This is a list of notable people who served as ambulance drivers during the First World War. A remarkable number—writers especially—volunteered as ambulance drivers for the Allied Powers. In many cases, they sympathized strongly with the ideals of the Allied Powers, but did not want, or were too young or old, to participate in a combat role. For women, combat was not an option at the time. Several of the Americans on the list volunteered before the United States' 1917 entry into the war. Many of the American writers would later be associated with the Lost Generation.
- Algernon Blackwood – British Red Cross Searcher, trying to identify dead or lost soldiers, British author
- A.J. Cronin – Royal Navy surgeon, Scottish novelist
- Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, SJ – French stretcher bearer, Jesuit priest, paleontologist, geologist, theologian, author
- Fr. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli – stretcher carrier and chaplain in Italian Army, later elected Pope John XXIII
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas – American Red Cross volunteer, eminent American conservationist
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher – volunteered to help blinded Allied soldiers, American social activist and author
- E.M. Forster – interviewed wounded in Egyptian hospitals, English novelist
- Peter Grant – volunteer driver/mechanic[30]
- Anne Green – volunteer work, author and translator, sister of aforementioned ambulance driver and author Julian Green
- Frederick Leney – British Red Cross Searcher, 1914–1916
- Alexander H. Rice Jr. – volunteer physician, explorer in South America
- Gertrude Stein – volunteer driver for French hospitals, American poet, playwright, feminist
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – stretcher bearer in France and Greece, British composer[31] – Royal Army Medical Corps
- Edmund Wilson – American literary critic
- Patrick Barr[32] – English actor who served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in Africa during World War II. Barr also helped to rescue people in the Blitz in London's East End.
- Jean Batten – pioneering New Zealand aviator who made a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world, including the first solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936. After she unsuccessfully applied to serve with the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War, Batten joined the short-lived Anglo-French Ambulance Corps before it was disbanded when Germany conquered France.
- John Boulting – British filmmaker who served as an ambulance driver with the Spanish Medical Aid Committee during the Spanish Civil War and later as an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
- Charles Fernley Fawcett – actor, filmmaker and professional wrestler who served in both Section Volontaire des Américains of the French Ambulance Corps and the American Ambulance Corps during WWII. Also during the war, Fawcett served in the Polish Army, helped Holocaust survivors escape while serving as a secret agent with the French Resistance, served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot, and fought with the French Foreign Legion. Before the war, he served in the U.S. Merchant Marine. After WWII, he fought against the Communists in the Greek Civil War and later co-founded the International Medical Corps, a humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical services, healthcare training and capacity building to those affected by disaster, disease or conflict.
- Mahatma Gandhi – created the Indian Ambulance Corps for use by the British as stretcher bearers during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). The famed Indian lawyer and political ethicist also led the Corps during the Zulu rebellion in South Africa in 1906.
- Robert Montgomery – Academy Award-nominated actor who drove ambulances with the American Field Service in France during World War II until the Dunkirk evacuation. He later served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy and was decorated for bravery in combat during the Battle of Normandy.
- Kenneth More – BAFTA Award-winning British actor who drove ambulances (driver #207) in preparation for the outbreak of World War II. More later received a commission as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and saw active service aboard the cruiser HMS Aurora and the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious.
- Patrick O'Brian[33] – English author of Master and Commander who served as an ambulance driver during the Blitz in WWII. O'Brian also served in the Royal Air Force prior to the war.
- Burt Shevelove – American musical theater playwright, lyricist, librettist and director who served as an ambulance driver during WWII.
- Robert Whitehead – Canadian theatre producer who served as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy during WWII.
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