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List of people associated with World War II Redirected from List of World War II personas
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Albania
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma
Canada
- Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
- George Beurling, (1921-1948), fighter ace
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, (1874-1950), Prime Minister
- John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force[?] and author of "High Flight"
- Andrew George Latta (Andy) McNaughton[?], (1887-1966), scientist, military commander, and diplomat
- Tommy Prince[?] (1915-1977), Canada's most decorated soldier, a member of the joint US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade[?]
China
Czechoslovakia
- Edvard Benes, (1884-1948), Czech president-in-exile
- Josef Frantisek[?], fighter ace
- Emil Hacha[?], president
- Konrad Henlein[?], Sudeten German[?] politician
- Karel Miroslav Kuttelwascher [?], fighter ace
- Jan Masaryk, (1886-1948), Czech Foreign minister-in-exile
- Ludvik Svoboda[?], general
- Jozef Tiso, (1887-1947), president of separatist Slovakia
Denmark
Egypt
Ethiopia
Finland
- Aksel Airo, (1898-1985), HQ strategic planner
- Adolf Ehrnrooth, (born 1905), infantry general
- Mauno Koivisto, (born 1923), president
- Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, (1867-1951), Field Marshal and later president
- Juho Kusti Paasikivi, (1870-1956), diplomat
- Risto Ryti, (1889-1956), president
- Hjalmar Siilasvuo, (1892-1947)
- Lauri Törni, (1919-1965), Infantry captain
France
- Georges Bidault[?], French Resistance activist
- Denise Bloch[?], French Resistance and SOE agent
- Pierre Boisson[?], general and governor of Equatorial Africa
- Pierre Brossolette, French Resistance
- Mathilde Carre[?], French Resistance double agent[?]
- Edouard Daladier[?], prime minister
- Jean Francois Darlan, (1881-1942), admiral
- Joseph Darnand[?], head of Vichy France Milice[?]
- Charles De Gaulle, (1890-1970), leader of the Free French Forces and Gaullist French Resistance
- Henri Dentz[?], Vichy France general in Syria
- Maurice Gustave Gamelin[?], general
- Henri Giraud[?], general who escaped from Germans
- Albert Guerisse[?], French resistance
- Noor Inayet Khan[?], SOE agent
- Marie Pierre König[?], General and coordination of resistance activities
- Pierre Laval[?], Vichy France foreign minister
- Philippe Leclerc[?], General of Free French Forces
- Jean Moulin, (1899-1943), French Resistance leader
- Maurice Papon, (1910 - ), Nazi collaborator, convicted war criminal
- Henri Philippe Pétain, (1856-1951), leader of Vichy France
- Violette Szabo, (1921-1945), SOE agent
- Paul Touvier, (1915-1996), Nazi collaborator and only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity
- Susan Travers, (born 1909)
- Nancy Wake, (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
- Maxime Weygand, (1867-1965), general
Germany
(*) = Charged with crimes and tried at the Nuremberg Trials
- Klaus Barbie, (1913-1991), was a German officer of the SS and the Gestapo sent to occupied France where he became known as The Butcher of Lyon
- Bayerlein, Fritz[?], Panzer general
- Ludwig Beck, (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot
- Johannes Blaskowitz[?], Colonel General
- Hugo Bleicher[?], German counter-intelligence operative in France
- Fedor von Bock[?], Field marshal
- Juana Bormann[?], (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps.
- Martin Bormann, (1900-unknown), highest ranking Nazi party administrator (*)
- Herta Bothe[?], camp guard at Bergen-Belsen
- Hans Bothmann[?] (1911-1946), a Commandant of the Chelmno[?] death camp in central Poland
- Dr. Karl Brandt, ran the German T-4 Euthanasia Program
- Eva Braun, (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress
- Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), rocket scientist
- Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
- Wilhelm Canaris, (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr
- Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg[?] conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp
- John Demjanuk[?], notorious guard at the German extermination camps
- Rudolf Diels, (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo
- Sepp Dietrich[?], SS general
- Karl Dönitz, (1891-1980), Admiral, masterminded U-Boat warfare (*)
- Adolf Eichmann, (1906-1962), top level bureaucrat
- Theodor Eicke[?], (1892-1943), a Commandant of the Dachau death camp and head of the SS Death's-Head Units[?]
- Nikolaus Falkenhorst[?], colonel general and commander of German troops in Norway
- Eugen Fischer, (1874-1967), Professor of Anthropology who promoted racial purity
- Hans Frank, (1900-1946), (1900-1945), lawyer for Adolf Hitler (*)
- Walter Frank[?], (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer, he was president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany[?]
