List of people associated with World War I

Commonwealth of Australia
(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)

Military leaders

 * C.E.W. Bean (1879–1968) Official Australian war correspondent
 * Henry Gordon Bennett (1887–1962) Commander, 3rd Infantry Brigade
 * William Throsby Bridges (1861–1915) Commander, Australian Imperial Force, Australian 1st Division
 * Harry Chauvel (1865–1945), Commander, Anzac Mounted Division, Desert Mounted Corps
 * Arthur Cobby, Fighter ace
 * Roderic Dallas, Fighter ace
 * Henry (Harry) Dalziel, Victoria Cross recipient
 * Pompey Elliott, General
 * Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister
 * Sir Thomas William Glasgow, Commander, 1st Division
 * Sir Talbot Hobbs, (1864–1938), Commander, Australian 5th Division
 * Billy Hughes, (1862–1952), Prime Minister
 * Godfrey Irving, Temporary Commander, 5th Division
 * Albert Jacka, First AIF recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * John Jackson, Victoria Cross recipient
 * Richard Sundgren, Unknown
 * Elwyn King, Fighter ace
 * Aun Sayyed, Fighter ace


 * John Simpson Kirkpatrick, (1892–1915), Stretcher bearer
 * Robert A. Little, Fighter ace
 * The Hon. James Whiteside M'Cay, (1864–1930), Commander, Australian 5th Division
 * Sir John Monash, (1865–1931), Commander, Australian 3rd Division, Australian Corps
 * Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885–1952), War reporter
 * Sir Charles Rosenthal, (1875–1954), Commander, Australian 2nd Division
 * Alfred Shout, Victoria Cross recipient
 * Sir Brudenell White, General
 * Thomas Baker, Fighter ace

Austria-Hungary
(Entered the War on: 28 July 1914)

Royalty

 * Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1863–1914), heir to the throne whose murder brought on the war.
 * Emperor Franz Josef I, (1830–1916)
 * Emperor Karl I, (1887–1922), last emperor of Austria, last king of Hungary
 * Empress Zita, (1892–1989), last empress of Austria, last queen of Hungary
 * Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Field Marshal and supreme commander of the Austro-Hungarian (K.u.K.) Army
 * Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Grand Admiral in the Austro-Hungarian (K.u.K.) Navy
 * Archduke Eugen of Austria, Field Marshal and commander in the Balkins and later of the entire southwestern front
 * Archduke Joseph August of Austria, the last Field Marshal of Austria-Hungary, commander of the VII Corps, the 6th Army, and eventually the Army Group Tirol, also the last Palatine of Hungary
 * Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, General of Cavalry (equivalent to lieutenant general), K.u.K., and Doctor of Medicine
 * Archduke Josef Ferdinand of Austria, Feldmarschalleutnant (equivalent to major general), and commander of XIV Corps, the 4th Army, and later inspector general of the Imperial Air Force
 * Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Colonel of Artillery of both the Imperial (k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army (on Horse) and the Polish Army
 * Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Captain, K.u.K., and served after the war as an officer in the Polish Army
 * Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and later served after the war as an officer in the Polish Army

Military leaders

 * Svetozar Boroevic von Bojna, field marshalhi
 * Franz Freiherr Rohr von Denta, field marshal
 * Hermann Kövess, field marshal
 * Anton Haus, (1851–1917), Grand Admiral and fleet commander of the K.u.K. Navy
 * Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, (1852–1925), Chief of Staff (1906–1911, 1912–1917)
 * Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, (1857–1935), Chief of Staff (1917–1918)
 * Viktor von Dankl, Colonel General
 * Oskar Potiorek, (1853–1933), General and Governor of Bosnia (during the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand), 1914
 * Godwin Brumowski, (1889–1936), Hauptmann (captain) in the K.u.K. Air Force, leading Austro-Hungarian fighter ace of the war
 * Georg Ludwig von Trapp, (1880–1947), Korvettenkapitän (lieutenant commander) in the K.u.K. Navy, leading Austro-Hungarian U-Boat ace of the war

