List of Fleet and Grand Admirals

The following List of Fleet and Grand Admirals is a summary of those individuals who have held the rank of Fleet Admiral, or its equivalent, as the senior officers of their countries' navies.

Austria-Hungary

* 5 May 1916 - Anton Haus (1851-1917)
* 1 November 1916 - Charles I of Austria (1887-1922)

China

*Zheng He (1371-1433)

Croatia

* Sveto Letica (1926-2001)

Egypt

* HM King Fuad I (1868-1936)
* HM King Farouk (1920-1965)
* 26 July 1952 - HM King Fuad II (b.1952)

France

* 1373 - Jean de Vienne (1341-1396)
* 1437 - André de Laval-Montmorency (1408-1485)
* 1450 - Jean V de Bueil (1406-1477)
* 1521 - Guillaume Gouffier de Bonnivet (1488-1525)
* 1525 - Philippe de Chabot (1492-1543)
* 1552 - Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572)
* 1582 - Anne de Joyeuse (1560-1587)
* 1587 - Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (1554-1642)
* 1592 - Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1562-1602)
* 1612 - Henri II de Montmorency (1595-1632)
* 1651 - César de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1594-1665)
* 1683 - Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737)
* 1737 - Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793)
* 1805 - Joachim Murat (1767-1815)
* Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angouleme (1775-1844)
* 1860 - Prince Napoléon (1822-1891)
* 1939 - François Darlan (1881-1942)

Germany

* 1901 - HIM Emperor Wilhelm II (1859-1941)
* 1901 - HM King Oscar II of Sweden (1829-1907)
* 28 June 1905 - Hans von Koester (1844-1928)
* 4 September 1909 - HRH Prinz Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929)
* 27 January 1911 - Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930)
* 31 May 1918 - Henning von Holtzendorff (1853-1919)
* 1 April 1939 - Erich Raeder (1876-1960)
* 30 January 1943 - Karl Dönitz (1891-1980)

Iraq

* HM King Faisal I (1883-1933)

Italy

* 4 November 1924 - Conte Paolo Thaon di Revel (1859-1948)

Japan

* 20 January 1898 - Marquis Tsugumichi Saigo (1843-1902)
* 31 January 1906 - Sukeyuki Ito (1843-1914)
* 31 October 1911 - Viscount Yoshika Inoue (1845-1929)
* 21 April 1913 - Marquis Heihachiro Togo (1847-1934)
* 7 July 1913 - Prince Takahito Arisugawa (1862-1913)
* 26 May 1917 - Goro Ijuin (1852-1921)
* 27 June 1922 - Prince Yorihito Higashi (1867-1922)
* 8 January 1923 - Baron Hayao Shimamura (1858-1923)
* 24 August 1923 - Baron Tomozaburo Kato (1861-1923)
* 27 May 1932 - Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi (1876-1946)
* 18 April 1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)
* 21 June 1943 - Osami Nagano (1880-1947)
* 31 May 1944 - Mineichi Koga (1885-1944)

Korea

*Yi Sunsin (1545-1598)

Peru

* 1967 - Miguel Grau Seminario (1834-1879) (posthumous)

Prussia

* HRH Prince Adalbert (1811-1873)

Russian Empire

* Count Fyodor Apraksin (1661-1728)
* Count Andrei Osterman (1686-1747)
* Mikhail Golitsyn (1681-1764)
* Prince Grigori Potemkin (1739-1791)
* HIM Tsar Paul I (1754-1801)
* Prince Alexander Menshikov (1787-1869)
* HIH Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (1827-1892)
* HIH Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850-1908)

Soviet Union

* 1944 - Nikolai Kuznetsov (1902-1974)
* 1955 - Ivan Isakov (1894-1967)
* 1967 - Sergey Gorshkov (1910-1988)
* 1983 - Vladimir Chernavin (Born 1928)

Sweden

* HM King Charles XIII (1748-1818)
* HM King Oscar I (1799-1859)

Turkey

* List of Ottoman Kaptan Pashas

United Kingdom

* List of British Admirals of the Fleet

United States

* 1899 - George Dewey (1837-1917) [Admiral Dewey held the rank of "Admiral of the Navy" instead of "Fleet Admiral" as the others. He is the only man to have held this rank and it was abolished after his death.]
* 15 December 1944 - William D. Leahy (1875-1959)
* 17 December 1944 - Ernest King (1878-1956)
* 19 December 1944 - Chester Nimitz (1885-1966)
* 11 December 1945 - William Halsey, Jr. (1882-1959)

Vietnam

* Prince Gia Khang

Yugoslavia

*Branko Mamula

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