General was a senior military rank. On Earth, it was the rank above Brigadier. (PROSE: The Dying Days, TV: Spearhead from Space, et al.)
Named generals[]
Human[]
Mark Antony was a co-leader of Rome. (PROSE: The Last Pharaoh)
R. Asquith was the Chief of the Defence Staff. (TV: Aliens of London / World War Three)
George Carrington was a British military officer and the head of the Space Security Department. (TV: Ambassadors of Death)
Chellak was the leader of the troop sent to Androzani Minor to force out Sharaz Jek. (TV: The Caves of Androzani)
Cheng Teik was a Chinese army officer and the Chinese delegate to the World Peace Conference. (TV: The Mind of Evil)
Cobb was a general encountered by the Tenth Doctor, Donna and later Martha on the planet Messaline. (TV: The Doctor's Daughter)
Cutler was the American military officer in command of the Snowcap base in Antarctica. (TV: The Tenth Planet)
Finch was an officer in the British Army. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
Nikolai Hermack was a long-time Space Corps officer. (TV: The Space Pirates)
Hindenberg was a German general during World War I. He commanded the Germans at the battle of Tannenberg. (PROSE: Illegal Alien)
Reginald Hemmings was a general who covered for Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart when he was in Oslo in 1979. (AUDIO: The Valley of Death)
Adrienne Kramer was the leader of the United States division of UNIT in the 1990s and 2000s. (PROSE: Vampire Science)
Mariah Learman was the ruler of New Britain sometime in the 2050s. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks)
Matt Robinson worked for the Ministry of Defence. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)
Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was promoted to general but was still referred to as Brigadier. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
Maxwell-Lennon was a general working for UNIT. (COMIC: Doomcloud)
Raymar was an Egyptian general. (PROSE: The Last Pharaoh)
Stillmun was the leader of the Luminus expedition to colonise Olleril. (PROSE: Tragedy Day)
Otto Strasser was the commanding officer of the Britischer Freikorps in an alternate timeline. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)
Tchike was a member of UNISYC. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
John Williams was an Earth military officer and military advisor to the President of Earth, (TV: Frontier in Space, PROSE: Doctor Who and the Space War) Dora, (AUDIO: The Transcendence of Ephros) in the year 2540. (TV: Frontier in Space)
Xiaolian was a high-ranking official in the Chinese army. She led the Chinese forces stationed in Turmezistan. (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World)
Time Lord[]
The General led the War Council of Gallifrey during the Last Great Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, Hell Bent)
Historians who had studied the Time War believed that the Master had been awarded the rank of general upon his resurrection. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)
Chelonian[]
Fakrid was a general of the Chelonian military at Vaagon. (PROSE: The Highest Science)
Jafrid was a general of the Chelonian military at the battle on Barclow. (PROSE: The Well-Mannered War)
Gaztak[]
Grugger was the leader of a group of Gaztak mercenaries. (TV: Meglos)
Ice Warrior[]
Azznesh Azzar was a New Mars delegate for the Queen Bastrovan peace conference. (AUDIO: The Dance of the Dead)
Loba[]
Orryx was the commander of the loba forces in their war with human colonists on Lobos. (PROSE: The Good Doctor)
Robot[]
Ironicus was the robot regent of an alternate Earth where Rome never fell, and the general of its Iron Legion. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)
Sontaran[]
Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet was a general during the Sontaran invasion of Earth in 2009. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky)
War Lord[]
Smythe was the name used by one of the War Lords when he posed as a general in the British Army in their simulated version of World War I. (TV: The War Games)
Zerugian[]
Orlo was a Zerugian who, as a gift, gave a duplicate of the Mortal Mirror to mark the beginning of the negotiations. (PROSE: Martha in the Mirror)
Unnamed species[]
Sholakh was the aide to the Graff Vynda-K. (TV: The Ribos Operation)
Nor-Din was a military leader native to Anhaut. (COMIC: The Return of the Daleks)
Unnamed generals[]
A General was a survivor of an age-old conflict on a planet. (COMIC: The Last Soldier)