Military
These goos are from the Military category, people famous for their involvement in armed conflict or military management. Browse another way.
Alexander the Great
This Greek king took a Risk by invading lands as far east as India, but he never lost a battle. Go »
Alvin York
When I bite into a peppermint patty, I get the sensation that I'm storming a German machine-gun nest in World War I, earning a Medal of Honor. Go »
Ambrose Burnside
When someone talks about him, his ears burn. When someone shaves, his sides burn. Go »
Andre Maginot
His defensive line could not prevent the enemy from detouring through a forest. Go »
Attila the Hun
He may or may not have been horny, but he certainly was Hungary for the ROMANtic part of Europe, I till ya. Go »
Audie Murphy
This heroic machine-gunner went to Hell and back, and later went to Hollywood and back. Go »
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Seventy years ago, the Air Force gained its first Black general, one who had plenty of experience from leading the Tuskegee Airmen. Go »
Bernardo O'Higgins
This South American founding father will forever be associated with his Anglo roots. Go »
Bowe Bergdahl
Let's hope that America's last P.O.W., newly home from five years in captivity, remains her last P.O.W. Go »
Braxton Bragg
This general had little to boast about, achieving a series of losses in the Western theater of the war that likely caused the overall Confederate defeat, and he was despised by his troops and fellow officers. But today, one of the largest military bases in the world is named after him. Go »
Braxton Bragg
Why one of the largest military bases in the world was named for him is a little befuddling. Widely considered by historians as one of the worst generals, his career was nothing to brag about. Go »
Brett Crozier
In the war against the coronavirus, the pen is mightier than the sword, or in this case, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Go »
Brian Chontosh
This devil dog has a cross to bear, and he should be proud of it. Go »
Bryan Anderson
Hollywood didn't turn its back on him when he came knocking with the only limb he had left. Go »
Casimir Pulaski
This Polish general revolutionized the military use of cavalry and led troops in the American Revolutionary War. A 2019 study of his remains may have discovered something revolutionary about his gender. Go »
Che Guevara
This Latin American guerilla became the spirit of the revolution. Go »
Che Guevara
Long before this Marxist revolutionary appeared on the shirts and dorm walls of college students, he kept "motorcycle diaries" of his travels as a young man, including his pivotal trip to a mountaintop ruin that opened his eyes to the exploitation of the locals around it. Go »
Chester Nimitz
Midway through his career, this subordinate impressed the brass enough to rise into their ranks. Go »
Chris Kyle
If you think you have the answer in your sights for this legendary marksman, pull the trigger. Go »
Christine Fox
This Naval civilian official went from (sort of) dating Tom Cruise in a movie to (sort of) being Deputy Secretary of Defense. Go »
Christopher Steele
This Brit's claims about foreign intelligence on an American candidate have come to be considered somewhat more flexible than metal. Go »
Crazy Horse
This Lakotan general rode his distinctive horse into battle many times in the Black Hills War, and into American history. Go »
Curtis LeMay
Let's just say George Wallace's would-be VP wouldn't have gotten the Japanese vote after Hiroshima. Go »
Daniel Daly
Despite his short stature, this Marine's fightingest attitude and two Medals of Honor will allow him to live forever. Go »
Daniel Daly
This honor medalist didn't want to live forever, but now he does, remembered as the fightin'est Marine of them all. Go »
David Bushnell
Primarily used during WWII, this military inventor introduced his brand of warfare during the American Revolution. Go »
David Farragut
This goo and Tom Petty both made their breakthrough with the same phrase. Go »
David McCampbell
One of the Navy's deadliest pilots once shot down an average of a plane every ten minutes for an hour and a half. Go »
David Petraeus
Our nation's central commander would never betray us. Go »
David Petraeus
The high-flying career of a CIA director has been brought down to Earth by Gmail. Go »
Desmond Doss
This conscientious objector won the military's highest honor. Go »
Dmitry Nikolayevich Medvedev
His resistance against German occupiers made him a Soviet hero, but it did not make him the Russian president. Go »
Doris Miller
This chef helped make racial discrimination in the military one more casualty of Pearl Harbor. Go »
Doug Hegdahl
This North Dakotan had a trick, E I E I O. Mnemonically, he won Hanoi, E I E I O. Go »
Duško Popov
Ian Fleming liked this three-way spy a lot. Go »
Elizebeth Smith Friedman
