The following 23 recipients were awarded the Victoria Cross for the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

• William Wilson Allen - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford - 1879; Ulundi, South Africa
• Anthony Clarke Booth - 1879; Intombi River, South Africa
• Gonville Bromhead - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Edward Stevenson Browne - 1879; Inhlobana, South Africa
• Redvers Henry Buller - 1879; lnhlobana, South Africa
• John Rouse Merriott Chard - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill - 1879; Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa
• James Langley Dalton - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy - 1879; Ulundi, South Africa
• Edmund John Fowler - 1879; Zlobane Mountain, South Africa
• Frederick Hitch - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Alfred Henry Hook - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Robert Jones - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• William Jones - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• William Knox Leet - 1879; Inhlobana, South Africa
• Henry Lysons - 1879; Zlobane Mountain, South Africa
• Teignmouth Melvill - 1879; Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa
• Edmund O'Toole - 1879; Ulundi, South Africa
• James Henry Reynolds - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Ferdnand Christian Schiess - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
• Samuel Wassall - 1879; Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa
• John Williams - 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa

See also

• List of Victoria Cross recipients by Campaign