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 winners 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.^[1] Note, 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.^[2]

Contents 1 Royalty 1.1 Commonwealth realms 1.2 Albania 1.3 Bahrain 1.4 Bhutan 1.5 Brunei 1.6 Ethiopia 1.7 Egypt 1.8 Greece 1.9 India 1.10 Iraq 1.11 Jordan 1.12 Kuwait 1.13 Liechtenstein 1.14 Luxembourg 1.15 Malaysia 1.16 Mecca Sharifate 1.17 Oman 1.18 Qatar 1.19 Saudi Arabia 1.20 Spain 1.21 Swaziland 1.22 Tonga 1.23 Thailand 1.24 UAE 2 Aristocracy 3 Government 4 Authors and poets 5 Artists 6 Actors 7 TV 8 Musicians 9 Sportsmen 10 Explorers 11 Archaeologists 12 Chefs 13 Clergymen 14 Black sheep 15 References

Royalty

Commonwealth realms

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

Albania

• HRH Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
• HRH Prince Leka of Albania

Bahrain

• HM Sheikh Hamad bin Essa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain
• HH Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa
• HH Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al-Khalifa
• HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman Al-Khalifa
• HE Sheikh Mohammad bin Khalifa bin Hamad Al-Khalifa
• HE Sheikh Khalifa bin Ahmad Al-Khalifa
• Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Khalifa
• Sheikh Khalifa bin Rashid Al-Khalifa
• Sheikh Salman bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa
• Sheikh Abdullah bin Salman bin Khalid Al-Khalifa

Bhutan

• HRH Prince (Gyalsay Dasho) Khamsun Singye Wangchuk
• Prince (Dasho) Paljor Jigme Dorji

Brunei

• HM Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
• HRH Prince Azim - son of the Sultan of Brunei (quit the Academy after less than two weeks in October 2008)^[3]
• HRH Prince Abdul Mateen - son of the Sultan of Brunei
• HRH Prince Mohamed Bolkiah - brother of HM Hassanal Bolkiah
• HRH Prince Abdul Fattah - son of HRH Prince Mohamed Bolkiah
• HRH Prince Abdul Mu'min - son of HRH Prince Mohamed Bolkiah

Ethiopia

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

Egypt

• HH Prince Muhammad Ali Hasan Bey
• HH Prince Muhammad Said Bey Halim
• HE Vahid Yusri Pasha

Greece

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

India

• HEH Prince Mukarram Jah, Nizam of Hyderabad
• HH Prince Victor Duleep Singh - Head of the Royal House of the Punjab
• General Thakur Nathusingh Rathore,Indian Army, ensured that an Indian led the Indian army post independence despite a request from Nehru to have a british officer
• General Rajendrasinhji Jadeja Indian Army
• Brigadier Mohammad Usman [ Lion of Naoshera ] Indian Army , died in 1st Indo- pak war in Kashmir.

Iraq

• HRH Prince Mir'ed bin Ra'ad

There are more Iraqi officers who graduated from Sandhurst during the kingdom era, one of which is Waleed Mahmood Serat graduated in 1956 or 1955. (He was later executed by Saddam Husain in 1979.)

Jordan

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

Kuwait

• HH Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Salim Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
• HH Sheikh Fahad Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah
• HE Sheikh Ali bin Sabah Al-Sabah
• HE Sheikh Mubarak bin Abdullah Al-Jabir Al-Sabah
• HE Sheikh Abdullah Salem Jaber Al-Sabah
• HE Sheikh Yousef Ali Yousef Al-Sabah
• HE Sheikh Nasser Al-Fawaz Al-Sabah

Liechtenstein

• HSH Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (Coldstream Guards)
• HSH Prince Josef of Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

• HRH Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• HRH Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• HRH Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• HRH Prince Jean of Luxembourg
• HRH Prince Felix of Luxembourg

Malaysia

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

Mecca Sharifate

• HH Prince Zeid bin Shaker
• HH Sharif Shaker bin Zeid
• HH Sharif Nasser bin Jamil
• Sharif Nasser bin Jamil
• Sharifa Sarra bint Ghazi

Oman

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

Qatar

• HH Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar
• HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Crown Prince of Qatar - Deputy Emir and heir apparent
• HH Sheikh Jasim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani - former heir apparent
• HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani
• HE Sheikh Hamad bin Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani
• HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani

Saudi Arabia

• HRH Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah
• HRH Prince Khaled bin Abdullah
• HRH Prince Khalid bin Sultan
• HRH Prince Turki bin Talal
• HRH Prince Abdul Aziz bin Talal
• HRH Prince Saud bin Abdul-Mohsen bin Abdul-Aziz

Spain

• HM King Alfonso XII of Spain

Swaziland

• HRH Prince Lindaninkosi "Lindani" Dlamini - son to King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Swaziland.^[4]

Tonga

• HM King George Tupou V of Tonga.^[5]

Thailand

• HM King Vajiravud of Thailand (Durham Light Infantry).

UAE

• HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Saif bin Mohammed Al Nahyan
• HH Sheikh Thiab bin Saif bin Mohammed Al Nahyan
• HH Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
• HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad Al Maktoum, Hereditary Prince of Dubai
• HH Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
• HH Sheikh Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Mualla

Aristocracy

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

• HE Akwasi Afrifa - 3rd Head of state of Ghana
• The Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill (4th Queen's Own Hussars)
• The Rt Hon. 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)
• HE Rajendrasinhji Jadeja - 1st Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army
• Syed Shahid Hamid - general in the Pakistan Army
• HE Hassan Katsina - Nigerian General, Emir of Katsina, governor of the Northern Region of Nigeria
• Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16th The Queen's Lancers)
• The Rt Hon. Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Grenadier Guards)
• HE Iskander Mirza (The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)) - the 1st President of Pakistan
• Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
• HE Mohammad Ayub Khan (14th Punjab Regiment) - President of Pakistan
• HE C. Odumegwu Ojukwu - President of Biafra
• The Hon. William Champ (63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot) - the 1st Premier of Tasmania
• HE Seretse Khama Ian Khama - President of Botswana
• Major General Janaka Perera (Ceylon Engineers)
• General Yakubu Gowon - 3rd Nigerian Head of State
• HE Kanwar Bahadur Singh = senior officer in the Indian Army.
• Brigadier General Tesfaye Tirfe - the first African to be awarded the overseas award in 1964.

Authors and poets

• 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)
• The Rt Hon. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany
• Harry Graham (Coldstream Guards)
• Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (Irish Guards)
• Antony Beevor (11th Hussars)
• Michael Morpurgo
• 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)

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 horseman
• Chris Moon (Royal Military Police) - Multiple amputee,^[6] completed Marathon des Sables and a campaigner against land mines^[7]
• Jim Fox - Olympic gold-medal-winning modern pentathlete
• Will Carling (Royal Regiment of Wales) - former captain of the England national rugby union team^[8]
• Tim Rodber (Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)) - England rugby international
• Josh Lewsey (Royal Artillery) - England rugby international^[9]
• Murray Walker (Royal Scots Greys) - motor-racing commentator^[10]
• 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

• The Revd. Mark Elvins (Royal Army Chaplains' Department)

Black sheep

• James Hewitt (Life Guards) - committed adultery^[11] with Diana, Princess of Wales
• Simon Mann (Scots Guards) - mercenary

References