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" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

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