Officers

• Andrew Baldwin – doctor and the bachelor for Season 10 ofThe Bachelor
• Commodore John Barry – "Father of the American Navy"
• W.W. Behrens, Jr. –earth-sciencesfuturist
• Hale Boggs – member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew Orleans andHouse majority leader
• Jeremy Michael Boorda –admiral, formerChief of Naval Operations
• Henry L. Brandon –naval aviator and oil executive
• Bill Branon – captain and naval medical officer, novelist
• Bruce Bromley – associate judge of theNew York Court of Appeals, prominent trial lawyer atCravath, Swaine & Moore
• Don Brown – former U.S. Navy JAG officer, author of theNavy Justice Series
• John D. Bulkeley –Vice admiral and one of the most decorated officers of the U.S. Navy. Recipient of theMedal of Honor for his actions in thePacific Theater duringWorld War II. He was also thePT boat skipper whoevacuated GeneralDouglas MacArthur fromCorregidor in the Philippines and commanded at theBattle of La Ciotat. Bulkeley's PT-boat heroics in defending the Philippines from Japanese invasion in 1941-1942 was the subject of the novelThey Were Expendable byWilliam Lindsay White in 1942, which was turned into the big screen epicThey Were Expendable three years later by directorJohn Ford, starringJohn Wayne, withRobert Montgomery playing a somewhat fictionalized Bulkeley role.
• Arleigh Burke – destroyer captain
• George H. W. Bush – naval aviator, formerU.S. President; former director of theCentral Intelligence Agency
• Richard Evelyn Byrd – polar explorer
• James F. Cahill – one of the first scuba divers and firstNavy SEALs
• Joe Cardona - 2 timeSuper Bowl champion with theNew England Patriots and current long snapper for theMiami Dolphins
• Jimmy Carter – USNA class ‘47, former U.S. President;Cold War submariner andPeace Prize laureate
• Cesar Chavez – civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became theUnited Farm Workers
• Vern Clark – former Chief of Naval Operations
• Laura M. Cobb –navy nurse,lieutenant commander inWorld War II andprisoner of war held by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945, in which she served aschief nurse for the eleven other imprisoned Navy nurses—known as the "Twelve Anchors"
• Donnie Cochran – firstAfrican-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".
• William J. Crowe – USNA class ‘47, Four-star admiral, 12th Commander of United States Pacific Command, 11th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 5th Chair of the Intelligence Oversight Board, 10th Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
• Duke Cunningham – naval aviator, former member of the US House of Representatives
• Dorothy Still Danner –navy nurse andlieutenant junior grade inWorld War II andprisoner of war held by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945, one of the "Twelve Anchors"
• Glenn Robert Davis – former member of theU.S. House of Representatives
• Stephen Decatur – hero of Tripoli
• Terry Deitz – naval aviator,TV presenter and formerSurvivor contestant
• Robert Dennison – retired admiral, presidential aide
• Jeremiah Denton – American politician and naval aviator who while being held captive in aNorth VietnamesePOW camp participated in a 1966 televised propaganda interview in which he blinked his eyes inMorse code, spelling the word "torture" and confirming for the first time to U.S.Naval Intelligence that American POWs were beingtortured.
• P.T. Deutermann – author, formerUnited States Navycaptain
• George Dewey – hero of the Battle of Manila Bay inSpanish–American War; first and onlyAdmiral of the Navy
• Hunter Ellis – naval aviator, TV presenter and formerSurvivor contestant
• David Farragut –American Civil War admiral, first officer to become an admiral
• Lillian E. Fishburne – first African-Americanfemale to hold the rank ofrear admiral
• Wilson Flagg – retired admiral, killed in theSeptember 11 attack
• Eugene B. Fluckey –rear admiral who received theMedal of Honor and fourNavy Crosses during his service as asubmarine commander inWorld War II
• Gerald Ford – former U.S. President; served aboard carrier during World War II
• Edmund Giambastiani – 7thVice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Leroy Gilbert – former officer in theUnited States Navy andChaplain 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 ofUSS 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 ofUSS 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 theAmerican Revolutionary War, considered to be the founder of the American naval tradition
• Charles Keating – naval aviator, real estate developer and banker
• Robert Kelly – Executive Officer ofMotor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 under LieutenantJohn D. Bulkeley, and as commander ofMotor Torpedo Boat PT-34, based in thePhilippines. Kelly took part in the operation toevacuate GeneralDouglas MacArthur and his staff fromCorregidor toMindanao, on the night of March 12–13, 1942 and was subsequently awarded theSilver Star.
