List of people associated with World War I

Australia (Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Sir Talbot Hobbs[?], (1864-1938), General
• Billy Hughes[?], (1862-1952), Prime Minister
• Sir John Monash, (1865-1931), Commander, Australian Forces
• Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885-1952), War reporter
• Sir Charles Rosenthal[?], (1875-1954), Commander, 2nd Division

Austria-Hungary (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

• Franz Conrad von Hötzendorff[?], (1852-1925), Chief of Staff (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
• Artur Arz von Straussenburg[?], (1857-1935), Chief of Staff (1917-1918)
• Oskar Potiorek[?], (1853-1933), General

Politicians

• Count Leopold von Berchtold[?], (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)
• Baron Istvan Burian[?], (1851-1922), Foreign Minister (1915-1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916-1918)
• Count Ottokar Czernin[?], (1872-1932), Foreign Minister (1916-1918)
• Count Julius Andrassy the Younger[?] (1860-1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
• Count Karl von Stürgkh[?] (1859-1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911-1916)
• Ernst von Koerber[?] (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
• Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinitz[?] (1863-1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916-1917)
• 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)
• Heinrich Lammasch[?] (1853-1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
• Count Istvan Tisza[?] (1861-1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913-1917)
• Count Moric Esterhazy[?] (1881-1960), Minister-President of Hungary (1917)
• Sandor Wekerle[?] (1848-1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917-1918)
• Count Michael Karolyi[?] (1875-1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
• Victor Adler[?], Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Friedrich Adler[?], Austrian Social Democratic leader
• Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor

Belgium (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

Bulgaria (Entered the War on: October 12, 1915)

Royalty

• Ferdinand I[?]

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

Canada (Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Billy Bishop, (1884-1956), ace credited with 72 victories
• Sir Robert Borden, (1854-1937), Prime Minister (1911-1920)
• Henri Bourassa, (1868-1952), led French Canadian opposition to conscription
• Sir Arthur Currie[?], (1875-1933), Commander, Canadian Forces
• Sir Sam Hughes[?], (1853-1921), Minister of Militia and Defense
• John McCrae, (1872-1918), doctor and poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
• Sir Richard Turner[?], (1871-1948), Chief of Canadian General Staff

France (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 - Janurary 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)

Germany (Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

Monarch

• Emperor Wilhem II

Military Leaders

• Erich von Falkenhayn[?]
• Hermann von François[?]
• Wilhelm Groener[?]
• Paul von Hindenburg, (1847-1934), general, president
• Admiral Franz von Hipper[?], Commander, High Seas Fleet
• Max Hoffmann[?]
• Erich Ludendorff, general
• Helmuth von Moltke, (1800-1891), German soldier
• 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

• Anthony Fokker, (1890 - 1939), Aircraft builder
• Manfred von Richthofen, (1892-1918), fighter ace

Greece (Entered the War on: June 29, 1917)

• King Constantine I
• King Alexander
• Joannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), military dictator
• Eleutherios Venizelos[?], prime minister

Italy (Entered the War on: May 23, 1915)

• Pietro Cadorna[?]
• Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869-1947)
• Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
• Antonio Salandra[?]
• Giovanni Giolitti[?]
• Baron Sidney Sonnino[?]
• Vittorio Orlando[?]
• Luigi Boselli[?]
• Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce

Japan (Entered the War on: August 23, 1914)

• Emperor Yoshihito
• Mitsuomi Kamio[?]
• Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, prime minister (1914-1916)
• Count Masatake Terauchi, prime minister (1916-1918)
• Takashi Hara, (1918-1921)

Netherlands (Neutral Country)

• Jelles Troelstra[?]
• Mata Hari, spy
• Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), Queen

New Zealand (Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Sir James Allen[?], Minister of Defence
• Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), Highly decorated solider
• William Massey[?], Prime Minister
• Sir Andrew Russell[?], General

Ottoman Empire (Entered the War on: October 31, 1914)

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, (1881-1938), Turkish leader
• Sultan Mehmed V
• Sultan Mehmed VI
• Enver Pasha[?], Minister of War
• Said Halim Pasha[?], Grand Vizier
• Talaat Pasha[?], Minister of Interior

Romania (Entered the War on: August 27, 1916)

• Alexandru Averescu[?]
• Ion Bratianu[?]
• Carol I[?]
• Ferdinand I, (1865-1927), King of Romania (1924-1927)
• Constantine Prezan[?]

Russia (Entered the War on: August 1, 1914)

Monarchs

• Emperor Nicholas II, (1868-1918)
• Empress Alexandra, (1872-1918)

Military Leaders

• Mikhail Alekseev[?]
• Aleksei Brusilov[?]
• Yuri Danilov[?]
• Anton Denikin[?]
• Alexander Kolchak[?], Admiral
• Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870-1918), Russian general
• Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich[?]
• Paul von Rennenkampf[?]
• Alexander Samsonov[?]
• Peter Wrangel[?]
• Nikolai Yudenich[?]

Political Leaders and others

• Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888-1938), Bolshevik Leader
• Victor Chernov[?], Socialist Revolutionary Leader
• Ivan Goremykin[?], Prime Minister (1914-1916)
• Alexander Guchkov[?], Octobrist leader
• Lev Kamenev[?]
• Aleksandr Kerensky, ((1881-1970), second head of the Provisional Government (1917)
• Alexandra Kollontai[?], Bolshevik Leader
• Alexander Krivoshein[?], Minister of Agriculture
• Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924), Bolshevik leader
• Prince Georgy Lvov[?], first Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
• Nikolai Maklakov[?], Minister of the Interior
• Julius Martov[?], Menshevik Leader
• Paul 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

Serbia (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
• Radomir Putnik[?], (1847-1917), Chief of General Staff
• Peter Vasic[?], (1862-1931), Colonel
• Bosa Yankovich[?], General

South Africa (Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

• Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor[?], (1894-1921),Fighter Pilot
• Louis Botha[?], (? - 1919), Prime Minister
• Sir Henry Lukin[?], (1860-1925), General
• Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), Prime Minister
• Sir Jacob Louis Van Deventer[?], (1874-1922), General

United Kingdom (Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)

Monarchs

• King George V
• Queen Mary

Military Leaders

• Edmund Allenby, (1861-1936), British soldier
• David Beatty, (1871-1936), admiral
• John Fisher, (1469-1535), admiral
• John French, Commander of the BEF[?] (1914-1915)
• Hubert Gough[?], general
• Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), Commander of the BEF[?] (1915-1918)
• John Jellicoe, (1859-1935), admiral
• Horatio Kitchener, (1850-1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
• Hubert Plumer[?], (1857-1932), field marshall
• Sir William Robertson[?], (1860-1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff
• Sir Henry Wilson,

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, Psychiatrist

United States of America (Entered the War on: April 6, 1917)

• William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), Secretary of State
• 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
• Robert Lansing, (1864-1928), Secretary of State
• John 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