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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
- Sir Mark Carleton-Smith – Chief of the General Staff (2018–2022)
- 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 – Major General
- Nick Downie – TV war correspondent
- Tim Evans – Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (2013–2016)
- 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 attack
- Bear Grylls – television host, and the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest
- 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 – MP for Bute and Northern Ayrshire and Lancaster
- 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
- Des Peter Middleton, A Squadron,1st SAS
- 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
- Tip Tipping – Stuntman
- Richard Tomlinson – Secret Intelligence Service
- Steve Truglia – stuntman
- Sir Roland Walker – Chief of the General Staff (2024 – present)
- John "Lofty" Wiseman (Regimental Sergeant Major)
- Johnny Wiseman MC (WWII)
- John Woodhouse, commander and founder of the SAS's modern selection system
References
- Cowles, Virginia. The Phantom Major, Collins: London, 1958.