Military General Name Generator
Generals, marshals and brigadiers who sound like they earned it
Generate military general names with the correct star rank attached: American and Commonwealth generals, British field marshals, French and Russian marshals, German, Latin American, Asian and African commanders, plus a set of high generals and warmasters for fantasy and sci-fi armies.
About military general names
A general's name has to carry authority before the character says a word, and in practice that comes from the rank more than the name. Real generals are called Harlan Westbrook or Ousmane Coulibaly, not Blaze Thunderhawk; the gravitas comes from Lieutenant General, Field Marshal or Marshal in front of an ordinary surname. The rank also tells the reader a lot: a Brigadier General (one star) leads a brigade, a Major General a division, a Lieutenant General a corps, and a four-star General sits at the top. Britain and the Commonwealth use Brigadier without the word General and cap their system with Field Marshal, while France, Russia and Poland use Marshal as the highest rank.
Surnames do the rest. Longer names with a slightly formal ring (Pemberton, Hargreaves, Villafuerte, Strelnikov, Matsudaira) read as senior officers, while short punchy surnames fit younger field commanders. Particles such as von, de or Sir suit a nineteenth-century or alternate-history army, and the national form should match the rank: a Generalmajor belongs in a German-speaking force, a Général de division in a French one.
The list mixes modern Western generals with Latin American, Slavic, Turkish, Arab, South Asian, East Asian and African commanders, adds the British and continental titles, and includes High Generals, Lord Generals and Warmasters for fantasy and science-fiction armies.
How to choose military general names
- Pick the rank to fit the command: a Brigadier General runs a brigade, a Major General a division, a Lieutenant General a corps, and a four-star General a whole army or theatre. Giving a platoon to a general breaks immersion instantly.
- Match the title to the nation. Field Marshal is British, German and Commonwealth; Marshal is French, Russian and Polish; Generalissimo and Grand Marshal belong to dictatorships and alternate histories; Brigadier without General is British.
- Use the surname alone in dialogue after the first introduction. Staff officers say 'the General' or 'General Halloran', never the full name, and soldiers rarely learn a general's first name at all.
- For a villain or rival commander, choose a surname with hard consonants (Kessler, Strelnikov, Grimshaw); for a beloved commander, softer sounds like Fairweather or Holloway land better.
- If you are naming generals for a strategy game or a fictional army, vary the origins across the roster so the high command looks like a real country's officer corps rather than a single family.
Frequently asked questions
What are the different general ranks and how do they rank against each other?
In US-style systems the order is Brigadier General (one star), Major General (two), Lieutenant General (three), General (four) and, in wartime only, General of the Army (five). Confusingly, a Major General outranks a Brigadier General but is outranked by a Lieutenant General, a leftover from the old title Sergeant Major General. British forces use Brigadier, Major General, Lieutenant General, General and Field Marshal.
Are any of these real generals?
No. The names combine common given names and surnames from each region into fictional officers for novels, games and screenplays. If a name happens to match a real person it is coincidental.
What is the difference between a Marshal and a Field Marshal?
Both are the highest army rank in their countries. Field Marshal is the British, German and Commonwealth title, usually shown with crossed batons; Marshal (or Marshal of France, Marshal of the Soviet Union) is the French, Russian and Polish equivalent. Either sits above a four-star General.
Can I use these names for a fantasy or sci-fi army?
Yes. The list includes High General, Lord General, Warmaster, Grand General and Supreme Commander titles paired with invented surnames. You can also take any realistic name and swap in a title that fits your setting, since the rank-plus-surname pattern reads as military in almost any world.
