This is alist of notable people who served in theUnited States Air Force, theAir National Guard, or theirantecedents in theArmy. See alsoGraduates of the United States Air Force Academy.

• Oscar Zeta Acosta – Attorney,Chicano Movement activist, novelist and close friend of American authorHunter S. Thompson
• Charles J. Adams –brigadier general and aviator
• John Agar – Film actor
• Paul W. Airey – First Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
• Frank Albertson – Film actor
• Robert Aldrich –DGA Award-nominated filmmaker
• Buzz Aldrin – Astronaut (Gemini 12 andApollo 11 – second man to walk on theMoon)
• Robert Altman – Seven-timeOscar-nominated filmmaker who flew more than 50 bombing missions as a co-pilot of aB-24 Liberator in theAsiatic-Pacific Theater ofWorld War II
• Leon Ames – Film and TV actor who served in thefield artillery of theU.S. Army and later in the flying corps (theArmy Air Service) duringWorld War I
• Wally Amos – Television personality, businessman, author and founder of theFamous Amoschocolate chip cookie, the Cookie Kahuna, and Aunt Della's Cookies gourmet cookie brands, and host of the adult reading programLearn to Read
• William Anders – Astronaut (Apollo 8 – first flight to orbit the Moon)
• Michael P. Anderson –NASA astronaut killed in theColumbia Space Shuttle disaster (STS-89,STS-107)
• Sunny Anderson – Radio and television personality
• Keith Andes – Film, TV and stage actor
• Edward Anhalt – Novelist and screenwriter
• Al Anthony – Radio personality
• Richard Arlen – Film actor
• Michael F. Armstrong – Attorney
• Hap Arnold – Aviation pioneer andGeneral of the Air Force
• Jack Arnold –Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Luke Askew – Film and TV actor
• Leon Askin – Film and TV actor
• Xavier Atencio – Film animator
• Gene Autry –Grammy Award-winning musician, singer,Oscar-nominated songwriter, film actor andMajor League Baseball team owner

• Alonzo Babers – Airline pilot andOlympic athlete
• Jacob “Buddy” Baer – Boxer, film and TV actor
• Max Baer, Jr. – Film actor
• Max Baer, Sr. – Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion, Film and TV actor
• Parley Baer – Film and television actor
• Hobey Baker – Amateur hockey player
• Bernt Balchen – Norwegian-born aviation explorer
• Thomas Scott Baldwin – Pioneer balloonist
• Martin Balsam –Oscar-winning film actor
• John Banner – Film and television actor
• Sy Bartlett – Screenwriter and producer, co-author ofTwelve O'Clock High
• Warren Beatty –Oscar-winning film actor, filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
• Don Beddoe – Film and television actor
• Chuck Bednarik – Professional football player
• Art Bell – Talk radio personality
• Brooks Benedict – Actor of the silent and sound film eras who served with theAmerican Ambulance Corps and in theU.S. Army Air Service during theFirst World War
• Lloyd Bentsen –Senator fromTexas,1988 vice presidential nominee, 69thSecretary of the Treasury
• Elmer Bernstein –Oscar andEmmy-winning andGrammy Award-nominated film composer
• Charles A. Berry –Flight surgeon during theApollo space program and Director of Life Sciences at theNASA
• Mark H. Berry – American politician
• James Best – Film and television actor
• Edward Binns – Film and television actor
• John Birch – East China missionary
• Barry Bishop – Member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest
• Whit Bissell – Film and television actor
• Charles F. Blair, Jr. – General officer and husband of actressMaureen O'Hara
• Esther Blake – First female member of theUnited States Air Force
• Michael Blake –Oscar-winning screenwriter and author ofDances with Wolves and its1988 best-selling novel
• William Peter Blatty –Oscar-winning screenwriter, film producer, director and author known for his 1971 novelThe Exorcist and for writing and producing the hugely successful1973 film adaptation
• Guion Bluford – Astronaut and first African American to fly in space (STS-8,STS-61-A,STS-39,STS-53)
• John Boccieri –Member of Congress of Ohio.
• Paul Bogart – Five-timeEmmy Award-winning television director and producer
• Richard Bong – American Ace of Aces
• Frank Borman – Astronaut (Gemini 7 andApollo 8 – first flight to orbit the Moon)
• Robert Sidney Bowen – Newspaper journalist, magazine editor and author of theDave Dawson War Adventure Series and theRed Randall Series. Served as afighter pilot in both theRoyal Air Force (RAF) and theUnited States Army Air Service, and as an ambulance driver with theAmerican Field Service (AFS) duringWorld War I.
• William Bowers – Screenwriter
• Boxcar Willie – Country music entertainer
• John Boyd – Air Forcefighter pilot andPentagon consultant during the second half of the 20th century who, together withThomas Christie, created theEnergy–Maneuverability theory ofaerial combat, which became the world standard for the design of fighter aircraft
• Vance D. Brand – Astronaut who also served as anaval aviator in theU.S. Marine Corps (Apollo–Soyuz Test Project,STS-5,STS-41-B,STS-35)
• Albert Brenner – Five-timeOscar-nominatedproduction designer andart director
• Lewis H. Brereton – Aviation pioneer and only active duty member of USAF and all of its forebears
• John Briley –Oscar-winning screenwriter
• Charles Bronson –Emmy Award-nominated film and television actor
• Rand Brooks – Film and television actor (Babes in Arms,Gone with the Wind)
• Al Brown – Film and television actor known forThe Wire who served 29 years in the Air Force including two tours inVietnam
• Charles Q. Brown Jr. – USAFgeneral who is currently serving as the 21stchairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as of January 2024
• Clarence Brown – Six-timeOscar-nominated filmmaker who served as afighter pilot andflight instructor with theU.S. Army Air Service duringWorld War I
• Dale Brown – Author
• Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. –Tuskegee Airman, educator, and TV personality
• Roger Browne – Film actor best known for his work in thepeplum andEurospy films popular in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s
• Robert Brubaker – Film and TV actor
• Don Budge – Americantennis player most famous as the first tennis player to win theGrand Slam
• John Bunch – Jazz pianist
• William Bundy –CIA analyst and foreign affairs advisor
• George W. Bush – 43rdPresident of the United States
• Aaron Bushnell – 25-year-old airman wholive streamed hisself-immolation and resultant death outside the front gate of theEmbassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. in protest ofgenocide andUnited States support for Israel in the Gaza war
• Craig D. Button – Victim of mysterious flight and crash
• Red Buttons –Oscar-winning film actor

