| # | Name | Quotation |
| General Maurice Baril |
- "Thousands of young officers have marched off its parade square and gone on to great achievements in politics, business and most importantly, on the battlefield"
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| 7269 | Robert E. Brown interviewed by Konrad Yakabuski | "A well-aged dankness in the Stone Frigate, the oldest dormitory at Kingston's Royal Military College, is reputed to be ideally suited to the cultivation of spiders, the common cold and a strong character. Residents of the 180-year-old former naval warehouse, which is separated from the other dorms by Parade Square, have long seen the ability to endure their barracks' inhospitable clime as a mark of fortitude." |
| Sir Andrew Clarke, British inspector-general of fortifications, deceased | "one of the best of its class in the world... And the Americans themselves, I understand, say better than at West Point." In 1893 Clarke commented that RMC graduates were better than those from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. |
| H22982 | Twenty-sixth Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D. | "You will be called upon to take your place in modern Canada and in the modern world.... You will also be called upon to lead...and a leader must stand for something. You must not only be aware of who you are. You must also be defined by what you do." |
| Brooke Claxton, former Defence Minister, deceased | "The role of the officer in modern war can only be properly discharged if they have education and standing in the community comparable to that of any of the other professions as well as high qualities of character and physique." In 1947, Claxton reopened RMC as a 3-service cadet college offering a 4-year academic program. |
| H24263 | Dr. John Scott Cowan | "his is an exercise in Nation Building: In the way that water transforms into ice by building around a single crystal, perhaps the new Canada could do worse than to build around the experiences and values of the new RMC."..."We educate those who pass through this place Royal Military College of Canada exactly so that they will fully understand and be a part of the culture they are called upon to defend." |
| 749 | General Harry Crerar CH, CB, DSO, KStJ, CD, deceased | "I am confident that The RMC Battalion of Gentlemen Cadets, which will be re-born after this war is over will typify in the future all the best College tradition we have known in the past" |
| Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie, deceased | the "spirit" of the Royal Military College of Canada's graduates, "no less than their military attainments, exercised a potent influence in fashioning a force which, in fighting efficiency, has never been excelled." |
| Captain A.G. Douglas, deceased | Suggested, in 1816, the establishment of a Canadian military college in Trois-Rivières to unify the population, "to begin to work upon young minds of different... parties and persuasions" so "old prejudices would vanish not only among the students, but even among their relations, and a common interest would ensue" |
| Henry Charles Fletcher deceased | suggested, in an 1874 report to Governor-General Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, the establishment of three permanent officer training schools to serve all arms "the great contribution West Point had made could be duplicated in Canada by a similar institution in which officers of all arms would be trained together". |
| S140 | Robert J. Giroux C.M., MSc | "A degree from the Royal Military College is a living testament to the value of service and dedication." |
| S147 | Hon. Bill Graham, Defence Minister | "RMC has a proud history of excellence and is fundamental in training future leaders of the Canadian Forces," |
| 19033 | Major Nick Grimshaw | "Overall, the training that I was involved in since graduating from RMC prepared me very well for my tour in Afghanistan. I found myself constantly relying on the basic principles of leadership. Leading by example was by far the most important aspect." |
| Hon Albina Guarnieri, P.C., | "The professionalism of the Canadian Forces is, in large part, founded on learning and knowledge. The Canadian Defence Academy, the Military and Staff Colleges and the Royal Military College of Canada, all play a critical role in creating and ensuring knowledge in the defence community." |
| S148 | General Rick Hillier, Chief of the Defence Staff | " the Royal Military College where a bulk of our new officers start their career, start their education, we have 200 spots open for August . We have 1,500 people who have applied and completed the application process to go to those 200 spots. That is a 7½ to one ratio and we get the opportunity to select the very best from it. As a result, our quality of applicants and the quality of the recruits, the level of fitness and the imagination and the success in completing the courses has skyrocketed in a way that we couldn't even dream about before." 2007 Speech at the National Managers' Forum |
