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List of people associated with World War I
See: World War I
(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)
- C.E.W. Bean (1879-1968) Official Australian war correspondent
- Henry Gordon Bennett (1887-1962) Commander, 3rd Infantry Brigade
- William Throsby Bridges (1861-1915) Commander, Australian Imperial Force, Australian 1st Division
- Henry George Chauvel (1865-1945), Commander, Anzac Mounted Division, Desert Mounted Corps
- Sir Talbot Hobbs, (1864-1938), Commander, Australian 5th Division
- Billy Hughes, (1862-1952), Prime Minister
- John Simpson Kirkpatrick, (1892-1915), Stretcher bearer
- The Hon. James Whiteside M'Cay, (1864-1930), Commander, Australian 5th Division
- Sir John Monash, (1865-1931), Commander, Australian 3rd Division, Australian Corps
- Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885-1952), War reporter
- Sir Charles Rosenthal , (1875-1954), Commander, Australian 2nd Division
(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)
Royalty
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1863-1914), heir to the throne whose murder brought on the war.
- Emperor Franz Josef, (1830-1916)
- Emperor Karl, (1887-1922)
- Empress Zita (1892-1989)
Military Leaders
- Svetozar Boroevic von Bojna, field marshal
- Viktor von Dankl , Colonel General
- Franz Rohr von Denta , field marshal
- Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, (1852-1925), Chief of Staff (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
- Hermann Kövess , field marshal
- Artur Arz von Straussenburg , (1857-1935), Chief of Staff (1917-1918)
- Oskar Potiorek, (1853-1933), General
Politicians
- Friedrich Adler , Austrian Social Democratic leader
- Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
- Count Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860-1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
- Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)
- Baron István Burian , (1851-1922), Foreign Minister (1915-1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916-1918)
- Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinitz (1863-1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916-1917)
- Count Ottokar Czernin , (1872-1932), Foreign Minister (1916-1918)
- Count Moric Esterhazy (1881-1960), Minister-President of Hungary (1917)
- Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862-1931), Minister-President of Austria (1917-1918)
- Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865-1935), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
- Count Michael Karolyi (1875-1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
- Ernst von Koerber (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
- Heinrich Lammasch (1853-1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
- Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
- Count Karl von Stürgkh (1859-1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911-1916)
- Count István Tisza (1861-1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913-1917)
- Sandor Wekerle (1848-1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917-1918)
(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)
- King Albert I, (1875-1934)
- Baron Charles de Broqueville , (1860-1940), Prime Minister
- Victor Deguise , (1855-1922), General
- Gerard Leman , (1851-1920), General
- Gabrielle Petit , (1893-1916), Executed Spy
(Entered the War on: October 12, 1915)
Royalty
Politicians
- Alexander Malinov , (1867-1938), Prime Minister (1908-1911, 1918)
- Vasil Radoslavov , (1854-1929), Prime Minister
- Alexander Stamboliski , (1879-1923), anti-monarchist
- Nikola Zhekov , (1864-1949), Commander-in-Chief
- Stefan Panaretov, (1853-1931), diplomat
Military leaders
- Nikolaus Jekov , general
- Georg Stojanov Todorov
(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)
(Entered the War on: August 3, 1914)
Military Leaders
- Edouard de Castelnau , (1851-1944), General
- Auguste Dubail , (1851-1934), General
- Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856-1942), Marshall
- Ferdinand Foch, (1851-1929), General and Supreme Allied Commander
- Joseph Gallieni, (1849-1916), General
- Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, (1852-1931), Commander-in-Chief
- Hubert Lyautey, (1854-1934), War Minister
- Charles Mangin , (1866-1925), General
- Michael Maunoury , (1847-1923), General
- Robert Georges Nivelle, (1856-1924), Commander-in-Chief
- Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), Commander-in-Chief