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All 500 military general names
B: 59 names
- Brigadier Adam Stirling
- Brigadier Ahsan Malik
- Brigadier Alastair Penhallow
- Brigadier Andile Mokoena
- Brigadier Angus Macfarlane
- Brigadier Arthur Quennell
- Brigadier Bernard Ashurst
- Brigadier Digby Lonsdale
- Brigadier Felicity Harrowgate
- Brigadier General Adrian Kovalenko
- Brigadier General Alonso Quintero
- Brigadier General Audrey Lockhart
- Brigadier General Clement Ashdown
- Brigadier General Corey Bannister
B, continued
- Brigadier General Dale Harkness
- Brigadier General Deshawn Whitley
- Brigadier General Ernst Mueller
- Brigadier General Felix Hartwell
- Brigadier General Hiram Oakhurst
- Brigadier General Hiroki Sasaki
- Brigadier General Jacob Rensselaer
- Brigadier General Jason Pruett
- Brigadier General Jules Fontaine
- Brigadier General Julius Branford
- Brigadier General Kendrick Boyle
- Brigadier General Lucas Moreau
- Brigadier General Marcia Villanova
- Brigadier General Mitchell Crowe
- Brigadier General Noah Brightmoor
B, continued
- Brigadier General Orson Pell
- Brigadier General Phineas Talbot
- Brigadier General Rex Thorngood
- Brigadier General Rosa Delgado
- Brigadier General Russell Fenner
- Brigadier General Sebastian Hale
- Brigadier General Seth Abernathy
- Brigadier General Silas Merrick
- Brigadier General Sonia Ramírez
- Brigadier General Tobias Ravel
- Brigadier General Tunde Bakare
- Brigadier General Wyatt Hollingsworth
- Brigadier Geoffrey Lindop
- Brigadier Giles Fanshawe
- Brigadier Godfrey Mallory
B, continued
- Brigadier Hugh Dalrymple
- Brigadier James Okoro
- Brigadier Lionel Crichton
- Brigadier Martin Pakenham
- Brigadier Neil Cunningham
- Brigadier Norman Haythornthwaite
- Brigadier Peregrine Cholmondeley
- Brigadier Rajiv Khanna
- Brigadier Ralph Tennant
- Brigadier Roger Lyttelton
- Brigadier Rory Fitzwilliam
- Brigadier Simon Carew
- Brigadier Siobhan Clancy
- Brigadier Sunil Menon
- Brigadier Timothy Haverstock
C: 2 names
- Commander-in-Chief Benedict Rawlings
- Commander-in-Chief Zoe Strand
F: 37 names
- Field Marshal Albrecht von Sternhagen
- Field Marshal Archibald Pelham
- Field Marshal Asif Sharif
- Field Marshal Aubrey Stanhope
- Field Marshal Bernhard Wrede
- Field Marshal Conrad von Reichenau
- Field Marshal Cyril Blenkinsop
- Field Marshal Dudley Harcourt
- Field Marshal Erich von Brandt
- Field Marshal Friedrich von Hardenberg
- Field Marshal Gerald Fortescue
- Field Marshal Gunther Roedl
F, continued
- Field Marshal Heinrich von Adelsberg
- Field Marshal Hermann Lützow
- Field Marshal Horatio Delamere
- Field Marshal Hubert Cavendish
- Field Marshal Idris Lamido
- Field Marshal Ismail Halawa
- Field Marshal Jasper Thorold
- Field Marshal Karam Singh Dhillon
- Field Marshal Kurt Steinhardt
- Field Marshal Lord Edwin Carrington
- Field Marshal Lord Percival Haddon
- Field Marshal Ludwig von Dornstein
F, continued
- Field Marshal Manfred Eichhorn
- Field Marshal Montague Villiers
- Field Marshal Otto von Kleinfeld
- Field Marshal Rudolf Wendisch
- Field Marshal Sampath Weerasinghe
- Field Marshal Sir Ambrose Witherington
- Field Marshal Sir Humphrey Talbot
- Field Marshal Sir Malcolm Fforde
- Field Marshal Sir Reginald Ashford
- Field Marshal Sir Roland Pargeter
- Field Marshal Sizwe Tshabalala
- Field Marshal Wilfred Brabazon
- Field Marshal Wilhelm von Trauttmann
G: 270 names
- General Abdi Hassan
- General Abdoulaye Diallo
- General Abebe Tesfaye
- General Abigail Thornton
- General Adaeze Nwosu
- General Alessandro Corbellini
- General Alistair Moncrieff
- General Alvaro Monteagudo
- General Alves Pimentel
- General Amani Mwangi
- General Ambrose Callahan
- General Anastasios Kanellopoulos
- General Anders Lindqvist