| 22862 | Captain Jeremy A. Hiltz | "...RMC never taught me how to lead a platoon attack or conduct a Shurah with local Afghan elders, but it has taught me three vital ideas that all officers should adhere to. Truth means leading soldiers from the front and being honest to them at all times. Duty means being there at the front when the bullets start flying because the private soldier that I have just told to assault an enemy position needs to know that I am committed to achieving the mission with him. Valour means taking the difficult orders and making them my own, in spite of the fear of the unknown or the chances that we are taking." Veritas article July 2007, p38 |
| Sir John Keegan OBE, | * Kingston,..., is pure British imperial.... Watching cadets parade there, I saw them perform a drill movement I knew only from sepia Victorian photographs – it has long been abolished in Britain – while I listened to a running stream of criticism from a sergeant in bottleglass-brilliant boots of their minor imperfections in marching. He hated, he told me after the parade, the adoption by Canada's army of the naval salute – 'the wave, I call it' – he hated the universal green uniform, he hated the use of common ranks – 'How can the captain of a ship be a colonel?' – he hated the disappearance of polished brass – the metal of his pacestick glittered with burnishing – he hated rubber soles, non-iron shirts, nylon uniforms and being mistaken by civilians for an airman. Kipling and he would have got on like a house on fire: 'Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where... a man can raise a thirst' were almost the next words I expected to hear at the crescendo of his relentless tirade. Spiritually he belonged with the Royal Canadians who had gone to fight the Boers for Queen Victoria; his cadets were unlikely to be allowed to forget that her great-great-granddaughter was Queen of Canada or that he had learnt his drill at the depot of her Foot Guards.' - |
| Lt. Col. John McCrae | "...I have a manservant.. Quite a nobby place it is, in fact.. My windows look right out across the bay, and are just near the water's edge; there is a good deal of shipping at present in the port; and the river looks very pretty.’ letter while on an Artilleryman course |
| Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, deceased | Wrote Governor-General Dufferin, in 1878 "This belief led me to propose the establishment of a Military College modelled on existing similar institutions in England and the United States, with the expectation that when the first batch of Graduates were leaving the College. Means would be found to employ the Graduates in the Canadian Military Service" |
| 490 | Brigadier F. H. Maynard, deceased | "I have always remembered with pride that I was a graduate of the RMC. What I learned there carried me through many dangers and difficulties and I wish to record here my gratitude to all who taught me and with whom I served at the RMC, Canada." |
| Hon. Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence | "The Royal Military College is a higher education institution that plays an essential role for the Canadian Forces and for our country ... Throughout the ranks, the leadership of the Canadian Forces is smart, flexible and adaptive. And a good deal of the credit for this should go to the Royal Military College ... This is a vital national institution. Here, today, much of tomorrow's military leadership is being forged ... RMC will continue to provide the professional development that the CF needs to successfully face the challenges that surely lay ahead." |
| Twentieth Governor-General Roland Michener, P.C., C.C., C.M.M., C.D., LL.D. deceased | "RMC, which is only nine years younger than Confederation, has been a powerful factor in the growth and security of the country" |
| Colonel Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton deceased | "there are very few institutions of a similar character equal to it in Europe and none that are better." |
| S149 | Hon Peter Milliken, Member of Parliament 2001 | The motto of the Royal Military College is, "Truth, Duty, Valour". Your admission to the ranks of this institution, whether it occurred this year or two decades ago, as cadets or as staff, presupposes that you are already possessed of these qualities. That having been said, there is always room for improvement, and the college's role in this regard is to inculcate in its cadets a sense of integrity, responsibility, self-discipline, teamwork, and leadership. |
| 8850 | Rear Admiral David C. Morse | "We have a lot to be proud of and the graduates are making a tremendous contribution to Canadian society. We need to tell this story again and again. We need to make sure the graduates who have reached levels of prestige are recognized.""RMC makes engineers literate and artsmen numerate." |
| S157 | Honourable Gordon O'Connor | "RMC is one of the best military colleges in the world, and it takes motivation and discipline to succeed here." |
| 13511 | Bernard JG Ouellette, RMC's director of cadets | "I’m very proud of these young men and women. They put in months of rigorous training on top of an already demanding schedule, and today, their dedication, fitness and teamwork paid off" |
