List of World War I veterans
The following is a list of noteworthy people who served in World War I, sorted by the country for which they served.
Australia
- General Sir John Monash, most noted Australian General in WWI, appointed corps commander of the Australian forces in 1918
- Stanley Bruce, severely wounded in France, became Prime Minister of Australia
- Marcel Caux, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières
- Arthur Henry Cobby, aviator, DFC DSO
- Sir John Collins, admiral
- Arnold Potts, WWII general
- Billy Sing, sniper
- Charles Kingsford Smith, aviator
- Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, 3rd Light Horse, aviator
Austria-Hungary
- Karl I of Austria, last Emperor of Austria
- Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, rear admiral and pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Poland (1916-1918)
- Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen,Generalfeldmarshall
- Henry Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe
- Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish Legion
- Peter Aufschnaiter, geographer/mountaineer
- Józef Beck, Polish statesman, Polish Legion-also served Poland
- Zygmunt Berling, Polish WWII leader-also served Poland
- Eduard Freiherr von Bohm-Ermolli
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz, Polish clandestine warrior-also served Poland
- Antoni Chrusciel, Polish general-also served Poland
- Walerian Czuma, Polish WWII general also served Poland
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski-also served France and Poland
- Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, Polish general
- Henryk Dobrzanski, WWII guerilla commander
- Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer, Polish general
- Bronisław Duch, Polish general
- Hanns Eisler, composer
- Karl Hermann Frank, [...] official in Czechoslovakia
- Uri Zvi Greenberg, poet
- Jozef Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general-also served under French command
- Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general
- Jaroslav Hašek, member of Czech Legion; Czech author of The Good Soldier Švejk
- Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral
- Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski, Polish general
- Alojzy Wir-Konas-also served Polish Legion
- August Kubizek
- Victor Kugler, Austrian Navy
- Béla Kun, also served Russia
- Friedrich von Ledebur, Austrian cavalry
- Bela Lugosi, actor of Dracula fame
- Kazimierz Orlik-Lukoski, WWII Polish general
- Stanisław Maczek, WWII Polish general
- Henryk Minkiewicz, WWII Polish general
- Imre Nagy, also served Russia in the Red Army
- Adam Nieniewski, WWI Polish commander
- Pawel Parniak
- Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal
- Oskar Potiorek, Austrian general
- Rudolf Prich, WWII Polish general
- Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian Prime Minister
- Hans Albin Rauter, WWII war criminal
- Lothar Rendulic, WW II war Criminal
- Stefan Grot-Rowecki, Polish general
- Edward Rydz, Marshal of Poland
- Erwin Schrodinger
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Władysław Sikorski, commander-in-chief, Polish forces in WWII
- Stanisław Skarżyński, aviator
- Mieczyslaw Smorawinski, WWII Polish general
- Stanisław Sosabowski, WWII Polish general
- Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, right wing Austrian politician
- Ludvik Svoboda-also served Russia Czechoslovak Legion
- Stanislaw Szeptycki, WWII Polish general-also served Poland
- Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian leader-also served in Siberia
- Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, Polish Legions
- Georg Ritter von Trapp, Navy
- Karl Maria Wiligut, SS general in WWII
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- Paul Wittgenstein, one-armed pianist
- Juliusz Zulauf, Polish Legion WWII Polish general
- Michał Rola-Żymierski, post-WWII Polish leader
Belgium
