List of Hellenic Army generals explained

This list is for people who held general officer rank (including, after 1946, Brigadier General) in the regular Hellenic Army since 1828. It does not include the numerous generals of the irregular troops appointed during the Greek War of Independence, unless they also received a general rank in the post-war regular army. This list is not complete – please add to it if you know of any omissions.

A

Born	Died	Notes
1882	1944	Commander of II Corps (1921–22), V Corps (1922)
1893	1920	Held the rank of General as King of Greece (1917–20)
1918		Chief of the Central Intelligence Service (1965)
1912	1987	Chief of the Armed Forces (1967–73), Vice President of the Republic (1973)
1912	1987	Commander of the Greek Battalion in Korea and ELDYK, Chief of the Armed Forces (1974–76)

B

Born	Died	Notes
1889	1950	Commander of Eastern Macedonia Army Section (1941)
1892	1946	Commander of 3rd Division (1940–41), Defence Minister in the collaborationist government (1941–43)
1792	1853	Fighter in the Greek War of Independence, Senator

C

Born	Died	Notes
1862	1949	Chief of the Army Staff Service (1917), Commander of II Corps (1918), Prime Minister, Minister of Military Affairs (1922)
1875	1941	Commander of 10th & 8th Divisions, II Corps. Chief of the Army General Staff (1935–36)
1863	1924
1784	1873	British military officer, commander-in-chief of the Greek forces during the last stages of the Greek War of Independence, Secretary of Military Affairs (1835) Senator
1868	1923	Lt. General as Crown Prince and Inspector-General of the Army until 1913, commander-in-chief of the Greek Army in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars. General and soon after Field Marshal as King of Greece (1913–17, 1920–22)
1940		Held the rank of Field Marshal as King of Greece (1964–73)

D

Born	Died	Notes
1853	1915	Commander of 3rd Division (1911–13), IV Corps (1914–15)
1853	1924	Chief of the Army General Staff (1912), Commander of V Corps (1913–14), member of the "Triumvirate of National Defence", leader of the Liberal Party
1918	2008	Commander of III Corps (1973–74), Chief of the Army General Staff (1974–76) and the Armed Forces Command (1976–80)
1853	1938	Commander of 6th and 8th Divisions (1912–13)
1885	1960	Commander of I Corps (1940, 1941), V Corps (1940–41), Interior Minister in the collaborationist government (1941)
1869	1954	Chief of the Greek Gendarmerie (1928)
1871	1945	Commander of 13th Division (1920–21) and II Corps (1921–22)
1861	1949	Chief of the field staff in the Balkan Wars, Chief of the Army General Staff (1914–16, 1921, 1922)
1947		Chief of the Army General Staff (2004–06)
1898	1973	Chief of the National Defence General Staff (1954–59), interim Prime Minister (1961)
1888	1975	Commander of Epirus Army Section (1941)
1922	2006	Deputy and Alternate Minister of National Defence (1981–86), Minister of Public Order (1986–88)

E

Born	Died	Notes
1869	1936	Deputy Chief of the Army Staff Service, Chief of Staff of the Interior Army (1921)
		French Army general, head of the French military mission (1911–14)

F

Born	Died	Notes
1943	2002	Commander of II Corps (1999–2000), and the Cypriot National Guard (2000–02)
1951		Chief of the Army General Staff (2009–11), Minister for National Defence (2012)
1864	1923	Commander of 1st Division (1920–22) and of the "Southern Group" (August 1922)

G

Born	Died	Notes
1910	1981	Chief of the Army General Staff (1964–65)
1845	1913	Held the rank of General as King of Greece (1863–1913)
1890	1947	Held the rank of General, and from 1939 of Field Marshal, as King of Greece (1922–24, 1935–47)
1891	1964	Commander of 9th Infantry Division (1945), I Corps (1946–47), First Army (1947), Chief of the Army General Staff (1947–49)
1898	1978	Chief of the Army General Staff (1954–56), Minister for Public Works (1958–63), Minister for Public Order (1974–76)
1917	1999	Commander of First Army and Military Commander of Athens during the Regime of the Colonels, President of the Republic (1973–74)
1876	1966	As a colonel, one of the leaders of the 11 September 1922 Revolution. Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government (1922–24), Senator and President of the Senate, Minister for Public Works. Awarded the rank of Lt. General by the National Assembly in 1924.
1948		Chief of the Army General Staff (2006–07), Chief of the National Defence General Staff (2007–09)
1922	1993	Chief of the Army General Staff (1976–80), Chief of the National Defence General Staff (1980–82)
1879	1967
1898	1974	Cypriot-born officer, leader of the royalist Organization X, leader of EOKA against British rule in Cyprus (1955–59), awarded the rank of General in retirement by the Greek Parliament. Held active rank as commander of the Cypriot National Guard (1964–67), leader of EOKA B against Archbishop Makarios (1967–74)
1797	1862

