List of people associated with World War I

Australia

• C.E.W. Bean (1879-1968) Official Australian war correspondent
• Henry Gordon Bennett (1887-1962) Commander, 3rd Infantry Brigade
• William Throsby Bridges (1861-1915) Commander, Australian Imperial Force, Australian 1st Division
• Henry George Chauvel (1865-1945), Commander, Anzac Mounted Division, Desert Mounted Corps
• Arthur Cobby, Fighter ace
• Roderic Dallas, Fighter ace
• Henry (Harry) Dalziel, VC Holder
• Pompey Elliott, General
• Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister
• Sir John Gellibrand, Commander, 3rd Division
• Sir Thomas William Glasgow, Commander, 1st Division
• Sir Talbot Hobbs, (1864-1938), Commander, Australian 5th Division
• Billy Hughes, (1862-1952), Prime Minister
• Godfrey Irving, Temporary Commander, 5th Division
• Albert Jacka, First AIF Winner of the VC
• John Jackson, V.C. Holder
• Elwyn King, Fighter ace
• John Simpson Kirkpatrick, (1892-1915), Stretcher bearer
• Robert Little, Fighter ace
• The Hon. James Whiteside M'Cay, (1864-1930), Commander, Australian 5th Division
• Sir John Monash, (1865-1931), Commander, Australian 3rd Division, Australian Corps
• Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885-1952), War reporter
• Sir Charles Rosenthal, (1875-1954), Commander, Australian 2nd Division
• Alfred Shout, VC Holder
• Sir Brudenell White, General

Austria-Hungary

Royalty

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1863-1914), heir to the throne whose murder brought on the war.
• Emperor Franz Josef, (1830-1916)
• Emperor Karl, (1887-1922)
• Empress Zita, (1892-1989)

Military leaders

• Svetozar Boroevic von Bojna, field marshal
• Viktor von Dankl, Colonel General
• Franz Freiherr Rohr von Denta, field marshal
• Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, (1852-1925), Chief of Staff (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
• Hermann Kövess, field marshal
• Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, (1857-1935), Chief of Staff (1917-1918)
• Oskar Potiorek, (1853-1933), General

Politicians

• Friedrich Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Count Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860-1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
• Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)
• Baron István Burian, (1851-1922), Foreign Minister (1915-1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916-1918)
• Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinitz (1863-1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916-1917)
• Count Ottokar Czernin, (1872-1932), Foreign Minister (1916-1918)
• Count Moric Esterhazy (1881-1960), Minister-President of Hungary (1917)
• Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862-1931), Minister-President of Austria (1917-1918)
• Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865-1935), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
• Count Mihály Károlyi (1875-1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
• Ernst von Koerber (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
• Heinrich Lammasch (1853-1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
• Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
• Count Karl von Stürgkh (1859-1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911-1916)
• Count István Tisza (1861-1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913-1917)
• Sandor Wekerle (1848-1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917-1918)

Belgium

• King Albert I, (1875-1934)
• Herman Baltia, (1863-1938), General
• Baron Charles de Broqueville, (1860-1940), Prime Minister
• Willy Coppens, (1892-1986), Fighter ace
• Victor Deguise, (1855-1922), General
• Cyriaque Gillain, (1857-1931), Army Chief of Staff
• Paul Hymans, (1865-1941), Foreign Secretary
• Fernand Jacquet, (1888-1947), Fighter ace
• Gerard Leman, (1851-1920), General
• Désiré-Joseph Mercier, (1851-1926), Cardinal
• Andre de Meulemeester, (1894-1973), Fighter Pilot
• Jan Olieslagers, (1883-1942), Fighter Ace
• Gabrielle Petit, (1893-1916), Executed Spy
• Edmond Thieffry, (1892-1929), Fighter Ace

Bulgaria

Royalty

• Ferdinand I

Politicians

• Aleksandar Malinov, (1867-1938), Prime Minister (1908-1911, 1918)
• Vasil Radoslavov, (1854-1929), Prime Minister
• Aleksandar Stamboliyski, (1879-1923), Anti-Monarchist
• Stefan Panaretov, (1853-1931), Diplomat
• Andrey Lyapchev, Minister