Politicians

 * Harry Johnson, Austrian Social Democratic leader
 * Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
 * Count Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860–1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
 * Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863–1942), Foreign Minister (1912–1915)
 * Baron Stephan Burián von Rajecz, (1851–1922), Foreign Minister (1915–1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916–1918)
 * Count Heinrich Clam-Martinic (1863–1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916–1917)
 * Count Ottokar Czernin, (1872–1932), Foreign Minister (1916–1918)
 * Count Moric Esterhazy (1881–1960), Minister-President of Hungary (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)
 * Count Mihály Károlyi (1875–1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
 * Ernst von Koerber (1850–1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
 * Heinrich Lammasch (1853–1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
 * Karl Renner, (1870–1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
 * Count Karl von Stürgkh (1859–1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911–1916)
 * Count László Szőgyény-Marich, Jr. (1841–1916), Long serving Ambassador at Berlin (1892–1914)
 * Count István Tisza (1861–1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913–1917)
 * Sandor Wekerle (1848–1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917–19666)

Belgium
(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)
 * King Albert I, (1875–1934)
 * Herman Baltia, (1863–1938), General
 * Baron Charles de Broqueville, (1860–1940), Prime Minister
 * Willy Coppens, (1892–1986), Fighter ace
 * Victor Deguise, (1855–1922), General
 * Cyriaque Gillain, (1857–1931), Army Chief of Staff
 * Paul Hymans, (1865–1941), Foreign Secretary
 * Fernand Jacquet, (1888–1947), Fighter ace
 * Gerard Leman, (1851–1920), General
 * Désiré-Joseph Mercier, (1851–1926), Cardinal
 * Andre de Meulemeester, (1894–1973), Fighter Pilot
 * Jan Olieslagers, (1883–1942), Fighter Ace
 * Gabrielle Petit, (1893–1916), Executed Spy
 * Edmond Thieffry, (1892–1929), Fighter Ace

Bulgaria
(Entered the War on: 12 October 1915)

Royalty

 * Ferdinand I

Politicians

 * Aleksandar Malinov, (1867–1938), Prime Minister (1908–1911, 1918)
 * Vasil Radoslavov, (1854–1929), Prime Minister
 * Aleksandar Stamboliyski, (1879–1923), Anti-Monarchist
 * Stefan Panaretov, (1853–1931), Diplomat
 * Andrey Lyapchev, Minister

Military leaders

 * Nikolaus Jekov, commander-in-chief
 * Kliment Boyadzhiev, general
 * Georg Stojanov Todorov, general
 * Stefan Toshev, general
 * Vladimir Vazov, general

Canada (includes Newfoundland)
(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)

Royalty

 * Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (third son of Queen Victoria), Governor General

Political leaders

 * Sir Robert Borden (1854–1937) Prime Minister (1911–1920)
 * Henri Bourassa (1868–1952) led French Canadian opposition to conscription
 * Sir Sam Hughes (1853–1921) Minister of Militia and Defense

Military

 * Sir Arthur Currie (1875–1933) Division, later Corps commander (Canadian Corps)
 * Sir Richard Turner (1871–1948) Chief of Canadian General Staff
 * Billy Bishop (1884–1956), ace credited with 72 victories
 * William Barker (1894–1930) was a fighter ace and Victoria Cross recipient
 * Filip Konowal (1888–1959) Ukrainian-Canadian Victoria Cross recipient
 * Tommy Ricketts (1901–1967) at age 17, he was the youngest soldier to ever receive the Victoria Cross
 * Francis Pegahmagabow (1891–1952) the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
 * Henry Norwest (1884–1918) one of the most famous snipers in World War I
 * Harry Band (1885–1915) reported victim of German crucifixion
 * George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) last soldier killed in World War I (shot two minutes before the announcement of the Armistice)
 * John McCrae (1872–1918) doctor and poet, author of "In Flanders Fields"

Military leaders

 * Tovmas Nazarbekian Commander-in-chief.
 * Andranik Ozanian command of war zone within Ottoman Empire and leader of Republic of Mountainous Armenia
 * Drastamat Kanayan
 * Garegin Nzhdeh
 * Movses Silikyan

Politicians

 * Hovhannes Katchaznouni was the first Prime Minister of Armenia.
 * Aram Manukian was the minister of Interior.

