The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Uzbekistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Uzbekistani Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 2,058 Military Personnels, 2 of which were born in Uzbekistan. This makes Uzbekistan the birth place of the 65th most number of Military Personnels behind Cuba, and South Africa.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uzbekistani Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Uzbekistani Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Timur (1336 - 1405)
With an HPI of 90.74, Timur is the most famous Uzbekistani Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 139 different languages on wikipedia.
Timur (1320s – 17/18 February 1405), also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. He was undefeated in battle and is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly. Timur is also considered a great patron of the arts, for he interacted with scholars and poets such as Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, and Hafiz-i Abru. His reign led to the Timurid Renaissance. Born into the Turkicized Mongol confederation of the Barlas in Transoxiana (modern-day Uzbekistan) in the 1320s. Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370 and from there he led a series of military campaigns defeating the Khans of the Golden Horde, the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, as well as the late Delhi Sultanate of India, thus becoming the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world. These conquests led to the creation of the Timurid Empire, which fragmented shortly after his death. He spoke several languages, including Chagatai, an ancestor of modern Uzbek, as well as Mongolian and Persian, which he used for diplomatic correspondence. Timur was the last of the major nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe, and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more organized and lasting Islamic gunpowder empires of the 16th and 17th centuries. Timur was of Turkified-Mongol descent, and, while probably not a direct descendant of either, he shared a common ancestor with Genghis Khan on his father's side, though some authors have suggested his mother may have been a descendant of the Khan. He clearly sought to revive the legacy of Genghis Khan and saw himself as the restorer of the Mongol Empire. According to Gérard Chaliand, Timur thought of himself as Genghis Khan's heir. Timur used Islam to legitimize his conquests, referring to himself as the "Sword of Islam". He was a patron of religion and the arts, but styled himself a ghazi in the last years of his life. By the end of his reign, Timur had gained complete control over all the remnants of the Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Golden Horde, and had even attempted to restore the Yuan dynasty in China. Timur's armies were multi-ethnic and much feared, and laid waste to sizable parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Scholars estimate that his military campaigns caused the deaths of millions of people. Of all the areas he conquered, Khwarazm suffered the most, as it repeatedly rose against him. Timur's campaigns have been characterized as genocidal. He was the grandfather of the Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician Ulugh Beg, who ruled Central Asia from 1411 to 1449, and the great-great-great-grandfather of Babur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire.
2. Gennady Zhidko (1965 - 2023)
With an HPI of 56.21, Gennady Zhidko is the 2nd most famous Uzbekistani Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.
Gennady Valeryevich Zhidko (Russian: Геннадий Валериевич Жидко; 12 September 1965 – 16 August 2023) was a colonel general of the Russian Armed Forces. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017 for his service as chief of staff of Russian forces deployed to Syria. Following this assignment, Zhidko commanded the Eastern Military District and headed the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces. In late May 2022, it was reported that Zhidko had been put in charge of Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, replacing Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov. In October 2022, he was replaced by Army General Sergey Surovikin as the new commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine.
3. Azatbek Omurbekov (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 44.89, Azatbek Omurbekov is the 3rd most famous Uzbekistani Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Azatbek Asanbekovich Omurbekov (born 17 September 1983) is a Russian colonel who commanded the 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Ground Forces during its deployment in Ukraine, during which the unit allegedly committed war crimes in the town of Bucha. He has been referred to in some media and by the European Union as the "Butcher of Bucha". In 2022, Omurbekov was sanctioned by the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada for his actions in Ukraine. The United States sanctioned the entire 64th Brigade.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Uzbekistani military personnels born between 1336 and 1983. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Uzbekistani military personnels include Azatbek Omurbekov. The most famous deceased Uzbekistani military personnels include Timur, and Gennady Zhidko. As of April 2024, 1 new Uzbekistani military personnels have been added to Pantheon including Azatbek Omurbekov.