| H16511 | Dr. Richard A. Preston, deceased | "The supreme test of a military college is the success of its graduates in war ... There were some who believed that the stronger academic program must inevitably have weakened the old military spirit and efficiency. But the success of the graduates who went directly to Korea quickly disabused them." |
| Dr. Michael Sullivan, deceased | 1872 petition recommended the military college for Kingston "remarkable healthfulness...not without historical fame in the annals of the country which would render it the more proper site for a military college" |
| Kevin Sylvester, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Sounds Like Canada 2007/07/26 | "Like its counterparts Sandhurst in the U.K, West Point in the U.S. and l'École militaire in France, Canada's Royal Military College is the school of choice for many of this country's future military leaders." |
| Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, deceased | "I regard the Canadian Military College as one of the best of its class in the world. The training and results are in every way of a high order, and the Americans themselves, I understand, say better than at West Point." |
| 2951 | General Ramsey Muir Withers | "... The College must also promote a common vision of the profession of arms, the common military ethos underpinning leadership in the CF and the increasingly joint nature of all foreseeable operations." |
| Unknown | By 1900, hardly a Canadian "bridge, road, or railway line was built without the assistance of an engineering graduate of RMC." |
| # | Name | Grad | Significance |
| 6508 | Major General John L. Adams | 1965 | Chief, Communications Security Establishment |
| 626 | Major Augustus Waterous Agnew | 1904 | Canadian soldier, Died 17 September 1916, during the Great War |
| Colonel W. J. Aitchison OMM, . | 1963 | Former Colonel of the Regiment, Royal Canadian Regiment. |
| Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie VC | c 1898 – 1902 | Victoria Cross citation, The London Gazette, 31 January 1919 |
| 2510 | Brigadier General Edward Amy ‘Ned’ DSO, an OBE, MC, Canadian Decoration, American Bronze Star, Legion d'honneur | 1936 | one of Canada's most decorated soldiers |
| Captain Frederick Anderson | 1890 | chief hydrographer of Canada |
| 1266 | 2nd Lieutenant Frederick Henry Anderson MC | 1916 | Canadian soldier, died 15 May 1918, during the Great War |
| 433 | Major General Thomas Victor Anderson, DSO, CD | 1900 | Canadian soldier, Chief of the General Staff, head of Canadian Army 1938–1940 |
| 951 | Captain Edward Davey Ashcroft | 1912 | Canadian soldier, died on 30 November 1917, during the Great War |
| 1007 | Captain Frederick Graeme Avery MC | 1913 | Soldier died 13 April 1918, during Great War; |
| 427 | Captain Edward C Baker | 1900 | Canadian soldier, died on 19 September 1916, during the Great War |
| 7632 | Lieutenant Colonel Gunars Balodis | 1968 | co-founder of Music for Young Children with his wife Frances Balodis |
| 1828 | Brigadier Ted G.E. Beament, CM OBE, GCStJ, ED, Czechoslovakian MC | 1925–1929 | lawyer, Officer Commanding Khaki University during World War II |
| 2671 | Lieutenant Duncan Peter Bell-Irving | 1913 | BC Land Surveyors Roll of Honour |
| Brigadier-General George Gray Bell, OC, M.B.E., CD, PhD | 1943 | Canadian soldier, civil servant, and academic |
| 765 | Staff Captain James Knowles Bertram | 1909 | |
| 940 | Captain Henry Ewart Bethune MC | 1912 | Killed 30 September 1918, during the Great War |
| 1472 | Judge Sherburne Tupper Bigelow | 1918 | Canadian Horseracing Hall of Fame, |
| 2364 | Air Commodore Leonard Birchall CM, OBE, DFC, CD, OofO | 1933 | Second World War hero, "Saviour of Ceylon", Executive Officer at York University |
| 6219 | Dr. Robin Boadway | 1964 | economist, author, Rhodes Scholar 1964 |
| 543 | Lieutenant Colonel Howard L Bodwell Companion of the CMG DSO | 1901 | soldier, died 15 January 1919, during the Great War |
| 1016 | Captain William Otway Boger DFC | 1913 | soldier, died 10 August 1918, during the Great War |
| 845 | Captain Hedleigh St George Bond | RMC 1912 | soldier, died 15 August 1917, during the Great War |
| 1434 | Dr. Hugh Samuel Bostock | RMC 1918 | geologist |
| 2310 | Colonel Harry Fitz-Gibbon Boswell, OBE | 1933–1937 | Awarded War Cross with Sword, highest ranking Norwegian gallantry decoration: |
| 8790 | General Jean Boyle CMM, CD | 1971 | fighter pilot, short-term Chief of the Defence Staff, and businessman |
| 2375 | Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Buchanan MC with 2 bars | 1934 | soldier, politician |
| 1032 | Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns C0C, DSO, OBE, MC, CD | 1914 | World War II Corps Commander, 1981 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace |
| 246 | Major General Sir Henry Edward Burstall CB, | 1887–1889 | Canadian general, Burstall, Saskatchewan is named in his honour. |
| Brigadier General James Sutherland Brown | | Canadian military officer who drafted a contingency war plan in 1921 to invade and occupy several American border cities. |
| 1325 | Captain Lorne Carr-Harris | 1917 | goalie on the Britain team which won the bronze medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics. |
| 82 | Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers | 1883 | militia officer; founder of the Canadian Signal Corps; governor of Queen's College School of Mining and Kingston General Hospital |
