n. 25B6; noun LEADER, head, chief, overseer, controller; commander-in-chief, C in C, commanding officer, CO, officer; informal boss, boss man, skipper, numero uno, number one, top dog, kingpin, head honcho; Brit. informal gaffer, guv'nor. See list.
Military Commanders
Achilles (legendary Greek) Jugurtha (Numidian)
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius (Roman) Kitchener, Herbert, Earl (British)
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius (Roman) Kosciusko, Thaddeus (Polish)
Alanbrooke, Alan Francis Brooke, Viscount (British) Kruger, Paul (South African)
Albuquerque, Alfonso de (Portuguese) Kusunoki Masashige (Japanese)
Alcibiades (Athenian) Kutuzov, Mikhail Ilarionovich, Prince (Russian)
Alexander the Great (Macedonian) Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis de (French)
Alexander, Harold, Earl (British) Lawrence, T. E., Lawrence of Arabia (British)
Allen, Ethan (American) Lee, Robert E. (American)
Allenby, Edmund, Viscount (British) Leonidas (Spartan)
Amr ibn al-As (Arab) Lin Biao (Chinese)
Antony, Mark (Roman) Ludendorff, Erich (German)
Aristides the Just (Athenian) Lysander (Spartan)
Artemisia (Persian) MacArthur, Douglas (American)
Atatürk, Kemal (Turkish) Marius, Gaius (Roman)
Attila the Hun Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of (British)
Bar Kokhba (Jewish) Mihailovi 0107; , Draa (Yugoslav)
Batista, Fulgencio (Cuban) Minamoto Yoritomo (Japanese)
Beatty, David, Earl (British) Moltke, Helmuth von (Prussian)
Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste (French; King of Sweden) Monck, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle (English)
Bolívar, Simón (Venezuelan) Montcalm, Louis Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de (French)
Boudicca/Boadicea (Queen of the Iceni) Montfort, Simon de (English)
Brutus, Marcus Junius (Roman) Montgomery, Bernard Law, Viscount, Monty (British)
Caesar, Julius (Roman) Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of (Scottish)
Calles, Plutarco (Mexican) Moore, John (British)
Carranza, Venustiano (Mexican) Mountbatten, Louis, Earl (British)
Cassius, Gaius (Roman) Murat, Joachim (French; King of Naples)
Castro, Fidel (Cuban) Mzilikazi (Zulu)
Cetshwayo (Zulu) Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte; French)
Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese) Nelson, Horatio (British)
Clausewitz, Karl von (Prussian) Ne Win (Burmese)
Clive of Plassey, Robert, Baron, Clive of India (British) Ney, Michel (French)
Clovis (Frankish) O'Higgins, Bernardo (Chilean)
Coriolanus, Gaius (Roman) Ossian (Irish, legendary)
Crazy Horse (Sioux) Patton, George S. (American)
Cromwell, Oliver (English) Pericles (Athenian)
Cumberland, William, Duke of, the Butcher (English) Pershing, John J. (American)
Custer, George (American) Pétain, Philippe (French)
Dayan, Moshe (Israeli) Pinochet, Augusto (Chilean)
de Gaulle, Charles (French) Pompey the Great (Roman)
de Wet, Christiaan (Afrikaner) Primo de Rivera, Miguel (Spanish)
Díaz, Porfirio (Mexican) Rabin, Yitzhak (Israeli)
Dönitz, Karl (German) Roberts, Frederick, Earl (British)
Dowding, Hugh (British) Rommel, Erwin, the Desert Fox (German)
Drake, Francis (English) Rupert, Prince (English)
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester (English) Saladin (sultan of Egypt and Syria)
Dundee, Bonnie, Viscount, John Graham of Claverhouse (Scottish) San Martin, José de (Argentinian)
Eisenhower, Dwight, Ike (American) Santa Anna, Antonio López de (Mexican)
El Cid (Rodrigo Diáz de Vivar; Spanish) Schlieffen, Alfred von (Prussian)
Enver Pasha (Turkish) Schwarzkopf, H. Norman (American)
Ershad, Hussain (Bangladeshi) Scipio Africanus (Roman)
Fabius, Quintus (Roman) Sebuktigin (Turkish)
Fairfax, Thomas, Baron (English) Shaka (Zulu)
Foch, Ferdinand (French) Sheridan, Philip (American)
Franco, Francisco (Spanish) Sherman, William Tecumseh (American)
Galtieri, Leopoldo (Argentinian) Shovell, Cloudesley (English)
Garibaldi, Giuseppe (Italian) Sitting Bull (Sioux)
Genghis Khan (Mongol) Smuts, Jan Christiaan (South African)
Geronimo (Apache) Spartacus (Thracian)
Giap, Vo Nguyen (Vietnamese) Suleiman the Magnificent (Ottoman)
Goering, Hermann (German) Sulla (Roman)
Gordon, Charles George (British) Tamerlane (Timur Lenk; Mongol)
Grant, Ulysses S. (American) Tito (Yugoslav)
Grivas, George (Greek Cypriot) Tojo, Hideki (Japanese)
Guevara, Che (Argentinian) Tokugawa, Ieyasu (Japanese)
Gustavus Adolphus (King of Sweden) Toussaint L'Ouverture, Pierre Dominique (Haitian)
Haig, Douglas, Earl (British) Trenchard, Hugh (British)
Hannibal (Carthaginian) Tuchachevsky, Mikhail (Russian)
Harris, Arthur, Bomber Harris (British) Villa, Pancho (Mexican)
Hector (legendary Trojan) Wallenstein, Albrecht von (Austrian)
Hideyoshi, Toyotomi (Japanese) Washington, George (American)
Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von (German) Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, the Iron Duke, (British)
Itúrbide, Agustín de (Mexican) William the Conqueror (Norman King of England)
Jackson, Andrew (American) Wolfe, James (British)
Jackson, Thomas Stonewall (American) Xenophon (Greek)
Jellicoe, John Rushworth, Earl (British) Xerxes I (Persian)
Jervis, John, Earl St Vincent (British) Yamamoto, Isoroku (Japanese)
Joffre, Joseph (French) Zapata, Emiliano (Mexican)
John of Austria, Don (Spanish) Zhukov, Georgi (Soviet)
Jones, John Paul (American, b. in Scotland) Zia ul-Haq, Muhammad (Pakistani)