33 Special Air Service officers

Major Sir John Jacob Astor VII, was an English politician and sportsman. He was a member of the prominent Astor family.

Charles Alvin "Charlie" Beckwith was a career U.S. Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier counter terrorism and asymmetrical warfare unit of the U.S. Army, based on his experience serving with the British Special Air Service. He served in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of colonel before his retirement.

Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. (Dent.) Edouard "Eddy" Blondeel DSO was the wartime commander of the Belgian 5th SAS. After the war he was first C.O. of the 1st Regiment of Parachutists. He retired from the army in 1947 to work as an engineer with Wiggins Teape.

Sir Julian William Hendy Brazier is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury from 1987 to 2017.

Shaun Michael Brogan was a major in the Special Air Service who received the Military Cross for his part in the Dhofar campaign.

James Michael Calvert was a British soldier involved in special operations in Burma during the Second World War. He participated in both Chindit operations and was instrumental in popularizing the unorthodox ideas of General Orde Wingate. He frequently led attacks from the front, a practice that earned him the nickname amongst the men under his command of "Mad Mike."

General Sir Mark Alexander Popham Carleton-Smith, is a senior British Army officer who has previously served as Director Special Forces. He became Chief of the General Staff in June 2018, succeeding General Sir Nick Carter.

Alfred George Gardyne de Chastelain, DSO, OBE (1906–1974) was a British-Canadian businessman, soldier, and secret agent, noted for his actions during World War II. He was the father of Canadian General John de Chastelain.

Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer-Churchill was a British journalist, writer and a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston from 1940 to 1945.

Colonel Timothy Thomas Cyril Collins is a retired Northern Irish military officer in the British Army. He is best known for his role in the Iraq War in 2003, and his inspirational eve-of-battle speech, a copy of which apparently hung in the White House's Oval Office. He is currently Chairman of intelligence-based security services company Pinpoint Corporate Services.

Major General Arthur George Denaro is a former British Army officer. He led his regiment, the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, during the Gulf War and later became Commandant of Sandhurst. He commanded the 5th Infantry Division from 2000 to 2003. He was the highest-ranking officer of overseas birth in the British Army at that time.

Merlin Sereld Victor Gilbert Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll is a crossbench member of the House of Lords, chief of the Scottish clan Hay, and hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland.

Captain Arthur David Eyton-Jones was a British Army officer with the Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II, director of a tea company, landscape gardener and chaplain. He is best known for his involvement in Operation Tombola.

Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars was a British soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist. He was highly decorated for his exploits with the Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II. Farran became widely known after being court martialled on a charge of murdering an unarmed 16-year-old member of the Jewish underground militant group Lehi during his command of an undercover Palestine Police unit. After his brother was killed in a revenge attack, Farran emigrated to Canada where he forged a successful business and political career, holding a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Peter Lougheed during that period.

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet,, commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer and holder of several endurance records. He is also a writer, poet and co-creator of Sir Ranulph Fiennes' Great British Rum.

Field Marshal Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, is a retired senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1994 to 1997 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1997 until his retirement in 2001.

George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Baron Jellicoe of Southampton, was a British politician, diplomat and businessman.

Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen, VC, MC & Two Bars was a highly decorated Danish soldier, who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the British Victoria Cross in the Second World War. He was posthumously awarded the United Kingdom's highest gallantry award for his actions during Operation Roast on 8 April 1945 at Lake Comacchio in Italy in the final weeks of the Italian Campaign.

Major-General Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish soldier, writer and politician. He was a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1974 and was one of only two men who during the Second World War enlisted in the British Army as a private and rose to the rank of brigadier, the other being future fellow Conservative MP Enoch Powell.

Simon Francis Mann is a British former Army officer and mercenary.

Major Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps was the founder of the British Army's No. 62 Commando, the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF), a precursor of the Special Air Service (SAS).

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, was a British Army soldier from Newtownards, capped for Ireland and the British & Irish Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer and a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS).

George Eric Newby was an English travel author. Newby's best known works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race, and Round Ireland in Low Gear.

Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Charles Newman 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.

Guy Lenox Prendergast was an English Saharan explorer, and British Army soldier in World War 2. He was the commanding officer of the Long Range Desert Group from 1941 to 1943.

Andrew Robert George Robathan, Baron Robathan, is a British Conservative politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire in Leicestershire as well as a government minister.

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.

Colonel John Douglas Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim, was a British peer, soldier and businessman. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords, elected to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. In 1970, he succeeded to his father's title. He sat as a crossbencher.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, was a Scottish officer in the British Army, mountaineer, and the founder of the Special Air Service. He saw active service during the Second World War.

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, also known by his Arabic name Mubarak bin London was a British military officer, explorer, and writer.

Colonel John Llewellyn Waddy OBE was a British Army officer who served during the Second World War, Palestine and the Malayan Emergency before becoming Colonel of the SAS.

Brigadier Roderick "Rory" Muir Bamford Walker OBE MC was a British SAS Commander, best known for his heroism during the Oman Uprising and the Indonesian Confrontation. He is also well remembered as a skilled bagpipe player.

Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Edward Henry Worsley, was a British explorer and British Army officer. He was part of the successful 2009 expedition that retraced Ernest Shackleton's footsteps in the Antarctic.