- Albert I of Belgium, King of Belgium
- Leopold III of Belgium, King of Belgium, fought as a private
Canada
- Jimmie Angel, aviator
- Richard Arlen, American actor
- William George Barker, WWI fighter ace,VC
- Billy Bishop, top Canadian fighter ace
- Roy Brown (pilot), Canadian fighter ace
- Raymond Chandler, US born with British citizenship
- Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, {born Sylvestor Clark Long}
- Harry Crerar, lieutenant colonel in WWI, Canada's leading field commander in WWII
- John Bernard Croak, VC
- Arthur Currie, first Canadian general WWI
- John Diefenbaker, thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- Punch Dickins, bush pilot
- William Faulkner, author
- George Reginald Geary, mayor of Toronto from 1910 to 1912
- Sam Hughes, the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence during World War I
- Filip Konowal, VC
- Raymond Massey, actor
- Wop May, fighter ace, "first bush pilot"
- John McCrae, author of In Flanders Fields
- Grey Owl, (born Archibald Belaney)
- Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- George Lawrence Price, last soldier killed in WWI
- Sidney Reilly, adventurer
- William Stephenson, spymaster, codename Intrepid
France
- Maurice Chevalier, actor, singer
- Charles de Gaulle, post-WWII French leader
- Robert Benoist, soldier and aviator
- Marc Bloch, historian
- Eugene Bullard, aviator
- Céline, author Journey to the End of the Night
- Francois Darlan
- Joseph Darnand
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski-also served in Austria-Hungary and Poland
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
- Maurice Floquet
- Maurice Gamelin, top French general at start of WWII
- Henri Giraud, French general
- Jozef Haller de Hallenburg, formerly served under Austrian Command
- Maurice Janin
- John Litel, actor
- Andre Maginot
- Rene Mayer
- Jean Moulin
- Philippe Petain
- Sholom Schwartzbard, anarchist, also served in Russia
- Milan Rastislav Stefanik
- Maxime Weygand
Germany
- King of Saxony Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden (1891-1964).
- Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany
- Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria
- Prince Maximilian of Baden
- Prince Philip of Hesse-Kassel
- Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
- Ernst August of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland
- Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick
- Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
- Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf [...] Police General
- Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
- Count Alfred Niezychowski
- Hans Albers
- Max Amann, [...]
- Erich von dem Bach, SS general
- Carl Meyer Balbo, aviator aka "Karl Meyer"
- Hermann Balck
- Hermann Bauer
- Hans Baur, SS general
- Ludwig Beck
- Max Beckmann, artist, writer
- Rudolf Berthold
- Hans Hartwig von Beseler
- Wilhelm Bittrich, SS general
- Paul Blobel, SS officer
- Martin Bormann, [...]
- Philipp Bouhler, [...]
- Bruno Brauer
- Erich Brandenberger
- Theodor Busse
- Wilhelm Canaris
- Dietrich von Choltitz
- Dr.Carl Clauberg, SS officer
- Kurt Daluege, SS officer
- Rudolf Diels
- Otto Dietrich, SS officer, NSDAP press officer
- Sepp Dietrich, SS officer
- Oskar Dirlewanger, SS officer
- Otto Dix, artist
- Friedrich Dollman
- Karl Dönitz, [...] admiral (Leader of Submarines), [...]'s successor
- Walter Dornberger
- Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki -also served Russia and Poland
- Theodor Duesterberg
- Fritz Joubert Duquesne
- Heinrich Eberbach
- Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
- Theodor Eicke, SS officer
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Ludwig Erhard
- Erich von Falkenhayn
- Wilhelm Falley
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Karl Fiehler, SS officer
- Hermann Florstedt
- Hans Frank, SS officer
- Otto Frank
- Roland Freisler, [...] judge
- Hans Fritzsche
- Walter Funk, [...]
