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Canadian Naval Admirals and Commodores
by John M. MacFarlane 2010 (Updated 2012–2021)
- Adams, Kenneth Frederick – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Adamson, Martin S. – Commodore (RCN)
- Agnew, Ronald Ian – Commodore (RCN)
- Allan, John – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Allan, Thomas Steele – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Anderson, John Rogers – Admiral (CF)
- Arnott, Thomas Alexander – Commodore (CF)
- Auchterlonie, J. Robert – Commodore (RCN)
- Baillie–Grohman, Harold Tom – Vice–Admiral (RN)
- Baines, Craig A. – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Baker, Ernest Shepard – Commodore (CF)
- Baker, Rowland – Constructor Commodore (RCN(R))
- Ball, Ernest Charles – Commodore (CF)
- Battles, Robert Munro – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Baugniet, Robert Norman – Commodore (NR) (CF)
- Beaton, David – Commodore (Provincial Marine)
- Bedout, Jacques – Rear–Admiral (Royal French Navy)
- Beech, William James Robert – Commodore (RCN)
- Belcher, Edward – Admiral (RN)
- Bell, James Ernest D. – Commodore (CF)
- Belliveau, B.W. – Commodore (CF)
- Bennett, Jennifer J. – Rear–Admiral (NR) (CF)
- Bennett, Ross Taylor – Commodore (NR)
- Berryman, Brian John – Commodore (CF)
- Bidwell, Roger Edward Shelford – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Bishop, Scott E.G.
– Commodore (RCN)- Bisson, Lynn
– Commodore (RCN)- Blakely, Robert R. – Commodore (NR) (RCN)
- Boulton, Angus George – Commodore (RCN)
- Bowkett, Edmund George A. – Commodore (CF)
- Boyle, Denis Richard – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Boyle, Douglas Seaman – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Bridge, Cyprian Arthur George – Admiral (RN)
- Bridgman, Arthur Graham – Commodore (E) (RCN)
- Brock, Ernest Reginald – Commodore (RCN(R))
- Brock, Eustace Alexander – Commodore (RCNVR)
- Brock, Jeffry Vanstone – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Brock, Patrick Willet – Rear–Admiral (RN)
- Brodeur, Nigel David – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Brodeur, Victor Gabriel – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Broughton, William Joseph – Commodore (CF)
- Buck, Ronald Douglas – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Bucknam, Ransford D. – Pasha Admiral (Turkish Navy)
- Budge, Patrick David – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Burchell, Herbert George – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Cairns, Peter William – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Caldwell, Frank Birch – Commodore (RCN)
- Caldwell, John Birch – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Cantelon, S.N. – Commodore (RCN)
- Cassivi, L. – Commodore (RCN)
- Charles, John Alexander – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Charlton, Peter – Commodore (CF)
- Charron, Michel – Commodore (CF)
- Christie, William Borden – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Clarke, Edward Newton – Commodore (RCN)
- Cocks, Robert William James – Commodore (CF)
- Cogdon, David – Commodore (CF)
- Cogdon, Noel – Commodore (CF)
- Collier, Andrew Laurence – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Collins, David Alan – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Cooper, Mike Henry Anthony – Commodore (CF)
- Cosby, Philip – Admiral (RN)
- Cossette, Marie Joseph Romeo – Rear–Admiral (S) (RCN)
- Cotaras, Constantine – Commodore (CF)
- Cote, Joseph Jacques Paul – Commodore (CF)
- Couturier, Joseph Pierre Gilles – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Craig, David W. – Commodore (NR)
- Creery, Wallace Bouchier – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Crickard, Frederick William – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Cumming, James Malcolm – Commodore (CF)
- Cutts, James Mortimer – Commodore (CF)
- Davidson, Glenn V. – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Davidson, Robert A. – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Davis, Sturton Mathwin – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Davy, Arthur Cecil Montagu – Commodore (E) (RCN)
- Deane, John – Commodore (L) (RCN)
- Denison, John – Admiral (RN)
- DeRosenroll, Glen Michael – Commodore (CF)
- DeWolf, Harry George – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Dillon, Charles Joseph – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Donaldson, A. Bruce – Vice–Admiral (RCN))
- Douglas, Archibald Lucius – Admiral (RN)
- Doull, John McGregor – Commodore (L) (RCN)
- Draper, William John A. – Commodore (CF)
- Drent, Jan Jansz – Commodore (CF)
- Dyer, Kenneth Lloyd – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Earl, Paul Whitney – Commodore (RCN(R))
- Edwards, Gordon Cheeseman – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Edwards, Gordon Lewis – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Edwards, John Crispo Ingles – Commodore (RCN)
- Elcock, Frank Dudley – Commodore (RCN)
- Elliot, Walter John – Surgeon Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Ellis, J.E.T. Peter – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Falls, Robert Hilborn – Admiral (CF)
- Farrington, Lawrence – Commodore (CF)
- Faulkner, David G. – Commodore (CF)
- Finch-Noyes, Edward William – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Finn, Patrick T.E. – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Foote, Ernest Gordon Blair – Chaplain of the Fleet (P) (RCN)
- Forcier, J.C. Jean-Yves – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Fox-Decent, Waldron Norman – Rear–Admiral (RCN(R))
- Fraser, James D. – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Fraser-Harris, Alexander – Commodore (RCN)
- Freeborn, Frank – Constructor Commodore (RCN)
- Fulton, James Andrew – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Gardner, Melvin Thomas – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Garnett, Gary Leslie – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Gauvin, Jacques J. – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- George, Robert Earl D. – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Gibson, F. Wayne – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Gillespie, Frederick Thomas – Commodore (L) (RCN)
- Godfrey, Valentine Stuart – Commodore (RCN)
- Goodchild, John Wesley – Commodore (RCN(R))
- Grant, Alexander – Captain (Provincial Marine)
- Grant, Harold Taylor Wood – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Green, James Edward – Commodore (CF)
- Greenwood, Nigel S. – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Greenwood, Richard W. – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Groos, Harold Victor – William Commodore (RCN)
- Gruber, John Alfred – Commodore (CF)
- Halle, M.J.M.
