List of alumni of Sandhurst
The notable Alumni of the Royal Military College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are 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
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 )
Charles King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough
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
Winston Churchill
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.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Scots Guards ) – Member of Parliament
Patrick Mercer (Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) ) – Member of Parliament
Lieutenat Colonel 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 – 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 ) – Military dictator, 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
Omar H. AlQadi , 2nd lieutenant in the Jordanian armed forces
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 , 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
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