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Trịnh Khả
Trịnh Khả (died 1451), also recorded as Lê Khả, was a Vietnamese general and statesman of the Early Lê dynasty, regarded as the founder of the Trịnh family.
Troy Black
Troy E. Black is a retired United States Marine from Louisville, Kentucky, who served as the 19th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps from 2019 to 2023.
Troy Meink
Troy Meink is the 27th Secretary of the Air Force, who previously served as Principal Deputy Director of the NRO. He has over four decades of national security experience.
Tsuboi Kōzō
Tsuboi Kōzō, originally Hara Nobumichi, was a Japanese vice admiral who championed the line ahead formation and led fast cruisers at the 1894 Battle of the Yalu River.
Tuvia Bielski (טוביה ביילסקי)
Tuvia Bielski (טוביה ביילסקי), 1906–1987, led the Bielski otriad, an all-Jewish partisan detachment in western Belorussia that rescued over 1,200 Jews, the largest Jewish partisan group of World War II.
Twan Mrat Naing (ထွန်းမြတ်နိုင်)
Twan Mrat Naing (ထွန်းမြတ်နိုင်), also spelled Tun Myat Naing, co-founded the Arakan Army in April 2009 in Kachin State and leads it as Commander-in-Chief and ULA chairman, seeking confederation status for Arakan.
Two-Gun Cohen
Two-Gun Cohen (Morris Abraham Cohen, known in Chinese as Ma Kun) was a Jewish adventurer who served Sun Yat-sen as bodyguard and became a general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army.
Ty Carter
Ty Michael Carter, born 1980 in Spokane, Washington, is a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient for the Battle of Kamdesh at COP Keating on October 3, 2009; a former Marine, he became a PTSD advocate after leaving the Army in 2014.
Tyler Ziegel
Tyler Ziegel (1982–2012), also called Ty Ziegel, a US Marine sergeant from Metamora, Illinois, disfigured by a 2004 Iraq suicide bombing; his Nina Berman wedding photo won World Press Photo 2007, and he became a veterans-benefits advocate before his 2012 death.
Uchida Ryōichi
Uchida Ryōichi (内田良平, 1874–1937), usually romanized Uchida Ryōhei, was a Japanese ultranationalist who founded the Black Dragon Society (Kokuryūkai) in 1901 and promoted Pan-Asianism and Japan's annexation of Korea.
Uday Hussein (عدي صدام حسين)
Uday Hussein (عدي صدام حسين), eldest son of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi security figure and founder-commander of the Fedayeen Saddam paramilitary and Olympic committee head, killed 22 July 2003 in a U.S. raid in Mosul with his brother Qusay.
Udham Singh (ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ)
Udham Singh (ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ), Indian revolutionary who shot Sir Michael O'Dwyer at Caxton Hall, London, on 13 March 1940, avenging the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre; tried at the Old Bailey and executed.
Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信)
Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信, 1530–1578), born Nagao Kagetora, was a Sengoku daimyō of Echigo, Kantō kanrei from 1561, devotee of Bishamonten, and rival of Takeda Shingen in the Kawanakajima battles; he died suddenly in 1578 before marching on the capital.
Ugo Cavallero
Ugo Cavallero (1880–1943), Italian Marshal and chief of the Comando Supremo 1940–43, planned the Malta invasion, was dismissed after El Alamein, and died at Frascati in September 1943 in disputed suicide-or-murder circumstances.
Ulrich Schnaft
Ulrich Schnaft (אולריך שנפט), aka Gavriel Zusman, born 1923 in Königsberg: Waffen-SS soldier who posed as a Jewish refugee, became an IDF artillery officer, spied for Egypt, and was lured back to Israel and imprisoned in 1956.
Uluç Ali Pasha
Uluç Ali Pasha (Turkish: Uluç Ali Paşa, later Kılıç Ali Paşa) was a Calabrian-born Ottoman admiral who rose to grand admiral after Lepanto and rebuilt the fleet.
Umar Samatar
Umar Samatar, also spelled Omar Samatar, was a Somali rebel leader of the Majeerteen clan who led a 1925 revolt against Italian rule at El Bur.
Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile (1885–1978), Italian airship engineer and general: designed and commanded the Norge on the 1926 first verified polar crossing, led the 1928 Italia expedition that crashed, and was later rehabilitated after fascist-era disgrace.
United States Air Force Pararescue
US Air Force Pararescue (PJ, parajumper) is the only DoD specialty trained for full-spectrum Personnel Recovery and combat rescue; 500+ PJs serve in Guardian Angel and Special Tactics squadrons as combat divers, free-fall jumpers, and paramedics.
Urzhin Garmaev (Уржин Гармаевич Гармаев)
Urzhin Garmaev (Гармын Үржэн, 1888–1947) was a Buryat officer under Ataman Semyonov who emigrated to Manchuria in 1921, led the Shenehen Buryats, and became a lieutenant general of the Manchukuo army; executed in 1947, rehabilitated in 1992.
Ustym Karmaliuk
Ustym Karmaliuk (1787–1835) was a Ukrainian serf who escaped Russian army conscription and led peasant rebel bands in Podillia for over two decades, remembered as the last haidamaka.
V. K. Singh
General Vijay Kumar Singh (born 1950), Indian Army Chief of the Army Staff 2010-2012, known for the date-of-birth dispute taken to the Supreme Court, Tatra bribe allegations, and later a BJP Minister of State. Not the Signals-officer author of the same name.
V. M. Bhuvana Krishnan
Lieutenant General V. M. Bhuvana Krishnan is a serving Indian Army general who became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command in 2026, having commanded XVII Corps.
Valerie Plame
Valerie Plame (Valerie Plame Wilson), former covert CIA operations officer and NOC whose identity was leaked by Bush administration officials to columnist Robert Novak in July 2003, sparking the Plame affair investigation; later memoirist and 2019 congressional candidate.
Valerii Zaluzhnyi (Валерій Федорович Залужний)
Valerii Zaluzhnyi (Валерій Федорович Залужний), born 1973, Ukrainian general; Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 2021–2024, led Kyiv's defense and the 2022 counteroffensives, then ambassador to the UK.
Valery Bolotov (Валерий Дмитриевич Болот)
Valery Bolotov (Валерий Дмитриевич Болот; Валерій Дмитрович Болотов, 1970–2017), self-proclaimed "people's governor" and first head of the Luhansk People's Republic in 2014; led the SBU building seizure, the May 2014 referendum, survived an assassination attempt, resigned August 2014, died in Moscow in 2017.
Valery Gerasimov (Валерий Васильевич Герасимов)
Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov (Валерий Васильевич Герасимов), Russian army general, Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Defense Minister since 2012, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine since 2023, and namesake of the disputed 'Gerasimov Doctrine.'
Valery Martynov (Валерий Мартынов)
Valery Martynov (Валерий Мартынов), Valeriy Fedorovich Martynov, KGB Line X officer in Washington recruited by the FBI in 1982, betrayed by Ames and Hanssen, executed in Moscow in 1987.
Valery Sablin
Valery Mikhailovich Sablin (Валерий Михайлович Саблин), 1939–1976, Soviet Navy captain 3rd rank and Storozhevoy political officer, led the 8–9 November 1975 mutiny at Riga to sail to Leningrad and call for a return to Leninism; he was executed in 1976 and partially rehabilitated in 1994.
Văn Tiến Dũng
Văn Tiến Dũng (1917–2002) was a Vietnamese general, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army from 1953, who commanded the 1975 Ho Chi Minh Campaign capturing Saigon.