Military leaders

• C.E.W. Bean (1879–1968) Official Australian war correspondent
• Henry Gordon Bennett (1887–1962) Commander, 3rd Infantry Brigade
• William Throsby Bridges
  William Throsby Bridges
  Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB, CMG served with Australian forces during World War I, and was the first Australian to reach general officer rank...
  
   (1861–1915) Commander, Australian Imperial Force, Australian 1st Division
• Henry George Chauvel
  Henry George Chauvel
  General Sir Harry Chauvel GCMG, KCB was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and in the Middle Eastern theatre during the First World War. He was the first Australian to attain the rank of lieutenant general and later general, and the first to lead a corps...
  
   (1865–1945), Commander, Anzac Mounted Division
  Anzac Mounted Division
  The ANZAC Mounted Division was a mounted infantry and mounted rifles division formed in March 1916 in Egypt during World War I following the Battle of Gallipoli when the Australian and New Zealand regiments returned from fighting dismounted as infantry...
  
  , Desert Mounted Corps
  Desert Mounted Corps
  The Desert Mounted Corps was a World War I Allied army corps that operated in the Middle East during 1917 and 1918.Originally formed on 15 March 1916 as the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division under the command of Major General Harry Chauvel The Desert Mounted Corps was a World War I...
  
  
• Arthur Cobby, Fighter ace
• Roderic Dallas
  Roderic Dallas
  Roderic Stanley Dallas DSO, DSC & Bar was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. His score of aerial victories is generally regarded as the second-highest by an Australian, after Robert Little; however there is considerable dispute over Dallas's exact total...
  
  , Fighter ace
• Henry (Harry) Dalziel
  Henry Dalziel
  Henry Dalziel VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  , Victoria Cross recipient
• Pompey Elliott, General
• Andrew Fisher
  Andrew Fisher
  Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister on three separate occasions. Fisher's 1910-13 Labor ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation...
  
  , Prime Minister
• Sir John Gellibrand
  John Gellibrand
  Major General Sir John Gellibrand KCB, DSO & Bar was an Australian Army Major General in World War I and member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Tasmanian Division of Denison as a Nationalist Party member from 1925 to 1928.-Early life and career:John "Jack" Gellibrand...
  
  , Commander, 3rd Division
• Sir Thomas William Glasgow
  Thomas William Glasgow
  Sir William Glasgow, KCB, CMG, DSO , was an Australian Army Major General in World War I and member of the Australian Senate, representing Queensland as a Nationalist Party member from 1919 - 1931.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Commander, 1st Division
• Sir Talbot Hobbs
  Talbot Hobbs
  Lieutenant General Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs KCB, KCMG, VD was an Australian architect and First World War general.-Early life:...
  
  , (1864–1938), Commander, Australian 5th Division
• Billy Hughes
  Billy Hughes
  William Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, MHR , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923....
  
  , (1862–1952), Prime Minister
• Godfrey Irving
  Godfrey Irving
  Major General Godfrey George Howy Irving was an Australian Army Major General in World War I.- Early life and career :...
  
  , Temporary Commander, 5th Division
• Albert Jacka
  Albert Jacka
  Albert Jacka VC, MC & Bar was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces...
  
  , First AIF recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Jackson
  John Jackson
  -Politicians:* John Jackson , mayor of Tampa, Florida* John Jackson , Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport, 1910–1918* John Edward Jackson, British diplomat...
  
  , Victoria Cross recipient
• George Foster
  George Foster
  George Foster may refer to:*Bill Foster , full name George William Foster, Congressman from Illinois*George Eulas Foster , Canadian politician*George Foster , Australian Senator...
  
  , Private, 49th Battalion
• Richard Sundgren, Unknown
• Elwyn King
  Elwyn King
  Elwyn Roy King DSO, DFC was a fighter pilot and ace in the Australian Flying Corps during World War I. He scored twenty-six victories in aerial combat, making him the fourth highest-scoring Australian aviator of the war. King entered service as a Lighthorseman in 1915, before transferring to the...
  
  , Fighter ace
• Aun Sayyed, Fighter ace

• John Simpson Kirkpatrick
  John Simpson Kirkpatrick
  John 'Jack' Simpson Kirkpatrick , who served under the name John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I...
  
  , (1892–1915), Stretcher bearer
• Robert A. Little
  Robert A. Little
  Robert Alexander Little DSO & Bar, DSC & Bar is officially regarded as the most successful Australian flying ace of World War I, with a total of forty-seven aerial victories. Born in Victoria, he travelled to England in 1915 and learnt to fly at his own expense before joining the Royal Naval Air...
  
  , Fighter ace
• The Hon. James Whiteside M'Cay, (1864–1930), Commander, Australian 5th Division
• Sir John Monash
  John Monash
  General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the War and then became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt shortly after the outbreak of the War with whom he took part...
  
  , (1865–1931), Commander, Australian 3rd Division
  Australian 3rd Division (World War I)
  The 3rd Division was an infantry division of the Australian Army. Existing during various periods between 1916 and 1991, it is considered the "longest serving Australian Army division". It was first formed during World War I, as an infantry division of the Australian Imperial Force and saw service...
  
  , Australian Corps
  Australian Corps
  The Australian Corps was a World War I army corps that contained all five Australian infantry divisions serving on the Western Front. It was the largest corps fielded by the British Empire army in France...
  
  
• Sir Keith Murdoch
  Keith Murdoch
  Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO and Chairman of News Corp.-Life and career:Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885, the son of Annie and the Rev...
  
  , (1885–1952), War reporter
• Sir Charles Rosenthal
  Charles Rosenthal
  Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal KCB, CMG, DSO, VD was an Australian Major General of World War I, and later a politician elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.- Early life :...
  
  , (1875–1954), Commander, Australian 2nd Division
• Alfred Shout, Victoria Cross recipient
• Sir Brudenell White
  Brudenell White
  General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White KCB, KCMG, KCVO, DSO was a senior officer in the Australian Army, who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1920 to 1923 and again from March to August 1940, when he was killed in the Canberra air disaster.-Early Life and career:White was born in St...
  
  , General
• Thomas Baker
  Thomas Baker (aviator)
  Thomas Charles Richmond Baker DFC, MM & Bar was an Australian soldier, aviator and flying ace of the First World War. Born in Smithfield, South Australia, he was an active sportsman in his youth and developed a keen interest in aviation...
  
  , Fighter ace

Royalty

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1863–1914), heir to the throne whose murder brought on the war.
• Emperor Franz Josef I, (1830–1916)
• Emperor Karl I, (1887–1922), last emperor of Austria, last king of Hungary
• Empress Zita
  Zita of Bourbon-Parma
  Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria...
  
  , (1892–1989), last empress of Austria, last queen of Hungary
• Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
  Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
  Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen was a member of the House of Habsburg and the Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.-Early life:...
  
  , Field Marshal and supreme commander of the Austro-Hungarian (K.u.K.) Army
• Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
  Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
  Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg and a Grand Admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy.-Family:Charles Stephen was born in Židlochovice the son of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria...
  
  , Grand Admiral in the Austro-Hungarian (K.u.K.) Navy
• Archduke Eugen of Austria
  Archduke Eugen of Austria
  Archduke Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernhard Felix Maria of Austria-Teschen was an Archduke of Austria and a Prince of Hungary and Bohemia...
  
  , Field Marshal and commander in the Balkins and later of the entire southwestern front
• Archduke Joseph August of Austria
  Archduke Joseph August of Austria
  Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was for a short period head of state of Hungary, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the eldest son of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
  
  , the last Field Marshal of Austria-Hungary, commander of the VII Corps, the 6th Army , and eventually the Army Group Tirol, also the last Palatine of Hungary
• Queen Reeghan Finlay also aboriginal
• Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria
  Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria
  Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, in Italian Francesco Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Ferdinando Carlo Leopoldo Antonio di Padova Giovanni Battista Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero Benedetto Bernardo, in German Franz Salvator Maria Joseph Ferdinand Karl Leopold Anton von Padua Johann Baptist Januarius...
  
  , General of Cavalry (equivalent to lieutenant general), K.u.K., and Doctor of Medicine
• Archduke Josef Ferdinand of Austria, Feldmarschalleutnant (equivalent to major general), and commander of XIV Corps, the 4th Army, and later inspector general of the Imperial Air Force
• Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria
  Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria
  Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria-Teschen Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria-Teschen Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria-Teschen (Karl Albrecht Nikolaus Leo Gratianus von Österreich, later Karl Albrecht Habsburg-Lothringen, since 1919 – Karol Olbracht Habsburg-Lotaryński, since 1949 – Karl von...
  
  , Colonel of Artillery of both the Imperial (k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army (on Horse) and the Polish Army
• Archduke Leo Karl of Austria
  Archduke Leo Karl of Austria
  Archduke Leo Karl Maria Cyril-Methodius Habsburg-Lorraine, Archduke of Austria was the son of Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria and Archduchess Maria Theresia, Princess of Tuscany....
  