- General Anthony Cardenas
- General Antônio Figueiredo
G, continued
- General Anwar Siddiqui
- General Arief Wibisono
- General Arjun Singh Rathore
- General Arkady Shcherbakov
- General Arthur Pemberton
- General Aryan Rajput
- General Astrid Bergstrom
- General Augusto Bittencourt
- General Augusto Peralta
- General Aziz Benslimane
- General Babatunde Alabi
- General Bambang Suryadi
- General Bartholomew Crewe
- General Beatrice Holloway
- General Benedict Ashworth
G, continued
- General Benicio Ocampo
- General Bongani Zulu
- General Boris Lavrentiev
- General Bruno Castellani
- General Caleb Rourke
- General Callum Macready
- General Cassandra Reyes
- General Cevdet Yıldırım
- General Chen Haoran
- General Chidi Obiora
- General Choi Min-jun
- General Chukwuemeka Okafor
- General Ciaran Ó Briain
- General Clara Weatherby
- General Cormac Brennan
G, continued
- General Cornelius Blackwood
- General Cristobal Zarate
- Général d'armée Philippe Grandjean
- General Daichi Morikawa
- General Daniel Kiprotich
- Général de brigade Thierry Lavasseur
- Général de corps d'armée Marcel Toussaint
- Général de division Bertrand Chassagne
- Général de division Olivier Rambaud
- General Declan Fitzgerald
- General Desmond Achebe
- General Devendra Bhattacharya
- General Diego Arrieta
- General Dietrich Falkenrath
- General Dimitrios Vasilakis
G, continued
- General Dmitri Anisimov
- General Douglas Whitfield
- General Dragan Stojanović
- General Duncan Strachan
- General Ekene Udoka
- General Eleanor Vance
- General Elias Mukendi
- General Elias Vandermeer
- General Emile Kasongo
- General Emmanuel Adeyemi
- General Enzo Battaglia
- General Erik Sandstrom
- General Ernesto Galindo
- General Étienne Lavergne
- General Evelyn Marchetti
G, continued
- General Everett Castellanos
- General Ezekiel Marlowe
- General Faisal bin Rashid
- General Fatima Al-Zahrani
- General Felipe Arredondo
- General Femi Adewale
- General Fergus Kirkwood
- General Franklin Oduya
- General Friedrich Kessler
- General Gareth Pritchard
- General Giancarlo Monteverdi
- General Gideon Stahl
- General Girma Bekele
- General Guillaume Beauregard
- General Gustav Holmgren
G, continued
- General Gwendolyn Hatch
- General Hakan Demirci
- General Hamid Karimi
- General Hamza Bouazizi
- General Hans-Jürgen Waldmann
- General Harbhajan Gill
- General Harlan Westbrook
- General Harriet Delacroix
- General Hassan Ouattara
- General Hector Villalobos
- General Heitor Vasconcelos
- General Helena Aldridge
- General Henrik Rasmussen
- General Henry Sutcliffe
- General Hiroshi Matsudaira
G, continued
- General Ibrahim Sanusi Bello
- General Ignacio Salcedo
- General Ilya Vasnetsov
- General Ingrid Halvorsen
- General Iqbal Chaudhry
- General Irene Calloway
- General Isaac Dunmore
- General Jaroslav Hruška
- General Jean-Claude Mabiala
- General Joaquim Fontoura
- General Joaquín Esquivel
- General Jonah Winslow
- General Joris Vanderhaegen
- General Joseph Ferrante
- General Joseph Kamau
G, continued
- General Josephine Villareal
- General Kagiso Molefe
- General Kamal Shirazi
- General Kasimir Volkov
- General Kazimierz Wolski
- General Kenji Arakawa
- General Khalid Mansour
- General Kim Tae-woo
- General Klaus Lindemann
- General Komla Agbeko
- General Konstantin Oreshkin
- General Kwabena Mensah
- General Kwame Ofosu
- General Lars Bjornstad
- General Laszlo Bartha
G, continued
- General Leona Brightwater
- General Leonardo Castañeda
- General Li Wenhao
- General Lionel Ashcombe
- General Liu Bingwen
- General Lorenzo Pagnozzi
- General Lorraine Bexley
- General Lucas Fairbanks
- General Ludovico Ferraris
- General Lungile Dlamini
- General Lysandra Kell
- General Magnus Thorvaldsen
- General Mamadou Sow
- General Marcel Dupuis
- General Marcus Tolliver
G, continued