Military leaders

• Nikolaus Jekov, commander-in-chief
• Kliment Boyadzhiev, general
• Georg Stojanov Todorov, general
• Stefan Toshev, general
• Vladimir Vazov, general

Canada (includes Newfoundland)

• Harry Band (1885–1915) reported victim of German crucifixion
• William Barker (1894–1930) was a fighter ace and Victoria Cross recipient
• Billy Bishop (1884–1956), ace credited with 72 victories
• Sir Robert Borden (1854–1937) Prime Minister (1911–1920)
• Henri Bourassa (1868–1952) led French Canadian opposition to conscription
• Filip Konowal (1888–1959) Ukrainian-Canadian Victoria Cross recipient
• Sir Arthur Currie (1875–1933) Commander, Canadian Forces
• Sir Sam Hughes (1853–1921) Minister of Militia and Defense
• John McCrae (1872–1918) doctor and poet, author of "In Flanders Fields"
• Henry Norwest (1884–1918) one of the most famous snipers in World War I
• Francis Pegahmagabow (1891–1952) the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
• George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) last soldier killed in World War I (shot two minutes before the announcement of the Armistice)
• Tommy Ricketts (1901–1967) at age 17, he was the youngest soldier to ever receive the Victoria Cross
• Sir Richard Turner (1871–1948) Chief of Canadian General Staff

Democratic Republic of Armenia

Military leaders

• Tovmas Nazarbekian Commander-in-chief.
• Andranik Ozanian command of war zone within Ottoman Empire and leader of Republic of Mountainous Armenia
• Drastamat Kanayan
• Garegin Njdeh
• Movses Silikyan

Politicians

• Hovhannes Katchaznouni was the first Prime Minister of Armenia.
• Aram Manougian was the minister of Interior.

Others

• Avetis Aharonyan chairman the Armenian National Council which declared the DRA

France

Military leaders

• Edouard de Castelnau, (1851-1944), General
• Auguste Dubail, (1851-1934), General
• Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856-1942), Marshal
• Ferdinand Foch, (1851-1929), General and Supreme Allied Commander
• Joseph Gallieni, (1849-1916), General
• Joseph Joffre, (1852-1931), Commander-in-Chief
• Hubert Lyautey, (1854-1934), War Minister
• Charles Mangin, (1866-1925), General
• Michael Maunoury, (1847-1923), General
• Robert Georges Nivelle, (1856-1924), Commander-in-Chief
• Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), Commander-in-Chief
• Maurice Sarrail, (1856-1929), General

Politicians

• Aristide Briand, (1862-1932), Prime Minister (1909-11, 1913, 1915-17, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1929)
• Joseph Caillaux, (1863-1944), Prime Minister (June 1911 - January 1912), pacifist
• Georges Clemenceau, (1841-1929), Prime Minister (1917-1920)
• Théophile Delcassé, (1852-1923), Foreign Minister (1914-1915)
• Gaston Doumergue,
• Jean Jaures, (1859-1914), Socialist party leader, pacifist
• Alexandre Millerand, (1859-1943), Minister of War (1912-13, 1914-15)
• Paul Painlevé, (1863-1933), Prime Minister (September 1917 - November 1917)
• Stephen Pichon,
• Raymond Poincaré, (1860-1934), President (1913-1920)
• Alexandre Ribot, (1842-1923), Prime Minister (March 1917 - September 1917)
• René Viviani, (1862-1925), Prime Minister (1914-1915)

Finland

• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, (1867-1951),Marshal
• Kurt Martti Wallenius, (1893-1984], Lieutenant-General.
• Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, (1865-1952), First President of Finland
• Lauri Kristian Relander, (1883-1942), Second President of Finland
• Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,(1861-1944), Third President of Finland
• Aksel Airo, (1898-1985), General
• Axel Erik Heinrichs (1890-1965) , General
• Vilho Petter Nenonen , (1883-1960), General
• Paavo Talvela (1897-1973), General
• Rudolf Walden (1878-946), General

