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This article contains a list of notable people (officers and sailors) of the
United States Navy .
Officers
Andrew Baldwin – doctor and the bachelor for Season 10 of
The Bachelor
Commodore John Barry – "Father of the American Navy"
W.W. Behrens, Jr. –
earth-sciences
futurist
Hale Boggs – member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
New Orleans and
House majority leader
Jeremy Michael Boorda –
admiral , former
Chief of Naval Operations
Henry L. Brandon –
naval aviator and oil executive
Bill Branon – captain and naval medical officer, novelist
Bruce Bromley – associate judge of the
New York Court of Appeals , prominent trial lawyer at
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Don Brown – former U.S. Navy JAG officer, author of the
Navy Justice Series
Arleigh Burke – destroyer captain
George H.W. Bush – naval aviator, former
U.S. President ; former director of the
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Evelyn Byrd – polar explorer
James F. Cahill – one of the first scuba divers and first
Navy SEALs
Jimmy Carter – former U.S. President;
Cold War submariner and
Peace Prize laureate
Cesar Chavez – civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the
United Farm Workers
Vern Clark – former Chief of Naval Operations
Donnie Cochran – first
African-American aviator assigned to the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (
Blue Angels )
William Cooper – after the navy he worked for Naval Intelligence. After the Kennedy assassination he became a "conspiracy theorists" and wrote the book "Behold the Pale Horse".
Duke Cunningham – naval aviator, former member of the US House of Representatives
Glenn Robert Davis – former member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
Stephen Decatur – hero of Tripoli
Terry Deitz – naval aviator,
TV presenter and former
Survivor contestant
Robert Dennison – retired admiral, presidential aide
Jeremiah Denton – American politician and naval aviator who while being held captive in a
North Vietnamese
POW camp participated in a 1966 televised propaganda interview in which he blinked his eyes in
Morse code , spelling the word "torture" and confirming for the first time to U.S.
Naval Intelligence that American POWs were being
tortured .
P.T. Deutermann – author, former
United States Navy
captain
George Dewey – hero of the Battle of Manila Bay in
Spanish–American War ; first and only
Admiral of the Navy
Hunter Ellis – naval aviator, TV presenter and former
Survivor contestant
David Farragut –
American Civil War admiral, first officer to become an admiral
Lillian E. Fishburne – first African-American
female to hold the rank of
rear admiral
Wilson Flagg – retired admiral, killed in the
September 11 attack
Eugene B. Fluckey –
rear admiral who received the
Medal of Honor and four
Navy Crosses during his service as a
submarine commander in
World War II
Gerald Ford – former U.S. President; served aboard carrier during World War II
Edmund Giambastiani – 7th
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Leroy Gilbert – former officer in the
United States Navy and
Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard .
Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. – first African-American to be promoted to flag rank
William Halsey, Jr. – Third Fleet commander, won battles off Guadalcanal and the Solomons; Fleet Admiral (5 stars)
Gary Hart – U.S. Senator and presidential candidate.
Owen P. Honors, Jr. – captain, former CO of
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
Esek Hopkins – first Commander in Chief of the Navy during the Revolutionary War
Grace Hopper – futurist, early computing pioneer, rear admiral in the Navy Reserve
George Howard, Jr. – first African-American federal judge in Arkansas history; served in World War II.
Isaac Hull – captain of
USS Constitution
Lyndon B. Johnson – former U.S. President; worked as a bomb observer with the Army during World War II
John Paul Jones – commander during the
American Revolutionary War , considered to be the founder of the American naval tradition
Charles Keating – naval aviator, real estate developer and banker.
John F. Kennedy – former U.S. President; decorated
PT Boat commander in World War II
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. – naval aviator, elder brother of future President John F. Kennedy, killed in World War II.
Robert Kerrey – former
U.S. Senator ; Navy SEAL commander during the
Vietnam War and first SEAL officer to win the
Medal of Honor for classified raid in which he lost his lower leg by a
Viet Cong grenade.
John Kerry – former
U.S. Secretary of State and
U.S. Senator from
Massachusetts , was the Democratic nominee for
President of the United States in the
2004 election against President
George W. Bush ;
Navy SWCC officer who, while commanding a
Swift boat during the
Vietnam War , sustained three wounds in combat with the
Viet Cong , for which he earned three
Purple Heart medals. Was also awarded the
Silver Star and the
Bronze Star Medal for valorous conduct in separate military engagements.
Ernest King – fleet admiral; former Chief of Naval Operations
Nile Kinnick – naval aviator,
Heisman Trophy winner
William D. Leahy – first fleet admiral; first head of the Chiefs of Staff (before the post was renamed
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ); former Chief of Naval Operations; former Governor of
Puerto Rico ; former U.S. ambassador to
France
Merle Macbain – public information officer whom
Mount Macbain is named after
Alfred Thayer Mahan – military strategist
Richard Marcinko – author, founder and commander of
SEAL Team Six
J.W. Marriott, Jr. – chairman and CEO of
Marriott International
John McCain – senior U.S. Senator from
Arizona and
Republican presidential candidate in 2008; former
naval aviator and POW
Thomas McClelland – captain; served as commander, Amphibious Squadron FIVE, conducting advance force operations with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit against the Iraqi Army during Desert Storm
Homer A. McCrerey –
earth sciences futurist,
Fleet
Meteorologist and
oceanographer
Harvey Milk – first openly gay San Francisco supervisor. Assassinated November 27, 1978. Subject of the Academy Award-winning and
National Film Registry
[1]
documentary film
The Times of Harvey Milk , as well as the bestselling book
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
[2]
Michael Mullen – 28th
Chief of Naval Operations ; 17th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chester Nimitz – fleet admiral; former Chief of Naval Operations; signed for the U.S. when Japan formally surrendered on board
USS Missouri (BB-63) ; class of carriers named after him
Richard M. Nixon – former U.S. President; supply officer in World War II
Rear Admiral William S. "Deak" Parsons, USN , assistant chief of the
Bureau of Ordnance , known for assembling (in flight) the triggering mechanism of the atomic bomb "
Little Boy " aboard the
Enola Gay .
