# List of Royal Military College of Canada people

This is a list of notable individuals who have been, or are involved with the Royal Military College of Canada.
Many RMC alumni have served Canada in war and peace. Billy Bishop was a leading ace of the First World War, won the Victoria Cross and helped to create the Canadian Flying Corps. Charles Merritt was a lawyer and militia officer who won the Victoria Cross at Dieppe during the Second World War. Leonard Birchall, the "Saviour of Ceylon", discovered the approach of the Japanese fleet during the Second World War and showed courage and leadership as a prisoner of war in Japan. Ex-cadets also helped with the peace process. John de Chastelain was twice Chief of Defence Staff and helped to monitor the Peace Accords in Northern Ireland. Romeo Dallaire headed the United Nation forces in Rwanda. Many former cadets gave their lives during both world wars, and in Afghanistan.
Many RMC alumni have had careers in the public or private sectors. Marc Garneau was the first Canadian in space and now is a Member of Parliament. Chris Hadfield became a test pilot, astronaut, the first Canadian to walk in space and the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station. Jack Granatstein became a historian and headed the Canadian War Museum.

## Old-eighteen

The term "Old Eighteen" refers to the first class of cadets accepted into the Royal Military College of Canada.
| # | Name | # | Name | # | Name |
| 1 | Alfred George Godfrey Wurtele | 7 | Lukin Homphrey Irving | 13 | Aylesworth Bowen Perry |
| 2 | Harry Cortlandt Freer | 8 | Frederick Davis | 14 | John Bray Cochrane |
| 3 | Henry Ellison Wise | 9 | Charles Albert DesBrisay | 15 | Francis Joseph Dixon |
| 4 | William Mahlon Davis | 10 | Victor Brereton Rivers | 16 | George Edwin Perley |
| 5 | Thomas Laurence Reed | 11 | James Spelman | 17 | Harold Waldruf Keefer |
| 6 | Septimus Julius Augustus Denison | 12 | Dr. Charles Oliver Fairbank | 18 | Duncan MacPherson |

## Quotations

| # | Name | Quotation |
| | General Maurice Baril (RMC 2007) | "Thousands of young officers have marched off its [RMC's] parade square and gone on to great achievements in politics, business and most importantly, on the battlefield" |
| 7269 | Robert E. Brown (RMC 1968) interviewed by Konrad Yakabuski | "A well-aged dankness in the Stone Frigate, the oldest dormitory at Kingston's Royal Military College, is reputed to be ideally suited to the cultivation of spiders, the common cold and a strong character. Residents of the 180-year-old former naval warehouse, which is separated from the other dorms by Parade Square, have long seen the ability to endure their barracks' inhospitable clime as a mark of fortitude." |
| | Sir Andrew Clarke, British inspector-general of fortifications, deceased | [RMC is] "one of the best of its class in the world . . . And the Americans themselves, I understand, say better than at West Point." In 1893 Clarke commented that RMC graduates were better than those from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. |
| H22982 | Twenty-sixth Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D. | "You will be called upon to take your place in modern Canada and in the modern world.... You will also be called upon to lead...and a leader must stand for something. You must not only be aware of who you are. You must also be defined by what you do." |
| | Brooke Claxton, former Defence Minister, deceased | "The role of the officer in modern war can only be properly discharged if they have education and standing in the community comparable to that of any of the other professions as well as high qualities of character and physique." In 1947, Claxton reopened RMC as a 3-service cadet college offering a 4-year academic program. |
| H24263 | Dr. John Scott Cowan | "[T]his is an exercise in Nation Building: In the way that water transforms into ice by building around a single crystal, perhaps the new Canada could do worse than to build around the experiences and values of the new RMC."..."We educate those who pass through this place Royal Military College of Canada exactly so that they will fully understand and be a part of the culture they are called upon to defend." |
| 749 | General Harry Crerar CH, CB, DSO, KStJ, CD, deceased | "I am confident that The RMC Battalion of Gentlemen Cadets, which will be re-born after this war is over will typify in the future all the best College tradition we have known in the past" |
| | Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie, deceased | the "spirit" of the Royal Military College of Canada's graduates, "no less than their military attainments, exercised a potent influence in fashioning a force which, in fighting efficiency, has never been excelled." |
| | Captain A.G. Douglas, deceased | Suggested, in 1816, the establishment of a Canadian military college in Trois-Rivières to unify the population, "to begin to work upon young minds of different... parties and persuasions" so "old prejudices would vanish not only among the students, but even among their relations, and a common interest would ensue" |
| | Henry Charles Fletcher deceased | suggested, in an 1874 report to Governor-General Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, the establishment of three permanent officer training schools (Halifax, Nova Scotia Quebec, Quebec Saint John, New Brunswick) to serve all arms "the great contribution West Point had made could be duplicated in Canada by a similar institution in which officers of all arms would be trained together". |
| S140 | Robert J. Giroux C.M., MSc | "A degree from the Royal Military College is a living testament to the value of service and dedication." |
| S147 | Hon. Bill Graham, Defence Minister | "RMC has a proud history of excellence and is fundamental in training future leaders of the Canadian Forces," |
| 19033 | Major Nick Grimshaw (RMC’93) | "Overall, the training that I was involved in since graduating from RMC prepared me very well for my tour in Afghanistan. I found myself constantly relying on the basic principles of leadership. Leading by example was by far the most important aspect." |
| | Hon Albina Guarnieri, P.C., (MP, Minister of Veterans Affairs | "...the Royal Military College where the Veterans of the future are being schooled in our military history and are being prepared to make history themselves." 17 October 2005 |
| | Hon. Laurie Hawn (MP Edmonton Centre, Conservative Party of Canada) | "The professionalism of the Canadian Forces is, in large part, founded on learning and knowledge. The Canadian Defence Academy, the Military and Staff Colleges and the Royal Military College of Canada, all play a critical role in creating and ensuring knowledge in the defence community." |
| S148 | General Rick Hillier, Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) | "[At] the Royal Military College where a bulk of our new officers start their career, start their education, we have 200 spots open for August [2007]. We have 1,500 people who have applied and completed the application process to go to those 200 spots. That is a 7½ to one ratio and we get the opportunity to select the very best from it. As a result, our quality of applicants and the quality of the recruits, the level of fitness and the imagination and the success in completing the courses has skyrocketed in a way that we couldn't even dream about before." 2007 Speech at the National Managers' Forum |
| 22862 | Captain Jeremy A. Hiltz (RMC ‘04) | "...RMC never taught me how to lead a platoon attack or conduct a Shurah with local Afghan elders, but it has taught me three vital ideas that all officers should adhere to. Truth means leading soldiers from the front and being honest to them at all times. Duty means being there at the front when the bullets start flying because the private soldier that I have just told to assault an enemy position needs to know that I am committed to achieving the mission with him. Valour means taking the difficult orders and making them my own, in spite of the fear of the unknown or the chances that we are taking." Veritas article July 2007, p38 |
| | Sir John Keegan OBE, | "[Canada's Royal Military College of Canada at] Kingston, ..., is pure British imperial. ... Watching cadets parade there, I saw them perform a drill movement I knew only from sepia Victorian photographs – it has long been abolished in Britain – while I listened to a running stream of criticism from a sergeant in bottleglass-brilliant boots of their minor imperfections in marching. He hated, he told me after the parade, the adoption by Canada's army of the naval salute – 'the wave, I call it' – he hated the universal green uniform, he hated the use of common ranks – 'How can the captain of a ship be a colonel?' – he hated the disappearance of polished brass – the metal of his pacestick glittered with burnishing – he hated rubber soles, non-iron shirts, nylon uniforms and being mistaken by civilians for an airman. Kipling and he would have got on like a house on fire: 'Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where ... a man can raise a thirst' were almost the next words I expected to hear at the crescendo of his relentless tirade. Spiritually he belonged with the Royal Canadians who had gone to fight the Boers for Queen Victoria; his cadets were unlikely to be allowed to forget that her great-great-granddaughter was Queen of Canada or that he had learnt his drill at the depot of her Foot Guards.' - |
| | Lt. Col. John McCrae (RMC 1893) | "...I have a manservant .. Quite a nobby place it is, in fact .. My windows look right out across the bay, and are just near the water's edge; there is a good deal of shipping at present in the port; and the river looks very pretty.’ letter while on an Artilleryman course |
| | Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie | Letter to Governor-General Dufferin, in 1878 "This belief led me to propose the establishment of a Military College modelled on existing similar institutions in England and the United States, with the expectation that when the first batch of Graduates were leaving the College. Means would be found to employ the Graduates in the Canadian Military Service" |
| 490 | Brigadier F. H. Maynard (RMC 1901) | "I have always remembered with pride that I was a graduate of the RMC. What I learned there carried me through many dangers and difficulties and I wish to record here my gratitude to all who taught me and with whom I served at the RMC, Canada." |
| | Hon. Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence | "The Royal Military College is a higher education institution that plays an essential role for the Canadian Forces and for our country ... Throughout the ranks, the leadership of the Canadian Forces is smart, flexible and adaptive. And a good deal of the credit for this should go to the Royal Military College ... This is a vital national institution. Here, today, much of tomorrow's military leadership is being forged ... RMC will continue to provide the professional development that the CF needs to successfully face the challenges that surely lay ahead." |
| | Twentieth Governor-General Roland Michener, P.C., C.C., C.M.M., C.D., LL.D. deceased | "RMC, which is only nine years younger than Confederation, has been a powerful factor in the growth and security of the country" |
| | Colonel Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton deceased | "there are very few institutions of a similar character equal to it [Royal Military College of Canada at Kingston] in Europe and none that are better." |
| S149 | Hon Peter Milliken, Member of Parliament 2001 | The motto of the Royal Military College is (as you well know), "Truth, Duty, Valour". Your admission to the ranks of this institution, whether it occurred this year or two decades ago, as cadets or as staff, presupposes that you are already possessed of these qualities. That having been said, there is always room for improvement, and the college's role in this regard is to inculcate in its cadets a sense of integrity, responsibility, self-discipline, teamwork, and leadership. |
| 8850 | Rear Admiral (Ret'd) David C. Morse (RMC 1971) | "We have a lot to be proud of and the graduates are making a tremendous contribution to Canadian society. We need to tell this story again and again. We need to make sure the graduates who have reached levels of prestige are recognized." "RMC makes engineers literate and artsmen numerate." |
| S157 | Honourable Gordon O'Connor | "RMC is one of the best military colleges in the world, and it takes motivation and discipline to succeed here." |
| 13511 | Bernard JG Ouellette (CMR ‘78), RMC's director of cadets | "I’m very proud of these young men and women. They put in months of rigorous training on top of an already demanding schedule, and today, their dedication, fitness and teamwork paid off" |
| H16511 | Dr. Richard A. Preston (former professor), deceased | "The supreme test of a military college is the success of its graduates in war ... There were some who believed that the stronger academic program must inevitably have weakened the old military spirit and efficiency. But the success of the graduates who went directly to Korea quickly disabused them." |
| | Dr. Michael Sullivan (former Kingston mayor), deceased | 1872 petition recommended the military college for Kingston "remarkable healthfulness...not without historical fame in the annals of the country which would render it the more proper site for a military college" |
| | Kevin Sylvester, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Sounds Like Canada 2007/07/26 | "Like its counterparts Sandhurst in the U.K, West Point in the U.S. and l'École militaire in France, Canada's Royal Military College is the school of choice for many of this country's future military leaders." |
| | Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Tupper (1886), deceased | "I regard the Canadian Military College as one of the best of its class in the world. The training and results are in every way of a high order, and the Americans themselves, I understand, say better than at West Point." |
| 2951 | General (Ret'd) Ramsey Muir Withers | "... The College must also promote a common vision of the profession of arms, the common military ethos underpinning leadership in the CF and the increasingly joint nature of all foreseeable operations." |
| | Unknown | By 1900, hardly a Canadian "bridge, road, or railway line was built without the assistance of an engineering graduate of RMC." |