• John F. Kennedy – former U.S. President; decoratedPT 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 – formerU.S. Senator; Navy SEAL commander during theVietnam War and first SEAL officer to win theMedal of Honor for classified raid in which he lost his lower leg by aViet Cong grenade.
• John Kerry – formerU.S. Secretary of State andU.S. Senator fromMassachusetts, was the Democratic nominee forPresident of the United States in the2004 election against PresidentGeorge W. Bush;Navy SWCC officer who, while commanding aSwift boat during theVietnam War, sustained three wounds in combat with theViet Cong, for which he earned threePurple Heart medals. Was also awarded theSilver Star and theBronze 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 renamedChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff); former Chief of Naval Operations; former Governor ofPuerto Rico; former U.S. ambassador toFrance
• Merle Macbain – public information officer whomMount Macbain is named after
• Alfred Thayer Mahan – military strategist
• Richard Marcinko – author, founder and commander ofSEAL Team Six
• J.W. Marriott, Jr. – chairman and CEO ofMarriott International
• John McCain – senior U.S. Senator fromArizona andRepublican presidential candidate in 2008; formernaval 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,FleetMeteorologist andoceanographer
• Harvey Milk – first openly gay San Francisco supervisor. Assassinated November 27, 1978. Subject of the Academy Award-winning andNational Film Registry^[1]documentary filmThe Times of Harvey Milk, as well as the bestselling bookThe Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk^[2]
• Michael Mullen – 28thChief of Naval Operations; 17thChairman 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 boardUSS 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 theBureau of Ordnance, known for assembling (in flight) the triggering mechanism of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" aboard theEnola Gay.
• Ross Perot –business magnate, billionaire, politician,philanthropist
• Matthew Perry – commodore who forced the opening ofJapan
• Oliver Hazard Perry – commanded theBattle 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 – formerNBA star (San Antonio Spurs), commonly nicknamed "The Admiral"
• George Lincoln Rockwell – U.S. Navycommander and founder of theAmerican 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 theWashington House of Representatives; former captain of theBattleshipUSS Iowa (BB-61)
• Tim Sheehy –U.S. Senator from Montana and former Navy SEAL
• Rodger W. Simpson – distinguished himself duringWorld War II, recipient of 2Navy Crosses
• John Philip Sousa – composer and conductor of the lateRomantic era known primarily for American militarymarches including "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Semper Fidelis" (official march of theMarine Corps)
• Paul Spangler – naval surgeon, seniorlong-distance runner
• Raymond A. Spruance – commander at theBattle of Midway, led theFifth Fleet in the Central Pacific and Okinawa. Rebuilt theNaval War College afterWorld War II
• Jackson T. Stephens – investment banker
• James Stockdale – USNA class of 47, Vice Admiral, one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the navy, Vice Presidential Candidate (1992), highest ranking officer to be held captive for 7 years in Vietnam, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient,
• Stansfield Turner – USNA Class of 47, Four star Admiral, Commander of U.S. Second Fleet, Supreme Allied Commander NATO Southern Europe, 12th Director of the CIA (Carter administration), President of the Naval War College, first member of a military academy to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship.
• Blake Wayne Van Leer, commander and captain in theU.S. Navy. LeadSeaBee program and managed the nuclear research and power unit atMcMurdo Station duringOperation Deep Freeze.
• Don Walsh –captain,submarine officer,navy diver,oceanographer and marine policy specialist. While aboard thebathyscapheTrieste, he andJacques Piccard made a record maximum descent in theChallenger Deep on January 23, 1960, to 35,813 feet (10,916 m). Later and more accurate measurements have measured it at 35,798 feet (10,911 m).