Ross Perot –
business magnate , billionaire, politician,
philanthropist
Matthew Perry – commodore who forced the opening of
Japan
Oliver Hazard Perry – commanded the
Battle of Lake Erie
John Poindexter – served as National Security Advisor
John D. Price – admiral who, early in his career, set many records as a naval aviator
Eli Thomas Reich – vice admiral, only submariner to sink a Japanese battleship unaided during WW2
Jamila Reinhardt – naval aviator, current player on the USA Rugby women's national team
Hyman G. Rickover – admiral, "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
David Robinson – former
NBA star (
San Antonio Spurs ), commonly nicknamed "The Admiral"
George Lincoln Rockwell – U.S. Navy
commander and founder of the
American Nazi Party
Theodore Roosevelt IV –
Special Warfare , great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and a prominent conservationist and environmentalist
Donald Rumsfeld – naval aviator, served two times as Secretary of Defense
Larry Seaquist – current Democratic member in the
Washington House of Representatives ; former captain of the
Battleship
USS Iowa (BB-61)
Rodger W. Simpson – distinguished himself during
World War II , recipient of 2
Navy Crosses
John Philip Sousa – composer and conductor of the late
Romantic era known primarily for American military
marches including "
The Stars and Stripes Forever " and "
Semper Fidelis " (official march of the
Marine Corps )
Paul Spangler – naval surgeon, senior
long distance runner
Raymond A. Spruance – commander at the
Battle of Midway , led the
Fifth Fleet in the Central Pacific and Okinawa. Rebuilt the
Naval War College after
World War II
Jackson T. Stephens – investment banker
James Stockdale – one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the navy
Blake Wayne Van Leer , commander and captain in the
U.S. Navy . Lead
SeaBee program and managed the nuclear research and power unit at
McMurdo Station during
Operation Deep Freeze .
Patrick M. Walsh – admiral,
Vice Chief of Naval Operations
Helen Turner Watson – one of the first African American women to receive a Navy commission, as ensign in 1945.
Robert F. Willard – admiral, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations
John Wooden – famous college basketball coach
Astronauts
Neil Armstrong –
naval aviator (Korean War),
X-15 pilot,
astronaut
Gemini 8 and
Apollo 11 , first man on the Moon
Alan Bean – naval aviator and astronaut (
Apollo 12 and
Skylab 3 )
Scott Carpenter – naval aviator, astronaut,
Mercury 7
Christopher Cassidy –
Navy SEAL , astronaut
STS-127 ,
Soyuz TMA-08M (
Expedition 35 /
36 ),
Soyuz MS-16 (
Expedition 62 /
63 )
Gene Cernan – naval aviator, astronaut (
Gemini 9 ), Lunar Module Pilot (
Apollo 10 ), Commander of
Apollo 17 (last man on moon)
Roger Chaffee – naval aviator and astronaut who perished in the
Apollo 1 fire
Laurel Clark – astronaut (
STS-107 )
Pete Conrad – naval aviator, astronaut (
Gemini 5 and
11 , Apollo 12 and
Skylab 2 )
Robert Crippen – naval aviator, astronaut (
STS-1 ,
STS-7 ,
STS-41-C and
STS-41-G )
Walter Cunningham – naval aviator and astronaut (
Apollo 7 )
Ronald Evans – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 17)
Owen Garriott – astronaut (Skylab 3)
Robert L. Gibson – naval aviator and astronaut (
STS-41-B ,
STS-61-C ,
STS-27 ,
STS-47 ,
STS-71 )
John Glenn – naval aviator, astronaut,
U.S. Senator from
Ohio , and first American to orbit the Earth (
Mercury-Atlas 6 )
Richard F. Gordon, Jr. – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 11 and Apollo 12)
Mark Kelly – naval aviator, astronaut (
STS-108 ,
STS-121 ,
STS-124 ,
STS-134 )
Scott Kelly – naval aviator, astronaut (
STS-103 ,
STS-118 )
Joseph Kerwin – astronaut (Skylab 2)
Susan Kilrain – astronaut (
STS-83 and
STS-94 )
Wendy Lawrence – naval aviator, astronaut (
STS-67 ,
STS-86 ,
STS-91 ,
STS-114 )
Jim Lovell – naval aviator, astronaut (
Gemini 7 and
12 ,
Apollo 8 and 13)
Ken Mattingly – naval aviator, astronaut (
Apollo 16 )
Bruce McCandless II – naval aviator, astronaut who completed the first untethered
spacewalk by using the
Manned Maneuvering Unit (
STS-41-B ,
STS-31 )
William C. McCool – naval aviator, astronaut, pilot of
Columbia mission
STS-107
Edgar Mitchell – naval aviator and astronaut (
Apollo 14 )
Lisa Nowak – naval aviator and astronaut (
STS-121 )
Alan G. Poindexter – naval aviator, son of
John Poindexter and astronaut (
STS-122 ,
STS-131 )
Wally Schirra – naval aviator, astronaut (
Mercury 8 ,
Gemini 6A and
Apollo 7 )
Alan Shepard – naval aviator and flag officer (Rear Admiral), first American in space (
Mercury-Redstone 3 ) and Apollo 14 commander
William Shepherd – Navy SEAL, astronaut (
STS-27 ,
STS-41 ,
STS-52 )
Thomas P. Stafford – aviator and astronaut (
Gemini 6A ,
Gemini 9A ,
Apollo 10 )
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – astronaut (
STS-115 ,
STS-126 )
Richard Truly – naval aviator and flag officer (Vice Admiral),
Manned Orbiting Laboratory and Space Shuttle astronaut, serving as pilot for both
Space Shuttle Enterprise landing tests and on second orbital test flight (
STS-2 ). Later became first astronaut to serve as NASA Administrator under President
George H.W. Bush .
