Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Alexander the Liberator)

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. Mannerheim served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish War of Independence and the Finnish Civil War, Regent of Finland from 1917–1919, commander-in-chief of Finland's defence forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946).