List of Fleet and Grand Admirals
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The following List of Fleet and Grand Admirals is a summary of those individuals who have held the rank of Fleet Admiral, or its equivalent, as the senior officers of their countries' navies.
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[edit] Austria-Hungary
- May 1916 - Anton Haus (1851-1917)
[edit] China
[edit] Croatia
[edit] Egypt
- HM King Fuad I (1868-1936)
- HM King Farouk (1920-1965)
- 26 July 1952 - HM King Fuad II (b.1952)
[edit] France
- 1525 - Philippe de Chabot (1492-1543)
- 1552 - Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572)
- 1703 - Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737)
- 1805 - Joachim Murat (1767-1815)
- Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angouleme (1775-1844)
- 1860 - Prince Napoléon (1822-1891)
- 1939 - François Darlan (1881-1942)
[edit] Germany
- 1901 - HIM Emperor Wilhelm II (1859-1941)
- 1901 - HM King Oscar II of Sweden (1829-1907)
- 28 June 1905 - Hans von Koester (1844-1928)
- 4 September 1909 - HRH Prinz Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929)
- 27 January 1911 - Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930)
- 31 May 1918 - Henning von Holtzendorff (1853-1919)
- 1 April 1939 - Erich Raeder (1876-1960)
- 30 January 1943 - Karl Dönitz (1891-1980)
[edit] Iraq
[edit] Italy
[edit] Japan
- 1898 - Marquis Tsugumichi Saigo (1843-1902)
- 1906 - Sukeyuki Ito (1843-1914)
- 1911 - Viscount Yoshika Inoue (1845-1929)
- 1913 - Marquis Heihachiro Togo (1847-1934)
- 1913 - Prince Takahito Arisugawa (1862-1913)
- 1917 - Goro Ijuin (1852-1921)
- 1922 - Prince Yorihito Higashi (1867-1922)
- 1923 - Baron Hayao Shimamura (1858-1923)
- 1923 - Baron Tomozaburo Kato (1861-1923)
- 1932 - Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi (1876-1946)
- 1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)
- June 1943 - Osami Nagano (1880-1947)
- 1944 - Mineichi Koga (1885-1944)
[edit] Korea
[edit] Prussia
[edit] Russian Empire
- Count Fyodor Apraksin (1661-1728)
- Count Andrei Osterman (1686-1747)
- Mikhail Golitsyn (1681-1764)
- Prince Grigori Potemkin (1739-1791)
- HIM Tsar Paul I (1754-1801)
- Prince Alexander Menshikov (1787-1869)
- HIH Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (1827-1892)
- HIH Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850-1908)
[edit] Soviet Union
- 1944 - Nikolai Kuznetsov (1902-1974)
- 1955 - Ivan Isakov (1894-1967)
- 1967 - Sergey Gorshkov (1910-1988)
- 1983 - Vladimir Chernavin (Born 1928)
[edit] Sweden
[edit] Turkey
- Hasan Pasha (1713-1790)
- HH Ibrahim Pasha (1789-1848)
- Tahir Pasha
- Gazi Hassan
- Fevzi Achmed Pasha
- 1843 - Halil Pasha
- HH Haji Muhammed Ali Pasha Alioglu (1813-1868)
- 1853 - Mehemet Ali Pasha
- Riza Pasha
- 1854 - Achmet Pasha
- 25 August 1854 - HH Muhammed Said Pasha (1822-1876)
- Mohammed Ali Pasha
- 1858 - Mohammed Kibrizli Pasha
- Fuad Pasha
- Morali Ibrahim Pasha
- Hasan Husni Pasha Bozcandali
- HH Gurcu Muhammed Halil Rifat Pasha
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] United States
- 1899 - George Dewey (1837-1917)
It should be noted that Admiral Dewey held the rank of "Admiral of the Navy" instead of "Fleet Admiral" as the other. He is the only man to have held this rank and it was abolished after his death.
- 15 December 1944 - William D. Leahy (1875-1959)
- 17 December 1944 - Ernest King (1878-1956)
- 19 December 1944 - Chester Nimitz (1885-1966)
- 11 December 1945 - William Halsey, Jr. (1882-1959)
[edit] Vietnam
- Prince Gia Khang