  , Captain, K.u.K., and served after the war as an officer in the Polish Army
• Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and later served after the war as an officer in the Polish Army

Military leaders

• Svetozar Boroevic von Bojna, field marshal
  Field Marshal
  Field Marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army.-Etymology:The origin of the rank of field marshal dates to the early Middle Ages, originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses , from the time of the early Frankish kings.-Usage and hierarchical...
  
  
• Franz Freiherr Rohr von Denta, field marshal
  Field Marshal
  Field Marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army.-Etymology:The origin of the rank of field marshal dates to the early Middle Ages, originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses , from the time of the early Frankish kings.-Usage and hierarchical...
  
  
• Hermann Kövess, field marshal
  Field Marshal
  Field Marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army.-Etymology:The origin of the rank of field marshal dates to the early Middle Ages, originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses , from the time of the early Frankish kings.-Usage and hierarchical...
  
  
• Anton Haus
  Anton Haus
  Anton Haus was an Austrian naval officer. Despite his German surname, he was born to a Slovenian-speaking family in Tolmein . Haus was fleet commander of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in World War I and was the Navy's Grand Admiral from 1916 until his death.-Biography:Haus entered the Navy in 1869...
  
  , (1851–1917), Grand Admiral and fleet commander of the K.u.K. Navy
• Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, (1852–1925), Chief of Staff (1906–1911, 1912–1917)
• Arthur Arz von Straussenburg
  Arthur Arz von Straussenburg
  Arthur Freiherr Arz von Straußenburg was an Austro-Hungarian Colonel General and last Chief of General Staff to the Austro-Hungarian Army.- Early life :...
  
  , (1857–1935), Chief of Staff (1917–1918)
• Viktor von Dankl, Colonel General
  Colonel General
  Colonel General is a senior rank of General. North Korea and Russia are two countries which have used the rank extensively throughout their histories...
  
  
• Oskar Potiorek
  Oskar Potiorek
  Oskar Potiorek was an Austrian general who served as the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1911 and 1914...
  
  , (1853–1933), General and Governor of Bosnia (during the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand), 1914
• Godwin Brumowski
  Godwin Brumowski
  Godwin Brumowski was the most successful fighter ace of the Austro-Hungarian Air Force during World War I. He was officially credited with 35 air victories, with 8 others unconfirmed because they fell behind Allied lines...
  
  , (1889–1936), Hauptmann (captain) in the K.u.K. Air Force, leading Austro-Hungarian fighter ace of the war
• Georg Ludwig von Trapp, (1880–1947), Korvettenkapitän (lieutenant commander) in the K.u.K. Navy, leading Austro-Hungarian U-Boat ace of the war

Politicians

• Harry Johnson
  Harry Johnson
  Harry Zephaniah Johnson is a Jamaican reggae record producer of African, Sicilian and Scottish descent. He is the head of the landmark Harry J. Records, located at 10 Roosevelt Avenue, Kingston 6, Jamaica WI.-Biography:Johnson started to play music with the Virtues as a bass player before moving...
  
  , Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Victor Adler
  Victor Adler
  ----Victor Adler was an Austrian Social Democratic leader.Born in Prague, Adler received a university degree in Vienna in 1881. He founded the Socialist movement in Austria and created the Marxist journals Gleicheit in 1886 and Arbeiter-Zeitung in 1889...
  
  , Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Count Gyula Andrássy the Younger
  Gyula Andrássy the Younger
  Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka the Younger was a Hungarian politician.The second son of Count Gyula Andrássy, the younger Andrássy became under-secretary in the Sándor Wekerle ministry in 1892; in 1893, he became Minister of Education, and, in June 1894, he was appointed...
  
   (1860–1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
• Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863–1942), Foreign Minister (1912–1915)
• Baron István Burian
  István Burián
  Stephan Burián von Rajecz , commonly called: "Baron von Burian" or "Count Burian" in English language press reports was an Austro-Hungarian politician, diplomat and statesman of Hungarian origin and served as Imperial Foreign Minister during World War I.- Career :Stephan...
  
  , (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
  Móric Esterházy
  Count Móric Esterházy de Galántha et Fraknó was a Hungarian aristocrat and politician who served as prime minister for a few months during World War I, after the fall of István Tisza...
  
   (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
  Mihály Károlyi
  Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly was briefly Hungary's leader in 1918-19 during a short-lived democracy...
  
   (1875–1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
• Ernst von Koerber
  Ernst von Koerber
  Ernest von Koerber was an Austrian politician who served as Ministerpräsident of theAustrian Empire in 1900 to 1904 and in 1916.- Background :...
  
   (1850–1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
• Heinrich Lammasch
  Heinrich Lammasch
  Heinrich Lammasch was an Austrian jurist. He was a professor of criminal and international law, a member of the Hague Arbitration Tribunal, and served as the last Minister-President of Austria for a few weeks in October and November 1918...
  
   (1853–1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
• Karl Renner
  Karl Renner
  Karl Renner was an Austrian politician. He was born in Untertannowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and died in Vienna...
  
  , (1870–1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
• Count Karl von Stürgkh
  Karl von Stürgkh
  Count Karl von Stürgkh was an Austrian political figure during the late years of the Austria-Hungarian monarchy.In 1891 he became a member of the Reichsrat, the Austrian parliament...
  
   (1859–1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911–1916)
• Count István Tisza
  István Tisza
  Count István Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged was a Hungarian politician, prime minister, and member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences....
  
   (1861–1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913–1917)
• Sandor Wekerle
  Sándor Wekerle
  Sándor Wekerle was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister.He was born in Mór, in the comitatus of Fejér. His mother was Antónia Szép.After studying law at the University of Budapest he graduated doctor juris...
  
   (1848–1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917–1918)

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)

• King Albert I
  Albert I of Belgium
  Albert I reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 until 1934.-Early life:Born Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad in Brussels, he was the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and his wife, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen...
  
  , (1875–1934)
• Herman Baltia
  Herman Baltia
  Baron Herman Baltia was a Belgian military officer, the son of the Belgian General Charles Baltia and of a German mother....
  
  , (1863–1938), General
• Baron Charles de Broqueville
  Charles de Broqueville
  Charles Marie Pierre Albert, Count de Broqueville was the 20th Prime Minister of Belgium, serving during World War I. He was born in Postel, Belgium. He was the leader of Belgium's Catholic Party, and he served as prime minister between 1911 and 1918...
  
  , (1860–1940), Prime Minister
• Willy Coppens
  Willy Coppens
  Willy Omer Francois Jean Coppens was Belgium's leading fighter ace and the champion "balloon buster" of World War I.-Background and Early Military Service:...
  
  , (1892–1986), Fighter ace
• Victor Deguise
  Victor Deguise
  Liutenant-General Victor Deguise was a Belgian general responsible for the defence of Antwerp during World War I.- Career :Deguise entered the Belgian Army in 1877 as a lieutenant in the engineering corps...
  
  , (1855–1922), General
• Cyriaque Gillain, (1857–1931), Army Chief of Staff
• Paul Hymans
  Paul Hymans
  Paul Louis Adrien Henri Hymans , was a Belgian politician associated with the Liberal Party. He was the first President of the League of Nations, and served again as its president in 1932-33....
  
  , (1865–1941), Foreign Secretary
• Fernand Jacquet
  Fernand Jacquet
  Captain-Commandant Fernand Maximillian Leon Jacquet was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories. He was the first Belgian pilot to score an aerial victory, on 17 April 1915, and became the first Belgian ace on 1 February 1917. He was also the first Belgian pilot to fly his...
  
  , (1888–1947), Fighter ace
• Gerard Leman
  Gérard Leman
  Gerard Mathieu Leman was a Belgian general. He was responsible for the military education of King Albert I of Belgium. During World War I he was the commander of the forts surrounding the Belgian city of Liège. The German Forces had to use heavy artillery to break through the defences and capture...
  
  , (1851–1920), General
• Désiré-Joseph Mercier
  Désiré-Joseph Mercier
  -Early life and ordination:Désiré Mercier was born at the château du Castegier in Braine-l'Alleud, as the fifth of the seven children of Paul-Léon Mercier and his wife Anne-Marie Barbe Croquet....
  
  , (1851–1926), Cardinal
• Andre de Meulemeester
  André de Meulemeester
  Lieutenant Andre Emile Alfons de Meulemeester was a Belgian flying ace during World War I. He was credited with eleven confirmed and seventeen unconfirmed aerial victories.-World War I:...
  
  , (1894–1973), Fighter Pilot
• Jan Olieslagers
  Jan Olieslagers
  Lieutenant Jan Olieslagers was a Belgian motorcycle and aviation pioneer who set world records with both types of machinery. He became a flying ace during World War I despite his indifference in claiming victories; he was credited with six confirmed victories, seventeen unconfirmed, and an unknown...
  
  , (1883–1942), Fighter Ace
• Gabrielle Petit
  Gabrielle Petit
  Gabrielle Alina Eugenia Maria Petit was a Belgium woman who spied for the British Secret Service during World War I...
  
