Arthur Wellesley kwamandan sojan Biritaniya ne kuma dan jiha wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Duke na Wellington na farko. An fi saninsa da rawar da ya taka a yakin Napoleon, inda ya jagoranci sojojin Birtaniyya wajen samun nasara a kan sojojin Napoleon Bonaparte a wasu manyan fadace-fadacen da suka hada da yakin Waterloo a shekarar 1815. Sakamakon nasarorin da ya samu na soja, ya zama gwarzon kasa Birtaniya kuma daga baya aka nada shi a matsayin Firayim Minista a shekara ta 1828. A yau, ana daukarsa a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan kwamandojin soja da jahohi na Biritaniya.