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)
• 9 October 1916 - Prinz Heinrich of Prussia (1862–1929)
• 1 November 1916 - Charles I of Austria (1887–1922)
• 22 February 1917 - Emperor William II of Germany (1859–1941)

China

• Zheng He (1371–1433)

Croatia

• March 1996 – Sveto Letica (1926–2001)

Egypt

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

France

• 1340 - Hugues Quiéret (1290-1340)
• 1341 - Luis de la Cerda (1291-1348)
• 1373 - Jean de Vienne (1341–1396)
• 1421 - Louis de Culant (1360-1444)
• 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)
• 2 February 1805 - Joachim Murat (1767–1815)
• 1814 - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775–1844)
• 1831 - Laurent Truguet (1752-1839)
• 1840 - Albin Roussin (1781–1854)
• 1854 - Charles Baudin (1792–1854)
• 1854 - Ferdinand Alphonse Hamelin (1796–1864)
• 1854 - Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes (1790–1860)
• 1855 - Armand Joseph Bruat (1796–1855)
• 1860 - Prince Napoléon (1822–1891)
• 1860 - Joseph Romain-Desfossés (1798-1864)
• 27 January 1864 - Charles Rigault de Genouilly (1807–1873)
• 15 November 1864 - Léonard Charner (1797-1869)
• 20 February 1869 - François Thomas Tréhouart (1798-1873)
• 1939 - François Darlan (1881–1942)

Germany

• 1871 - Prince Adalbert (1811–1873)
• 1901 - Emperor Wilhelm II (1859–1941)
• 1901 - King Oscar II of Sweden (1829–1907)
• 28 June 1905 - Hans von Koester (1844–1928)
• 4 September 1909 - 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)

Greece

• WWII - King George II of Greece (1890-1947)

Iraq

• 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)

Ottoman Empire

• List of Ottoman Kapudan Pashas

Peru

• 1967 - Miguel Grau Seminario (1834–1879) (posthumous)

Russian Empire^[1]

• 1708 - General-Admiral Count Fyodor Apraksin (1661–1728)
• 1727 - Admiral Generalissimus Prince Alexander Menshikov (1673-1729)
• 1740 - General-Admiral Count Andrei Osterman (1686–1747)
• 1756 - General-Admiral Prince Mikhail Golitsyn (1681–1764)
• 1762 - General-Admiral Tsar Paul I (1754–1801)
• 1784 - General-Field marshal Prince Grigori Potemkin (1739–1791)
• 1796 - Navy General-Field marshal Count Ivan Chernyshyov (1726-1797)
• 1831 - General-Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827–1892)
• 1883 - General-Admiral Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850–1908)

Russian Federation

Admirals of the fleet

• 1996 - Felix Gromov (1937-)
• 2000 - Vladimir Kuroyedov (1944-)
• 2005 - Vladimir Masorin (1947-)

Soviet Union

Admirals of the fleet

• 31.05.1944 – Nikolai Kuznetsov (1902–1974) (later admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union) (demoted to rear admiral 03.02.1948, promoted to vice admiral 27.01.1951, reinstated 11.05.1953)
• 31.05.1944 – Ivan Isakov (1894–1967) (later admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union)
• 18.06.1962 – Vladimir Kasatonov (1910–1989)
• 28.04.1967 – Sergey Gorshkov (1910–1988) (later admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union)
• 30.04.1970 – Nikolai Sergeyev (1909–1999)
• 28.07.1970 – Semyon Lobov (1913–1977)
• 1973 – Georgiy Yegorov (1918–2008)
• 05.11.1973 – Nikolai Smirnov (1917–1992)
• 16.02.1982 – Alexei Sorokin (born 1922)
• 05.11.1983 – Vladimir Chernavin (born 1928)
• 04.11.1988 – Ivan Kapitanets (born 1928)
• 04.11.1989 – Konstantin Makarov (1931–2011)

Admirals of the Fleet of the Soviet Union

• 03.03.1955 – Nikolai Kuznetsov (1902–1974) (demoted to vice admiral 17.02.1956, reinstated posthumously 26.07.1988)
• 03.03.1955 – Ivan Isakov (1894–1967)
• 28.10.1967 – Sergey Gorshkov (1910–1988)

Sweden

• King Charles XIII (1748–1818)
• King Oscar I (1799–1859)
• King Oscar II (1829–1907)

United Kingdom

• List of British admirals of the fleet

United States

• 1899 - George Dewey (1837–1917)^[2]
• 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)

Yugoslavia

• 1983 – Branko Mamula (born 1921)

Footnotes

1. Slovar Biograficheskiy Morskoy, Sankt Peterburg, LOGOS, 2001
2. 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.