Germany

Monarch

• Emperor Wilhelm II

Military leaders

• Otto von Below
• Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of Staff 1914 - 1916
• Hermann von François
• Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Field Marshal
• Wilhelm Groener
• Paul von Hindenburg, (1847-1934), general, president
• Admiral Franz von Hipper, Commander, High Seas Fleet
• Max Hoffmann
• Alexander von Kluck, General
• Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
• Erich Ludendorff, General
• August von Mackensen, Field Marshal
• Helmuth von Moltke, (1848-1916), Chief of Staff, 1906 - 1914
• Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
• Otto Liman von Sanders, (1855-1929), General
• Alfred von Schlieffen, (1833-1913), Pre-war Chief of General Staff
• Alfred von Tirpitz, (1849-1930), Naval Minister
• Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

Political leaders

• Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867-1929), Imperial Chancellor (1918)
• Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Imperial Chancellor (1909-1917)
• Prince Bernhard von Bülow, former Imperial Chancellor (1900-1909), Ambassador to Italy (1914-1915), rival
• Friedrich Ebert, (1871-1925), Social Democratic leader, Imperial Chancellor (1918), later First President of the Weimar Republic
• Matthias Erzberger, leader of the left wing of the Catholic Centre Party
• Count Georg von Hertling, Imperial Chancellor (1917-1918)
• Richard von Kühlmann, Foreign Secretary (1917-1918)
• Georg Michaelis, Imperial Chancellor (1917)
• Gottlieb von Jagow, Foreign Secretary (1913-1916)
• Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1912-1915)
• Philipp Scheidemann, Social Democratic Leader, later first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919)
• Gustav Stresemann, (1878-1929), leader of the imperialist wing of the National Liberal Party, later a major statesman of the Weimar Republic
• Arthur Zimmermann, Foreign Secretary (1916-1917)

Others

• Anthony Fokker, (1890 - 1939), Aircraft builder
• Manfred von Richthofen, (1892-1918), Fighter Ace
• Adolf Hitler, (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), Later Leader of the Nazi Party, Reichskanzler and Führer of the 3rd Reich

Greece

• King Constantine I
• King Alexander
• Joannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), Military Dictator
• Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister

Italy

Royalty

• Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869-1947)
• Amedeo Umberto, Duke of Aosta, Soldier

Military leaders

• Luigi Cadorna, Chief of Staff
• Luigi Capello, General
• Armando Diaz, General
• Duke of the Abruzzi, Naval Commander-in-Chief
• Emanuele Filiberto, Duke d' Aosta, Prince of Savoy, Field Marshal
• Paolo Thaon di Revel, Admiral

Political leaders

• Paolo Boselli, Prime Minister
• Alfredo Dallolio, Minister of Munitions
• Marquis di San Giuliano, Foreign Minister
• Giovanni Giolitti, Prime Minister
• Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister
• Antonio Salandra, Prime Minister
• Baron Sidney Sonnino, Foreign Minister

Others

• Francesco Baracca, Fighter Ace
• Luigi Boselli
• Ottavio Bottecchia, soldier, later Tour de France winner
• Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Fighter Ace
• Gabriele d'Annunzio, novelist and poet
• Rodolfo Graziani, officer
• Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
• Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
• Angelo Roncalli, Military Chaplain, future Pope John XXIII
• Pope Benedict XV
• Giovanni Sabelli, Fighter Ace
• Silvio Scaroni, Fighter Ace

Japan

• Emperor Taisho
• Mitsuomi Kamio
• Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, Prime Minister (1914-1916)
• Count Masatake Terauchi, Prime Minister (1916-1918)
• Takashi Hara, Prime Minister (1918-1921)
• Gentaro Yamashita, Admiral
• Tanin Yamaya, Admiral
• Rokuro Yashiro, Admiral
• Mitsumasa Yonai, Naval Officer

Mexico

• Venustiano Carranza, President, refused to join with Germany after Germany sent the Zimmermann Telegram
• Pancho Villa, rebel

Netherlands

• Jelles Troelstra
• Mata Hari, spy
• Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), Queen

