- Charles Ingram
Charles Ingram (born August 6, 1963) is a former British Army Major who made headlines in the United Kingdom when he was accused of cheating on the television show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". Despite being convicted of deception, Ingram maintains that he did not cheat.
- John Chard
Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard VC (21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897) was an English soldier who won the Victoria Cross for his role in the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879. He was born at Boxhill, near Plymouth and had two brothers and four sisters. He joined the Royal Engineers in 1868 and served in Bermuda and Malta before being sent to South Africa.
- John By
Lieutenant-Colonel John By (probably 7 August 1779 - 1 February 1836) was an English military engineer, best remembered for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and, in the process, founding what would become the city of Ottawa. Born in Lambeth in London, England in 1779, By studied at the Royal Military Academy. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 1 August 1799 but transferred to the Royal Engineers on 20 December the same year.
- Francis Fowke
Francis Fowke (1823 - 1865) was a British engineer and architect, and a captain in the Royal Engineers. Most of his architectural work was executed in the Renaissance style, although he made use of relatively new technologies to create iron framed buildings, with large open galleries and spaces. Among his projects were the Royal Albert Hall and parts of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Museum in Edinburgh, and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
- Charles George Gordon
Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa.
- Charles Warren
General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS (7 February 1840-21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers, and in later life was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders.
- John Fox Burgoyne
Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet GCB (July 24, 1782 - October 7, 1871) was a senior British Army officer. Burgoyne was the illegitimate son of General John Burgoyne and opera singer Susan Caulfield. In 1798, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a Second Lieutenant. He fought against the army of Napoleon I and campaigned in the Pyrenees under the Duke of Wellington.
- Leonard Darwin
Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 - 26 March 1943), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher.
- Denis Thatcher
Major Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet MBE TD (May 10, 1915 – June 26, 2003) was a businessman, and the husband of the former British Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher. He was born in Lewisham, London, England, the elder child of a New Zealand-born British businessman, Thomas Herbert (Jack) Thatcher, and his wife (Lilian) Kathleen, "née" Bird. As of 2007, he is the last person outside the British Royal Family to be awarded a hereditary title.
- Percy Hobart
Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart (14 June 1885-19 February 1957), also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer, noted for his command of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II. He was responsible for many of the specialised armoured vehicles ('Hobart's Funnies') that took part in the invasion of Normandy and later actions.
- William Dobbie
Lieutenant-General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie, GCMG, KCB, DSO (12 July 1879 - 1964) was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and served as the military governor of Malta during World War II. Dobbie was a member of the Protestant Plymouth Brethren and was a veteran of the Second Boer War and World War I. He was also the former Commandant of the Royal School of Military Engineering. He was General Officer Commanding Malaya (1935 - 1939).
- Henry James
Major General Sir Henry James <small>FRS MRIA RE</small>; (1803 - 1877) was the director-general of the Ordnance Survey, the British government mapping agency, from 1854 to 1875. Sir Henry was described by the agency itself as "perhaps Ordnance Survey's most eccentric and egotistical Director General". Henry James joined the Royal Engineers with the rank of Lieutenant in 1831. He was promoted to captain in 1846 and then to Colonel in 1857.
- Aylmer Hunter-Weston
Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston KCB DSO GStJ (23 September 1864 - 18 March 1940) was a British Army general who served in the First World War. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1884 he served on the Indian North West Frontier and took part in the Miranzai Expedition of 1891 and was wounded during the Warziristan Expedition of 1894-1895. During this time he was promoted to brevet major. He was on General Herbert Kitchener's staff in 1896.
- Philip Neame
Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Neame, VC, KBE, CB, DSO, Chevalier Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre (France), Croix de Guerre (Belgium) (12 December 1888 - 28 April 1978) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was also the winner of an Olympic Gold medal, making him the only person to win both this and the Victoria Cross.
- Henry Moseley
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist. His main contributions to science were the quantitative justification of the previously empirical concept of atomic number, in Moseley's law. This law advanced chemistry by immediately sorting the elements of the periodic table in correct order.
- Gerald Graham
Sir Gerald Graham, VC GCB GCMG (27 June 1831 - 17 December 1899) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born at Acton, Middlesex, and after studying at Wimbledon and Dresden he was admitted (1847) to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and completed his military training in the School of Military Engineering at Chatham.
- Giffard Lequesne Martel
General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1889 - 1958), familiarly known as "Q Martel", was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II. Originally a member of the Royal Engineers, Martel developed an interest in tanks in 1916, when he was put in charge of building an obstacle course at the new tank training ground at Thetford in Norfolk.
- John Bagot Glubb
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, better known as Glubb Pasha (born 16 April, 1897, Preston, Lancashire - died 17 March, 1986, Mayfield, Sussex), was a British soldier best known for leading and training Transjordan's Arab Legion 1939-1956 as its commanding general. During World War I, he served in France.
- George Gipps
Sir George Gipps was Governor of the colony of New South Wales, Australia, for eight years, between 1838 and 1846. His governorship was during a period of great change for New South Wales and Australia, as well as for New Zealand, which was administered as part of New South Wales for much of this period. Settlers at the time were not happy with his move towards responsible government, although contemporaries at the Colonial Office found him to be an able administrator.
