Military: Soldiers/sailors/airmen
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891–1969), Field Marshal, World War II hero
- Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal (1717–1797), General
- Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981), World War II Commander
- Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier
- Sir Douglas Bader (1910–1982), fighter pilot
- Sir Alexander John Ball (1759–1809), Admiral, governor of Malta
- George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800–1888), Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
- William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865–1951), General, World War I
- Robert Blake (1599–1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
- Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), Field Marshal, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II
- James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1888), Commander of the Light Brigade
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), soldier
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British Prime Minister
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), General
- Henry Seymour Conway (1721–1795), General
- Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), Lord Protector of England
- Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c. 1208 – 1265), English statesman and soldier.
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), RAF Commander in World War II
- Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596), sailor
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York (1763–1827), son of King George III, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852–1925), General, World War I and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819–1904), Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
- Charles George Gordon ("Chinese Gordon") (1833–1885), killed at Khartoum
- Sir Arthur Travers Harris (1892–1984), Marshal of the Royal Air Force, airman
- Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799), Admiral
- William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729–1814), General in American Revolutionary War
- John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859–1935), Admiral, World War I
- Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850–1916), Field Marshal
- John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier (1680–1770), General
- John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721–1770), General
- William McMurdo (1819–1894), General
- Andy McNab (born 1959), former Special Air Service soldier and commander of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War
- George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), Civil War era General in Chief Command
- Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ("The Desert Rat") (1887–1976), Field Marshal and hero of World War II
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979), statesman, sailor
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile (1758–1805), sailor, Admiral
- Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854), General, hero of the Napoleonic Wars
- Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832–1914), Field Marshal, last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782–1859)
- Chris Ryan (born 1961), Former Special Air Service soldier and member of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), war poet
- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1897–1970), Commander in Burma during World War II, Governor-General of Australia.
- Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien (1858–1930), General, World War I
- Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), British commander in the Crimean War
- Sir David Stirling, founder of the SAS
- Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956), "Father of the RAF" and first Chief of the Air Staff
- Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950), World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), Field Marshal, victor of Waterloo, politician
- Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), Captain-General, victor of Culloden
- James Wolfe (1727–1759), General, hero of Quebec during the Seven Years' War
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Famous quotes containing the words soldiers and/or sailors:
“How red the rose that is the soldier’s wound,
The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all
The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood,
The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words “ANGLO SAXON” on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)