## Alumni who were knighted

During the Convocation Ceremony on Wednesday 14 May, H24263 Dr. John S. Cowan said to the Class of 2008 "Of the first 170 cadets who entered RMC from 1876 to 1883 eight received knightships for feats of leadership in many fields of endeavor on at least four continents." After 1919 [by a Canadian decision], Canadians were no longer eligible for knighthood. Those ex-cadets serving in the British forces were not under any such restriction and so we have the later appointments.
| # 25 Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB, CMG | # 88 Major General Sir Philip Geoffrey Twining KCMG, CB, MVO, RE |
| # 123 Major General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout, KBE, CB, CMG | # 138 General Sir George Kirkpatrick KCB, KCSI |
| # 147 Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard KCMC DSO | # 151 Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell KCB, CMG, DSO |
| # 162 Major General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee, KBE, CBE, CMG | # 168 General Sir William Charles Giffard Heneker KCB, KCMG, DSO |
| # 221 Lieutenant General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell, KCB, CMG, DSO | # 246 Major General Sir Henry Edward Burstall, KCB, KCMG |
| # 323 Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton Cory, KCB, KBE, CB, DSO | # 665 Brigadier Sir Godfrey D. Rhodes, CBE, DSO, RE |
| # 703 Brigadier Sir Charles Frederick Carson, CBE, MC, RE | # 729 Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Edward Grassett, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, RE |
| # 758 Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler MC, RE | #1246 General Sir Charles Loewen, GCB, KBE, DSO |
| #2585 Captain Sir Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather MP | |