- Maurice Sarrail , (1856-1929), General
Politicians
- Aristide Briand, (1862-1932), Prime Minister (1909-11, 1913, 1915-17, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1929)
- Joseph Caillaux, (1863-1944), Prime Minister (June 1911 - January 1912), pacifist
- Georges Clemenceau, (1841-1929), Prime Minister (1917-1920)
- Théophile Delcassé, (1852-1923), Foreign Minister (1914-1915)
- Gaston Doumergue,
- Jean Jaures, (1859-1914), Socialist party leader, pacifist
- Alexandre Millerand, (1859-1943), Minster of War (1912-13, 1914-15)
- Paul Painlevé, (1863-1933), Prime Minister (September 1917 - November 1917)
- Stephen Pichon ,
- Raymond Poincaré, (1860-1934), President (1913-1920)
- Alexandre Ribot, (1842-1923), Prime Minister (March 1917 - September 1917)
- René Viviani, (1862-1925), Prime Minister (1914-1915)
( Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)
Monarch
Military Leaders
- Otto von Below
- Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of Staff 1914 - 1916
- Hermann von François
- Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Field Marshal
- Wilhelm Groener
- Paul von Hindenburg, (1847-1934), general, president
- Admiral Franz von Hipper, Commander, High Seas Fleet
- Max Hoffmann
- Alexander von Kluck, General
- Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
- Erich Ludendorff, General
- August von Mackensen, Field Marshal
- Helmuth von Moltke, (1848-1916), Chief of Staff, 1906 - 1914
- Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
- Otto Liman von Sanders, (1855-1929), General
- Alfred von Schlieffen, (1833-1913), Pre-war Chief of General Staff
- Alfred von Tirpitz, (1849-1930), Naval Minister
- Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
Political Leaders
- Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867-1929), Imperial Chancellor (1918)
- Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Imperial Chancellor (1909-1917)
- Prince Bernhard von Bülow, former Imperial Chancellor (1900-1909), Ambassador to Italy (1914-1915), rival
- Friedrich Ebert, (1871-1925), Social Democratic leader, Imperial Chancellor (1918), later First President of the Weimar Republic
- Matthias Erzberger, leader of the left wing of the Catholic Centre Party
- Count Georg von Hertling, Imperial Chancellor (1917-1918)
- Richard von Kühlmann , Foreign Secretary (1917-1918)
- Georg Michaelis, Imperial Chancellor (1917)
- Gottlieb von Jagow, Foreign Secretary (1913-1916)
- Philipp Scheidemann, Social Democratic Leader, later first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919)
- Gustav Stresemann, (1878-1929), leader of the imperialist wing of the National Liberal Party, later a major statesman of the Weimar Republic
- Arthur Zimmermann, Foreign Secretary (1916-1917)
Others
(Entered the War on: June 29, 1917)
(Entered the War on: May 23, 1915)
- Luigi Cadorna , General
- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869-1947)
- Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
- Antonio Salandra, Prime Minister
- Giovanni Giolitti
- Baron Sidney Sonnino, Foreign Minister
- Vittorio Orlando
- Luigi Boselli
- Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
- Armando Diaz , General
- Gabriele d'Annunzio, novelist and poet
- Francesco Baracca, fighter ace
- Ottavio Bottecchia, soldier, later Tour de France winner
(Entered the War on: August 23, 1914)
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(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)
(Entered the War on: October 31, 1914)
(Entered the War on: August 27, 1916)
(Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)
Monarchs
Military Leaders
Political Leaders and others
- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888-1938), Bolshevik Leader
- Victor Chernov , Socialist-Revolutionary Party Leader
- Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister (1914-1916)
- Alexander Guchkov , Octobrist leader
- Lev Kamenev
- Aleksandr Kerensky, (1881-1970), second head of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
- Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Leader
- Alexander Krivoshein , Minister of Agriculture
- Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924), Bolshevik leader
- Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov, first Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
- Nikolai Maklakov , Minister of the Interior
- Julius Martov, Menshevik Leader
- Pavel Miliukov, Kadet leader
- Alexander Protopopov , Minister of the Interior
- Vladimir Purishkevich , right wing political leader, assassin of Rasputin
