
Charles Peter Allen was an English Liberal politician who represented Stroud from 1900 to 1918. His professional career was as a solicitor and newspaper journalist. He served his country during World War I, as a major in the Gloucestershire Regiment, and as a sportsman played international rugby for Wales.

Thomas Balston was a director of the publishers Duckworth and Co., and a noted scholar of English book production and illustration. He was also an amateur painter, having studied under Mark Gertler.

Lieutenant-Colonel Allen Benjamin Bathurst was a British Conservative Party politician.

Seymour Henry Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst, CMG, TD, JP, DL was a British nobleman, soldier and newspaper owner.

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Burges, VC, DSO was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Colonel James Power Carne was a British Army officer in the Second World War and the Korean War. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for actions during the Battle of the Imjin River during which Carne led The Glorious Glosters in a famous stand against an overwhelming Chinese attack on Gloster Hill.

Sir Colin Reith Coote, DSO was a British journalist and Liberal politician. For fourteen years he was the editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Major Sir George Frederick Davies, CVO was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 1923 to 1945.

Major General Roger Elliott was one of the earliest British Governors of Gibraltar. A member of the Eliot family, his son Granville Elliott became the first Count Elliott and his nephew George Augustus Eliott also became a noted Governor and defender of Gibraltar.

General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley, nicknamed Farrar the Para, was a British Army officer and a military historian who fought in a number of British conflicts. He held a number of senior commands, ending his career as Commander-in-Chief of NATO's Allied Forces Northern Europe. Throughout his four decades of army life, he spoke plainly, and both before and after his retirement in 1982 wrote on the conflicts he had experienced and the Second World War.

Thomas William Graveney was an English first-class cricketer, representing his country in 79 Test matches and scoring over 4,800 runs. In a career lasting from 1948 to 1972, he became the 15th player to score one hundred first-class centuries; he was the first batsman beginning his career after the Second World War to reach this milestone. He played for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, and helped Worcestershire win the county championship for the first time in their history. His achievements for England after being recalled in 1966 have been described as "the stuff of legend." Graveney was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1953, captained England on one occasion and was awarded the OBE while still playing.

Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, served as a British general in the 18th century. A scion of the noble House of Grey, he was a distinguished soldier in a generation of exceptionally capable military and naval personnel, serving in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and taking part in the defeat of France.

Frank Kingsley Griffith was a British Liberal Party politician, barrister and County Court judge.

Major-General Thomas Handasyd, also spelt Handasyde, was an English soldier from Northumberland who served in the armies of William III and Queen Anne from 1674 to 1710. He was military commander and Governor of Jamaica from 1702 to 1711.

Frederick William Harvey DCM, often known as Will Harvey, and dubbed "the Laureate of Gloucestershire", was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor whose poetry became popular during and after World War I.

Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse, 4th Baronet, TD, PC, JP was a British Liberal politician and officer in the Territorial Force. He was a member of the Liberal cabinet of H. H. Asquith between 1911 and 1915.

Francis Lord Charlton Hodson, Baron Hodson,, also known as Charles Hodson, was a British judge who served as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1960 to 1971.

General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.

Brigadier Manley Angell James, was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote was a British soldier, Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist.

Major-General George Kitching CBE, DSO, CD was a senior Canadian Army officer who saw active service in World War II.

Hardy Falconer Parsons VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Thomas Tannatt Pryce VC MC & Bar was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. An officer with the Grenadier Guards during the First World War, he was posthumously awarded the VC for his actions over the period 11 to 13 April 1918, during the German spring offensive.

General Sir Hugh Michael Rose,, often known as Mike Rose, is a retired British Army general. As well as Special Air Service Regiment commanding officer, he was Commander UNPROFOR Bosnia in 1994 during the Yugoslav Wars.

General Sir Thomas Montagu Steele was a British army officer.

Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Reginald Antony Streather was a British Army officer who served in the Gloucestershire Regiment, and mountaineer who first-ascended the third-highest mountain in the world, on the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition, and Tirich Mir. Streather was the first man ever to climb two peaks higher than 25,000 feet (7,600 m).

Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, 12th Earl of Berkshire was a British peer, styled Viscount Andover until 1898.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry ("Harry") Webb, 1st Baronet was a British Liberal Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Forest of Dean (1911–1918) and Cardiff East (1923–1924), and as Junior Lord of the Treasury (1912–1915).

Nicholas Welch, is a retrospectively dismissed British Army officer who served as the Assistant Chief of the General Staff. In March 2021 he became the highest ranked British officer to be convicted at a court martial in over 200 years.

Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall, was an officer in the British Army during the First and Second World Wars.

Colonel Herbert Charles Woodcock was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.