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List of alumni of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

The Alumni of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is extensive. There were so many famous generals and VC holders at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst that a fair and representative list would be immense. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst officially denies that Idi Amin and Muammar Gaddafi attended the RMAS. This list contains a number of 'students' who did not complete the course. Some of the foreign royalty were not, for example, commissioned. The Sandhurst Foundation acts as a community for the alumni of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Contents

Commonwealth realms

  • Prince William, Duke of Cambridge ("William Wales") (Blues and Royals)
  • Prince Harry ("Harry Wales") (Blues and Royals)
  • Prince Michael of Kent (11th Hussars)
  • Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Royal Scots Greys)
  • Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (The King's Royal Rifle Corps)
  • Prince Arthur of Connaught (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
  • Prince Francis of Teck (9th Queen's Royal Lancers)
  • Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (King's Royal Rifles)
  • Albania

  • King Leka I
  • King Leka II
  • Bahrain

  • Sheikh Hamad bin Essa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain
  • Brunei

  • Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
  • Prince Azim - son of the above (quit the Academy after less than two weeks in October 2008)
  • Prince Mateen - Son of Hassanal Bolkiah
  • Ethiopia

  • Prince Makonnen, Duke of Harar (also known as Makonnen Makonnen)
  • Greece

  • Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece (Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys))
  • Germany

  • Heinrich Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (Household Cavalry, Life Guards) (First German to commission from Reserve Commissioning Course Sandhurst)
  • India

  • Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri - Chief of Indian Army
  • Prince Mukarram Jah, Nizam of Hyderabad
  • Prince Victor Duleep Singh - Head of the Royal House of the Punjab
  • General Rajendrasinhji Jadeja Indian Army
  • General KS Thimayya, 6th Chief of Army Staff
  • Jordan

  • King Hussein of Jordan
  • King Abdullah II of Jordan (13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own))
  • King Talal of Jordan
  • Princess Aisha of Jordan
  • Princess Iman of Jordan
  • Prince Ali of Jordan
  • Prince Hamzah of Jordan
  • Prince Hashim of Jordan
  • Prince Rashid of Jordan
  • Princess Basma Fatima of Jordan
  • Prince Talal of Jordan
  • Kuwait

  • Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Salim Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
  • Sheikh Fahad Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
  • Abdullah the son of Mohammed Khaled Al-Khadher who is Chief of Staff of Kuwait Armed Forces
  • Sheikh Ahmed Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah, Son of Minister of Defence
  • Sheikh Abdullah Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Grandson of Emir of Kuwait
  • Liechtenstein

  • Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (Coldstream Guards)
  • Luxembourg

  • Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
  • Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
  • Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Irish Guards)
  • Prince Jean of Luxembourg
  • Prince Felix of Luxembourg
  • Malaysia

  • Sirajuddin, Raja of Perlis
  • Mizan Zainal Abidin, Sultan of Terengganu
  • Nepal

  • First Sandhurst Graduate of Nepali-Origin was First KCIO King's Commissioned Indian Officer, Commander-in-Chief of Tripura Forces and Col. of British Raj (Fought in World War I) Jodha Jung Bahadur Rana. He was grand-son of Shree-Teen Maharaj and SIR Jang Bahadur Rana and son of Maharajkumar General and Author Padma Jung Bahadur Rana.
  • Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS), General Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana
  • Oman

  • Qaboos bin Said al Said Sultan of Oman (The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles))
  • Qatar

  • Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
  • Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013
  • Sheikh Jasim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former heir apparent
  • Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar from 1996 to 2007
  • Sheikh Hamad bin Khalid Al Thani
  • Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani
  • Saudi Arabia

  • Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah
  • Prince Khaled bin Abdullah
  • Prince Khalid bin Sultan
  • Prince Khalid bin Bandar
  • Prince Saud bin Abdul-Muhsin
  • Prince Sultan bin Fahd
  • Prince Turki bin Talal
  • Prince Abdulrahman bin Talal
  • Spain

  • King Alfonso XII of Spain
  • Sri Lanka

  • General Cyril Ranatunga
  • Lieutenant General Denzil Kobbekaduwa
  • General Denis Perera Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
  • Major General Jayantha de S. Jayaratne
  • Major General Janaka Perera
  • General Nalin Seneviratne Commander of the Sri Lanka Army.
  • Swaziland