– Commodore (CF)- Hallowell (Carew), Benjamin – Admiral (RN)
- Hamilton, Robert W. – Commodore (LOG) (CF)
- Hanington, Daniel Lionel – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Harwood, John – Commodore (CF)
- Hawco, Darren – Commodore (CF)
- Hayes, William Prine – Commodore (RCN)
- Healey, Eldon James – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Heath, Thomas Charles – Commodore (CF)
- Hendel, Hans Werner – Commodore (CF)
- Hendy, Robert Ian – Commodore (RCN(R))
- Hennessy, Ralph Lucien – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Henning, Roy Victor – Commodore (RCN)
- Hibbard, Godfrey Musgrave – Commodore (RCN)
- Hibbard, James Calcutt – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Hickey, L.M.– Commodore (RCN)
- Hope, Adrian Mitchell – Commodore (RCN)
- Hose, Walter – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Hotsenpiller, William Brian – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Houghton, Frank Llewellyn – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Hughes, William Andrew – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Jarvis, Gregory Evan – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Jette, Marcel Joseph Alphonse – Commodore (RCN)
- Johnston, Bruce – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Jones, George Clarence – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Kavanagh, M.F. – Commodore (MED)
- Keeler, Barry M. – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- King, James Archibald – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Kingsmill, Charles Edmund – Admiral (RN)
- Knight, Charles Joseph – Surgeon Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Knowlton, John Grant – Rear–Admiral (E) (RCN)
- Knox, Donald William – Commodore (RCN)
- Landymore, William Moss – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Lawder, Ean Edward – Commodore (CF)
- Lay, Horatio Nelson – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Le Moyne D'Iberville et – Rear–Admiral (Royal French Navy)
- Learoyd, Douglas Rainsford – Commodore (NR) (CF)
- Lee, Eric Hammond – Surgeon Commodore (RCN)
- Leir, Richard Hugh – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Lerhe, Eric James – Commodore (RCN)
- Littler, John Caldecott – Commodore (RCN)
- MacGillivray, Darroch Norman – Commodore (CF)
- MacGillivray, John – Commodore (E) (RCN)
- MacIsaac, J. Roger – Commodore (LOG)
- MacIver, Donald Angus – Surgeon Commodore (CF)
- Mack, Iain D. – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- MacKeigan, D.M. – Commodore (RCN)
- MacLean, James Anthony – Chaplain (Class IV) (RCN)
- MacLean, Bruce – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- MacLean, Ronald – Chaplain (Class I) (RCN) The Reverend Monsignor
- MacLean, Timothy Blair – Surgeon Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- MacNeil, Hugh Malcolm D. – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Maddison, Gregory Ralph – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Maddison, Paul A. – Vice–Admiral (RCN))
- Mainguy, Daniel Nicholas – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Mainguy, Edmond Rollo – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Marin, Jean René – Commodore (NR) The Honorable Mr. Justice
- Martin, Basil Campbell – Chaplain of the Fleet (RC) (RCN)
- Martin, Michael Arthur – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Martin, Peter Charles – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Mason, Lynne Gordon – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Maxwell, Thomas William – Commodore (CF)
- McCallum, Archie – Surgeon Commodore (RCN)
- McCandless, Henry Alexander – Commodore (RCN)
- McClean, Douglas James – Commodore (CF)
- McClure, Donald David – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- McDonald, A.G. – Commodore (RCN)
- McFadden, Phillip Dean – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- McMillan, Kenneth – Commodore (RCN)
- McMillin, Andrew Clarke – Commodore (CF)
- McNeil, Daniel G. – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Medland, Morson Alexander – Commodore (RCN)
- Michaud, Jean-Claude – Commodore (NR)
- Mifflin, Frederick John – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Miles, George Ralph – Commodore (RCN)
- Miller, Duncan E. – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Moore, Basil Patrick – Commodore (CF)
- Moore, Russell Donald – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Morrow, Ian Bernard Buchanan – Commodore (CF)
- Morse, David Christopher – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Moss, Margaret – Assistant Commandant (WRNS)
- Murdoch, Robert Waugh – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Murphy, Daniel R. – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Murray, Edward Ross – Commodore (CF)
- Murray, Lawrence Edward – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Murray, Leonard Warren – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Nason, Kenneth A. – Commodore (CF)