New Zealand

• Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence
• Edward Chaytor, General
• Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), Highly decorated soldier
• Sir Alexander Godley, General, Commander of NZDF, NZEF
• William Massey, Prime Minister
• Sir Andrew Russell, General
• Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister

Ottoman Empire

Monarchs

• Sultan Mehmed V, Monarch
• Sultan Mehmed VI, Monarch

Political leaders

• Said Halim Pasha, Grand Vizier
• Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Grand Vizier
• Talaat Pasha, Minister of Interior
• Mehmed Djaved Bey, Minister of Finance

Military leaders

• Enver Pasha, Minister of War
• Ahmed Djemal Pasha, Military Governor of Syria

Military

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, (1881-1938), Gallipoli
• Halil Kut (Khalil Pasha), General
• Fakhri Pasha

Romania

• Alexandru Averescu
• Ion I.C. Brătianu
• King Carol I
• Ion Dragalina
• Ferdinand I (1865-1927), King of Romania (1914-1927)
• Alexandru Marghiloman
• Constantine Prezan
• Vasile Stoica
• Ecaterina Teodoroiu

Russia

Monarchs

• Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918), abdicated in 1917
• Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch Romanov (1878-1918), refused the throne after Nicholas' abdication
• Empress Alexandra (1872-1918)

Military leaders

• Mikhail Alekseev
• Aleksei Brusilov
• Yuri Danilov
• Anton Denikin
• Alexander Kolchak, Admiral
• Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870-1918), Russian General
• Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin
• Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich
• Paul von Rennenkampf
• Alexander Samsonov
• Peter Wrangel
• Nikolai Yudenich

Political leaders and others

• Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888-1938), Bolshevik Leader
• Victor Chernov, Socialist-Revolutionary Party Leader
• Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister (1914-1916)
• Alexander Guchkov, Octobrist Leader
• Lev Kamenev
• Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov, First Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
• Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Leader
• Alexander Krivoshein, Minister of Agriculture
• Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924), Bolshevik leader
• Aleksandr Kerensky, (1881-1970), Second Head of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
• Nikolai Maklakov, Minister of the Interior
• Julius Martov, Menshevik Leader
• Pavel Miliukov, Kadet leader
• Alexander Protopopov, Minister of the Interior
• Vladimir Purishkevich, right wing political leader, assassin of Rasputin
• Grigori Rasputin, (1872-1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
• Sergei Sazonov, Foreign Minister (1910-1916)
• Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
• Boris Stürmer, Prime Minister (1916)
• Alexander Trepov, Prime Minister (1916)
• Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940), Bolshevik leader
• Prince Felix Yusupov, murderer of Rasputin
• Grigory Zinoviev, (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik

Serbia

• King Peter I, (1844-1921), Serbian Monarch
• Crown Prince Alexander, (1888-1934), Serbian Monarch
• Dragutin Dimitrijevic, (1877-1917), founder and leader of Black Hand Society
• Zivojin Misic, (1855-1921), Field Marshal
• Nikola Pasic, (1845-1926), Prime Minister
• Gavrilo Princip, (1894-1918), the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand of Austria and triggered the war
• Radomir Putnik, (1847-1917), Chief of General Staff
• Pavle Jurisic Sturm, General
• Peter Vasic, (1862-1931), Colonel
• Bosa Yankovich, General

South Africa

• Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, (1894-1921), Fighter Pilot
• Louis Botha, (1862-1919), Prime Minister
• Sir Henry Lukin, (1860-1925), General
• Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), Prime Minister
• Sir Jacob Louis Van Deventer, (1874-1922), General