• Bruce Cabot – Film actor
• Frank Cady – Film and TV actor
• Ben Nighthorse Campbell –Cheyenne politician who representedColorado's 3rd congressional district in theHouse of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and was aU.S. Senator fromColorado from 1993 to 2005
• Dann Cahn – Film editor
• Daniel Caine – Air Forcemajor andF-16fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF MajorHeather Penney,CaptainBrandon Rasmussen andLieutenant GeneralMarc Sasseville) on9/11 was to findUnited Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, includingramming the aircraft.
• George Carlin –Emmy Award-nominated andGrammy-winning stand-up comedian and actor
• Don Carpenter – Novelist andWGA Award-nominated screenwriter
• John Carroll – Film actor
• Jack Carter –Daytime Emmy Award-nominated comedian, actor and television presenter
• Johnny Cash –Grammy Award-winning country music singer and musician
• Don Castle – Film actor
• Clint Castleberry – College football player
• James Lea Cate – Historian
• Clarence Chamberlin – Barnstormer and aviation pioneer
• Harry Chapin – Singer/songwriter
• Hollis B. Chenery – Economist
• John Ciardi – Poet
• Theresa Claiborne – First femaleAfrican-American pilot in the U.S. Air Force
• Beryl Clark – Professional football player
• Hal Clement – Author
• Larry Clinton – Band leader
• William Close – Surgeon and physician, father ofOscar-nominated actressGlenn Close
• Lee J. Cobb –Oscar-nominated film actor
• Bill Cobbs –Emmy Award-winning film and TV actor
• Jacqueline Cochran – Aviator; co-founder and director of theWomen Airforce Service Pilots
• Red Cochran – Professional football player, coach, and scout
• Fred Coe –Oscar-nominated film and TV director, film and TV producer and screenwriter
• Gene Colan –comic book artist best known for his work forMarvel Comics
• Charles J. Colgan – Virginia politician and founder ofColgan Air.
• Eileen Collins – Astronaut (STS-84,STS-93,STS-114)
• Michael Collins – Astronaut (Gemini 10 &Apollo 11)
• Ramón Colón-López – First Hispanic recipient of theAir Force Combat Action Medal
• Darva Conger – formeremergency departmentnurse and winner onWho Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? in 2000
• John Connell – Film, TV, stage and voice actor
• Mike Connors –Emmy-nominated andGolden Globe Award-winning film and TV actor best known for playing private detectiveJoe Mannix
• William Conrad –Emmy andGolden Globe Award-nominated film and TV actor, director and producer
• Jackie Coogan – Film and television actor
• Gordon Cooper – Mercury astronaut (Mercury 9 &Gemini 5)
• Merian C. Cooper –Oscar-nominated filmmaker, adventurer and producer who served as afighter pilot inWorld War I. Cooper also served as an aviator in thePolish Air Force.
• Joseph Cotten – Film actor
• Joe Coulombe – American entrepreneur who founded the grocery store chainTrader Joe's
• James E. Counsilman – Collegiate swimming coach
• John R. Countryman – American child actor known by the stage name "Johnny Russell" who served as an Air Force pilot and later as a career officer for theUnited States Foreign Service (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• Alexander Courage –Oscar-nominated andEmmy Award-winning film composer
• Clyde Cowan – Physicist and discoverer of theneutrino
• James Gould Cozzens –Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
• Brad Crandall –Radio personality, voice-over announcer and film narrator, best known for his radio show onWNBC inNew York City which aired from March 1964 to September 1971. Crandall also served in theU.S. Marine Corps.
• Broderick Crawford –Oscar-winning film and television actor
• Mort Crim – Television news anchor^[1]
• Adrian Cronauer – Lawyer, media expert and inspiration for the filmGood Morning, Vietnam
• Floyd Crosby –Oscar andGolden Globe Award-winningcinematographer
• Robert Cummings –Emmy Award-winning film and television actor

