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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
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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
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