The following is a list of some of the prominent alumni of

Rashtriya Indian Military College The Rashtriya Indian Military College (abbreviated RIMC; formerly known as Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College) is a military school for boys and girls situated in Doon Valley, Dehradun in India. The RIMC is a feeder institution for ...

Dehradun Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislativ ...

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. All students who graduate from this school are called Rimcollians.

Chief of Army Staff

*General

K.S. Thimayya General Kodendera Subayya Thimayya (31 March 1906 - 18 December 1965) was a distinguished soldier of the Indian Army who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1957 to 1961 in the crucial years leading up to the conflict with China in 1962. Gen. ...

*General G.G. Bewoor *General

Vishwa Nath Sharma General Vishwa Nath Sharma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC (born 4 June 1930) was the 14th Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army, serving between 1988–1990. He was the first Indian COAS to have begun his career in the post-Independence Indian Army. ...

*General

Sundararajan Padmanabhan General (India), General Sundararajan Padmanabhan Param Vishisht Seva Medal, PVSM, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, AVSM, Vishisht Seva Medal, VSM (born 5 December 1940 in Thiruvananthapuram, Travancore) is a former General Officer of the Indian Army. ...

*General

Gul Hasan Gul Hassan Khan ( ur, گل حسن خان) (1921; b. 1921—10 October 1999), was a Pakistan Army senior general who served as the 6th and the last Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army, serving under President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from 20 Decembe ...

, Commander-in-Chief,

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Army

Chief of Air Staff

*Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri *Air Marshal

Asghar Khan Air Marshal Muhammad Asghar Khan (Retd.) ( ur, 17 January 1921 – 5 January 2018), was a Pakistani politician and an autobiographer, later a dissident serving the cause of pacifism, peace, and human rights. Born into a military family ...

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*Air Marshal

Nur Khan Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan Awan ( ur, ; 22 February 1923 – 15 December 2011) commonly known as Nur Khan, was a three-star air officer, politician, sports administrator, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force, serving under ...

*Air Chief Marshal

Birender Singh Dhanoa Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, VM, ADC is an Indian air force officer who was the 22nd Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force and served from 31 December 2016 to 30 September 2019. Dhanoa also served as the ...

Vice Chief of Army Staff

*Lt General S. K. Singh,

PVSM Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) (IAST: ) is a military award of India. It was constituted in 1960 and since then it is awarded in recognition to peace-time service of the most exceptional order and may be awarded posthumously. All ranks of the ...

, UYSM, AVSM, ADC & Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal *Lt General

Chandi Prasad Mohanty Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty is a retired General Officer in the Indian Army. He was the 42nd Vice Chief of the Army Staff and assumed office on 1 February 2021 following the superannuation of Satinder Kumar Saini. He was previously ...

PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army.

Vice Chief of Air Staff

*Air Marshal

Vinod Patney Air Marshal Vinod Patney, SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC is a retired Indian Air Force officer. He is currently Director General Centre for Air Power Studies. Career Patney was commissioned in Indian Air Force in 1961. He has participated in conflict ...

, SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC, Ex-VCAS & Ex-AOC-in-C Western Air Command

GOC-in-C & GOC

*Lt. General

Premindra Singh Bhagat Lieutenant General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC (14 October 1918 – 23 May 1975) was a general in the Indian Army and an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy ...

, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command *Lt. General

K.P. Candeth Lieutenant General Kunhiraman Palat Candeth, PVSM (Hindi: कुँहिरामन पलट कंडेथ; 23 October 1916 – 19 May 2003) was a senior army officer in the Indian Army who played a commanding role in Liberation of Go ...

, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous as the liberator of

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*Lt. General

Joginder Singh Dhillon Lieutenant General Joginder Singh Dhillon (19 November 1914–20 November 2003) was an officer in the British Indian Army and then the Indian Army. Dhillon Born in Jat Sikh Family. He was the first Army Officer to be awarded the Padma Bhushan, ...

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished servi ...

, GOC-in-C Central Command *Lt. General

, AVSM, SM, VSM. *Lt. General Bikram Singh, GOC

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killed in the

1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash On Friday, 22 November 1963, an Aérospatiale Alouette III The Aérospatiale Alouette III (, ''Lark''; company designations SA 316 and SA 319) is a single-engine, light utility helicopter developed by French aircraft company Sud Aviation. Durin ...

*Lt.General Khwaja Wasiuddin.HPK.SPK Commander II Corps. Pakistan Army.

