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lieutenant general

military rank used in many countries
Intangible military_rank Q152951
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Summary

lieutenant general is a military rank[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of military rank entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,003 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: generals[3], three-star rank[4]
  • Commons category: Lieutenant generals[5]
  • Said to be the same as: General of the Cavalry[6], Generalleutnant[7], divisional general[8], vice admiral[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lieutenant generals[10]
  • Described by source: Sytin Military Encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13]
  • NATO code for grade: OF-8[14]
  • Different from: lieutenant colonel general[15]
  • Next lower rank: major general[16]
  • Next higher rank: colonel general[17], general[18]

Why It Matters

lieutenant general has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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Abd al-Karim Qasim Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdolrahim Mousavi Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi Adolf Galland Albert I of Belgium Alejandro Agustín Lanusse Aleksandr Vasilevsky Aleksey Brusilov Alexander III of Russia Alexander Lebed Alexey Andreevich Arakcheyev Alfred von Schlieffen Alu Alkhanov Anatoly Bibilov Andrei Grechko Andrey Vlasov Anton Denikin Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu Ayesha Gaddafi Boris III of Bulgaria Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Ehud Barak Felix Kulov Ferdinand Schörner Friedrich Maximilian Klinger Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin Georgy Malenkov Georgy Shonin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Brya · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → General of the Cavalry, Generalleutnant, divisional general +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: rav aluf"
  2. 20w ago · Eurohunter · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → lieutenant colonel general
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Generał lejtnant"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → lieutenant colonel general
    Rank insignia → CCCP army Rank general-lejtnant infobox.svg
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 787, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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