Wikipedia: List of people associated with World War I

List of people associated with World War I
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Australia

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

William Throsby Bridges (1861-1915) Commander, Australian Imperial Force, Australian 1st Division
Henry George Chauvel (1865-1945), Commander, Anzac Mounted Division, Desert Mounted Corps
Sir Talbot Hobbs, (1864-1938), Commander, Australian 5th Division
Billy Hughes, (1862-1952), Prime Minister
Sir John Monash, (1865-1931), Commander, Australian 3rd Division, Australian Corps
Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885-1952), War reporter
Sir Charles Rosenthal, (1875-1954), Commander, Australian 2nd Division

Austria-Hungary

(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)

Royalty

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

Military Leaders

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorff, (1852-1925), Chief of Staff (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
Artur Arz von Straussenburg, (1857-1935), Chief of Staff (1917-1918)
Oskar Potiorek, (1853-1933), General

Politicians

Friedrich Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader

Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader

Count Julius Andrassy the Younger (1860-1929), Foreign Minister (1918)

Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)

Baron Istvan Burian, (1851-1922), Foreign Minister (1915-1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916-1918)

Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinitz (1863-1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916-1917)

Count Ottokar Czernin, (1872-1932), Foreign Minister (1916-1918)

Count Moric Esterhazy (1881-1960), Minister-President of Hungary (1917)

Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862-1931), Minister-President of Austria (1917-1918)

Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865-1935), Minister-President of Austria (1918)

Count Michael Karolyi (1875-1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)

Ernst von Koerber (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)

Heinrich Lammasch (1853-1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)

Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
Count Karl von Stürgkh (1859-1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911-1916)
Count Istvan Tisza (1861-1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913-1917)
Sandor Wekerle (1848-1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917-1918)

Belgium

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

King Albert I, (1875-1934)
Baron Charles de Broqueville, (1860-1940), Prime Minister
Victor Deguise, (1855-1922), General
Gerard Leman, (1851-1920), General
Gabrielle Petit, (1893-1916), Executed Spy

Bulgaria

(Entered the War on: October 12, 1915)

Royalty

Ferdinand I

Politicians

Alexander Malinov, (1867-1938), Prime Minister (1908-1911, 1918)
Vasil Radoslavov, (1854-1929), Prime Minister
Alexander Stamboliski, (1879-1923), anti-monarchist
Nikola Zhekov, (1864-1949), Commander-in-Chief

Canada (includes Newfoundland)

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

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

France

(Entered the War on: August 3, 1914)

Military Leaders

Edouard de Castelnau, (1851-1944), General

Auguste Dubail, (1851-1934), General

Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856-1942), Marshall

Ferdinand Foch, (1851-1929), General and Supreme Allied Commander
Joseph Gallieni, (1849-1916), General
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, (1852-1931), Commander-in-Chief
Hubert Lyautey, (1854-1934), War Minister
Charles Mangin, (1866-1925), General
Michael Maunoury, (1847-1923), General
Robert Georges Nivelle, (1856-1924), Commander-in-Chief
Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), Commander-in-Chief
Maurice Sarrail, (1856-1929), General

Politicians

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

Germany

(Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

Monarch

Emperor Wilhem II

Military Leaders

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

Political Leaders

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

Others

Anthony Fokker, (1890 - 1939), Aircraft builder
Manfred von Richthofen, (1892-1918), fighter ace

Greece

(Entered the War on: June 29, 1917)

King Constantine I
King Alexander
Joannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), military dictator
Eleutherios Venizelos, prime minister

Italy

(Entered the War on: May 23, 1915)

Luigi Cadorna, General
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869-1947)
Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
Antonio Salandra, Prime Minister
Giovanni Giolitti
Baron Sidney Sonnino, Foreign Minister
Vittorio Orlando
Luigi Boselli
Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
Armando Diaz, General
Gabriele d'Annunzio, novelist and poet
Francesco Baracca, fighter ace

Japan

(Entered the War on: August 23, 1914)

Emperor Yoshihito
Mitsuomi Kamio
Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, prime minister (1914-1916)
Count Masatake Terauchi, prime minister (1916-1918)
Takashi Hara, (1918-1921)

Netherlands

(Neutral Country)

Jelles Troelstra

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

New Zealand

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence
Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), Highly decorated solider
William Massey, Prime Minister
Sir Andrew Russell, General

Ottoman Empire

(Entered the War on: October 31, 1914)

Kemal Atatürk, (1881-1938), Turkish leader
Sultan Mehmed V
Sultan Mehmed VI
Enver Pasha, Minister of War
Said Halim Pasha, Grand Vizier
Talaat Pasha, Minister of Interior

Romania

(Entered the War on: August 27, 1916)

Alexandru Averescu
Ion Bratianu
Carol I
Ferdinand I, (1865-1927), King of Romania (1924-1927)
Constantine Prezan

Russia

(Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

Monarchs

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

Military Leaders

Mikhail Alekseev

Aleksei Brusilov

Yuri Danilov

Anton Denikin
Alexander Kolchak, Admiral
Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870-1918), Russian general
Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich
Paul von Rennenkampf
Alexander Samsonov
Peter Wrangel
Nikolai Yudenich

Political Leaders and others

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

Serbia

(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)

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

South Africa

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

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

United Kingdom

(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

Royalty

King George V
Queen Mary

Military Leaders

Edmund Allenby, (1861-1936), commander in Palestine
David Beatty, (1871-1936), admiral
Julian Byng, (1862-1935), general
John Fisher, (1841-1920), admiral
John French, (1852-1925), commander of the BEF (1914-1915)
Hubert Gough, general
Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), commander of the BEF (1915-1918)
Ian Hamilton, (1853-1947) commander at Gallipoli
Aylmer Hunter-Weston, (1864-1940), general
John Jellicoe, (1859-1935), admiral
Horatio Kitchener, (1850-1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
Herbert Plumer, (1857-1932), general, later field marshal
Sir William Robertson, (1860-1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1915-1917
Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858-1930), general
Sir Henry Wilson, (1864-1922), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1918

Political Leaders

Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister (1908-1916)
Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930), Foreign Secretary
Sir Roger Casement, Irish independence leader
Winston Churchill, (1911-1915), Prime Minister from 1940
Lord Curzon, (1859-1925), Unionist politician
John Dillon, Irish Home Rule leader
Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary
Andrew Bonar Law, (1858-1923), Unionist Party leader
David Lloyd George, (1916-1922), politician
Lord Milner, politician
John Redmond, (1856-1918), Irish Home Rule leader

Others

T. E. Lawrence, (1888-1935), led the Arab revolt
Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), English poet
W. H. R. Rivers, (1864-1922), Psychiatrist
David Jones, English poet
Isaac Rosenberg, English poet
Edward Thomas, Welsh poet
May Cannan, English poet
Wyndham Lewis, ariter, painter, vorticist. Served as war artist.

United States of America

(Entered the War on: April 6, 1917)

William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), Secretary of State
Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and ''The Sun Also Rises'
Edward House, advisor to President Wilson
Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948), Republican, 1907-1910
Field E. Kindley, (1895-1920), Ace
Robert Lansing, (1864-1928), Secretary of State
John Pershing, (1860-1948), commander of the AEF
Eddie Rickenbacker, (1890-1973), Ace
Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924), 28th (1913-1921) President
Leonard Wood, General
Sgt. Alvin York, highly decorated war hero