Paul J. Weitz – astronaut (Skylab 2)
John Young – naval aviator, astronaut (
Gemini 3 and
10 ,
Apollo 10 and 16, Shuttle flight STS-1 and
STS-9 )
Others
John Agar – actor (
Sands of Iwo Jima ,
Fort Apache )
Ralph Ahn – actor and brother of fellow sailor
Susan Ahn Cuddy (
The Golden Girls ,
New Girl )
Susan Ahn – first female
gunnery officer and Asian-American woman to join the U.S. Navy, sister of actor and fellow sailor
Ralph Ahn
Eddie Albert –
Oscar -nominated actor (
Roman Holiday )
Arthur Leigh Allen – prime suspect in the
Zodiac Killer case
Kirk Alyn – first actor to play
Superman in live-action (
Superman )
Bobby Anderson –
child actor and
television producer (
It's a Wonderful Life )
Ernie Anderson –
radio and television personality,
horror host and
announcer (
Hard Eight )
Jake Angeli – activist and
conspiracy theorist who was convicted for his participation in the
2021 U.S. Capitol riots , also known as the "QAnon Shaman"
Arthur Arling – Oscar-winning
cinematographer (
The Yearling )
John Eric Armstrong – American serial killer
Robert Arthur – actor (
Ace in the Hole ,
Twelve O'Clock High )
James Avery – actor (
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air )
Hoyt Axton – singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (
The Black Stallion ,
Gremlins )
Lloyd Bacon – actor and
film director (
42nd Street )
Russell Baker –
Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist, satirical writer, author (
Growing Up )
Bob Barker –
naval aviator ,
Emmy Award -winning host of
The Price is Right
John Drew Barrymore – actor, enlisted in the Navy during
WWII at age 13 (
The Big Night ,
Rawhide )
Hall Bartlett – Oscar-nominated filmmaker and actor (
Navajo ,
Zero Hour! ,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull )
Ed Begley, Sr. – Oscar-winning actor (
12 Angry Men )
Harry Belafonte – Emmy,
Grammy and
Tony Award -winning singer and actor (
BlacKkKlansman )
April D. Beldo – retired
Fleet Master Chief for Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education (MPT&E)
[3]
Bob Bell – actor and announcer famous for his alter-ego,
Bozo the Clown
Nathaniel Benchley – author (
The Off-Islanders )
Nick Benedict – Emmy-nominated actor (
Days of Our Lives ,
All My Children )
Tex Beneke – saxophonist, singer and bandleader
Bruce Bennett – Olympic athlete and actor (
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre )
Jack Benny – Emmy and
Golden Globe Award -winning actor (
The Jack Benny Program )
Shelley Berman – Emmy-nominated and Grammy Award-winning actor (
Curb Your Enthusiasm )
Yogi Berra –
baseball Hall of Famer , catcher for the
New York Yankees
Charles Bickford – Oscar-nominated actor (
A Star Is Born )
Hunter Biden – attorney,
hedge fund investor and son of
U.S. President
Joe Biden
Charles Alden Black – businessman known for his work in
aquaculture and
oceanography , husband of child star
Shirley Temple
Larry J. Blake – actor (
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers ,
The Werewolf )
John Boehner –
53rd
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives , served 8 weeks in the Navy before being medically discharged
Rudy Boesch –
Navy SEAL , competitor on
Survivor
Humphrey Bogart – Oscar-winning actor (
Casablanca )
Tommy Bond – actor (
Superman )
Richard Boone – actor (
The Shootist )
Ernest Borgnine – Oscar-winning actor (
Marty )
Tom Bosley – Emmy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning actor (
Happy Days )
Peter Boyle – Emmy Award-winning actor (
Young Frankenstein )
Christopher "Big Black" Boykin – Star of MTV's
Rob & Big television series
Ben Bradlee – managing editor of
The Washington Post known for his role in exposing the
Watergate scandal
John Bradley – navy
hospital corpsman known for raising the first
U.S. flag during the
Battle of Iwo Jima
Scott Brady – actor (
The China Syndrome ,
Gremlins )
Carl Brashear – first African American
master diver
Peter Breck – actor (
Maverick ,
Benji )
Richard L. Breen – Oscar-winning screenwriter (
Titanic ,
Captain Newman, M.D. )
James Broderick – Emmy-nominated actor (
Family )
Dean Brooks – actor and physician (
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )
Bruce Brown – Oscar-nominated
documentary filmmaker and early pioneer of the
surf film (
The Endless Summer ,
On Any Sunday )
Paul Brown – American football coach and executive in the
AAFC and
NFL
Lenny Bruce –
stand-up
comedian ,
social critic and
satirist
Eugene Burdick – political scientist, novelist (
Fail-Safe ,
The Ugly American )
Raymond Burr – Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated actor (
Rear Window ,
Perry Mason ,
Ironside )
Leo Buscaglia – author, motivational speaker and professor, also known as "Dr. Love"
Daws Butler – voice actor (