## Notable graduates

The Royal Military College of Canada is prestigious and has had many notable alumni (shown with college numbers).
| # | Name | Grad | Significance |
| 6508 | Major General John L. Adams | 1965 | Chief, Communications Security Establishment |
| 626 | Major Augustus Waterous Agnew | 1904 | Canadian soldier, died 17 September 1916, during the Great War |
| | Colonel W. J. Aitchison, OMM, CD | 1963 | Former Colonel of the Regiment, Royal Canadian Regiment |
| | Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC | c 1898 – 1902 | Victoria Cross citation |
| 2510 | Brigadier General Edward ('Ned') Amy, DSO, OBE, MC, CD, Bronze Star (U.S.), Legion d'honneur (France) | 1936 | Highly decorated Canadian soldier |
| 55 | Captain Frederick Anderson (1868–1957) | 1890 | Chief Hydrographer of Canada |
| 1266 | 2nd Lieutenant Frederick Henry Anderson, MC | 1916 | Canadian soldier, died 15 May 1918, during the Great War |
| 433 | Major General Thomas Victor Anderson, DSO, CD | 1900 | Canadian soldier, Chief of the General Staff, head of Canadian Army 1938–1940 |
| 14390 | Captain (Ret'd) Kate Armstrong, CD | 1984 | Author of The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out; winner of the 2019-20 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award and finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Nonfiction Prize; first female cadet assigned a college number |
| 951 | Captain Edward Davey Ashcroft | 1912 | Canadian soldier, died on 30 November 1917, during the Great War |
| 1007 | Captain Frederick Graeme Avery, MC | 1913 | Soldier, died 13 April 1918, during Great War |
| 427 | Captain Edward C Baker | 1900 | Canadian soldier, died on 19 September 1916, during the Great War |
| 7632 | Lieutenant Colonel Gunars Balodis | 1968 | Co-founder of Music for Young Children (MYC) with his wife Frances Balodis |
| 1828 | Brigadier Ted G.E. Beament, CM OBE, GCStJ, ED, Czechoslovakian Military Cross | 1925–1929 | Lawyer, Officer Commanding Khaki University during World War II (principal) |
| 2671 | Lieutenant Duncan Peter Bell-Irving | 1913 | BC Land Surveyors Roll of Honour |
| | Brigadier-General George Gray Bell, OC, MBE, CD, PhD (24 May 1920 – 15 October 2000) | 1943 | Canadian soldier, civil servant, and academic |
| 765 | Staff Captain James Knowles Bertram | 1909 | |
| 940 | Captain Henry Ewart Bethune, MC | 1912 | Killed 30 September 1918, during the Great War |
| 1472 | Judge Sherburne Tupper Bigelow | 1918 | Canadian Horseracing Hall of Fame (1991) |
| 2364 | Air Commodore Leonard Birchall, CM, OBE, OOnt, DFC, CD (1915–2004) | 1933 | Second World War hero, "Saviour of Ceylon", Executive Officer at York University |
| 6219 | Dr. Robin Boadway | 1964 | Economist, author, Rhodes Scholar 1964 |
| 543 | Lieutenant Colonel Howard L Bodwell, CMG, DSO | 1901 | Soldier, died 15 January 1919, during the Great War |
| 1016 | Captain William Otway Boger, DFC | 1913 | Soldier, died 10 August 1918, during the Great War |
| 845 | Captain Hedleigh St George Bond | RMC 1912 | Soldier, died 15 August 1917, during the Great War |
| 1434 | Dr. Hugh Samuel Bostock | RMC 1918 | Geologist |
| 2310 | Colonel Harry Fitz-Gibbon Boswell, OBE | 1933–1937 | Awarded War Cross with Sword (Nor: Krigskorset med Sverd), highest ranking Norwegian gallantry decoration |
| 8790 | General Jean Boyle (Ret'd), CMM, CD | 1971 | Fighter pilot, short-term Chief of the Defence Staff, and businessman |
| 2375 | Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Buchanan, MC with 2 bars | 1934 | Soldier, politician |
| 1032 | Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns, CC, DSO, OBE, MC, CD (1897–1985) | 1914 | World War II Corps Commander, 1981 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace |
| 246 | Major General Sir Henry Edward Burstall, CB | 1887–1889 | Canadian general, Burstall, Saskatchewan is named in his honour |
| | Brigadier General James Sutherland Brown | | Canadian military officer who drafted a contingency war plan in 1921 to invade and occupy several American border cities |
| 1325 | Captain Lorne Carr-Harris | 1917 | Goalie on the Britain team which won the bronze medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics |
| 82 | Major Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers | 1883 | Officer in the British Army (21st Hussars) and Canadian Militia; hero in the South African War (1899-1902); founder of the Canadian Signalling Corps; governor of Queen's College School of Mining and Kingston General Hospital |
| 703 | Brigadier Sir Charles Frederick Carson, CBE, MC | 1905–1909 | |
| 18095 | Dr. Sylvain Charlebois | 1992 | Dean, professor, researcher in food distribution and policy, columnist for La Presse and The Globe and Mail, Dalhousie University |
| 2272 | Brigadier General Arthur G. Chubb, DSO, CD | 1932 | Soldier, author, Senior Military Advisor of the Canadian Delegation to the International Truce Commission in Vietnam |
| 6523 | Ambassador Terence Colfer (Ret'd) | 1965 | Former Canadian ambassador to Iran 1999–2003 and to Kuwait 1996–1999 |
| 323 | Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton Cory, KBE, CB, DSO | 1891–1895 | |
| 851 | Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, DSO | 1912 | Representing Canada, signed WWII Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945) |
| 749 | General the Honourable Harry Crerar, PC, CH, CB, DSO, KStJ, CD | 1909 | Army officer, Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) in 1940 |
| 2277 | Alexander R. (Sandy) Cross | 1932 | Rancher, Rothney Farm became Ann and Sandy Cross conservation area, a 4,800-acre (19 km$^2$) day use natural area south west of Calgary, Alberta |
| 7860 | Lieutenant General (Ret'd) the Hon. Roméo Dallaire, OC, CMM, G.O.Q., C.S.M., CD, LL.D. | 1969 | Senator; awarded Vimy Award by the Conference of Defence Associations, June 1995; awarded the United States Legion of Merit, January 1996; author, academic |
| 676 | Captain Robert Clifford Darling | 1907 | First Canadian soldier to be killed overseas (19 April 1915 aged 28) during the Great War, but buried at home; died on 23 March 1915 of wounds sustained in defence of Ypres, Belgium |
| | Lieutenant (ret) Coningsby Dawson | 1914 | Novelist and soldier, Canadian Field Artillery |
| 7543 | Senator Joseph A. Day | 1968 | Retired from Royal Canadian Air Force; lawyer, Liberal Senator for New Brunswick 2001 |
| 268 | Lieutenant Colonel (ret'd) Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé, CBE | 1892 | Soldier, nobleman, academic, director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France |
| 4860 | General (Ret'd) John de Chastelain OC, CMM, CD, CH | 1960 | Former Chief of the Defence Staff; participant in Northern Ireland peace process; Scouts Canada's National Council and Substance Abuse Task Force, former Canadian ambassador to the United States |
| 221 | Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell | 1886–1890 | Major-General with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army |
| 17324 | Sharon Donnelly, CD | 1990 | 2000 & 2004 Olympic teams, triathlon |
| 2082 | Honourable Brigadier General C. M. (Bud) Drury PC, QC, CBE, DSO | 1929 | Former soldier, businessperson, politician |
| 20743 | Alex Dumas | 1997 | CEO Quebecor Corp |
| 19828 | John-James Ford | 1995 | Diplomat, author of Bonk on the Head which won the 2006 Ottawa Book Award |
| 8276 | Marc Garneau CC, CD, PhD, FCASI | 1970 | First Canadian astronaut (1984), aboard Space Shuttles Challenger and Endeavour, logged nearly 700 hours in space; NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1997 |
| 805 | Lieut.-Colonel the Honourable Colin W. G. Gibson PC, MC, VD, Croix de guerre (Belgium), LL.D. | 1909–1911 | Lawyer, Member of Parliament, Judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal |
| 147 | Colonel Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, KCMG | 1882–1886 | National Historic Person of Canada (1938); military engineer, constructed railways in Africa |
| 22458 | Captain Nichola Goddard, MSM (1980–2006) | 2002 | First female Canadian soldier killed in action, in Afghanistan, Nichola Goddard scholarship in her honour |
| 599 | Lt. Col. Leroy F. Grant (entered RMC 1902) | 1905 | Inducted in 1998 into Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame as Builder Sailing |
| | Major General Garnet Hughes CB, DSO | 1909 | Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1918 1st Canadian Division; 5th Canadian Division Awards |
| 2087 | Senator John Morrow Godfrey | 1929 | Canadian lawyer and politician |
| 1681 | Walter L. Gordon | 1926 | Public servant, politician, author |
| 5105 | Doctor Jack "JL" Granatstein OC, PhD, LL.D., FRSC | 1961 | Canadian historian |
| 729 | Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Edward Grassett CB, DSO, MC | 1906–1909 | Royal Engineers, knighted 1945 |
| 8816 | Ambassador Marius Grinius | 1971 | Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland |
| 13738 | Colonel Chris Hadfield CD (Ret'd) | 1982 | Canadian astronaut |
| 8919 | Ronald Halpin | 1971 | Former Ambassador to Hungary |
| 313 | George Henry Ronald Harris, C.E. | 1894 | Mining engineer, lived at Eldon House |
| | Hon John Gabriel Hearn | 1884 | Businessman and political figure in Quebec |
| 1976 | Hon George Hees PC, OC (1910–1996) | 1927 | Former Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada, Ambassador-at-large for the Canadian International Development Agency Food Aid Program |
| 1104 | Wilfrid Heighington KC | 1915 | Lawyer, poet, soldier |
| | Lt. Alexis Helmer | | Killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres; his burial inspired John McCrae to write the poem "In Flanders Fields" on 3 May 1915 |
| 168 | General Sir William Charles Gifford Heneker | 1884–1888 | |
| 2XX | Colonel (ret'd) William Josiah Hartley Holmes | 1891 | Canadian soldier, surveyor, civil engineer; Holmes Inlet on the coast of British Columbia was named in his honour in 1934 |
| 2162 | Brigadier General John Richard Hyde (15 November 1912 – 15 July 2003) | 1930 to 1934 | Canadian soldier, lawyer, provincial politician, judge |
| 21364 | Colonel Jeremy Hansen | 1999 | Canadian astronaut, CF-18 fighter pilot |
| 175 | Brigadier General George Napier Johnston CB CMG, DSO | 1888 | Canadian Army officer, New Zealand General |
| | Major-General Rod Keller CD, CBE | | Canadian Army Officer, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division; Kelowna, British Columbia alderman |
| 138 | General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick KCB, KCSI | 1882–1885 | Canadian soldier, Royal Engineers, knighted |
| | Lawrence Lambe | 1883 | Invertebrate palaeontologist, Geological Survey |
| 2399 | Rear-Admiral William Landymore | 1934 | Canadian naval officer |
| 2774 | Bert Lawrence | 1952 | Canadian politician and lawyer |
| 2585 | Sir Edwin Leather KCMG, KCVO | 1937–1939 | Canadian Army officer (WWII); Member of Parliament (UK) (1950–64); Governor of Bermuda (1973–77) |
| 313 | John "Jack" Edwards Leckie, DSO, French Croix de Guerre | 1889–1893 | Soldier (WWI), mining engineer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
