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  • Scarlett, James Yorke (1799–1871), British general in the Crimean War
  • Scipio , nickname of numerous Roman generals
  • Scott, Norman , USN (1889–1942), American two-star admiral in World War II; fallen before Guadalcanal
  • Scott, Robert Falcon (1868–1912), British naval officer and polar explorer
  • Scott, Winfield (1786–1866), general in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War

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  • Shalikashvili, John M. (1936-2011), General in the US Army; 1993–97 Chairman of the United General Staff
  • Sheaffe, Sir Roger Hale (1763-1851), British general and colonial administrator in Canada
  • Shelby, Isaac (1750-1826), American officer in the Revolutionary War; Congressman, first Kentucky governor
  • Shelton, Henry Hugh (born 1942), General in the US Army; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831–1888), American general in the American Civil War
  • Sherman, William T. (1820-1891), American five-star general; Northern troop leaders in the American Civil War; 1869 Commander in Chief of the US Army
  • Shimada Shigetarō (1883-1976), admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II; Naval Minister
  • Shinseki, Eric K. (born 1942), American general; 34th Chief of Staff of the Army
  • Shōji Toshishige (1890–1974), major general in the Imperial Japanese Army
  • Shughart, Randy (1958-1993), American soldier; fallen in Mogadishu

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  • Sick, Georg (1861–1937), Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 163
  • Sickingen, Franz von (1481–1523), imperial knight, leader of the Rhenish and Swabian knights.
  • Sieger, Ludwig (1857–1952), lieutenant colonel and leader of the XVIII. Reserve Corps
  • Siemens, Adolf (1811–1887), royal Prussian major general and military technician; Inventor of the Siemens fuse.
  • Sigel, Franz (1824–1902), Baden revolutionary and general in the American Civil War, newspaper publisher.
  • Sigsbee, Charles Dwight (1845-1923), American naval officer, commandant of the USS Maine ; Spanish-American War.
  • Sikorski, Władysław (1881–1943), Polish general and statesman; Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces; 1939–1943 Prime Minister of the government in exile.
  • Simcoe, John Graves (1752-1806), British officer; first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.
  • Simonds, Guy CC CB CBE DSO CD (1903–1974), Canadian general in World War II.
  • Simpson, William Hood (1888–1980), American general in World War II.
  • Sinan Pascha (1512–1596), Ottoman general and statesman.

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  • Skanderbeg (1403–1468), actually Gjergj Kastrioti , Albanian national hero in the fight against the Turks
  • Skobelew, Michail Dmitrijewitsch (1843–1882), Russian general in the Russo-Turkish War 1877–1878; Conquerors of Turkestan; the famous "White General"
  • Skoblin, Nikolai Wladimirowitsch (* 1892), commanded the Kornilov regiment of the White Army in the Russian Civil War
  • Skoropadskyj, Ivan (around 1646–1722), hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks since 1708
  • Skorzeny, Otto (1908–1975), officer in the Waffen SS; led the commandos that liberated Mussolini
  • Skrzynecki, Jan Boncza (1786–1860), Polish general; Commander in Chief of the Polish Revolutionary Army

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  • Slater, Sir Jock GCB LCO ADC (born 1938), British admiral; 1995–98 First Sea Lord and Chief of the Admiralty's Staff in the Navy
  • Slatin, Sir Rudolf Carl Freiherr von , gen Slatin Pascha , (1857–1932), Austrian adventurer and explorer; Anglo-Egyptian general; British Inspector General in Sudan
  • Slicher, Ludewig Johann Freiherr von (1809–1896), Major General of Hanover
  • Slim, William , 1. Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC (1897-1970), British Field Marshal; Army Commander in Asia; 13. Governor General of Australia

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  • Smend, Günther (1912–1944), German general staff officer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944; executed
  • Smith, Edmund Kirby (1824-1893), Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Smith, Lance L. , American general, commander of the US Joint Forces Command and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation of NATO
  • Smith, Sir William Sidney (1764–1840) British admiral during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Smith-Dorrien, Sir Horace GCB GCMG DSO ADC (1858–1930), British general in World War I; Army Commander on the Western Front; Governor of Gibraltar
  • Smuts, Jan Christiaan (1870–1950), South African lawyer, statesman and general
  • Smyth, Alexander (1765–1830) American lawyer, general of the War of 1812, and politician

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