List of people associated with World War II
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See: World War II

Albania

• Enver Hoxha, (1908-1985), communist resistance

Australia

• Henry Gordon Bennett, Major General of Australian Imperial Forces
• Thomas Blamey, General of Australian Imperial Forces
• John Curtin, (1885-1945), Prime Minister from 1941 until his death in 1945
• Robert Menzies, (1894-1978), Prime Minister 1939-1941
• Leslie Morshead, (1889-1959), Commander of the Rats of Tobruk, later head of the Second AIF

Austria

• Adolf Hitler, (1889-1945), Führer of Germany (Austrian-born)
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, (1903-1946), SS officer
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi and Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands

Belgium

• Leopold III, (1901-1983)
• Albert Guerisse, resistance organizer
• Andreé de Jongh, Belgian resistance
• Edgard Potier (1903-1944), SOE agent
• Leopold Trepper, Head of Rote Kapelle

Brazil

• Getulio Vargas, (1883-1954), president

Bulgaria

• Boris III, (1894-1943)
• Georgi Dimitrov
• Simeon II, (1943-1946)
• Todor Zhivkov, (1911-1998)

Burma

• U Aung San, (1915-1947), Commander in Chief of the Burma Independence Army
• U Ba Maw, prime minister during Japanese occupation

Canada

• Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
• George Beurling, (1921-1948), fighter ace
• Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Peter Dmytruk (1920-1943), Flight Sergeant and French Resistance fighter
• John Kenneth Macalister (1914-1944) , SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• William Lyon Mackenzie King, (1874-1950), Prime Minister
• John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and author of "High Flight"
• Andrew George Latta (Andy) McNaughton, (1887-1966), scientist, military commander, and diplomat
• Frank Pickersgill (1915-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Tommy Prince (1915-1977), Canada's most decorated aborignal soldier, member of the US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade
• Colonel James Layton Ralston (1881-1948), Minister of Defense
• Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis

China

• Chiang Kai-Shek, (1887-1975), Generalissimo of Kuomintang Forces; Chairman of the ROC
• Soong May-ling, (1898-2003), Madame Chiang Kai-shek
• Zhou Enlai, (1898-1976), communist ambassador to Kuomintang
• Mao Zedong, (1893-1976), communist leader
• Pu Yi, last Emperor of China; puppet Emperor of Manchukuo
• Wang Jingwei, (1888-1944), head of Japanese supported collaborationist government

Czechoslovakia

• Edvard Benes, (1884-1948), Czech President-in-exile
• Josef Frantisek, fighter ace
• Emil Hacha, president
• Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German politician
• Karel Miroslav Kuttelwascher , fighter ace
• Jan Masaryk, (1886-1948), Czech Foreign Minister-in-exile
• Ludvik Svoboda, general
• Jozef Tiso, (1887-1947), President of separatist Slovakia

Denmark

• Christian X, (1870-1947)
• Sven Hassel, (born 1917), penal regiment soldier

Egypt

• Farouk, (1920-1965), king

Ethiopia

• Haile Selassie, (1892-1975), Emperor of Ethiopia

Finland

• Aksel Airo, (1898-1985), HQ strategic planner
• Adolf Ehrnrooth, (born 1905), infantry general
• Mauno Koivisto, (born 1923), infantryman and future president
• Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, (1867-1951), Field Marshal and later president
• Juho Kusti Paasikivi, (1870-1956), diplomat
• Risto Ryti, (1889-1956), president
• Hjalmar Siilasvuo, (1892-1947)
• Lauri Törni, (1919-1965), Infantry captain

