List of former Parachute Regiment personnel
The list includes those individuals who were, or have claimed to have served in the Parachute Regiment (regular or Territorial Army) of the British Army:
- Michael Asher – SAS (Reserve) soldier, author and desert explorer
- Ian Bailey – Military Medal recipient during the Falklands War
- Chay Blyth – Solo Yachtsman & Atlantic rower.
- Nick Brown – SAS Soldier †
- Charles (Nish) Bruce QGM – 22 SAS Sergeant & Pilot
- Bryan Budd – VC recipient †
- Mark Burnett – television producer and Falklands War veteran
- Karl Bushby – adventurer and author
- Frank Carson – comedian and Operation Musketeer veteran
- Charlie Christodoulou, Angolan War mercenary †
- Eddie Collins – SAS Soldier †
- Lewis Collins – actor
- Billy Connolly – actor and comedian
- Bernard Cribbins – actor
- Carl Crook – British and Commonwealth lightweight boxing champion
- Peter Cundall – television presenter
- Paddy Doyle – World Record breaking multi-disciplinary athlete
- Andrew Edge – 4 PARA
- Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley GBE, KCB, DSO*, MC †
- Dair Farrar-Hockley MC
- Joshua French – prisoner on death row of Democratic Republic of Congo
- 'Johnny' Frost – Operation Market Garden veteran †
- Costas Georgiou (also known as "Colonel Callan") – Angolan War mercenary †
- Tony Geraghty – author
- Frederick Gough – Former MP for Horsham †
- John Grayburn – Victoria Cross recipient
- Herbert 'H' Jones – Victoria Cross recipient †
- Tim Healy – actor
- Jon Hollingsworth CGC QGM – SAS soldier †
- Sir Mike Jackson – former British Army Chief of the General Staff
- Dan Jarvis – Member of Parliament for Barnsley Central
- Al Koran (Edward C Doe) – Magician and mentalist
- Tom McClean – World Record breaking Atlantic sailor
- Ian McKay – Victoria Cross recipient †
- John Mogg – former DSACEUR
- Joe Murray, television personality
- Sean Olsson – Winter Olympics bobsleigh bronze medalist
- Alastair Pearson DSO***, MC, CB, OBE, TD, DL
- Sir Hew Pike KCB DSO MBE ]
- Richard Pine-Coffin, DSO and Bar, MC †
- David Purley – F1, F3 and F5000 racing driver George Medal recipient †
- Lionel Ernest Queripel – Victoria Cross recipient †
- Peter Ratcliffe DCM MID – author
- Trevor Rees-Jones – Dodi Al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales' former bodyguard
- John Ridgway – Atlantic rower.
- Chris Ryan – author and television presenter
- Al Slater MM – SAS soldier †
- Sir James Spicer
- Richard Todd – actor
- Steve Truglia – world record-breaker and stunt performer
- John Waddy Ex commander SAS, advisor on the film A Bridge Too Far.
- Dean Ward – Winter Olympic bobsleigh bronze medalist
- Michael Willetts – George Cross recipient †
- Levison Wood – Author and Explorer.
- Mark Wright – George Cross recipient †
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