  , (1893–1916), Executed Spy
• Edmond Thieffry
  Edmond Thieffry
  Edmond Thieffry was a Belgian First World War air ace and aviation pioneer. He made, with Léopold Roger and Jef de Bruycker, the first successful flight between Belgium and Congo ....
  
  , (1892–1929), Fighter Ace

Politicians

• Aleksandar Malinov
  Aleksandar Malinov
  Aleksandar Pavlov Malinov was a leading Bulgarian politician who served as Prime Minister on three occasions. He was born in Pandakli, Bessarabia in a family of Bessarabian Bulgarians....
  
  , (1867–1938), Prime Minister (1908–1911, 1918)
• Vasil Radoslavov
  Vasil Radoslavov
  Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....
  
  , (1854–1929), Prime Minister
• Aleksandar Stamboliyski
  Aleksandar Stamboliyski
  Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...
  
  , (1879–1923), Anti-Monarchist
• Stefan Panaretov
  Stefan Panaretov
  Stefan Panaretov was a prominent Bulgarian and professor at Robert College, a Turkish high school.-Diplomat and lecturer:He became the first Special Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to the U.S...
  
  , (1853–1931), Diplomat
• Andrey Lyapchev, Minister

Military leaders

• Nikolaus Jekov
  Nikola Zhekov
  Nikola Todorov Zhekov was the Minister of War of Bulgaria in 1915 and served as Commander-in-Chief from 1915 to 1918 during World War I.-Biography:...
  
  , commander-in-chief
• Kliment Boyadzhiev
  Kliment Boyadzhiev
  Kliment Boyadzhiev was a Bulgarian General during the Balkan Wars and First World War.Born in Ohrid, he studied in an elementary school there. After the liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 he emigrated to Sofia...
  
  , general
• Georg Stojanov Todorov
  Georgi Todorov (general)
  Georgi Stoyanov Todorov was a Bulgarian General who fought in the Russo-Turkish War , Serbo-Bulgarian War , Balkan Wars and First World War .-Biography:At the age of 19 he volunteered in the Bulgarian Corps during the Russo-Turkish...
  
  , general
• Stefan Toshev
  Stefan Toshev
  Stefan Toshev was a Bulgarian General, from World War I. His mother was a teacher from the period of the National Revival. He volunteered in the Bulgarian Opalchentsi Corps during the Russo-Turkish War and later served as a translator. On 10 May 1879 he graduated the Military School in Sofia in...
  
  , general
• Vladimir Vazov
  Vladimir Vazov
  Vladimir Minchev Vazov was a Bulgarian officer. He led the Bulgarian forces during the successful defensive operation at Dojran during the First World War.-Biography:...
  
  , general

Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 (includes Newfoundland

Dominion of Newfoundland

The Dominion of Newfoundland was a British Dominion from 1907 to 1949 . The Dominion of Newfoundland was situated in northeastern North America along the Atlantic coast and comprised the island of Newfoundland and Labrador on the continental mainland...

)

(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)

Royalty

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 10th since Canadian Confederation.Born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and...

 (third son of Queen Victoria), Governor General

Political Leaders

• Sir Robert Borden (1854–1937) Prime Minister (1911–1920)
• Henri Bourassa
  Henri Bourassa
  Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. He is seen by many as an ideological father of Canadian nationalism....
  
   (1868–1952) led French Canadian opposition to conscription
• Sir Sam Hughes
  Sam Hughes
  For other people of the same name see Sam Hughes Sir Samuel Hughes, KCB, PC was the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence during World War I...
  
   (1853–1921) Minister of Militia and Defense

Military

• Sir Arthur Currie
  Arthur Currie
  Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB , was a Canadian general during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the four divisions of the...
  
   (1875–1933) Commander, Canadian Forces
• Sir Richard Turner (1871–1948) Chief of Canadian General Staff
• Billy Bishop
  Billy Bishop
  Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace, and according to some sources, the top ace of the British Empire.-Early life:Bishop was born in Owen Sound,...
  
   (1884–1956), ace credited with 72 victories
• William Barker
  William George Barker
  William George Barker VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Two Bars was a Canadian First World War fighter ace and Victoria Cross recipient...
  
   (1894–1930) was a fighter ace and Victoria Cross
  Victoria Cross
  The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
  
   recipient
• Filip Konowal
  Filip Konowal
  Filip Konowal VC was a highly decorated Ukrainian Canadian soldier. He is the only Ukrainian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
   (1888–1959) Ukrainian
  Ukraine
  Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
  
  -Canadian Victoria Cross recipient
• Tommy Ricketts (1901–1967) at age 17, he was the youngest soldier to ever receive the Victoria Cross
  Victoria Cross
  The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
  
  
• Francis Pegahmagabow
  Francis Pegahmagabow
  Francis Pegahmagabow MM & Two Bars, was the First Nations soldier most highly decorated for bravery in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of World War I. Three times awarded the Military Medal and seriously wounded, he was an expert marksman and scout, credited with killing...
  
   (1891–1952) the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  
• Henry Norwest
  Henry Norwest
  Henry Norwest MM & Bar was a distinguished Canadian sniper in World War I.-Military career:...
  
   (1884–1918) one of the most famous snipers in World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  
• Harry Band (1885–1915) reported victim of German crucifixion
  Crucifixion
  Crucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead...
  
  
• George Lawrence Price
  George Lawrence Price
  Private George Lawrence Price was a Canadian soldier. He is traditionally recognized as the last soldier of the British Empire to be killed during the First World War....
  
   (1898–1918) last soldier killed in World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   (shot two minutes before the announcement of the Armistice
  Armistice
  An armistice is a situation in a war where the warring parties agree to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, but may be just a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace...
  
  )
• John McCrae
  John McCrae
  Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres...
  
   (1872–1918) doctor and poet, author of "In Flanders Fields
  In Flanders Fields
  "In Flanders Fields" is one of the most notable poems written during World War I, created in the form of a French rondeau. It has been called "the most popular poem" produced during that period...
  
  "

Military leaders

• Tovmas Nazarbekian
  Tovmas Nazarbekian
  Tovmas Nazarbekian, commonly known as General Nazarbekov , was an Armenian general in the Russian Caucasus Army that appointed as the governor of the Administration for Western Armenia and later promoted to commander-in-chief of Democratic Republic of Armenia.He was born to a wealthy Russianized...
  
   Commander-in-chief.
• Andranik Ozanian
  Andranik Toros Ozanian
  Andranik Ozanian , Andranik Toros Ozanian , General Andranik , also as Antranik or Antranig was an Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter, greatly admired as a national hero.-Early Age:Antranik Toros Ozanian was born in the church...
  
   command of war zone within Ottoman Empire and leader of Republic of Mountainous Armenia
  Republic of Mountainous Armenia
  The Republic of Mountainous Armenia was a short-lived and unrecognized state in the South Caucasus, roughly corresponding with the territory that is now the present-day Armenian provinces of Vayots Dzor and Syunik, and parts of the present-day Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.- Turkish–Armenian War :On...
  
  
• Drastamat Kanayan
  Drastamat Kanayan
  General Drastamat Kanayan , known as General Dro, Դրօ, May 31, 1884 March 8, 1956), was a politician, revolutionary, military commander of Hitler’s Armenian Legion of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, and part of Armenian national liberation movement as a member of the A.R.F...
  
  
• Garegin Nzhdeh
• Movses Silikyan
  Movses Silikyan
  Movses Silikyan , , Movses Silikov) was a famed Armenian general and national hero of World War I, Major General in the Russian army and subsequently in the Armenian army...
  
  

Politicians

• Hovhannes Katchaznouni
  Hovhannes Katchaznouni
  Hovhannes Katchaznouni was the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Armenia from May 30, 1918 to May 28, 1919. He was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.-Personal life:...
  
   was the first Prime Minister of Armenia
  Prime Minister of Armenia
  The Prime Minister of Armenia is the most senior minister within the Armenian government, and is required by the constitution to "oversee the Government's regular activities and coordinate the work of the Ministers." The Prime Minister is appointed by the President of Armenia, but can be removed by...
  
  .
• Aram Manukian was the minister of Interior.

Others

• Avetis Aharonyan chairman the Armenian National Council
  Armenian National Council
  Armenian National Council is a term that refers to*Armenian National Council of Karabagh was also referred as People's Government of Karabagh before the rename in September 1918*Armenian National Council of Baku*Armenian National Council of Tiflis...
  
   which declared the DRA

Military leaders

• Edouard de Castelnau, (1851–1944), General
• Auguste Dubail
  Auguste Dubail
  Auguste Yvon Edmond Dubail was a French Army general. He commanded the First Army and Army Group East during World War I.-Biography:...
  
  , (1851–1934), General
• Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856–1942), Marshal
• Ferdinand Foch
  Ferdinand Foch
  Ferdinand Foch , GCB, OM, DSO was a French soldier, war hero, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French army" in the early 20th century. He served as general in the French army during World War I and was made Marshal of France in its...
  
