List of field marshals

This is a list of the officers who have held the army rank of Field Marshal or Marshal. It does not include air force marshals.

Afghanistan

HM Nasrullah Khan (1875–1920)
2004 - Mohammed Fahim (1957–2014)

Albania

King Zog I of the Albanians

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

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)

Bahrain

HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (b. 1950)
HRH Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (b. 1969)
Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa

Cambodia

Lon Nol

1971 - Lon Nol (1913–1985)
HRH Prince Norodom Ranariddh (b. 1944)
2009 - Heng Samrin (b. 1934)^[1]
2009 - Chea Sim (b. 1932)^[1]
2009 - Hun Sen (b. 1952)^[1]

Republic of China

Chinese Chiang Kai-shek

1912 - Yuan Shikai (1859–1916)^[2]
1917 - Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925)^[2]
1921 - Tang Jiyao (1883–1927)
1921 - Lu Rongting (1856–1927)
1927 - Zhang Zuolin (1875–1928)^[2]
1935 - Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975)^[2]

People's Republic of China

Liu Bocheng

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)

Kingdom of Egypt

Field Marshal insignia

HH Abbas I Hilmi Pasha (1813–1854)
HH Ibrahim Pasha (1789–1848)
Yahya Mansur Yeghen (1837–1913)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916)
20 December 1914 - HH Sultan Hussein Kamel (1853–1917)
HM King Fuad I (1868–1936)
'Aziz 'Ali al-Misri (1879–1965)
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)

Republic of Egypt

Abdel Hakim Amer (1919–1967)
November 1973 - Ahmad Ismail Ali (1917–1974)
Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy (1921–2003)
Ahmed Badawi (1927–1981)
Mohammed Aly Fahmy (1920–1999)
Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala (1930–2008)
1993 - Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (b. 1935)
2014 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (b. 1954)

Ethiopia

1934 - HH Prince Seyum Mangasha of Tigray (1897–1960)
HIM Emperor Haile Selassie (1892–1975)

Finland

Finnish President Mannerheim in 1943

1933 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951)

Germany

German Erich von Manstein

List of German field marshals

Greece

1913 - HM King Constantine I (1868–1923)
1937 - HM King George II (1890–1947)
1947 - HM King Paul (1901–1964)
28 October 1949 - Alexandros Papagos (1883–1955)
1964 - HM King Constantine II (b. 1940)

Holy Roman Empire

List of field marshals of the Holy Roman Empire

India

1 January 1973 - Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008)
1986 - K. M. Cariappa (1899–1993)

Iraq

HM King Faisal I (1883–1933)
8 September 1933 - HM King Ghazi (1912–1939)
6 April 1939 - HRH Prince 'Abd al-Ilah (1913–1958)]
2 May 1953 - HM King Faisal II (1935–1958)
Abdul Salam Arif (1921–1966)
1979 - Saddam Hussein (1937–2006)

Italy

4 November 1924 - Conte Luigi Cadorna (1850–1928)
4 November 1924 - Armando Diaz (1861–1928)
25 June 1926 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta (1869–1931)
25 June 1926 - Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956)
25 June 1926 - Enrico Caviglia (1862–1945)
25 June 1926 - Gaetano Giardino ( 1864–1935)
25 June 1926 - Guglielmo Pecori-Giraldi (1856–1941)
16 November 1935 - Emilio De Bono (1866–1944)
9 May 1936 - Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955)
30 March 1938 - HM King Vittorio Emanuele III (1869–1948)^[2]
30 March 1938 - Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)^[2]
1 July 1942 - Conte Ugo Cavallero (1880–1943)
12 August 1942 - Ettore Bastico (1876–1972)
29 October 1942 - HM King Umberto II (1904–1983)
12 May 1943 - Giovanni Messe (1883–1968)

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 (d.2009)

Malaysia

31 August 1957 - Tuanku Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (1885–1960)
14 April 1960 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah of Selangor (1898–1960)
21 September 1960 - Tuanku Syed Putra of Perlis (1920–2000)
21 September 1965 - Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah of Terengganu (1907–1979)
Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
21 September 1970 - Tuanku Abdul Halim of Kedah (b. 1927)
21 September 1975 - Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917–1979)
29 March 1979 - Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (b. 1930)
26 April 1984 - Sultan Iskandar of Johor (1932–2010)
26 April 1989 - Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak (1928-2014)
26 April 1994 - Tuanku Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan (1922–2008)
26 April 1999 - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah of Selangor (1926–2001)
13 December 2001 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin of Perlis (b. 1943)
13 December 2006 - Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (b. 1962)
13 December 2011 - Tuanku Abdul Halim of Kedah (b. 1927)