- General Margaret Stroud
- General Martha Ellsworth
- General Masaru Hayashida
- General Mateo Valderrama
- General Mei-Ling Tsao
- General Miklós Szentgyörgyi
- General Miles Hargreaves
- General Miriam Adler
- General Mohamed Warsame
- General Moussa Traoré Keita
- General Mustafa Aksoy
- General Nadia Sorokina
- General Nathaniel Boone
- General Nguyen Van Thang
- General Nikolai Kuzmenko
G, continued
- General Nnamdi Eze
- General Nobuo Teraoka
- General of the Army Augustus Pembroke
- General of the Army Edmund Carstairs
- General of the Army Horace Whitmore
- General of the Army Jonathan Winthrop
- General of the Army Leland Fairchild
- General Oleksandr Hrytsenko
- General Omar Sabbagh
- General Orrin Blackvane
- General Oscar Lindgren
- General Osvaldo Cordeiro
- General Ousmane Coulibaly
- General Owen Pendergast
- General Park Seong-hoon
G, continued
- General Patrice Ngoma
- General Pavel Strelnikov
- General Percival Langley
- General Peter Otieno
- General Petra Malenkova
- General Pierre-Yves Morel
- General Pieter van der Heyden
- General Priya Raghunathan
- General Radovan Petrović
- General Rafael Montemayor
- General Rajendra Sidhu
- General Ramiro Villafuerte
- General Raymond Halloran
- General Reza Farahani
- General Rhys Llewellyn
G, continued
- General Rizal Mendoza
- General Rodrigo Escalante
- General Roland Beaumont
- General Rosalind Carver
- General Ruben Castelein
- General Ruth Okonkwo
- General Samuel Reddick
- General Samuel Wanjiru
- General Santiago Ibarra
- General Selim Karabulut
- General Sergei Volkonsky
- General Seydou Konaté
- General Shigeru Onishi
- General Simon Ravenscroft
- General Sipho Mthembu
G, continued
- General Sofia Kowalczyk
- General Somchai Ratanapong
- General Stanislav Gorobets
- General Sun Jianguo
- General Surendra Nair
- General Tadeusz Brzezicki
- General Takeshi Kuroda
- General Tancredo Albuquerque
- General Tanvir Rahman
- General Tariq al-Hashimi
- General Tendai Makoni
- General Thabo Nkosi
- General Thaddeus Grimshaw
- General Theodore Ashby
- General Tobias Renquist
G, continued
- General Tomás Barrientos
- General Tomáš Vondráček
- General Tran Quoc Bao
- General Tycho Mardren
- General Ulrich Hoffmeister
- General Vadim Tereshchenko
- General Vera Kostenko
- General Victor Crane
- General Vikram Chauhan
- General Vittorio Salvatici
- General Walter Kincaid
- General Wang Zhiyuan
- General Winifred Pryce
- General Wojciech Malinowski
- General Wolfgang Brenner
G, continued
- General Yaw Boakye
- General Yevgeny Baranov
- General Yonas Tekle
- General Youssef El-Masri
- General Yuki Tanimoto
- General Yusuf Garba
- General Zafar Mirza
- General Zbigniew Krajewski
- General Zhang Ruolin
- General Zhao Mingxu
- Generale di Corpo d'Armata Fabio Serrano
- Generale Massimo Ferrucci
- Generalissimo Enrique Montalbán
- Generalissimo Ricardo Salvatierra
- Generalissimo Vicente Armendáriz
G, continued
- Generalleutnant Karl-Heinz Brandauer
- Generalleutnant Reinhard Ostwald
- Generalmajor Dieter Haussmann
- Generalmajor Joachim Sturmfels
- Generalmajor Werner Adelheid
- Generaloberst Friedrich Almbacher
- Grand General Ilyana Vostrikova
- Grand General Matthias Corvinus Bell
- Grand General Serapis Naldor
- Grand General Zhao Lingxiu
- Grand Marshal Ferenc Zichy
- Grand Marshal Konstantin Obrenović
- Grand Marshal Octavian Drăgulescu
- Grand Marshal Radomir Vlašić
- Grand Marshal Silvio Cavalcante
H: 8 names
- High General Caius Velorian
- High General Dariel Stormvane
- High General Ezran Kaldheim
- High General Kaelen Drost
- High General Sable Ironwright
- High General Torvald Ashenreach
- High General Veyra Thorncastle
- High General Ysolde Marrick
L: 36 names
- Lieutenant General Ahmed Farouk
- Lieutenant General Andrei Morozov
