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.

Austria-Hungary

 * 1911 - Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860–1933)
 * 5 May 1916 - Anton Haus (1851–1917)
 * 1 November 1916 - Charles I of Austria (1887–1922)

China

 * Zheng He (1371–1433)

Croatia

 * March 1996 – Sveto Letica (1926–2001)

Egypt

 * King Fuad I (1868–1936)
 * King Farouk (1920–1965)
 * 26 July 1952 - King Fuad II (b. 1952)

France

 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Germany

 * 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)

Iraq

 * King Faisal I (1883–1933)

Italy

 * 4 November 1924 - Conte Paolo Thaon di Revel (1859–1948)

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

 * 1967 - Miguel Grau Seminario (1834–1879) (posthumous)

Prussia

 * Prince Adalbert (1811–1873)

Russian Empire

 * 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-)
 * 2000 - Vladimir Kuroyedov (1944-)
 * 2005 - Vladimir Masorin (1947-)

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 (born 1922)
 * 05.11.1983 – Vladimir Chernavin (born 1928)
 * 04.11.1988 – Ivan Kapitanets (born 1928)
 * 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)

Sweden

 * King Charles XIII (1748–1818)
 * King Oscar I (1799–1859)

United Kingdom

 * List of British admirals of the fleet

United States

 * 1899 - George Dewey (1837–1917)
 * 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

 * 1983 – Branko Mamula (born 1921)