List of fleet and grand admirals

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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[edit]

China[edit]

Croatia[edit]

Egypt[edit]

France[edit]

Germany[edit]

Greece[edit]

Iraq[edit]

Italy[edit]

Japan[edit]

Korea[edit]

Ottoman Empire[edit]

Peru[edit]

Prussia[edit]

Russian Empire[1][edit]

Russian Federation[edit]

Admirals of the fleet[edit]

Soviet Union[edit]

Admirals of the fleet[edit]

  1. ^ a b c (later admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union)

Admirals of the Fleet of the Soviet Union[edit]

  • 03 March 1955 – Nikolai Kuznetsov (1902–1974) (demoted to vice admiral 17 February 1956, reinstated posthumously 26 July 1988)
  • 03 March 1955 – Ivan Isakov (1894–1967)
  • 28 October 1967 – Sergey Gorshkov (1910–1988)

Sri Lanka[edit]

Sweden[edit]

Thailand[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

United States[edit]

Yugoslavia[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Slovar Biograficheskiy Morskoy, Sankt Peterburg, LOGOS, 2001
  2. ^ Admiral Dewey held the rank of "Admiral of the Navy" instead of "fleet admiral" as the others. He is the only man to have held this rank and it was abolished after his death.