- Mieczysław Garsztka, aviator-also served in Poland
- Hans Globke
- Hermann Göring, flying ace and WWII Luftwaffe leader
- Richard Glücks, SS general
- Robert Ritter von Greim
- Arthur Greiser, SS general
- Jakob Grimminger
- Wilhelm Groener
- George Grosz, German painter
- Heinz Guderian, [...] tank general
- Fritz Haber
- Franz Halder
- Siegfried Handloser
- Paul Hausser, SS general
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- Karl Haushofer
- Paul Hausser, SS general
- Martin Heidegger, philosopher
- Gotthard Heinrici
- Rudolf Hess
- Heinrich Himmler, did not see combat, WWII SS leader
- Paul von Hindenburg WWI leader of German forces
- Adolf [...], Iron Cross First Class recipient and WWII leader
- Erich Hoepner
- Otto Hofmann, SS general
- Rudolf Höss, SS officer
- Max Hoffmann
- Hans-Valentin Hube
- Josef Jakobs
- Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
- Karl Jäger, SS officer
- Alfred Jodl
- Hanns Johst
- Ernst Jünger, author
- Edgar Julius Jung
- Erich Kaestner
- Josef Kammhuber
- Wilhelm Keitel
- Friedrich Kellner, Mainz Justice Inspector, diarist
- Albert Kesselring, [...] general
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
- Viktor Klemperer, Jewish German intellectual
- Erich Koch, SS officer
- Karl Otto Koch, SS Officer
- Heinrich Kreipe
- Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger
- Fritz Kuhn [...]
- Bodo Lafferentz-SS Lt. Col in World War II
- Hans Lammers, SS officer
- Hans Langsdorff
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
- Robert Ley, [...]
- Alexander Lippisch
- Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
- Heinrich Lübke-President of Germany
- Count Felix von Luckner
- Erich Ludendorff
- Viktor Lutze
- August von Mackensen
- Erich von Manstein, [...] general
- Hasso von Manteuffel
- Karl Mauss
- Willy Messerschmitt
- Erhard Milch
- Walter Model
- Theodore Morell, [...] doctor
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller
- Heinrich Müller, Gestapo
- Werner Mummert
- Konstantin von Neurath
- Hans Nieland
- Helmuth von Pannwitz
- Franz von Papen
- Friedrich Paulus
- Fritz Pfeffer
- Oswald Pohl, SS, main figure in Holocaust
- Erich Raeder, [...] admiral
- Johann Rattenhuber, SS general
- Hans Reiter, [...]
- Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front
- Lothar von Richthofen (Brother of Manfred von Richthofen)
- Wolfram von Richthofen
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet
- Alfred Rodenbücher, SS General
- Ernst Röhm, SA leader until 1934
- Erwin Rommel, "The Desert Fox"
- Gerd von Rundstedt
- Hans von Salmuth
- Erich Salomon
- Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
- Otto Liman von Sanders
- Dr. Emanuel Schaefer, SS colonel see List of SS Personnel
- Rudolf von Scheliha
- Albert Leo Schlageter
- Kurt von Schleicher
- William G. Sebold
- Franz Seldte
- Richard Sorge, Communist spy
- Hugo Sperrle
- Felix Steiner
- Stoessner,Johannes Paul Otto (1894-1915) NCO Feldflieger Pilot
- Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz
- Gregor Strasser, [...] leftwinger
- Otto Strasser, [...] leftwinger
- Bruno Streckenbach, [...]/SS general
- Julius Streicher, [...]
- Jurgen Stroop, SS general
- Kurt Student
- Ernst Thälmann, leader of the KPD (German Communist Party) until 1933
- Ludwig Thoma
- Fritz Todt
- Kurt Tucholsky, author and journalist
- Ernst Udet
- Walter Ulbricht
- Jozef Unrug-also served in Poland
- (Jona) Baron von Ustinov
- Max Valentiner
- Friedrich Wolf
- Karl Wolff, SS officer
- Wilhelm Zaisser, Communist
- Kurt Zeitzler
Ireland
- John Henry Patterson (author) Royal Engineers DSO, Commander of the Zion Mule Corps and the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers aka Jewish Legion
Italy
- Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII
- Benito Mussolini, WWII leader
- Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, aircraft designer for USSR
- Enzo Ferrari, race car maker
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer
- Antonio Todde, one of the oldest documented living men
- Giuseppe Zangara, would-be presidential assassin
New Zealand
- E.W.C.Chaytor-General commanded the Anzac Mounted Division.