Yogi Bear ,
Huckleberry Hound )
Pete Buttigieg –
United States Secretary of Transportation and 32nd
mayor of South Bend, Indiana
Adolph Caesar – Oscar-nominated actor (
A Soldier's Story ,
The Color Purple )
Joseph Campanella – Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actor (
Mannix ,
The Bold and the Beautiful )
Archie Campbell – actor and comedian (
Hee Haw )
Vincent Canby – film critic for
The New York Times
Harry Carey Jr. – actor (
The Searchers )
Carleton Carpenter – actor (
Father of the Bride ,
Take the High Ground! )
Johnny Carson – Emmy and
Peabody Award -winning and Golden Globe-nominated host of
The Tonight Show
William J. Casey –
Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987
Seymour Cassel – Oscar-nominated actor (
Faces )
James H. Clark – American entrepreneur, founder of
Netscape
Richard Clayton – actor and
talent agent (
High Sierra )
Lee Van Cleef – actor (
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly )
Preston Cloud – American scientist
Jerry Clower – country comedian
Junior Coghlan – actor, career naval officer (
Our Gang comedies,
Men of Boys Town )
Nicholas Colasanto – Emmy Award-nominated actor (
Cheers )
John Coltrane – Grammy and
Pulitzer Prize -winning
jazz musician
O'Neal Compton – actor (
Seinfeld )
Jackie Cooper – Oscar-nominated actor who retired as a
captain (
Skippy ,
The Champ )
James Fenimore Cooper – author (
The Last of the Mohicans )
Glenn Corbett – actor (
Route 66 )
Jeff Corey – actor (
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid )
Roger Corman – film director, producer, actor, trailblazer in independent film (
House of Usher )
Bill Cosby – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, comedian, educational
philanthropist (
The Cosby Show )
Tim Credeur –
mixed martial artist and cast member of
The Ultimate Fighter 7
Dan Crenshaw – American politician and former
Navy SEAL officer
Tony Curtis – Oscar-nominated actor (
Some Like It Hot )
James Daly – Emmy-winning actor (
Planet of the Apes )
Jack Davis – cartoonist, illustrator and a founding cartoonist of
MAD Magazine
Dennis Day – actor, comedian and singer (
The Jack Benny Program )
Richard Denning – actor (
Creature from the Black Lagoon )
Ron DeSantis – 46th
governor of Florida
Billy De Wolfe – actor (
The World's Greatest Athlete )
Bill Dickey – baseball
Hall of Famer ,
manager and
catcher for the
New York Yankees
Bradford Dillman – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor (
The Way We Were ,
Compulsion )
Larry Doby – second black player to break
baseball's color barrier and first black player in the
American League
Lou Donaldson –
jazz
alto saxophonist
Richard Donner – Emmy-nominated director and producer (
Superman )
Paul Dooley – Emmy-nominated actor and comedian (
Breaking Away )
Kirk Douglas – Oscar-nominated actor and producer (
Spartacus )
Rex Downing – child actor (
Our Gang ,
Wuthering Heights )
William Duell – actor and singer (
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )
George Duning –
musician and
film composer (
From Here to Eternity ,
3:10 to Yuma )
Fred Durst – rapper, frontman and lyricist of
Limp Bizkit , and director (
The Fanatic )
Louis Edmonds –
Emmy -nominated actor (
Dark Shadows ,
All My Children )
Anthony Eisley – actor and
TV writer (
Hawaiian Eye )
Jack Elam – actor (
The Cannonball Run )
Dana Elcar – actor (
The Sting )
Josip Elic – actor (
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )
Leif Erickson – actor (
On the Waterfront )
Tom Ewell – Emmy-nominated, Tony Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and producer (
The Seven Year Itch )
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. –
Hollywood Golden Age actor (
Little Caesar )
Gordy Falk – legendary
pumpkin carver , nicknamed the "Pumpkin Man", and former naval intelligence officer
Bob Feller – baseball Hall of Famer, pitcher for the
Cleveland Indians
John Fiedler – actor and
voice actor (
12 Angry Men , voice of
Piglet in the
Winnie the Pooh franchise)
Antwone Fisher – author and film producer, subject of 2002 feature film
Antwone Fisher
Paul Fix – actor (
To Kill a Mockingbird ,
The Rifleman )
Eric Fleming – actor (
Rawhide )
Larry Flynt – publisher of
Hustler
Henry Fonda – Oscar-winning actor and producer (
The Grapes of Wrath ,
12 Angry Men )
Glenn Ford – Golden Globe-winning actor (
Blackboard Jungle )
Henry Ford II – former CEO of
Ford Motor Company , grandson of
Henry Ford
John Ford –
Rear Admiral , Oscar-winning director (
The Searchers )
John Foreman – Oscar-nominated producer (
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ,
Prizzi's Honor )
Jack Fortner – member of the
Arkansas House of Representatives
Bob Fosse – Oscar-winning director (
Cabaret )
Douglas Fowley – actor (