H

Born	Died	Notes
1801	1867
1863	1922	Commander of the Army of Asia Minor (May–August 1922). Tried and executed as responsible for the Asia Minor Disaster in the Trial of the Six.
1866		Commander of II Corps (1922–23)
1798	1869	Fighter in the Greek War of Independence, aide-de-camp to Kings Otto and George I
1873	1945

I

Born	Died	Notes
1923	2010	One of the leaders of the Regime of the Colonels, head of the Greek Military Police (1967–73). De facto dictator from November 1973 until the junta's overthrow in August 1974, when he was forcibly retired. Tried and convicted of high treason to life imprisonment.
1861	1926	Commander of the Archipelago Division (1916–18), I Corps (1918–19), Smyrna Army Corps (1919–20)

K

Born	Died	Notes
1950		Inspector-General of the Army (2006–09)
1858	1940	Commander of the 2nd Division (1911–13), I Corps (1914), Minister of Military Affairs (1916)
1803	1867	Fighter in the Greek War of Independence, one of the leaders of the 3 September 1843 Revolution. Minister for Military Affairs (1853–55).
1868
1826	1899	Minister for Military Affairs (1875–76, 1878, 1880, 1882), MP
1900	1971	Chief of the Army General Staff (1959–62)
1881	1939	MP and Senator, Minister for Military Affairs (1924, 1930–32), Governor-General in Thrace (1922–23) and Crete (1928–30)
1882	1947	Chief of the Army General Staff (1933–35)
1886	1962	Commander of the 8th Division (1938–41), Minister of Labour and Agriculture in the collaborationist government (1941)
1896	1991	Commander of I Greek Brigade at El Alamein, MP and Minister in several portfolios, Mayor of Athens (1954–59)
1852
1878	1935
1805	1868	Fighter in the Greek War of Independence, aide-de-camp of King Otto and Prime Minister (1862)
1770	1843	Klepht leader, he served under the British in the 1800s. One of the main Greek leaders in the Greek War of Independence, as general-in-chief of the Morea. After Independence, he was a political opponent of the regency during King Otto's minority and imprisoned, narrowly escaping execution.
1878	1936	Suppressed the royalist revolt of 1923, overthrew the dictatorship of Theodoros Pangalos in 1926, suppressed the March 1935 Venizelist coup attempt. MP and Minister of Military Affairs (1924, 1926, 1932–33, 1933–35), Prime Minister (1926, 1935). Abolished the Republic on 10 October 1935, restoring the Greek monarchy
1858	1933	Commander of I Corps (1921–22), Ambassador to Albania
1858		Commander of V, III Corps (1917–18), Head of Royal Military Household (1918–20)
1884	1964	Commander of IV, V, I Corps (1940–41), Governor-General in Thrace (1947–48), Chief of the Army General Staff (1949–51)
1956		Chief of the National Defence General Staff (2011–2015)
1913	2003
1858	1933	Commander of I Corps in the Asia Minor Campaign, Ambassador to Albania
1846	1924	MP, Minister for Naval Affairs (1890–92), Minister of Military Affairs (1899)

M

Born	Died	Notes
1829	1911	Chief of the Gendarmerie, Commander of 1st Division (1897)
1797	1867	Fighter in the War of Independence
1879	1960	Chief of the Army General Staff (1931), MP and minister
1881	1947	Chief of the Army General Staff (1931–33), MP and minister
1959		Chief of the Army General Staff (2014–)
1853	1916	Commander of 1st Division in the Balkan Wars, II Corps thereafter
1891	1968	Leader of the leftist Cretan Resistance and PEEA member in World War II
1861	1923	Commander of the 5th and 8th Divisions in the Balkan Wars
1792	1873	Fighter in the War of Independence
1874	1943	Chief of the Army General Staff (1924–25, 1926–27, 1929–31), minister
1869	1949	Fighter in the Macedonian Struggle, Commander of Xanthi Division in the Asia Minor Campaign
1879	1956	Commander of Cavalry Division in the Asia Minor Campaign
1796	1858	Fighter in the War of Independence
1880	1964	Chief of the Army General Staff (1928–29), General Director of the Aviation Ministry (1930–34), Minister
1871	1941	Chief of the Army General Staff (1915), leading figure of the National Schism, Prime Minister and dictator of the 4th of August Regime (1936–41)
1869	1949	Commander of 6th Division in the Balkan Wars, and the Army of Asia Minor in the Asia Minor Campaign
1854	1942	Commander of 4th Division and various divisional groups in the Balkan Wars, III Corps, Chief of the Army General Staff (1916)

