The short answer? Yes.

The long answer, yes, with examples. Lets take the American folk hero, George S Patton Jr.. George Patton despite his seeming inability to play nice with the press and give speeches that didn't end up in scandal, was undoubtedly a man born for war. The German high command during World War Two, while they did not subject him to as much scrutiny as the 1970 film would have you believe, did respect him immensely. They considered him the classical military commander, fearless in front of his men, a strict disciplinarian, and absolutely ruthless on the battlefield. He has been quoted as saying numerous times that he wanted no reports of "holding" the line, rather every report was to be of advancing. He firmly believed that the only way to experience war was from the front, and he constantly exposed himself to shelling and artillery fire to be closer to the front.

However Patton was by no means an infantryman. If perhaps you wanted someone who found meaning in war, Patton is your man. If you want someone who excelled in war, perhaps you want Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller.

Puller was a Marine's Marine. He enlisted with the United States Marine Corps as a Private, and eventually made his way up to Lieutenant General, a rank climb of almost unimaginable proportions. And absolutely none of it can be attributed to "politics" or such. Chesty came through the Marines and fought in Nicarauga, Haiti, the Pacific during World War Two, and Korea. He was awarded Five Navy Crosses, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, two Legions of Merit with combat Vs, a Bronze Star with a combat V, the Purple Heart, and three Air Medals. The Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver star, and any medal with a V are awarded for valor in combat. The Purple Heart is awarded for being wounded in combat. He has been quoted as saying some variation of "They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!" This was during the fight of Chosin Reservoir, when the X Corps of the UN Coalition was surrounded by the 9th Army of the People's Republic of China. Puller and his 1st Marines were cut off and surrounded even within Chosin Reservoir. Their one division utterly smashed nine surrounding Chinese Divisions, and when ordered to pull out did not leave a single casualty (dead or wounded) or piece of salvageable equipment behind.

(Davis, Burke (1991) [1962]. Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller.)

Kato Kiyomasa (1561-1611), one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's generals and one of the "Seven Spears of Shizugatake" comes to mind. He was about as ferocious and battle-minded a man as I've come across. He was known as kikoshan, "The Devil General," for hunting tigers with a spear while on campaign in Korea during the "Pottery Wars."

Some of his quotations include:

"Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and short swords and to die."

"As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment."

"If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death."

"One should put forth effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives his heart knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements."

"The practice of Noh dancing is absolutely forbidden...A samurai who practices dancing--which is outside the martial arts--should be ordered to commit seppuku."

"One should not be negligent in the way of the retainer. One should rise at four in the morning, practice sword technique, eat one's meal, and train with the bow, the gun, and the horse."

Kato was a merciless adherent of Nichiren Buddhism. He ordered his men to eviscerate pregnant Christian women and decapitate their infants' heads at the Battle of Hondo.

The Japanese-English translator William Scott Wilson wrote of Kiyomasa: "He was a military man first and last, outlawing even the recitation of poetry, putting the martial arts above all else. His precepts show the single-mindedness and Spartan attitudes of the man, and demonstrate emphatically that the warrior's first duty in the early 17th century was simply to 'grasp the sword and die.' Contemporary accounts of Kato describe him as awe-inspiring, yet not unfriendly, and a natural leader of men."

Kiyomasa was born a blacksmith's son, and his rise, like Hideyoshi's, was indicative of the fluid social hierarchy by the late Sengoku period, which was ironically reversed and reified by Hideyoshi's "Sword Hunt" whereby the peasants were disarmed and social distinctions solidified. Kiyomasa was at the extreme end of samurai thinking, in contrast to the cultured, tea ceremony, literate approach of samurai like Imagawa Ryoshun, Shiba Yoshimasa, or Hosokawa Fujitaka.

During the Korean wars, the priest Keinen's diary Korea Day by Day, translated by Stephen Turnbull and too controversial to be printed until 1965, described the mass atrocities carried out by Japanese troops against Korean, Ming, and Ru Zhen people and soldiers. Keiken recalls Kiyomasa's motivations for attacking the Jurchens in 1592 as "to show the savages the mettle of the Japanese." When another commander, a Christian daimyo Konishi Yukinaga, tried to make a separate peace with the Koreans and Chinese in 1597, Kato was infuriated and ravaged Konishi's domain, and had his neighboring lord executed after Sekigahara.

 Frois, Luís.  *Furoisu Nihon-shi* 12, trans. Matsuda Kiichi and Kawasaki Momota.  Tokyo: Chuo-koron-shinsha, 2000, p. 32.
 Kurihara, Arano. Koshu Hagakure. Kumamoto: Seichosha, 1975.
 Gunsho Ruiju, Vol. 15. Tokyo: Keizai Zasshisha, 1895.
 Wilson, William Scott.  *The Ideals of the Samurai*.  New York: Black Belt Publications, 1982.
 Yoshida, Yutaka. Buke no Kakun. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1973.

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Egil Skalligrimsom from Egil's Saga http://sagadb.org/egils_saga.en (Egil doesn't appear to about CH 40) is the most violent figure from History that come to mind. Most of the violence is not random, but related to long running feuds over past violence or property rights.

Egil was matched to play against a boy named Grim, son of Hegg, of Hegg-stead. Grim was ten or eleven years old, and strong for his age. But when they played together Egil got the worst of it. And Grim made all he could of his advantage. Then Egil got angry and lifted up the bat and struck Grim, whereupon Grim seized him and threw him down with a heavy fall, and handled him rather roughly, and said he would thrash him if he did not behave. But when Egil got to his feet, he went out of the game, and the boys hooted at him.

Egil went to Thord and told him what had been done. Thord said:

I will go with you, and we will be avenged on them.'

He gave into his hands a halberd that he had been carrying. Such weapons were then customary. They went where the boys' game was. Grim had now got the ball and was running away with it, and the other boys after him. Then Egil bounded upon Grim, and drove the axe into his head, so that it at once pierced his brain.

Egil was only 7 years old at this time.. And many murders were to follow

While the story is ancient, most of the exact places mentioned are known: http://english.landnam.is/?sid_id=27658&tre_rod=002|003|&tId=1