- Ernest Dunlop Swinton
Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton KBE, CB, DSO, RE(1868 -1951) was a military writer and British Army officer. Swinton is credited as having an influence on the development of the tank and for coining the phrase "no-mans land", the latter popularised when using the pseudonym 'Eye-Witness' reporting on military matters. Swinton was born in Bangalore, India in 1868. He became an officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1888, …
- Richard Profit
Richard (Rich) Profit (British, born 1974) is a mountaineer, sailor, a former British Army officer and polar explorer. In 2007 he took part in the Polar Race with the mother and son pair Janice Meek and Daniel Byles, successfully walking and skiing 350 miles from Resolute, Nunavut to the Magnetic North Pole in 20 days and 5 hours. He is married with two sons.
- Brett Mackay Cloutman
Brett Mackay Cloutman VC MC (November 7, 1891-August 15, 1971) was an English First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Acting Major Cloutman was 26 years old and commanding the 59th Field Company, Royal Engineers, when he won his VC. His citation reads: <blockquote>On 6 November 1918, at Pont-sur-Sambre, France, Major Cloutman, …
- Francis Marindin
Major Sir Francis A. Marindin (1838-1900) served with the Royal Engineers and was a key figure in the early development of football (soccer). He was later knighted for his work in public services. Marindin spent active service in the Crimean War (1854-56) and was a member of the Board of Trade Railway Inspectorate, an occupation he continued after he left the Corps. He is credited with having founded the Royal Engineers Football team in 1869, …
- Thomas George Montgomerie
Thomas George Montgomerie, 1830 - 1878. Participated in the Great Trigonometric Survey of India as Royal Engineers lieutenant in the 1850's. He was the person to label K2, the second highest mountain in the world, the K standing for Karakoram. The label "K2" has stuck and has become, and remains, the mountain's most commonly used name.
- James Edward Edmonds
Brigadier General James Edward Edmonds (1861-1956) was a British First World War officer of the Royal Engineers who in the role of British official historian was responsible for the post-war compilation of the 28-volume "History of the Great War". Edmonds himself wrote nearly half the volumes, including eleven of the 14 volumes dealing with the Western Front ("Military Operations, France and Belgium").
- Clifford Coffin
Clifford Coffin VC CB DSO and Bar (February 10, 1870 - February 4, 1959) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 47 years old, and a Temporary Brigadier General in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army, …
- Anthony Durnford
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony William Durnford (Ireland 24 May 1830-Isandlwana 22 January 1879) was an officer during the Anglo-Zulu War, and is mainly known for his presence at the defeat of the British army by the Zulu at the Battle of Isandlwana. On January 23, 1872 he arrived in Cape Town, having distinguished himself previously, but never yet seeing active service. Of the 16 months following his arrival in the Cape, …
- Charles Portal 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerf
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford KG GCB OM DSO & Bar MC (May 21 1893 - April 22 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and an advocate of strategic bombing. He was the British Chief of the Air Staff during most of World War II.
- Charles Pasley
Sir Charles William Pasley (1780-1861) was a British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on the role of the post-American revolution British Empire: "An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire", published in 1810. This text changed how Britons thought their empire should relate to the rest of the world. He warned that Britain could not keep its Empire by its "splendid isolation".
- Theodore Wright
Theodore Wright (15 May 1883-14 September 1914) born in Vailly, France) he was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Jasper Maskelyne
Jasper Maskelyne was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He could also trace his ancestry to the royal astronomer Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered, however, for the accounts of his work for British military intelligence during the Second World War, creating ruses, deception and camouflage on a large-scale basis.
- John Lintorn Arabin Simmons
Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons, GCB GCMG (February 12 1821 - February 14, 1903), British Field Marshal, was the fifth son of Captain Thomas Frederick Simmons, Royal Artillery of Langford, Somerset. From the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and completed the young officer's course at the Royal Engineer Establishment in Chatham. After serving in the British North American colonies in Canada from 1839 to 1845, …
- Hugh Elles
Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO (1880-1945) was a British General and the first commander of the newly formed Tank Corps in the First World War. Born in British India on 27 May 1880, Hugh Elles was the younger son of Lt Gen Sir Edmond Elles. He was educated at Clifton College, near Bristol, and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, after which he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in June 1899.
- James Morris Colquhoun Colvin
James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (August 26, 1870 - December 7, 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Andrew Clarke
Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke was born on 27 July 1824 in Southsea, Hampshire in England. He died on 29 March 1902 in Bath. Clarke was the eldest of the four sons of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke, the Governor of Western Australia (1793 - 1847).
- Reginald Clare Hart
General Sir Reginald Clare Hart, VC, GCB, KCVO, Royal Humane Society's Silver Medal (11 June 1848—18 October 1931), was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Bob Mellish Baron Mellish
Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC (March 3, 1913 - May 9, 1998) was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP (from 1946 to 1982) and served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976 but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which had become dominated by left-wingers, and eventually left the party. Mellish was born in Bermondsey to a docker father, the thirteenth of fourteen children.
- Thomas Colclough Watson
Thomas Colclough Watson (11 April 1867-15 June 1917) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Tom Denning Baron Denning
Alfred Thompson 'Tom' Denning, Baron Denning, OM, PC (23 January 1899 - 5 March 1999) was an English veteran of the First World War, jurist, judge and barrister. A native of Hampshire, he became a Law Lord and Master of the Rolls (the senior civil judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales). Lord Denning was a judge for 38 years before retiring at the age of 83 in 1982.
- Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones
Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones (27 September 1876-6 January 1900) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.