The General

The General or The Generals may refer to:

Film and television

• The General (1926 film), a Buster Keaton film
• The General (1992 film), a Russian war film
• The General (1998 film), a John Boorman drama about Dublin criminal Martin Cahill
• The General (TV series), a British TV fly-on-the-wall documentary series about a hospital
• "The General" (The Prisoner), an episode of The Prisoner
• "The General", an episode of Spyforce
• "The General", an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Literature

Fictional works

• "The General", a 1918 poem by Siegfried Sassoon
• The General (Forester novel), a work about a World War I general by C. S. Forester
• The General (Muchamore novel), a novel in the CHERUB book series by Robert Muchamore
• The General (series), a series of science fiction novels by S. M. Stirling
• The General (Sillitoe novel), a World War II novel by Alan Sillitoe
• The Generals (novel), a 2007 novel by Simon Scarrow
• The Generals, a novel in the series Brotherhood of War by W. E. B. Griffin

Fictional characters

• General (DC Comics), an enemy of Batman and other DC superheroes
• General Wade Eiling, another DC Comics supervillain, sometimes known as simply "The General"
• The General, an enemy found in Marvel's Sentry

Non-fiction works

• The General (Fenby book), a biography of Charles de Gaulle by Jonathan Fenby
• The General (Bilby book), a biography of David Sarnoff by Kenneth W. Bilby

Music

• "The General" (Dispatch song), 1998
• The General (Guns N' Roses song), 2023
• "The General", a song by The Rifles from Great Escape

Other uses

• The General (horse), a horse owned by American President John Tyler
• The General (Idaho), a mountain in the United States
• The General (locomotive), a locomotive commandeered in the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War
• The General (insurance), an insurance agency specializing in automobile insurance, formerly Permanent General
• The General (magazine), a wargaming magazine published by Avalon Hill
• The General, a nickname for US automobile manufacturer General Motors

People with the nickname

• Martin Cahill (1949-1994), Dublin criminal
• Sherman Douglas (born 1966), American retired National Basketball Association player
• Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), French statesman and general
• Horace Grant (born 1965), American retired National Basketball Association player
• Les Keiter, American newscaster and sports director
• Bob Knight (1940-2023), American college basketball coach and TV analyst
• Mark Lee (Australian rules footballer) (born 1959), Richmond ruckman of the 1980s
• Rinus Michels (1928-2005), Dutch football player and manager

See also

• El General, Panamanian reggaeton artist born Edgardo Franco in 1964
• General (disambiguation)