Military Leaders
- Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh, Former Chief, Indian Air Force.
- Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, Former Chief, Indian Air Force.
- Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh, G O C, XV Corps,1960–63
- Lt. Gen. J.S. Aurora, Army Commander, Eastern Command, 1971
- Flying officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, only Indian Air Force officer to be awarded Param Vir Chakra. India's highest military decoration.
- Joginder Singh Sahnan, winner of the Param Vir Chakra
- Gurmukh Singh Saini, Sikh soldier during World War I, winner of Cross of St. George and Indian Order of Merit . This medal was equivalent to British Victoria Cross, US Medal of Honor, French Legion of Honor or Indian Param Vir Chakra.
- Kartar Singh Taunque, first soldier of Indian Air Force who won a gallantry award
- Uday Singh Taunque, first Indian American to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Havildar Ishar Singh, leader of the contingent of the twenty-one Sikhs from the 36th Sikhs battalion, which made history in Battle of Saragarhi, one of the eight collective stories on bravery published by UNESCO
- Major General Shabeg Singh
- Colonel G. B. Singh, highest rank serviced by a Sikh in U.S. Army
- Lt Gen Prem Vadehra, Chief of Staff, Northern Command & Colonel of Sikh Regiment 1985-1989
- Major General Ravinder Singh, Current Chief of the Singapore Army
- Captain Makand Singh MBE
- Wing Commander Kartar Singh Taunque
- General Joginder Jaswant Singh,former Chief, Indian Army, presently Governor of the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh.
- Dr Jagjit Singh Taunque MBE DL, Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands, UK
- Lt Gen Harbaksh Singh, GOC-in-C, Western Command during the 1965 Indo-Pak War
- Lt Gen AS Lamba former Vice Chief, Indian Army.
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