List of field marshals

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This is a list of the officers who have held the rank of Field Marshal or Marshal.

Chinese Chiang Kai-shek

German Erich von Manstein

Sam Manekshaw of India

[edit] Afghanistan

HM Nasrullah Khan (1875–1920)

[edit] Albania

1 September 1928 - HM King Zog (1895–1961)

[edit] Argentina

Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924–1994)

[edit] Australia

1927 - William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865–1951)
8 June 1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey (1884–1951)
1 April 1954 - HRH Prince Philip, 1st Duke of Edinburgh (b.1921)

[edit] Austria/Austria-Hungary

List of Austrian Field Marshals

[edit] Brazil

Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Herval (1808–1879)
1864 - HRH Prince Louis-Philippe Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu (1842–1922)
1884 - Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (1827–1892)
Floriano Peixoto (1837–1895)
Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca (1855–1923)
João Mascarenhas de Morais (1883–1968)
Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott (1894–1984)
1966 - Waldemar Levy Cardoso (1900–2009)
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1900–1967)
Artur da Costa e Silva (1902–1969)

[edit] Cambodia

Lon Nol (1913–1985)
HRH Prince Norodom Ranariddh (b.1944)
Heng Samrin (b.1934)
Chea Sim (b.1932)
Hun Sen (b.1952)

[edit] Republic of China

Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975)

[edit] People's Republic of China

1955 - Zhu De (1886–1976)
1955 - Peng Dehuai (1898–1974)
1955 - Lin Biao (1908–1971?)
1955 - Liu Bocheng (1892–1986)
1955 - He Long (1896–1969)
1955 - Chen Yi (1901–1972)
1955 - Luo Ronghuan (1902–1963)
1955 - Xu Xiangqian (1901–1990)
1955 - Nie Rongzhen (1899–1992)
1955 - Ye Jianying (1897–1986)

[edit] Republic of Croatia

1995 - Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999)

[edit] Independent State of Croatia

1941 - Slavko Kvaternik (1876–1947)

[edit] Egypt

Field Marshal insignia

HH Abbas I Hilmi Pasha (1813–1854)
Yahya Mansur Yeghen (1837–1913)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916)
20 December 1914 - HH Sultan Hussein Kamel (1853–1917)
HM King Fuad I (1868–1936)
HM King Farouk (1920–1965)
1949 - HM King Abdullah I of Jordan (1882–1951)
26 July 1952 - HM King Fuad II (b.1952)
21 February 1955 - HM King Hussein of Jordan (1935–1999)
Ahmed Ismail Ali (1917–1974)
Abdel Hakim Amer (1919–1967)
Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy (1921–2003)
Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala (1930–2008)
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (b.1935)

[edit] Ethiopia

1934 - HH Prince Seyum Mangasha of Tigray (1897–1960)
HIM Emperor Haile Selassie (1892–1975)

[edit] Finland

Finnish President Mannerheim in 1943

1933 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951)

[edit] France

List of Marshals of France

[edit] Germany

List of German Field Marshals

[edit] Ghana

1965 - Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972)

[edit] Greece

1913 - HM King Constantine I (1868–1923)
1922 - HM King George II (1890–1947)
1947 - HM King Paul (1901–1964)
28 October 1949 - Alexandros Papagos (1883–1955)
1964 - HM King Constantine II (b.1940)

[edit] Guelders

1528 - Maarten van Rossum (1490–1555)

[edit] Holy Roman Empire

List of Field Marshals of the Holy Roman Empire

[edit] India

1 January 1973 - Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008)
1983 - K. M. Cariappa (1899–1993)

[edit] Indonesia

1945 - Sudirman (1916–1950)
1985 - Suharto (1921–2008)
2000 - Abdul Haris Nasution (1918–2000)

[edit] Iran

List of Iranian Field Marshals

[edit] Iraq

HM King Faisal I (1883–1933)
8 September 1933 - HM King Ghazi (1912–1939)
6 April 1939 - HRH Prince Abdul Illah (1913–1958)]
2 May 1953 - HM King Faisal II (1935–1958)
Abdul Salam Arif (1921–1966)
1979 - Saddam Hussein (1937–2006)