  • Prince Lindaninkosi "Lindani" Dlamini - son to King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Swaziland.
  • Tonga

  • King George Tupou V of Tonga
  • Thailand

  • King Vajiravudh of Thailand (Durham Light Infantry).
  • UAE

  • Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
  • Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai
  • Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Hereditary Prince of Dubai
  • Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Emir of Dubai
  • Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Hereditary Prince of Dubai
  • Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Emir of Abu Dhabi
  • Sheikh Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Mualla Hereditary Prince of Umm Al Quwain
  • Aristocracy

  • Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (Royal Horse Guards)
  • Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Royal Scots Greys)
  • Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton
  • Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster (5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards)
  • Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland
  • Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe
  • Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset
  • Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset
  • Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster
  • Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (North Irish Horse)
  • Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
  • Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol
  • Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
  • John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
  • David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
  • Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
  • Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
  • Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore
  • Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon (Irish Guards)
  • Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart
  • Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (Grenadier Guards)
  • John Crichton, 5th Earl Erne
  • Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
  • William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington
  • George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington
  • George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (Coldstream Guards)
  • William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim
  • Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield (Grenadier Guards)
  • Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
  • George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
  • George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan
  • Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton
  • William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow
  • Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland
  • Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (Bengal Artillery)
  • Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (Grenadier Guards)
  • John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (Royal Scots Greys)
  • Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton
  • John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (Royal Scots Greys)
  • George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford
  • Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (Scots Guards)
  • Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (Black Watch)
  • Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland
  • Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
  • Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby
  • Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby (Royal Hussars)
  • Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott
  • Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore
  • Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor
  • Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough (Royal Fusiliers)
  • Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough
  • Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head
  • Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby
  • Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle
  • Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys
  • Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (Grenadier Guards)
  • Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (Life Guards)
  • Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey (34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot)
  • Luke White, 6th Baron Annaly
  • Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe
  • Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
  • Randal Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester
  • William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (Royal Scots Fusiliers)
  • William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton
  • Norton Knatchbull, 6th Baron Brabourne
  • Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow (Grenadier Guards)
  • John Warrender, 2nd Baron Bruntisfield
  • William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew
  • Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Grenadier Guards)
  • Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood
  • William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge (Coldstream Guards)
  • Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis
  • Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne
  • Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
  • Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
  • Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond (Life Guards)
  • Arthur French, 5th Baron de Freyne
  • Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes (Grenadier Guards)
  • Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough
  • Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk
  • Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran (Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers)
  • Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran (Grenadier Guards)
  • Ralph Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn
  • Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth (Royal Corps of Signals
  • Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh (Royal Horse Guards)
  • Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde (Scots Guards)
  • Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry)
  • George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
  • Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale
  • Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
  • Michael Willoughby, 11th Baron Middleton
  • William Napier, 13th Lord Napier
  • Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier
  • Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan
  • Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall (Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
  • Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall
  • David Nickson, Baron Nickson
  • Thomas Towneley O'Hagan, 2nd Baron O'Hagan
  • Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn
  • John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
  • George Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan (Grenadier Guards)
  • FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan
  • Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour
  • Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (King's Royal Rifle Corps)
  • Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell
  • David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale
  • Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead (87th Foot)
  • Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville (King's Royal Rifle Corps)
  • Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens
  • William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst
  • Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore (Royal Fusiliers)
  • Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson (Royal Engineers)
  • George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon (Grenadier Guards)
  • Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon
  • Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood
  • John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke
  • Charles Innes-Ker, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford (Blues and Royals)
  • Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (King's Royal Hussars) - 20th in line to the British Throne and heir to the Dukedom of Gloucester.
  • Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther
  • Lord William Montagu Douglas Scott
  • Lord Eustace Cecil
  • Government