Mongolia

Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895–1952)
Gelegdorjiin Demid (1900–1937)
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal (1916–1991)

Morocco

17 November 1970 - Mohammed ben Mizzian (1897–1975)

Mozambique

Samora Machel (1933–1986)

Nepal

HH Maharaja Chandra Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1863–1929)
HH Maharaja Bhim Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1865–1962)
HH Maharaja Juddha Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1875–1952)
HH Maharaja Padma Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1882–1961)
HH Maharaja Mohan Shamsher of Lambjang and Kaski (1885–1967)
HH Sir Keshar Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana (1892–1964)
Hari Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
Sir Nir Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (1913–2013)
Sir Kiran Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (1916–1983)
14 April 1953 - HM King Tribhuvan (1906–1955)
1954 - Rudra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (1879–1964)
2 May 1956 - HM King Mahendra (1920–1972)
1972 - HM King Birendra (1945–2001)
2 June 2001 - HM King Gyanendra (b. 1947)

New Zealand

11 June 1977 - HRH Prince Philip, 1st Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
3 August 2015 - HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1948)

North Korea

1953 - Kim Il-sung (1912–1994)^[2]
1992 - O Chin-u (1917–1995)
1992 - Kim Jong-Il (1942–2011)^[2]
1995 - Ri Ul-sol (1921–2015)
1995 - Choi Kwang (1919–1997)
July 2012 - Kim Jong-un (b. 1983)^[3]

Ottoman Empire

List of field marshals of the Ottoman Empire

Philippines

24 August 1936 - Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)

Portugal

1809 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768–1854)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
1927 - Gomes da Costa (1863–1929)
1948 - António Óscar Carmona (1869–1951)
1958 - Francisco Craveiro Lopes (1894–1964)
1981 - António de Spínola (1910–1996)

Romania

HM King Ferdinand (1865–1927)
HM King Michael I (b. 1921)
1930 - HM King Carol II (1893–1953)
1930 - Alexandru Averescu (1859–1938)
1930 - Constantin Prezan (1861–1943)
21 August 1941 - Ion Antonescu (1886–1946)

Saudi Arabia

1991 - HH Prince Khalid bin Sultan (b. 1949)
Saleh Al-Muhaya (b. 1939)

Serbia

Živojin Mišić

14 January 1900 - HM King Milan I (1854–1901)
27 January 1901 - HM King Alexander I (1876–1903)
15 Jun 1903 - HM King Peter I (1844–1921)
20 October 1912 - Radomir Putnik (1847–1917)
20 August 1914 - Stepa Stepanović (1856–1929)
4 December 1914 - Živojin Mišić (1855–1921)
13 September 1918 - Petar Bojović (1858–1945)

Spain

1792 - Antonio Olaguer Feliú (1742–1813)
1810 - Henry Joseph O'Donnell, Count of La Bisbal (1769–1834)
1818 - Manuel Olaguer Feliú (1759–1824)
1844 - Ramón María Narváez y Campos, Duke of Valencia (1800–1868)
1869 - Juan Prim, Marquis of Los Castillejos (1814–1870)

Sri Lanka

22 March 2015 - Sarath Fonseka (b. 1950)

Sudan

Gaafar Nimeiry (1930–2009)
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (b. 1934)
Omar al-Bashir (b. 1944)

Syria

Husni al-Za'im (1897–1949)
Bashar al-Assad (b. 1965)

Tunisia

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

Turkey

21 September 1921 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938)
31 August 1922 - Fevzi Çakmak (1876–1950)

Venezuela

1824 - Antonio José de Sucre (1795–1830)

Yemen

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

Yugoslavia^[4]

King Peter II of Yugoslavia

16 August 1921 - HM King Alexander I (1888–1934)
9 October 1934 - HM King Peter II (1923–1970)
29 November 1943 - Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980)

Other countries

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

Footnotes

1 2 3 His Majesty Promotes Cambodian Leaders to Five-Star General DECEMBER 27, 2009
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Held a senior rank to other marshals of the same country.
↑ "North Korea's Kim Jong-un named marshal", BBC News, 18 July 2012
↑ Surviving Serbian field marshals retained their ranks in Yugoslavia.

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List of field marshals

Austria/Austria-Hungary

Mozambique

Other countries

Footnotes