| 703 | Brigadier Sir Charles Frederick Carson, CBE, MC, | 1905–1909 | |
| 18095 | Dr. Sylvain Charlebois | 1992 | Dean, professor, Researcher in food distribution and policy, Known columnist for La Presse and The Globe and Mail, Dalhousie University |
| 2272 | Brigadier General Arthur G. Chubb DSO, CD | 1932 | Soldier, author, Senior Military Advisor of the Canadian Delegation to the International Truce Commission in Vietnam |
| 6523 | Ambassador Terence Colfer | 1965 | former Canadian ambassador to Iran 1999–2003 and to Kuwait 1996–1999 |
| 323 | Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton Cory KBE, CB, DSO | 1891–1895 | |
| 851 | Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO | 1912 | Representing Canada, signed WWII Japanese Instrument of Surrender |
| 749 | General, The Honourable Harry Crerar PC, CH, CB, DSO, KStJ, CD | 1909 | army officer, Chief of the Defence Staff in 1940 |
| 2277 | Alexander R. Cross | 1932 | rancher, Rothney Farm became Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation area – a day use natural area south west of Calgary, Alberta |
| 7860 | Lieutenant General the Hon. Roméo Dallaire OC, CMM, G.O.Q., C.S.M. CD, LL.D. | 1969 | Senator, Awarded Vimy Award by the Conference of Defence Associations, June 1995. Awarded the United States Legion of Merit, January 1996; author, academic |
| 676 | Captain Robert Clifford Darling | 1907 | He was the first Canadian soldier to be killed overseas during the Great War, but buried at home. He died on 23 March 1915 of wounds sustained in defence of Ypres, Belgium. |
| Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson | 1914 | Novelist and soldier, Canadian Field Artillery |
| 7543 | Senator Joseph A. Day | 1968 | retired from Royal Canadian Air Force; lawyer, Liberal Senator for New Brunswick 2001.10.04 – |
| 268 | Lieutenant Colonel Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé CBE, | 1892 | soldier, nobleman, academic, director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France |
| 4860 | General John de Chastelain OC, CMM, CD, CH | 1960 | former Chief of the Defence Staff; participant in Northern Ireland peace process; Scouts Canada's National Council and Substance Abuse Task Force, former Canadian ambassador to the United States |
| 221 | Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell | 1886–1890 | Major-General with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army |
| 17324 | Sharon Donnelly, CD | 1990 | 2000 & 2004 Olympic teams, triathlon |
| 2082 | Honorable Brigadier General C. M. Drury PC, QC, CBE, DSO | 1929 | former soldier, businessperson, politician |
| 20743 | Alex Dumas | 1997 | CEO Quebecor Corp |
| 19828 | John-James Ford | 1995 | diplomat, author of Bonk on the Head which won 2006 Ottawa Book Award |
| 8276 | Doctor Marc Garneau CC, CD, PhD, F.C.A.S.I. | 1970 | served as first Canadian astronaut aboard space shuttles Challenger and Endeavour, logged nearly 700 hours in space; NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1997 |
| 805 | Lieut.-Colonel the Honourable Colin W. G. Gibson PC, MC, VD, Croix de guerre, LL.D. | 1909–1911 | lawyer, Member of Parliament, Judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal |
| 147 | Colonel Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, K.C.M.G. | 1882–1886 | National Historic Person of Canada ; military engineer, constructed railways in Africa |
| 22458 | Captain Nichola Goddard, MSM | 2002 | First female Canadian soldier killed in action, in Afghanistan, Nichola Goddard scholarship in her honour |
| 599 | Lt. Col. Leroy F. Grant | 1905 | inducted in 1998 into Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame as Builder Sailing |
| Major General Garnet Hughes CB; DSO | 1909 | Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1918 1st Canadian Division; 5th Canadian Division
Awards |
| 23350 | Captain Simon Mailloux | 2006 | First Canadian soldier amputee to deploy on a combat mission. Was previously injured on a tour as platoon commander in Kandahar. |
| 2087 | Senator John Morrow Godfrey | 1929 | Canadian lawyer and politician |
| 1681 | Walter L. Gordon | 1926 | public servant, politician, author |
| 5105 | Doctor Jack "JL" Granatstein OC, PhD, LL.D., F.R.S.C. | 1961 | Canadian historian |
| 729 | Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Edward Grassett CB, DSO, MC | 1906–1909 | Royal Engineers, knighted 1945 |
| 8816 | Ambassador Marius Grinius | 1971 | Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland |
| 13738 | Colonel Chris Hadfield CD | 1982 | Canadian astronaut |
| 8919 | Ronald Halpin | 1971 | former Ambassador to Hungary |
| 313 | George Henry Ronald Harris, C.E. | 1894 | mining engineer, lived at Eldon House |
| Hon John Gabriel Hearn | 1884 | businessman and political figure in Quebec |
| 1976 | Hon George Hees PC, OC | 1927 | former Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada, Ambassador-at-large for the Canadian International Development Agency Food Aid Program |
| 1104 | Wilfrid Heighington K.C. | 1915 | lawyer, poet, soldier |
| Lt. Alexis Helmer | | was killed in action the Second Battle of Ypres. His burial inspired John McCrae to write the poem "In Flanders Fields" on 3 May 1915. |