- Bernard Freyberg, WWII general, VC, first to land in Anzac Cove
- Victor Grayson, English socialist politician
- John A. Lee, New Zealand socialist politician
- Keith Park, WWII RAF air vice marshal, (played by Trevor Howard in the film Battle of Britain)
- Richard Travis, sniper
Poland (1918/1919 2nd Republic)
- Wladyslaw Anders-also served in Russia
- Tomasz Arciszewski- Prime MInister of the government in exile during WWII (also served Austria-Hungary)
- Jozef Beck-also served Austria-Hungary
- Zygmunt Berling-also served Austria-Hungary
- Leon Billewicz-also served in Russia
- Bronislaw Bohatyrewicz-also served in Russia
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz-also served Austria-Hungary
- Antoni Chrusciel-also served Austria-Hungary
- Xawery Czernicki, navy-also served in Russia
- Walerian Czuma-also served Austria-Hungary
- Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski-also served Austra-Hungary
- Henryk Dobrzanski-also served Austria-Hungary
- Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer-also served Austria-Hungary
- Bronislaw Duch-also served Austria-Hungary
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski-also served in Austria-Hungary and France
- Mieczyslaw Garsztka, aviator-also served in Germany
- Stanislaw Haller de Hallenburg-also served in Austria-Hungary
- Ludwik Idzikowski, aviator-also served in Russia
- Jerzy Kirchmayer-also served in Russia
- Alojzy Wir-Konas-also served Austria-Hungary
- Stanislaw Kopanski-also served in Russia
- Marian Kukiel-general in World War II
- Kazimierz Orlik-Lukoski-also served in Austria-Hungary
- Henryk Minkiewicz-also served in Austria-Hungary
- http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/people/32801-antoni-mroczkowski.html Antoni Mroczkowski-also served in Russia
- Adam Nieniewski-also served Asutria-Hungary
- Witold Pilecki served in Polish Self defense unit at Wilno Lithuania
- Konstanty Plisowski-also served in Russia
- Kazimierz Porebski, navy-also served in Russia
- Rudolf Prich-also served in Austria-Hungary
- Juliusz Rommel-also served in Russia
- Karol Rommel-also served in Russia
- Stefan Grot-Rowecki-also served Austria-Hungary
- Edward Rydz,-also served in Austria-Hungary
- Wladyslaw Sikorski-also served Austria-Hungary
- Stanislaw Skarzynski, aviator
- Piotr Skuratowicz-also served in Russia
- Mieczyslaw Smorawinski-also served in Austria-Hungary
- Stanislaw Swianiewicz, member of Polish Military Organisation
- Stanislaw Szeptycki-also served Austria-Hungary
- Arthur Szyk-also served in Russia
- Stanislaw Tatar-also served in Russia
- Wiktor Thommee-also served in Russia
- Michal Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski-also served Austria-Hungary
- Jozef Unrug, Polish army/navy, also served German navy
- Lucjan Zeligowski, WWII Polish general-also served in Russia
- Juliusz Zulauf-also served Austria-Hungary
- Michal Rola-Zymierski-also served Austria-Hungary
Portugal
- José Norton de Matos, general
- Tomás António Garcia Rosado, general
Russia
- Grand Duke Nicholas
- Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia
- Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia
- Prince Ioann Constantinovich of Russia
- Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley
- Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg
- Mikhail Alekseev
- Wladyslaw Anders-also served Poland
- Leon Billewicz-also served Poland
- Vasily Blyukher
- Bronislaw Bohatyrewicz-also served Poland
- Aleksei Brusilov
- Stanislaw Bulak-Balachowicz
- Semyon Budyonny
- Gayk Bzhishkyan
- Vasily Chuikov
- Xawery Czernicki-also served Polish Republic
- Anton Ivanovich Denikin
- Mikhail Drozdovsky
- Alexander Dutov
- Alexander Procofieff de Seversky
- Mikhail Frinovsky
- Radola Gajda, Czech Legion
- Nikifor Grigoriev