France

• Georges Bidault, French Resistance activist
• Denise Bloch (1915-1945), French Resistance and SOE agent
• Pierre Boisson, general and governor of Equatorial Africa
• Andrée Borrel (1919-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
• Pierre Brossolette, French Resistance
• Eliane Plewman (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
• Mathilde Carré, French Resistance double agent
• Edouard Daladier, prime minister
• Madeleine Damerment (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
• Jean Francois Darlan, (1881-1942), admiral
• Joseph Darnand, head of Vichy France Milice
• Charles De Gaulle, (1890-1970), leader of the Free French Forces and Gaullist French Resistance
• Henri Dentz, Vichy France general in Syria
• Maurice Gustave Gamelin, general
• Henri Giraud, general who escaped from Germans
• Max Hymans, (1900-1961) French resistance leader
• Noor Inayet Khan, SOE agent
• Marie Pierre König, General and coordination of resistance activities
• Pierre Laval, Vichy France Foreign Minister
• Philippe Leclerc, General of Free French Forces
• Jean Moulin, (1899-1943), French Resistance leader
• Maurice Papon, (1910 - ), Nazi collaborator, convicted war criminal
• Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), leader of Vichy France
• Lilian Rolfe, (1914-1945), SOE agent
• Odette Sansom (1912-1995), French Resistance and SOE agent
• Violette Szabo, (1921-1945), SOE agent
• Paul Touvier, (1915-1996), Nazi collaborator and only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity
• Susan Travers, (born 1909)
• Nancy Wake, (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
• Maxime Weygand, (1867-1965), general

Germany

• Klaus Barbie, (1913-1991), was a German officer of the SS and the Gestapo sent to occupied France where he became known as The Butcher of Lyon
• Bayerlein, Fritz, Panzer general
• Ludwig Beck, (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot
• Johannes Blaskowitz, Colonel General
• Hugo Bleicher, German counter-intelligence operative in France
• Fedor von Bock, Field marshal
• Juana Bormann, (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps.
• Martin Bormann, (1900-unknown), highest ranking Nazi party administrator
• Herta Bothe, camp guard at Bergen-Belsen
• Hans Bothmann (1911-1946), a Commandant of the Chelmno death camp in central Poland
• Dr. Karl Brandt, ran the German T-4 Euthanasia Program
• Eva Braun, (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress
• Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), rocket scientist
• Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
• Wilhelm Canaris, (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr
• Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp
• John Demjanuk, notorious guard at the German extermination camps
• Rudolf Diels, (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo
• Sepp Dietrich, SS general
• Karl Dönitz, (1891-1980), Admiral, masterminded U-Boat warfare
• Adolf Eichmann, (1906-1962), top level bureaucrat
• Theodor Eicke, (1892-1943), a Commandant of the Dachau death camp and head of the SS Death's-Head Units
• Nikolaus Falkenhorst, colonel general and commander of German troops in Norway
• Eugen Fischer, (1874-1967), Professor of Anthropology who promoted racial purity
• Hans Frank, (1900-1946), (1900-1945), lawyer for Adolf Hitler
• Walter Frank, (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer, he was president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany
• Kurt Franz, (1917-1998), Deputy Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp
• Wilhelm Frick, (1877-1946), Reich Minister of the Interior
• Hans Fritzsche, (1900-1953), Nazi party official who served in the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda
• Walther Funk, (1890-1960), was Adolf Hitler's personal advisor on economic affairs and a state secretary of the Propaganda Ministry
• Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe fighter ace
• Hans Bernd Gisevius, (1904-1974), diplomat
• Joseph Goebbels, (1897-1945), Chancellor of Germany, propaganda chief for the Nazis
• Amon Leopold Goeth, SS officer
• Hermann Göring, (1893-1946), commander of Luftwaffe
• Irma Grese, (1923-1945), a Senior SS Supervisor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
• Heinz Guderian, (1888-1954), Panzer general
• Erich Hartmann, fighter pilot; the most successful fighter ace in history
• Rudolf Hess, (1894-1987), Hitler's deputy
• Werner Heyde, involved in human experimentations
• Reinhard Heydrich, (1904-1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia
• Heinrich Himmler, (1900-1945), head of Gestapo
• Adolf Hitler, (1889-1945), Führer of Germany
• Rudolf Höss, first commandant of the extermination camps
• Alfred Jodl, (1890-1946), general, Chief of Operation Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, (1903-1946) chief of the German Security Service
• Wilhelm Keitel, (1882-1946), Field Marshal
• Albert Kesselring, (1881-1960), Field Marshal, commander of German troops in Italy
• Gunther von Kluge, Field Marshal
• Ilse Koch, (1906-1967), the wife of Karl Otto Koch, Commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
• Karl Otto Koch, (1897-1945) first commandant at Buchenwald Extermination camp
• Josef Kramer (1906-1945), was the head of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• Otto Kretschmer, (1912-1998), U-boat commander
• Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950), German industrialist and weapons manufacturer
• Alfried Krupp (1907-1967), arms manufacturer
• Hans Langsdroff, Commander of Graf Spee
• Arthur Liebehenschel, (1901-1948), a Commandant of both the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps
• Robert Ley (1890-1945), Nazi party chief who set up the German Labor Front(1890-1945)
• Maria Mandel (1912-1947), chief-guard of Birkenau women's camp
• Erich von Manstein, (1887-1973), Field Marshal
• Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who performed experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz extermination camp
• Walther Model, (1891-1945), Field Marshal
• Konrad Morgen, (1910-1976), "bloodhound judge"
• Werner Mölders, Luftwaffe fighter ace
• Konstantin von Neurath, (1873-1956), Foreign Minister of Germany
• Herta Oberheuser, (1911-1978), a doctor
• Josef Oberhauser, commander of the Belzec extermination camp
• Friedrich Paulus, Field Marshal and commander of German troops in Stalingrad
• Erich Raeder, (1876-1960) Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy
• Walther von Reichenau, field marshal
• Joachim von Ribbentrop, (1893-1946) Nazi foreign minister
• Lothar Rendulic
• Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), NSDAP party member, who organized Adolf Hitler's "Brownshirts"
• Erwin Rommel, (1891-1944), Field Marshal, "Desert Fox"
• Alfred Rosenberg, (1893-1946), Nazi ideologist
• Rudolf Rösseler, publisher and Soviet spy
• Gerd von Rundstedt, (1875-1953), Field Marshal
• Walter Schellenberg, SS general and secret service officer
• Oskar Schindler, (1908-1974), humanitarian
• Baldur von Schirach, (1907-1974), leader of the Hitler Youth movement
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart, (1892-1946), a lawyer, and Commissioner of the Occupied Netherlands
• Otto Skorzeny, (1908-1975), Commando lieutenant colonel
• Hans and Sophie Scholl, (1917-1943), anti-nazis
• Richard Sorge, (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
• Albert Speer, (1905-1981), architect and coordinator of war production
• Franz Stangl, (1908-1971) a Commandant at Sobibor extermination camp in Poland
• Claus von Stauffenberg, (1907-1944), Colonel and member of the July Plot
• Julius Streicher (1885-1946), founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper, "Der Sturmer"
• Ernst Udet, inspector general of the Luftwaffe
• Elisabeth Volkenrath, (1919-1945), guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• Christian Wirth, commander of the Belzec extermination camp