| 168 | General Sir William Charles Gifford Heneker | 1884–1888 | |
| 2XX | Colonel William Josiah Hartley Holmes | 1891 | Canadian soldier, surveyor, civil engineer; Holmes Inlet on the coast of British Columbia was named in his honour in 1934 |
| 2162 | Brigadier General John Richard Hyde | 1930 to 1934. | Canadian soldier, lawyer, provincial politician, judge |
| 21364 | Captain Jeremy Hansen | 1999 | Canadian astronaut, CF-18 fighter pilot |
| 175 | Brigadier General George Napier Johnston CB CMG, DSO | 1888 | Canadian Army officer, New Zealand General, |
| Major-General Rod Keller CD, CBE | | Canadian Army Officer, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division; Kelowna, British Columbia alderman |
| 138 | General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick K.C.B., K.C.S.I. | 1882–1885 | Canadian soldier, Royal Engineers knighted |
| Lawrence Lambe | 1883 | Invertebrate Palaeontologist, Geological Survey |
| 2399 | Rear-Admiral William Landymore | 1934 | Canadian naval officer |
| 2774 | Bert Lawrence | 1952 | Canadian politician and lawyer. |
| 2585 | Sir Edwin Leather KCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St George, KCVO | 1937–1939 | Former governor of Bermuda, former chair of the executive committee of Canadian Red Cross |
| 313 | John "Jack" Edwards Leckie, DSO, French Croix de Guerre | 1889–1893 | soldier, mining engineer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
| 14872 | Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Lemieux | 1985 | federal politician, Conservative Party Whip |
| 87 | Lieutenant Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard | 1883 | soldier, civil engineer, railroad and mining executive, philanthropist |
| 1246 | General Sir Charles Loewen, GCB, KBE, DSO | 1916–1918 | military leader, knighted |
| 151 | Major Gen Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell KCB, CMG, DSO | 1883–1886 | military leader, knighted, police officer, soldier |
| 2102 | Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. John Keiller MacKay] DSO, VD, QC, DCL, LL.D.] | 1909 | Lawyer, judge, justice of appeal, former lieutenant governor of Ontario O.R. 778] |
| 236 | Brigadier General Duncan Sayre MacInnes DSO CMG | 1887–1891 | military leader, aviation engineer, Duncan Sayre MacInnes scholarship |
| 3528 | General Paul David Manson OC, CMM, CD | 1956 | military leader, business executive and volunteer; former Chief of Defence Staff |
| Paul C. Marriner | | Director, Fly Fishing Canada; Team Canada member at 10 World Fly Fishing Championships |
| H17417 | John Ross Matheson, OC, CD, QC, LL.M., LL.D. | 1936 | Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who helped develop Canadian flag and Order of Canada |
| Brigadier George Arnold McCarter CBE | 1916 |
- CBE for recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy
- Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe
|
| 1921 | Commissioner George McClellan | 1929 | former commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1963–1967 |
| Colonel Charles Wesley Weldon McLean DSO | 1899 | Member of Parliament, UK |
| 1865 | Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Meighen | 1925 | Lawyer and philanthropist |
| 1925 | Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen, | 05216 | financier, businessman |
| 2290 | Brigadier General Dollard Ménard | 1932 | Story of bravery at Dieppe inspired a Canadian WWII poster "Ce qu’il faut pour vaincre" |
| H1866 | Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Merritt, VC | 1925 | Politician, awarded a Victoria Cross |
| 1800 | Hartland Molson, OC, OBE, D.C.L. | 1924 | Former brewer, owner of the Montreal Canadiens |
| 7301 | Earle Morris | 1967 | 3-time Brier representative, coach of the Australian national curling team |
| G0053 | Lieutenant Colonel Alex Morrison, MSC, CD | 1980 | awarded 2002 Pearson Medal of Peace |
| 4393 | Doctor Desmond Morton OC, PhD, F.R.S.C. | 1959 | Canadian historian, awarded the first RMC degree Rhodes Scholar 1959 |
| Lieutenant-General John Carl Murchie CB, CBE, CD | 1915 | Canadian Chief of the General Staff |
| Leonard Nicholson CM, MBE | | Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| G0957 | Doctor Aryeh Nusbacher | 1994 | Canadian military historian |
| 2592 | Edmund Boyd Osler | 1937 | Pilot, Squadron Leader, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg, Manitoba South Centre 1968–72 Insurance executive, writer |
| 13 | Commissioner/Major General Aylesworth Bowen Perry | 1876 | Commissioner North-West Mounted Police Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1890–1923 |
| 5__ | Frederic Hatheway Peters OBE | 1904 | Surveyor-General of Canada ; Mount Peters, BC and Lake Peters, AB named in his honour |
| 2184 | Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM, CD, DSC, Mil, KLj, RCN | 1930 | first RMC graduate to join the Royal Canadian Navy |
| 1649 | Lieutenant-Governor Edward Chester Plow, CBE, DSO, CD, | 1921 | a Canadian soldier and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia |
| 1309 | Mr Richard Porritt | 1917 | inducted into Canadian Mining Hall of Fame |
| 6757 | Mr Mike U. Potter | 1966 CMR RMC | businessman; philanthropist; founded Cognos and Vintage Wings of Canada |
