Lists of English People - Military: Soldiers/sailors/airmen

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