  , (1851–1929), General and Supreme Allied Commander
• Joseph Gallieni
  Joseph Gallieni
  Joseph Simon Gallieni was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921...
  
  , (1849–1916), General
• Joseph Joffre
  Joseph Joffre
  Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre OM was a French general during World War I. He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914. His popularity led to his nickname Papa Joffre.-Biography:Joffre was born in...
  
  , (1852–1931), Commander-in-Chief
• Hubert Lyautey
  Hubert Lyautey
  Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey was a French Army general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France.-Early life:...
  
  , (1854–1934), War Minister
• Charles Mangin
  Charles Mangin
  Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin was a French general during World War I.-Early career:...
  
  , (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
  Maurice Sarrail
  Maurice-Paul-Emmanuel Sarrail was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail endeared himself to the political elite of the Third Republic through his openly socialist views, all the more conspicuous in contrast to the Catholics, conservatives and monarchists who dominated the French Army...
  
  , (1856–1929), General

Politicians

• Aristide Briand
  Aristide Briand
  Aristide Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.- Early life :...
  
  , (1862–1932), Prime Minister (1909–11, 1913, 1915–17, 1921–22, 1925–26, 1929)
• Joseph Caillaux
  Joseph Caillaux
  Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...
  
  , (1863–1944), Prime Minister (June 1911 – January 1912), pacifist
• Georges Clemenceau
  Georges Clemenceau
  Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles at the...
  
  , (1841–1929), Prime Minister (1917–1920)
• Théophile Delcassé
  Théophile Delcassé
  Théophile Delcassé was a French statesman.-Biography:He was born at Pamiers, in the Ariège département...
  
  , (1852–1923), Foreign Minister (1914–1915)
• Gaston Doumergue
  Gaston Doumergue
  Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue was a French politician of the Third Republic.Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age. He served as Prime Minister from 9 December 1913 to 2 June 1914...
  
  ,
• Jean Jaures, (1859–1914), Socialist party leader, pacifist
• Alexandre Millerand
  Alexandre Millerand
  Alexandre Millerand was a French socialist politician. He was President of France from 23 September 1920 to 11 June 1924 and Prime Minister of France 20 January to 23 September 1920...
  
  , (1859–1943), Minister of War (1912–13, 1914–15)
• Paul Painlevé
  Paul Painlevé
  Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925.-Early life:Painlevé was born in Paris....
  
  , (1863–1933), Prime Minister (September 1917 – November 1917)
• Stephen Pichon
  Stéphen Pichon
  Stéphen Pichon was a French politician of the Third Republic. He served as French Minister to China , including the period of the Boxer Uprising...
  
  ,
• Raymond Poincaré
  Raymond Poincaré
  Raymond Poincaré was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Poincaré was a conservative leader primarily committed to political and social stability...
  
  , (1860–1934), President (1913–1920)
• Alexandre Ribot
  Alexandre Ribot
  Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot was a French politician, four times Prime Minister.-Biography:He was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais.After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where he was lauréat of the faculty of law, he rapidly made his mark at the bar...
  
  , (1842–1923), Prime Minister (March 1917 – September 1917)
• René Viviani
  René Viviani
  Jean Raphaël Adrien René Viviani was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister for the first year of World War I. He was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, in French Algeria. In France he sought to protect the rights of socialists and trade union workers.-Biography:His...
  
  , (1862–1925), Prime Minister (1914–1915)

Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 

• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland and the sixth President of Finland...
  
  , (1867–1951),Marshal
• Kurt Martti Wallenius
  Kurt Martti Wallenius
  Kurt Martti Wallenius was a Finnish Major General.Wallenius was a member of the Finnish Jäger troops trained in Germany prior to Finnish independence. In 1915 Wallenius travelled to Germany where he enrolled in the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion...
  
  , (1893–1984), Lieutenant-General.
• Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
  Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
  Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was a Finnish jurist and academic, who played a central role in the drafting of the Constitution of Finland in 1919. He was the first President of Finland and a nationalist liberal.-Early life:...
  
  , (1865–1952), First President of Finland
• Lauri Kristian Relander
  Lauri Kristian Relander
  Lauri Kristian Relander was the second President of Finland . A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a member of Parliament, and as Speaker, before his election as President....
  
  , (1883–1942), Second President of Finland
• Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
  Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
  Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad , December 15, 1861 – February 29, 1944) was the third President of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, he played a major role in the movement for Finnish independence...
  
  ,(1861–1944), Third President of Finland
• Aksel Airo
  Aksel Airo
  Aksel Fredrik Airo was a Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner during the Winter War and the Continuation War. He was the virtual second-in-command of the Finnish army under Field Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim....
  
  , (1898–1985), General
• Axel Erik Heinrichs (1890–1965) , General
• Vilho Petter Nenonen
  Vilho Petter Nenonen
  Vilho Petter Nenonen was a Finnish general.Received his military education in the Hamina Cadet School 1896-1901, in the Mihailov Artillery School in St Petersburg 1901-1903, and in St Petersburg Artillery Academy 1906-1909. He served in the Russian army during World War I...
  
   , (1883–1960), General
• Paavo Talvela
  Paavo Talvela
  Paavo Talvela was a Finnish soldier and a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. He was one of the volunteers who served in the Finnish Jaeger battalion in Germany in 1916 to 1917. He was a battalion commander in the Finnish Civil War...
  
   (1897–1973), General
• Rudolf Walden
  Rudolf Walden
  Karl Rudolf Walden was a Finnish industrialist and general.He received his military education in Hamina Cadet School 1892–1900....
  
   (1878–946), General

Military leaders

• Otto von Below
  Otto von Below
  Otto von Below was a Prussian general. He was born at and died at Danzig .Before World War I, Otto von Below became major-general in 1909 and lieutenant-general in 1912. On August 1, 1914 he took command of the I. Reserve Corps, which on the outbreak of the war was to be assigned to the Eight Army...
  
  
• Erich von Falkenhayn
  Erich von Falkenhayn
  Erich von Falkenhayn was a German soldier and Chief of the General Staff during World War I. He became a military writer after World War I.-Early life:...
  
  , Chief of Staff 1914–1916
• Hermann von François
  Hermann von François
  Hermann von François was a German General der Infanterie during World War I, and is best known for his key role in several German victories on the Eastern Front in 1914.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
  Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
  Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz also known as Goltz Pasha, was a Prussian Field Marshal and military writer.-Military career:...
  
  , Field Marshal
• Wilhelm Groener
  Wilhelm Groener
  Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener was a German soldier and politician.-Biography:He was born in Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg, the son of a regimental paymaster. He entered the Württemberg Army in 1884, and attended the War Academy from 1893 to 1897, whereupon he was appointed to the General...
  
  
• Paul von Hindenburg
  Paul von Hindenburg
  Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....
  
  , (1847–1934), general, president
• Admiral Franz von Hipper
  Franz von Hipper
  Franz Ritter von Hipper was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy . Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern...
  
  , Commander, High Seas Fleet
• Max Hoffmann
  Max Hoffmann
  Max Hoffmann was a German officer and military strategist during World War I. He is widely regarded as one of the finest staff officers of the imperial period....
  
  
• Alexander von Kluck
  Alexander von Kluck
  Alexander Heinrich Rudolph von Kluck was a German general during World War I.- Military career :He enlisted in the Prussian army in time to serve in the seven-week Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War, where he was wounded twice in the Battle of Colombey-Neuilly...
  
  , General
• Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
• Erich Ludendorff
  Erich Ludendorff
  Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a German general, victor of Liège and of the Battle of Tannenberg...
  
  , General
• August von Mackensen
  August von Mackensen
  Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen , born August Mackensen, was a German soldier and field marshal. He commanded with success during the First World War and became one of the German Empire's most prominent military leaders. After the Armistice, Mackensen was interned for a year...
  
  , Field Marshal
• Helmuth von Moltke, (1848–1916), Chief of Staff, 1906–1914
• Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
• Otto Liman von Sanders
  Otto Liman von Sanders
  Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders was a German general who served as adviser and military commander for the Ottoman Empire during World War I.-Biography:...
  
  , (1855–1929), General
• Alfred von Schlieffen, (1833–1913), Pre-war Chief of General Staff
• Alfred von Tirpitz
  Alfred von Tirpitz
  Alfred von Tirpitz was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor did the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871...
  
  , (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
  Bernhard von Bülow
  Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bülow , named in 1905 Prince von Bülow, was a German statesman who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for three years and then as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909.Bülow was described as possessing every quality except greatness...
  
  , former Imperial Chancellor (1900–1909), Ambassador to Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
   (1914–1915), rival
• Friedrich Ebert
  Friedrich Ebert
  Friedrich Ebert was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .When Ebert was elected as the leader of the SPD after the death of August Bebel, the party members of the SPD were deeply divided because of the party's support for World War I. Ebert supported the Burgfrieden and...
  
  , (1871–1925), Social Democratic leader, Imperial Chancellor (1918), later First President of the Weimar Republic
  Weimar Republic
  The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...
  