[edit] Italy

4 November 1924 - Conte Luigi Cadorna (1850–1928)
4 November 1924 - Armando Diaz (1861–1928)
25 June 1926 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta (1869–1931)
25 June 1926 - Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956)
25 June 1926 - Enrico Caviglia (1862–1945)
25 June 1926 - Gaetano Giardino ( 1864–1935)
25 June 1926 - Guglielmo Pecori-Giraldi (1856–1941)
16 November 1935 - Emilio De Bono (1866–1944)
9 May 1936 - Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955)
30 March 1938 - HM King Vittorio Emanuele III (1869–1948)^[1]
30 March 1938 - Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)^[1]
1 July 1942 - Conte Ugo Cavallero (1880–1943)
12 August 1942 - Ettore Bastico (1876–1972)
29 October 1942 - HRH Umberto, Prince of Piedmont (1904–1983)
12 May 1943 - Giovanni Messe (1883–1968)

[edit] Japan^[2]

19 July 1872 - Saigō Takamori (1828–1877)
20 January 1898 - Prince Komatsu Akihito (1846–1903)
20 January 1898 - Prince Oyama Iwao (1843–1916)
20 January 1898 - Prince Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922)
31 January 1906 - Marquis Nozu Michitsura (1840–1908)
24 October 1911 - Count Oku Yasukata (1846–1930)
9 January 1914 - Prince Fushimi Sadanaru (1858–1923)
9 January 1914 - Yoshimichi Hasegawa (1850–1924)
9 January 1914 - Kageaki Kawamura (1850–1926)
24 June 1916 - Count Terauchi Masatake (1852–1919)
28 October 1918 - HM King George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936)
12 December 1919 - Prince Kanin Kotohito (1865–1945)
27 April 1922 - Baron Uehara Yusaku (1856–1933)
27 January 1929 - Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi (1873–1929)
8 August 1932 - Prince Nashimoto Morimasa (1874–1951)
3 May 1933 - Baron Muto Nobuyoshi (1868–1933)
21 June 1943 - Sugiyama Hajime (1880–1945)
21 June 1943 - Count Terauchi Hisaichi (1879–1946)
2 June 1944 - Hata Shunroku (1879–1962)

[edit] Jordan

1948 - HM King Abdullah I (1882–1951)
20 July 1951 - HM King Talal (1909–1972)
11 August 1952 - HM King Hussein (1935–1999)
Habis Al-Majali (1914–2001)
Fat'hi Abu Taleb
Abdul Hafeth Al Ka'abnah
7 February 1999 - HM King Abdullah II (b.1962)
2005 - Sa'ad Khair (d.2009)

[edit] Mongolia

Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895–1952)
Gelegdorjiin Demid (1900–1937)

[edit] Morocco

17 November 1970 - Mohammed ben Mizzian (1897–1975)

[edit] Mozambique

Samora Machel (1933–1986)

[edit] Nepal

HH Maharaja Chandra Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1863–1929)
HH Maharaja Juddha Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1875–1952)
HH Maharaja Padma Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1882–1961)
HH Sir Keshar Shamsher (1892–1964)
14 April 1953 - HM King Tribhuvan (1906–1955)
1954 - Rudra Shamsher (1879–1964)
2 May 1956 - HM King Mahendra (1920–1972)
HH Maharaja Bhim Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1865–1962)
HH Maharaja Mohan Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1885–1967)
1972 - HM King Birendra (1945–2001)
2 June 2001 - HM King Gyanendra (b.1947)
Hari Shamsher
Sir Nir Shamsher (b.1913)
Sir Kiran Shamsher (b.1916)

[edit] New Zealand

11 June 1977 - HRH Prince Philip, 1st Duke of Edinburgh (b.1921)

[edit] North Korea

Kim Il-sung (1912–1994)^[1]
Kim Jong-Il (1942–2011)^[1]
O Jin U (1917–1995)
Ri Ul-sol
Choe Gwang (1919–1997)

[edit] Pakistan

1965 - Ayub Khan (1907–1974)