  • Akwasi Afrifa - 3rd Head of state of Ghana
  • Sir Winston Churchill (4th Queen's Own Hussars)
  • Iain Duncan Smith (Scots Guards) - Member of Parliament
  • Patrick Mercer (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)) - Member of Parliament
  • Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet (4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards)
  • Rajendrasinhji Jadeja - 1st Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army
  • Syed Shahid Hamid - general in the Pakistan Army
  • Hassan Katsina - Nigerian general, son of the Emir of Katsina, and military governor of the Northern Region of Nigeria
  • Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16th The Queen's Lancers)
  • Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Grenadier Guards)
  • Iskander Mirza (The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)) - the 1st President of Pakistan
  • Mohammad Ayub Khan (14th Punjab Regiment) - President of Pakistan
  • Major General Iliya D. Bisalla - Former commissioner of Defence of Nigeria
  • William Champ (63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot) - the 1st Premier of Tasmania
  • Seretse Khama Ian Khama - President of Botswana
  • Major General Janaka Perera (Ceylon Engineers)
  • General Yakubu Gowon - 3rd Nigerian Head of State
  • Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu - leader of the first military coup in Nigeria
  • Kanwar Bahadur Singh - senior officer in the Indian Army
  • Ahmed Mohammed Ali Media Adviser to the Egyptian President
  • Authors and poets

  • Geoffrey Kent
  • Ian Fleming - did not complete course
  • George W. M. Reynolds
  • Gerald Brenan
  • Keith Douglas (Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry Regiment)
  • John Masters (4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles)
  • Hugh McManners (29 Commando Regiment RA)
  • Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany
  • Harry Graham (Coldstream Guards)
  • Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (Irish Guards)
  • Antony Beevor (11th Hussars)
  • Michael Morpurgo
  • Richard Gwyn
  • Adrian Weale (Intelligence Corps)
  • Artists

  • Andrew Festing (The Rifle Brigade) - British Royal Portrait Painter
  • Actors

  • David Niven (Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment))
  • Patrick Cargill (Indian Army)
  • Richard Todd (Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) and (British 6th Airborne Division)
  • Alex Brock (QRH) The Queen's Royal Hussars
  • TV

  • David Croft (Royal Artillery) - television writer.
  • Katie Hopkins (Adjutant General's Corps) and Paul Callaghan (Royal Artillery) - participant in The Apprentice
  • Musicians

  • Victor Silvester
  • James Blunt (Life Guards)
  • Sportsmen

  • Mark Phillips (1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards) - Olympic gold-medal-winning horsemanMarathon des Sables and a campaigner against land mines
  • Jim Fox - Olympic gold-medal-winning modern pentathlete
  • Wyndham Halswelle - Olympic gold-medal-winning 400 metres runner
  • Will Carling (Royal Regiment of Wales) - former captain of the England national rugby union team
  • Tim Rodber (Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)) - England rugby international
  • Josh Lewsey (Royal Artillery) - England rugby international
  • Murray Walker (Royal Scots Greys) - motor-racing commentator
  • Devon Harris - Jamaican winter-Olympian
  • Alastair Heathcote (Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)) - Olympic Rowing Silver Medalist
  • Peter West (Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), 33rd of Foot) - cricket commentator.
  • Allan Cameron (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) - founder of the International Curling Federation
  • Explorers

  • Sir Chris Bonington (Royal Fusiliers, commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment)
  • Daniel Byles (Royal Army Medical Corps)
  • Lawrence "Titus" Oates (6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons)
  • Richard Profit (Royal Engineers)
  • Ed Stafford, (Devonshire and Dorset Regiment)
  • Sir Francis Younghusband (1st King's Dragoon Guards)
  • John Blashford-Snell (Royal Engineers) - was also an Instructor at RMAS in the early 1960s
  • Archaeologists

  • Augustus Pitt Rivers (Grenadier Guards)
  • Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Royal Artillery)
  • Sir Alexander Cunningham (King's Regiment)
  • Martin Carver (Royal Tank Regiment)
  • Chefs

  • Keith Floyd (Royal Tank Regiment)
  • Clergymen

  • Mark Elvins (Royal Army Chaplains' Department)
  • Other

  • James Hewitt (Life Guards) - committed adultery with Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Simon Mann (Scots Guards) - mercenary
  • Sir John Peace, Chairman of Standard Chartered, Experian and Burberry
  • Timothy Peake, (British Army Air Corps), European Space Agency astronaut
  • Roger Took - art historian, museum curator, author and convicted child sex offender
  • Major General Sir Hugh Clement Sutton (Coldstream Guards) - Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of Royal Chelsea Hospital.
  • Robert Robottom, (Royal Military Police)
  • References

    List of alumni of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Wikipedia