  
• Matthias Erzberger
  Matthias Erzberger
  Matthias Erzberger was a German politician. Prominent in the Centre Party, he spoke out against the First World War from 1917 and eventually signed the Armistice with Germany for the German Empire...
  
  , leader of the left wing of the Catholic Centre Party
• Count Georg von Hertling, Imperial Chancellor (1917–1918)
• Richard von Kühlmann
  Richard von Kühlmann
  Richard von Kühlmann was a German diplomat and industrialist. From 6 August 1917 to 9 July 1918, he served as Germany's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.-Biography:Kühlmann was born in Constantinople...
  
  , Foreign Secretary (1917–1918)
• Georg Michaelis
  Georg Michaelis
  Georg Michaelis became the first Chancellor of Germany with a non-noble background.-Biography :Michaelis, born in Haynau in the Prussian Province of Silesia, grew up in Frankfurt...
  
  , Imperial Chancellor (1917)
• Gottlieb von Jagow
  Gottlieb von Jagow
  Gottlieb von Jagow was a German diplomat. He served as the foreign minister of Germany between January 1913 and 1916....
  
  , Foreign Secretary (1913–1916)
• Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim
  Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim
  Baron Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim - German diplomat. Ambassador Extraordinary to Mexico. German Minister at Athens, 1909-12. During World War I, from 1912 to October 25, 1915 was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire....
  
  , ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
  Ottoman Empire
  The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
  
   (1912–1915)
• Philipp Scheidemann
  Philipp Scheidemann
  Philipp Scheidemann was a German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the second Chancellor of the Weimar Republic....
  
  , Social Democratic Leader, later first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic
  Weimar Republic
  The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...
  
   (1919)
• Gustav Stresemann
  Gustav Stresemann
  was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization...
  
  , (1878–1929), leader of the imperialist wing of the National Liberal Party
  National Liberal Party (Germany)
  The National Liberal Party was a German political party which flourished between 1867 and 1918. It was formed by Prussian liberals who put aside their differences with Bismarck over domestic policy due to their support for his highly successful foreign policy, which resulted in the unification of...
  
  , later a major statesman of the Weimar Republic
  Weimar Republic
  The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...
  
  
• Arthur Zimmermann
  Arthur Zimmermann
  Arthur Zimmermann was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire from November 22, 1916, until his resignation on August 6, 1917. His name is associated with the Zimmermann Telegram during World War I...
  
  , Foreign Secretary (1916–1917)

Others

• Anthony Fokker
  Anthony Fokker
  Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer. He is most famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Fokker Triplane the and the Fokker D.VII, but after the collapse of...
  
  , (1890–1939), Aircraft builder
• Hermann Goering, (1888–1946), Fighter Ace
• Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen , also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I...
  
  , (1892–1918), Fighter Ace
• Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
  
  , (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), Later Leader of the Nazi Party, Reichskanzler and Führer of the 3rd Reich

Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

(Entered the War on: 29 June 1917)

• King Constantine I
  Constantine I of Greece
  Constantine I was King of Greece from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922. He was commander-in-chief of the Hellenic Army during the unsuccessful Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and led the Greek forces during the successful Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, in which Greece won Thessaloniki and doubled in...
  
  
• King Alexander
• Joannis Metaxas, (1871–1941), Military Dictator
• Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister

Royalty

• Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
  Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
  Victor Emmanuel III was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy . In addition, he claimed the crowns of Ethiopia and Albania and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Albania , which were unrecognised by the Great Powers...
  
  , (1869–1947)
• Amedeo Umberto, Duke of Aosta, Soldier

Military leaders

• Luigi Cadorna
  Luigi Cadorna
  Luigi Cadorna GCB was an ItalianField Marshal, most famous for being thechief of staff of the Italian army during the first part of World War I.-Biography:...
  
  , Chief of Staff
• Luigi Capello
  Luigi Capello
  Luigi Capello was an Italian army officer.He took part to the Italo-Turkish War , where he distinguished himself. During World War I he was the commander of several Army Corps, then, since June 1917, of the II Army, and led the Italian troops that captured Gorizia and the Bainsizza Plateau...
  
  , General
• Armando Diaz
  Armando Diaz
  Armando Diaz, 1st Duca della Vittoria was an Italian general and a Marshal of Italy.Born in Naples, Diaz began his military career as a student at the Military Academy of Turin, where he became an artillery officer. He was a colonel commanding the 93rd infantry during the Italo-Turkish War, and...
  
  , General
• Pietro Badoglio
  Pietro Badoglio
  Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino was an Italian soldier and politician...
  
  , General
• Duke of the Abruzzi, Naval Commander-in-Chief
• Emanuele Filiberto, Duke d' Aosta, Prince of Savoy, Field Marshal
• Paolo Thaon di Revel
  Paolo Thaon di Revel
  Paolo Emilio Thaon di Revel, 1st Duca del Mare was an Italian admiral of the Royal Italian Navy during World War I and later a politician....
  
  , Admiral

Political leaders

• Paolo Boselli
  Paolo Boselli
  Paolo Boselli was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I.Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria....
  
  , Prime Minister
• Alfredo Dallolio, Minister of Munitions
• Marquis di San Giuliano, Foreign Minister
• Giovanni Giolitti
  Giovanni Giolitti
  Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman. He was the 19th, 25th, 29th, 32nd and 37th Prime Minister of Italy between 1892 and 1921. A left-wing liberal, Giolitti's periods in office were notable for the passage of a wide range of progressive social reforms which improved the living standards of...
  
  , Prime Minister
• Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister
• Antonio Salandra
  Antonio Salandra
  Antonio Salandra was a conservative Italian politician who served as the 33rd Prime Minister of Italy between 1914 and 1916...
  
  , Prime Minister
• Baron Sidney Sonnino
  Sidney Sonnino
  Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino was an Italian politician.Sonnino was born in Pisa to an Italian father of Jewish heritage and a Welsh mother...
  
  , Foreign Minister

Others

• Francesco Baracca
  Francesco Baracca
  Count Francesco Baracca was Italy's top fighter ace of World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories.-Before World War I:...
  
  , Fighter Ace
• Luigi Boselli
• Ottavio Bottecchia
  Ottavio Bottecchia
  Ottavio Bottecchia was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France. He was found dead by the roadside; the reason remains a mystery.-Origins:...
  
  , soldier, later Tour de France
  Tour de France
  The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
  
   winner
• Fulco Ruffo di Calabria
  Fulco Ruffo di Calabria
  Fulco VIII, Prince Ruffo di Calabria, 6th Duke of Guardia Lombarda was an Italian World War I flying ace, and posthumous father-in-law of King Albert II of the Belgians.-Background:...
  
  , Fighter Ace
• Gabriele d'Annunzio
  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist...
  
  , novelist and poet
• Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani, 1st Marquis of Neghelli , was an officer in the Italian Regio Esercito who led military expeditions in Africa before and during World War II.-Rise to prominence:...
  
  , officer
• Emilio Lussu
  Emilio Lussu
  Emilio Lussu was an Italian soldier, politician and a writer.-The soldier:Lussu was born in Armungia, province of Cagliari and graduated with a degree in law in 1914...
  
  , (1890–1975), Italian novelist
• Benito Mussolini
  Benito Mussolini
  Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
  
  , (1883–1945), Il Duce
• Angelo Roncalli, Military Chaplain, future Pope John XXIII
  Pope John XXIII
  -Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
  
  
• Pope Benedict XV
  Pope Benedict XV
  Pope Benedict XV , born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, reigned as Pope from 3 September 1914 to 22 January 1922...
  
  
• Giovanni Sabelli
  Giovanni Sabelli
  Tenente Giovanni Sabelli was an Italian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. At the start of World War I, he was already an experienced combat pilot.-Early life:...
  
  , Fighter Ace
• Silvio Scaroni
  Silvio Scaroni
  Tenente Silvio Scaroni was an Italian World War I fighter pilot credited with 26 victories. He was the second ranking Italian ace of the war.-Early service:...
  
  , Fighter Ace

Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

(Entered the War on: 23 August 1914)

• Emperor Taisho
• Mitsuomi Kamio
• Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, Prime Minister (1914–1916)
• Count Masatake Terauchi, Prime Minister (1916–1918)
• Takashi Hara
  Hara Takashi
  was a Japanese politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Japan from 29 September 1918 to 4 November 1921. He was also called Hara Kei informally. He was the first commoner appointed to the office of prime minister of Japan...
  
  , Prime Minister (1918–1921)
• Gentaro Yamashita, Admiral
• Tanin Yamaya, Admiral
• Rokuro Yashiro, Admiral
• Mitsumasa Yonai
  Mitsumasa Yonai
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...
  
  , Naval Officer

Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

(Neutral Country)

• Venustiano Carranza
  Venustiano Carranza
  Venustiano Carranza de la Garza, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted...
  