Greece

• George II, (1935-1947)
• Ioannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), military dictator
• Alexander Papagos, General and commander-in-chief of Greek army
• Georgios Papandreou, in Greek resistance and government-in-exile

Hungary

• Miklós Horthy, (1868-1957), regent
• Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944), Partisan

India

• Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian nationalist
• Mohandas Gandhi, (1869-1948), Independence leader
• Ayub Khan
• Yahya Khan, (1917-1980)
• Jawaharlal Nehru, (1889-1964)

Iraq

• el-Gaylani Rashid Ali

Ireland

• Eamon de Valera, (1932-1948; 1951-54; 1957-1959), Taoiseach
• Leopold Kerney, Minister to Madrid involved in conducting negotiations with Germany over Irish neutrality and possible assistance with recovery of the "lost counties" of Ulster

Italy

• Vittorio Ambrosio, general
• Amadeo of Aosta, Duke and Commander of Italian armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia
• Pietro Badoglio, (1871-1956), field marshal
• Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya
• Annibale Bergonzoli, Lieutenant-General at Bardia
• Valerio Borghese, Naval lieutenant commander
• Francisco Cavalera
• Ugo Cavallero, Chief of General Staff
• Galeazzo Ciano, (1903-1944), diplomat
• Victor Emmanuel III, (1869-1947)
• Umberto, (1904-1983), Prince of Piedmont - Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom (de facto monarch) from 1943
• Maria José, Princess of Piedmont - tried to negotiate separate peace with the United States
• Carlo Favagrossa
• Rodolfo Graziani, (1882-1955)
• Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
• Vittorio Revetra

