This article lists those members of theRoyal Air Force of theUnited Kingdom who have become either nationally or internationally famous. This could either be due to commanding squadrons or higher formations in memorable operations, by being awarded high honours or by gaining fame subsequent to their RAF service.

• Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard – founding father of the RAF
• Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder – WWII RAF Commander, deputy to Eisenhower who receivedGermany's surrender at the end of the war inEurope, post-war Chief of Air Staff
• Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding – Commanding officer or RAF Fighter Command before WWII, developer of Dowding system used duringBattle of Britain
• Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris – C-in-CRAF Bomber Command duringWorld War II
• Sir Douglas Bader –Amputee andfighter pilot &POW during Battle of Britain
• SirKeith Park –New Zealander – AOCNo. 11 Group RAF during Battle of Britain
• Sir Frank Whittle – Co-inventor of theturbojet
• Guy Gibson –Dambusters raid leader andVC holder
• Leonard Cheshire – Charity founder and VC holder
• Henry Allingham –World War I veteran and last surviving founder member of the RAF
• David Henderson – founding father of the Royal Air Force.^[1]

• Richard Attenborough – Actor and director
• Pam Ayres – Poet, TV & Radio presenter
• David Bailey (photographer)
• Ralph Barker – Writer
• Errol Walton Barrow – First Prime Minister ofBarbados
• Alan Bates – Actor
• Raymond Baxter – Television presenter and commentator
• Tony Benn – British politician
• Frank Bossard – MI6 personnel who spied for the USSR
• Richard Burton – Actor, served as a navigator
• Brian Blessed – Actor
• Arthur C. Clarke – Science fiction author
• Alex Coomber – Bronze medalist in the2002 Winter Olympics.
• Roald Dahl – Author. Aflying ace who rose to the rank ofWing Commander
• Hilary Devey – Dragons Den – WRAF Air Traffic Control Assistant
• Denholm Elliott – Actor
• Fred Feast – Actor (Coronation Street), served as a Physical Training Instructor (PTI)^[2]
• Bruce Forsyth – Entertainer and show host; served between 1947 and 1949 underNational Service^[3]
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny-British military historian andAuthor, servedRoyal Air Force Police
• Tony Hancock – Comic actor (RAF Regiment)
• Rex Harrison – Actor, reached the rank ofFlight Lieutenant
• Rollo Hayman –Rhodesian farmer and politician
• Godfrey Hounsfield – Nobel laureate and co-inventor ofComputed tomography.
• George Hutchinson – Professional footballer
• Peter Imbert – Police Officer, servedRoyal Air Force Police
• T. E. Lawrence – 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Enlisted first asAircraftman J.H Ross, and later as Aircraftman T.E Shaw
• Peter Larter – England rugby player
• Christopher Lee – Actor, reached the rank ofFlight Lieutenant
• Laurence Meredith – Survived 1000 foot parachute-less fall in 1942,Louis Mountbatten staff officer,RAF India historian.United Press International reporter.
• Warren Mitchell – Actor
• Bob Monkhouse – Entertainer, comedian, game show host
• Patrick Moore – Astronomer, broadcaster and author
• Frank Muir – Comic writer
• Alex Murphy (rugby league) Great Britain rugby league player
• Peter Sellers – Comedian and actor, gained the NCO rank ofCorporal
• Josef Singer (1923–2009) – Israeli President ofTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Ian Smith – Rhodesian Prime Minister; reached the rank ofFlight Lieutenant during Second World Warservice
• Billy Strachan, pioneer of black civil rights in Britain, anti-colonial activist, leading British communist
• Norman Tebbit – Lord Tebbit, Politician. A member of theConservative Party
• Gordon Turnbull – psychiatrist
• Rory Underwood – England rugby player
• Michael Ventris^[4] – deciphered Linear B script
• Tony Walton – set/costume designer, director
• Martin Whitcombe – England 'B' rugby player
• Bill Wyman- Bass player, Rolling Stones
• Jeff Young (rugby player) – Welsh rugby player

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