General Gordon Explained

General Gordon may refer to:

People

United Kingdom

• Lord Adam Gordon (British Army officer) (1726–1801), British Army general
• Alexander Gordon (general) (1670–1752), Scottish general who fought under Peter the Great in 1696–1711, and for the Jacobites in the Jacobite rising of 1715
• Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army officer, born 1817) (1817–1890), British Army general
• Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army officer, born 1859) (1859–1939), British Army lieutenant-general
• Andrew Gordon (British Army officer) (died 1806), British Army lieutenant-general
• Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), British Army major-general and administrator also known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon of Khartoum
• Cosmo Gordon (1736–1800), British Army general
• Desmond Gordon (1911–1997), British Army major general
• Frederick Gordon (British Army officer) (1861–1927), British Army brigadier and temporary major-general in the early Royal Air Force
• George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (1514–1562), Scottish nobleman and commander of the King's Army at the Battle of Haddon Rig
• George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon (1770–1836), Scottish British Army general
• George Gordon-Lennox (1908–1988), British Army lieutenant-general
• Hugh Gordon (British Army officer) (1760–1823), British Army lieutenant general
• James Gordon (British Army officer, born 1957), British Army major-general
• James Willoughby Gordon (1772–1851), British Army general
• John James Hood Gordon (1832–1908), British Army general
• John William Gordon (1814–1870), British Army major-general
• Patrick Gordon (1635–1699), Scottish general and rear admiral in Russia
• Robert Gordon (British Army officer) (born 1950), British Army major general
• Robert Gordon-Finlayson (1881–1956), British Army general
• Robert Gordon-Finlayson (British Army officer, born 1916) (1916–2001), British Army major general
• Thomas Edward Gordon (1832–1914), British Army general
• William Gordon (British Army officer) (1736–1818), British Army general

United States

• B. Frank Gordon (1826–1866), acting Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War
• George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War
• George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), Union Army general in the American Civil War
• James B. Gordon (1822–1864), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War
• John A. Gordon (born 1946), U.S. Air Force general
• John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War
• Walter Henry Gordon (1863–1924), U.S. Army major general
• William F. Gordon (1787–1858), Virginia Militia major general
• William Washington Gordon II (1834–1912), U.S. Army brigadier general

Others

• Humberto Gordon (1927–2000), Chilean Army general
• Ian Gordon (general) (born 1952), Australian Army major general
• Joseph Maria Gordon (1856–1929), Australian Army major-general

Other uses

• General Gordon Elementary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

See also

• Fred A. Gorden (born 1940), U.S. Army major general
• , a troop transport
• Attorney General Gordon (disambiguation)