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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish army officer and Tory statesman who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 and served as prime minister from 1828 to 1830.
Artur Axmann
Artur Axmann (1913-1996) was the last Reichsjugendführer, leader of the Nazi Hitler Youth from August 1940 succeeding Baldur von Schirach, creator of the 1938 Jugendschutzgesetz, classified a principal offender in 1949, died in Berlin.
Arturo Beltrán Leyva
Marcos Arturo Beltrán Leyva (El Barbas, El Jefe de Jefes) was a Mexican drug trafficker who co-led the Beltrán Leyva Organization, split from the Sinaloa Cartel in 2008, and was killed by Mexican Navy forces in Cuernavaca on 16 December 2009.
Arturo Prat
Arturo Prat (Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón) was a Chilean naval officer and lawyer killed in 1879 commanding the Esmeralda at the Naval Battle of Iquique.
Arun Khetarpal (अरुण खेतरपाल)
Arun Khetarpal (अरुण खेतरपाल) was an Indian Army Second Lieutenant of the 17 Poona Horse, posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra for the 1971 Battle of Basantar.
Arun Shridhar Vaidya
Arun Shridhar Vaidya, also known as General Arun S. Vaidya, was an Indian Army general who planned Operation Blue Star and was assassinated in 1986.
Asaf Hamami (אסף חממי)
Asaf Hamami (אסף חממי), 1982–2023, IDF colonel commanding the Gaza Division's Southern Brigade; first officer to declare war on October 7, killed at Kibbutz Nirim, body held in Gaza until November 2025.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, retired Pakistani general, Chief of Army Staff 2007-2013 after heading ISI from 2004; led Operations Rah-i-Rast and Rah-i-Nijat, shifted army doctrine to counterinsurgency, received a three-year extension in 2010, succeeded by Raheel Sharif.
Ashikaga Yoshikane
Ashikaga Yoshikane (足利義兼, 1154–1199) was a Japanese warrior, second head of the Ashikaga clan and an ally of Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Genpei War.
Ashok Kamte (अशोक कामते)
Ashok Kamte (अशोक कामते), 1965–2008, Maharashtra IPS officer and Additional Commissioner of Police, Mumbai, killed fighting terrorists near Cama Hospital in the 26/11 attacks; posthumous Ashoka Chakra recipient whose widow's book and RTI fight exposed discrepancies in the official account.
Ashraf Marwan (أشرف مروان)
Ashraf Marwan (أشرف مروان), Egyptian businessman, Nasser's son-in-law and Sadat aide, spied for Mossad as "Angel", warned Israel before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and died in an unexplained 2007 London balcony fall; loyal spy or double agent is still disputed.
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور)
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور) is a retired three-star Pakistan Army general, 20th Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (December 2016 to January 2020), later Lieutenant General, commissioned in 1988 in the artillery.
Asim Malik (محمد عاصم ملک)
Muhammad Asim Malik (محمد عاصم ملک) is a Pakistani lieutenant general, 26th Director General of the ISI since 30 September 2024 and concurrently National Security Adviser since April 2025, the first serving ISI chief to hold both posts.
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر) (general)
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر), Pakistani field marshal, Chief of Army Staff since November 2022 and first Chief of Defence Forces; former DG of both ISI and Military Intelligence; elevated after the May 2025 India war.
Askari Mirza
Askari Mirza was the third son of the first Mughal emperor Babur, born in Kabul around 1516, who governed Multan and Qandahar but never reigned as emperor.
Aslam Baloch
Aslam Baloch (Balochi: اسلم بلوچ), alias Achu, was a senior commander of the Baloch Liberation Army killed in a December 2018 suicide bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Aslan Maskhadov
Aslan Maskhadov (Аслан Масхадов), Chechen separatist president elected in 1997 after serving as Soviet artillery colonel and Ichkeria chief of staff; signed Khasavyurt Accords, led resistance until killed by Russian forces in Tolstoy-Yurt, 8 March 2005.
Assassination of James A. Garfield
Assassination of James A. Garfield: shooting of the 20th U.S. president by Charles J. Guiteau, a Stalwart office seeker, July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station; Garfield died of infection September 19, 1881, and the trial spurred the 1883 Pendleton Act.
Assimi Goïta
Assimi Goïta (born 1983) is Mali's army general and President of the Transition since June 2021, leader of the CNSP junta, author of the August 2020 and May 2021 coups, aligned with Russia's Wagner Group and Africa Corps.
Athanasios Diakos
Athanasios Diakos (Αθανάσιος Διάκος), born Athanasios Massavetas, was a Greek armatolos who became an early hero of the Greek War of Independence, dying impaled in 1821.
Athanasios Tsakalov
Athanasios Tsakalov (Αθανάσιος Τσακάλωφ) was a Greek, born in Ioannina around 1788, who co-founded the Filiki Eteria in 1814 and died in Moscow in 1851.
Atomic spies
Atomic spies were Soviet intelligence recruits who passed secrets of the American atomic program to the USSR, including designs by Klaus Fuchs, accelerating the Soviet bomb's development.
Attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt
John Flammang Schrank (1876-1943) shot Theodore Roosevelt in the chest on October 14, 1912, outside Milwaukee's Gilpatrick Hotel during the Bull Moose campaign; a glasses case and 50-page speech slowed the bullet, and Roosevelt delivered his speech.
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy (1924–1971) was the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, earning the Medal of Honor at Holtzwihr, France, then a Hollywood career in 44 films including To Hell and Back, and later advocating for veterans with PTSD.
August von Mackensen
August von Mackensen (1849-1945), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and WWI commander, broke the Russian front at Gorlice-Tarnow 1915, led Serbia and Romania campaigns; last WWI field marshal, the Last Hussar.
Augustin Jordan
Augustin Jordan (1910-2004), French soldier and diplomat, Compagnon de la Libération, Free French SAS (French Squadron) commander captured in Tunisia 1943 and held at Colditz; later ambassador to Warsaw and Vienna.
Augusto César Sandino
Augusto César Sandino (Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, 1895-1934) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary general who led the 1927-1933 guerrilla war against the U.S. occupation, was assassinated by Anastasio Somoza García's National Guard, and gave his name to the Sandinista FSLN.
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1915-2006), Chilean general who led the 11 September 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and ruled Chile's military dictatorship until 1990; DINA/CNI repression, 1980 Constitution, defeated in the 1988 plebiscite, arrested in London 1998.
Aurangzeb
Aurangzeb (1618–1707), sixth Mughal emperor, reigned 1658–1707 after a war of succession against his brothers. Known for the Deccan conquests of Bijapur and Golconda, the 1679 jizya reimposition, and a contested legacy in Indian and Pakistani historiography.
Austin S. Miller
Austin S. "Scott" Miller (born 1961) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, Delta Force commander, Joint Special Operations Command leader, and final commander of NATO Resolute Support and U.S. Forces–Afghanistan (2018–2021), who relinquished command in Kabul on July 12, 2021.