List of fleet and grand admirals

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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[]

China[]

Croatia[]

Egypt[]

France[]

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[]

Iraq[]

Italy[]

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[]

Prussia[]

  • Prince Adalbert (1811–1873)

Russian Empire[1][]

Russian Federation[]

Admirals of the fleet[]

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 (1922-2020)
  • 05.11.1983 – Vladimir Chernavin (born 1928)
  • 04.11.1988 – Ivan Kapitanets (1928-2018)
  • 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)

Sri Lanka[]

Sweden[]

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

Thailand[]

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[]

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.
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