• James Daly –Emmy Award-winning actor (Planet of the Apes)
• Tom D'Andrea – Film and television actor
• Tom Daschle – Senator fromSouth Dakota
• Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. – First African-AmericanUSAF general officer
• Bud Day –Medal of Honor recipient andprisoner of war inVietnam
• Jimmy Dean –Grammy Award-winningcountry music singer, television host, actor, businessman and creator of theJimmy Dean sausage brand
• Brad Dexter – Film actor and producer
• James Dickey – Poet, author of the 1970 novelDeliverance andGolden Globe-nominated screenwriter of the1972 film adaptation
• William Diehl – Author of the novelPrimal Fear which was adapted into the 1996film of the same name
• Joe DiMaggio –New York Yankeescenter fielder
• Lawrence Dobkin –Emmy Award-nominated actor (North by Northwest)
• Brian Donlevy –Oscar-nominated film actor
• Jimmy Doolittle – Test pilot and aeronautical engineer
• Bob Dornan – Member of Congress from California andtalk radio personality
• Robert Drew –Documentary filmmaker known as the father ofcinéma vérité ordirect cinema in the United States (Primary,Crisis)
• Gary Drinkwater – Maine state representative^[2]
• Howard Duff – Film and television actor (Kramer vs. Kramer,The Late Show)
• Charles Duke – Astronaut (Apollo 16)
• Ed Dwight – Sculptor, author, formertest pilot, astronaut and first African American to have entered the Air Force training program from which NASA selected astronauts. He was controversially not selected to officially joinNASA. He finally achieved spaceflight on May 19, 2024, surpassingWilliam Shatner as the oldest person to fly in space.

• Ivan Edwards –flight surgeon, minister, and humanitarian
• Sherman Edwards – composer, jazz pianist and songwriter best known for his songs from the 1969Broadway musical1776 and the1972 film adaptation
• Donn F. Eisele – Astronaut (Apollo 7)
• Robert Ellenstein – Film and television actor
• Sam Elliott –Oscar-nominated film actor
• Cliff Emmich – Film and television actor (Payday)
• Jules Engel –Oscar-nominated film producer, filmmaker and animator
• Joe Engle – Astronaut, X-15 and space shuttle pilot
• Eralia –YouTuber who specializes inreaction videos to film, TV andvideo game content
• Bill Erwin – Character actor known for his 1993Emmy Award-nominated performance onSeinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields in the episode "The Old Man"

• Fred D. Fagg Jr. – 2nd Director of Air Commerce and 6th president of theUniversity of Southern California
• Al Feldstein – Writer, editor and artist best known for his work atEC Comics and as editor of thesatirical magazineMad
• Norman Fell – Film and television actor
• Michael Fincke – Astronaut (STS-134)
• Morton S. Fine –Emmy andEdgar Award-nominated andWGA Award-winning screenwriter known for his writing partnership withDavid Friedkin (The Pawnbroker,I Spy)
• Bryce Fisher – Professional football player
• Joe Flaherty –Emmy Award-winning actor, writer and comedian known for his role as Donald the heckler inHappy Gilmore (1996)
• Pat Flaherty – Film actor andprofessionalbaseball andfootball player who also served in theU.S. Army during thePancho Villa Expedition, as afighter pilot in theU.S. Army Air Service during theFirst World War and as an officer in theU.S. Marine Corps duringWorld War II and theKorean War
• Kelly Flinn – First femaleB-52 pilot
• Med Flory –Jazz saxophonist, bandleader and actor
• Tennessee Ernie Ford – Television comedian and recording artist
• Nathan Bedford Forrest III – Great-grandson ofConfederate generalNathan Bedford Forrest
• John Forsythe –Emmy-nominated andGolden Globe Award-winning film and television actor
• Roger Fortson – Black Air Force serviceman who was fatally shot in his home inFort Walton Beach, Florida by Deputy Eddie Duran of theOkaloosa County Sheriff's Office in May 2024. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office concluded that Duran's "use of deadly force was not objectively reasonable".
• Joe Foss –U.S. Marine Corpsflying ace and 20th Governor of South Dakota
• William Price Fox – Novelist and screenwriter
• John Frankenheimer –Emmy Award-winning andGolden Globe-nominated filmmaker
• Arthur Franz – Film actor
• Al Freeman Jr. –Emmy Award-nominated film and TV actor
• Morgan Freeman –Oscar-winning film actor
• Theodore Freeman – Astronaut (first fatality)
• Jacque Fresco – Americanfuturist,social engineer, founder ofThe Venus Project, and advocate of global implementation of a socioeconomic system known as a "resource-based economy"
• Bruce Jay Friedman –Oscar-nominated screenwriter, novelist, playwright and actor

• Clark Gable –Oscar-winning film actor
• William Gaines – Publisher and co-editor ofEC Comics
• Ernest K. Gann – Novelist
• Daniel Garber – Artist
• William T. Gardiner – 55thGovernor of Maine
• Arthur Gardner – Film actor and producer
• Robert Gates – 22ndUnited States Secretary of Defense
• Marvin Gaye –Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter
• Michael V. Gazzo – Broadway playwright andOscar-nominated film actor best known for playingFrank Pentangeli inThe Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Elmer Gedeon – Three-sport college athlete and professional baseball player
• Leigh Gerdine – Musician, civic leader,Webster University president
• Henry Gibson –Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor andGrammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter
• Nelson Gidding –Oscar-nominated screenwriter
• Lewis Gilbert –Oscar-nominated andBAFTA Award-winning filmmaker
• Guy Gilpatric – Pilot,flight instructor,journalist,short-story writer andnovelist, best known for his Mr. Glencannon stories
• Sidney Glazier –Oscar-winning film producer
• John Glenn – Aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician who became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn initially enlisted in theArmy Air Corps duringWorld War II, then later served as anaval aviator in theMarine Corps.
• George Gobel – Television comedian
• Arthur Godfrey – Television personality
• Barry Goldwater – Senator fromArizona and1964 Republican presidential nominee
• Alberto Gonzales – 80thUnited States Attorney General
• Bert I. Gordon –Visual effects artist and filmmaker
• Dick Grace – Film stunt flyer
• Lindsey Graham – Senator fromSouth Carolina
• Susan Grant – Novelist
• Peter Graves –Emmy andGolden Globe Award-winning film and television actor
• Hank Greenberg –Major League Baseball player
• Frederick D. Gregory – Astronaut (STS-51-B,STS-33,STS-44)
• John Howard Griffin – Journalist and author best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line first-hand published under the titleBlack Like Me (1961)
• Gus Grissom – Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Astronaut

