List of people associated with World War I

List of people associated with World War I

Australia

("Entered the War on: August 4, 1914")
*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

("Entered the War on: July 28, 1914")

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

("Entered the War on: August 4, 1914")
*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

("Entered the War on: October 12, 1915")

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)=

("Entered the War on: August 4, 1914")
* 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

("Entered the War on: August 3, 1914")

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

("Entered the War on: August 1, 1914")

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

("Entered the War on: June 29, 1917")
*King Constantine I
*King Alexander
*Joannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), Military Dictator
*Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister

Italy

("Entered the War on: May 23, 1915")

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

("Entered the War on: August 23, 1914")
*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

("Neutral Country")
* Venustiano Carranza, President, refused to join with Germany after Germany sent the Zimmermann Telegram
* Pancho Villa, rebel

Netherlands

("Neutral Country")
*Jelles Troelstra
*Mata Hari, spy
*Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), Queen

New Zealand

("Entered the War on: August 4, 1914")
*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

("Entered the War on: October 31, 1914")

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

("Entered the War on: August 27, 1916")
*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

("Entered the War on: August 1, 1914")

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

("Entered the War on: July 28, 1914")
*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

("Entered the War on: August 4, 1914")
*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

("Entered the War on: August 4, 1914")

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=

("Entered the War on: April 6, 1917")
*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

ee also

*Allied Leaders of World War II
*Axis Leaders of World War II

External links

* [http://greatwar.nl/famous/famouspeople.html What did YOU do in the Great War, Daddy?]


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