Singin' in the Rain )
William A. Fraker – Oscar-winning cinematographer (
Bullitt ,
Rosemary's Baby )
Warren Frost – actor (
Twin Peaks ,
Seinfeld )
Verne Gagne –
professional wrestler ,
football player and actor (
The Wrestler )
Chris Gardner – self-made millionaire, philanthropist who previously struggled with homelessness, subject of feature film
The Pursuit of Happyness
Tay Garnett – director and screenwriter (
The Postman Always Rings Twice )
Dave Garroway – Emmy-nominated
television and
radio personality (
NBC 's
Today )
Dick Gautier – actor, comedian and singer (
Get Smart )
John Gavin – Golden Globe-winning actor (
Psycho )
Arthur Hill Gilbert –
impressionist painter
Art Gilmore – actor and TV and radio announcer (
Yankee Doodle Dandy ,
The Nutty Professor )
Russ Goetz – professional
baseball umpire
Don Gordon – Emmy Award-nominated actor (
Bullitt )
Freeman Gosden –
radio
comedian , actor and
sitcom pioneer (
Amos 'n' Andy )
Calvin Graham – At age 12, Graham became the youngest
U.S. serviceman to serve and fight in WWII. Graham later served in the
U.S. Marine Corps during the
Korean War .
Farley Granger – Emmy Award-nominated actor (
Strangers on a Train )
Bud Grant –
NFL and
CFL football player and coach (
Minnesota Vikings )
Lawrence Gray – actor (
Children of Pleasure )
Walter Greaza – actor (
Call Northside 777 )
Shecky Greene – actor and comedian (
History of the World, Part I ,
Splash )
James Gregory – actor (
The Manchurian Candidate )
Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin –
reality TV star (
Bad Girls Club :
Season 16 )
Raymond Griffith –
silent film actor and comedian (
All Quiet on the Western Front )
Alfred Grossman – writer and
novelist
Harry Guardino – actor (
Dirty Harry )
Fred Gwynne – actor (
The Munsters ,
Pet Sematary ,
My Cousin Vinny )
Hard Boiled Haggerty – professional wrestler, football player and actor (
Foxy Brown ,
Earthquake )
Fred Haines – Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director (
Ulysses )
H.R. Haldeman –
White House Chief of Staff known for his involvement in the
Watergate scandal
Brett Halsey – Golden Globe-winning actor (
Return to Peyton Place ,
Return of the Fly ,
The Godfather Part III )
Pete Hamill – journalist, novelist, essayist and editor (
New York Post )
MC Hammer – Grammy Award-winning rap artist
Ron Harper – actor (
Planet of the Apes ,
87th Precinct )
Richard Benjamin Harrison – businessman, reality television personality (
Pawn Stars )
Gary Hart – former
U.S. Senator from
Colorado
Herk Harvey – director, screenwriter, actor, film producer (
Carnival of Souls )
Byron Haskin – Oscar-nominated director,
special effects artist and cinematographer (
The War of the Worlds )
Bill Hayes – actor and recording artist who also served in the
U.S. Marine Corps (
The Cardinal , "
The Ballad of Davy Crockett ")
Lloyd Haynes – Emmy Award-nominated actor (
Room 222 ,
Ice Station Zebra )
David Hedison – actor (
The Fly ,
The Enemy Below ,
Live and Let Die )
Thomas Heggen – Tony Award-winning author and playwright (
Mister Roberts )
Robert A. Heinlein –
science fiction author (
Starship Troopers )
Lance Henriksen – actor (
Aliens )
Frank Herbert – science fiction author (
Dune )
James Leo Herlihy – actor, playwright and novelist (
All Fall Down ,
Midnight Cowboy )
Don Hewitt –
television news producer , executive and creator of
60 Minutes on
CBS
Chuck Hicks – actor and stuntman (
Raging Bull )
Steven Hill – Emmy Award-nominated actor (
Law & Order )
Barron Hilton – heir and co-chairman of
Hilton Hotels
Pat Hingle – actor (
Splendor in the Grass ,
Norma Rae )
Winton C. Hoch – Oscar-winning cinematographer (
The Searchers ,
The Quiet Man )
Earl Holliman – Golden Globe-winning actor, singer and
animal-rights activist (
Giant )
William Hopper –
Navy UDT , son of
Hedda Hopper , Emmy Award-nominated actor (
The Bad Seed ,
Perry Mason )
L. Ron Hubbard – science fiction author and founder of the
Church of Scientology
Rock Hudson – Oscar-nominated actor (
Giant )
William Bradford Huie – author (
The Americanization of Emily )
E. Howard Hunt –
intelligence officer and author known for his involvement in the
Watergate scandal
Evan Hunter – author (
The Blackboard Jungle ,
Last Summer ,
King's Ransom )
Jeffrey Hunter – actor (
The Searchers )
Rick James – Grammy Award-winning musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
Dean Jones – Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated actor (
The Love Bug ,
The Million Dollar Duck )
L.Q. Jones – actor, director and screenwriter (
A Boy and His Dog ,
The Wild Bunch )
Buck Kartalian – actor and
professional wrestler (
Cool Hand Luke ,
Planet of the Apes )
Bill Kaysing – founder of the
Moon landing conspiracy movement
Ray Kellogg –