• Larry Hagman –Emmy andGolden Globe Award-nominated film and television actor, director and producer
• William Wister Haines – Novelist, screenwriter and playwright
• Fred Haise – Naval aviator, Air Force pilot,test pilot and NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 andSpace Shuttle Enterprise). Of the 24 men to have ever flown to the moon, Haise is also the onlyMarine.
• Arch Hall Sr. – Screenwriter, actor and filmmaker
• James Norman Hall – American writer best known forThe Bounty Trilogy who holds the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies duringWorld War I;Great Britain as aninfantryman, and thenFrance and theUnited States as an aviator
• Iceal Hambleton – Missile expert, subject of"Bat 21" rescue
• Arthur B. Hancock, Jr. – Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
• Jack Hanlon – Child actor known for his role inOur Gang and silent films
• Brian Harnois – formerparanormal investigator forGhost Hunters andGhost Hunters International
• Pat Harrington Jr. –Emmy Award-winning stage and television actor
• Harry Harrison –Science fiction author known mostly for his novelMake Room! Make Room! (1966)
• Paul Harvey –Peabody Award-winning radio broadcaster forABC News Radio
• Bob Hastings – Film and TV actor
• Howard Hawks –Oscar-nominated filmmaker who served as an aviator andflight instructor with theAviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps and with theUnited States Army Air Service duringWorld War I
• Michael Hayden – 19thCIA Director
• John Morse Haydon – Governor ofAmerican Samoa from 1969 to 1974
• Peter Lind Hayes –Vaudeville entertainer and film and television actor
• Van Heflin –Oscar-winning film actor
• H. John Heinz III – Senator from Pennsylvania
• Joseph Heller – Novelist
• Susan Helms – Astronaut (STS-54,STS-64,STS-78,STS-101,Expedition 2 -STS-102 /STS-105)
• Sherman Hemsley –Emmy andGolden Globe Award-nominated actor and musician
• Skitch Henderson – Band leader
• Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks - Rapper, singer and record producer
• Chad Hennings – Professional football player
• Jim Hensley – Beer executive and father-in-law toJohn McCain
• Don Herbert – Television personality better known as "Mr. Wizard"
• Charlton Heston –Oscar-winning film actor
• Nat Hiken – Five-timeEmmy Award-winning television writer, director, producer and songwriter
• John Hillerman – Film actor
• Don Ho –Hawaiiantraditional pop musician, singer and entertainer
• Ben Hogan – Professional golfer
• Dick Hogan – Film actor
• William Holden –Oscar-winning film actor
• Tim Holt – Film actor
• LeRoy Homer Jr. – Airline pilot, co-pilot ofUnited Airlines Flight 93
• John Hope – Television meteorologist
• Rance Howard – Film and television actor, also father of actor and filmmakerRon Howard and actorClint Howard, and grandfather of actressesBryce Dallas Howard andPaige Howard
• David Huddleston –Emmy Award-nominated film and television actor
• John Hudson – Film and TV actor
• Rune Hultman – Film actor
• E. Howard Hunt –Intelligence officer and author known for his involvement in theWatergate scandal, also served in theU.S. Navy and theOffice of Strategic Services
• Rick Husband –NASA astronaut killed in theColumbia Space Shuttle disaster (STS-96,STS-107)
• Bobby Hutchins – Child actor known for his role inOur Gang shorts
• Mac Hyman – Novelist

• James Irwin – Astronaut (Apollo 15 - eighth person to walk on the Moon)
• Burl Ives –Oscar-winning film actor andGrammy Award-winning musician

• James Jabara – First American jet ace
• Bernard James – NBA player for theDallas Mavericks
• Randall Jarrell – Poet
• Rick Jason – Film and television actor
• Russell Johnson – Film and television actor
• Sam Johnson – Member of Congress of Texas
• Bobby Jones – Amateur golf champion
• David M. Jones –Doolittle Raider and POW ofStalag Luft III.
• Jimmy J. Jumper – Air Force Major General and father of General John P. Jumper
• John P. Jumper – 17th Air Force Chief of Staff and retired four star General