| 14872 | Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Lemieux | 1985 | Federal politician, Conservative Party Whip |
| 87 | Lieutenant Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard | 1883 | Soldier, civil engineer, railroad and mining executive, philanthropist |
| 1246 | General Sir Charles Loewen, GCB, KBE, DSO | 1916–1918 | Military leader, knighted |
| 151 | Major Gen Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell KCB, CMG, DSO | 1883–1886 | Military leader, knighted, police officer, soldier |
| 2102 | Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. John Keiller MacKay OC DSO KStJ VD QC LL.B. | 1909 | Lawyer, judge, justice of appeal, former lieutenant governor of Ontario; decided pioneer Ontario civil rights decision in re Drummond Wren (1945) O.R. 778 |
| 236 | Brigadier General Duncan Sayre MacInnes DSO CMG | 1887–1891 | Military leader, aviation engineer, Duncan Sayre MacInnes scholarship |
| 23350 | Captain Simon Mailloux | 2006 | First Canadian soldier amputee to deploy on a combat mission; injured on a tour as platoon commander in Kandahar |
| 3528 | General Paul David Manson OC, CMM, CD (Ret'd) | 1956 | Military leader, business executive and volunteer; former Chief of Defence Staff |
| | Paul C. Marriner | | Director, Fly Fishing Canada; Team Canada member at 10 World Fly Fishing Championships |
| H17417 | John Ross Matheson, OC, CD, QC, LL.D. | 1936 | Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who helped develop Canadian flag and Order of Canada |
| | Brigadier George Arnold McCarter, CBE | 1916 | CBE for recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy (30 December 1944); mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe (4 April 1946) |
| 1921 | Commissioner George McClellan | 1929 | Former commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1963–1967 |
| | Colonel Charles Wesley Weldon McLean, DSO | 1899 | Member of Parliament, UK |
| 1865 | Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret'd) Theodore Meighen | 1925 | Lawyer and philanthropist |
| 1925 | Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen, | 05216 | Financier, businessman |
| 2290 | Brigadier General (Ret'd) Dollard Ménard (1913–1997) | 1932 | Story of bravery at Dieppe inspired a Canadian WWII poster "Ce qu’il faut pour vaincre" |
| H1866 | Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Merritt, VC (1908–2000) | 1925 | Victoria Cross recipient, politician |
| 1800 | Hartland Molson, OC, OBE, D.C.L. | 1924 | Former brewer, owner of the Montreal Canadiens |
| 7301 | Earle Morris | 1967 | 3-time Brier representative, coach of the Australian national curling team |
| G0053 | Lieutenant Colonel Alex Morrison, MSC, CD (Ret'd) | 1980 | Awarded 2002 Pearson Medal of Peace |
| 4393 | Dr Desmond Morton, OC, PhD, FRSC | 1959 | Canadian historian, awarded the first RMC degree Rhodes Scholar 1959 |
| | Lieutenant-General John Carl Murchie, CB, CBE, CD (1895–1966) | 1915 | Canadian Chief of the General Staff |
| | Leonard Nicholson, CM, MBE | | Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| G0957 | Dr Lynette Nusbacher | 1994 | America-Canadian military historian, former lecturer at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, author, and strategist |
| 2592 | Edmund Boyd Osler | 1937 | Pilot, squadron leader, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg, Manitoba South Centre 1968–72 Insurance executive, writer |
| 19894 | The Honourable Erin O'Toole, PC, CD, MP | 1995 | Member of Parliament for Durham, Ontario (since 2012), Minister of Veterans Affairs (2015), Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition (2020–22) |
| 13 | Commissioner/Major General Aylesworth Bowen Perry, CMG | 1876 | Commissioner North-West Mounted Police / RNWMP / Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1890–1923 |
| 5__ | Frederic Hatheway Peters, OBE | 1904 | Surveyor-General of Canada (1924 to 1948); Mount Peters, BC and Lake Peters, AB named in his honour |
| 2184 | Rear Admiral Desmond Piers, CM, DSC, CD, RCN | 1930 | First RMC graduate to join the Royal Canadian Navy |
| 1649 | Lieutenant-Governor Edward Chester Plow, CBE, DSO, CD (28 September 1904 – 25 April 1988) | 1921 | Canadian soldier and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia |
| 1309 | Mr Richard Porritt | 1917 | Inducted into Canadian Mining Hall of Fame |
| 6757 | Mike U. Potter | 1966 CMR RMC | Businessman; philanthropist; founded Cognos and Vintage Wings of Canada |
| 126 | Philip Primrose | | Former police officer, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta |
| 14344 | Captain Bruce Poulin | 1992 | Queen's Jubilee Medal for volunteerism |
| E1855 | Lt. Col David N Quick, SMV, CD, | 2003 | Star of Military Valour, Afghanistan |
| 665 | Brigadier Sir Godfrey D. Rhodes, CB, CBE, DSO | 1903–1907 | Knighted |
| 123 | Major-General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout, KBE, CB, CMG (1866–1941) | 1881–1885 | Boer War and World War soldier, knighted |
| 891 | Major General John Hamilton Roberts, CB, DSO, MC | 1914 | Second World War general |
| 62 | William H. Robinson | 1883 | First Royal Military College of Canada alumnus KIA |
| 1874 | Major Edward Britton Rogers | 1925–1929 | Athlete, soldier killed in action at Caen, France, on 23 July 1944 |
| 2802 | Robert Gordon Rogers | 1940 | Former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia |
| 1815 | Air Commodore Arthur Dwight Ross GC CBE CD (Ret'd) (1907–1981) | 1928 | Second World War George Cross recipient |
| | Arthur Leith Ross | 1896 | Awarded the Queen's South African Medal with 4 clasps; died on 26 August 1906, of blackwater fever in Nigeria, where he served as Chief Transport Officer, with the Northern Nigeria Regiment, African Frontier Force |
| | Jeffrey Russell | 1920 | Inducted into Canadian Football Hall of Fame |
| | Major Henri-Thomas Scott | 1903 | Soldier, educator, businessperson, advocate for physical education, playgrounds, and camps |
| | Brigadier Gordon Sellar | 1943 | Served with the Calgary Highlanders during the battle of Walcheren Island, battle of the Scheldt Estuary; command of the Black Watch's 1st Battalion in April 1963 |
| 2420 | General Frederick Ralph Sharp | 1934 | Former chief of the defence staff |
| 1596 | Lieutenant General Guy Simonds, CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD | 1925 | Commander of the 2nd Canadian Corps in NW Europe, 1944–45; former Chief of the General Staff |
| 2652 | Arthur Britton Smith, CM, OOnt, MC, CD, KC | 1940 | Artillery officer in World War II, lawyer, businessperson, historical writer, philanthropist |
| 52 | William Grant Stairs | 1882 | Explorer; accompanied Stanley in Africa as second in command; died in Mozambique from fever in 1892 |
| 1089 | Major-General Charles Ramsay Stirling Stein | 1915 | Commanding Officer of the 5th Canadian Armored Division from January 1943 to October 1943 |
| | William J. Stewart | 1883 | Canada's first Chief Hydrographic Surveyor, 1863–1925; Stewart Island, Algoma and Stewart Rock, Owen Channel, Manitoulin were named after him |
| | Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart, CB, DSO, MC (1891-1945) | | Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff (1941–43) |
| | Major-General Herbert Cyril Thacker (1870–1953) | 1890 | Canada's first military attaché, sent to the Far East during Russo-Japanese War 1904 |
| RCNSE54 | Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell, CMM, DSC, CD, RCN | 1937 | Awarded Distinguished Service Cross during World War II |
| 995 | Captain George Evelyn Tinling MC | 1913–1915 | KIA 4 October 1917 during the Great War |
| | Brigadier-General Kenneth Torrance, OBE, MC (1896–1948) | 1913–1914 | OBE in 1942 for his bravery during World War II while serving with the besieged forces in Singapore; spent 31⁄2 years in a Japanese POW camp; owned a Gothic Revival stone mansion named Ker Cavan c. 1850 in Guelph, Ontario as a summer home 1945–48; listed on the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute Wall of Fame |
| 88 | Major General Sir Philip Geoffrey Twining, KCMG, COB, MVO | 1880–1883 | Canadian soldier, knighted |
| 162 | Major-General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee | 1883–1886 | |
| | General Jonathan Vance | | Former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces (2015–2021) |
| 14164 | Lieutenant Colonel Michael Voith | CMR 1979–1981 RMC 1981–1983 | Engineering adviser and the DART commanding officer |
| 1633 | General Christopher Vokes, CB, CBE, DSO, CD (1904–1985) | 1925 | World War II operational commander |
| 1940 | Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes | 1926–1930 | Soldier, Commanding Officer of the 9th Canadian Armoured Regiment, wounded in action and died in hospital on 4 September 1944 |
| 11027 | Brigadier General Ken Watkin, OMM, CD, QC | 1976 | Judge Advocate General |
| 2357 | Brigadier General Denis Whitaker, CM, DSO, ED, CD | 1933 | Leader in military, sport, business and community service, co-author of 2 Canada's military history books |
| 96 | James White, FRGS | | Topographer / geographer; produced 1st edition of the Atlas of Canada (1906) |
| 758 | Brigadier General Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler, | 1907–1910 | Military officer, surveyor, adventurer, 1921 Mount Everest expedition |
| 2951 | General Ramsey Muir Withers, CMM, CD | 1952 | Military officer |
| 352 | Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood | 1896 | First Canadian officer to be killed in action in the Second Boer War, on 11 November 1899 |
| | Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood | 1912 | Former Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1938–1951 |
| | Zachary Taylor Wood | 1882 | Office holder, militia officer, and Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman |
| 1 | Alfred George Godfrey Wurtele | 1875 | RMC instructor in mathematics and geometrical drawing and lieutenant of cadets, RMC 1882–97; the "Number 1 Fund", which commemorates AGG Wurtele and all of the other Wurteles who have graced this college, is used for the annual maintenance of the Memorial Arch |
| 47 | LCol Ernest Frederick Wurtele | 1882 | Succeeded the seigniories of Bourg Marie de l'Est and De Guir, commonly known as River David, Yamaska Quebec |
| RNCC43 | Commander Alfred Charles Wurtele | RNCC 1913 | Counsellor and Reeve of Esquimalt |
| 990 | LCol William Godfrey H. Wurtele M.C. | 1915 | Awarded a M.C. "For conspicuous gallantry during eight days of the operations, in which he commanded his company" |
| 2551 | Group Captain Douglas Wurtele | 1936 | Fighter pilot during World War II |
| 2552 | Major (Ret'd) Bill Young | 1936 | Philanthropist, as is his wife, Joyce Young |
| G3727 | Jacques Duchesneau, C.M., O.O.M., KStJ, C.Q., C.D., Ph.D. | 2015 | Inspector General, City of Saint-Jerome, QC; former President and CEO of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), Member of Quebec's National Assembly, Director Anti-Collusion Unit (Transport Quebec), Chief of Police (Montreal), Colonel Commandant of the Canadian Forces's Military Police (Ottawa, ON), LCol (H) 1 Tactical Aviation Support Squadron (St-Hubert, QC), LCol (H) 62nd Canadian Artillery Regiment (Shawinigan, QC) |