Adjutant General

*Major General

Hira Lal Atal Hira Lal Atal (26 January 1905 – 23 January 1985) was an Indian soldier in the British Indian Army from 1925 until 1947 and the Indian Army from 1947. He became a Major General and the first indigenous Adjutant General of independent India ...

*Lt. General M.M. Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Ex - Governor of Mizoram, Ex- Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, & Ex- Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (additional charge). *Major General

Karam Singh Subedar and Honorary Captain Karam Singh PVC, MM (15 September 1915 – 20 January 1993), an Indian soldier, was a recipient of the Param Vir Chakra (PVC), India's highest award for gallantry. Singh joined the army in 1941, and took pa ...

, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General

Engineer-in-Chief

*Lt General

Sahabzada Yaqub Khan Lieutenant General Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan ( ; born 23 December 1920 – 26 January 2016) was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, military figure, pacifist, linguist, and a retired general in the Pakistani Army. Born into an Indian nobili ...

(Pakistan Army)

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*Lt Gen M.A. Zaki *Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Ex- GOC 5 Mtn Div & Ex-GOC Delhi Area)

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*Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle * Burhan-ud-Din *Maj General

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Gallantry awards

Victoria Cross

*Lt Gen

, VC

Param Vir Chakra

* Major

Somnath Sharma Major Somnath Sharma, PVC (31 January 1923 – 3 November 1947), was an officer of the Indian Army, and the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra (PVC), India's highest military decoration, which he was awarded posthumously. Sharma was com ...

Vir Chakra

*Lt Gen M.A. Zaki *Major

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Singh

Civilian awards

Padma Vibhushan

*General

Padma Bhushan

Gopal Gurunath Bewoor General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor PVSM PB (11 August 1916 – 24 October 1989), was a senior officer of the Indian Army who served as the 8th Chief of Army Staff, and later an Indian diplomat to Denmark. In a long service spanning four decades, Ge ...

Padma Shri

*Lt General M.A. Zaki *Lt General

Sports

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, a world top 50

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Ministers

*Maj General

, Minister of Railways, Central Government *Maj General J.K. Bhonsle, Minister of Rehabilitation, Central Government *

, Foreign Minister,

Naseerullah Babar Major-General Naseerullah Khan Babar (Urdu: نصیر اللہ خان بابر; born 1928 – 10 January 2011) was a Pakistani army officer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 28th Interior Minister of Pakistan from 1993 to 1996. A membe ...

, Interior Minister,

Diplomats and Civil servants

Shaharyar Khan Shahryar Mohammad Khan ( ur, شہریار محمد خان; born 12 March 1934) is a former career Pakistan diplomat who became Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1990, and remained so until his retirement from service in 1994. He later served as ...

, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps * Ashwani Kumar, Former Director CBI, Governor of Nagaland (21 March 2013 – 27 June 2014) *

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, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State * Lt Gen MM Lakhera, Lt Governor Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram, PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Authors and Academicians

* Maj Gen

Ashok Mehta Ashok Mehta (1947 – 15 August 2012) was a noted national film award-winning Indian film cinematographer, known for films such as ''Bandit Queen'' (1994), ''36 Chowringhee Lane'' (1981) and '' Utsav'' (1984). He won the National Film Award f ...

, Author & Commentator * Maj Gen

Dipankar Banerjee Dipankar Banerjee is a retired major general of the Indian Army based in India. He is the founding director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (based in Indian capital New Delhi). Military career Gen Bannerjee is an alumnus of the p ...

, Author & Commentator

References

*Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, By Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Published 1997 by Allied Publishers, Military education, 232 pages, {{ISBN, 81-7023-649-5

Chief of Army Staff

Chief of Air Staff

Vice Chief of Army Staff

Vice Chief of Air Staff

GOC-in-C & GOC

Adjutant General

Engineer-in-Chief

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Indian National Army The Indian National Army (INA; ''Azad Hind Fauj'' ; 'Free Indian Army') was a Collaboration with the Axis powers, collaborationist armed force formed by Indian collaborators and Imperial Japan on 1 September 1942 in Southeast Asia during Worl ...

Gallantry awards

Victoria Cross

Param Vir Chakra

Vir Chakra

Civilian awards

Padma Vibhushan

Padma Bhushan

Padma Shri

Sports

Ministers

Diplomats and Civil servants

Authors and Academicians

References

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