- Nelles, Percy Walter – Admiral (RCN)
- Newburn, Christine Valerie – Commodore (RCN)
- Newton, John Frederick – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Norman, Mark A.G. – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- O'Brien, John Charles – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- O'Connell, William Frederick – Commodore (CF)
- Okros, Richard Dezso – Commodore (CF)
- Oland, Bruce Sidney Culverwell – Commodore (RCN(R))
- Olsen, John – Commodore (LOG)
- O'Reilly, James Bernard – Commodore (CF)
- Orthlieb, Laraine Frances – Commodore (NR) (CF)
- Paddon, Stuart Edmund – Rear–Admiral (L) (RCN)
- Partner, Peter Richard – Commodore (CF)
- Peer, Gerald Lane – Commodore (NR) (CF)
- Pickard, Antony Fenwick – Commodore (RCN)
- Pickford, Reginald John – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Piers, Desmond William – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Pile, Tyrone H.W. – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Plomer, James – Commodore (RCN)
- Porteous, William Walter – Rear–Admiral (E) (RCN)
- Porter, Henry Allan – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Porter, Henry Timothy – Rear-Admiral (CF)
- Poulin de Courval – Commodore (Royal French Navy)
- Pratt, James Charles – Commodore (RCN)
- Preston, Robert Lawrence – Commodore (CF)
- Pullen, Hugh Francis – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Quinn, Howard Lee – Commodore (RCN)
- Raymond, Duncan Lindsay – Commodore (CF)
- Rayner, Herbert Sharples – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Reid, Howard Emerson – Vice–Admiral (RCN)
- Reilley, John Dennis Stevenson – Commodore (CF)
- Riddell, Stanley William – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Roberts, Richard Howell – Surgeon Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Robertson, Drew W. – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Robertson, Owen Conner Struan – Commodore (RCN)
- Rodocanachi, John – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Roger, William Hugh Gregory – Commodore (L) (RCN)
- Ross, Carl Wesley – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Ross, Edward Raymond – Commodore (CF)
- Ross, William Gillies – Ordnance Commodore (RCN)
- Russell, Patrick Francis – Commodore (RCN)
- Saker, Michael Thomas – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Santarpia, B.W.N. – Commodore (RCN)
- Shannon, Michael Edward – Surgeon Commodore (MED)
- Sims, William Sowden – Admiral (USN)
- Slade, John Charles – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Smith, Andrew M. – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Smith, Thomas Anthony McKenna – Rear–Admiral (NR) (CF)
- Spalding, James Dixon – Commodore (CF)
- Spencer, Brian Roff – Rear–Admiral (E) (RCN)
- Steele, Elizabeth M.– Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Stephens, George Leslie – Engineer Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Stephens, Robert Saint George – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Stirling, Michael Grote – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Storrs, Antony Hubert Gleadow – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Stuart, Ronald Neil – Commodore (MM)
- Summers, Kenneth James – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Sylvester, J.R. – Commodore (RCN)
- Taylor, Cuthbert Robert – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Taylor, Paul Dalrymple – Commodore (RCN)
- Thiffault, J.J.P. – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Thomas, Charles Morris Winton – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Timbrell, Robert Walter – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Tisdall, Ernest Patrick – Commodore (RCN)
- Truelove, William S. – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Vey, A.L. – Commodore (CF)
- Waller, Richard Clifford – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Wallis, Provo William Parry – Admiral of the Fleet (RN)
- Watson, Mark B. – Commodore (RCN)
- Watts, George Edward – Vice–Admiral (RN)
- Welland, Robert Phillip – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Wells, George Anderson – Principal Chaplain (P) (RCN) The Right Reverend
- Westphal, George Augustus – Admiral (RN)
- Westropp, Lionel Charles A. – Commodore (CF)
- Whelly, Joseph Edward – Deputy Chaplain General of the Armed Forces
- Wilkins, Bradley Laurence – Commodore (CF)
- Williams, Kelly Edward – Commodore (CF)
- Windsor, Charles – Honorary Vice–Admiral HRH Prince
- Winnett, Henry Albert – Commodore (E) (RCN)
- Wood, Anthony Roy Hamilton – Commodore (CF)
- Wood, James Crilly – Vice–Admiral (CF)
- Wood, Michael D. – Commodore (RCN)
- Wright, Rupert Anthony – Rear–Admiral (RCN)
- Yanow, Robert Demytre – Rear–Admiral (CF)
- Zuliani, Raymond A. – Rear–Admiral (NR)
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