Allied leaders of World War I

Map of the World showing the participants in World War I. Those fighting along with the Allies (at one point or another) are depicted in green, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey.

The Council of Four (from left to right): David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson in Versailles.

The Allied leaders of World War I consist of the political and military figures that fought for or supported the Allies during World War I.

Russian Empire

King George V (right) with his first cousin Tsar Nicholas II, Berlin, 1913. Note the close physical resemblance between the two monarchs.^[1]

• Nicholas II^[2] – last Tsar of Russia, titular King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. His rule ended with the Russian Revolution. Nicholas was killed on 17 July 1918.
• Alexander Kerensky^[3] − Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
• Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich^[4] – Commander-in-chief and viceroy in the Caucasus
• Alexander Samsonov^[5] – Commander of the Russian Second Army for the invasion of East Prussia
• Paul von Rennenkampf^[6] – Commander of the Russian First Army for the invasion of East Prussia
• Nikolay Ivanov^[7] – Commander of the Russian army on the Southwestern Front, responsible for much of the action in Galicia
• Aleksei Brusilov^[8] – Commander of the south, then provisional Commander-in-Chief after the Tsar's abdication

Russian SFSR

• Vladimir Lenin^[9] − Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR

France

• Raymond Poincaré^[10] – President of France, 1913–1920
• Rene Viviani – Prime Minister of France 1914-1915
• Joseph Joffre^[11] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army and Marshal of France
• Ferdinand Foch^[12] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army and Marshal of France, "Generalissimo of the Allied Armies" from spring 1918
• Robert Nivelle^[13] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army
• Philippe Pétain^[14] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army and Marshal of Italy

United Kingdom

• George V^[15] – King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms, Emperor of India
• H. H. Asquith – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (until 1916)^[16]
• David Lloyd George – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (from 1916 to 1922)
• Douglas Haig – Commander-in-Chief of the BEF
• John Jellicoe – Commanding officer of the Grand Fleet (1914–1916), First Sea Lord (1916–1917)
• Horatio Herbert Kitchener – Secretary of State for War (5 August 1914 – 5 June 1916)

Serbia

• Peter I^[17] – King of Serbia
• Crown Prince Alexander – Regent, Commander-in-Chief
• Nikola Pašić – Prime Minister

Belgium

King Albert (left) with his wife the Queen, and Fuad I of Egypt (right).

• Albert I of Belgium^[18] – King of the Belgians
• Charles de Broqueville – Prime Minister (17 June 1911 – 1 June 1918)
• Gérard Cooreman – Prime Minister (1 June 1918 – 21 November 1918)
• Gérard Leman - Belgian general in the Battle of Liege

Italy

• Victor Emmanuel III^[19] – King of Italy
• Vittorio Orlando - Prime Minister of Italy at the end of the war.
• Luigi Cadorna – Commander-in-Chief of the Italian army
• Armando Diaz – Chief of General Staff of the Italian army
• Luigi Amedeo – Commander-in-Chief of the Adriatic Fleet of Italy

Romania

• Constantin Prezan – Chief of the General Staff of Romania
• Alexandru Averescu – Prime Minister of Romania

United States of America

Ōkuma Shigenobu, 5th Prime Minister of Japan.

• Woodrow Wilson^[20] – President of the United States
• Thomas R. Marshall^[21] – Vice President of the United States
• John J. Pershing^[22] – Commander of the American Expeditionary Force

Japan

• Emperor Taishō^[23] – Emperor of Japan
• Ōkuma Shigenobu – Prime Minister of Japan (16 April 1914 – 9 Octo
• Terauchi Masatake – Prime Minister of Japan (9 October 1916 – 29 September 1918)
• Hara Takashi – Prime Minister of Japan (29 September 1918 – 4 November 1921)

Brazil

• Venceslau Brás – President of Brazil
• Pedro Frontin – Brazilian Admiral
• Dr. Nabuco Gouveia – Chief of the Brazilian Medical Delegation

Greece

• Eleftherios Venizelos – Prime Minister
• Pavlos Kountouriotis – Admiral
• Panagiotis Danglis

Siam

• Ramiha Gerazo VI – King of Siam

See also

• Allies of World War I
• Allied leaders of World War II
• Leaders of the Central Powers of World War I

References

• Hart, Peter (2013). The Great War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199976270.

1. At George's wedding in 1893, The Times claimed that the crowd may have confused Nicholas with George, because their beards and dress made them look alike superficially (The Times (London) Friday, 7 July 1893, p.5). Their facial features were only different up close.
2. Robert D. Warth, Nicholas II, The Life and Reign of Russia's Last Monarch, 20
3. Hart 2013, pp. 299–300
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19. King Vittorio Emanuele III
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