- Lieutenant General Brigid O'Shaughnessy
- Lieutenant General Cecilia Drummond
- Lieutenant General Clifford Ashgrove
- Lieutenant General Curtis Maddox
- Lieutenant General Dominic Farrell
- Lieutenant General Eduardo Sampaio
- Lieutenant General Gerald Winterbourne
- Lieutenant General Howard Blakemore
- Lieutenant General Hugo Steinberg
- Lieutenant General Ivan Petrenko
L, continued
- Lieutenant General Jorge Altamirano
- Lieutenant General Julian Whitlock
- Lieutenant General Kofi Asamoah
- Lieutenant General Leonard Pruitt
- Lieutenant General Malcolm Reeves
- Lieutenant General Morgan Caldwell
- Lieutenant General Nigel Hawthorne
- Lieutenant General Obi Nwachukwu
- Lieutenant General Paulette Girard
- Lieutenant General Philip Tanaka
- Lieutenant General Ramona Esperanza
- Lieutenant General Rashid Qureshi
L, continued
- Lieutenant General Raúl Benavides
- Lieutenant General Roderick Bannerman
- Lieutenant General Rupert Fenwick
- Lieutenant General Stanley Merriweather
- Lieutenant General Vincent Sallow
- Lieutenant General Warren Pike
- Lord General Aurelian Castellanus
- Lord General Halvard Greymoor
- Lord General Marcus Ventrosa
- Lord General Octavius Brann
- Lord General Ravinia Solace
- Lord General Thessaly Corvane
M: 82 names
- Major General Abel Sandoval
- Major General Alfred Mayhew
- Major General Amelia Ruskin
- Major General Amir Hosseini
- Major General Anton Sokolov
- Major General Aurelio Benítez
- Major General Carlos Montoya
- Major General Colin Thackeray
- Major General Edwin Colfax
- Major General Emilia Sorensen
- Major General Ewan Drysdale
- Major General Frances Hartigan
- Major General Hamish Greig
M, continued
- Major General Ian Fairweather
- Major General Kwesi Appiah
- Major General Lawrence Holcombe
- Major General Leopold Starling
- Major General Lydia Kendrick
- Major General Matthias Engelhardt
- Major General Maxwell Tarrant
- Major General Neville Shaw
- Major General Olusegun Bankole
- Major General Reginald Thorne
- Major General Rosa Alarcón
- Major General Roy Buckminster
- Major General Sarah Brightwell
- Major General Sidney Brockhurst
M, continued
- Major General Teodoro Villanueva
- Major General Tomasz Nowicki
- Major General Uriah Blackstone
- Major General Vernon Ashe
- Major General Zachary Penhaligon
- Marshal Abdelkader Benali
- Marshal Aleksandr Rudenko
- Marshal Alexei Bortnikov
- Marshal Antoine Duvalier
- Marshal Armand Pelletier
- Marshal Auguste Lefebvre
- Marshal Bertrand Lagarde
- Marshal Bogdan Krawczyk
- Marshal Cándido Arteaga
M, continued
- Marshal Cemal Özdemir
- Marshal Charles Beaulieu
- Marshal Dragutin Vukašinović
- Marshal Édouard Mornay
- Marshal Ferdinand Villareal
- Marshal Fyodor Karpenko
- Marshal Gaston Vaillancourt
- Marshal Georgy Kirillov
- Marshal Grigory Lazarev
- Marshal Henri Castellane
- Marshal Honoré de Villefort
- Marshal Ivan Stepanyuk
- Marshal Jacques Ferrand
M, continued
- Marshal Jean-Baptiste Rochefort
- Marshal Józef Wierzbicki
- Marshal Kang Baek-ho
- Marshal Kliment Voronin
- Marshal Leonid Yeremenko
- Marshal Lin Guofeng
- Marshal Louis Saint-Aubin
- Marshal Lucien Bordelais
- Marshal Maurice Vautrin
- Marshal Mehmet Korkmaz
- Marshal Mihail Rădulescu
- Marshal Mikhail Bagramov
- Marshal Nikola Petrov
- Marshal Peng Xiulin
M, continued
- Marshal Philippe d'Argenson
- Marshal Pierre Monteil
- Marshal Rashid Idriss
- Marshal Raymond Clermont
- Marshal Rodion Belyakov
- Marshal Semyon Zhdanov
- Marshal Stefan Podolski
- Marshal Théodore Marchand
- Marshal Tunku Azlan
- Marshal Vasily Tolstikov
- Marshal Viktor Ostapenko
- Marshal Ye Shengqiang
- Marshal Yuri Chistyakov
- Marshal Zhu Weimin
S: 3 names
- Supreme Commander Aurelia Vantage
- Supreme Commander Darius Holt
- Supreme Commander Harold Ashcroft