• 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
• Jocko Willink –lieutenant commander, author,podcaster, retiredNavy SEAL and former member ofSEAL Team 3
• John Wooden – famous college basketball coach

Astronauts

• Neil Armstrong –naval aviator (Korean War),X-15 pilot,astronautGemini 8 andApollo 11, first man on the Moon
• Alan Bean – naval aviator and astronaut (Apollo 12 andSkylab 3)
• David M. Brown –captain,flight surgeon and astronaut killed in theColumbia Space Shuttle disaster (STS-107)
• Scott Carpenter – naval aviator, astronaut,Mercury 7
• Christopher Cassidy –Navy SEAL, astronautSTS-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 ofApollo 17 (last man on moon)
• Roger Chaffee – naval aviator and astronaut who perished in theApollo 1 fire
• Laurel Clark –captain,flight surgeon and astronaut killed in theColumbia Space Shuttle disaster (STS-107)
• Pete Conrad – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 5 and11, Apollo 12 andSkylab 2)
• Robert Crippen – naval aviator, astronaut (STS-1,STS-7,STS-41-C andSTS-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 fromOhio, 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 andSTS-94)
• Wendy Lawrence – naval aviator, astronaut (STS-67,STS-86,STS-91,STS-114)
• Jim Lovell – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 7 and12,Apollo 8 and 13)
• Ken Mattingly – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 16)
• Bruce McCandless II – naval aviator, astronaut who completed the first untetheredspacewalk by using theManned Maneuvering Unit (STS-41-B,STS-31)
• William C. McCool – naval aviator, astronaut, pilot ofColumbia missionSTS-107
• Edgar Mitchell – naval aviator and astronaut (Apollo 14)
• Lisa Nowak – naval aviator and astronaut (STS-121)
• Alan G. Poindexter – naval aviator, son ofJohn Poindexter and astronaut (STS-122,STS-131)
• Wally Schirra – naval aviator, astronaut (Mercury 8,Gemini 6A andApollo 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 bothSpace ShuttleEnterprise landing tests and on second orbital test flight (STS-2). Later became first astronaut to serve as NASA Administrator under PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush.
• Paul J. Weitz – astronaut (Skylab 2)
• John Young – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 3 and10,Apollo 10 and 16, Shuttle flight STS-1 andSTS-9)

Others

• Frank Abagnale – security consultant, author and convictedfelon who became notorious for impersonating a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer; his life was dramatized in the 2002Oscar-nominated filmCatch Me If You Can
• John Agar – actor (Sands of Iwo Jima,Fort Apache)
• Ralph Ahn – actor and brother of fellow sailorSusan Ahn Cuddy (The Golden Girls,New Girl)
• Susan Ahn – first femalegunnery officer and Asian-American woman to join the U.S. Navy, sister of actor and fellow sailorRalph Ahn
• Eddie Albert – Oscar-nominated actor (Roman Holiday)
• Arthur Leigh Allen – prime suspect in theZodiac Killer case
• Kirk Alyn – first actor to playSuperman in live-action (Superman)
• Bobby Anderson –child actor andtelevision producer (It's a Wonderful Life)
• Ernie Anderson –radio and television personality,horror host andannouncer (Hard Eight)
• Jake Angeli – activist andconspiracy theorist who was convicted for his participation in the2021 U.S. Capitol riots, also known as the "QAnon Shaman"
• Arthur Arling – Oscar-winningcinematographer (The Yearling)
• John Eric Armstrong – American serial killer
• Robert Arthur – actor (Ace in the Hole,Twelve O'Clock High)
• Red Auerbach – professionalbasketball coach, executive and head coach of theBoston Celtics
• James Avery – actor (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
• Hoyt Axton – singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (The Black Stallion,Gremlins)
• David Ayer – director and screenwriter (Fury,End of Watch,Training Day)
• Lloyd Bacon – actor andfilm director (42nd Street)
• Russell Baker –Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, satirical writer, author (Growing Up)
• Bob Barker –naval aviator,Emmy Award-winning host ofThe Price is Right
• John Drew Barrymore – actor, enlisted in the Navy duringWWII 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 andTony Award-winning singer and actor (BlacKkKlansman)
• April D. Beldo – retiredFleet 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 andGolden 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 theNew York Yankees
• Charles Bickford – Oscar-nominated actor (A Star Is Born)
• Hunter Biden – attorney,hedge fund investor and son ofU.S. PresidentJoe Biden
• Charles Alden Black – businessman known for his work inaquaculture andoceanography, husband of child starShirley Temple
• Larry J. Blake – actor (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers,The Werewolf)
• John Boehner –53rdSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives, served 8 weeks in the Navy before being medically discharged
• Rudy Boesch –Navy SEAL, competitor onSurvivor
• 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'sRob & Big television series
• Ben Bradlee – managing editor ofThe Washington Post known for his role in exposing theWatergate scandal
• John Bradley – navyhospital corpsman known for raising the firstU.S. flag during theBattle of Iwo Jima
• Scott Brady – actor (The China Syndrome,Gremlins)
• Carl Brashear – first African Americanmaster 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-nominateddocumentary filmmaker and early pioneer of thesurf film (The Endless Summer,On Any Sunday)
• Paul Brown – American football coach and executive in theAAFC andNFL
• Lenny Bruce –stand-upcomedian,social critic andsatirist
• 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 32ndmayor 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 forThe New York Times
• Harry Carey Jr. – actor (The Searchers)
• Carleton Carpenter – actor (Father of the Bride,Take the High Ground!)