## Notable honorary degree recipients

| # | Name | Grad | Honorary doctorate in |
| 7860 | Lt. Gen. (ret) the Hon. Roméo Dallaire OC, CMM, G.O.Q., C.S.M. CD, LL.D. | 1969 | Military Sciences (2001) |
| 4377 | LGen (Ret'd) Richard J Évraire | CMR RMC 1969 | Military Sciences (1997) |
| | National Chief. L. Phillip Fontaine OM | 2000 | Laws |
| 13738 | Colonel (Ret'd) Chris Hadfield CD | 1982 | Engineering (1996) |
| 14444 | Captain (Ret'd) Dorothy A Hector | 1984 | Laws (2001) |

## Notable honorary and special members of the Royal Military College of Canada Club

Shown with college numbers.
| Name | # | Significance |
| Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis | | Former Governor General of Canada |
| Myriam Bédard | S120 | Canadian biathlete, Olympic double gold medalist |
| Charles H. Belzile CM, CMM, CD, | H22547 | Distinguished military career; community service: Canadian War Museum Advisory Committee; Conference of Defence Associations; founding member of Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation |
| Thomas R. Berger OC, O.B.C., LL.B., LL.D., PC | S153 | Former puisne judge of the supreme Court of British Columbia; leader of MacKenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry; advocate of Canadian unity and equality |
| Thomas Brzustowski OC, PhD, D.Sc., F.R.S.C., P.Eng. | S143 | engineer, academic, and civil servant |
| John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | | Former Governor General of Canada |
| Adrienne Clarkson CC, CMM, C.O.M., CD | H22982 | Twenty-fifth Governor General |
| Barney Danson | H | Founder of Katimavik, former RMC Chancellor |
| Senator Joseph A. Day | H7543 | Canadian Senator |
| Hon. Art Eggleton | S128 | Canadian politician |
| L. Phil Fontaine, Order of Manitoba | H | Assembly of First Nations National Chief |
| Hon. Bill Graham | S147 | Canadian politician |
| Rick Hillier | S148 | Former Chief of the Defence Staff |
| Ray Henault | S146 | Former Chief of the Defence Staff |
| Ray Hnatyshyn PC, CC, CMM, CD, B.A., LL.B., QC | H17416 | Twenty-fourth Governor General |
| Gilles Lamontagne, C.P., OC C.Q., CD, B.A. | H15200 | Military officer, prisoner of war during World War II, businessman and politician |
| Roméo LeBlanc C.P., CC, CMM, CD | H20123 | Twenty-fifth Governor General |
| Hon John Ross Matheson | H17417 | Sponsored George Stanley's design for the Canadian flag, helped develop the Order of Canada, soldier, judge, politician |
| Hon Peter Milliken | S149 | Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada |
| Hon Gordon O'Connor | S157 | Canadian politician, National Defence Minister |
| Ernest Smith VC, CM O.B.C., CD | S132 | Soldier, politician |
| Edward Schreyer P.C., CC, CMM, O.M., CD, LL.D. | H14513 | Twenty-second Governor General |
| Jeanne Sauvé C.P., CC, CMM, CD, LL.D. | H16929 | Twenty-third Governor General |

## Notable non-graduate alumni of the RMC

| Name | Left RMC in: | Significance |
| #943 Air Marshal Billy Bishop, VC 1894–1956 | 1914 | World War I flying ace designated a National Historic Person of Canada in 1980 |
| #25 Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG | 1877–1879 | Major General of the Australian Army and first Commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon |
| Bill Swan | 1957 | children's writer, journalist, college administrator |
| George Cuthbertson | 1914 | artist |
| The Honourable Wilfrid Heighington | 1915 | Politician |
| #35 Lieutenant Colonel Robert Edwin Kent | 1877 | soldier, businessman (banker, hotelier), Mayor of Kingston, Ontario |
| Dr. Geoffrey O'Hara (1882–1967) | 1900 | Composer, singer, lecturer, songwriter, army singing instructor, ethnomusicologist, pianist and guild organizer |
| Hazen Sise 1757 | 1923 | Architect, artist, humanitarian |
| Edgar William Richard Steacie | 1921 | Former president of the National Research Council of Canada |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Charlie Stewart | 1892 to 1894 | Commanded Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during World War I |
| Major Alfred Syer Trimmer MC (2 December 1883 – 28 April 1917) | 1903 (approx.) | Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry; KIA on 28 April 1917 |
| Dai Vernon 1109 | 1916–1919 (approx.) | Magician |
| Thomas Vien (1881–1972) | 1903 | Lawyer, Speaker of the Senate of Canada; Deputy Speaker of House of Commons of Canada |
| #186 Major General Arthur Victor Seymour Williams CMG (1876–1949) | 1884–1885 | Soldier, mountie, police commissioner, Mount Williams was named in his honour |