[edit] Philippines

1936 - Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)

[edit] Poland

List of Polish Field Marshals

[edit] Portugal

1809 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768–1854)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
1927 - Gomes da Costa (1863–1929)
1948 - António Óscar Carmona (1869–1951)
1958 - Francisco Craveiro Lopes (1894–1964)
1981 - António de Spínola (1910–1996)

[edit] Romania

1930 - Alexandru Averescu (1859–1938)
1930 - Constantin Prezan (1861–1943)
21 August 1941 - Ion Antonescu (1886–1946)

[edit] Russian Empire

List of Russian Field Marshals

[edit] Russian Federation

Igor Sergeyev (1938–2006)

[edit] Serbia

1912 - Radomir Putnik (1847–1917)
1914 - Zivojin Misic (1855–1921)
1914 - Stepa Stepanovic (1858–1929)
1918 - Petar Bojovic (1858–1936)

[edit] South Africa

24 May 1941 - Jan Smuts (1870–1950)

[edit] Soviet Union

List of Marshals of the Soviet Union

[edit] Spain

1810 - Henry Joseph O'Donnell, Count of La Bisbal (1769–1834)
1844 - Ramón María Narváez y Campos, Duke of Valencia (1800–1868)
1869 - Juan Prim, Marquis of Los Castillejos (1814–1870)

[edit] Sudan

Gaafar Nimeiry (1930–2009)
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (b.1934)
Omar al-Bashir (b.1944)

[edit] Sweden

List of Swedish Field Marshals

[edit] Syria

Husni al-Za'im (1897–1949)

[edit] Thailand

Main article: Chom Phon

HRH Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse (1859–1928)
Chao Phraya Bordindeachanuchit (1856–1921)
Chao Phraya Surasakmontri (1851–1931)
HRH Prince Paripatra Sukhumbhand (1881–1944)
HRH Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath (1883–1920)
HRH Prince Chirapravati Voradej (1876–1914)
Plaek Phibunsongkhram (1887–1964)
Phin Choonhavan (1891–1973)
Sarit Dhanarajata (1908–1963)
HM Queen Sirikit (b.1950)
Thanom Kittikachorn (1912–2004)
Praphas Charusathien (1912–1997)
Kriengkai Attanand (1913–1972) (posthumously)

[edit] Tunisia

14 August 1840 - HH Abu Abbas Ahmed I Pasha Bey (1806–1855)
7 August 1855 - HH Muhammed Pasha Bey (1811–1859)
10 December 1859 - HH Muhammed as-Sadiq Pasha Bey (1813–1882)
28 October 1882 - HH Ali III Pasha Bey (1817–1902)
11 June 1902 - HH Muhammad al-Hadi Pasha Bey (1855–1906)
11 May 1906 - HH Muhammed al-Nasir Pasha Bey (1855–1922)
10 July 1922 - HH Muhammad al-Habib Pasha Bey (1858–1929)
11 February 1929 - HH Ahmed II Pasha Bey (1862–1942)
19 June 1942 - HH Muhammad al-Munsif Pasha Bey (1881–1948)
15 May 1943 - HH Muhammed al-Amin Pasha Bey (1881–1962)

[edit] Turkey

List of Turkish Field Marshals

[edit] Uganda

1975 - Idi Amin (1928?–2003)

[edit] United Kingdom

List of British Field Marshals

[edit] Venezuela

1824 - Antonio José de Sucre (1795–1830)

[edit] Yemen

24 December 1997 - Ali Abdullah Saleh (b.1942)

[edit] Yemen Arab Republic

Abdullah as-Sallal (1917–1994)

[edit] Yugoslavia

29 November 1943 - Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980)

[edit] Zaire

1983 - Mobutu Sese Seko (1930–1997)

[edit] Other countries

The rank also exists or has existed (on paper at least) in Bangladesh, Brunei, South Korea, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and South Vietnam, but not all of these countries have probably actually ever used it.

[edit] Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Held a senior rank to other marshals of the same country.
^ These names appear in Japanese order, surname (princely title or peerage title) first, followed by given name.

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