During the Prohibition and WWII, there was practically no Cypher that couldn't be figured out by this celebrated cryptologist, who worked in partnership with her husband William. Go »
Ernest King
He put off retirement to command America's naval fleet. Who's the king? Go »
Erwin Rommel
Alternatively lauded as a combat genius and called an overrated tactician, this national hero could not escape forced suicide. Go »
Ethan Allen
hard patriot, soft furniture Go »
Forest Yeo-Thomas
His testimony at the Nuremburg Trials helped the world see the forest for the trees when it came to understanding the Holocaust. Go »
Frank Buckles
Sometimes it's good to be in last place, but not if you have to do it twice. Go »
Frederick Morgan
Where to land our troops? Perhaps this amateur deltiologist would know. Go »
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
If this Prussian military genius hadn't been rejected by various European armies for being gay, he might not have served so influentially in the American revolution and enabled the freedoms that we enjoy today, a quirk of history celebrated annually on the streets of Chicago (and once by Ferris Bueller). Go »
Gaius Marius
His military reforms made Rome's legions powerful, and led to his election as consul seven times. Go »
General Butt Naked
His name is not a joke: He really did command his troops into battle while naked. And it's even less funny when you learn about the atrocities that he committed, including cannibalism and human sacrifice. Go »
Genghis Khan
Captain Kirk is really mad about this answer Go »
Genghis Khan
He founded the Mongol Empire, conquered most of central Asia, and executed some guy by pouring molten silver and gold on his face. Go »
Georg Gaertner
This German escapee was the last of his kind. Go »
George Armstrong Custer
This Union general witnessed Lee surrender to Grant, but his ignomious last stand in Montana on the banks of the Little Bighorn River became his legacy. Go »
George S. Patton
It took guts to go to war against 0506, 0332 and 0483. Blood too. Go »
Geronimo
The name of this Apache wartime chieftain is familiar to any paratrooper who's jumped out of a plane. Go »
Gordon Granger
The Lone Star state was the last to enforce freedom, after his general order that has been celebrated ever since. Go »
Grace Hopper
Somebody had to help the Navy work out the bugs in COBOL, and this officer was up to the task. Go »
Hannibal Barca
This murderous general spent a lot more time trying to invade Rome than you've spent hungry and waiting for a table at Olive Garden. Go »
Harold Schultz
Giving credit to this Marine after a case of mistaken identity raises important questions about military propaganda and historical accuracy. Go »
Harry Shoup
American children have been able to call Santa Claus and even track him on military radar thanks to this colonel's quick thinking to seize upon a holiday-season typo. Go »
Hazel Ying Lee
This Chinese-American pilot once was chased by a pitchfork-wielding farmer shouting the Japanese had invaded Kansas. Go »
Heinrich Himmler
This leader waffled on his loyalties at the end of WWII, but ultimately decided on cyanide. Go »
Heinz Guderian
Put your arms together for this German General. Go »
Horace Meek Hickam
This Lt. Colonel and member of the "Caterpillar Club" saw early the potential of military aircraft. Go »
Hyman Rickover
In his wake, this admiral left behind a legacy that transformed the navy at the subatomic level. Go »
Héctor Andrés Negroni
No history of Puerto Rico's contributions the U.S. Armed Forces would be complete without this colonel. Go »
Israel Ziv
Leaping into action with a mere pistol in hand, this retired general has come to symbolize Israel's resistance to Hamas in the 2023 war. Their sharing of a name is a coincidence. Go »
J.R. Salzman
This athlete paid a high price for answering the charge, "Let's roll." Go »
James Blake Miller
He became a poster boy for war-weariness in Iraq, but he won't ever be on a poster for an anti-smoking campaign. Go »
James Brudenell
Immortalized by Tennyson, his company of soldiers were decimated by Russian artillery. Go »
James Mattis
Trump might have no better friend, and ISIS no worse enemy, than this enraged canine. Go »
James Stockdale
Phil Hartman's easiest caricature. Go »
Jeremiah Denton
This Vietnam War officer and later U.S. Senator would have written a negative review of his Hilton stay faster than you can blink. Go »
Jesse Brown
The first Black (and Brown) naval casualty in the Korean War happened to be this celebrated pilot, whose devotion to his country continues to be an inspiration. Go »
Jessica Lynch
The first celebrity of the war in Iraq has been mobbed by the media. Go »
Joan of Arc
Dieu parlait à elle en français. Go »
John Bell Hood