- Kurt Franz[?], (1917-1998), Deputy Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp
- Wilhelm Frick, (1877-1946), Reich Minister of the Interior (*)
- Hans Fritzsche, (1900-1953), Nazi party official who served in the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda[?] (*)
- Walther Funk, (1890-1960), was Adolf Hitler's personal advisor on economic affairs and a state secretary of the Propaganda Ministry (*)
- Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe fighter ace
- Hans Bernd Gisevius, (1904-1974), diplomat
- Joseph Goebbels, (1897-1945), Chancellor of Germany, propaganda chief for the Nazis
- Amon Leopold Goeth[?], SS officer
- Hermann Göring, (1893-1946), commander of Luftwaffe
- Irma Grese, (1923-1945), a Senior SS Supervisor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
- Heinz Guderian, (1888-1954), Panzer colonel
- Rudolf Hess, (1894-1987), Hitler's deputy (*)
- Werner Heyde[?], involved in human experimentations
- Reinhard Heydrich, (1904-1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia
- Heinrich Himmler, (1900-1945), head of Gestapo
- Adolf Hitler, (1889-1945), Fuhrer of Germany
- Rudolf Höss[?], first commandant of the extermination camps
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, (1892-1946), a lawyer, and Commissioner of the Occupied Netherlands (*)
- Alfred Jodl, (1890-1946), general, Chief of Operation Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces (*)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, (1903-1946) chief of the German Security Service (*)
- Wilhelm Keitel, (1882-1946), Field Marshal (*)
- Albrecht Kesselring, (1881-1960), Field Marshal, commander of German troops in Italy
- Gunther von Kluge[?], Field Marshal
- Ilse Koch[?], (1906-1967), the wife of Karl Otto Koch, Commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
- Karl Otto Koch, (1897-1945) first commandant at Buchenwald Extermination camp
- Josef Kramer[?] (1906-1945), was the head of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Otto Kretschmer, (1912-1998), U-boat commander
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach[?] (1870-1950), German industrialist and weapons manufacturer (*)
- Alfried Krupp (1907-1967), arms manufacturer (*)
- Hans Langsdroff[?], Commander of Graf Spee
- Arthur Liebehenschel[?], (1901-1948), a Commandant of both the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps
- Robert Ley (1890-1945), Nazi party chief who set up the German Labor Front(1890-1945) (*)
- Maria Mandel[?] (1912-1947), chief-guard of Birkenau women's camp
- Erich von Manstein, (1887-1973), Field Marshal
- Dr. Josef Mengele, a doctor who performed experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz extermination camp
- Walther Model, (1891-1945), Field Marshal
- Werner Mölders[?], Luftwaffe fighter ace
- Konstantin von Neurath, (1873-1956), Foreign minister of Germany (*)
- Herta Oberheuser[?], (1911-1978), a doctor
- Josef Oberhauser[?], commander of the Belzec extermination camp
- Friedrich Paulus[?], Field Marshal and commander of German troops in Stalingrad
- Erich Raeder, (1876-1960) Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy (*)
- Walther von Reichenau[?], field marshal
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, (1893-1946) Nazi foreign minister (*)
- Lothar Rendulic[?]
- Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), NSDAP party member, who organized Adolf Hitler's "Brownshirts"
- Erwin Rommel, (1891-1944), Field Marshal, "Desert Fox"
- Alfred Rosenberg, (1893-1946), Nazi ideologist (*)
- Rudolf Rösseler[?], publisher and Soviet spy
- Gerd von Rundstedt, (1875-1953), Field Marshal
- Walther Schellenberg[?], SS general and secret service officer
- Oskar Schindler, (1908-1974), humanitarian
- Baldur von Schirach, (1907-1974), leader of the Hitler Youth movement (*)
- Otto Skorzeny, (1908-1975), Commando lieutenant colonel
- Hans and Sophie Scholl, (1917-1943), anti-nazis
- Richard Sorge, (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
- Albert Speer, (1905-1981), architect and coordinator of war production (*)
- Franz Stangl[?], (1908-1971) a Commandant at Sobibor extermination camp in Poland
- Claus von Stauffenberg, (1907-1944), Colonel and member of the July Plot
- Julius Streicher (1885-1946), founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper, "Der Sturmer" (*)
- Ernst Udet[?], inspector general of the Luftwaffe
- Elisabeth Volkenrath[?], (1919-1945), guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Christian Wirth[?], commander of the Belzec extermination camp
Greece
Hungary
India
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
- Vittorio Ambrosio[?], general
- Amadoe of Aosta[?], Duke and Commander of Italian armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Pietro Badoglio, (1871-1956), field marshal
- Italo Balbo[?], Governor of Libya
- Annibale Bergonzoli, Lieutenant-General at Bardia
- Valerio Borghese[?], Naval lieutenant commander
- Francisco Cavalera
- Ugo Cavallero[?], Chief of General Staff
- Galeazzo Ciano, (1903-1944), diplomat
- Victor Emmanuel III, (1869-1947)
- Umberto, (1904-1983), Prince of Piedmont - Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom (de facto monarch) from 1943
- Maria José[?], Princess of Piedmont - tried to negotiate separate peace with the United States
- Carlo Favagrossa
- Rodolfo Graziani, (1882-1955)
- Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
- Vittorio Revetra
Japan
- Hatazo Adachi[?], Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in New Guinea
- Korechika Anami[?], General and Minister of War in the end of the war
- Mitsuo Fuchida[?], commander of Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor
- Minory Genda[?], fighter commander
- Haryoshi Hyakutake[?], lieutenant general in Guadalcanal
- Masaharu Homma[?], general in invasion of Philippines
- Masaki Honda[?], Lieutenant general in Burma
- Koicho Kido[?], Lord Privy Seal
- Mineschi Koga[?], admiral, successor of Yamamoto
- Kuniaki Koiso, (1880-1950), lieutenant general
- Nabutake Kondo[?], admiral in Guadalcanal
- Fumimaro Konoye, (1891-1945), statesman
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi[?], general in the Battle of Iwo Jima
- Takeo Kurita[?], admiral in the Battle of Midway
- Chuichi Nagumo, (1886-1944), Admiral
- Hirohito, (1901-1989), emperor
- Yosuke Matsuoka[?], Foreign minister
- Guinichi Mikawa[?], Vice Admiral in the Battle of Savo Island
- Kochisaburo Nomura[?], Admiral
- Takijiro Onishi[?], admiral
- Hiroo Onoda, (born 1922), post-war straggler
- Jisaburo Ozawa[?], Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile Flee in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Saburo Sakai[?], Zero fighter ace
- Yoshitsugu Saito[?], general in Saipan
- Mamoru Shigemitsu[?], Foreign minister
- Hajime Sugiyama[?], general and Army Chief of Staff
- Kantaro Suzuki, (1867-1948), prime minister
- Raizo Tanaka[?], Rear Admiral and destroyer commander
- Hisaichi Terauchi, (1879-1945), Field Marshal ad supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army
- Shigenori Togo[?], Foreign minister
- Hideki Tojo, (1884-1948), general and military prime minister
- Tokyo Rose
- Soemu Toyoda[?], admiral
- Yoshijiro Umezu[?], general
- Mitsuru Ushijima[?], general in the defense of Okinawa
- Isoroku Yamamoto, (1884-1943), admiral
- Tomoyuki Yamashita[?], lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and Philippines
Malta
Manchuria
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Palestine
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
South Africa
Soviet Union
- Alexei Antonov[?], Chief of General Staff at the end of the war
- Lavrenty Beria, (1899-1953), chief of NKVD
- Nikolay Bulganin[?], political marshal
- Vasili Chuikov[?], general and commander of Stalingrad
- Leonid Govorov[?], marshal, liberator of Leningrad
- Nikolay Kuznetsov[?], admiral
- Vasili Kuznetsov[?], general
- Maxim Litvinov[?], Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs before Molotov
- Kirill Meretskov[?], marshall in Winter War
- Vyacheslav Molotov, (1890-1986), Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs
- Ivan Petrov[?], general
- Konstantin Rokossovsky[?], marshal
- Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953)
- Semyon Timoshenko[?], Marshal
- Andrey Tupolev, (1888-1972), aircraft designer
- Nikolay Vatutin[?], general in the relief of Stalingrad
- Andrey Vlasov[?], Lieutenant general and German-backed Russian Liberation Army
- Kliment Voroshilov, (1881-1969), Marshal
- Andrey Yeremenko[?], marshal and front line general in Stalingrad
- Vasily Alexandrovich Zaitsev, sniper
- Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, (1896-1974), marshal and chief of the Red Army
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
- Harold Alexander, (1891-1969), Field Marshal
- Geoffrey Appleyard[?], commando major
- Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), Deputy Prime Minister
- Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), Field Marshal
- Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), Royal Air Force pilot with no legs
- Ralph A. Bagnold, (1896-1990)
- Stanley Baldwin, politician and ex-prime minister
- Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
- Donald Bennett[?], Air Vice-Marshal of RAF
- Ernest Bevin[?], Minister of Labor and National Service
- Tom Bird, Lieutenant at Tobruk
- Alan Brooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal
- Frederick Browning[?], lieutenant general of airborne troops
- Maurice Buckmaster[?], colonel of Special Operations Executive
- Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), Prime Minister at the start of the war
- Peter Churchill, SOE agent
- Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), Prime Minister from 1940
- John Cunningham[?], RAF group captain and night-fighter ace
- William Dobbie, governor of Malta
- Eric Dorman-Smith
- Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), Foreign Secretary
- Duke of Windsor, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
- Princess Elizabeth, (born 1926), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
- Queen Elizabeth, (1900-2002), (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), consort of King George VI
- George VI, (1895-1952)
- William Gott
- Rex King-Clark
- Arthur Harris[?], "Bomber", Air Chief Marshall of Bomber Command[?]