## Notable professors/educators/staff

Shown with college numbers.
| Student # | Name | Significance |
| 1 | Alfred George Godfrey Wurtele | Appointed Assistant Instructor in Mathematics and Geometrical Drawing and Lieutenant of Cadets in the college on 3 February 1882, positions he retained until 28 June 1897 |
| | Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham | Politician, taught military strategy 1893–1898 |
| | Edwin Tappan Adney | WW1 model-maker, canoe maker, writer and artist; decorated part of Currie Hall; first person to use pre-established treaty rights in the defense of an aboriginal person in a Canadian court (New Brunswick) in 1946 |
| S155 | Willard Boyle | Businessman, invented charge-coupled device |
| | Gérard Bessette | Author and educator |
| | Captain Joseph-Damaze Chartrand | Soldier, accountant, writer, magazine owner, and professor |
| | Forshaw Day | Educator and artist |
| | Captain John Moreau Grant CBE | Executive officer, H.M.C.S. Stone Frigate, Commandant HMCS Royal Roads |
| | Lieutenant-Colonel (Retd) Roman Jarymowycz OMM, CD, PhD | Educator, decorated Canadian soldier, historian, author |
| | Brigadier-General Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey VC, MC, | Received the Victoria Cross; Instructor in Physical Training at RMC |
| | Lubomyr Luciuk | Professor, founding member of Royal Winers, author, human rights advocate, Shevchenko Medal winner, former member of Immigration and Refugee Board, director of research for Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association |
| | Séraphin Marion (1896–1983) | Archivist, professor, writer and historian who taught French at the RMC 1920–1923 |
| G0053 | Alex Morrison | Educator, founding president of Pearson Peacekeeping Centre |
| | Mohamed Douch (2006–) | Professor, economist and author |
| | Lieutenant-Colonel George Pearkes VC PC CC CB DSO MC CD | Staff officer of RMC |
| H8829 | Col. the Hon. George F.G. Stanley CC CD FRHistS FRSC FRHSC(hon) | Historian, author, soldier, educator, public servant, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, and designer of Canadian flag; Companion of the Order of Canada |
| 816 | Brigadier-General Kenneth Stuart DSO, MC, ADC | Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, Commandant of RMC 1939–40, educator |
| | Clarendon Lamb Worrell | Taught English at RMC 1891–1901; 5th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada |

## Commandants

Shown with college numbers. Ranks indicative of rank while serving as Commandant.
| # | Name | Year | Significance |
| | Brigadier General Pascal Godbout | 2023- | Graduated from the Collège militaire royal de St-Jean in 1995 |
| | Commodore Josée Kurtz, OMM, MSC, CD | 2021–2023 | First woman commandant |
| 18777 | Brigadier General Sébastien Bouchard, OMM, MSM, CD (RMC ‘93) | 2017– 2021 | |
| 16855 | Brigadier General Sean Friday, OMM, MSM, CD (RMC ‘89) | 2015–2017 | Special Staff Assistance Visit – Report on the Climate, Training Environment, Culture and ROTP Programme at the Royal Military College of Canada |
| 16888 | Brigadier General Al Meinzinger, CD (RMC ‘89) | 2013–2015 | |
| 14835 | Brigadier General J.G. Eric Tremblay CD (CMR '85) | 2011–2013 | In 2012, the Commandant's office was filled with balloons in a college skylark. |
| 15181 | Commodore Bill Truelove, CD (RMC ‘85) | 2009–2011 | initiated a new "Walkout Dress", dictating what officer cadets can and cannot wear on leaving the college grounds |
| 12192 | Brigadier-General Thomas J. Lawson OMM, CD ADC (RMC ‘79) | 2007–2009 | initiated new structure: Four divisions and 13 squadrons for the cadet wing, and Otter squadron. Removed Sgts from within the Squadrons but added WOs at the Division level. initiated new uniforms |
| E1607 | Brigadier-General Jocelyn Lacroix (RMC 1999) CD ADC | 2005–2007 | Changed the dress of the day from the traditional 'college dress' to the not-so-traditional CF uniform. initiated the 'live out project' which saw 4th year cadets move off campus to gain more life experience before heading to their first unit. |
| S133 | Brigadier General (Ret'd) Jean Leclerc CD ADC | 2002–2005 | Honorary |
| 8850 | Rear Admiral (Ret'd) David Morse CMM, CD ADC | 2000–2002 | Scaled back RMC sport program Changed RMC Redmen logo to the crown and arm of RMC. said, "RMC makes engineers literate and artsmen numerate." implemented a program of community and high school visits launched the Army Technical Warrant Officers' Program (ATWOP), the RMC's first-ever major academic program designed exclusively for non-commissioned members not pursuing an officer career path. |
| 9098 | BGen (Ret'd) Ken Hague (RMC 1972) | 1997–2000 | Member, Gifting committee, Royal Military Colleges Club Foundation |
| 6496 | Brigadier-General (Retired) Charles Émond CD ADC | 1994–1997 | He has served as commandant of both the RMC (1994–1997) and le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean (1992–1994). RRMC and CMR closed in 1995. Because of a large induction of francophone students from CMR, RMC was transformed into a bilingual university The sport teams were renamed RMC Paladins from RMC Redmen to reflect a bilingual and coed institution. He has served on RMC Board of Governors (2006–present). |
| S123 | Colonel (Ret`d) Howie Marsh ADC | 1996–1997 (acting) | |
| 6719 | BGen (Ret'd) Michel Matte (CMR 1965) | 1993–1996 | |
| 8790 | Brigadier-General (Ret'd) Jean Boyle CMM, CD, ADC (RMC 1971) | 1991–1993 | Later became Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) (1996) |
| 4459 | Commodore (Ret'd) Edward Murray OMM, CD, ADC ((RMC 1959) | 1987–1991 | |
| 3543 | BGen (Ret) Walter Niemy CD, ADC ((RMC 1956) | 1985–1987 | |
| 3572 | BGen (Ret) Frank J. Norman CD, ADC ((RMC 1956) | 1982–1985 | RMC is first and foremost a place of academic learning, set in a military environment higher education and college degrees were more significant to the success of the officer corps in the military Football was dropped as a varsity sport |
| 3173 | BGen (Ret) John A. Stewart CD, ADC ((RMC 1953) | 1980–1982 | Women were admitted to RMC Visit by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 21 May 1980 RMC became co-educational in 1980. Novice boxing was dropped in 1980 |
| 4860 | BGen (Ret) John de Chastelain, CD, ADC ((RMC 1960) | 1977–1980 | Later became Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) (1989–93, 1994–95) Later became Canadian ambassador to the US (1993–94) |
| 2816 | BGen (Ret) William W. Turner CD, ADC (RMC 1940) | 1973–1977 | The Cadet Wing paraded on Parliament Hill to celebrate the college's centennial BGen Turner, colonel commandant of The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery 1 September 1979 – 31 August 1986 provided the W.W. Turner trophy for the Ottawa Gunners to present to the best third-year artillery cadet at the RMC. The trophy is in Observation Post de Hart (Op de Hart) – Home of the Ottawa Gunners, 2nd floor of the Army Officers Mess in Ottawa. |
| 2530 | BGen (Ret) William Kirby Lye MBE CD, ADC (RMC 1936) | 1970–1973 | Lake Lye (near Williams Lake, British Columbia is named in BGen (Ret) William Kirby Lye's honour. cadets were permitted to marry, with the permission of the commandant. RMC was a military institution within an academic environment. |
| 2576 | Commodore William Prine Hayes CD, ADC | 1967–1969 | 4th-year cadets are permitted to wear civilian attire out on leave The Cadet Wing paraded on Parliament Hill to celebrate Canada's centennial |
| 2364 | Air Commodore Leonard Birchall OBE, DFC, CD, ADC | 1963–1967 | Graduate courses were added in 1964. |
| 2424 | Brigadier G.H. Spencer OBE, CD, ADC | 1962–1963 | |
| 2265 | Brigadier William Alexander Beaumont Anderson OBE, CD, ADC | 1960–1962 | The `LGen W.A.B. Anderson march` (2/4) for bagpipes was composed in his honour |
| 2184 | Commodore Desmond Piers DSC, CD, ADC | 1957–1960 | Commodore Piers participated in the invasion in France during World War II. RMC became a degree-granting institution in 1959. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit 1959 |
| 2140 | Air Commodore Douglas Bradshaw, DFC, CD, ADC | 1954–1957 | Air Vice-Marshal (ret`d) Douglas Bradshaw was the first president of Confederation College of Applied Arts and Technology from 6 March 1967, to 1974. |
| 1137 | Brigadier-General Donald Agnew CB, CD, ADC LLD | 1947–1954 | The New One Hundred Opening Ceremonies 20 September 1948 The Old Brigade, for alumni celebrating 50 years since they entered one of the military Colleges, was inaugurated by Agnew in 1950. Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit 12 October 1951 The Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean was founded in 1952 Pipes and Drums founded 1953 |
| H-2727 | Major-General John Whiteley, CB, CBE, MC, ADC | 1947 | |
| 2120 | Brigadier-General J. Desmond B. Smith, CBE, DSO, ADC | 1945–1946 | first postwar Staff Course held June 1946 to June 1947 Barriefield Military School Board, first in the Canadian Army, teaches children of personnel Barriefield complex provides housing for 13 married officer students & families. |
| 1841 | Brigadier D.G. Cunningham DSO, ED, ADC | 1944–1945 | He was member of a subcommittee of the RMC Club which urged the reopening of the college. He served as president of the RMC Club of Canada in 1946. |
| H-2727 | Major General Halfdan Fenton Harboe Hertzberg * CMG, DSO, MC, ADC | 1940–1944 | The last class graduated in 1942 RRMC in British Columbia founded in 1942. |
| 816 | Brigadier General Kenneth Stuart, DSO, MC, ADC | 1939–1940 | Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, educator |
| 749 | Brigadier General, The Honourable Harry Crerar PC, CH, CB, DSO, CD, KStJ, ADC (RMC 1909) | 1938–1939 | Commandant of RMC when war broke out in 1939. Crerar commanded the First Canadian Army from 1944 to 1945. RMC closed as a cadet college during World War II. Crerar served as a field commander of First Canadian Army in World War II, 1944 to 1945 and after retirement, served as a diplomat and Privy Councillor. |
| | Brigadier Henry H. Matthews, CMG, DSO, ADC | 1935–1938 | |
| 624 | Brigadier William Henry Pferinger Elkins, CB, CBE, DSO, ADC | 1930–1934 | |
| 621 | Brigadier Charles Francis Constantine, DSO, ADC | 1925–1930 | Constantine arena at RMC was named in his honour |
| 151 | Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Macdonell K.C.B., CMG, DSO, ADC, LL.D. | 1919–1925 | first Canadian commandant, assembled a Canadian military staff, Professional associations & universities negotiate to accept RMC graduates authorized publication of RMC biannual review (alumni magazine) |
| | Brigadier-General Charles Noel Perreau, CMG, ADC | 1915–1919 | Assembled RMC museum artefacts |
| | Brigadier-General L. R. Carleton, DSO, ADC | 1913–1914 | Assembled RMC museum artefacts |
| | Colonel J.H.V. Crowe, ADC | 1909–1913 | Every cadet who did not enter the British army or the Canadian Permanent Force on graduation (1910) was required to become attached to the Militia within 2 years of leaving the college and to attend two militia camps Reported in 1910 that for the first time, every RMC graduate took a commission. |
| 45 | Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Thornton Taylor, ADC | 1905–1909 | First Canadian commandant of RMC (as member of British military) introduced ice hockey to Kingston as an RMC student in 1877 competitive entrance examination, with half-yearly examinations 3-year curriculum: civil engineering, civil & hydrographic surveying, physics, chemistry, French, English, gymnastic drills and outdoor exercises of all kinds five imperial army commissions awarded annually $750–$1,000 cost included board, uniform, materials and extras |
| | Colonel Raymond Northland Revell Reade, ADC | 1901–1905 | |
| | Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald C. Kitson, ADC | 1896–1900 | replaced British civilian staff with British military personnel, tightened discipline, emphasised military training, cut the curriculum to three years appointed Military Attache of the British Embassy in Washington in November 1900 later Major General Sir Gerald C. Kitson ADC; Commandant of Sandhurst |
| | Major-General Donald Roderick Cameron, CMG, ADC | 1888–1896 | Then commandant, recommended international pigeon post, which provided messenger service from 1891 to 1895 for marine search and rescue and military |
| | Major-General John Ryder Oliver, CMG, ADC | 1886–1888 | Oliver Rock, Sudbury, Ontario was named in his honour |
| | Colonel Edward Osborne Hewett CMG, ADC | 1875–1886 | first Commandant of the Military College in Canada, member of Royal Engineers, chose motto, Truth, Duty, Valour assembled a British civilian staff, organized a 4-year curriculum, prepared site for use as a college Hewett Shoal, Sudbury, Ontario, was named in his honour 46°4′23″ North 82°4′14″ West character in opera Leo, the Royal Cadet by Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann was named in his honour. |
* The Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada is appointed ex officio as honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General of Canada