He was the youngest and losingest of any Civil War general, and once said that he'd rather die a thousand deaths than live under Yankee rule. Now that his name is being removed from one site after another, most notably a military fort in his adopted home state of Texas, he's finally getting his wish. Go »
John Clem
This Ohioan was promoted to major general a year before America entered WWI, but the first war in which he served was the American Civil War. Go »
Josef Kramer
The "Beast of Belsen" murdered thousands in his concentration camp before Allied forces captured and executed him. Go »
Juliana
This WWII hero was awarded a medal for pissing on it. Go »
Kim Phúc
The photo of this crying girl became burned into our memory as we considered ending the conflict that destroyed her home. Go »
Kristen Marie Griest
Plenty of soldiers graduate from Army Ranger School and go on to become infantry officers, but this captain was a notable first in 2015 and 2016. Go »
Kyle Carpenter
When a grenade is about to go off, honorable heroes don't typically come out of the woodwork, but this one did. Go »
Léo Major
It was never clear whether he was a sergeant, a major, or a sergeant major, but all the same, he twice conducted himself with distinction. Go »
Matt Urban
From his home city of Buffalo, he heard the Call of Duty and eventually became the most decorated soldier in World War II. Go »
Michael Blassie
Think you can lay this goo to rest in a week? It took the Army 26 years to identify him. Go »
Michael Mullen
His experience commanding every Battleship on the sea made him a strong military advisor to Bush and Obama. Go »
Nathan Hale
All hail this patriotic Connecticuter, whose legend began the same year as our nation, when he was hung for spying and gave but one life for his country. Go »
Otto Skorzeny
This scar-faced German gained fame for liberating another nation's leader from captivity. Go »
Pancho Villa
This hero of the Mexican revolution died an enemy of the States. Go »
Pat Tillman
Football players aren't supposed to tackle their own teammates, and if they do, the NFL isn't supposed to deny that it happened. Go »
Paul Tibbets
Lots of nervous parents drop off their little boys at school or the park. No one expects a death toll in the tens of thousands like his. Go »
Pierre L'Enfant
This military engineer designed a plan that made the most powerful city in the world look like a wheel's spokes laid over a checkerboard, replacing what was once swampland. Go »
Qasem Soleimani
This Iranian general helped to defeat ISIS, but it didn't spare him from an American air strike in January 2020. Go »
Robert Baden-Powell
I feel confident that you will find this British military officer and author. I really do, scout's honor. Go »
Robert E. Lee
This Southern gentleman's war on Grants was plenty civil. Go »
Roméo Dallaire
Thirteen years ago, this soldier embodied the U.N.'s love of peace even in the dark face of hatred. Go »
Sarah Emma Edmonds
Let me be frank: This Canadian medic's sexy war memoir is a thrilling adventure. Go »
Scott O'Grady
This Falcon had a hard landing in Bosnia. Go »
Sidney Reilly
He wasn't very intrepid, and he didn't ride tricycles, but he was British SIS's secret ace-in-the-hole during the Great War. Go »
Simón Bolívar
guerrero, libertador, salvador Go »
Simón Bolívar
This South American founding father will forever be associated with the nickname El Libertador for freeing modern-day Bolivia and many other lands from the Spanish Empire. Go »
Stanislav Petrov
Maybe the only reason we lived through the Cold War was that someone didn't panic about a false alarm. War, what is it good for? Go »
Stonewall Jackson
After this goo lost his left arm, Lee lost his right. Go »
Sullivan Ballou
This Rhode Islander is not remembered so much for his courage on the battlefield at Bull Run as he is for his eloquence in communicating to the wife who would soon be his widow. Go »
T.E. Lawrence
This goo was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior... and also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey. Go »
Takeda Shingen
He can be described as swift, silent, fierce, and immovable. Go »
Thomas Claw
decipher this Go »
Tommy Franks
If only Iraq had a general named Beans. Go »
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
It's official. Three days after being struck by a small child, this island native was assaulted by a large adult. Fortunately, he survived to tell his side of the story. Go »
Ulysses S. Grant
Victory grants no absolution in war. Go »
Vasily Zaytsev
This Soviet sniper repelled the enemy at the gates during World War II, but it didn't make him the Russian president either. Go »
William Stephenson
I hope that British intelligence had better ways of concealing the face of this courageous super-spy than I do. Go »
William T. Sherman
This general didn't send his enemies to the fires of Hell; he brought those fires to their home cities. Go »
Winfield Scott
This general was known for his ability to take any meadow, savanna, or garden in battle. Go »