Japan

• Hatazo Adachi, Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in New Guinea
• Korechika Anami, General and Minister of War in the end of the war
• Mitsuo Fuchida, commander of Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor
• Minory Genda, fighter commander
• Haryoshi Hyakutake, lieutenant general in Guadalcanal
• Masaharu Homma, general in invasion of Philippines
• Masaki Honda, Lieutenant general in Burma
• Koicho Kido, Lord Privy Seal
• Mineschi Koga, admiral, successor of Yamamoto
• Kuniaki Koiso, (1880-1950), lieutenant general
• Nabutake Kondo, admiral in Guadalcanal
• Fumimaro Konoye, (1891-1945), statesman
• Tadamichi Kuribayashi, general in the Battle of Iwo Jima
• Takeo Kurita, admiral in the Battle of Midway
• Chuichi Nagumo, (1886-1944), Admiral
• Hirohito, (1901-1989), emperor
• Yosuke Matsuoka, Foreign minister
• Guinichi Mikawa, Vice Admiral in the Battle of Savo Island
• Kichisaburo Nomura, Admiral
• Takijiro Onishi, admiral
• Hiroo Onoda, (born 1922), post-war straggler
• Jisaburo Ozawa, Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Saburo Sakai, Zero fighter ace
• Yoshitsugu Saito, general in Saipan
• Mamoru Shigemitsu, Foreign minister
• Hajime Sugiyama, general and Army Chief of Staff
• Kantaro Suzuki, (1867-1948), prime minister
• Raizo Tanaka, Rear Admiral and destroyer commander
• Hisaichi Terauchi, (1879-1945), Field Marshal and supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army
• Shigenori Togo, Foreign minister
• Hideki Tojo, (1884-1948), general and military prime minister
• Tokyo Rose
• Soemu Toyoda, admiral
• Yoshijiro Umezu, general
• Mitsuru Ushijima, general in the defense of Okinawa
• Isoroku Yamamoto, (1884-1943), admiral
• Tomoyuki Yamashita, lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and Philippines

Malta

• William Dobbie, British governor
• Mabel Strickland

Manchuria

• Zhang Xueliang, (1901-2001)

The Netherlands

• Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
• Karel Doorman, (1889-1942), admiral
• Wilhelmina I, (1880-1962), Queen
• Princess Juliana (future Queen Juliana)
• Anne Frank, (1929-1945), genocide victim and diarist
• Marinus van der Lubbe, (1909-1934) scapegoated for Reichstag fire

New Zealand

• Leslie Andrew, (1897-1969), Commander the 22nd Battalion of the Second NZEF
• Roderick Carr, (1891-1971), Air Marshal and Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force
• Arthur Coningham, (1895-1948), Air Marshal and commander of UK Western Desert Air Force
• Peter Fraser, (1884-1950), Prime Minister from March 1940
• Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), general and commander of NZ corps
• Alfred Hulme, (1911-1982), Sergeant awarded Victoria Cross
• F. H. Maynard
• Sir Keith Park, RAF sector commander during the Battle of Britain
• Michael Joseph Savage, (1872-1940), Prime Minister until his death in March 1940
• Lloyd Alan Trigg, awarded Victoria Cross on recommendation of German submarine commander
• Charles Upham, Army Captain awarded Victoria Cross and bar
• Nancy Wake, (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis

Norway

• Carl Fleischer, general
• Haakon VII, (1872-1957)
• Vidkun Quisling, (1887-1945), Nazi collaborator
• Henry Oliver Rinnan, double agent

Palestine

• David Ben Gurion, (1886-1973), Zionist leader
• Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Philippines