• James Karen –Saturn Award-winning film, television and theater actor
• Phil Karlson –Emmy-nominated film and television director
• Todd Karns – Film actor who playedGeorge Bailey's younger brother, Harry, in the 1946 filmIt's a Wonderful Life
• Nicholas Katzenbach – 65th United States Attorney General
• William Keighley – Film director and actor who supervised theFirst Motion Picture Unit of theUnited States Army Air Forces duringWorld War II
• DeForest Kelley – Film and television actor
• Jack Kelly – Film, TV and stage actor
• Orry-Kelly – Three-timeOscar-winningHollywoodcostume designer
• Arthur Kennedy – Five-timeOscar-nominated film actor
• Ron Kenoly – Christian music worship leader
• Irvin Kershner – Film director
• Algene and Frederick Key – Brothers and aviation pioneers
• Shawna Kimbrell –Lieutenant Colonel and first femaleAfrican-Americanfighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force
• Iven Kincheloe – Air Force test pilot
• Micki King – Olympic diving gold-medalist and athletic coach
• Wally Kinnan – Pioneering meteorologist
• Julian Koenig – American copywriter who was inducted intoThe One Club Creative Hall of Fame in 1966
• Lester Koenig – Screenwriter, film producer, and founder of the jazz record labelContemporary Records
• Gene Kranz –aerospace engineer who served asNASA's secondChief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury,Gemini andApollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission,Apollo 11
• Norman Krasna –Oscar-winning screenwriter

• Alan Ladd – Film actor
• David Ladd – Film and TV producer and former actor
• Fiorello H. La Guardia – Mayor of New York City
• Tim LaHaye –Baptistevangelical Christianminister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including theLeft Behindapocalyptic fiction series
• Frank Purdy Lahm – First military aviator
• Jay Lambert – Olympic and professional boxer and general surgeon
• Paul Lambert – Film and television actor
• Tom Landry –Dallas Cowboys football coach
• Mario Lanza –Grammy Award-nominated tenor and actor
• Arnold Laven – Film andtelevision director and producer
• Beirne Lay, Jr. – Screenwriter, co-author ofTwelve O'Clock High
• Norman Lear –Emmy Award-winning TV and film producer, director andOscar-nominated screenwriter
• Jeannie Leavitt – First female USAF fighter pilot in 1993 and first woman to command a combat fighter wing
• Robert LeFevre – Americanlibertarianbusinessman,radio personality and primary theorist ofautarchism
• Curtis LeMay – USAF Chief of Staff and 1968 vice presidential candidate
• C.W. Lemoine – author,fighter pilot andYouTuber who also served as an aviator in theU.S. Navy
• John Levitow – Enlisted recipient of theMedal of Honor
• Jules V. Levy – Film and television producer and screenwriter
• Buddy Lewis –Major League Baseball player
• Larry Lieber –Comic book artist and writer best known as co-creator ofIron Man,Thor andAnt-Man
• Charles Lindbergh – Legendary aviator
• George Lindsey – Film and TV actor and stand-up comedian
• James Lipton –Emmy Award-winning writer, lyricist, actor anddeanemeritus of theActors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was also the executive producer, writer and host of theBravo TV seriesInside the Actors Studio.
• Roger Locher – USAF pilot whose rescue was the deepest insideNorth Vietnam of the entireVietnam War
• Jon Locke – Film and TV actor
• Frank Loesser –Oscar,Grammy,Tony andPulitzer Prize-winning songwriter
• Donald S. Lopez, Sr. –Ace with theFlying Tigers
• Pare Lorentz – Filmmaker known for his film work about theNew Deal
• Robert Moffat Losey – Meteorologist; considered to be the first American military casualty ofWorld War II
• Charlie Louvin –Grammy Award-nominatedcountry music singer and songwriter best known as one ofthe Louvin Brothers
• Nancy Harkness Love – Aviator and co-founder of theWomen Airforce Service Pilots
• Frank Luke Jr. –Medal of Honor recipient duringWorld War I
• Anna Paulina Luna –Maxim magazine model and politician
• Jeffrey Lynn – Actor and film producer

• John E. Mack – Psychiatrist
• Gavin MacLeod – Film and television actor
• Gordon MacRae – Broadway and Film actor
• John Lee Mahin – Screenwriter and film producer
• Nicole Malachowski – First woman pilot withUnited States Air Force Thunderbirds
• Karl Malden –Oscar-winning film actor
• Henry Mancini – Four-timeOscar-winning and 20-timeGrammy Award-winning film composer and musician
• Herman J. Mankiewicz –Oscar-winning screenwriter ofCitizen Kane who also served in theU.S. Marine Corps
• Delbert Mann –Oscar-winning film and TV director
• Paul Mantz – Filmstunt pilot
• Steven Marlo – Film and television actor
• Barney Martin – Film and television actor and retiredNYPDdetective
• Dean Paul Martin – Singer and actor
• Tony Martin – Entertainer
• Vernon Martin – Professional football player
• Candy Massaroni –Republican member of theKentucky House of Representatives from Kentucky's 50th House district^[3]
• Jerry Mathers – Television actor
• Kerwin Mathews – Film and television actor
• Walter Matthau –Oscar-winning film actor
• MC Tee – Musician
• T. Allen McArtor – Business executive andFAAAdministrator
• Cormac McCarthy –Pulitzer Prize-winning author and screenwriter
• Kevin McCarthy –Oscar-nominated film actor
• Joseph C. McConnell – Leading U.S.ace of theKorean War
• Tim McCoy – Film actor
• James McDivitt – Astronaut (Gemini 4,Apollo 9)
• Spanky McFarland – Child actor known for playing Spanky in theOur Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s
• George McGovern – Senator fromSouth Dakota,1972 presidential nominee
• Andrew J. McIntyre –Cinematographer and friend of movie starClark Gable who enlisted together in theArmy Air Force duringWorld War II
• Robert McNamara and theWhiz Kids –Ford Motor Company executives
• Joseph McNeil – USAFmajor general best known for being a member of theGreensboro Four—a group ofAfrican Americancollege students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at asegregatedWoolworth's lunch counter in downtownGreensboro, North Carolina, challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers
• Pamela Melroy – Astronaut (STS-92,STS-112,STS-120)
• Lee Mendelson – Six-timeEmmy-winning animation producer and executive producer of manyPeanuts animated specials
• Burgess Meredith –Oscar-nominated film, theater and TV actor and filmmaker
• James Meredith – Civil Rights figure; first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi
• Gary Merrill – Film actor