| 126 | Philip Primrose | | Former police officer, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta |
| 14344 | Captain Bruce Poulin | 1992 | Queen's Jubilee Medal for volunteerism |
| E1855 | Lt. Col David N Quick, SMV, CD, | 2003 | Star of Military Valour, Afghanistan |
| 665 | Brigadier Sir Godfrey D. Rhodes CB, CBE, and DSO | 1903–1907 | knighted |
| 123 | Major-General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout, KBE, CB, CMG | 1881–1885 | Boer War and World War soldier knighted |
| 891 | Major General John Hamilton Roberts CB, DSO, MC | 1914 | Second World War General |
| 62 | William H. Robinson | 1883 | first Royal Military College of Canada alumnus KIA |
| 1874 | Major Edward Britton Rogers | 1925–1929 | athlete, soldier killed in action at Caen, France, on 23 July 1944 |
| 2802 | Robert Gordon Rogers | 1940 | Former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia |
| 1815 | Air Commodore Arthur Dwight Ross | 1928 | Second World War George Cross recipient |
| Arthur Leith Ross | 1896 | awarded the Queen's South African Medal with 4 clasps; died on 26 August 1906, of blackwater fever in Nigeria, where he served as Chief Transport Officer, with the Northern Nigeria Regiment, African Frontier Force |
| Jeffrey Russell | 1920 | inducted into Canadian Football Hall of Fame |
| Major Henri-Thomas Scott | 1903 | soldier, educator, businessperson, advocate for physical education, playgrounds, and camps |
| Brigadier Gordon Sellar | 1943 | served with the Calgary Highlanders during the battle of Walcheren Island, battle of the Scheldt Estuary; command of the Black Watch's 1st Battalion in April 1963 |
| 2420 | General Frederick Ralph Sharp | 1934 | former chief of the defence staff |
| 1596 | Lieutenant General Guy Simonds CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD | 1925 | Commander of the 2nd Canadian Corps in NW Europe, 1944–45. Former Chief of the General Staff. |
| 52 | William Grant Stairs | 1882 | Explorer |
| 1089 | Major-General Charles Ramsay Stirling Stein | 1915 | Commanding Officer of the 5th Canadian Armored Division from January 1943 to October 1943 |
| William J. Stewart | 1883 | Canada's first Chief Hydrographic Surveyor, 1863–1925. Stewart Island, Algoma and Stewart Rock, Owen Channel, Manitoulin were named after him. |
| Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart | | |
| Major-General Herbert Cyril Thacker | 1890 | Canada's first military attaché, sent to the Far East during Russo-Japanese War 1904 |
| RCNSE54 | Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell | 1937 | Awarded Distinguished Service Cross during World War II |
| 995 | Captain George Evelyn Tinling MC | 1913–1915 | KIA 4 October 1917 during the Great War |
| Brigadier-General Kenneth Torrance MC, OBE 1896–1948 | 1913–1914 | OBE in 1942 for his bravery during World War II while serving with the besieged forces in SingaporeHe spent 3 ½ years in a Japanese POW camp.He owned a Gothic Revival stone mansion named Ker Cavan c. 1850 in Guelph, Ontario as a summer home 1945–48.listed on the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute Wall of Fame |
| 88 | Major General Sir Philip Geoffrey Twining KCMG, COB, MVO | 1880–1883 | Canadian soldier, knighted |
| 162 | Major-General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee | 1883–1886 | |
| General Jonathan Vance | | Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces |
| 14164 | Lieutenant Colonel Michael Voith | CMR 1979–1981 RMC 1981–1983 | engineering adviser and the DART commanding officer |
| 1633 | General Christopher Vokes, CB, CBE, DSO, CD | 1925 | World War II operational commanderChristopher Vokes |
| 1940 | Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes | 1926–1930 | Soldier, Commanding Officer of the 9th Canadian Armoured Regiment wounded in action and died in hospital on 4 September 1944 |
| 11027 | Brigadier General Ken Watkin | 1976 | Judge Advocate General |
| 2357 | Brigadier General Denis Whitaker DSO, CM, ED, CD | 1933 | leader in military, sport, business and community service, co-author of 2 Canada's military history books |
| 96 | James White, Geographer, deceased | | Produced 1st edition of Atlas of Canada |
| 758 | Brigadier General Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler, | 1907–1910 | Military Officer, surveyor, adventurer, 1921 Mount Everest expedition |
| 2951 | General Ramsey Muir Withers CMM, CD | 1952 | Military Officer |
| 352 | Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood | 1896 | First Canadian Officer to be Killed In Action on 11 November 1899 in the Second Boer War |
| Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood | 1912 | former Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1938–1951 |
| Zachary Taylor Wood | 1882 | office holder, militia officer, and Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman |
| 1 | Alfred George Godfrey Wurtele | 1875 |
- RMC instructor in mathematics and geometrical drawing and lieutenant of cadets, RMC 1882–97
- The "Number 1 Fund", which commemorates AGG Wurtele and all of the other Wurteles who have graced this College, is used for the annual maintenance of The Memorial Arch.
