombing.
Andrey Averyanov
Andrey Vladimirovich Averyanov (Андрей Владимирович Аверьянов), born 1967, is a Russian GRU major general, commander of Unit 29155, linked by investigators to the 2014 Vrbetice depot blast and the Salisbury poisoning unit, and sanctioned by the EU, UK, and others.
Andrey Vlasov
Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Андрей Андреевич Власов, 1901–1946) was a Soviet Red Army lieutenant general who, captured by German forces in 1942, defected and led the Russian Liberation Army.
Andy Green (RAF officer)
Andy Green (Andrew Duncan Green, born 1962) is a retired RAF Wing Commander, OBE, fighter pilot, and World Land Speed Record holder since 1997, first to break the sound barrier on land in Thrust SSC at 766.035 mph.
Andy McNab
Andy McNab, pseudonym of a former SAS sergeant, led the Bravo Two Zero patrol in the 1991 Gulf War, was captured, and became a bestselling author of more than 45 books.
Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान)
General Anil Chauhan (अनिल चौहान), born 1961, is a retired Indian Army officer of the 11 Gorkha Rifles who served as India's second Chief of Defence Staff from 30 September 2022 to 30 May 2026, championing jointness, theatre commands, and Operation Sindoor reforms.
Anindya Sengupta
Anindya Sengupta is a retired general officer of the Indian Army. He commanded the XIV Corps during the India-China standoff and later served as GOC-in-C of Central Command.
Anish Dayal Singh
Anish Dayal Singh (अनीश दयाल सिंह), 1988-batch Manipur-cadre IPS officer; nearly 30 years in the Intelligence Bureau; Director General of ITBP and CRPF (2023-2024); appointed India's Deputy National Security Advisor in August 2025.
Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi, born Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro in Laguna, Brazil, in 1821, fought alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi in Brazil, Uruguay, and Italy, dying near Ravenna in 1849.
Anjem Choudary
Anjem Choudary, also known as Abu Luqman, is a British Islamist preacher who led the banned network Al-Muhajiroun and was sentenced to life in 2024 for directing a terrorist organization.
Anna Chapman
Anna Chapman, born Anna Kuschenko, Russian SVR illegal arrested in Manhattan 2010 in Operation Ghost Stories, swapped at Vienna for four prisoners including Skripal, later Russian TV personality.
Anna Strong (spy)
Anna Smith Strong (1740–1812), also called Nancy, Setauket Long Island woman named as a Culper Spy Ring member in the American Revolution, famed for the clothesline signal story and the disputed Agent 355 identification.
Ant Middleton
Ant Middleton (Anthony Middleton), British ex-Special Boat Service operator and TV personality, chief instructor of SAS: Who Dares Wins (2015-2021) and SAS Australia, Sunday Times bestselling author, convicted of assault in 2013.
Anthony Aguilar
Anthony Aguilar, a retired US Army Special Forces officer, alleged witnessing war crimes at Gaza aid sites in 2025. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation rejected his account.
Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), British art historian, Courtauld director and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was the Cambridge Five's 'fourth man', a wartime MI5 Soviet spy secretly confessed in 1964 and unmasked by Thatcher in 1979.
Anthony McAuliffe
Anthony C. McAuliffe (1898–1975), U.S. Army general, acting commander of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge; famous for replying "Nuts!" to a German surrender demand on 22 December 1944; later Chief of Chemical Corps and commander of U.S. Army Europe.
Anthony Poshepny
Anthony "Tony Poe" Poshepny (1924-2003), American CIA paramilitary officer and Iwo Jima Marine; trained Hmong for Vang Pao and led hill tribes from Nam Yu in Laos' secret war; described as the Apocalypse Now Kurtz prototype.
Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (1745–1796), 'Mad Anthony,' Continental Army general of the American Revolution and commander of the Legion of the United States; won the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) and secured the Treaty of Greenville.
Antin Holovaty
Antin Holovaty (Антін Головатий, 1744–1797) was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader and poet who served as military judge and kish otaman of the Black Sea Cossack Host.
Antoinette Frank
Antoinette Frank (born 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer and death row inmate for the 1995 Kim Anh Restaurant triple murder of officer Ronald Williams II and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu with Rogers LaCaze, the only woman on Louisiana's death row.
Anton Denikin (Антон Иванович Деникин)
Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Антон Иванович Деникин), 1872–1947, Russian general, commander of the White Armed Forces of South Russia; led the 1919 Moscow offensive, resigned to Wrangel in 1920, died in exile in Michigan, reburied at Moscow's Donskoy Monastery in 2005.
Antoni Chruściel
Antoni Chruściel (1895–1960), known by the nom de guerre "Monter", was a Polish brigadier general who commanded the Polish insurgent forces in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.