• Ray Milland –Oscar-winning film actor and director who served in theBritish Army and later as a civilianflight instructor with theU.S. Army Air Force duringWWII
• Glenn Miller –Grammy Award-winning musician and band leader
• Walter M. Miller, Jr. –Science fiction author
• John Purroy Mitchel – 95th Mayor of New York City
• Billy Mitchell – Grandfather of the U.S. Air Force.
• Cameron Mitchell – Film actor
• Nicole Mitchell – TV meteorologist
• Dana Mohler-Faria – President,Bridgewater State College
• Rudy Moise –flight surgeon, lawyer, and politician
• George Montgomery – Film and television actor
• Clayton Moore – Television actor
• Robin Moore – Author ofThe Green Berets andThe French Connection andRazzie Award-winning screenwriter
• Dodge Morgan –Single-handed sailor and entrepreneur
• Tad Mosel –Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of the leading dramatists of hour-longteleplay genre for live television during the 1950s
• Charlie Munger – Billionaire investor
• Richard Murphy –Oscar-nominated screenwriter

• Jack Narz – TV game show host
• George N. Neise – Film actor
• Barry Nelson – Film and television actor noted as the first actor to portrayIan Fleming'ssecret agent characterJames Bond
• Ralph Nelson –Oscar-nominated andEmmy Award-winning filmmaker who served as afighter pilot andflight instructor in theArmy Air Corps duringWWII
• Willie Nelson –Oscar-nominated andGrammy Award-winning musician, singer and songwriter
• Mike Nesmith – Guitarist, member of "The Monkees," and heir to the Liquid Paper fortune
• Jack Nicholson –Oscar-winning film actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• Cody Nickson – American television personality, winner ofThe Amazing Race 30, contestant ofBig Brother 19^[4]
• Charles Nordhoff – American writer best known forThe Bounty Trilogy who served in theAmbulance Corps duringWorld War I, as well as a military aviator in both the FrenchLafayette Flying Corps and theU.S. Army Air Service
• Chuck Norris –B-movie actor

• Edmond O'Brien –Oscar-winning film actor
• Donald O'Connor –Emmy andGolden Globe Award-winning film actor
• Jarvis Offutt –U.S. Army Air Service aviator and namesake ofOffutt Air Force Base
• Robin Olds – Two-war tripleflying ace
• George Olesen – Cartoonist
• Patrick O'Neal – Film actor
• Robert Osborne – Actor, film historian and author best known as the primary host of the cable channelTurner Classic Movies (TCM) for more than 20 years

• Reverend Bernard T. Pagano –Roman Catholicpriest and high school teacher who was falsely accused and arrested in 1979 for committing nine robberies inDelaware andPennsylvania, in which an otherwise polite man held store clerks at gunpoint, demanding money. Pagano was cleared of the charges when the real culprit Ronald W. Clouser turned himself in. Pagano's story was dramatized in the 1981 filmThe Gentleman Bandit (directed byJonathan Kaplan), in which Pagano served astechnical advisor. Pagano later taughttheology atNotre Dame High School inEaston, Pennsylvania in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
• Jack Palance –Oscar-winning film actor
• Gregg Palmer – Film and TV actor
• Ron Paul – Member of Congress; 1988, 2008 & 2012 Presidential candidate
• John Payne – Film actor
• Stacy Pearsall –Combat photographer, two-time winner of theNPPA Military Photographer of the Year award
• Leo Penn – Film director
• Leonard Pennario – Concert pianist and composer
• Heather Penney – Former Air Forcemajor andF-16fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF MajorDaniel Caine,CaptainBrandon Rasmussen andLieutenant GeneralMarc Sasseville) on9/11 was to findUnited Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, includingramming the aircraft.
• Oscar Francis Perdomo – "Ace in a Day"
• Sonny Perdue – 81st Governor of Georgia.
• H. Ross Perot, Jr. – Member of theForbes 400 and son ofRoss Perot
• Rick Perry – 47th Governor of Texas
• House Peters Jr. – Actor
• Paul Picerni – Actor
• Slim Pickens – Actor androdeo performer
• William H. Pitsenbarger – Enlisted recipient of theMedal of Honor
• Robert M. Polich, Sr. – Recipient ofDistinguished Flying Cross and POW ofStalag Luft III
• Gregg Popovich – Head Coach of theNBA professional basketball teamSan Antonio Spurs
• Wiley Post – Famed American aviator during theinterwar period and the firstpilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the firstpressure suits and discovered thejet stream.
• Tom Poston – Television comedian
• H.C. Potter – Film director and producer
• Jody Powell – White House Press Secretary
• Francis Gary Powers –CIAU-2spy plane pilot
• Robert Preston –Oscar-nominated film andBroadway actor
• Robert Prosky – Film actor
• Mario Puzo – Author ofThe Godfather (1969) andOscar-winning screenwriter of the1972 film adaptation and its sequels

• Elwood R. "Pete" Quesada – Aviation pioneer
• Robin Quivers – Co-host ofThe Howard Stern Show