- B.H. Liddell Hart, (1895-1970), Masterminded modern tank warfare, copied by Germans as Blitzkrieg
- Leslie Hor-Belisha[?], Secretary of State for War
- James Johnson[?], RAF fighter ace
- Miles Lampson
- John Lapsley
- Robert Laycock[?], General of the "Layforce[?]"
- Rea Leakey
- Christopher Lee, (born 1922), volunteered to fight in the Winter war
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory[?], Air Marshal and fighter commander
- Fitzroy Maclean[?]
- Leo Marks, (1920-2001)
- Frank Merrill[?], Brigadier general and leader of "Merrill's Marauders[?]"
- Bernard Montgomery, (1887-1976), Field Marshal
- Oswald Mosley, (1896-1980), British fascist leader
- Louis Mountbatten, (1900-1979), Vice-admiral
- Airey Neave, (1916-1979)
- Richard O'Connor
- Charles Portal[?], Chief of Air Staff
- Dudley Pound[?], Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
- Dan Ranfurly
- Odette Sansom, (1912-1995), SOE agent
- William Slim[?], general in Burmese front
- Joseph Stillwell[?], General and Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff
- David Stirling, (1915-1990), commando colonel and founder of Special Air Service
- Alan Turing, (1912-1954), cryptographer
- Susan Travers, (born 1909), French Foreign Legion member
- Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979)
- Archibald Wavell, field marshal
- Henry Maitland Wilson, (1881-1964), field marshal
- Orde Wingate[?], major general and founder of Chindits[?]
- Edward Yeo-Thomas, (1901-1964), SOE agent
United States
- Henry Arnold, (1886-1950), USAAF general
- Donald Blakeslee[?], fighter ace
- Richard Bong, (1920-1945), USAAF fighter ace
- Pappy Boyington[?]
- Omar Bradley, (1893-1981), general
- Lewis Hyde Brereton[?], Major general
- Simon Bolivar Buckner[?], infantry general in Aleutian islands[?]
- Arleigh Burke, (1901-1996), US Navy commander
- George H. W. Bush, (born 1924), US Navy pilot
- Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer
- Claire Chennault, USAAF major general and organizer of Flying Tigers[?]
- Clarence Craft[?]
- William O. Darby
- William Joseph Donovan[?], head of Office of Strategic Services
- James Doolittle, (1896-1993), lieutenant general
- Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), refugee and scientist
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969)
- Bonner Fellers
- James Forrestal, (1892-1949), secretary of the Navy
- William Frederick Friedman, (1891-1969), US cryptographer
- Roy Geiger[?], marine commando general
- Leslie Groves, (1896-1970), general and supervisor of Manhattan Project
- William Halsey, (1882-1959), vice-admiral in Pacific
- William Averell Harriman[?], Us ambassador to Moscow
- Ira Hayes, (1923-1955)
- William Joyce, (1906-1946), "lord Haw-Haw"
- Douglas MacArthur, (1880-1964), General
- George Marshall, (1880-1959)
- Bill Mauldin, (1921-2003)
- Audie Murphy[?]
- Chester Nimitz, (1885-1966), Admiral
- Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967), physicist in Manhattan Project
- Matthew Bunker Ridgway[?], general
- George Patton, (1885-1945), tank general
- Ernest Pyle[?], war correspondent
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (died 1945), President of the United States until his death in April 1945
- Charles Ryder
- Harry S. Truman, (1884-1972), President of the United States from April 1945
- Lucian Truscott
- Jonathan Wainwright, (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
- Fred Walker
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
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