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Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), cousin of Queen Victoria, commanded the British Army as Commander-in-Chief for 39 years (1856-1895), opposed Cardwell's reforms, and was succeeded by Lord Wolseley.
Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929)
Prince Heinrich of Prussia (Prinz Heinrich von Preußen), 1862–1929, Grand Admiral, younger brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II; East Asia Squadron and Tsingtao commander, High Seas Fleet chief 1906–09, Baltic commander in World War I.
Prince Kan'in Kotohito
Prince Kan'in Kotohito (閑院宮載仁親王, 1865–1945) was a Japanese imperial prince and field marshal who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854–1921), later 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, was a German-born prince and Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet who served as First Sea Lord 1912–1914, resigned under anti-German pressure, and adopted the surname Mountbatten in 1917.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Ruprecht, 1619–1682), Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria, nephew of Charles I, commanded Royalist cavalry in the English Civil War (Powick Bridge, Edgehill, Marston Moor, Naseby), later an admiral, Royal Society founder, mezzotint pioneer, and Hudson's Bay Company governor.
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), second surviving son of George II, British captain-general who crushed the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, earning the nickname 'the Butcher', and briefly brokered the 1765 Rockingham ministry.
Prithviraj Chauhan (पृथ्वीराज)
Prithviraj Chauhan (पृथ्वीराज), Prithviraja III (1166–1192), Chahamana (Chauhan) king of Ajmer and northern India; won the first Battle of Tarain 1191 and was defeated and killed by Muhammad Ghuri at the second in 1192; his legend derives mainly from the late 16th-century Prithviraj Raso.
Pritilata Waddedar (প্রীতিলতা ওয়াদ্দেদার)
Pritilata Waddedar (প্রীতিলতা ওয়াদ্দেদার), 1911–1932, Bengali revolutionary, Bethune College philosophy graduate, and first woman member of Surya Sen's Chittagong group; led the 1932 Pahartali European Club raid and died by cyanide at 23.
Project 100,000
Project 100,000 (New Standards) was a 1966–1971 U.S. Defense Department program lowering AFQT and other enlistment standards; about 346,000–354,000 men enlisted, with higher Vietnam casualty and disciplinary rates.
Prokop the Great
Prokop the Great (Prokop Veliký, Prokop Holý, c. 1380–1434) was a Bohemian Hussite priest who led the Taborite armies after Žižka, won at Ústí, Tachov, and Domažlice, led the glorious rides, and fell at Lipany in 1434.
Publius Quinctilius Varus
Publius Quinctilius Varus (46 BCE–9 CE), Roman senator and friend of Augustus, governor of Africa, Syria, and Germania; lost legions XVII, XVIII, XIX to Arminius at Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE and died by suicide.
Pushpendra Pal Singh
Lieutenant General Pushpendra Pal Singh, Indian Army Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) officer commissioned December 1987; Vice Chief of the Army Staff from 31 July 2025, then GOC-in-C Western Command from 1 April 2026.
Pyotr Bagration
Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (Пётр Иванович Багратион, 1765-1812), Russian general of infantry of the Georgian Bagratid family, Suvorov's lieutenant in 1799, commander of the 2nd Western Army in 1812, mortally wounded commanding the left wing at Borodino.
Pyotr Lacy
Pyotr Petrovich Lacy (Пётр Петрович Ласси), born Peter Edmund Lacy in County Limerick, Ireland, entered Russian service in 1700 and rose to field marshal, winning Vilmanstrand and Helsingfors.
Pyotr Wrangel
Pyotr Wrangel (Пётр Николаевич Врангель), the "Black Baron," 1878-1928, was the last White commander in chief in the Russian Civil War, governed South Russia from Crimea in 1920, evacuated 145,693 people to exile, founded ROVS, and died in Brussels.
Qamar Javed Bajwa
Qamar Javed Bajwa, retired Pakistani four-star general, Chief of Army Staff 29 November 2016 to 29 November 2022 under Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan; Baloch Regiment officer, 2019 extension, succeeded by Asim Munir.
Qasar
Qasar (Хасар), also called Jochi Qasar or Khabt Khasar, was a younger full brother of Genghis Khan and leading general of the early Mongol Empire, famous as an archer.
Qasem Soleimani (قاسم سلیمانی)
Qasem Soleimani (قاسم سلیمانی, 1957–2020), Iranian major general and Quds Force commander from 1997/98, architect of Iran's Axis of Resistance in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen; killed in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020.
Quamina
Quamina, sometimes called Quamina Gladstone (c. 1778 – 1823), was an enslaved African-born carpenter and deacon on Plantation Success, Demerara, now Guyana, prominent in the Demerara Rebellion of 1823.
Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker (c. 1845–1911), last chief of the Quahada Comanche, son of Peta Nocona and captive Cynthia Ann Parker; led the 1874 Adobe Walls attack, surrendered in 1875, then championed reservation ranching, schools, and the peyote religion.
Quao
Quao, also recorded as Captain Quaw, was the leader of the Windward Maroons of eastern Jamaica who signed the 1739 peace treaty with the British, ending the First Maroon War for his people.
Quintín Bandera
Quintín Bandera (José Quintino Bandera Betancourt, also written Quintín Banderas) was an Afro-Cuban general who fought in all three of Cuba's wars of independence, from 1868 to 1898.
R. N. Kao (रमेश्वर नाथ काओ)
Rameshwar Nath Kao (रमेश्वर नाथ काओ), 1918–2002, Indian spymaster who founded and led R&AW, India's external intelligence agency, 1968–1977, directed the 1971 Bangladesh covert campaign, and later advised Indira and Rajiv Gandhi.
Radko Dimitriev
Radko Dimitriev (Радко Димитриев, 1859–1918) was a Bulgarian-born general who commanded the Bulgarian Third Army in the First Balkan War before transferring to Russian service in 1914.
Radomir Putnik
Radomir Putnik (Радомир Путник), 1847 to 1917, was a Serbian field marshal and five-time Minister of War who led the army through the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
Rafa Salama (رفا سلامة)
Rafa Salama (رفا سلامة), also Rafa'a Salameh, was commander of Hamas's Khan Yunis Brigade from 2016, a Gilad Shalit abduction plotter and October 7 mastermind per the IDF, killed in the July 13, 2024 al-Mawasi airstrike that also targeted Mohammed Deif.
Rafa Salazar
Rafa Salazar, real name Rafael Antonio Cardona Salazar (alias Rafico), was a Colombian Medellín Cartel U.S. representative, allegedly implicated in Barry Seal's murder, assassinated in Envigado December 4, 1987, age 35; known mainly via Netflix's Griselda (2024).
Rafael Pérez (police officer)
Rafael Pérez, former LAPD Rampart CRASH officer; stole six pounds of cocaine in 1998, then cooperated in the Rampart scandal, implicating 28 officers and triggering about 170 exonerations and a federal consent decree.
Raheel Sharif (راحیل شریف)
Raheel Sharif (راحیل شریف), born 1956 in Quetta, is a retired four-star Pakistan Army general, 15th Chief of Army Staff 2013–2016 who led Operation Zarb-e-Azb, and Military Commander of the 42-nation IMCTC since May 2017.
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-1680) was an Italian general and military writer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire, victor over the Ottoman Turks at Sankt Gotthard in 1664.