• Dennis Rader – BTK Serial Killer
• John Randolph – Broadway and film actor
• Brandon Rasmussen – Air ForceCaptain andF-16fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAFMajorHeather Penney, MajorDaniel Caine andLieutenant GeneralMarc Sasseville) on9/11 was to findUnited Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, includingramming the aircraft.
• Gene Rayburn –Emmy-nominated radio and television personality
• Gene Raymond – Film actor
• Ronald Reagan –B-movie actor and 40th President of the United States
• Chuck Reed – Mayor ofSan Jose, California and his daughter,Kim Campbell, a decorated Iraq War pilot
• George Reeves – Television and film actor
• William Rehnquist – 16thChief Justice of the United States
• Carl Reiner –Emmy andGrammy Award-winning film and television actor, comedian, filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
• John Rich –Emmy Award-winning film andtelevision director
• Lloyd Richards –Emmy Award-nominatedtelevision director, theatre director, actor, and dean of theYale School of Drama
• Eddie Rickenbacker – Leading AmericanWorld War Iflying ace
• Roy Riegels –All-American football player
• Robinson Risner – Decorated USAF General and Vietnam POW.
• R. Stephen Ritchie – USAF Ace in the Vietnam War
• Martin Ritt –Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Hal Roach –Oscar-winning producer and screenwriter
• Tom Robbins – American novelist known for hisseriocomedies (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,Tibetan Peach Pie)
• Gene Roddenberry –Emmy Award-nominated television and film producer
• Marion Rodgers – Communications Specialist, Former Tuskegee Airman
• Gilbert Roland –Golden Globe Award-nominated film and television actor
• Frank Ronzio – Film and TV actor best known for playing Litmus inEscape from Alcatraz
• Stuart Roosa – Astronaut (Apollo 14)
• Elliott Roosevelt – Son ofFranklin D. Roosevelt
• Quentin Roosevelt – Youngest son ofTheodore Roosevelt, killed in aerial combat as a pursuit pilot inWorld War I
• Leonard Rosenman –Oscar-winning film composer
• Bob Ross –Painter, art instructor and television host
• Chelcie Ross – Film actor
• Dan Rowan – Comedian and television actor
• Joe Mack Roy –TikTok star known for his "Pop Watch" videos
• Kurt Russell –Emmy andGolden Globe-nominated film and television actor
• Dick Rutan – Aviation record-holder and aircraft designer

• Sabu – Film actor
• William Sachs – Film director, producer and screenwriter (Joe)
• James Salter – Novelist
• Tommy Sands – Pop music singer and film actor
• Mark Sanford – 115th Governor of South Carolina
• Marc Sasseville – Retired Air Forcelieutenant general andF-16fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAFMajorHeather Penney, MajorDaniel Caine andCaptainBrandon Rasmussen) on9/11 was to findUnited Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, includingramming the aircraft. Sasseville later served as the 12thVice Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
• John Monk Saunders –Oscar-winning screenwriter, film director and novelist
• William Schallert –Emmy Award-nominated actor
• Roy Scheider –Oscar-nominated film and TV actor
• Bob Schieffer – Television journalist
• Josef Schmid – NASAflight surgeon
• Tex Schramm – President and general manager of theDallas Cowboys
• Rusty Schweickart – Astronaut (Apollo 9)
• Dick Scobee – Astronaut, killed inSpace Shuttle Challenger Disaster
• David Scott – Astronaut (Gemini 8,Apollo 9, andApollo 15)
• Donald E. Scott – All-American college footballquarterback
• Dr. Seuss – Famed American children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet,Emmy Award-winning animator and filmmaker
• Carroll Shelby – Automotive designer, racecar driver and entrepreneur who served as a bomber pilot inWorld War II
• Jim Siedow – Film and TV actor
• Gregory Sierra – Film and TV actor
• Lance Sijan –Medal of Honor recipient
• John Simon – Literary, theater and film critic
• Neil Simon – Four-timeOscar-nominated andGolden Globe Award-winning screenwriter, playwright and author
• Sinbad – Actor and comedian
• Tom Skerritt – Film actor
• Richard X. Slattery – Film and TV actor
• Deke Slayton – Mercury andApollo-Soyuz Test Project astronaut
• Jack Smight – Theater, film and television director
• Dean Smith – American men'scollege basketballhead coach for 36 years at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Gretchen Smith – Founder of the charity organization "Code of Vets"
• Hal Smith – Film and television actor
• Tubby Smith – NCAA Men's Basketball Coach
• William Smith – Film and television actor and championarm-wrestler
• Carl Spaatz – Pioneer airman, firstChief of Staff of the Air Force
• Aaron Spelling – Film andtelevision producer
• Mickey Spillane – Crime novelist
• Caroll Spinney – Puppeteer, cartoonist and artist most famous for playingBig Bird andOscar the Grouch onSesame Street
• G.D. Spradlin – Film actor known forThe Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Thomas P. Stafford – Astronaut and aviator (Gemini 6A,Gemini 9A,Apollo 10)
• Bill Stealey – Business CEO and co-founder ofMicroProse
• David Steeves – Pilot who crashed in theSierra Nevada and endured a nearly two month survival ordeal.
• George Steinbrenner – Team owner of theNew York Yankees
• Robert Sterling – Film actor
• Craig Stevens – Television actor
• George Stevens Jr. –Oscar-nominated producer, TV director, playwright and author
• Ted Stevens – Senator fromAlaska
• James Stewart –Oscar-winning film actor
• Bert Stiles – Author
• Ralph Story – Television personality who served as aP-51fighter pilot andflight instructor duringWorld War II
• Dale E. Stovall – USAF General, decorated Vietnam War search and rescue pilot
• Joseph Strick –Oscar-winning film director, producer and screenwriter
• Woody Strode –Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor and football player
• John Sturges –Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Preston Sturges –Oscar-winning filmmaker
• Chesley Sullenberger – Airline pilot, hero ofMiracle on the Hudson
• Bruce Sundlun – 71st governor of Rhode Island
• Charles Sweeney – Pilot who flew theFat Man bomb to Nagasaki.
• Dolph Sweet – Film and TV actor
• David Swift –WGA Award-nominated screenwriter, animator, director and producer
• Jack Swigert – Astronaut and congressman-elect