special effects artist and film director (
The Green Berets )
Gene Kelly – Oscar-nominated actor, filmmaker, dancer, singer (
Singin' in the Rain )
Robert F. Kennedy – lawyer and politician, 64th
United States Attorney General ,
U.S. Senator from
New York , brother of fellow sailor President
John F. Kennedy
Jack Kerouac – novelist, poet and pioneer of the
Beat Generation (
On the Road )
Hank Ketcham –
cartoonist who created the
Dennis the Menace
comic strip
Richard Kiley – Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor (
Blackboard Jungle )
Carl Kimmons – first person to rise through the ranks from
mess attendant to
commissioned officer
Ralph Kiner –
baseball Hall of Famer , outfielder for the
Pittsburgh Pirates
Richard H. Kline – Oscar-nominated cinematographer (
Soylent Green ,
King Kong )
Fletcher Knebel – author (
Seven Days in May )
Fred J. Koenekamp – Oscar-winning cinematographer (
Patton ,
Papillon )
Harvey Korman – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and comedian (
Blazing Saddles )
Nancy Kulp – Emmy and Grammy Award-nominated actress (
The Beverly Hillbillies )
Bill Kurtis – television journalist and narrator (
Cold Case Files ,
American Justice )
Chris Kyle – Navy SEAL sniper and author of
American Sniper
Bert Lahr – actor (
The Wizard of Oz )
Archie Lang – actor (
Blow Out )
Robert LaSardo – actor (
Nip/Tuck )
Sydney Lassick – actor (
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ,
Carrie )
Paul Le Mat – Golden Globe-winning actor (
American Graffiti )
Jack Lemmon – Oscar-winning actor, director and musician (
The Apartment )
Raymond Lisle (1910-1994) – attorney, officer in the
United States Foreign Service , and Dean of
Brooklyn Law School
John Lodge – actor and
79th Governor of Connecticut (
Little Women )
Marcus Luttrell – Navy SEAL,
Navy Cross and
Purple Heart for
Operation Red Wings , author of
Lone Survivor
Tyler MacDuff – actor (
Gunsmoke ,
Maverick )
Richard Machowicz – Navy SEAL and host of
Future Weapons
Guy Madison – Golden Globe-winning actor (
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok )
Daniel P. Mannix – author (
The Fox and the Hound ,
Those About to Die )
James Margolis – Olympic fencer
Jennifer Marshall – actress (
Stranger Things )
Dewey Martin – naval aviator held as a
prisoner of war until
Japan's surrender , actor (
The Thing from Another World ,
Battleground )
Strother Martin – Golden Globe-nominated actor (
Cool Hand Luke )
Tony Martin – Emmy Award-nominated singer and actor (
The Big Store )
Al Martino – actor and singer (
The Godfather )
Armistead Maupin – author and gay rights activist
Donald May – actor (
Colt .45 ,
The Edge of Night )
Napoleon McCallum – NFL running back (
Los Angeles Raiders )
Country Joe McDonald – musician and lead singer of the 1960s
psychedelic rock group
Country Joe and the Fish
Bill McKinney – actor (
The Outlaw Josey Wales )
Ralph Meeker – actor (
Kiss Me Deadly )
Herman Melville – novelist, short story writer and poet of the
American Renaissance period (
Moby-Dick )
Jan Merlin – actor,
television writer and author (
Take the Money and Run ,
Them! )
James Michener – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (
Tales of the South Pacific )
Dick Miller – actor (
Gremlins )
Doris Miller –
attack on Pearl Harbor hero, first Black recipient of the
Navy Cross
J.P. Miller – playwright, novelist and screenwriter (
Days of Wine and Roses )
Guy Mitchell – pop singer and actor (
Whispering Smith )
Ray Montgomery – actor (
White Heat ,
Johnny Belinda )
Robert Montgomery – WWII
Lt Commander on
USS Barton (DD-722) , Oscar-nominated actor (
Here Comes Mr. Jordan )
Ronald D. Moore – Peabody and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and television producer (
Star Trek: The Next Generation ,
Battlestar Galactica )
Glenn Morris – Olympic athlete and actor (
Tarzan's Revenge )
Wayne Morris – naval aviator and actor (
Paths of Glory )
Vic Morrow – Emmy Award-nominated actor (
The Bad News Bears )
Robert Morse – Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor (
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying )
George Moscone –
37th mayor of San Francisco who, along with fellow sailor
Harvey Milk , was
assassinated by
Dan White
Richard Mulligan – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor (
Empty Nest )
Robert Mulligan – Oscar-nominated filmmaker (
To Kill a Mockingbird )
Charlie Murphy – entertainer and brother of comedian
Eddie Murphy (
Chappelle's Show )
Ed Nelson – actor (
Airport 1975 ,
Runaway Jury )
Paul Newman – Oscar-winning actor, filmmaker, producer and
race car driver (
The Hustler ,
Cool Hand Luke ,
The Sting )
Tommy Noonan – actor, screenwriter, producer (
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ,
Swingin' Along )
