List of Rimcollians

The following is a list of some of the prominent alumni of Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, India. All students who graduate from this school are called Rimcollians.

Chief of Army Staff

 * General K.S. Thimayya
 * General G.G. Bewoor
 * General Vishwa Nath Sharma
 * General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
 * General Gul Hasan, Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army

Chief of Air Staff

 * Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri
 * Air Marshal Asghar Khan, PAF
 * Air Marshal Nur Khan, PAF
 * Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa

Vice Chief of Army Staff

 * Lt General S. K. Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, ADC & Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal
 * Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army.

Vice Chief of Air Staff

 * Air Marshal Vinod Patney, SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC, Ex-VCAS & Ex-AOC-in-C Western Air Command

GOC-in-C & GOC

 * Lt. General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command
 * Lt. General K.P. Candeth, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous as the liberator of Goa
 * Lt. General Joginder Singh Dhillon, Padma Bhushan, GOC-in-C Central Command
 * Lt. General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, AVSM, SM, VSM.
 * Lt. General Bikram Singh, GOC XV Corps killed in the 1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
 * Lt.General Khwaja Wasiuddin.HPK.SPK Commander II Corps. Pakistan Army.
 * Lieutenant General Nav Kumar Khanduri AVSM, VSM

AOC-in-C & AOC

 * Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, AOC-in-C Western Air Command and Southern Air Command

Adjutant General

 * Major General Hira Lal Atal
 * Lt. General M.M. Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Ex - Governor of Mizoram, Ex- Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, & Ex- Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (additional charge).
 * Major General Karam Singh, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General

Engineer-in-Chief

 * Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Pakistan Army)

Commandant IMA

 * Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
 * Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Ex- GOC 5 Mtn Div & Ex-GOC Delhi Area)

Indian National Army

 * Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle
 * Burhan-ud-Din
 * Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan

Victoria Cross

 * Lt Gen Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC

Distinguished Service Order

 * Gen Kodandera Subayya Thimayya, DSO
 * Maj Gen Thakur Mahadeo Singh, DSO
 * Brig Vidya Dhar Jayal, DSO

Param Vir Chakra

 * Major Somnath Sharma

Vir Chakra

 * Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
 * Major Chandrakant Singh

Padma Vibhushan

 * General K.S. Thimayya

Padma Bhushan

 * Joginder Singh Dhillon
 * K.P. Candeth
 * Gopal Gurunath Bewoor

Padma Shri

 * Lt General M.A. Zaki
 * Lt General K.P. Candeth

Sports

 * Ritwik Bhattacharya, a world top 50 Squash player

Ministers

 * Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan, Minister of Railways, Central Government
 * Maj General J.K. Bhonsle, Minister of Rehabilitation, Central Government
 * Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Foreign Minister, Pakistan
 * Naseerullah Babar, Interior Minister, Pakistan

Diplomats and Civil servants

 * Shaharyar Khan, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps
 * Ashwani Kumar, Former Director CBI, Governor of Nagaland (21 March 2013 – 27 June 2014)
 * Rajiv Ratan, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State
 * Lt Gen MM Lakhera, Lt Governor Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram, PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Authors and Academicians

 * Maj Gen Ashok Mehta, Author & Commentator
 * Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, Author & Commentator