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This list includes notable individuals who served in the Special Air Service (SAS) – (Regular or TA).
- Michael Asher – Author, Historian and Desert Explorer
- Sir Peter de la Billière – Commander-in-Chief British Forces in the Gulf War
- Julian Brazier TD – MP for Canterbury
- Charles "Nish" Bruce QGM – Freefall expert
- Charles R. Burton – Explorer
- Frank Collins – First soldier to enter the building in the Iranian Embassy Siege
- Tim Collins – Author
- James Condon – Indo-Malayan campaign casualty
- Jeffrey Cook – Director for Security Liaison in the Royal Household
- Cedric Delves – Lieutenant General
- Arthur Denaro
- Nick Downie – TV War correspondent
- David Eyton-Jones
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE – Adventurer
- John Paul Foley – Former director of intelligence
- Terry Forrestal – Stuntman
- Taff Groves – Key rescuer; Westgate Shopping Mall. Kenya, Terrorist Attack
- Gavin Hamilton MC
- Jon Hollingsworth CGC QGM
- Talaiasi 'Laba' Labalaba – BEM, MID, Battle of Mirbat participant
- Michael Patrick 'Bronco' Lane MM BEM – Author and mountaineer
- Lofty Large – Author
- Jock Lewes – Co-founder of the regiment
- Arthur Denaro
- Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton MVO MBE – Private Secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry
- Simon Mann – Mercenary, Equatorial Guinea
- Paddy Mayne, DSO – British and Irish Lions Rugby Union player
- Fitzroy Maclean
- John McAleese – First man on the balcony during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980 caught on live news. Team member for the BBC Television series SAS Survival Secrets
- Peter McAleese – Former Mercenary and Author
- Andy McNab DCM MM – Author
- Danny Nightingale
- Peter Oldfield – cricketer
- Bob Parr MBE PhD AKC FRGS – Emmy Award-winning TV Producer, academic and author
- Lewis Pugh OIG – environmental campaigner and swimmer
- Peter Ratcliffe DCM MID – Author
- Ronald Reid-Daly – Selous Scouts founder
- John Ridgway – Record breaking sailor
- Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond – Former MP
- Chris Ryan MM – Author
- Bill Kennedy Shaw – Intelligence officer with the SAS during World War II
- Oliver Shepard – Explorer
- Al Slater MM
- John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim
- Phil Stant – Professional footballer
- David Stirling OBE DSO – Founder of the Regiment[1]
- Tip Tipping – Stuntman
- Richard Tomlinson – Secret Intelligence Service
- Steve Truglia – Stuntman
- John "Lofty" Wiseman (Regimental Sergeant Major)
- Johnny Wiseman MC (WWII)
- John Woodhouse, commander and founder of the SAS's modern selection system
- Bear Grylls – Television host, was the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest
References edit
- ^ Cowles, Virginia. The Phantom Major, Collins: London, 1958.