• Sergio Osmena, Vice-president
• Manuel L. Quezon, (1878-1944), president

Poland

• Wladyslaw Anders, lieutenant general and leader of Free Polish army
• Mordecai Anielewicz, (1919-1943)
• Jozef Beck
• Wojciech Jaruzelski, (born 1923), was drafted into Soviet Polish Army
• Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski, general and leader of Warsaw Uprising
• Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of Polish government-in-exile
• Edward Rydz-Śmigly, marshal and army commander
• Wladyslaw Sikorski, General and head of the Polish government-in-exile
• Henryk Sławik, nicknamed "Polish Wallenberg", Polish diplomat who saved 5.000 Jews.
• Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), highly decorated SOE agent
• Karol Józef Wojty, Pope John Paul II

Portugal

• Antonio Salazar, Prime minister and fascist dictator

Romania

• Ion Antonescu, (1882-1946), marshal and military dictator

South Africa

• Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), prime minister
• John Vorster

Soviet Union

• Alexei Antonov, Chief of General Staff at the end of the war
• Lavrenty Beria, (1899-1953), chief of NKVD
• Nikolay Bulganin, political marshal
• Vasili Chuikov, general and commander of Stalingrad
• Leonid Govorov, marshal, liberator of Leningrad
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Nikolai Kuznetsov, admiral
• Vasili Kuznetsov, general
• Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs before Molotov
• Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov
• Kirill Meretskov, marshall in Winter War
• Vyacheslav Molotov, (1890-1986), People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
• Ivan Petrov, general
• Konstantin Rokossovsky, marshal
• Richard Sorge, (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
• Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953)
• Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal
• Andrey Tupolev, (1888-1972), aircraft designer
• Nikolay Vatutin, general in the relief of Stalingrad
• Andrey Vlasov, Lieutenant general and German-backed Russian Liberation Army
• Kliment Voroshilov, (1881-1969), Marshal
• Andrey Yeremenko, marshal and front line general in Stalingrad
• Vasily Alexandrovich Zaitsev, sniper
• Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, (1896-1974), marshal and chief of the Red Army

Spain

• Francisco Franco, (1892-1975), military dictator

Sweden

• Folke Bernadotte, (1895-1948), count and diplomat
• Per Albin Hansson, (1885-1946), prime minister
• Raoul Wallenberg, (born 1912), diplomat

Turkey

• Elyesa Bazna, double-agent
• Ismet Inonu, (1884-1973), president

United Kingdom

• Harold Alexander, (1891-1969), Field Marshal
• Geoffrey Appleyard, commando major
• Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), Deputy Prime Minister
• Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), Field Marshal
• Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), Royal Air Force pilot with no legs
• Ralph A. Bagnold, (1896-1990)
• Stanley Baldwin, politician and ex-prime minister
• Eric Arthur Blair, (George Orwell), (1903-1950) author, journalist, propagandist
• Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
• Donald Bennett, Air Vice-Marshal of RAF
• Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and National Service
• Tom Bird, Lieutenant at Tobruk
• Alan Brooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal
• Frederick Browning, lieutenant general of airborne troops
• Maurice Buckmaster, colonel of Special Operations Executive
• Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), Prime Minister at the start of the war
• Peter Churchill, SOE agent
• Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), Prime Minister from 1940
• Dudley Clarke, creator of the British Commandos
• John Cunningham, RAF group captain and night-fighter ace
• William Dobbie, governor of Malta
• Eric Dorman-Smith
• Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), Foreign Secretary
• Duke of Windsor, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
• Princess Elizabeth, (born 1926), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
• Queen Elizabeth, (1900-2002), (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), consort of King George VI
• Ian Fleming, instigator of the scheme to capture Rudolf Hess
• George VI, (1895-1952)
• William Gott
• Rex King-Clark
• Arthur Harris, "Bomber", Air Chief Marshall of Bomber Command
• B.H. Liddell Hart, (1895-1970), Masterminded modern tank warfare, copied by Germans as Blitzkrieg
• Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War
• James Johnson, RAF fighter ace
• Miles Lampson
• John Lapsley
• Robert Laycock, General of the "Layforce" of Commandos
• Rea Leakey
• Christopher Lee, (born 1922), volunteered to fight in the Winter war
• Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal and fighter commander
• Fitzroy Maclean
• Leo Marks, (1920-2001)
• Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), patriotic lyricist (A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square)
• Frank Merrill, Brigadier general and leader of "Merrill's Marauders"
• Spike Milligan, Royal Artillery gunner, musician and comedian
• Bernard Montgomery, (1887-1976), Field Marshal
• Oswald Mosley, (1896-1980), British fascist leader
• Louis Mountbatten, (1900-1979), Vice-admiral
• Airey Neave, (1916-1979)
• Richard O'Connor
• Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff
• Dudley Pound, Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
• Dan Ranfurly
• Odette Sansom, (1912-1995), SOE agent
• William Slim, general in Burmese front
• David Stirling, (1915-1990), commando colonel and founder of Special Air Service
• Alan Turing, (1912-1954), cryptographer
• Susan Travers, (born 1909), French Foreign Legion member
• Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979)
• Archibald Wavell, field marshal
• Henry Maitland Wilson, (1881-1964), field marshal
• Orde Wingate, major general and founder of Chindits
• Edward Yeo-Thomas, (1901-1964), SOE agent

