United States Army War College International Fellows Hall of Fame


The US AWC International Fellows Hall of Fame honors USAWC international graduates "who have attained, through military merit, the highest positions in their nation's armed forces, or who have held an equivalent position by rank or responsibility in a multinational organization."
Commandant of USAWC DeWitt C. Smith is primarily responsible for the creation of the International Fellows Program’s 1977. From a start with six foreign students in 1978, the program now sustains over forty International Fellows per year. Usually, only one IF per representative country per academic year participates in the program. While the fellows program was established in 1978 and the first induction into the IF Hall of Fame took place in 1988. Inductees are awarded in person at Carlisle Barracks. Since its inception over 1,900 international fellows graduate from 130 countries have been part of the fellows program.

List of IF Hall of Fame fellows

Fellow No.FlagCountryNameYearRef
BotswanaLouis Matshwenyego Fisher1998
NorwayGEN Paal Frisvold2005
BangladeshLG Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury2005
31CanadaGEN Walter Natynczyk2009
32DenmarkMG Niels Bundsgaard2011
33IndiaGEN Vijay Kumar Singh2011
IndiaGEN Bikram Singh2013
43HungaryGEN Tibor Benko2013
48ChileGEN Humberto Oviedo2014
49OmanMG Matar Salim Al Balushi2014
50KoreaGEN Seung Jo Jung2014
51UgandaGEN Edward Katumba Wamala2014
52DenmarkGEN Knud Bartel2014
53United NationsMG Kristin Lund2015
54LithuaniaMG Almantas Lieka2015
55AustriaGEN Othmar Commenda2015
56TunisiaBG Ismail Fathalli2015
57RomaniaGEN 2015
58AlbaniaMG Jeronim Bazo2015
59BulgariaMG Neyko Nenov2016
60Czech RepublicMG Jan Gurnik2016
61NepalGEN Rajendra Chhetri
62NorwayGEN :no:Odin Johannessen|Odin Johannessen
63ColombiaGEN 2017
64EstoniaBG Indrek Sirel2017
65EstoniaBG Artur Tiganik2017
66GeorgiaMG Vladimer Chachibaia2017
67CroatiaGEN Damir Krstičević2018
68Taiwan/ChinaGEN Chiu Kuo-cheng2018
69NorwayMG 2019
70NorwayMG 2019
71MalaysiaGEN Ahmad Hasbullah2020