George O'Brien –
silent era actor (
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans )
Pat O'Brien – Emmy Award-winning actor (
Knute Rockne, All American )
Frank O'Hara – writer, poet and art critic
Robert J. O'Neill – Navy SEAL, participated in
Operation Neptune Spear
Jerry Paris – Emmy Award-winning actor (
The Dick Van Dyke Show )
Fess Parker – Emmy-nominated film and TV actor (
Old Yeller ,
Davy Crockett )
Robert Parrish – Oscar-winning film editor and director (
Body and Soul ,
Casino Royale )
Vincent Pastore – actor (
The Sopranos )
Dick Peabody – actor (
Combat! ,
Support Your Local Sheriff! )
D.A. Pennebaker – documentary filmmaker (
Primary ,
Monterey Pop )
Jack Pennick – actor (
Mister Roberts ,
The Searchers )
Tom Peters – bestselling author (
In Search of Excellence )
Regis Philbin – Emmy Award-winning talk show host (
Regis and Kelly )
John Pickard – actor (
True Grit )
Jack Pickford – actor (
Tom Sawyer )
Bella Poarch –
social media personality , singer and songwriter
Darryl Ponicsan – Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter and novelist (
The Last Detail ,
Cinderella Liberty )
Gordon Prange – author and historian (
Tora! Tora! Tora! )
Tito Puente – Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter, record producer and bandleader (
The Simpsons :
Who Shot Mr. Burns? )
Denver Pyle – actor (
The Dukes of Hazzard )
Ernie Pyle –
Pulitzer Prize –winning American journalist and
war correspondent best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during
World War II
Thomas Pynchon – writer and novelist (
Inherent Vice )
Paul Raci – Oscar-nominated actor and
sign-language
interpreter for the
California court system (
Sound of Metal )
John Bennett Ramsey – businessman, author and father of murder victim
JonBenét Ramsey
Aldo Ray – actor (
Pat and Mike )
Bert Remsen – actor and casting director (
Nashville ,
Maverick )
Gene Reynolds – Emmy Award-winning television producer, writer, director and actor (
Boys Town ,
M*A*S*H )
Jeff Richards – Golden Globe-winning actor and baseball player (
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers )
Don Rickles – Emmy Award-winning stand-up comedian, actor and author (
Kelly's Heroes )
Bobby Riggs – pro tennis champion
Phil Rizzuto –
baseball Hall of Famer and
shortstop for the
New York Yankees
Jason Robards – Oscar-winning actor (
All the President's Men )
Harold Robbins – author of popular novels (
The Carpetbaggers )
Marty Robbins – Grammy-winning musician, singer, songwriter, actor and
NASCAR driver (
Honkytonk Man )
Edward G. Robinson – Hollywood Golden Age actor and
Honorary Oscar recipient (
Double Indemnity )
Frank M. Robinson – speechwriter for politician
Harvey Milk , author (
The Glass Inferno adapted into the 1974 film
The Towering Inferno )
Norman Rockwell – American painter and illustrator
Charles "Buddy" Rogers – naval aviator, actor and musician (
Wings )
Wayne Rogers – Golden Globe-nominated actor (
M*A*S*H ,
House Calls )
Ronnie Rondell Jr. – actor and
stuntman (
Speed ,
They Live )
Theodore Isaac Rubin –
psychiatrist and author (
David and Lisa )
Joe Ruby –
animator , writer, television producer,
music editor (
Scooby-Doo )
Mitchell Ryan – actor (
Lethal Weapon )
Gene Saks – Tony Award-winning director and actor (
The Odd Couple ,
Cactus Flower )
Soupy Sales – comedian (The Soupy Sales Show )
Franklin J. Schaffner – Oscar-winning director (
Planet of the Apes ,
Patton )
Budd Schulberg – Oscar-winning
screenwriter ,
television producer , novelist and
sports writer (
On the Waterfront ,
A Face in the Crowd )
Arnold Schulman – Academy-Award nominated screenwriter, producer, playwright, novelist (
Love with the Proper Stranger )
Rick Scott –
U.S. senator and
45th governor of Florida
Willard Scott – Emmy Award-winning weather presenter, actor, clown, creator and original portrayer of
Ronald McDonald
Vin Scully – American
sportscaster
Bill Sharman – member of the
Basketball Hall of Fame (
Boston Celtics )
Sammy Shore – actor, comedian and co-founder of
The Comedy Store
Frank Silvera – Tony Award-nominated actor (
Viva Zapata! )
Mickey Simpson – actor (
Giant )
Dick Sisler – baseball player (
St. Louis Cardinals )
Jay R. Smith – actor (Specks in
Our Gang )
Sam Snead –
professional golfer
Ken Spears – animator, writer, TV producer,
sound editor (
Scooby-Doo )
Robert Stack – host of
Unsolved Mysteries and Oscar-nominated actor (
Airplane! )
Harry Dean Stanton – actor, musician and singer (
Alien )
Ray Stark – Oscar-nominated producer (
Funny Girl ,
The Goodbye Girl )
Roger Staubach –
Vietnam veteran,
football Hall of Famer (
Dallas Cowboys )
Rod Steiger – Oscar-winning actor (
On the Waterfront ,
In the Heat of the Night )
Adlai Stevenson II – 31st