- Ludwik Idzikowski-also served Polish Republic {1918}
- Sergey Ilyushin
- Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin
- Valentin Kataev
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Sergey Kirov
- Aleksandr Kolchak
- Ivan Konev
- Stanislaw Kopanski 1st Polish Corps-also served in Poland
- Lavr Georgevich Kornilov
- Pyotr Krasnov
- Béla Kun-also served Austria-Hungary
- Alexander Kutepov
- Sigizmund Levanevsky
- Sergey Markov
- Jerzy Kirchmayer-also served in Poland
- Vladimir May-Mayevsky
- Kirill Meretskov
- Evgenii Miller
- http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/people/32801-antoni-mroczkowski.html Antoni Mroczkowski-also served Poland
- Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki 1st Polish Legionnaires Corps-also served Poland
- Imre Nagy-also served Austria-Hungary
- Ignacy Oziewicz
- Konstanty Plisowski-also served in Polish Republic
- Viktor Pokrovsky
- Kazimierz Porebski-also served in Polish Republic
- Paul von Rennenkampf
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
- Juliusz Rommel-also served in Polish Republic
- Karol Rommel-also served in Polish Republic
- Yitzhak Sadeh
- Alexander Samsonov
- Sholom Schwartzbard, formerly served under French command
- Grigory Mikhailovich Semenov
- Andrei Shkuro
- Piotr Skuratowicz-also served in Polish Republic
- Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovak Legion-also served Austria-Hungary
- Arthur Szyk-also served in Polish Republic
- Stanislaw Tatar-also served in Poland
- Wiktor Thommee-also served in Poland
- Semyon Timoshenko
- Josip Broz Tito-also served Austria-Hungary
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
- Jukums Vacietis
- Pyotr Wrangel
- Vadim Yakovlev
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich
- Lucjan Zeligowski-also fought in Poland
- Georgi Zhukov
- Franciszek Zwirko
Serbia
- Alexander I of Yugoslavia, first King of Yugoslavia
- Dragoljub Mihailovic, WWII Serbian general/partisan leader awarded US Legion of Merit
- Zivojin Misic, Serbian field marshal
- Milan Nedić, Serbian General
- Radomir Putnik, Serbian field marshal
Ottoman Empire
- Amin al-Husayni, Palestinian nationalist
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, hero of Gallipoli and founder of the Secular Republic of Turkey
- Fevzi Çakmak
- Fawzi al-Qawuqji
United Kingdom
- King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
- King George VI of the United Kingdom
- Prince Arthur of Connaught
- Prince George, Duke of Kent
- Prince Adolphus of Teck
- Prince Alexander of Teck
- Prince Louis of Battenberg
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
- George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge
- Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
- Gershon Agron, Jewish Legion
- John Alcock (aviator)
- Clement Attlee, post-WWII Prime Minister
- Tom Barry, Irish guerrilla leader
- Nigel Bruce, actor
- David Ben-Gurion, Jewish Legion
- Itzhak Ben-Zvi, Jewish Legion
- Edmund Blunden, war poet and author
- Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
- Frederick Browning, WWII general
- Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist
- Winston Churchill, future Prime Minister
- Noel Coward, actor/playwright/composer
- Henry Daniell, actor
- Harry "Wings" Day,
- Adrian Carton De Wiart, WWII general, VC
- Yaakov Dori, Jewish Legion
- Sholto Douglas
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, commander of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain
- Reginald Dunne, IRA
- Anthony Eden, future Prime Minister
- SirJacob Epstein, Jewish Legion
- Levi Eshkol, Jewish Legion
- J.F.C. Fuller, military writer
- Robert Graves, author
- Arthur Harris
- Basil Liddell Hart, military writer
- Samuel Hoare
- Masaharu Homma