  , President, refused to join with Germany after Germany sent the Zimmermann Telegram
  Zimmermann Telegram
  The Zimmermann Telegram was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was caught by the British before it could get to Mexico. The revelation angered the Americans and led in part to a U.S...
  
  
• Pancho Villa
  Pancho Villa
  José Doroteo Arango Arámbula – better known by his pseudonym Francisco Villa or its hypocorism Pancho Villa – was one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals....
  
  , rebel

Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

(Neutral Country)

• Jelles Troelstra
• Mata Hari
  Mata Hari
  Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle , a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.-Early life:Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland,...
  
  , spy
• Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
  Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
  Wilhelmina was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial...
  
  , (1880–1962), Queen

New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)

• Sir James Allen
  James Allen (New Zealand)
  Sir James Allen, GCMG, KCB was a prominent New Zealand politician and diplomat. He held a number of the most important political offices in the country, including Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was also New Zealand's Minister of Defence during World War I.-Early life:Allen...
  
  , Minister of Defence
• Edward Chaytor
  Edward Chaytor
  Major General Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor KCMG, KCVO, CB was a farmer, and a military commander of New Zealand troops in the Boer War and World War I....
  
  , General
• Bernard Freyberg Victoria Cross recipient
• Sir Alexander Godley
  Alexander Godley
  General Sir Alexander John Godley GCB, KCMG was a First World War general, best known for his role as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force...
  
  , General, Commander of NZDF, NZEF
  New Zealand Expeditionary Force
  The New Zealand Expeditionary Force was the title of the military forces sent from New Zealand to fight for Britain during World War I and World War II. Ultimately, the NZEF of World War I was known as the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force...
  
  
• William Massey
  William Massey
  William Ferguson Massey, often known as Bill Massey or "Farmer Bill" served as the 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1912 to 1925, and was the founder of the Reform Party. He is widely considered to have been one of the more skilled politicians of his time, and was known for the particular...
  
  , Prime Minister
• Keith Park
  Keith Park
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC, RAF was a New Zealand soldier, First World War flying ace and Second World War Royal Air Force commander...
  
   Fighter ace
• Sir Andrew Russell
  Andrew Hamilton Russell
  Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell KCB, KCMG was a World War I general from New Zealand, who rose swiftly to high command during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915–1916 and to prominence as the inspirational commander of the New Zealand Division on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918.-Early life...
  
  , General
• Sir Joseph Ward
  Joseph Ward
  Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, GCMG was the 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand on two occasions in the early 20th century.-Early life:...
  
  , Prime Minister

Political leaders

• Said Halim Pasha
  Said Halim Pasha
  Said Halim Pasha , Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier from 1913-17. Born in Cairo, Egypt, he was the grandson of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, "founder of modern Egypt". The "Pasha" in his name is an honorific that translates in English to "Lord", or "Lord Said Halim".He was one of the signers in Ottoman-German...
  
  , Grand Vizier
• Ahmed Izzet Pasha
  Ahmed Izzet Pasha
  Ahmed Izzet Pasha was an Ottoman general in World War I. He was also one of the last grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire, and its last minister of Foreign Affairs.He was born in Bitola Macedonia into an Albanian family. His father was prominent civil servant of the area...
  
  , 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
• Dustin Green, Military Governor of Canada

Military

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey....
  
  , (1881–1938), Gallipoli
• Halil Kut (Khalil Pasha), General
• Fakhri Pasha
  Fakhri Pasha
  Fakhri Pasha or Fahreddin Pasha or Umar Fakhr ud-Din Pasha was the commander of Ottoman army and governor of Medina from 1916 to 1919.-Early life:...
  
  

Monarchs

• Emperor Nicholas II
  Nicholas II of Russia
  Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until...
  
   (1868–1918), abdicated in 1917
• Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch Romanov
  Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia
  Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia was the youngest son of Emperor Alexander III of Russia.At the time of his birth, his paternal grandfather was still the reigning Emperor of All the Russias. Michael was fourth-in-line to the throne following his father and elder brothers Nicholas and...
  
   (1878–1918), refused the throne after Nicholas' abdication
• Empress Alexandra (1872–1918)

Military leaders

• Mikhail Alekseev
  Mikhail Alekseev
  Mikhail Vasiliyevich Alekseyev was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Between 1915 and 1917 he was Chief of Staff to Tsar Nicholas II, and after the February Revolution, March–July 1917 the commander in chief of the Russian army...
  
  
• Aleksei Brusilov
  Aleksei Brusilov
  Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov was a Russian general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 offensive which would come to bear his name. The innovative and relatively successful tactics used were later copied by the Germans...
  
  
• Yuri Danilov
  Yuri Danilov
  Yuri Danilov served as a general in the Russian army during World War I.From 1907 to 1914 Danilov was in charge of the Intelligence Section of Russian Main Staff of the Imperial Russian Army...
  
  
• Anton Denikin
• Alexander Kolchak, Admiral
• Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870–1918), Russian General
• Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin
• Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich
• Paul von Rennenkampf
  Paul von Rennenkampf
  Paul von Rennenkampf was a Russian general who served in the Imperial Russian Army for over 40 years, including during World War I.-Early career:...
  
  
• Alexander Samsonov
  Alexander Samsonov
  Aleksandr Vassilievich Samsonov was a career officer in the cavalry of the Imperial Russian Army and a general served during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peter Wrangel
• Nikolai Yudenich

Political leaders and others

• Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888–1938), Bolshevik
  Bolshevik
  The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
  
   Leader
• Victor Chernov, Socialist-Revolutionary Party
  Socialist-Revolutionary Party
  thumb|right|200px|Socialist-Revolutionary election poster, 1917. The caption in red reads "партия соц-рев" , short for Party of the Socialist Revolutionaries...
  
   Leader
• Ivan Goremykin
  Ivan Goremykin
  Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin was a Russian prime minister during World War I and politician with extremely conservative political views.-Biography:He was born on 8 November 1839....
  
  , Prime Minister (1914–1916)
• Alexander Guchkov
  Alexander Guchkov
  Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov was a Russian politician, Chairman of the Duma and Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government.-Early years:...
  
  , Octobrist
  Octobrist
  The Octobrist Party was a non-revolutionary centrist Russian political party formally called Union of October 17 . The party's programme of moderate constitutionalism called for the fulfilment of Tsar Nicholas II's October Manifesto granted at the peak of the Russian Revolution of 1905...
  
   Leader
• Lev Kamenev
  Lev Kamenev
  Lev Borisovich Kamenev , born Rozenfeld , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly head of state of the new republic in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Lenin's life....
  
  
• Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov, First Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
• Alexandra Kollontai
  Alexandra Kollontai
  Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. In 1919 she became the first female government minister in Europe...
  
  , Bolshevik
  Bolshevik
  The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
  
   Leader
• Alexander Krivoshein
  Alexander Krivoshein
  Alexander Vasilyevich Krivoshein was a Russian monarchist politician.- Life :Graduate in law of St. Petersburg University. Worked in the Ministry of Justice and later in the Ministry of the Interior . Assistant Head of the Department of Peasant Colonization , and Head...
  
  , Minister of Agriculture
• Vladimir Lenin
  Vladimir Lenin
  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
  
  , (1870–1924), Bolshevik leader
• Aleksandr Kerensky, (1881–1970), Second Head of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
• Nikolai Maklakov, Minister of the Interior
• Julius Martov
  Julius Martov
  Julius Martov or L. Martov was born in Constantinople in 1873...
  
  , Menshevik
  Menshevik
  The Mensheviks were a faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1904 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. The dispute originated at the Second Congress of that party, ostensibly over minor issues...
  
   Leader
• Pavel Miliukov, Kadet leader
• Alexander Protopopov
  Alexander Protopopov
  Alexander Dmitriyevich Protopopov was a Russian statesman, politician Octobrist Party.- Biography :Member of Third and Fourth Dumas...
  
  , Minister of the Interior
• Vladimir Purishkevich
  Vladimir Purishkevich
  Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich , was a Russian politician before the Bolshevik revolution, noted for his monarchist and antisemitic views...
  
  , right wing political leader, assassin of Rasputin
• Grigori Rasputin
  Grigori Rasputin
  Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian Orthodox Christian and mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their only son Alexei...
  
  , (1872–1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
• Sergei Sazonov, Foreign Minister (1910–1916)
• Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
  
  , (1879–1953), (a pseudonym) – Soviet
  Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
  
   leader
• Boris Stürmer
  Boris Stürmer
  Baron Boris Vladimirovich Stürmer was a Russian statesman. He served as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Interior Minister of the Russian Empire for several months during 1916.- Biography :...
  
  , Prime Minister (1916)
• Alexander Trepov
  Alexander Trepov
  Alexander Fyodorovitch Trepov was the prime minister of Russia from November 1916 until January 1917.- Life :Educated in His Majesty's Page Corps. Worked in the Ministry of the Interior . Elected Marshal of Nobility of Pereiaslavl Uezd...
  
