Military
- William W. Cooke (1846–1876), was a military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Black Hills War. He was the adjutant for George Armstrong Custer and was killed during the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Buried in Hamilton Cemetery.
- Harry Crerar (1888–1965), was a general and the country's "leading field commander" in World War II.
- John Weir Foote (1904–1988), military chaplain and Ontario cabinet minister. Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross. The James Street Armoury where the RHLI is now based, along with 11th Field Hamilton-Wentworth Battery, was renamed the John W. Foote VC Armoury in his memory.
- Billy Green (1794–1877), otherwise known as "The Scout" was key to the Anglo-Canadian victory at the Battle of Stoney Creek.
- Ben Lear (1879–1966), United States Army World War II-era general.
- Sydney Chilton Mewburn (1863–1956), was a lawyer and politician. He was the Minister of Militia and Defence from October 12, 1917 - January 15, 1920 under Sir Robert Borden's Union Government in 1917.
- Robert Land (1736–1818), veteran of the American Revolution and one of Hamilton's founding citizens; he was the man by which Robert Land Academy, Canada's only military pre-university private school, was named in his honour.
- Harold A. Rogers (1899–1994), was the founder of Kin Canada. (formerly the Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs of Canada) is a non-profit service organization that promotes service, fellowship, positive values, and national pride.
- John Vincent (1764–1848), British army officer in the Battle of Stoney Creek, War of 1812.
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)