Notable Servicemen
See also Category:King's African Rifles officers.
- Idi Amin, future Ugandan dictator, had joined the KAR in 1946.
- Freddie de Guingand, Major-General, KBE, CB, DSO, seconded to KAR 1926-1931. Chief of Staff to Sir Bernard Montgomery during operations from Egypt to Northern Europe during World War II.
- Roald Dahl
- General Sir George Giffard
- David Gordon Hines, later in East African Colonial Service
- Waruhiu Itote ("General China")
- Nigel Gray Leakey VC
- P. J. Marshall - historian of the British empire in the eighteenth century
- Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell - Mad Mitch
- Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
- Hussein Onyango Obama - U.S. President Barack Obama's paternal grandfather
- Eric Wilson VC
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