P

Born	Died	Notes
1871	1941	Chief of Staff of Army of Asia Minor (1920–22), Chief of Army General Staff (1940–41)
1889	1983	Inspector of Artillery (1938–40), Commander of II Corps (1940–41)
1883	1955	Minister of Military Affairs (1935), Chief of the Army General Staff (1936–40), Commander-in-Chief of the Army (1940–41, 1949–50), Chief of the National Defense General Staff (1950–51), Prime Minister (1952–55)
1844
1857	1935	Commander of the Army of Asia Minor (1920–22)
1860	1936	Commander of I Corps (1917–18), Commander-in-Chief of the Army (1918–20), Senator
1901	1964
1912	2016	One of the leaders of the 1967 coup, Interior Minister (1967–71, 1973), Deputy Prime Minister (1967–73)
1773	1863	Fighter in the Greek War of Independence
1863	1938	Olympic medallist (1986), Interior Minister (1922–23), Minister for Military Affairs (1924), Senator
1881	1975	Commander of I Corps (1940), W. Macedonia Army Section and Epirus Army Section (1940–41), Mayor of Athens (1946–50), Minister of National Defence (1952), Minister for Northern Greece (1961)
1883	1953	As Colonel, one of the leaders of the 11 September 1922 Revolution. Prime Minister (1945, 1950, 195–152). Awarded the rank of Lt. General by the National Assembly in 1924.
1865		Commander of 7th Division (1921–22), Smyrna Superior Military Command (1922)
1859	1942	Commander of III Corps (1921), Northern Group of Divisions (1921–22)
1878	1952	Chief of staff of the Army of Asia Minor (1919–20), Commander of the Army of the Evros (1922–23), Prime Minister (1925–26) and President (1926) as dictator
1879	1943	Director-General of the Ministry of Military Affairs (1930–34), Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff (1934–35), Commander of the Supreme War School (1935–36).

S

Born	Died	Notes
1846	1931	Chief of the Army General Staff (1906–09), commander of the Army of Epirus (1912–13)
1811	1901	Inspector-General of the Army (1878), Minister of Military Affairs
1882	1958	Chief of the Army General Staff (1925–26)
1857
1861
1859
1872	1969
1821?	1858?	Fighter in the Greek War of Independence, Commander of the Athens Infantry in the 3 September 1843 Revolution.
1842	1915	Commander of 1st Division (1897), Minister of Military Affairs (1897, 1903–04)
1860	1953	Deputy Chief of Army General Staff (1912), Commander of 7th Division (1912–15), V & II Corps (1915–16)
1859
1861	1955	Commander of 12th & 10th Divisions (1920–22), III Corps (1922)
1909	1996	Chief of the Army General Staff (1965–67), Deputy PM and Minister of National Defence (1967)
1891	1962	Chief of the Army General Staff (1946–47), Minister for National Defence (1951)
1800	1880	Fighter in the War of Independence, Minister of Military Affairs (1850–53, 1859, 1862, 1867–68)
1888	1965	Commander of the Cavalry Division (1939–41), Peloponnese Mil. Command (1947–48)
1869	1927	Deputy Chief of Army General Staff (1916–17, 1920–21)
1793	1848	Fighter in the War of Independence, Major General in the Royal Phalanx

T

Born	Died	Notes
1952		Deputy Minister for National Defence (2015), Alternate Minister of Citizen Protection (2015–)
1868	1956	Commander of 3rd Division (1917–18, 1921), II Corps (1921), I Corps (1921–22)
1868		Commander of 5th Division (1921–22), IV Corps (1927)
1897	1989	Commander of I and II Corps (1948–49), Chief of the Army General Staff (1951–52)
1887	1939
1956		Chief of the Army General Staff (2013–14)
1879	1929	Commander of Archipelago Division (1920), IV Corps (1922–23)
1879	1943	Commander of Crete Division (1920–21), 10th Division (1922–23), IV Corps (1923–25)
1880
1872	1928	Commander of 3rd & 2nd Division, III Corps (1922–28)
1868	1923	Posthumous honorary promotion
1886	1948	Commander of III Corps and W. Macedonia Army Section (1940–41), Collaborationist Prime Minister during the Occupation (1941–43)
1871	1942

V

Rank	Name	Born	Died	Notes
		1936	2014
		1836	1929
		1892	1960	Chief of the Army General Staff (1944, 1947)
				French Army general, head of the French military mission (1914)
General	Alexakis Vlachopoulos	1780	1865	Fighter in the War of Independence, Minister of Military Affairs (1841-1843), Member of Parliament (1859)
		1866	1960	Chief of the Army General Staff (1920–21), Commander of IV Corps (1922)
Lieutenant General	Konstantinos Vlachopoulos	1789	1868	Fighter in the War of Independence, Commander of the Hellenic Gendarmerie
		1868	1957	Chief of the Army General Staff (1922–24, 1927–28)
		1931	2014	Chief of the Cypriot National Guard (1993–98)
		1887	1971	Commander of 1st Division (1940)

Z

Born	Died	Notes
1871	1947	Commander of 1st Division (1919–20), 3rd Division, II, III and V Corps (1923–1926)
1918	1977	Chief of the Army Command (1972–73) and the Armed Forces Command (1973)
1800	1869	Fighter in the Greek War of Independence
	1941	Commander of Evros Brigade (1941)
1910	1996	Commander of III Corps (1966–67), Regent (1967–1972)
1861	1928
1856	1931
1863	1922