List of alumni of Sandhurst

The Alumni of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is extensive. There were so many famous generals and VC holders 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] 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 ("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

Sheikh Hamad bin Essa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain

Brunei

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

Jordan

Kuwait

Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Salim Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Abdullah Mohammed Khaled Al-Khadher, Son of 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

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. He was grand-son 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

Nigeria

General Yakubu Gowon, former Nigerian Head of State

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

Spain

King Alfonso XII of Spain

Sri Lanka

Swaziland

Prince Lindaninkosi "Lindani" Dlamini - son to King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Swaziland.^[5]

Tonga

King George Tupou V of Tonga^[6]

Thailand

King Vajiravudh of Thailand (Durham Light Infantry).

UAE

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

Aristocracy

Government

Akwasi Afrifa - 3rd Head of state of Ghana
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
Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet (4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards)
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
Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu - Participant in the first military coup in Nigeria
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

Authors and poets

Geoffrey Kent
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)
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany
Harry Graham (Coldstream Guards)
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (Irish Guards)
Antony Beevor (11th Hussars)
Michael Morpurgo
Richard Gwyn
Adrian Weale (Intelligence Corps)

Artists

Andrew Festing (The Rifle Brigade) - British Royal Portrait Painter

Actors

TV

David Croft (Royal Artillery) - television writer.
Katie Hopkins (Adjutant General's Corps) and Paul Callaghan (Royal Artillery) - participant in The Apprentice

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)
Air 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". Retrieved 29 June 2009.
^ Sandhurst Foundation
^ Jamieson, Alastair (2 October 2008). "Daily Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
^ http://www.neuepresse.de/Hannover/NP-Rendezvous-2015/Ein-Rekord-zum-Abschluss
^ "Independent". The Independent. London. 9 August 1993. 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. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ "Biog from Motivational Speakers website". Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ "Biog from RFU website". Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ "biog from tv.com website". Retrieved 20 November 2007.
^ Ipsen, Erik (1994-10-05). "'Kiss and Tell' Officer Draws Heaps of Scorn". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on June 9, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-03. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Metcalf, Charlotte. "The Establishment paedophile's wife: My husband's secret tore our lives apart". Mail Online. Retrieved 12 November 2012.

[RMAS_Archive-1] "RMAS Archive". Retrieved 29 June 2009.

[2] Sandhurst Foundation

[3] Jamieson, Alastair (2 October 2008). "Daily Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 6 October 2008.

[4] ttp://www.neuepresse.de/Hannover/NP-Rendezvous-2015/Ein-Rekord-zum-Abschluss

[5] "Independent". The Independent. London. 9 August 1993. 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. Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[8] "Biog from Motivational Speakers website". Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[9] "Biog from RFU website". Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[10] "biog from tv.com website". Retrieved 20 November 2007.

[iht-kiss-11] Ipsen, Erik (1994-10-05). "'Kiss and Tell' Officer Draws Heaps of Scorn". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on June 9, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-03. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[12] Metcalf, Charlotte. "The Establishment paedophile's wife: My husband's secret tore our lives apart". Mail Online. Retrieved 12 November 2012.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]