List of alumni of Sandhurst explained
The notable Alumni of the Royal Military College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are very numerous. In particular, there are so many generals and Victoria Cross holders from the former Royal Military College, Sandhurst, that a full list would be immense.
This list contains a number of students who did not complete the course. Some of the members of foreign royal families were not commissioned into the British Army.
Despite claims to the contrary, Idi Amin and Muammar Gaddafi did not attend Sandhurst.[1]
The Sandhurst Foundation acts as a community for the alumni of the Royal Military Academy.[2]
Royalty
Commonwealth realms
Albania
Austria
- Alexander, Archduke of Austria(Irish Guards)
Bahrain
Bhutan
Brunei
Greece
India
Jordan
Kuwait
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Morocco
Myanmar
Nepal
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Eswatini
Tonga
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
Aristocracy
- Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey (34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot)
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
- Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon (Irish Guards)
- Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
- Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby
- Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby (Royal Hussars)
- Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield (Grenadier Guards)
- Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott
- George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington
- Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk
- Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood
- Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland
- George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
- George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan
- William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (Royal Scots Fusiliers)
- Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (Scots Guards)
- Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough (Royal Fusiliers)
- Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde (Scots Guards)
- George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford
- Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
- Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Grenadier Guards)
- Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart
- Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland
- Lord Eustace Cecil
- Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough
- Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
- Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore (Royal Fusiliers)
- William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim
- William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge (Coldstream Guards)
- William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew
- Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis
- John Crichton, 5th Earl Erne
- Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe
- Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow (Grenadier Guards)
- Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
- Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran (Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers)
- Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran (Grenadier Guards)
- Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn
- Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne
- John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (Royal Scots Greys)
- Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland
- Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
- Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (Grenadier Guards)
- Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster (5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards)
- Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
- Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes (Grenadier Guards)
- Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale
- David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale
- Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh (Royal Horse Guards)
- Arthur French, 5th Baron de Freyne
- Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough
- Ralph Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn
- Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster
- Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (North Irish Horse)
- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
- Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth (Royal Corps of Signals
- Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head
- Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol
- John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
- Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour
- Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens
- Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe
- Charles Innes-Ker, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford (Blues and Royals)
- Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry)
- George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
- George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (Coldstream Guards)
- Norton Knatchbull, 6th Baron Brabourne
- Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys
- Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore
- Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther
- Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
- Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton
- William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst
- Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton
- Lord William Montagu-Douglas-Scott
- 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
- David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
- Thomas Towneley O'Hagan, 2nd Baron O'Hagan
- William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow
- William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton
- Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
- Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby
- Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
- Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (Grenadier Guards)
- Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (King's Royal Rifle Corps)
- Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell
- Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (Bengal Artillery)
- Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead (87th Foot)
- Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond (Life Guards)
- Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville (King's Royal Rifle Corps)
- Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset
- Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset
- Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle
- Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (Life Guards)
- John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
- Randal Smith, 2nd Baron Bicester
- Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (Royal Horse Guards)
- George Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan (Grenadier Guards)
- FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan
- John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (Royal Scots Greys)
- William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington
- Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (Grenadier Guards)
- Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson (Royal Engineers)
- George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon (Grenadier Guards)
- Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon
- John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke
- Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor
- John Warrender, 2nd Baron Bruntisfield
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (Black Watch)
- Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood
- Luke White, 6th Baron Annaly
- Michael Willoughby, 11th Baron Middleton
- Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (King's Royal Hussars) - 20th in line to the British Throne and heir to the Dukedom of Gloucester
- Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Royal Scots Greys)
- Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore
Government
- His Majesty Sir Edward Mutesa - 1st president of Uganda
- Lieutenant General Akwasi Afrifa - 3rd Head of state of Ghana
- Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero - Nicaragua - 1973
- Brigadier David Lansana - Force Commander Sierra Leone Army, acting Head of State of Sierra Leone.
- Sir Winston Churchill (4th Queen's Own Hussars) - twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, so far only one to graduate from Sandhurst.
- Iain Duncan Smith (Scots Guards) - Member of Parliament
- Patrick Mercer (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)) - Member of Parliament
- Tobias Ellwood - Member of Parliament, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence
- Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet (4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards)
- Brigadier John Amadu Bangura, CBE - Chief of the Defence Staff of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces 1968 to 1970; Acting Governor-General of Sierra Leone (1968)
- Rajendrasinhji Jadeja - 1st Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army
- Ghanem bin Shaheen bin Ghanem Al Ghanim - Qatari Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs
- 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
- Lieutenant General Fred Akuffo- former Head of State of Ghana
- 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
- General Yakubu Gowon - 3rd Nigerian Head of State
- Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu - leader of the first military coup in Nigeria
- Major Chris Anuforo - participant in the first military coup in Nigeria
- Kanwar Bahadur Singh - senior officer in the Indian Army
- Ahmed Mohammed Ali - Media Adviser to the Egyptian President
- Major-General Neville Alexander Odartey-Wellington- Ghanaian Army Commander
- General Cyril Ranatunga - Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence of Sri Lanka
- General Denis Perera - Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
- General Nalin Seneviratne - Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
- Lieutenant General Denzil Kobbekaduwa - senior officer in the Sri Lanka Army
- Major General Janaka Perera - senior officer in the Sri Lanka Army
- Major General Jayantha de S. Jayaratne - senior officer in the Sri Lanka Army
- Kojo Tsikata, Head of National Security and member of the Provisional National Defence Council, Ghana
- Muhoozi Kainerugaba,Commander of the land forces of the Uganda People's Defence Force
- Ian kagame,Rwanda Defence Force Republican guards(Presidential security) & also First son of Rwanda
Authors and poets
Artists
Actors
TV
Musicians
Sportsmen and Sportswomen
Explorers
Archaeologists
Chefs
Clergymen
Other
- James Hewitt (Life Guards) - committed adultery[19] with Diana, Princess of Wales
- Elizabeth Godwin - first female officer of The Life Guards
- Susan Ridge - (Army Legal Services) first female to hold the rank of Major General
- 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
- Major-General Sir James Syme Drew, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., D.L., Director of the Territorial Army and Colonel of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders[20]
- Bill Alexander - Communist activist, commander of the British Battalion of the International Brigades
- Ahmad Massoud - leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
- Gáspár Orbán Hungarian lawyer, soldier, religious leader and former professional footballer[21] [22]
- David Abel, Brigadier General of Myanmar Army
Notes and References
- Web site: RMAS Archive. 29 June 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090430115122/http://www.sandhurst.mod.uk/tour/archives.htm. 30 April 2009. dmy-all.