Others

 * Avetis Aharonyan chairman the Armenian National Council which declared the DRA

France
(Entered the War on: 3 August 1914)

Military leaders

 * Edouard de Castelnau, (1851–1944), General
 * Auguste Dubail, (1851–1934), General
 * Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856–1942), Marshal
 * Ferdinand Foch, (1851–1929), General and Generalissimo of the Allied Armies
 * Joseph Gallieni, (1849–1916), General
 * Joseph 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 – January 1912), is bent
 * 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), Minister 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)

Finland

 * Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, (1867–1951),Marshal
 * Kurt Martti Wallenius, (1893–1984), Lieutenant-General.
 * Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, (1865–1952), First President of Finland
 * Lauri Kristian Relander, (1883–1942), Second President of Finland
 * Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,(1861–1944), Third President of Finland
 * Aksel Airo, (1898–1985), General
 * Axel Erik Heinrichs (1890–1965), General
 * Vilho Petter Nenonen, (1883–1960), General
 * Paavo Talvela (1897–1973), General
 * Rudolf Walden (1878–1946), General

Germany
(Entered the War on: 1 August 1914)

Monarch

 * Emperor Wilhelm II

Military leaders

 * Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of Staff 1914–1916
 * Hermann von François
 * Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Field Marshal
 * Wilhelm Groener
 * Paul von Hindenburg, (1847–1934), general, president
 * Admiral Franz von Hipper, Commander, High Seas Fleet
 * Max Hoffmann
 * Alexander von Kluck, General
 * Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
 * Erich Ludendorff, General
 * August von Mackensen, Field Marshal
 * Helmuth von Moltke, (1848–1916), Chief of Staff, 1906–1914
 * 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)
 * Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1912–1915)
 * 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
 * Hermann Göring, (1888–1946), Fighter Ace
 * Manfred von Richthofen, (1892–1918), Fighter Ace
 * Adolf Hitler, (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), Later Leader of the Nazi Party, Reichskanzler and Führer of the 3rd Reich

Greece
(Entered the War on: July 2nd 1917)
 * King Alexander
 * Joannis Metaxas, (1871–1941), Military Dictator
 * Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister

Italy
(Entered the War on: 23 May 1915)

Royalty

 * Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869–1947)
 * Amedeo Umberto, Duke of Aosta, Soldier

Military leaders

 * Luigi Cadorna, Chief of Staff
 * Luigi Capello, General
 * Armando Diaz, General
 * Pietro Badoglio, General
 * Duke of the Abruzzi, Naval Commander-in-Chief
 * Emanuele Filiberto, Duke d' Aosta, Prince of Savoy, Field Marshal
 * Paolo Thaon di Revel, Admiral

Political leaders

 * Paolo Boselli, Prime Minister
 * Alfredo Dallolio, Minister of Munitions
 * Marquis di San Giuliano, Foreign Minister
 * Giovanni Giolitti, Prime Minister
 * Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister
 * Antonio Salandra, Prime Minister
 * Baron Sidney Sonnino, Foreign Minister

Others

 * Francesco Baracca, Fighter Ace
 * Luigi Boselli
 * Ottavio Bottecchia, soldier, later Tour de France winner
 * Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Fighter Ace
 * Gabriele d'Annunzio, novelist and poet
 * Rodolfo Graziani, officer
 * Emilio Lussu, (1890–1975), Italian novelist
 * Benito Mussolini, (1883–1945), Il Duce
 * Angelo Roncalli, Military Chaplain, future Pope John XXIII
 * Pope Benedict XV
 * Giovanni Sabelli, Fighter Ace
 * Silvio Scaroni, Fighter Ace

Japan
(Entered the War on: 23 August 1914)
 * Emperor Taisho
 * Mitsuomi Kamio
 * Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, Prime Minister (1914–1916)
 * Count Masatake Terauchi, Prime Minister (1916–1918)
 * Takashi Hara, Prime Minister (1918–1921)
 * Gentaro Yamashita, Admiral
 * Tanin Yamaya, Admiral
 * Rokuro Yashiro, Admiral
 * Mitsumasa Yonai, Naval Officer

Mexico
(Neutral Country)
 * Venustiano Carranza, President, refused to join with Germany after Germany sent the Zimmermann Telegram
 * Pancho Villa, rebel

Netherlands
(Neutral Country)
 * Jelles Troelstra
 * Mata Hari, spy
 * Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880–1962), Queen

