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
Name Notability Ref. General K.S. Thimayya Chief of Army Staff General G.G. Bewoor Chief of Army Staff General Vishwa Nath Sharma Chief of Army Staff General Sundararajan Padmanabhan Chief of Army Staff General Gul Hasan Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army
Chief of Air Staff
Name Notability Ref. Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Asghar Khan Chief of Air Staff, PAF Air Marshal Nur Khan Chief of Air Staff, PAF Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa Chief of Air Staff
Vice Chief of Army Staff
Name Notability Ref. Lt General S. K. Singh PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, ADC and Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM; General Officer in the Indian Army
Vice Chief of Air Staff
Name Notability Ref. Air Marshal Vinod Patney SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC; former Vice Chief of Air Staff and former AOC-in-C Western Air Command
GOC-in-C and GOC
Name Notability Ref. Lt General Premindra Singh Bhagat PVSM, VC; GOC-in-C Central Command Lt General K.P. Candeth GOC-in-C Western Command; known 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 and AOC
Name Notability Ref. Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC; AOC-in-C Western Air Command and Southern Air Command
Adjutant General
Name Notability Ref. Major General Hira Lal Atal Adjutant General Lt General M.M. Lakhera PVSM, AVSM, VSM; former Governor of Mizoram, former Lt Governor of Puducherry, and former Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Major General Karam Singh PVSM, SM; Deputy Adjutant General
Engineer-in-Chief
Name Notability Ref. Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan Engineer-in-Chief, Pakistan Army Major General Muhammad Anwar Khan Engineer-in-Chief, Pakistan Army
Commandant, Indian Military Academy
Name Notability Ref. Lt Gen M.A. Zaki Commandant, Indian Military Academy Lt Gen Manvendra Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM; former GOC 5 Mountain Division and former GOC Delhi Area
Indian National Army
Name Notability Ref. Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle Indian National Army officer Burhan-ud-Din Indian National Army officer Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan Indian National Army officer
Gallantry awards
Victoria Cross
Name Award Ref. Lt Gen Premindra Singh Bhagat PVSM, VC
Distinguished Service Order
Name Award Ref. Gen Kodandera Subayya Thimayya DSO Maj Gen Thakur Mahadeo Singh DSO Brig Vidya Dhar Jayal DSO
Param Vir Chakra
Name Award Ref. Major Somnath Sharma Param Vir Chakra
Vir Chakra
Name Award Ref. Lt Gen M.A. Zaki Vir Chakra
Civilian awards
Padma Vibhushan
Name Award Ref. General K.S. Thimayya Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Name Award Ref. Joginder Singh Dhillon Padma Bhushan K.P. Candeth Padma Bhushan Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri
Name Award Ref. Lt General M.A. Zaki Padma Shri Lt General K.P. Candeth Padma Shri
Sports
Name Notability Ref. Ritwik Bhattacharya World top 50 squash player
Ministers
Name Notability Ref. 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
Name Notability Ref. Shaharyar Khan Foreign Secretary and head of Pakistan's diplomatic corps Ashwani Kumar Former Director of CBI and Governor of Nagaland Rajiv Ratan IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State Lt Gen M.M. Lakhera Lt Governor of Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram; PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Authors and academics
Name Notability Ref. Maj Gen Ashok Mehta Author and commentator Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee Author and commentator
References
Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, by Bikram Singh and Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Allied Publishers, 1997, .