• Don Taylor – Actor and filmmaker known for directingTom Sawyer (1973) andEchoes of a Summer (1976) starringJodie Foster. Also directedDamien: Omen II (1978).
• Fred Taylor – College basketball coach
• Kenneth M. Taylor –World War IIace at theAttack on Pearl Harbor
• Jack Teixeira – American airman of theMassachusetts Air National Guard who was convicted onespionage charges in 2024 afterleaking hundreds of classified Pentagon documents
• Hunter S. Thompson –WGA Award-nominated author and journalist
• Stephen W. Thompson – First U.S. aviator to shoot down an enemy aircraft.
• Bobby Thomson –Major League Baseball player
• Leo K. Thorsness –Medal of Honor recipient andVietnamPOW.
• Harrison R. Thyng – Two-war ace and Senate candidate
• Paul Tibbets – Commander of theEnola Gay
• Mel Tillis –Country music singer
• Grant Tinker –Peabody Award-winning television executive who served as chairman andCEO ofNBC
• Kenneth Tobey – Actor known forIt Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) andThe Candidate (1972)
• Tuskegee Airmen – First African-American military pilots
• Archie R. Twitchell – Actor and test pilot known forOut of the Past (1947),Sunset Boulevard (1950) andThe Gunfighter (1950)

• Stewart Udall – 37thUnited States Secretary of the Interior

• Dick Van Dyke –Emmy Award-winning andGolden Globe-nominated film and television actor, comedian, writer, singer and dancer
• Jerry Van Dyke –Emmy Award-nominated film and television actor, musician and comedian
• Melvin Van Peebles –Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, actor, playwright, novelist and composer best known forSweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, regarded as one of the earliest and most successful films in theblaxploitation genre
• Richard Verma – American diplomat serving as thedeputy secretary of state for management and resources since April 2023

• Joseph A. Walker –X-15 test pilot
• Kenneth N. Walker –Medal of Honor recipient, airpower visionary
• George Wallace – 45th Governor of Alabama and presidential candidate
• Walter Wanger –Oscar-nominated producer (Stagecoach,Invasion of the Body Snatchers,Cleopatra)
• Fred Ward – Actor and producer
• Jack L. Warner –Oscar-winning producer and Hollywood film executive
• Jack Webb – Film and television actor, director, and producer
• George Welch –World War IIflying ace, decorated for heroism at theAttack on Pearl Harbor
• William A. Wellman –Oscar-winning filmmaker who, duringWorld War I, served as afighter pilot in theFrench Foreign Legion, as a driver in theNorton-Harjes Ambulance Corps on theWestern Front, and as aflight instructor in theUnited States Army Air Service. He was also the first American to joinEscadrille N.87 in theLafayette Flying Corps of theFrench Air Force during the war. As a fighter pilot, he is credited with three confirmed kills and five probables.
• David Westheimer – Novelist
• Donald E. Westlake –Oscar-nominated screenwriter and novelist
• Ed White – Astronaut (Gemini 4, first American to walk in space)
• Frank D. White – 41st Governor of Arkansas
• Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney – Businessman
• John Hay Whitney – Newspaper publisher andAmbassador to Great Britain
• Thornton Wilder – Novelist and playwright (The Bridge of San Luis Rey,Our Town,The Skin of Our Teeth)
• Charles Willeford – Novelist and poet (Cockfighter,Miami Blues,The Woman Chaser,The Burnt Orange Heresy)
• Grant Williams – Film, theater and television actor
• John Williams – Five-timeOscar-winning film composer
• John Edward Williams –National Book Award-winning author, editor and professor (Butcher's Crossing,Stoner,Augustus)
• Gordon Willis –Oscar-nominatedcinematographer
• Flip Wilson –Emmy,Grammy andGolden Globe Award-winning actor and comedian
• Heather Wilson – U.S. Member of Congress fromNew Mexico
• Jason Wingreen – Film and television actor known as the original voice ofBoba Fett inStar Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
• Reality Winner – Whistleblower
• Harris Wofford – U.S. Senator fromPennsylvania
• Morgan Woodward – Film and television actor
• Alfred Worden – Astronaut (Apollo 15)
• James C. "Jim" Wright, Jr. –U.S. Representative fromTexas and 56thSpeaker of the House
• William Wyler – Three-timeOscar-winning filmmaker

• Chuck Yeager – Air Forcetest pilot who became the first person to exceed thespeed of sound inlevel flight
• Coleman Young –Mayor of Detroit (1974–1994)

• Louis Zamperini –Olympicdistance runner
• Darryl F. Zanuck – Three-timeOscar-winning film producer andstudio executive
• Howard Zinn – Historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual

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