  , Prime Minister (1916)
• Leon Trotsky
  Leon Trotsky
  Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
  
  , (1879–1940), Bolshevik
  Bolshevik
  The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
  
   leader
• Prince Felix Yusupov
  Felix Yusupov
  Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston , was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the faith healer who was said to have influenced decisions of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna.-Biography:...
  
  , murderer of Rasputin
• Grigory Zinoviev
  Grigory Zinoviev
  Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev , born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician...
  
  , (1883–1936), Russian Bolshevik

Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

(Entered the War on: 28 July 1914)

• King Peter I, (1844–1921), Serbian Monarch
• Crown Prince Alexander
  Alexander I of Yugoslavia
  Alexander I , also known as Alexander the Unifier was the first king of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as well as the last king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .-Childhood:...
  
  , (1888–1934), Serbian Monarch
• Dragutin Dimitrijevic
  Dragutin Dimitrijevic
  Dragutin Dimitrijević was a Serbian soldier and leader of the Black Hand group implicated with assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria in 1914...
  
  , (1877–1917), founder and leader of Black Hand
  Black Hand
  Unification or Death , unofficially known as the Black Hand , was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on September 6, 1901. It was intent on uniting all of the territories containing significant Serb populations annexed by...
  
   Society
• Zivojin Misic
  Živojin Mišic
  Živojin Mišić OKS GCMG was a Vojvoda and the most successful Serbian commander who participated in all Serbia's wars from 1876 to 1918.-Early years:Misic's grandfather was born in Struganik near Mionica...
  
  , (1855–1921), Field Marshal
• Nikola Pasic
  Nikola Pašic
  Nikola P. Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat, the most important Serbian political figure for almost 40 years, leader of the People's Radical Party who, among other posts, was twice a mayor of Belgrade...
  
  , (1845–1926), Prime Minister
• Gavrilo Princip
  Gavrilo Princip
  Gavrilo Princip was the Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914...
  
  , (1894–1918), the Serbia
  Serbia
  Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
  
  n freedom fighter who assassin
  Assassination
  To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...
  
  ated Franz Ferdinand of Austria and triggered the war
• Radomir Putnik
  Radomir Putnik
  Radomir Putnik, also known as Vojvoda Putnik, OSS OCT OKS GCMG was a Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of General Staff in the Balkan Wars and World War I, and took part in all wars that Serbia waged from 1876 to 1917.-Biography:...
  
  , (1847–1917), Chief of General Staff
• Pavle Jurisic Sturm
  Pavle Jurišic Šturm
  Pavle Jurišić Šturm was a Serbian general of Sorbian origin who commanded the Serbian 3rd Army in the First World War....
  
  , General
• Peter Vasic, (1862–1931), Colonel
• Bosa Yankovich, General

South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)

• Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor
  Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor
  Captain Andrew Frederick Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor, VC, DSO, MC and bar, DFC was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  , (1894–1921), Fighter Pilot and Victoria Cross recipient
• Louis Botha
  Louis Botha
  Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state...
  
  , (1862–1919), Prime Minister
• Sir Henry Lukin, (1860–1925), General
• Jan Smuts
  Jan Smuts
  Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948...
  
  , (1870–1950), Prime Minister
• Sir Jacob Louis Van Deventer, (1874–1922), General

Royalty

• King George V
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
  
• Queen Mary
  Mary of Teck
  Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
  
  
• Prince Albert
  George VI of the United Kingdom
  George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...
  
  , Duke of York
  Duke of York
  The Duke of York is a title of nobility in the British peerage. Since the 15th century, it has, when granted, usually been given to the second son of the British monarch. The title has been created a remarkable eleven times, eight as "Duke of York" and three as the double-barreled "Duke of York and...
  
  , turret officer aboard HMS Collingwood
  HMS Collingwood (1908)
  HMS Collingwood was a dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy. Her design was essentially similar to the design of the previous ships, the . The Admiralty perceived in the planned building of German dreadnoughts a potential threat to the naval security of Great Britain, and saw the need...
  
   during the Battle of Jutland
  Jutland
  Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...
  
  
• Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
  Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
  Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 10th since Canadian Confederation.Born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and...
  
  , Field Marshal and Governor General of Canada
• Prince Arthur of Connaught
  Prince Arthur of Connaught
  Prince Arthur of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria. Prince Arthur held the title of a British prince with the style His Royal Highness...
  
  , captain, honorary colonel, and aide-de-camp to General Sir John French and General Sir Douglas Haig.
• Prince Maurice of Battenberg
  Prince Maurice of Battenberg
  Prince Maurice of Battenberg, KCVO, was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria...
  
  , Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps
  King's Royal Rifle Corps
  The King's Royal Rifle Corps was a British Army infantry regiment, originally raised in colonial North America as the Royal Americans, and recruited from American colonists. Later ranked as the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment served for more than 200 years throughout the British Empire...
  
  , killed at Ypres
  Ypres
  Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, Vlamertinge, Voormezele, Zillebeke, and Zuidschote...
  
  

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
  Palestine
  Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
  
  
• Prince Louis of Battenberg, (1854–1921), admiral, First Sea Lord
  First Sea Lord
  The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS...
  
   (1912–1914)
• David Beatty
  David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
  Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO was an admiral in the Royal Navy...
  
  , (1871–1936), admiral
• William Birdwood, (1865–1951), commander of the AIF
  First Australian Imperial Force
  The First Australian Imperial Force was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during World War I. It was formed from 15 August 1914, following Britain's declaration of war on Germany. Generally known at the time as the AIF, it is today referred to as the 1st AIF to distinguish from...
  
   (1916–1918)
• Julian Byng, (1862–1935), general
• Adrian Carton De Wiart
  Adrian Carton de Wiart
  Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO , was a British officer of Belgian and Irish descent...
  
  , V.C. Front line commander
• William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork
  William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork
  Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, 12th Earl of Orrery GCB GCVO RN was a career Royal Navy officer who had achieved the rank of full Admiral before succeeding a cousin in 1934 to the family titles, chief of which is Earl of Cork...
  
  , operations against the Turks in the Red Sea
• Walter Cowan
  Walter Cowan
  Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 1st Baronet, KCB, MVO, DSO & & Bar , known as Tich Cowan, was a British Royal Navy admiral who saw service in both World War I and World War II; in the latter he was one of the oldest British servicemen on active duty.-Early days:Cowan was born in Crickhowell,...
  
  , Baltic Sea, 1919
• John Fisher, (1841–1920), admiral, First Sea Lord
  First Sea Lord
  The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS...
  
   (1914–1915)
• John French
  John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
  Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC , known as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a British and Anglo-Irish officer...
  
  , (1852–1925), commander of the BEF (1914–1915)
• William Goodenough
  William Goodenough
  Admiral Sir William Edmund Goodenough GCB, MVO was a senior Royal Navy officer of World War I.-Naval career:Goodenough joined the Royal Navy in 1882. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1905...
  
  , admiral, commanded the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from 1913–16
• Hubert Gough
  Hubert Gough
  General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough GCB, GCMG, KCVO was a senior officer in the British Army, who commanded the British Fifth Army from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.-Family background:...
  
  , general
• Douglas Haig
  Douglas Haig
  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a British soldier and senior commander during World War I.Douglas Haig may also refer to:* Club Atlético Douglas Haig, a football club from Argentina* Douglas Haig , American actor...
  
  , (1861–1928), commander of the BEF (1915–1918)
• Ian Hamilton
  Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
  General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD was a general in the British Army and is most notably for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Gallipoli....
  
  , (1853–1947) commander at Gallipoli
• Aylmer Hunter-Weston
  Aylmer Hunter-Weston
  Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston KCB DSO GStJ was a British Army general who served in World War I at Gallipoli and the Somme Offensive...
  
  , (1864–1940), general
• Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson
  Henry Bradwardine Jackson
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson GCB, KCVO, FRS was British First Sea Lord during much of the First World War...
  
  , admiral, First Sea Lord
  First Sea Lord
  The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS...
  
  , (1915–1916)
• John Jellicoe
  John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
  Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO was a British Royal Navy admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I...
  
  , (1859–1935), admiral, First Sea Lord
  First Sea Lord
  The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS...
  
   (1916–1917)
• Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
  Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
  Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, Bt GCB KCVO CMG DSO RN was a noted British admiral, with an active service life that included 19th-century African anti-slavery patrols to the Allied landings in Leyte in World War II...
  
  , naval officer, Submarines, Dardanelles, Dover Patrol, Zeebrugge, Ostend
• Horatio Kitchener, (1850–1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
  Secretary of State for War
  The position of Secretary of State for War, commonly called War Secretary, was a British cabinet-level position, first held by Henry Dundas . In 1801 the post became that of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The position was re-instated in 1854...
  
  
• Herbert Plumer, (1857–1932), general, later field marshal
• Henry S. Rawlinson, (1864–1925), general
• Sir William Robertson, (1860–1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff
  British Army
  The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
  
  , 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
  First Sea Lord
  The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS...
  
   (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
  H. H. Asquith
  Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916...
  
