List of alumni of Sandhurst

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[edit]

Commonwealth realms[edit]

William, Prince of Wales ("William Wales") (Blues and Royals)
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex ("Harry Wales") (Blues and Royals)
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Royal Scots Greys)
Prince Michael of Kent (11th Hussars)
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (The King's Royal Rifle Corps)
Prince Arthur of Connaught (7th Queen's Own Hussars)
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Teck (17th Lancers)
Prince Francis of Teck (9th Queen's Royal Lancers)
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (King's Royal Rifles)

Albania[edit]

Bahrain[edit]

Jordan[edit]

Kuwait[edit]

Abdullah the son of Mohammed Khaled Al-Khadher who is Chief of Staff of Kuwait Armed Forces
Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, son of previous Emir of Kuwait and ex Minister of Defence
Sheikh Ahmed Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah, son of Minister of Interior
Sheikh Thamer Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, son of previous Emir of Kuwait, current Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain
Sheikh Abdullah Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, grandson of Emir of Kuwait
Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, first Chief of the General Staff of the Kuwaiti Army
Sheikh Yousuf Ali Yousuf Al-Sabah
Sheikh Khalid Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, son of Prime Minister
Sheikh Jaber Saad Al-Sabah (International Sword of Honor)

Liechtenstein[edit]

Luxembourg[edit]

Malaysia[edit]

Morocco[edit]

Prince Moulay Ismail of Morocco

Nepal[edit]

Jung Bahadur Rana
Chief of Army Staff General Satchit Rana.^{[citation needed]}
Chief of the Army Staff General Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana

Oman[edit]

Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020 (The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles))
Theyazin bin Haitham, Crown Prince of Oman (Son of Haitham bin Tariq Sultan of Oman)

Qatar[edit]

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar since 2013
Sheikh Jasim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former heir apparent
Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar from 1996 to 2007
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalid Al Thani
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani

Saudi Arabia[edit]

Spain[edit]

King Alfonso XII of Spain

Sri Lanka[edit]

General Tissa Weeratunga, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1981 to 1985
General Nalin Seneviratne, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1985 to 1988
General Hamilton Wanasinghe, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1988 to 1991
General Cecil Waidyaratne, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1991 to 1993
General Gerry Hector De Silva, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1994 to 1996
General Rohan Daluwatte, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1996 to 1998

Eswatini[edit]

Luhlabo Gcina Dhlamini, son of King Mswati III^[10]

Tonga[edit]

King George Tupou V of Tonga^[11]

Thailand[edit]

King Vajiravudh of Thailand (Durham Light Infantry)

United Arab Emirates[edit]

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the UAE from November 2004 until his death in May 2022
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the UAE
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai
Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai
Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, hereditary Prince of Dubai
Majid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Prince of Dubai
Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Mualla, deputy ruler of Umm Al Quwain

Aristocracy[edit]

Government[edit]

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[edit]

Antony Beevor (11th Hussars)
Gerald Brenan
Gordon Corrigan (Royal Gurkha Rifles)
Keith Douglas (Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry Regiment)
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (Irish Guards)
Ian Fleming - did not complete course
Harry Graham (Coldstream Guards)
Richard Gwyn
Geoffrey Kent
John Masters (4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles)
Hugh McManners (29 Commando Regiment RA)
Michael Morpurgo
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany
George W. M. Reynolds
Adrian Weale (Intelligence Corps)

Artists[edit]

Andrew Festing (The Rifle Brigade) - British royal portrait painter

Actors[edit]

TV[edit]

David Croft (Royal Artillery) - television scriptwriter and producer
Darren Jordon - British TV news presenter

Musicians[edit]

Sportsmen and Sportswomen[edit]

Allan Cameron (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) - founder of the International Curling Federation
Will Carling (Royal Regiment of Wales) - former captain of the England national rugby union team^[12]
Jim Fox - Olympic gold-medal-winning modern pentathlete
Wyndham Halswelle - Olympic gold-medal-winning 400 metres runner
Devon Harris - Jamaican winter-Olympian
Alastair Heathcote (Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)) - Olympic Rowing silver medalist
Josh Lewsey (Royal Artillery) - England rugby international^[13]
Mark Phillips (1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards) - Olympic gold-medal-winning horseman, Marathon des Sables and a campaigner against land mines^[14]
Tim Rodber (Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)) - England rugby international
Dudley Stokes - Jamaican four time winter-Olympian
Murray Walker (Royal Scots Greys) - motor-racing commentator^[15]
Peter West (Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), 33rd of Foot) - cricket commentator
Heather Stanning - Number 1 female rower in the world since 2016, she is a double Olympic champion, double World champion, quadruple World Cup champion and double European champion.
Bill Tancred (Royal Army Physical Training Corps Two-time Olympic discus thrower [10] Wikipedia Category: Olympic athletes of Great Britain

Explorers[edit]

