This is a list of noted soldiers, organized for the country with which they are usually associated. This article is about a military rank. ...

Lists according to nationality

• American: George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Colin Powell, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Zachary Taylor, George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, Frederick Townsend Ward, Harry Truman, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Thomas Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt
• Arab States: Muhamet Ali, Saladin, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Baibers
• Bosnian: Atif Dudakovic, Sefer Halilovic, Avdo Palic, Juka Prazina, Muderis, Rasim Delic
• British: Montgomery, Lawrence of Arabia, Mountbatten, Wellington, Churchill
• Chinese: Sun Tzu, Qin Shihuang, Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Han Jian, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yun Chang, Zhao Zi Long, Zhuge Liang, Lv Bu, Sima Qian, Li Shimin, An Lvshan, Ji jvguang, Yuan Conghuan, Genghis Khan, Dorgon, Nuraci, Cao Cao, Zeng Guofan, Frederick Townsend Ward, Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek,Bai Congxi, Mao Zedong, Zhu de, Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai
• Czech: Alois Eliáš, Otakar Jaroš, Jan Kubiš, Karel Kuttelwascher, Josef Mašín, Prokop the Great, Prokop the Lesser, Ludvík Svoboda, Albrecht von Wallenstein, Jan Žižka
• Finnish: Aksel Airo, Adolf Ehrnrooth, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Lauri Törni
• French: Napoleon Bonaparte, Lazare Carnot, Louis Nicolas Davout, Ferdinand Foch, Joachim Murat, Charles de Gaulle, Michel Ney
• German: Erwin Rommel, Heinz Guderian, Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Siegfried Müller
• India: Ardeshir Tarapore, Arun Khetarpal, Bana Singh, Albert Ekka, Gurbachan Singh Salaria, Abdul Hamid (soldier), Hoshiar Singh, Jadu Nath Singh, Joginder Singh (Subedar), Karam Singh, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, Piru Singh, Rama Raghoba Rane, Ramaswamy Parameshwaran, Sanjay Kumar (soldier), Shaitan Singh, Som Nath Sharma, Dhan Singh Thapa, Vikram Batra, Yogendra Singh Yadav
• Iran (formerly Persia): Cyrus, Surena, Shahrbaraz of Persia, Reza Shah, Rostam Farrokhzād, Abbas Mirza, Xerxes I
• Irish: Owen Roe O'niell, Tom Barry, Michael Collins, Oscar Traynor, Arthur Wellington, Brian Boru
• Israeli: see List of Chief of the General Staff (many of them are famous) and Other famous generals and soldiers.
• Japan: Oyama Iwao, Tojo Hideki
• Korean: Ǔlji Mundŏk
• Portuguese: Viriathus, Afonso Henriques, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Afonso de Albuquerque, Sebastian of Portugal, Mouzinho de Albuquerque, Costa Gomes, Francisco Daniel "Danny" Roxo
• Serbian: Arkan
• Slovak: Jozef Gabčík, Milan Rastislav Štefánik
• Swedish: Gustavus Adolphus, Jacob De la Gardie, Johan Banér, Charles XII

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Fictional soldiers

• Jaroslav Hašek: The Good Soldier Svejk
• Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier
• Rostam: Shahnameh
• Richard Sharpe: the central character in the "Sharpe" novels by Bernard Cornwell

Abanian: Adem Jashari Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek (IPA: ) (April 30, 1883 in Prague – January 3 , 1923 in Lipnice nad Sázavou ) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Å vejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in... Fritz Muliar as Schwejk (1972) The Good Soldier Švejk (spelled Schweik or Schwejk in many translations, and pronounced /ʃvɛjk/) is the shortened title of the world-famous unfinished novel written by Czech humorist Jaroslav Hašek in 1921-22. ... Dame Rebecca West, DBE (December 21, 1892–March 15, 1983), whose real name was Cicely (she later changed it to Cicily) Isabel Fairfield, was a British-Irish feminist and writer famous for her novels and for her relationship with H. G. Wells. ... The Return of the Soldier is a 1918 novel by the British novelist Rebecca West. ... Rostam Slaying the Dragon- A miniature Painting by Master Mahmoud Farshchian. ... Shâhnameh Shāhnāmé, or Shāhnāma (Persian: )(alternative spellings are Shahnama, Shahnameh, Shahname, Shah-Nama, etc. ... Richard Sharpe may either mean: Richard Sharpe (fictional character) Richard Sharpe (soccer), English football (soccer) player This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Bernard Cornwell OBE (born February 23, 1944) is a prolific and popular English historical novelist. ...