Military
- Captain Andrew Snape Douglas (1761–1797), Scottish sea captain in the Royal Navy
- Lt. Col. Campbell Mellis Douglas (1840–1909), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- General Sir Charles W. H. Douglas (1850–1914), Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS)
- General Sir Howard Douglas (1776–1861), British general and colonial administrator
- Sir James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (James 'the Good', 1286–1330), Scottish soldier and knight in the Scottish wars of independence
- Lord James Douglas (1617–1645), son of the 1st Marquess of Douglas
- James H. Douglas, Jr. (1899–1988), United States Secretary of the Air Force and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet (1703–1787), Commodore for Newfoundland and Labrador
- Sir John Douglas (died 1814), Royal Marine officer
- Admiral John Erskine Douglas (c. 1758–1847), British naval officer
- Matthew Douglas, 7th Laird of Mains (c.1519–after 1571), Scottish soldier
- Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Douglas (1876–1939), British naval officer, Hydrographer of the Navy
- Admiral Peter John Douglas (1787–1858), British naval officer
- Field Marshal Robert Douglas (1727–1809), career soldier, field marshal of the Netherlands
- Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside (1893–1969), British air force officer
- William Douglas of Fingland (1672–c.1760), Scottish soldier
- Brigadier-General William Douglas of Kirkness(c1690-1747), a Member of Parliament and a soldier.
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)
“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (19101979)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? Nowe are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)