• Johnny Carson – Emmy andPeabody Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated host ofThe Tonight Show
• William J. Casey –Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987
• Seymour Cassel – Oscar-nominated actor (Faces)
• Tom Cherones – Emmy Award-winning television director and producer known for his work onSeinfeld
• James H. Clark – American entrepreneur, founder ofNetscape
• Richard Clayton – actor andtalent 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 andPulitzer Prize-winningjazz musician
• O'Neal Compton – actor (Seinfeld)
• Jackie Cooper – Oscar-nominated actor who retired as acaptain (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, educationalphilanthropist (The Cosby Show)
• Paul Crawford – jazz musician, music arranger and music historian who specialized inDixieland jazz
• Tim Credeur –mixed martial artist and cast member ofThe Ultimate Fighter 7
• Dan Crenshaw – American politician and formerNavy 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 ofMAD Magazine
• Dennis Day – actor, comedian and singer (The Jack Benny Program)
• Richard Denning – actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
• Ron DeSantis – 46thgovernor of Florida
• Billy De Wolfe – actor (The World's Greatest Athlete)
• Bill Dickey – baseballHall of Famer,manager andcatcher for theNew York Yankees
• Matt Dillahunty – former host of the televisedwebcastThe Atheist Experience
• Bradford Dillman – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor (The Way We Were,Compulsion)
• Larry Doby – second black player to breakbaseball's color barrier and first black player in theAmerican League
• Lou Donaldson –jazzalto 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)
• Mike Douglas – Emmy Award-winning host ofThe Mike Douglas Show, "Big Band" era singer and actor
• Rex Downing – child actor (Our Gang,Wuthering Heights)
• William Duell – actor and singer (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• George Duning –musician andfilm composer (From Here to Eternity,3:10 to Yuma)
• Fred Durst – rapper, frontman and lyricist ofLimp Bizkit, and director (The Fanatic)
• Louis Edmonds –Emmy-nominated actor (Dark Shadows,All My Children)
• Anthony Eisley – actor andTV 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 – legendarypumpkin carver, nicknamed the "Pumpkin Man", and former naval intelligence officer
• Bob Feller – baseball Hall of Famer, pitcher for theCleveland Indians
• John Fiedler – actor andvoice actor (12 Angry Men, voice ofPiglet in theWinnie the Pooh franchise)
• Antwone Fisher – author and film producer, subject of 2002 feature filmAntwone Fisher
• Paul Fix – actor (To Kill a Mockingbird,The Rifleman)
• Eric Fleming – actor (Rawhide)
• A.D. Flowers – Oscar-winning visual effects artist (The Poseidon Adventure,The Godfather)
• Larry Flynt – publisher ofHustler
• 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 ofFord Motor Company, grandson ofHenry 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 theArkansas 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 filmThe Pursuit of Happyness
• Tay Garnett – director and screenwriter (The Postman Always Rings Twice)
• Dave Garroway – Emmy-nominatedtelevision andradio personality (NBC'sToday)
• 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 – professionalbaseball umpire
• Don Gordon – Emmy Award-nominated actor (Bullitt)
• Freeman Gosden –radiocomedian, actor andsitcom pioneer (Amos 'n' Andy)
• Calvin Graham – At age 12, Graham became the youngestU.S. serviceman to serve and fight in WWII. Graham later served in theU.S. Marine Corps during theKorean War.