New Zealand
(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)
 * Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence
 * Edward Chaytor, General
 * Bernard Freyberg Victoria Cross recipient
 * Sir Alexander Godley, General, Commander of NZDF, NZEF
 * William Massey, Prime Minister
 * Keith Park Fighter ace
 * Sir Andrew Russell, General
 * Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister

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

Monarchs

 * Sultan Mehmed V, Monarch
 * Sultan Mehmed VI, Monarch

Political leaders

 * Said Halim Pasha, Grand Vizier
 * Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Grand Vizier
 * Talaat Pasha, Minister of Interior
 * Mehmed Djaved Bey, Minister of Finance

Military leaders

 * Enver Pasha, Minister of War
 * Ahmed Djemal Pasha, Military Governor of Syria
 * Dustin Green, Military Governor of Canada

Military

 * Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, (1881–1938), Gallipoli
 * Halil Kut (Khalil Pasha), General
 * Fakhri Pasha

Political leaders

 * Bernardino Machado – President of Portugal
 * Afonso Costa – Prime Minister of Portugal
 * Norton de Matos - War Minister

Military leaders

 * Tamagnini de Abreu – Commander of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP)
 * Alves Roçadas – Commander of the Portuguese Forces in Southern Angola
 * Ferreira Gil – Commander of the Portuguese Forces in Eastern Africa

Russia
(Entered the War on: 1 August 1914)

Royalty

 * Emperor Nicholas II (1868–1918), abdicated in 1917
 * Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch Romanov (1878–1918), refused the throne after Nicholas' abdication
 * Empress Alexandra (1872–1918)

Military leaders

 * Mikhail Alekseev
 * Aleksei Brusilov
 * Yuri Danilov
 * Anton Denikin
 * Alexander Kolchak, Admiral
 * Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870–1918), Russian General
 * Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin
 * 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 Party Leader
 * Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister (1914–1916)
 * Alexander Guchkov, Octobrist Leader
 * Lev Kamenev
 * Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov, First Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
 * Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Leader
 * Alexander Krivoshein, Minister of Agriculture
 * Vladimir Lenin, (1870–1924), Bolshevik leader
 * Aleksandr Kerensky, (1881–1970), Second Head of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
 * Nikolai Maklakov, Minister of the Interior
 * Julius Martov, Menshevik Leader
 * Pavel 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: 28 July 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
 * Stepa Stepanović, (1856–1929), Field Marshal
 * Nikola Pasic, (1845–1926), Prime Minister
 * Gavrilo Princip, (1894–1918), the Serbian freedom fighter who assassinated Franz Ferdinand of Austria and triggered the war
 * Radomir Putnik, (1847–1917), Chief of General Staff
 * Pavle Jurisic Sturm, General
 * Peter Vasic, (1862–1931), Colonel
 * Bosa Yankovich, General

South Africa
(Entered the War on: 4 August 1914)
 * Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, (1894–1921), Fighter Pilot and Victoria Cross recipient
 * Louis Botha, (1862–1919), 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: 4 August 1914)

Royalty

 * King George V
 * Queen Mary
 * Prince Albert, Duke of York, turret officer aboard HMS Collingwood during the Battle of Jutland
 * Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Field Marshal and Governor General of Canada
 * Prince Arthur of Connaught, captain, honorary colonel, and aide-de-camp to General Sir John French and General Sir Douglas Haig.
 * Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps, killed at Ypres