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| 47 | LCol Ernest Frederick Wurtele | 1882 | succeeded the seigniories of Bourg Marie de l'Est and De Guir, commonly known as River David, Yamaska Quebec |
| RNCC43 | Commander Alfred Charles Wurtele | RNCC 1913 | Counsellor and Reeve of Esquimalt |
| 990 | LCol William Godfrey H. Wurtele M.C. | 1915 | awarded a M.C. "For conspicuous gallantry during eight days of the operations, in which he commanded his company." |
| 2551 | Group Captain Douglas Wurtele | 1936 | fighter pilot during World War II |
| 2552 | Major Bill Young | 1936 | He and his wife, Joyce Young, are philanthropists. |
| G957 | Lynette Nusbacher | 1996 | Military historian, author and strategist |
| G3727 | Jacques Duchesneau, C.M., O.O.M., KStJ, C.Q., C.D., Ph.D. | 2015 | Inspector General, City of Saint-Jerome, QC. Former: President and CEO of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Member of Quebec's National Assembly, Director Anti-Collusion Unit, Chief of Police, Colonel Commandant of the Canadian Forces's Military Police, LCol 1 Tactical Aviation Support Squadron, LCol 62nd Canadian Artillery Regiment. |
| # | Name | Year | Significance | Photo |
| 18777 | Brigadier General Sébastien Bouchard, OMM, MSM, CD | 2017– | | - |
| 16855 | Brigadier General Sean Friday, OMM, MSM, CD | 2015–2017 |
- Special Staff Assistance Visit – Report on the Climate, Training Environment, Culture and ROTP Programme at the Royal Military College of Canada
| - |
| 16888 | Brigadier General Al Meinzinger, CD | 2013–2015 | | |
| 14835 | Brigadier General J.G. Eric Tremblay CD | 2011–2013 | In 2012, the Commandant's office was filled with balloons in a college skylark. | |
| 15181 | Commodore Bill Truelove, CD | 2009–2011 | initiated a new "Walkout Dress", dictating what Officer Cadets can and cannot wear on leaving the college grounds. | |
| 12192 | Brigadier-General Thomas J. Lawson OMM, CD ADC | 2007–2009 | initiated new structure: Four divisions and 13 squadrons for the cadet wing, and Otter squadron. Removed Sgts from within the Squadrons but added WOs at the Division level. initiated new uniforms | |
| E1607 | Brigadier-General Jocelyn Lacroix CD ADC | 2005–2007 | Changed the dress of the day from the traditional 'college dress' to the not-so-traditional CF uniform.initiated the 'live out project' which saw 4th year cadets move off campus to gain more life experience before heading to their first unit. | |
| S133 | Brigadier General Jean Leclerc CD ADC | 2002–2005 | Honorary | |
| 8850 | Rear Admiral David Morse CMM, CD ADC | 2000–2002 | Scaled back RMC sport programChanged RMC Redmen logo to the crown and arm of RMC.said, "RMC makes engineers literate and artsmen numerate."implemented a program of community and high school visitslaunched the Army Technical Warrant Officers' Program, the RMC's first-ever major academic program designed exclusively for non-commissioned members not pursuing an officer career path. | |
| 9098 | BGen Ken Hague | 1997–2000 | Member, Gifting committee, Royal Military Colleges Club Foundation. | |
| 6496 | Brigadier-General Charles Émond CD ADC | 1995–1997 | He has served as commandant of both the RMC and le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean.RRMC and CMR closed in 1995. Because of a large induction of francophone students from CMR, RMC was transformed into a bilingual university The sport teams were renamed RMC Paladins from RMC Redmen to reflect a bilingual and coed institution. He has served on RMC Board of Governors. | |
| S123 | Colonel Howie Marsh ADC | 1996–1997 | | |
| 6719 | BGen Michel Matte | 1993–1996 | | |
| 8790 | Brigadier-General Jean Boyle CMM, CD, ADC | 1991–1993 | Later became Chief of Defence Staff | |
| 4459 | Commodore Edward Murray OMM, CD, ADC | 1987–1991 | | |
| 3543 | BGen Walter Niemy CD, ADC | 1985–1987 | | |
| 3572 | BGen Frank J. Norman CD, ADC | 1982–1985 | RMC is first and foremost a place of academic learning, set in a military environment higher education and college degrees were more significant to the success of the officer corps in the military Football was dropped as a varsity sport | |
| 3173 | BGen John A. Stewart CD, ADC | 1980–1982 | Women were admitted to RMC Visit by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 21 May 1980 RMC became co-educational in 1980. Novice boxing was dropped in 1980 | |
| 4860 | BGen John de Chastelain, CD, ADC | 1977–1980 | Later became Chief of Defence Staff Later became Canadian ambassador to the US | |
| 2816 | BGen William W. Turner CD, ADC | 1973–1977 | The Cadet Wing paraded on Parliament Hill to celebrate the college's centennialBGen Turner, colonel commandant of The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery 1 September 1979 – 31 August 1986 provided the W.W. Turner trophy for the Ottawa Gunners to present to the best third-year artillery cadet at the RMC. The trophy is in Observation Post de Hart – Home of the Ottawa Gunners, 2nd floor of the Army Officers Mess in Ottawa. | |
| 2530 | BGen William Kirby Lye MBE CD, ADC | 1970–1973 | Lake Lye William Kirby Lye's honour.cadets were permitted to marry, with the permission of the commandant.RMC was a military institution within an academic environment. | |
| 2576 | Commodore William Prine Hayes CD, ADC | 1967–1969 | 4th-year cadets are permitted to wear civilian attire out on leave The Cadet Wing paraded on Parliament Hill to celebrate Canada's centennial | |