  , Prime Minister (1908–1916)
• David Lloyd George
  David Lloyd George
  David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
  
  , Prime Minister (1916–1922)
• Arthur Balfour
  Arthur Balfour
  Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...
  
  , (1848–1930), Foreign Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty (1915–1916)
• Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of the Admiralty (1916–1917)
• Sir Roger Casement
  Roger Casement
  Roger David Casement —Sir Roger Casement CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours—was an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist....
  
  , Irish independence leader
• Sir Winston Churchill
  Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
  
  , (1911–1915), First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915)
• Lord Curzon, (1859–1925), Unionist politician
• John Dillon
  John Dillon
  John Dillon was an Irish land reform agitator from Dublin, an Irish Home Rule activist, a nationalist politician, a Member of Parliament for over 35 years, and the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party....
  
  , 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
  Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
  Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner KG, GCB, GCMG, PC was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played an influential leadership role in the formulation of foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s...
  
  , politician
• John Redmond
  John Redmond
  John Edward Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918...
  
  , (1856–1918), Irish Home Rule leader

Others

• Wilfred Owen
  Wilfred Owen
  Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War...
  
  , (1893–1918), English poet
• W. H. R. Rivers
  W. H. R. Rivers
  William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon...
  
  , (1864–1922), Psychiatrist
• David Jones
  David Jones (poet)
  David Jones CH was both a painter and one of the first generation British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolor, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and designer of inscriptions. As a writer he was...
  
  , English poet
• Isaac Rosenberg
  Isaac Rosenberg
  Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets...
  
  , English poet
• Edward Thomas
  Edward Thomas (poet)
  Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914...
  
  , Welsh poet
• May Cannan, English poet
• Wyndham Lewis
  Wyndham Lewis
  Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...
  
  , ariter, painter, vorticist. Served as war artist.
• Dorothy Lawrence
  Dorothy Lawrence
  Dorothy Lawrence was an English reporter who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during the First World War.- Early life :...
  
   war reporter
• Harry Farr
  Harry Farr
  Private Harry Farr was a British soldier who was executed during World War I for cowardice at age 25. He came from Kensington in London and was in the 1st Battalion, the West Yorkshire Regiment.-Background:...
  
   English soldier, executed for cowardice, pardon
  Pardon
  Clemency means the forgiveness of a crime or the cancellation of the penalty associated with it. It is a general concept that encompasses several related procedures: pardoning, commutation, remission and reprieves...
  
   announced in 2006
• J.R.R. Tolkien, writer

United States of America

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

(Entered the War on: 6 April 1917)

• Newton D. Baker
  Newton D. Baker
  Newton Diehl Baker, Jr. was an American politician who belonged to the Democratic Party. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915 and as U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921.-Early years:...
  
  , (1871–1937), Secretary of War 1916–1921
• Tasker H. Bliss
  Tasker H. Bliss
  Tasker Howard Bliss GCMG was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from September 22, 1917 until May 18, 1918.-Biography:...
  
  , (1853–1930), Army Chief of Staff 1917–1918, U.S. representative Supreme War Council
  Supreme War Council
  The Supreme War Council was a central command created by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George to coordinate Allied military strategy during World War I. It was founded in 1917, and was based in Versailles...
  
  
• William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States...
  
  , (1860–1925), Secretary of State
• Daniel Daly
  Daniel Daly
  Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly was a United States Marine and one of only nineteen men to have received the Medal of Honor twice...
  
  , (1873–1937), Marine, received Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross
• Josephus Daniels
  Josephus Daniels
  Josephus Daniels was a newspaper editor and publisher from North Carolina who was appointed by United States President Woodrow Wilson to serve as Secretary of the Navy during World War I...
  
  , (1862–1948), Secretary of the Navy 1913–1921
• William T. Fitzsimons
  William T. Fitzsimons
  Lieutenant William T. Fitzsimons was a United States Army officer in World War I, and is considered the first American officer killed in the war. Fitzsimmons gradruated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1912....
  
  , (died 1917), early U.S. casualty.
• Benjamin Foulois
  Benjamin Foulois
  Benjamin Delahauf Foulois , was a United States Army general who learned to fly the first military planes purchased from the Wright Brothers. He became the first military aviator as an airship pilot, and achieved numerous other military aviation "firsts"...
  
  , 1879–1967, was a member of the aviation section of the AEF.
• William S. Graves
  William S. Graves
  Major General William Sidney Graves . The commander of American forces in Siberia during the Allied Intervention in Russia.-Biography:...
  
  , (1865–1940), Commander of American forces in Siberia during the Allied Intervention in Russia
• Harry G. Hamlet
  Harry G. Hamlet
  Harry Gabriel Hamlet served as the seventh Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, from 1932 to 1936.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 1874–1954, later served as Commandant of the Coast Guard
  Commandant of the Coast Guard
  The Commandant of the United States Coast Guard is the highest ranking member of the United States Coast Guard. The Commandant is normally the only four-star Admiral in the Coast Guard and is appointed for a four-year term by the President of the United States upon confirmation by the United...
  
  
• Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
  
  , (1899–1961), served in the ambulance corps, author of For Whom the Bell Tolls
  For Whom the Bell Tolls
  For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is assigned to blow up a...
  
  , A Farewell to Arms
  A Farewell to Arms
  A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway concerning events during the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The book, which was first published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance...
  
  , and The Sun Also Rises
  The Sun Also Rises
  The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received...
  
  
• Edward House, advisor to President Wilson
• Charles Evans Hughes
  Charles Evans Hughes
  Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...
  
  , (1862–1948), Republican, 1907–1910, governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, presidential candidate
• Field E. Kindley
  Field E. Kindley
  Captain Field Eugene Kindley was an aviator and World War I flying ace credited with twelve confirmed aerial victories.-Birth and Early Life:Field Eugene Kindley was born at Prairie Grove in northwestern Arkansas...
  
  , (1895–1920), Ace
• Robert Lansing
  Robert Lansing
  Robert Lansing served in the position of Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I where he vigorously advocated against Britain's policy of blockade and in favor of the principles of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations...
  
  , (1864–1928), Secretary of State 1915–1920
• John A. Lejeune
  John A. Lejeune
  Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune, was the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Known as the "greatest of all Leathernecks" and the "Marine's Marine", he served for nearly 40 years. His service included commanding the U.S...
  
  , USMC general, led Marine and army divisions
• Peyton C. March
  Peyton C. March
  Peyton Conway March was an American soldier and Army Chief of Staff.March was the son of Francis Andrew March, considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon and one of the first professors to advocate and teach English in colleges and universities...
  
  , (1864–1955), Army Chief of Staff 1918–1921
• Colonel George Patton, commander of U.S. Tank Corps
• General John J. Pershing
  John J. Pershing
  John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB , was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I...
  
  , (1860–1948), commander of the AEF
• Eddie Rickenbacker
  Eddie Rickenbacker
  Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation, particularly as the longtime head of Eastern Air Lines.-Early...
  
  , (1890–1973), Ace
• Harold Ross
  Harold Ross
  Harold Wallace Ross was an American journalist and founder of The New Yorker magazine, which he edited from the magazine's inception in 1925 to his death....
  
  , (1882–1951), Editor of Stars and Stripes
  Stars and Stripes (newspaper)
  Stars and Stripes is a news source that operates from inside the United States Department of Defense but is editorially separate from it. The First Amendment protection which Stars and Stripes enjoys is safeguarded by Congress to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests,...
  
  , later founder of The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
   Magazine
• Woodrow Wilson
  Woodrow Wilson
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
  
  , (1856–1924), 28th (1913–1921) President
• Leonard Wood
  Leonard Wood
  Leonard Wood was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines. Early in his military career, he received the Medal of Honor. Wood also holds officer service #2 in the Regular Army...
  
  , (1860–1927), General
• Sgt. Alvin York
  Alvin York
  Alvin Cullum York was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others...
  
  , (1887–1964), highly decorated war hero

See also

• Air commanders of World War I
  Air commanders of World War I
  The air commanders of World War I were army or navy officers who came to command air services during the first major conflict in which air power played a significant role.-British Empire:...
  
  
• Allied Leaders of World War II
  Allied leaders of World War II
  The Allied leaders of World War II listed below comprise the important political and military figures who fought for or supported the Allies during World War II...
  
  
• Axis Leaders of World War II
  Axis leaders of World War II
  The Axis leaders of World War II were important political and military figures during the war. The Axis was established with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in 1940 and pursued a strong militarist, racist and nationalist ideology, with a policy of anti-communism. During the early phase of the...
  
  
• Puerto Ricans in World War I
  Puerto Ricans in World War I
  Puerto Ricans and people of Puerto Rican descent have participated as members of the United States Armed Forces in every conflict in which the United States has been involved since World War I. One of the consequences of the Spanish-American War was that Puerto Rico was annexed by the United States...
  
  
• Lists of World War I topics
• List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
• List of surviving veterans of World War I
• List of people serving in War World II

External links

• What did YOU do in the Great War, Daddy?
• The French Yellow Book: Diplomatic Documents of 1914.