United States

• Henry Arnold, (1886-1950), USAAF general
• Donald Blakeslee, fighter ace
• Richard Bong, (1920-1945), USAAF fighter ace
• Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, (1912-1988), USMC aviator
• Omar Bradley, (1893-1981), general
• Lewis Hyde Brereton, Major general
• Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, infantry general in the Aleutian Islands
• Arleigh Burke, (1901-1996), US Navy commander
• George H. W. Bush, (born 1924), US Navy pilot
• Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
• Claire Chennault, (1893-1958), USAAF major general and organizer of Flying Tigers
• Clarence Craft
• William O. Darby
• William Joseph Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
• James Doolittle, (1896-1993), lieutenant general
• Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), refugee and scientist
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969)
• Bonner Fellers
• James Forrestal, (1892-1949), secretary of the Navy
• William Frederick Friedman, (1891-1969), US cryptographer
• Varian Fry (1907-1967) ran escape scheme in wartime France that helped approximately 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to flee
• George H. Gay, (1917-1994), US Navy pilot
• Roy Geiger, marine commando general
• Leslie Groves, (1896-1970), general and supervisor of Manhattan Project
• William Halsey, (1882-1959), vice-admiral in Pacific
• William Averell Harriman, US ambassador to Moscow
• Ira Hayes, (1923-1955)
• William Joyce, (1906-1946), "lord Haw-Haw"
• Lyman Lemnitzer, (1899-1988), General
• Douglas MacArthur, (1880-1964), General
• George Marshall, (1880-1959)
• Bill Mauldin, (1921-2003)
• Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier
• Chester Nimitz, (1885-1966), Admiral
• Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967), physicist in Manhattan Project
• Matthew Bunker Ridgway, (1895-1993), general
• George Patton, (1885-1945), tank general
• Ernest Pyle, (1900-1945), war correspondent
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882-1945), President of the United States until his death in April 1945
• Charles Ryder
• Carl Spaatz, (1891-1974), Army Air Force General
• Joseph Stillwell, General and Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff
• John S. Thach, (1905-1981), naval aviator and ace, inventor of Thach Weave aerial combat tactic
• Harry S. Truman, (1884-1972), President of the United States from April 1945
• Lucian Truscott
• Jonathan Wainwright, (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
• Fred Walker

Vietnam

• Bao Dai, (died 1997), Emperor of Assam
• Ho Chi Minh, (1890-1969)

Yugoslavia

• Ante Pavelic, leader of the Ustase and of Croatia
• Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic, Franciscan and Jasenovac concentration camp commander (died 1946)
• Peter II, former king of Yugoslavia
• Draza Mihailovic, General of the Chetniks
• Dusan Simovic, General and head of Royal Yugoslavian government-in-exile
• Josip Broz Tito, (1892-1980), Communist resistance leader

References

• John Keegan (ed.) - Who's Who in World War II

See also

• List of people associated with World War I

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