Governor of Illinois and two-time
Presidential nominee
McLean Stevenson – Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor, writer and comedian (
M*A*S*H )
Donald Ogden Stewart – Oscar-winning screenwriter and author (
The Philadelphia Story )
Leonard Stone – Tony Award-winning actor (
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory )
Larry Storch – Emmy Award-nominated actor and comedian (
The Great Race )
Dirk Wayne Summers – actor, producer, screenwriter, director (
Kojak )
David Susskind – film and TV producer, talk show host (
A Raisin in the Sun )
John Sutton – British actor (
My Cousin Rachel ,
Return of the Fly )
William Sylvester – actor (
2001: A Space Odyssey )
Buck Taylor – actor and artist (
Gunsmoke )
Robert Taylor – naval aviator and Hollywood Golden Age actor (
Quo Vadis )
Walter Tevis – novelist (
The Hustler ,
The Color of Money ,
The Man Who Fell to Earth ,
The Queen’s Gambit )
Russell Thacher – author and film producer (
Soylent Green ,
Once Bitten )
Bill Thompson – voice actor (
Fibber McGee and Molly )
Claude Thornhill – pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader
Charles Tilly –
sociologist ,
political scientist and historian
Gregg Toland – Oscar-winning
cinematographer (
Citizen Kane ,
The Grapes of Wrath )
James Tolkan – actor (
Back to the Future ,
Serpico )
Spencer Tracy – Oscar-winning actor (
Judgment at Nuremberg )
Tom Tryon – Golden Globe-nominated actor (
The Cardinal ) and novelist (
The Other )
Jerry Tucker – child actor (
Our Gang
short subjects )
Tom Tully – Oscar-nominated actor (
The Caine Mutiny )
Lawrence Turman – Oscar-nominated producer (
The Graduate )
Rudy Vallée – singer, musician, actor and radio host (
The Palm Beach Story )
Norm Van Brocklin –
NFL
quarterback for the
Los Angeles Rams and the
Philadelphia Eagles
Craig Venter – biologist instrumental in mapping the
human genome
Jesse Ventura – former
Navy UDT ,
professional wrestler ,
38th Governor of Minnesota and actor (
Predator )
Richard Venture – actor (
Scent of a Woman )
Mickey Vernon – baseball player,
first baseman for the
Cleveland Indians and
Boston Red Sox
Mike Wallace – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning
journalist , game show host and media personality (
60 Minutes )
Jack Warden – Oscar-nominated actor (
12 Angry Men ,
Shampoo )
John Warner – former
Republican
U.S. Senator from
Virginia and
U.S. Secretary of the Navy who later served as an officer in the
U.S. Marine Corps ; former husband of movie star
Elizabeth Taylor
Dennis Weaver – naval aviator and Emmy Award-winning actor (
Touch of Evil )
George Westinghouse –
entrepreneur ,
engineer who created the
railway air brake , and pioneer of the
electrical industry
Charles F. Wheeler – Oscar-nominated cinematographer (
Tora! Tora! Tora! ,
Freaky Friday )
Robb White – naval aviator, screenwriter and novelist (
House on Haunted Hill )
Ron White – Grammy Award-nominated comedian and actor (
Horrible Bosses )
George P. Wilbur – actor and stuntman (
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers )
Charles Williams – author of
crime fiction (
Dead Calm ,
Hell Hath No Fury )
Montel Williams – Emmy Award-winning talk show host (
The Montel Williams Show )
Roger Williams –
popular music
pianist (
Swingin' Along )
Ted Williams – naval aviator and baseball Hall of Famer for the
Boston Red Sox , also served in the
U.S. Marine Corps
Walter Winchell – newspaper
gossip columnist and radio news commentator
Bill Withers – Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and musician
Bob Woodward – Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative journalist , uncovered the
Watergate scandal with
Carl Bernstein
Jeremiah Wright – senior pastor,
Trinity United Church of Christ ;
cardiopulmonary technician (surgery on President
Lyndon B. Johnson , also ex-Navy)
Delmer J. Yoakum – artist,
motion picture studio scenic artist
Bud Yorkin – Emmy-winning director (
Divorce American Style ,
Come Blow Your Horn )
Robert M. Young –
Indie Spirit Award -nominated film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, producer (
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez ,
Alambrista! ,
American Me )
Skip Young – actor (
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet )
Howard Zieff – film director (
Private Benjamin ,
My Girl )
Bill Zuckert – actor (
Blazing Saddles ,
Tora! Tora! Tora! )
Groups
Golden Thirteen – the thirteen African-American enlisted men who became the first African-American commissioned officers in the
United States Navy .
The Port Chicago 50 – group of 50 African-American Sailors who refused to return to work until changes were made at the U.S. Navy's Port Chicago near San Francisco.
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