Military brats are the children and teenagers of active-duty military personnel, often identifying themselves as part of a distinct subculture of military children and teenagers. While considered a derogatory term, military brat is still used as a term of endearment by military members within the military culture.
For a list of fictional military brats, see list of fictional military brats.
United Kingdom and other commonwealth countries
Jason "J" Brown; former Five member; father in army.
C.A. Cranston, author, academic; father and mother in RAF; military brat culture and experiences of place published in Challenging Contemporary Ecocritical Place Discourse: Military Brats, Shadow Places, and Homeplace Consumerism
Tim Curry, actor, singer and composer (Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show); father was a chaplain in the Royal Navy
Pete Doherty, singer/songwriter; father was in the British Army
Adrian Edmondson, comedian, writer, director, actor, musician; father was a teacher working for the British Army and Royal Air Force
Samantha Eggar, actress; father in the British Army
Dawn French, British comedian; father was in the Royal Air Force
Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and poet; father was a Captain in the British Royal Marines
Colin Greenwood, bassist for the English rock band Radiohead; father in the British Army
Myra Hindley, murderer (Moors Murders); father was a paratrooper in the Royal Air Force
Engelbert Humperdinck, singer; father in the British Army
Christopher Isherwood, novelist; father in British Army
Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer; father was a Pakistan Air Force officer
Elton John, singer; father in the Royal Air Force
Christopher Lee, actor (Count Dracula and Count Dooku); father in the Royal Rifle Corps
John Loder, early film actor; father a British Army General
Malcolm McDowell, actor; father a British Royal Air Force officer
Spike Milligan, Irish-English comedian; father in British Indian Army; grew up in British India and Burma
Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman, sons of Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman, who was commissioned into the Pakistan Army, and became one of the commanders during the 1971 Liberation War and later, the third head of the Bangladesh Army before becoming the seventh President of Bangladesh
Charlotte Rampling, actor, model, singer; father an Olympian and British Army Officer
Ali Saleem, Pakistani cross-dresser and TV host; father was a Pakistan Army colonel
Sanwar Azam Sunny, social entrepreneur and artist; son of Colonel Muhammad Shahid Sarwar, a commander of the Bangladesh Army and Border Guards Bangladesh (1977-2005)
Jennifer Saunders, British comedian, actress, and writer
Rick Springfield, father was an Australian Army officer
Tilda Swinton, father is Major-General Sir John Swinton, KCVO, OBE, DL, the highest rank in the British Army
Tanita Tikaram, father a British Army officer
Sardar Ajit Singh Indian dissident, nationalist, during the time of British rule in India
Raheel Sharif, Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Army; son of a major; brother of Shabbir Sharif (Nishan-e-Haider) and nephew of Raja Aziz Bhatti (Nishan-e-Haider)
Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile; father was a Chilean Air Force General
Joel Embiid, Cameroonian NBA player
Petra Kelly German politician, Green Party activist; had dual citizenship with the United States; father was a US soldier, mother was German
Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, professional boxers (Vitali is the WBC World Champion); father was Soviet Air Force Colonel
Vladimir Radmanović, NBA player; father in Yugoslav People's Army
Ségolène Royal, French politician, former major candidate for French Presidency, father was an officer in the French Army
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