## RMC Club presidents

| Year | Number | Name | Year | Number | Name | Year | Number | Name |
| 1884–1885 | 7 | Lukin Homphrey Irving (first) | 1886–1887 | 18 | Duncan MacPherson | 1888 | 4 | William Mahlon Davis |
| 1889–1890 | 6 | Septimus Julius Augustus Denison | 1891 | 10 | Victor Brereton Rivers | 1892 | 86 | Reuben Wells Leonard |
| 1893–1894 | 37 | E.H. Drury | 1895–1896 | 15 | Francis Joseph Dixon | 1897 | 48 | A.K. Kirkpatrick |
| 1898 | 57 | H.S. Greenwood | 1899 | 14 | John Bray Cochrane | 1900 | 41 | Robert Cartwright |
| 1901 | 154 | F.M. Gaudet | 1902 | 47 | Ernest Frederick Wurtele | 1903 | 21 | A.E. Doucet |
| 1904 | 82 | Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers | 1905 | 188 | W.A.H. Kerr | 1906 | 186 | V.A.S. Williams |
| 1907 | 139 | C.R.F. Coutlee | 1908 | 232 | John Houlison | 1909 | 91 | J.D. Gibson |
| 1910 | 63 | George Hooper | 1911 | 255 | H.A. Panet | 1912 | 246 | Major-General Sir Henry Edward Burstall |
| 1913 | 268 | Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé | 1914; 1919 | 299 | Col. Harry J. Lamb DSO, VD | 1920 | 293 | C.J. Armstrong |
| 1920–1922 | 392 | W.B. Kingsmill | 1923 | 377 | A.C. Caldwell | 1924 | 140 | G.S. Cartwright |
| 1925 | 499 | Edouard de B. Panet | 1926 | 631 | A.B. Gillies | 1927 | 623 | S.B. Coristine |
| 1928 | 555 | R.R. Carr-Harris | 1929 | 667 | E.G. Hanson | 1929–1930 | 1945 (SUO) | G.D. de S. Wotherspoon |
| 1930–1931 | 1119 | J.H. Price | 1932 | 472 | A.R. Chipman | 1933–1934 | 805 | Colin W. G. Gibson |
| 1935 | 727 | D.A. White | 1936–1937 | 877 | G.L. Magann | 1938–1939 | 1003 | A.M. Mitchell |
| 1940–1941 | 803 | J.V. Young | 1942–1943 | 1141 | W.H. O'Reilly | 1944 | 698 | Everett Bristol |
| 1945 | 982 | D.W. MacKeen | 1946 | 1841 | D.G. Cunningham | 1947 | 1230 | S.H. Dobell |
| 1948 | 1855 | Ian S. Johnston | 1949 | 1625 | J.D. Watt | 1950 | 1542 | E.W. Crowe |
| 1951 | 1860 | Nicol Kingsmill | 1952 | 1828 | Ted G.E. Beament | 1953 | 1620 | R.R. Labatt |
| 1954 | 1766 | Ken H. Tremain | 1955 | 1474 | de L.H.M Panet | 1956 | 2034 | Paul Y. Davoud |
| 1957 | 1954 | W.P. Carr | 1960 | 1379 | H.A. Mackenzie | 1961 | 2157 | J.H.R. Gagnon |
| 1962 | 2183 | James E. Pepall | 1963 | 2336 | J.H. Moore | 1964 | 2351 | Guy Savard |
| 1965 | 2749 | James B. Cronyn | 1966 | 2601 | J. Fergus Maclaren | 1967 | 2791 | Jean P.W. Ostiguy |
| 1968–1969 | RCNC90 | John F. Frank | 1975–1976 | 3661 | Terry Yates | 1976–1977 | 5533 | Glenn Allen |
| 1977–1978 | 3172 | Marshall Soule | 1980–1981 | 3251 | Jim Tremain | 1981–1982 | 2897 | Herb Pitts |
| 1986–1987 | 5604 | Ken Smee | 1987–1988 | 3010 | Peter McLoughlin | 1992–1993 | H3356 | Robin Cumine |
| 1993–1994 | 5244 | Tony Downs | 1994–1995 | H7543 | Senator Joseph A. Day | 1995–1996 | 5739 | Andre Costin |
| 1996–1997 | 3550 | Murray Johnston | 1997–1998 | 8813 | John D. Gibson | 1998–1999 | G0055 | Valerie Keyes (first female) |
| 1999–2000 | 8833 | John Leggat | 2000–2001 | 5758 | Michael Morres | 2001–2002 | 16461 | Ian MacKinnon |
| 2002–2003 | 6777 | Michel Charron | 2003–2004 | 7776 | Chris Lythgo | 2004–2005 | 7943 | J. William K. Lye |
| 2005–2006 | 10080 | Robert Booth | 2006–2007 | 12046 | Pierre Ducharme | 2007–2008 | 6776 | Tim Sparling |
| 2008–2009 | 15988 | Jeff Kearns | 2010 | 16412 | Gord Clarke | 2011 | 19307 | David Benoit |
| 2012 | 9889 | Robert Benn | 2013 | M0058 | Marc Drolet (first UTPNCM) |

