List of alumni of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

The Alumni of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is extensive. There are many famous generals and Victoria Cross holders at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst that a fair and representative list would be immense. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst denies that Idi Amin and Muammar Gaddafi attended the RMAS.^[1] 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]

Royalty

Commonwealth realms

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

Albania

Bahrain

Brunei

Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
Prince Azim - son of the above (quit the Academy after less than two weeks in October 2008)^[3]
Prince Mateen - son of Hassanal Bolkiah

Greece

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

Germany

Heinrich Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (Household Cavalry, Life Guards) - first German to commission from Reserve Commissioning Course Sandhurst^[4]

India

Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri - Chief of Indian Army
Prince Mukarram Jah, Nizam of Hyderabad
Prince Victor Duleep Singh - Head of the Royal House of the Punjab
General Rajendrasinhji Jadeja - Indian Army
General KS Thimayya, 6th Chief of Army Staff

Jordan

Kuwait

Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Salim Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
Sheikh Fahad Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Abdullah the son of Mohammed Khaled Al-Khadher who is Chief of Staff of Kuwait Armed Forces
Sheikh Ahmed Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah, son of Minister of Defence
Sheikh Abdullah Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, grandson of Emir of Kuwait

Liechtenstein

Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (Coldstream Guards)

Luxembourg

Malaysia

Sirajuddin, Raja of Perlis
Mizan Zainal Abidin, Sultan of Terengganu
Tengku Amir Shah, Raja Muda of Selangor

Nepal

First Sandhurst Graduate of Nepali-Origin was First KCIO King's Commissioned Indian Officer, Commander-in-Chief of Tripura Forces and Col. of British Raj (Fought in World War I) Jodha Jung Bahadur Rana; grandson of Shree-Teen Maharaj and SIR Jang Bahadur Rana and son of Maharajkumar General and author Padma Jung Bahadur Rana
Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS), General Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana

Oman

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

Qatar

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani - Emir of Qatar
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani - Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 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

UAE

Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan - Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum - Crown Prince of Dubai
Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum - hereditary Prince of Dubai
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - Ruler of Dubai
Sheikh Humaid Saqer Al-Qasimi - Member of the SharJah ruling family
Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum - hereditary Prince of Dubai
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan - Ruler of Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Mualla - hereditary Prince of Umm Al Quwain

Aristocracy

Government

Churchill

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)
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
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
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
Major General Janaka Perera (Ceylon Engineers)
General Yakubu Gowon - 3rd Nigerian Head of State
Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu - leader of 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

Artists

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

Actors

TV

David Croft (Royal Artillery) - television scriptwriter and producer
Katie Hopkins (Adjutant General's Corps) and Paul Callaghan (Royal Artillery) - media personality

Musicians

Sportsmen

Mark Phillips (1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards) - Olympic gold-medal-winning horsemanMarathon des Sables and a campaigner against land mines^[7]
Jim Fox - Olympic gold-medal-winning modern pentathlete
Wyndham Halswelle - Olympic gold-medal-winning 400 metres runner
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

Chefs

Keith Floyd (Royal Tank Regiment)

Clergymen

Mark Elvins (Royal Army Chaplains' Department)

Other

James Hewitt (Life Guards) - committed adultery^[11] with Diana, Princess of Wales
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^[12]
Major General Sir Hugh Clement Sutton (Coldstream Guards) - Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of Royal Chelsea Hospital

References

↑ "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
↑ Jamieson, Alastair (2 October 2008). "Daily Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
↑ Germany, Neue Presse, Hannover, Niedersachsen,. "Sonntagsrendezvous – Ein Rekord zum Abschluss / Archiv 2015 / NP-Rendezvous 2016 / Hannover - NP - Neue Presse". Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
↑ "Independent". The 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.
↑ 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 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.
↑ "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.
↑ Metcalf, Charlotte. "The Establishment paedophile's wife: My husband's secret tore our lives apart". Mail Online. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2012.

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

[4] Germany, Neue Presse, Hannover, Niedersachsen,. "Sonntagsrendezvous – Ein Rekord zum Abschluss / Archiv 2015 / NP-Rendezvous 2016 / Hannover - NP - Neue Presse". Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.

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

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

[7] 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.

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

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

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

[iht-kiss-11] 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.

[12] Metcalf, Charlotte. "The Establishment paedophile's wife: My husband's secret tore our lives apart". Mail Online. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2012.