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Stephen J. Townsend
Stephen J. Townsend (born 1959) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, fifth commander of U.S. Africa Command 2019-2022, earlier TRADOC chief and commander of the anti-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve coalition.
Sterling Price
Sterling Price (1809–1867), Missouri governor 1853–1857 and major general of the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army, won Wilson's Creek and Lexington in 1861, lost Pea Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, and the 1864 Missouri raid at Westport, then exiled to Mexico rather than surrender.
Stewart Menzies
Stewart Graham Menzies (1890–1968), British major-general and the third 'C', Chief of MI6 (SIS) from November 1939 to 1952, delivered daily Ultra decrypts to Churchill, built ties with Bill Donovan, and appointed the Soviet spy Kim Philby.
Stewart Rhodes
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, Yale Law-trained lawyer, former Army paratrooper, and founder of the Oath Keepers militia (2009), was convicted of seditious conspiracy for January 6, 2021, sentenced to 18 years, then had his sentence commuted by Trump in 2025.
Stilicho
Flavius Stilicho (c. 365–408 CE), Vandal-descended Roman general and regent for Emperor Honorius, dominated the Western Roman Empire 395–408, defeated Alaric at Pollentia and Radagaisus at Florentia, and was executed at Ravenna on 22 August 408.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824–1863), Confederate lieutenant general commanding the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Nicknamed at First Manassas, famed for the 1862 Valley Campaign and Harpers Ferry, mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville.
Straubenzee family
Van Straubenzee family, Dutch-origin British family founded by Philip William Casimir van Straubenzee (c.1745); produced generals including Sir Charles Thomas van Straubenzee and politician Sir William van Straubenzee, MP for Wokingham.
Subutai (Сүбээдэй)
Subutai (Сүбээдэй, Sübe'etei, c. 1175–1248) was Genghis Khan's leading Mongol general, a Uriankhai commoner who planned the Kalka, Jin, and 1236–1242 European campaigns, winning Legnica and Mohi two days apart.
Sudirman
Sudirman, born Raden Soedirman in 1916, was the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian armed forces, leading the guerrilla war against the Dutch while ill with tuberculosis.
Süleyman Pasha
Süleyman Pasha, remembered as Rumeli Fatihi, was a son of the Ottoman bey Orhan who seized Gallipoli in 1354, establishing the first permanent Ottoman foothold in Europe.
Suleyman Shah
Suleyman Shah (Süleyman Şah), traditional grandfather of Osman I and father of Ertuğrul; his tomb at Caber Castle, Syria, was Turkish treaty territory, relocated by Turkey's 2015 Şah Fırat operation.
Sullivan brothers
The Sullivan brothers were George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa, five siblings who served together aboard USS Juneau (CL-52) and were all lost when she sank November 13, 1942, at Guadalcanal, prompting the Sole Survivor Policy and two ships named USS The Sullivans.
Sun Jun (Wu general)
Sun Jun (孙峻) was a general of Eastern Wu who killed regent Zhuge Ke in 253 and ruled as Wu's second regent until his death in 256.
Sun Quan (孙权)
Sun Quan (孫權, 182–252), courtesy name Zhongmou, founder and first emperor of Eastern Wu, emperor from 229. Succeeded Sun Ce in 200 at eighteen, won Red Cliffs in 208 with Liu Bei, and was the last of the Three Kingdoms rulers to take the imperial title.
Sun Tzu (孙子)
Sun Tzu (孙子, Sun Wu), legendary Chinese general of Wu, name attached to The Art of War, a thirteen-chapter Warring States military classic; authorship disputed, earliest witness the 1972 Yinqueshan bamboo slips.
Sundiata Keita
Sundiata Keita, also known as Sunjata Keita, was a thirteenth-century West African ruler who founded the Mali Empire by defeating the Sosso kingdom around 1235.
Supreme Allied Commander
Supreme Allied Commander is the title of NATO's two strategic commanders: SACEUR, leading all NATO operations from SHAPE in Mons, Belgium, traditionally a US officer dual-hatted as EUCOM commander, first held by Eisenhower in 1950; and SACT, held by a French officer since 2009.
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR): NATO's senior strategic commander, head of Allied Command Operations at SHAPE, Mons, Belgium; always an American officer dual-hatted as Commander US European Command; first held by Eisenhower (1950), currently General Alexus G. Grynkewich since 4 July 2025.
Suraj Mal (सूरज मल)
Suraj Mal (सूरज मल), also called Maharaja Suraj Mal, was the Jat king of Bharatpur who ruled from the 1730s until 1763 and turned his small state into a major northern Indian power.
Surya Sen (সূর্য সেন)
Surya Sen (সূর্য সেন), Masterda, Bengali revolutionary and schoolteacher who led the 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid with the Indian Republican Army; arrested 1933, hanged 12 January 1934.
Suwa Yorishige (Nanboku-chō period)
Suwa Yorishige (諏訪頼重, died 1335) was a Kamakura-era warrior and former Hōjō retainer who led the 1335 Nakasendai Rebellion, briefly restoring Hōjō rule in Kamakura before defeat; distinct from the Sengoku Suwa Yorishige (1516–1542).
Svetozar Boroević
Svetozar Boroević, also Svetozar Borojević (1856–1920), was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal from Croatia who held the Isonzo front against Italian offensives from 1915 to 1917.
Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington (1761-1839), daughter of New York militia colonel Henry Ludington, is the legendary "female Paul Revere": a 16-year-old said to have ridden 40 miles on April 26, 1777 to rally militia against the British raid on Danbury, Connecticut. No contemporary evidence supports the ride, which first appeared in print in 1880.
Syed Aamer Raza
General Syed Aamer Raza (سیڈ عامر رضا) is a four-star Pakistan Army officer and first Commander National Strategic Command, appointed July 24, 2026; former Chief of the General Staff, IV Corps commander, HIT chairman, Nishan-i-Imtiaz (Military) recipient.
Symon Petliura (Симон Васильович Петлюра)
Symon Petliura (Симон Васильович Петлюра), Ukrainian statesman, supreme otaman and Directory president 1918–1920, Paris exile leader, assassinated by Scholem Schwarzbard in 1926; acquitted at the 1927 trial.
Szymon Konarski
Szymon Konarski, in Lithuanian Simonas Konarskis, was a Polish insurgent and democratic publicist who built a 3,000-member underground organization in partitioned Poland and was executed in 1839.
T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (1888–1935), British archaeologist and liaison officer to the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918 against the Ottomans; author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, later RAF enlistee under aliases, subject of the 1962 film.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林忠道)
Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林忠道) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army who commanded the defense of Iwo Jima against the American invasion of 1945.
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko (Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, 1746–1817) was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer and general, a hero of the American Revolution at Saratoga and West Point and leader of Poland's 1794 uprising against Russia.
Tadeusz Kutrzeba
Tadeusz Kutrzeba was a Polish divisional general, military theorist, and historian who commanded the Poznań Army in 1939 and led the Battle of the Bzura, the campaign's largest Polish offensive.