| 2364 | Air Commodore Leonard Birchall OBE, DFC, CD, ADC | 1963–1967 | Graduate courses were added in 1964. | |
| 2424 | Brigadier G.H. Spencer OBE, CD, ADC | 1962–1963 | | |
| 2265 | Brigadier William Alexander Beaumont Anderson OBE, CD, ADC | 1960–1962 | The `LGen W.A.B. Anderson march` for bagpipes was composed in his honour | |
| 2184 | Commodore Desmond Piers DSC, CD, ADC | 1957–1960 | Commodore Piers participated in the invasion in France during World War II.RMC became a degree-granting institution in 1959.Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit 1959 | |
| 2140 | Air Commodore Douglas Bradshaw, DFC, CD, ADC | 1954–1957 | Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Bradshaw was the first president of Confederation College of Applied Arts and Technology from 6 March 1967, to 1974. | |
| 1137 | Brigadier-General Donald Agnew CB, CD, ADC LLD | 1947–1954 | The New One Hundred Opening Ceremonies 20 September 1948The Old Brigade, for alumni celebrating 50 years since they entered one of the military Colleges, was inaugurated by Agnew in 1950.Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit 12 October 1951The Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean was founded in 1952Pipes and Drums founded 1953 | |
| H-2727 | Major-General John Whiteley, CB, CBE, MC, ADC | 1947 | | |
| 2120 | Brigadier-General J. Desmond B. Smith, CBE, DSO, ADC | 1945–1946 | first postwar Staff Course held June 1946 to June 1947Barriefield Military School Board, first in the Canadian Army, teaches children of personnelBarriefield complex provides housing for 13 married officer students & families. | |
| 1841 | Brigadier D.G. Cunningham DSO, ED, ADC | 1944–1945 | He was member of a subcommittee of the RMC Club which urged the reopening of the college.He served as president of the RMC Club of Canada in 1946. | |
| H-2727 | Major General Halfdan Fenton Harboe Hertzberg * CMG, DSO, MC, ADC | 1940–1944 | The last class graduated in 1942 RRMC in British Columbia founded in 1942. | |
| 816 | Brigadier General Kenneth Stuart, DSO, MC, ADC | 1939–1940 | Chief of the General Staff 1941–1943, educator | |
| 749 | Brigadier General, The Honourable Harry Crerar PC, CH, CB, DSO, CD, KStJ, ADC | 1938–1939 | Commandant of RMC when war broke out in 1939. Crerar commanded the First Canadian Army from 1944 to 1945.RMC closed as a cadet college during World War II.
- Crerar served as a field commander of First Canadian Army in World War II, 1944 to 1945 and after retirement, served as a diplomat and Privy Councillor.
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| Brigadier Henry H. Matthews, CMG, DSO, ADC | 1935–1938 | | |
| 624 | Brigadier William Henry Pferinger Elkins, CB, CBE, DSO, ADC | 1930–1934 | | |
| 621 | Brigadier Charles Francis Constantine, DSO, ADC | 1925–1930 | Constantine arena at RMC was named in his honour | |
| 151 | Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Macdonell K.C.B., CMG, DSO, ADC, LL.D. | 1919–1925 | first Canadian commandant, assembled a Canadian military staff, Professional associations & universities negotiate to accept RMC graduates authorized publication of RMC biannual review | |
| Brigadier-General Charles Noel Perreau, CMG, ADC | 1915–1919 | Assembled RMC museum artefacts | |
| Brigadier-General L. R. Carleton, DSO, ADC | 1913–1914 | Assembled RMC museum artefacts | |
| Colonel J.H.V. Crowe, ADC | 1909–1913 | Every cadet who did not enter the British army or the Canadian Permanent Force on graduation was required to become attached to the Militia within 2 years of leaving the college and to attend two militia campsReported in 1910 that for the first time, every RMC graduate took a commission. | |
| 45 | Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Thornton Taylor, ADC | 1905–1909 | First Canadian commandant of RMC introduced hockey to Kingston as an RMC student in 1877competitive entrance examination, with half-yearly examinations3-year curriculum: civil engineering, civil & hydrographic surveying, physics, chemistry, French, English, gymnastic drills and outdoor exercises of all kindsfive imperial army commissions awarded annually$750–$1,000 cost included board, uniform, materials and extras | |
| Colonel Raymond Northland Revell Reade, ADC | 1901–1905 | | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald C. Kitson, ADC | 1896–1900 | replaced British civilian staff with British military personnel, tightened discipline, emphasised military training, cut the curriculum to three years appointed Military Attache of the British Embassy in Washington in November 1900 later Major General Sir Gerald C. Kitson ADC; Commandant of Sandhurst | |
| Major-General Donald Roderick Cameron, CMG, ADC | 1888–1896 | Then commandant, recommended international pigeon post, which provided messenger service from 1891 to 1895 for marine search and rescue and military | |
| Major-General John Ryder Oliver, CMG, ADC | 1886–1888 | Oliver Rock, Sudbury, Ontario was named in his honour | |
| Colonel Edward Osborne Hewett CMG, ADC | 1875–1886 | first Commandant of the Military College in Canada, member of Royal Engineers, chose motto, Truth, Duty, Valour assembled a British civilian staff, organized a 4-year curriculum, prepared site for use as a College Hewett Shoal, Sudbury, Ontario, was named in his honour 46°4′23″ North 82°4′14″ West character in opera Leo, the Royal Cadet by Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann was named in his honour. | |