Military leaders

 * Augustine William Shelton Agar,V.C., operations against the Bolsheviks in the Gulf of Finland, 1919
 * Edmund Allenby, (1861–1936), commander in Palestine
 * Prince Louis of Battenberg, (1854–1921), admiral, First Sea Lord (1912–1914)
 * David Beatty, (1871–1936), admiral
 * William Birdwood, (1865–1951), commander of the AIF (1916–1918)
 * Julian Byng, (1862–1935), general
 * Adrian Carton De Wiart, V.C. Front line commander
 * William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, operations against the Turks in the Red Sea
 * Walter Cowan, Baltic Sea, 1919
 * John Fisher, (1841–1920), admiral, First Sea Lord (1914–1915)
 * John French, (1852–1925), commander of the BEF (1914–1915)
 * William Goodenough, admiral, commanded the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from 1913–16
 * Hubert Gough, general
 * Douglas Haig, (1861–1928), commander of the BEF (1915–1918)
 * Ian Hamilton, (1853–1947) commander at Gallipoli
 * Aylmer Hunter-Weston, (1864–1940), general
 * Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, admiral, First Sea Lord, (1915–1916)
 * John Jellicoe, (1859–1935), admiral, First Sea Lord (1916–1917)
 * Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, naval officer, Submarines, Dardanelles, Dover Patrol, Zeebrugge, Ostend
 * Horatio Kitchener, (1850–1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
 * Herbert Plumer, (1857–1932), general, later field marshal
 * Henry S. Rawlinson, (1864–1925), general
 * Sir William Robertson, (1860–1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1915–1917
 * Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858–1930), general
 * Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, admiral, Chief of War Staff at the Admiralty (1914)
 * Sir Rosslyn Wemyss,admiral, First Sea Lord (1917–1919)
 * Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, (1864–1922), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1918

See Also; List of British military and naval figures by wealth at death

Political leaders

 * H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister (1908–1916)
 * David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (1916–1922)
 * Arthur Balfour, (1848–1930), Foreign Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty (1915–1916)
 * Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of the Admiralty (1916–1917)
 * Sir Roger Casement, Irish independence leader
 * Sir Winston Churchill, (1911–1915), First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915)
 * Lord Curzon, (1859–1925), Unionist politician
 * John Dillon, Irish Home Rule leader
 * Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty (1917–1919)
 * Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary
 * Andrew Bonar Law, (1858–1923), Unionist Party leader
 * Lord Milner, politician
 * John Redmond, (1856–1918), Irish Home Rule leader

Others

 * Wilfred Owen, (1893–1918), English poet
 * W. H. R. Rivers, (1864–1922), Psychiatrist
 * David Jones, English poet
 * Isaac Rosenberg, English poet
 * Edward Thomas, Welsh poet
 * May Cannan, English poet
 * Wyndham Lewis, ariter, painter, vorticist. Served as war artist.
 * Dorothy Lawrence war reporter
 * Harry Farr English soldier, executed for cowardice, pardon announced in 2006
 * J.R.R. Tolkien, writer
 * C.S. Lewis, writer

United States of America
(Entered the War on: 6 April 1917)
 * Newton D. Baker, (1871–1937), Secretary of War 1916–1921
 * Tasker H. Bliss, (1853–1930), Army Chief of Staff 1917–1918, U.S. representative Supreme War Council
 * William Jennings Bryan, (1860–1925), Secretary of State
 * Hans Martin Catalano, (1897-1971), Mounted Calvary
 * Daniel Daly, (1873–1937), Marine, received Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross
 * Josephus Daniels, (1862–1948), Secretary of the Navy 1913–1921
 * William T. Fitzsimons, (died 1917), early U.S. casualty.
 * Benjamin Foulois, 1879–1967, was a member of the aviation section of the AEF.
 * William S. Graves, (1865–1940), Commander of American forces in Siberia during the Allied Intervention in Russia
 * Harry G. Hamlet, 1874–1954, later served as Commandant of the Coast Guard
 * Ernest Hemingway, (1899–1961), served in the ambulance corps, 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, governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, presidential candidate
 * Field E. Kindley, (1895–1920), Ace
 * Robert Lansing, (1864–1928), Secretary of State 1915–1920
 * John A. Lejeune, USMC general, led Marine and army divisions
 * Peyton C. March, (1864–1955), Army Chief of Staff 1918–1921
 * Colonel George Patton, commander of U.S. Tank Corps
 * General John J. Pershing, (1860–1948), commander of the AEF
 * Eddie Rickenbacker, (1890–1973), Ace
 * Harold Ross, (1882–1951), Editor of Stars and Stripes, later founder of The New Yorker Magazine
 * Woodrow Wilson, (1856–1924), 28th (1913–1921) President
 * Leonard Wood, (1860–1927), General
 * Sgt. Alvin York, (1887–1964), highly decorated war hero
 * Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (1862-1948) First American Female to be awarded the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honour from France for turning her Chateau d'Annel into a 300 bed hospital on the front line, in 1917.