- Grigori Rasputin, (1872-1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
- Sergei Sazonov , Foreign Minister (1910-1916)
- Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
- Boris Stürmer, Prime Minister (1916)
- Alexander Trepov, Prime Minister (1916)
- Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940), Bolshevik leader
- Prince Felix Yusupov, murderer of Rasputin
- Grigory Zinoviev, (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik
(Entered the War on: July 28, 1914)
- King Peter I, (1844-1921), Serbian monarch
- Crown Prince Alexander, (1888-1934), Serbian monarch
- Dragutin Dimitrijevic, (1877-1917), founder and leader of Black Hand society
- Zivojin Misic, (1855-1921), Field Marshal
- Nikola Pasic, (1845-1926), Prime Minister
- Gavrilo Princip, (1894-1918), the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand of Austria and triggered the war
- Radomir Putnik, (1847-1917), Chief of General Staff
- Pavle Jurisic Sturm, General
- Peter Vasic , (1862-1931), Colonel
- Bosa Yankovich , General
( Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)
- Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, (1894-1921),Fighter Pilot
- Louis Botha, (1862-1919), Prime Minister
- Sir Henry Lukin , (1860-1925), General
- Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), Prime Minister
- Sir Jacob Louis Van Deventer , (1874-1922), General
( Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)
Royalty
Military Leaders
- Edmund Allenby, (1861-1936), commander in Palestine
- David Beatty, (1871-1936), admiral
- William Birdwood, (1865-1951), commander of the AIF (1916-1918)
- Julian Byng, (1862-1935), general
- Adrian Carton De Wiart, V.C. Front line commander
- John Fisher, (1841-1920), admiral
- John French, (1852-1925), commander of the BEF (1914-1915)
- Hubert Gough, general
- Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), commander of the BEF (1915-1918)
- Ian Hamilton, (1853-1947) commander at Gallipoli
- Aylmer Hunter-Weston, (1864-1940), general
- John Jellicoe, (1859-1935), admiral
- Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, naval officer, Submarines, Dardanelles, Dover Partol, Zeebrugge, Ostend
- Horatio Kitchener, (1850-1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
- Herbert Plumer, (1857-1932), general, later field marshal
- Henry S. Rawlinson, (1864-1925), general
- Sir William Robertson, (1860-1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1915-1917
- Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858-1930), general
- Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, (1864-1922), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1918
Political Leaders
- Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister (1908-1916)
- Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930), Foreign Secretary
- Sir Roger Casement, Irish independence leader
- Winston Churchill, (1911-1915), Prime Minister from 1940
- Lord Curzon, (1859-1925), Unionist politician
- John Dillon, Irish Home Rule leader
- Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary
- Andrew Bonar Law, (1858-1923), Unionist Party leader
- David Lloyd George, (1916-1922), politician
- Lord Milner, politician
- John Redmond, (1856-1918), Irish Home Rule leader
Others
- T. E. Lawrence, (1888-1935), led the Arab Revolt
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), English poet
- W. H. R. Rivers, (1864-1922), Psychiatrist
- David Jones, English poet
- Isaac Rosenberg, English poet
- Edward Thomas, Welsh poet
- May Cannan , English poet
- Wyndham Lewis, ariter, painter, vorticist. Served as war artist.
- Dorothy Lawrence war reporter
(Entered the War on: April 6, 1917)
- William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), Secretary of State
- William T. Fitzsimons, (died 1917), early U.S. casualty.
- Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises
- Edward House , advisor to President Wilson
- Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948), Republican, 1907-1910
- Field E. Kindley, (1895-1920), Ace
- Robert Lansing, (1864-1928), Secretary of State
- Colonel George Patton, commander of U.S. Tank Corps
- General John J. Pershing, (1860-1948), commander of the AEF
- Eddie Rickenbacker, (1890-1973), Ace
- Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924), 28th (1913-1921) President
- Leonard Wood, General
- Sgt. Alvin York, highly decorated war hero
See also: List of people associated with World War II
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