- http://www.sandhurstfoundation.org/ Sandhurst Foundation
- Book: Leifer . Michael . Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia . 13 May 2013 . Routledge . 9781135129453 . 76.
- News: 27 December 1967 . Yang Teramat Mulia Seri Paduka Duli Pengiran Temenggong Sahibul Bahar Muda Muhammad Bolkiah, adinda Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Sultan kelihatan dalam gambar sabelah kanan sedang mengambil bahagian dalam satu latehan perbarisan baru2 ini bagi perbarisan Baginda Queen di - Sandhurst, Maktab Tentera Di-Raja British yang mashor di selatan England. Yang Teramat Mulia itu akan di-lantek sebagai sa-orang Leftenan Muda dalam pasokan Irish Guards. . 8 . Pelita Brunei .
- News: 27 December 1967 . Yang Teramat Mulia Seri Paduka Duli Pengiran Temenggong Sahibul Bahar Muda Muhammad Bolkiah . Pelita Brunei . 8.
- News: Daily Telegraph . 6 October 2008 . London . Alastair . Jamieson . 2 October 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081005024623/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/brunei/3122462/Sultan-of-Bruneis-son-walks-out-of-Sandhurst.html . 5 October 2008 . dmy-all .
- Web site: Sultanate - News Negara Brunei Darussalam Sultan visits Sandhurst as Prince enrols for course . 2023-02-06 . www.sultanate.com.
- Book: Perkahwinan Diraja . Qasrun Nafis Publishing House . 978-99917-975-3-3 . Brunei Darussalam . 10, 12, 15, 20-21, 28-29, 32-33, 36-37, 47, 56-57, 67-68, 86 . The Royal Wedding.
- Web site: Sultanate - News Negara Brunei Darussalam 4 cadet officers of RBAF have been promoted with commands of His Majesty . 2023-10-15 . sultanate.com.
- Web site: 2021-05-21 . Berkenan kurnia lencana pangkat » Media Permata Online . 2023-02-06 . Berkenan kurnia lencana pangkat.
- Web site: COMMANDER ROYAL BRUNEI LAND FORCE . 2023-02-24 . land.mindef.gov.bn.
- Bachamiya A Hussainmiya . 2012-01-01 . Royal Brunei Arrmed Forces 50th anniversary Commemorative History . RBAF 50th Golden Anniversary Commemorative Book . Southeastern University of Sri Lanka . 42.
- News: Independent . 9 August 1993 . 23 March 2009 . London . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20121111182830/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rma-sandhurst-1460072.html . 11 November 2012 . dmy-all .
- News: Times "Crowning glory or a costly folly? George Tupou V's coronation divides Tonga". 17 February 2010 . The Times . London . 29 July 2008.
- Web site: Biog from Motivational Speakers website. 20 November 2007. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20071101015813/http://www.tmcentertainment.co.uk/speaker-index.html?speakerid=279. 1 November 2007. dmy-all.
- Web site: Biog from RFU website. 20 November 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071031184510/http://www.rfu.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/RFUHome.News_Detail/StoryID/4180. 31 October 2007. dmy-all.
- News: Bryony Gordon. Bryony Gordon. The Daily Telegraph - Land mine victim's 1,284-mile trek. 20 November 2007. London. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071101003005/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F03%2F15%2Fnwalk15.xml. 1 November 2007. dmy-all.
- Web site: biog from tv.com website. 20 November 2007. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20080709050018/http://www.tv.com/murray-walker-o.b.e/person/138934/summary.html. 9 July 2008. dmy-all.
- News: 'Kiss and Tell' Officer Draws Heaps of Scorn . 5 October 1994 . Erik . Ipsen . . 3 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090609123911/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/05/news/05iht-royale.html . 9 June 2009 .
- Royal Military College, Sandhurst". The Times. 9 January 1902. p. 4.
- Web site: 2021-01-27. Nem ösztöndíjat kapott Orbán Gáspár a brit elit akadémiára, hanem tanulmányi szerződéssel támogatta a HM. 2021-05-05. telex. hu.
- Web site: Viktor Orban accused of putting son through Sandhurst at Hungarian taxpayer's expense. 2021-05-05. www.telegraph.co.uk.