WJean-François Allard, born in Saint Tropez, was a French soldier and adventurer.
WGeneral Paolo Crescenzo Martino Avitabile Hindko: ; was an Italian soldier, mercenary and adventurer. A peasant's son born in Agerola, in the province of Salerno near Amalfi, he served in the Neapolitan militia during the Napoleonic wars. After Waterloo he drifted east like many other adventurous soldiers. In 1820 he joined the army of the Shah of Persia, attaining the rank of colonel and receiving several decorations before returning to Italy in 1824.
WBenoît Leborgne, better known as Count Benoît de Boigne or General Count de Boigne, was a military adventurer from the Duchy of Savoy, who made his fortune and name in India with the Marathas. He was also named president of the general council of the French département of Mont-Blanc by Napoleon I.
WPierre Cuillier-Perron, French military adventurer in India born Pierre Cuillier at Luceau near Château-du-Loir, the son of a cloth merchant. In India, he changed his name to Perron. He was generally referred to by his contemporaries and posterity as General Perron.
WDost Mohammad Khan was the founder of the Bhopal State in central India. He founded the modern city of Bhopal, the capital of the Madhya Pradesh state.
WMajor-General Claude Martin was an officer in the French, and later the English East India Company's army in India. He rose to the rank of major-general in the English East India Company's Bengal Army. Martin was born in Lyon, France, into a humble background, and was a self-made man who left a substantial lasting legacy in the form of his writings, buildings and the educational institutions he founded posthumously. There are now ten schools named after him, two in Lucknow, two in Calcutta and six in Lyon. The small village of Martin Purwa in India was also named after him.
WGeneral Michel Joachim Marie Raymond, popularly known as Monsieur Raymond, was a French General in Nizam's military and the founder of Gunfoundry Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He was born in Sérignac, Gascony, France, the son of a merchant.
WGeorge Thomas, nicknamed Jaharai Jung and Jahazi Sahib, was an Irish mercenary and later a Raja who was active in 18th-century India. From 1798 to 1801, he ruled a small kingdom in India, which he carved out of Hisar and Rohtak districts of Haryana.
WJean-Baptiste Ventura, born Rubino ben Torah, was an Italian soldier, mercenary in India, and early archaeologist of the Punjab region of the Sikh Empire.