- Leslie Howard, actor Gone with the Wind
- Dov Hoz, Jewish Legion
- Zeev Jabotinsky, Jewish Legion
- Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne
- Charles Laughton, actor
- John Laurie, actor, famous for playing Private Fraser in Dad's Army
- Arnold Ridley, actor, playwright, famous for playing Private Godfrey in Dad's Army
- C.S. Lewis, author The Chronicles of Narnia
- Robert A. Lovett RNAS-also served USA
- James McCudden VC
- Harold Macmillan, future Prime Minister
- Francis Peabody Magoun, RAF
- Albert "Smiler" Marshall
- A.E.W. Mason , author The Four Feathers
- Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- George Leigh Mallory Everest mountaineer
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory highest-ranking British officer to die during WWII
- Victor McLaglen, actor
- A. A. Milne, author
- James F. Morris
- Henry Moseley, Moseley used X-ray diffraction to show that each element has an atomic number, killed in Gallipoli by a sniper
- Oswald Mosley
- Alan Mowbray, actor
- Lord Moyne
- Sir Philip Neame VC
- Richard O'Connor MC
- Liam O'Flaherty
- Joseph O'Sullivan, IRA
- Wilfred Owen, poet
- Keith Park, future RAF commander
- Cecil Parker
- Herbert Plumer
- Alexander Ramsey
- Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
- Kermit Roosevelt, joined AEF upon USA joining the war
- Siegfried Sassoon, war poet and author
- Ernest Aldrich Simpson
- Sir Bill Slim
- Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, RAF
- Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Sir Ivan Stedeford
- J. R. R. Tolkien, author, Lancashire Fusiliers
- Joseph Trumpeldor
- Ralph Vaughan Williams O.M. Composer
- Alec Waugh, author
- James Whale, film director
- Henry Hughes Wilson
United States
- Grover Cleveland Alexander, MLB Hall of Fame pitcher, US Army
- Terry De La Mesa Allen, WW II General U.S. 1st Infantry Division and 104th Infantry Division
- Henry Harley Arnold, WWII general, first Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force, US Army
- Jack Benny, actor/comedian, US Navy
- Thomas Hart Benton, painter, US Navy
- Humphrey Bogart, US Navy
- Lewis H. Brereton, US Army
- Robert Elliott Burns
- Smedley Butler, USMC
- Richard E. Byrd, US Navy
- Pedro Albizu Campos, US Army
- James Vincenzo Capone, US Army
- Eric Carlson, US Army
- Frank Carlson, Kansas Governor, US Representative and US Senator, US Army
- Claire Chennault, Flying Tigers founder, US Army
- Mark Wayne Clark, WWII general, US Army
- Ty Cobb, MLB Hall of Fame batter/infielder, US Army
- Richard Connell, US Army
- Daniel Daly, USMC
- Herman Davis, US Army
- Walt Disney, Ambulance service
- Brian Donlevy, US Air service
- William J. Donovan, US Army
- Jimmy Doolittle, US Army
- John Foster Dulles
- Ira Eaker, US Army
- Merritt A. Edson, USMC
- Robert Eichelberger, US Army
- Sam Ervin, US Army
- James Reese Europe, US Army
- Wesley Everest, US Army
- James Van Fleet, US Army
- Frank Jack Fletcher, US Navy
- James Forrestal, US Navy
- Buckminister Fuller, US Navy
- Hoot Gibson, actor, US Army
- Frank L. Hagaman, Kansas Governor, 117th Kansas Ammunition Train
- William Halsey, Jr, US Navy
- Moses Hardy, US Army, one of oldest documented men
- Joe Harris (baseball), US Army
- Frank Monroe Hawks, aviator
- Ernest Hemingway, author, Ambulance service
- Lewis Blaine Hershey, served 62 years {!}(1911-1973) Mexican Expedition to Vietnam
- Courtney Hodges, US Army
- Shemp Howard, US Army
- William Hushka, US Army
- Edward Jacobson, US Army
- Henry Lincoln Johnson, US Army
- Buster Keaton, actor, US Army
- George Kenney, US Air Service, US Army
- Geoffrey Keyes, US Army
- Isaac C. Kidd, US Navy
- James H. Kindelberger, US Army Air Service
- Edward P. King, US Army
- Ernest J. King, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Walter Krueger, WWII general, US Army
