List of Field Marshals

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

Afghanistan

• HM Nasrullah Khan (1875-1920)

Albania

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

Argentina

• Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924-1994)

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)

Austria/Austria-Hungary

• List of Austrian Field Marshals

Brazil

• Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Herval (d.1879)
• 15 October 1864 - HRH Prince Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (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
• Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1900-1967)
• Artur da Costa e Silva (1902-1969)

Cambodia

• Lon Nol (1913-1985)
• 1993 - HRH Prince Norodom Ranariddh (b.1944)

Republic of China (Taiwan)

• HH Maharaja Chandra Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1863-1929)
• Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)
• 26 November 1946 - HH Maharaja Padma Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1882-1961)

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)

Independent State of Croatia

• 1941 - Slavko Kvaternik (1876-1947)

Egypt

• HH Abbas I Hilmi Pasha (1813-1854)
• Yahya Mansur Yeghen (1837-1913)
• Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916)
• 20 December 1914 - HH Sultan Husayn Kamil (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)
• Mohamed Abdel-Ghany El-Gamsey (1921-2003)
• Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazaleh
• Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (b.1935)

Ethiopia

• 1934 - HH Prince Seyum Mangasha of Tigray (1897-1960)
• Halie Selassie (1892-1975)

Finland

• 1933 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951)

France

• List of Marshals of France

Germany

• List of German Field Marshals

Greece

• 1913 - HM King Constantine I of the Hellenes (1868-1923)
• 1922 - HM King George II of the Hellenes (1890-1947)
• 1947 - HM King Paul of Greece (1901-1964)
• 1949 - Alexandros Papagos (1883-1955)
• 1964 - HM King Constantine II of the Hellenes (b.1940)

Holy Roman Empire

• List of Field Marshals of the Holy Roman Empire

India

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

Indonesia

• 1945 - Jenderal Besar Sudirman
• 1985 - Soeharto
• 2000 - Abdul Harris Nasution

Iran

• List of Iranian Field Marshals

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)

Italy

• Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
• 1924 - Conte Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928)
• 1924 - Armando Diaz (1861-1928)
• 1926 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta (1869-1931)
• 26 May 1926 - Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956)
• 1926 - Enrico Caviglia (1862-1945)
• 1926 - Guglielmo Pecori-Giraldi (1856-1941)
• 16 November 1935 - Emilio De Bono (1866-1944)
• 9 May 1936 - Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955)
• 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)

Japan

Note: The names below appear in Japanese order, surname (princely title or peerage title) first, followed by given name.

• 19 July 1872 - Saigō Takamori (1827-1877)
• 20 January 1898 - Prince Komatsu Akihito (1846-1903)
• 20 January 1898 - Prince Oyama Iwao (peer) (1843-1916)
• 20 January 1898 - Prince Yamagata Aritomo (peer) (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)

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

Morocco

• 1970. Mohammed ben Mizzian (1897-1975)

Mongolia

• Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895-1952)
• G. Demid (d.1937)

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)

New Zealand

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

North Korea

• Kim Il-sung (1912-1994)
• Kim Jong-il (born 1942)
• O Jin U (died 1995)
• Ri Ul-sol
• Choe Gwang (died 1997)

Pakistan

• 1965 - Ayub Khan (1907-1974)

Philippines

• 1936 - Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

Poland

• List of Polish Field Marshals

Portugal

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

Romania

• 1930 - Alexandru Averescu (1859-1938)
• 1930 - Constantin Prezan (1861-1943)
• Ion Antonescu (1886-1946)

Russian Empire

• List of Russian Field Marshals

Russian Federation

• Igor Sergeyev (1938-2006)

Serbia

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

South Africa

• 24 May 1941 - Jan Smuts (1870-1950)

Soviet Union

• List of Marshals of the Soviet Union

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)

Sudan

• Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab
• Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir
• Gaafar Nimeiry

Sweden

• List of Swedish Field Marshals

Syria

• Husni al-Za'im (1897-1949)

Thailand

• HRH Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse (1859-1928)
• Chao Phraya Bordindeachanuchit (Mom Rajawong Arruin Chatkun) (1856-1921)
• Chao Phraya Bordindeachanuchit (Yam Na Nakorn) (1867-1961)
• HRH Prince Boripat Sukhumbandhu (1881-1944)
• HRH Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath (1883-1920)
• HRH Prince Chirapravati Voradej (1876-1914)
• Plaek Phibunsongkhram (1887-1964)
• Phin Choonhavan (1891-1973)
• Chao Phraya Surasakmontri (1851-1931)
• Sarit Dhanarajata (1908-1963)
• Thanom Kittikachorn (1912-2004)
• Praphas Charusathien (1912-1997)

Tunisia

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

Turkey

• List of Turkish Field Marshals

Uganda

• 1975 - Idi Amin (1928?-2003)

United Kingdom

• List of British Field Marshals

Yemen

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

Yemen Arab Republic

• Abdullah as-Sallal (1917-1994)

Yugoslavia

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

Zaire

• 1983 - Mobutu Sese Seko

Other countries

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