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.
- 1911 – Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860–1933)
- 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)
- Zheng He (1371–1433)
- Shi Lang (1621–1696)
- Chen Shaokuan (1889-1969)
- Xiao Jingguang (1903–1989)
- March 1996 – Sveto Letica (1926–2001)
- King Fuad I (1868–1936)
- King Farouk (1920–1965)
- 26 July 1952 – King Fuad II (born 1952)
- 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)
- 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)
- WWII – King George II of Greece (1890–1947)
- King Faisal I (1883–1933)
- 4 November 1924 – Conte Paolo Thaon di Revel (1859–1948)
- 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)
- Yi Sunsin (1545–1598)
- 1967 – Miguel Grau Seminario (1834–1879) (posthumous)
- Prince Adalbert (1811–1873)
- 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)
Admirals of the fleet
- 1996 – Felix Gromov (1937-2021)
- 2000 – Vladimir Kuroyedov (born 1944)
- 2005 – Vladimir Masorin (born 1947)
Admirals of the fleet
- 31 May 1944 – Nikolai Kuznetsov (1902–1974) [lower-alpha 1] (demoted to rear admiral 3 February 1948, promoted to vice admiral 27 January 1951, reinstated 11 May 1953)
- 31 May 1944 – Ivan Isakov (1894–1967) [lower-alpha 1]
- 18 June 1962 – Vladimir Kasatonov (1910–1989)
- 28 April 1967 – Sergey Gorshkov (1910–1988) [lower-alpha 1]
- 30 April 1970 – Nikolai Sergeyev (1909–1999)
- 28 July 1970 – Semyon Lobov (1913–1977)
- 1973 – Georgiy Yegorov (1918–2008)
- 5 November 1973 – Nikolai Smirnov (1917–1992)
- 16 February 1982 – Alexei Sorokin (1922–2020)
- 5 November 1983 – Vladimir Chernavin (1928-2023)
- 4 November 1988 – Ivan Kapitanets (1928–2018)
- 4 November 1989 – Konstantin Makarov (1931–2011)
Admirals of the Fleet of the Soviet Union
- 03 March 1955 – Nikolai Kuznetsov (1902–1974) (demoted to vice admiral 17 February 1956, reinstated posthumously 26 July 1988)
- 03 March 1955 – Ivan Isakov (1894–1967)
- 28 October 1967 – Sergey Gorshkov (1910–1988)
- Wasantha Karannagoda (born 1952) (Honorary rank)
- King Charles XIII (1748–1818)
- King Oscar I (1799–1859)
- King Oscar II (1829–1907)
- 1910 – Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse (1859–1928) (Honorary rank)
- 1917 – Prince Paribatra Sukhumbandhu (1881–1944)
- 1941 – Plaek Phibunsongkhram (1897–1964) (Honorary rank)
- 1956 – Prayoon Yuthasastrkosol (1905–1957)
- 1959 – Sarit Thanarat (1908–1963) (Honorary rank)
- 1964 – Thanom Kittikachorn (1911–2004) (Honorary rank)
- 1973 – Praphas Charusathien (1912–1997) (Honorary rank)
- 1992 – Queen Sirikit (born 1932) (Honorary rank)
- 1998 – Prince Mahidol Adulyadej (1892–1929) (Honorary rank awarded posthumously, previously served in the Royal Thai Navy as a captain)
- 24 March 1903 (retroactive to 2 March, 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 W. Nimitz (1885–1966)
- 11 December 1945 – William Halsey Jr. (1882–1959)
- 1983 – Branko Mamula (1921–2021)
- Slovar Biograficheskiy Morskoy, Sankt Peterburg, LOGOS, 2001
- 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.