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia, NYC mayor, US Army
- William C. Lambert, RAF and US Air Service, American fighter ace
- Alf Landon, Kansas Governor, US Army
- Oliver Law, US Army
- John C. H. Lee, US Army
- William C. Lee, US Army
- John A. Lejeune, USMC
- Douglas MacArthur, WWII and Korean War general, US Army
- William March, writer, USMC
- George C. Marshall, WWII general and U.S. Secretary of State, US Army
- Gummo Marx
- Christy Mathewson, MLB Hall of Fame pitcher, US Army
- Leslie J. McNair, WWII general, US Army
- Vernon Miller, US Army
- Victor Mills, WWI US Navy, inventor
- Marc Mitscher, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Billy Mitchell, US Army
- Michael Angelo Musmanno, US Navy
- Chester Nimitz, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Pat O'Brien (actor), US Navy
- John W. O'Daniel, US Army {WWII Lt. Gen}
- Jarvis Offutt, US Army Air Service
- John Painter, US Army, one of oldest documented men
- Alexander M. Patch, WWII general, US Army
- George S. Patton, WWII general, US Army
- John J. Pershing US Army
- Chesty Puller, WWII and Korean War general, USMC
- Ernie Pyle, WWII war correspondent, US Navy
- Payne Ratner, Kansas Governor, US Navy
- Eddie Rickenbacker, top scoring American fighter Ace, US Army
- Branch Rickey, helped integrate baseball, US Army
- Lawrence Riley, US Army
- Joseph Rochefort, US Navy {DSM & PMF}
- Keller E. Rockey, USMC
- Archibald Roosevelt
- Kermit Roosevelt, also served for United Kingdom until the United States joined the war
- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., WWII general and Normandy Medal of Honor recipient, US Army
- Leverett A. Saltonstall, US Army
- Christian F. Schilt, USMC {Medal of Honor 1928}
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel, Kansas Governor and US Senator, US Naval Air Service
- Norman Scott, US Navy
- Rodger W. Simpson, Rear Admiral, US Navy
- Holland Smith, USMC
- Oliver Prince Smith, USMC
- Walter Bedell Smith, US Army
- Carl Spaatz, WWII general, US Army
- Raymond Spruance, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Adlai Stevenson, Governor of Illinois, US Navy
- Joseph Stilwell, WWII general, US Army
- Sergeant Stubby, US Army war dog
- Helmer Swenholt, US Army Corps of Engineers
- Turkey Tayac, US Army Rainbow Division
- Gerald C. Thomas, USMC
- Peter Tomich, US Army; WWII Pearl Harbor Medal of Honor recipient, US Navy
- Emiliano Mercado del Toro, one of oldest documented men
- Harry S. Truman, US President, US Army
- Lucian Truscott, WWII general, US Army
- Alexander Vandegrift, WWII general and Guadalcanal Medal of Honor recipient, USMC
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, WWII general, US Army
- Kenneth N. Walker, WW II General {Medal of Honor KIA 1943 see 1 {For reference only}
- Walton Walker, US Army
- Charles White Whittlesey, US Army
- David Marshall Williams, US Navy
- Harry Hines Woodring, Kansas governor, US Tank Corps
- Alvin York, most decorated WWI veteran, US Army
Of the above, fewer than 200 were still alive as of November 11, 2003. As of November 16, 2006, only 15 remained.
References
Casey Stengal- baseball manager
See also
- List of military veterans
- Surviving veterans of World War I
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2007
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2006
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2005
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2004
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2003
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2002
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2001
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2000
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 1999
- World War I