List of former Parachute Regiment personnel

The list includes those individuals who were, or have claimed to have served in the Parachute Regiment (regular or Territorial Army) of the British Army:

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• Michael Asher – author and desert explorer
• Ian Bailey – Military Medal recipient during the Falklands War
• David Blakeley – actor^[1]
• Vince Bramley – author
• Dr Simon Booth - Senior Lecturer in Leadership at The Henley Business School
• Nick Brown – SAS Soldier †
• Charles (Nish) Bruce QGM - 22 SAS Sergeant & Pilot
• Bryan Budd VC – Victoria Cross recipient †
• Mark Burnett – television producer and Falklands War veteran
• Karl Bushby – adventurer and author
• Frank Carson – comedian and Operation Musketeer veteran
• Eddie Collins – SAS Soldier †
• Charlie Christodoulou – Angolan War mercenary †
• Lewis Collins – actor
• Billy Connolly – actor and comedian
• Bernard Cribbins – actor
• Carl Crook – British and Commonwealth lightweight boxing champion
• Peter Cundall – television presenter
• Paddy Doyle – World Record breaking multi-disciplinary athlete
• Andrew Edge – 4 PARA
• Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar, MC – NATO's Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe †
• Dair Farrar-Hockley MC
• Joshua French – prisoner on death row of Democratic Republic of Congo
• 'Johnny' Frost – Operation Market Garden veteran †
• Costas Georgiou (also known as "Colonel Callan") – Angolan War mercenary †
• Tony Geraghty – author
• Frederick Gough – Former MP for Horsham †
• Ben Griffin – Anti-War on Terror spokesman
• John Grayburn VC – Victoria Cross recipient
• Stephen 'Hank' Hood – 2 PARA – "The face of Goose Green"
• Herbert 'H' Jones VC – Victoria Cross recipient †
• Tim Healy – actor
• Jon Hollingsworth CGC QGM – SAS soldier †
• Robin Horsfall – author and martial-arts expert
• Sir Mike Jackson – former British Army Chief of the General Staff
• Dan Jarvis – Member of Parliament for Barnsley Central
• Derek mitchell  – Special Air Service
• Ken Lukowiak – author
• Tom McClean – World Record breaking Atlantic sailor
• Ian McKay VC – Victoria Cross recipient †
• Joe Murray, television personality
• Sean Olsson – Winter Olympics bobsleigh bronze medalist
• Alastair Pearson DSO and 3 Bars MC CB OBE TD HML
• Sir Hew Pike KCB DSO MBE
• John Pine-Coffin – Operation Musketeer veteran †
• Richard Pine-Coffin, DSO and Bar, MC †

Prof.Robert Little RN. 16th Ind Para Pathfinders,23rd SAS (1980- 2007) Tours 3 X N.I, Falklands, Bosnia, Kosovo, sierra-Leone,Iraq,Afghanistan.

• David Purley – F1, F3 and F5000 racing driver George Medal recipient †
• Lionel Ernest Queripel VC – Victoria Cross recipient †
• Peter Ratcliffe DCM MID – author
• Trevor Rees-Jones – Dodi Al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales' former bodyguard
• Ewan Ross – actor
• Chris Ryan – author and television presenter
• Arthur Sharpe – Member 1st Parachute Regiment 1941
• Al Slater MM – SAS soldier †
• Sir James Spicer
• Richard Todd – actor
• Steve Truglia – world record-breaking attemptee
• Dean Ward – Winter Olympic bobsleigh bronze medalist

John Coyle 1 Para

• David Waterman – British Sports Photographer of the Year 1974, World Press Photo
• Michael Willetts GC – George Cross recipient †
• Mark Wright GC – George Cross recipient †
• Rav Wilding – television presenter

• John James Samuel McMahon (Mac) - From Liverpool - Fitness Professional

See also

Andy Nixon-1 Para (Veteran), 1972/78.

Simon Cousins - SAS soldier (RET)

References

1. David Blakeley.