The List of 5 Most Well-Known People in World War I

VIVA – World War I was a global conflict between Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire or Turkey, Bulgaria, and the allies involving many countries, including Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan and Italy.

It began with the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war against Serbia on July 28, 1914 and ended with the surrender of Germany on November 11, 1918.

There are many well-known legendary figures associated with World War I. One of them is Gavrilo Princip.

The figure who is considered responsible for the outbreak of war because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Red Baron, a German fighter pilot who has 80 victories in aerial combat.

So, here are some famous people from World War I besides Gavrilo Princip.

1. Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin was a farmer from Siberia, with a claim and reputation for heal a disease ability in Russian history.

At the age of 18, he went to the monastery at Verkhoture, where he was introduced to the Flagellants sect. Rasputin left after a few months, then he married and had three children. However, the marriage did not settle him and he became a traveler traveling to Greece, the Middle East, and Jerusalem.

Rasputin's journey took him to St. Petersburg in 1903 and he finally found himself in the court of Tsar Nicholas II, due to his ability to heal a disease.

Manfred von Richthofen or well-known as the Red Baron is a fighter pilot in the German Air Force. He defied the odds to claim 80 aerial combat victories during World War I and became a legend in the air.

Initially, Richthofen served first on the east and then on the western front. As trench warfare settled on the western front, the Red Baron was transferred to the Signal Corps, where he was soon to be frustrated by the life of trench warfare.

In 1915, he volunteered for the Air Service as an observer, where he learned to fly over the next few months. He became one of the first recruits for the Jagdstaffel 2 fighter squadron in 1916.

Gavrilo Princip was the person responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

Two shots fired by Gavrilo Princip would change the course of human history, starting a catastrophic chain of events that would lead to the outbreak of World War I, causing 15 million deaths among countless other impacts.

A proponent of South Slavic nationalism, Gavrilo Princip aimed to destroy Austro-Hungarian rule in the Balkans and unite the southern Slavs into a federal state.

Gavrilo Princip also joined and trained under the secret Serbian nationalist organization Blank Hand, which had the backing of the Serbian State.

Thomas Edward Lawrence was an English archaeologist, military officer, diplomat and writer. He was a regular visitor to the Middle East and Egypt in the years before the war, making it of immense strategic value after the war broke out.

After the outbreak of hostilities, Lawrence was assigned as an intelligence officer in Cairo in December 1914. Intelligence was in contact with Sharif Hussein, the Emir of Mecca, who was negotiating with the British and offered to lead an Arab revolt against the Ottomans.

In 1916, when the Arab Revolt broke out, Lawrence was sent to join the Arab army of Hussein's son as a liaison officer, where he played an effective role in guerrilla warfare against Turkish lines.

When World War I began in Europe in 1914, Ernest Hemingway was still in High School and President Woodrow Wilson had ensured that America remained neutral in the conflict.

But in April 1917, America decided to join the allies and Hemingway tried to enlist in the Army once he was 18 years old. However, Ernest Hemingway was rejected by the US Army, and Marines, due to poor eyesight in his left eye.

Ernest Hemingway tried to register as a Red Cross volunteer and he was accepted in December 1917 and registered as an ambulance driver in Italy.

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At the age of 18, he went to the monastery at Verkhoture, where he was introduced to the Flagellants sect. Rasputin left after a few months, then he married and had three children. However, the marriage did not settle him and he became a traveler traveling to Greece, the Middle East, and Jerusalem.