Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh[2] PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM (born 1 February 1956) was a Deputy Chief Staff of the Indian Army from 2014 to 2016.

[3][4] He retired on 31 January 2016 after nearly four decades in the army, while he was Deputy Chief of Army Staff, and adjutant general and corps commander of the strategic XV Corps that overlooks the Line of Control in Kashmir.

Singh was born on 1 February 1956 in Jalal Usman, Amritsar, Punjab.

He graduated from the Defence Services Staff Course and National Defence College, has two M.Phil degrees from Chennai and Indore universities, and was a research fellow for two years on the India-China Boundary issue at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University during his study leave from the Indian Army.

He later achieved the rank of Major General and served as the Additional Director General of Military Operations and Deputy Chief of Army Staff.