List of Canadians - Military Figures

Military Figures

Further information: List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients

• General Baril, Maurice (born 1943) – Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General, head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations, and Chief of the Defence Staff
• Biéler, Gustave (1904–1944) – Special Operations Executive agent, executed by the Nazis
• Air Commodore Birchall, Leonard (1915–2004) – war hero
• Air Marshall Bishop, William Avery (1894–1956) – (commonly known as Billy Bishop) World War I flying ace
• Brigadier-General Boyle, Jean (born 1947) – fighter pilot, and businessman
• Major General Sir Brock, Isaac (1769–1812) – War of 1812 general
• Captain Brown, Roy (1893–1944) – World War I fighter pilot officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron
• Colonel Cosgrave, Lawrence Moore (1890–1971) – Canadian signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• General Crear, Harry (1888–1965) – "leading field commander" in World War II
• Lieutenant-General Sir Currie, Arthur (1875–1933) – first Canadian commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
• Lieutenant-General Dallaire, Roméo (born 1946) – UN peacekeeping General, attempted to prevent the Rwandan Genocide
• D'Artosis, Guy (1917–1999) – SOE agent, recipient of the Croix de Guerre
• General de Chastelain, John (born 1937) – head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
• Dmytruk, Peter (1920–1943) – WWII Flight Sergeant and member of the French Resistance
• Brigadier-General Dury, Charles (1912–1991) – soldier, businessman, and politician
• Foote, John Weir (1904–1988) – military chaplain, Ontario cabinet minister, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Captain Goddard, Nichola (1980–2006) – first female Canadian soldier killed in combat
• Hall, William (1827–1904) – first Nova Scotian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Macalister, John Kenneth (1914–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Captain Mailloux, Simon (born 1983) First Canadian Soldier with an amputation to deploy on a combat mission and recipient of the Sacrifice Medal.
• Lieutenant Colonel McCrae, John (1872–1918) – soldier, poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
• McLeod, Alan Arnett (1899–1918) – fighter pilot, youngest Canadian-born winner of the Victoria Cross
• General McNaughton, Andrew (1887–1966) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
• Lieutenant Colonel Meighen, Theodore (1905–1979) – lawyer and philanthropist
• Lieutenant Colonel Merritt, Charles Cecil (1908–2000) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Major General Mewburn, Sydney Chilton (1863–1956) – lawyer and politician, Minister of Militia and Defence
• Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray (1896–1971) – Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic during World War II
• Norwest, Henry (1884–1918) – sniper in World War I
• Lieutenant-Colonel Pearkes, George (1888–1984) – recipient of the Victoria Cross, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• Pegahmagabow, Francis (1891–1952) – the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
• Pickersgill, Frank (1915–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• Rear Admiral Piers, Desmond (1913–2005) – war hero
• Price, George Lawrence (1898–1918) – last soldier killed in World War I
• Prince, Tommy (1915–1977) – one of Canada's most decorated soldiers, member of the Devil's Brigade
• Ralston, James (1881–1948) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
• Ricketts, Thomas (1901–1967) – recipient of the Victoria Cross (Newfoundlander at the time of his award)
• Rogers, Harold A. (1889–1994) – founder of Kin Canada
• Sabourin, Roméo (1923–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
• General Simonds, Guy (1903–1974) – commandee of the II Canadian Corps
• Smith, Ernest (1914–2005) – VC, CM, OBC, CD, Seaforth Highlander Private/ Sargent, the last living Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, awarded for gallantry in actions at the River Savio, Northern Italy 1944
• Steele, Sam (1851–1919) – member of the North-West Mounted Police, commander of Yukon detachment
• Stephenson, William (1897–1989) – (codename: Intrepid) senior representative of British intelligence for the Western Hemisphere in World War II
• Lieutenant-General Stuart, Kenneth (1891–1945) – Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, educator
• Rear Admiral Timberell, Robert (1920–2006) – first Canadian to be decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross
• General Vokes, Christopher (1904–1985) – General Officer commanding the Canadian Army Occupation Force in Europe
• Brigadier Sir Wheeler, Edward Oliver (1890–1962) – Corps of Royal Engineers surveyor
• General Withers, Ramsey Muir (born 1930) – Chief of the Defense Staff
• Sir Yeo, James Lucas (1782–1818) – commander of Royal Navy forces in Canada during the War of 1812