United Kingdom

Royalty

• King George V
• Queen Mary

Military leaders

• Augustine William Shelton Agar,V.C., operations against the Bolsheviks in the Gulf of Finland, 1919
• Edmund Allenby, (1861-1936), commander in Palestine
• Prince Louis of Battenberg, (1854-1921), admiral, First Sea Lord (1912-1914)
• David Beatty, (1871-1936), admiral
• William Birdwood, (1865-1951), commander of the AIF (1916-1918)
• Julian Byng, (1862-1935), general
• Adrian Carton De Wiart, V.C. Front line commander
• William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, operations against the Turks in the Red Sea
• Walter Cowan, Baltic Sea, 1919
• John Fisher, (1841-1920), admiral, First Sea Lord (1914-1915)
• John French, (1852-1925), commander of the BEF (1914-1915)
• William Goodenough, admiral, commanded the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from 1913-16
• Hubert Gough, general
• Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), commander of the BEF (1915-1918)
• Ian Hamilton, (1853-1947) commander at Gallipoli
• Aylmer Hunter-Weston, (1864-1940), general
• Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, admiral, First Sea Lord, (1915-1916)
• John Jellicoe, (1859-1935), admiral, First Sea Lord (1916-1917)
• Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, naval officer, Submarines, Dardanelles, Dover Patrol, Zeebrugge, Ostend
• Horatio Kitchener, (1850-1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
• Herbert Plumer, (1857-1932), general, later field marshal
• Henry S. Rawlinson, (1864-1925), general
• Sir William Robertson, (1860-1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1915-1917
• Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858-1930), general
• Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, admiral, Chief of War Staff at the Admiralty (1914)
• Sir Rosslyn Wemyss,admiral, First Sea Lord (1917–1919)
• Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, (1864-1922), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1918

See Also; List of British military and naval figures by wealth at death

Political leaders

• H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister (1908-1916)
• David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (1916-1922)
• Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930), Foreign Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty (1915-1916)
• Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of the Admiralty (1916–1917)
• Sir Roger Casement, Irish independence leader
• Winston Churchill, (1911-1915), First Lord of the Admiralty (1911-1915)
• Lord Curzon, (1859-1925), Unionist politician
• John Dillon, Irish Home Rule leader
• Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty (1917–1919)
• Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary
• Andrew Bonar Law, (1858-1923), Unionist Party leader
• Lord Milner, politician
• John Redmond, (1856-1918), Irish Home Rule leader

Others

• Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), English poet
• W. H. R. Rivers, (1864-1922), Psychiatrist
• David Jones, English poet
• Isaac Rosenberg, English poet
• Edward Thomas, Welsh poet
• May Cannan, English poet
• Wyndham Lewis, ariter, painter, vorticist. Served as war artist.
• Dorothy Lawrence war reporter
• Harry Farr English soldier, executed for cowardice, pardon announced in 2006

United States of America

• Newton D. Baker, (1871-1937), Secretary of War 1916-1921
• Tasker H. Bliss, (1853-1930), Army Chief of Staff 1917-1918, U.S. representative Supreme War Council
• William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), Secretary of State
• Daniel Daly, (1873-1937), Marine, received Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross
• Josephus Daniels, (1862-1948), Secretary of the Navy 1913-1921
• William T. Fitzsimons, (died 1917), early U.S. casualty.
• Benjamin Foulois, 1879-1967, was a member of the aviation section of the AEF.
• William S. Graves, (1865-1940), Commander of American forces in Siberia during the Allied Intervention in Russia
• Harry G. Hamlet, 1874-1954, later served as Commandant of the Coast Guard
• Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), served in the ambulance corps, author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises
• Edward House, advisor to President Wilson
• Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948), Republican, 1907-1910, governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, presidential candidate
• Field E. Kindley, (1895-1920), Ace
• Robert Lansing, (1864-1928), Secretary of State 1915-1920
• John A. Lejeune, USMC general, led Marine and army divisions
• Peyton C. March, (1864-1955), Army Chief of Staff 1918-1921
• Colonel George Patton, commander of U.S. Tank Corps
• General John J. Pershing, (1860-1948), commander of the AEF
• Eddie Rickenbacker, (1890-1973), Ace
• Harold Ross, (1882-1951), Editor of Stars & Stripes, later founder of The New Yorker Magazine
• Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924), 28th (1913-1921) President
• Leonard Wood, (1860-1927), General
• Sgt. Alvin York, (1887-1964), highly decorated war hero

See also

• Allied Leaders of World War II
• Axis Leaders of World War II

External links

• What did YOU do in the Great War, Daddy?