John Blashford-Snell (Royal Engineers) - was also an instructor at RMAS in the early 1960s
Sir Chris Bonington (Royal Fusiliers, commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment)
Daniel Byles (Royal Army Medical Corps)
Justin Packshaw (Royal Dragoon Guards)
Lawrence "Titus" Oates (6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons)
Richard Profit (Royal Engineers)
Ed Stafford, (Devonshire and Dorset Regiment)
Sir Francis Younghusband (1st King's Dragoon Guards)
Levison Wood (Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom))

Archaeologists[edit]

Chefs[edit]

Keith Floyd (Royal Tank Regiment)

Clergymen[edit]

Other[edit]

James Hewitt (Life Guards) - committed adultery^[16] 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^[17]
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^[18]^[19]
David Abel, Brigadier General of Myanmar Army

References[edit]

^ "RMAS Archive". Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
^ Sandhurst Foundation Archived 13 January 2004 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
^ Bostock, Bill. "500 Rolls-Royces, $20,000 haircuts, and a 1,788-room palace: Everything we know about the lavish life of the Sultan of Brunei, who sparked outrage after introducing a law punishing homosexuality with death". Insider. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
^ "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" (PDF). Pelita Brunei. 27 December 1967. p. 8.
^ Jamieson, Alastair (2 October 2008). "Daily Telegraph". London. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
^ "Sultanate - News | Negara Brunei Darussalam | Sultan visits Sandhurst as Prince enrols for course". www.sultanate.com. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Sultanate - News | Negara Brunei Darussalam | 4 cadet officers of RBAF have been promoted with commands of His Majesty". sultanate.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
^ "Berkenan kurnia lencana pangkat » Media Permata Online". Berkenan kurnia lencana pangkat. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
^ "COMMANDER ROYAL BRUNEI LAND FORCE". land.mindef.gov.bn. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
^ "Independent". London. 9 August 1993. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2009.
^ "Times "Crowning glory or a costly folly? George Tupou V's coronation divides Tonga"". The Times. London. 29 July 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
^ "Biog from Motivational Speakers website". Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ "Biog from RFU website". Archived from the original on 31 October 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ Bryony Gordon. "The Daily Telegraph - Land mine victim's 1,284-mile trek". London. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ "biog from tv.com website". Archived from the original on 9 July 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ Ipsen, Erik (5 October 1994). "'Kiss and Tell' Officer Draws Heaps of Scorn". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2009.
^ Royal Military College, Sandhurst". The Times. 9 January 1902. p. 4.
^ "Nem ösztöndíjat kapott Orbán Gáspár a brit elit akadémiára, hanem tanulmányi szerződéssel támogatta a HM". telex (in Hungarian). 27 January 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
^ "Viktor Orban accused of putting son through Sandhurst at Hungarian taxpayer's expense". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2021.

[RMAS_Archive-1] "RMAS Archive". Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2009.

[2] Sandhurst Foundation Archived 13 January 2004 at the Library of Congress Web Archives

[3] Bostock, Bill. "500 Rolls-Royces, $20,000 haircuts, and a 1,788-room palace: Everything we know about the lavish life of the Sultan of Brunei, who sparked outrage after introducing a law punishing homosexuality with death". Insider. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

[4] "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" (PDF). Pelita Brunei. 27 December 1967. p. 8.

[5] Jamieson, Alastair (2 October 2008). "Daily Telegraph". London. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2008.

[6] "Sultanate - News | Negara Brunei Darussalam | Sultan visits Sandhurst as Prince enrols for course". www.sultanate.com. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

[:0-7] "Sultanate - News | Negara Brunei Darussalam | 4 cadet officers of RBAF have been promoted with commands of His Majesty". sultanate.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

[8] "Berkenan kurnia lencana pangkat » Media Permata Online". Berkenan kurnia lencana pangkat. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

[:1-9] "COMMANDER ROYAL BRUNEI LAND FORCE". land.mindef.gov.bn. Retrieved 24 February 2023.

[10] "Independent". London. 9 August 1993. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2009.

[11] "Times "Crowning glory or a costly folly? George Tupou V's coronation divides Tonga"". The Times. London. 29 July 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2010.

[12] "Biog from Motivational Speakers website". Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[13] "Biog from RFU website". Archived from the original on 31 October 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[14] Bryony Gordon. "The Daily Telegraph - Land mine victim's 1,284-mile trek". London. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[15] "biog from tv.com website". Archived from the original on 9 July 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[iht-kiss-16] Ipsen, Erik (5 October 1994). "'Kiss and Tell' Officer Draws Heaps of Scorn". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2009.

[17] Royal Military College, Sandhurst". The Times. 9 January 1902. p. 4.

[18] "Nem ösztöndíjat kapott Orbán Gáspár a brit elit akadémiára, hanem tanulmányi szerződéssel támogatta a HM". telex (in Hungarian). 27 January 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.

[19] "Viktor Orban accused of putting son through Sandhurst at Hungarian taxpayer's expense". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2021.

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