List of Fleet and Grand Admirals

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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.

1 Austria-Hungary
2 China
3 Croatia
4 Egypt
5 France
6 Germany
7 Iraq
8 Italy
9 Japan
10 Korea
11 Prussia
12 Russian Empire
13 Soviet Union
14 Sweden
15 Turkey
16 United Kingdom
17 United States
18 Vietnam

[edit] Austria-Hungary

May 1916 - Anton Haus (1851-1917)

[edit] China

Zheng He (1371-1433)

[edit] Croatia

Sveto Letica (1926-2001)

[edit] Egypt

[edit] France

1525 - Philippe de Chabot (1492-1543)
1552 - Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572)
1703 - Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737)
1805 - Joachim Murat (1767-1815)
Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angouleme (1775-1844)
1860 - Prince Napoléon (1822-1891)
1939 - François Darlan (1881-1942)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Iraq

HM King Faisal I (1883-1933)

[edit] Italy

Conte Paolo Thaon di Revel (1859-1948)

[edit] Japan

1898 - Marquis Tsugumichi Saigo (1843-1902)
1906 - Sukeyuki Ito (1843-1914)
1911 - Viscount Yoshika Inoue (1845-1929)
1913 - Marquis Heihachiro Togo (1847-1934)
1913 - Prince Takahito Arisugawa (1862-1913)
1917 - Goro Ijuin (1852-1921)
1922 - Prince Yorihito Higashi (1867-1922)
1923 - Baron Hayao Shimamura (1858-1923)
1923 - Baron Tomozaburo Kato (1861-1923)
1932 - Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi (1876-1946)
1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)
June 1943 - Osami Nagano (1880-1947)
1944 - Mineichi Koga (1885-1944)

[edit] Korea

Yi Sunsin (1545-1598)

[edit] Prussia

HRH Prince Adalbert (1811-1873)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Soviet Union

[edit] Sweden

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

[edit] Turkey

Hasan Pasha (1713-1790)
HH Ibrahim Pasha (1789-1848)
Tahir Pasha
Gazi Hassan
Fevzi Achmed Pasha
1843 - Halil Pasha
HH Haji Muhammed Ali Pasha Alioglu (1813-1868)
1853 - Mehemet Ali Pasha
Riza Pasha
1854 - Achmet Pasha
25 August 1854 - HH Muhammed Said Pasha (1822-1876)
Mohammed Ali Pasha
1858 - Mohammed Kibrizli Pasha
Fuad Pasha
Morali Ibrahim Pasha
Hasan Husni Pasha Bozcandali
HH Gurcu Muhammed Halil Rifat Pasha

[edit] United Kingdom

List of British Admirals of the Fleet

[edit] United States

1899 - George Dewey (1837-1917)

It should be noted that Admiral Dewey held the rank of "Admiral of the Navy" instead of "Fleet Admiral" as the other. He is the only man to have held this rank and it was abolished after his death.