## Principals / Director of Studies

| Name | Year |
| Dr. Jill Scott | 2024 – current |
| Dr. Philip Bates | 2023 – 2024 |
| Dr. Cecile Malardier-Jugroot | 2022 |
| Dr. Harry James Kowal | 2013 – 2022 |
| Dr. Joel Jeffrey Sokolsky | 2008 – 2013 |
| Dr. John Scott Cowan | 1999 – 2008 |
| Dr. John Plant | 1984 – 1999 |
| Dr. Donald Tilley | 1978 – 1984 |
| Dr. J.R. Dacey | 1967 – 1978 |

## First 32 female cadets to enter college in 1980

Shown with college numbers.
| # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name |
| 14481 | Doctor Linda Newton | 14423 | Captain (Ret'd) Elizabeth E Caswell (Dyson) | 14484 | Jacqueline Pothier | 14390 | Captain (Ret'd) Kate Armstrong, CD | 14397 | Chris Best | | |
| 14433 | Debbie Fowler | 14396 | Captain Kathleen Beeman | 14512 | Cheryl de Bellefeuille | 14451 | Captain Theresa Towns (Hutchings) | 14467 | Captain Jo-Anne MacIsaac | 14478 | Theresa Murphy |
| 14448 | Rebecca Horne | 14400 | Sylvie Bonneau | 14504 | Captain Brigitte Vachon | 14412 | Helen Davies | 14491 | Colonel Karen Ritchie | 14444 | Captain (Ret'd) Dorothy Hector |
| 14487 | Lieutenant Colonel Suzanne Raby | 14510 | Lieutenant Colonel Sue Wigg | 14479 | Sue Nadarozny | 14460 | Lorraine Kuzyk | 14402 | Charmaine Bulger | 14501 | Marie Thomson |
| 14443 | Major (ret'd) Kathryn Moore (Haunts) | 14508 | Captain (ret'd) Sheila Cornelisse (Walters) | 14418 | Marnie Dunsmore | 14477 | Brigitte Muehlgassner | 14411 | Ann David | 14394 | Laura Beare |
| 14407 | Captain (ret'd) Marie-Pier Clarke (Cloutier) | 14419 | Johanne Durand | 14507 | Julia Walsh | | | | | | |

## Wall of Honour

| # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name |
| 13 | Aylesworth Bowen Perry | 943 | Billy Bishop | 1681 | Walter L. Gordon | 1800 | Hartland Molson | 2399 | William Landymore | 2446 | E. L. M. Burns |
| 3528 | Paul David Manson | 4860 | John de Chastelain | 85 | William J. Stewart | 2364 | Air Commodore Leonard Birchall | 2791 | Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Jean P.W. Ostiguy | 1921 | RCMP Commissioner George Brinton McClellan, Jr., LL D (Hon) |
| 2357 | Brigadier-General William Denis Whitaker CM, DSO and Bar, ED, CD, DSc Mil (Hon) | 2510 | Brigadier-General Edward Alfred Charles "Ned" Amy DSO, OBE, MC, CD | 4377 | Lieutenant-General Richard (Rick) Joseph Evraire CMM, CD, BEng (Civil), BSc, MPA, DSc Mil (Hon) | 101 | Maj John Laing Weller | 1248 | Gen Sir Charles Falkland Loewen, GCB, KBE, DSO | 1866 | LCol Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, VC, ED |
| 8833 | Col Lennox John Leggat, CD, PhD | 13738 | Colonel Chris Austin Hadfield, OC, OOnt, MSC, CD | 749 | General, the Honourable Henry Duncan Graham Crerar CH, CB, DSO, CD, PC | H2951 | General Ramsey Muir Withers, CMM, CD, D Eng, D Mil Sc, P Eng | 7860 | Lieutenant-General, the Honourable Roméo Antonius Dallaire, OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD | H8829 | Colonel, the Honorable George Francis Gillman Stanley, CC, CD, DPhil, FRSC, FRHSC |

### Rhodes Scholars

As of 2011 there have been 13 Rhodes Scholars who were ex-cadets of RMC:
* 2565 Adrian A.W. Duguid (RMC 1937) Rhodes Scholar 1946, died 14 January 1968
* 4393 Doctor Desmond Morton (CMR RMC 1959) Rhodes Scholar 1959
* 5417 Colonel (ret) WK Megill (CMR RMC 1962) Rhodes Scholar 1962
* 6219 Doctor Robin Boadway (RRMC / RMC 1964) Rhodes Scholar 1964
* 6182 Doctor RB Harrison (RMC 1964) Rhodes Scholar 1964
* 6508 MGen (ret) John L Adams CMM CD (RMC 1965) Rhodes Scholar 1965
* 7291 Doctor T.A.J. Keefer (RMC 1967) Rhodes Scholar 1967
* 10419 Captain (N) (ret) David V Jacobson (CMR RMC 1975) Rhodes Scholar 1975
* 10941 Doctor Grant M Gibbs (RMC 1976) Rhodes Scholar 1976
* 15040 Mr Paul E Stanborough (RMC 1985) Rhodes Scholar 1985
* 15595 LCol (ret) WDE (Billy) Allan CD (RRMC RMC 1986) Rhodes Scholar 1987
* 23988 Mr Gino Bruni (RMC 2008) Rhodes Scholar 2010; Prairies & Jesus College, reading Jurisprudence
* 24862 2Lt Brendan Alexander (RMC 2011) Rhodes Scholar 2011, New College, Oxford to read International Relations

## Books

* 14390 Kate Armstrong (RMC 1984), author of memoir The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out
* Walter S. Avis: Essays and articles selected from a quarter century of scholarship at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston (Occasional papers of the Department of English, R.M.C.) 1978
* 2141 Thomas T. L. Brock (RMC 1930) Fight the good fight: Looking in on the recruit class at the Royal Military College of Canada during a week in February 1931. 1964
* 19828 John-James Ford (RMC 1995), author of Bonk on the head, a description, in novel form, of a fictional officer-cadet's life at RMC
* G1397 Doctor Andrew A.B. Godefroy Professional training put to the test: the Royal Military College of Canada and Army Leadership in the South African War 1899–1902 The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin 2005
* 6647 Major (Ret) Mitchell Kryzanowski (RMC 1965), wrote Currie Hall: Memorial to the Canadian Corps (Kingston: Hewson and White, 1989), a description of the decoration of Currie Hall
* S125 Major (Ret) William WJ Oliver, and S134 Mrs Rolande Oliver, RMC Hockey History Digest Eds. Red & White Books, Kingston, 2003
* 4237 Dr. Adrian Preston & Peter Dennis (Edited) Swords and Covenants Rowman And Littlefield, London. Croom Helm. 1976.
* H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College of Canada 1997 Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969.
* H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston Canada's RMC – A History of Royal Military College Second Edition 1982
* H16511 Dr. Richard Preston R.M.C. and Kingston: The effect of imperial and military influences on a Canadian community. 1968
* H1877 R. Guy C. Smith (editor) As You Were! Ex-Cadets Remember. In 2 Volumes. Volume I: 1876–1918. Volume II: 1919–1984. Royal Military College. [Kingston]. The R.M.C. Club of Canada. 1984
* A.G.G. Wurtele Not in Cooke. – Account of a tour by the first graduating class of the Royal Military College, Kingston, 1880.
* Richard A. Preston To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College since the Second World War, Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press, 1991.
* 4669 Toivo Roht, (CMR RMC 1960) Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, Royal Roads Military College and Royal Military College 1955–2006 2007
* RMC Cadet Handbook Kingston: RMC, 2004
* Royal Military College of Canada: The Canadian Services Colleges 1962
* The Royal Military College of Canada 1876 to 1919
* Directory of Ex-Cadets, Royal Military College Club of Canada (RMC Club, Kingston, 1992) The book us a directory of students from Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston), Royal Roads Military College (Victoria), and College Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu).