List of Colonel Generals

The following list of Colonel Generals denotes those who have held the rank of Colonel General in the respective military forces of their countries.

England

*Sir Arthur Aston, Colonel-General of the Yorkshire Trained Bands (1640)
*Sir Thomas Baskerville, Colonel-General of land forces accompanying Sir Francis Drake's expedition to the West Indies (1595–1596); Colonel-General of English forces in Picardy (1596–1597)
*John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, Royalist Colonel-General of Devon and Cornwall (1645–1646)
*Richard Bonython, Colonel-General of the Saco Militia (1645–?)
*Sir Nicholas Byron, Royalist Colonel-General of Cheshire (1643–1644)
*Charles Cavendish, Royalist Colonel-General of Lincolnshire (1642–1643)
*Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, Colonel-General of the London Foot (1601)
*Sir John Corbet, Parliamentarian Colonel-General of Shropshire (1642)
*Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Colonel-General of the English Horse in the Netherlands (1586–1587)
*John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville of Staveley, Royalist Colonel-General of Derbyshire (1644–1645)
*Sir Thomas Glemham, Royalist Colonel-General of Northumberland (1643–1646)
*Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough, Royalist Colonel-General of the East Midlands (1643)
*Bussy Mansell, Royalist Colonel-General of Wales (1645)
*Sir Charles Morgan, Colonel-General of His Majesty's Forces in the Service of the King of Denmark
*Sir John Norris, Colonel-General of the Dutch Army in Friesland (1580–1583); Colonel-General of the English Army in the Netherlands (1585–1586); Colonel-General of the English Foot in the Netherlands (1586–1587)
*Sydenham Poyntz, Parliamentarian Colonel-General of the Northern Association (1645–1647)
*Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, Colonel-General of Foot (1599)
*Colonel-General Ruthin, Parliamentarian Governor of Plymouth
*Sir Thomas Scott, Colonel-General of Kent, Spanish Armada campaign (1588)
*Sir William Vavasour, Royalist Colonel-General of the Welsh Marches (1643–1644)
*Sir Francis Vere, Colonel-General of English Foot in the Netherlands (?–1604)
*Sir Richard Willys, Royalist Colonel-General of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland (1645)

Austria

# Archduke Josef Ferdinand (1872–1942)
# Friedrich Graf (Count) von Beck-Rzikowsky (1830–1920)
# Eduard Graf Paar (1837–1919)
# Arthur Freiherr von Bolfras (1838–1922)
# Friedrich Freiherr von Georgi (1852–1926)
# Karl Freiherr von Pflanzer-Baltin (1855–1925)
# Viktor Graf von Dankl (1854–1941)
# Karl Tersztyánszky von Nádas (1854–1921)
# Paul Freiherr Puhallo von Brlog (1856–1926)
# Archduke Leopold Salvator (1863–1931)
# Karl Graf von Kirchbach auf Lauterbach (1856–1939)
# Adolf Freiherr von Rhemen zu Barenfels (1855–1932)
# Karl Graf Huyn (1857–1938)
# Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten (1860–1934)
# Karl Křitek (1861–1928)
# Wenzel Freiherr von Wurm (1859–1921)
# Samuel Freiherr von Hazai (1851–1942)
# Leopold Freiherr von Hauer (1854–1933)
# Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel (1857–1938)
# Stephan Freiherr Sarkotić von Lovčen (1858–1939)
# Josef Ritter Roth von Limanowa-Lapanów (1859–1927)
# Arthur Freiherr Arz von Straussenburg (1857–1935)
# Hugo Martiny von Malastów (1860–1940)
# Rudolf Freiherr Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten (1861–1921)
# Alois Fürst Schönburg-Hartenstein (1858–1944)

Germany

# Hans von Seeckt (1866–1936)
# Wilhelm Adam (1877–1949)
# Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889–1962)
# Ludwig Beck (1880–July 20, 1944), shot
# Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948), suicide
# Kurt Daluege (1897–1946), executed – "SS-Oberstgruppenführer"
# Eduard Dietl (1890–1944), died in aircraft crash
# Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966) – "SS-Oberstgruppenführer"
# Friedrich Dollmann (1882–1944)
# Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885–1968)
# Johannes Friessner (1892–1971)
# Werner von Fritsch (1880–1939), killed in action
# Friedrich Fromm (1888–1945), executed
# Heinz Guderian (1888–1954)
# Curt Haase (1881–1943)
# Franz Halder (1884–1972)
# Kurt Freiherr (Baron) von Hammerstein-Equord (1878-1943)
# Josef Harpe (1887–1968)
# Paul Hausser (1880–1972) – "SS-Oberstgruppenführer"
# Gotthard Heinrici (1886–1971)
# Walter Heitz (1878–1944)
# Carl Hilpert (1888–1947)
# Wilhelm Heye (1869–1946)
# Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891–1985)
# Hermann Hoth (1885–1971)
# Erich Hoepner (1886–1944), executed
# Hans Valentin Hube (1890–1944), died in aircraft crash
# Erwin Jaenecke (1890–1960)
# Hans Jeschonnek (1899–1943), suicide
# Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), executed
# Georg Lindemann (1884–1963)
# Eberhard von Mackensen (1889–1969)
# Erhard Raus (1889–1956)
# Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887–1963)
# Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971)
# Richard Ruoff (1883–1967)
# Hans von Salmuth (1888–1962)
# Rudolf Schmidt (1886–1957)
# Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883–1941)
# Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875–1947) – "SS-Oberstgruppenführer" (honorary)
# Adolf Strauß (1879–1973)
# Ernst Udet (1896–1941), suicide – "Generalluftzeugmeister"
# Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff-Scheel (1887–1952)
# Walter Weiß (1890–1967)
# Kurt Zeitzler (1895–1963)