• Farley Granger – Emmy Award-nominated actor (Strangers on a Train)
• Bud Grant –NFL andCFL 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)
• Benji Gregory – child actor (ALF)
• 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 andnovelist
• Harry Guardino – actor (Dirty Harry)
• Robert Gunner – Film and TV actor (Planet of the Apes)
• Fred Gwynne – actor (The Munsters,Pet Sematary,My Cousin Vinny)
• Hard Boiled Haggerty – professional wrestler, football player and actor (Foxy Brown,Earthquake)
• David Hahn – Americannuclear radiation enthusiast who attempted to build a homemadenuclear reactor at the age of seventeen (aka the "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout")
• Fred Haines – Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director (Ulysses)
• H.R. Haldeman –White House Chief of Staff known for his involvement in theWatergate 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 – formerU.S. Senator fromColorado
• 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 theU.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 of60 Minutes onCBS
• Chuck Hicks – actor and stuntman (Raging Bull)
• Steven Hill – Emmy Award-nominated actor (Law & Order)
• Barron Hilton – heir and co-chairman ofHilton 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 andanimal-rights activist (Giant)
• William Hopper –Navy UDT, son ofHedda Hopper, Emmy Award-nominated actor (The Bad Seed,Perry Mason)
• L. Ron Hubbard – science fiction author and founder of theChurch 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 theWatergate 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 andprofessional wrestler (Cool Hand Luke,Planet of the Apes)
• Bill Kaysing – founder of theMoon 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, 64thUnited States Attorney General,U.S. Senator fromNew York, brother of fellow sailor PresidentJohn F. Kennedy
• Jack Kerouac – novelist, poet and pioneer of theBeat Generation (On the Road)
• Hank Ketcham –cartoonist who created theDennis the Menacecomic strip
• Richard Kiley – Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor (Blackboard Jungle)
• Carl Kimmons – first person to rise through the ranks frommess attendant tocommissioned officer
• Ralph Kiner –baseball Hall of Famer, outfielder for thePittsburgh Pirates
• Durward Kirby – television host and announcer (The Garry Moore Show,Candid Camera)
• 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 ofAmerican 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)
• C.W. Lemoine – author,fighter pilot andYouTuber who also served as an aviator in theU.S. Air Force
• Elmore Leonard –Edgar Award-winning novelist and screenwriter (Get Shorty,Jackie Brown,Out of Sight,3:10 to Yuma,Hombre)
• Raymond Lisle – attorney, officer in theUnited States Foreign Service and Dean ofBrooklyn Law School
• John Lodge – actor and79th Governor of Connecticut (Little Women)
• Marcus Luttrell – Navy SEAL,Navy Cross andPurple Heart forOperation Red Wings, author ofLone Survivor
• Tyler MacDuff – actor (Gunsmoke,Maverick)
• Richard Machowicz – Navy SEAL and host ofFuture 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 aprisoner of war untilJapan'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)
• Robert K. Massie –Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and historian (Nicholas and Alexandra)
• 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 1960spsychedelic rock groupCountry 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 theAmerican 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 theNavy 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 – WWIILt Commander onUSSBarton (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 sailorHarvey Milk, wasassassinated byDan 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 comedianEddie Murphy (Chappelle's Show)
• George Nader – Golden Globe Award-winning actor and writer (Robot Monster)
• Ed Nelson – actor (Airport 1975,Runaway Jury)
• Paul Newman – Oscar-winning actor, filmmaker, producer andrace car driver (The Hustler,Cool Hand Luke,The Sting)
• Tommy Noonan – actor, screenwriter, producer (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,Swingin' Along)
• Jay North – actor best known for playing the titular role in the 1959 television seriesDennis the Menace
• 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 inOperation 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)
• Dennis Patrick – actor (Joe,House of Dark Shadows,Major Dundee)
• 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)
• Oscar V. Peterson –chief petty officer who received theMedal of Honor posthumously inWWII for his actions during theBattle of the Coral Sea
• 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 andwar correspondent best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers duringWorld War II
• Thomas Pynchon – writer and novelist (Inherent Vice)
• Paul Raci – Oscar-nominated actor andsign-languageinterpreter for theCalifornia court system (Sound of Metal)
• John Bennett Ramsey – businessman, author and father of murder victimJonBenét 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)
• Sonny Rhodes –blues singer andlap steel guitar player known for composing the main title theme for the TV seriesFirefly
• 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 andshortstop for theNew 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 andNASCAR driver (Honkytonk Man)
• Edward G. Robinson – Hollywood Golden Age actor andHonorary Oscar recipient (Double Indemnity)
• Frank M. Robinson – speechwriter for politicianHarvey Milk, author (The Glass Inferno adapted into the 1974 filmThe 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 andstuntman (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-winningscreenwriter,television producer, novelist andsports 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 and45th governor of Florida
• Willard Scott – Emmy Award-winning weather presenter, actor, clown, creator and original portrayer ofRonald McDonald
• Vin Scully – Americansportscaster
• Kabir Sehgal – Multi-Grammy and Emmy winning artist andNYT bestselling author
• Bill Sharman – member of theBasketball Hall of Fame (Boston Celtics)
• Sammy Shore – actor, comedian and co-founder ofThe 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 inOur Gang)
• Sam Snead –professional golfer
• Ken Spears – animator, writer, TV producer,sound editor (Scooby-Doo)
• Robert Stack – host ofUnsolved 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 – 31stGovernor of Illinois and two-timePresidential 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-winningcinematographer (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 Gangshort 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 –NFLquarterback for theLos Angeles Rams and thePhiladelphia Eagles
• Craig Venter – biologist instrumental in mapping thehuman genome
• Jesse Ventura – formerNavy UDT,professional wrestler,38th Governor of Minnesota and actor (Predator)
• Richard Venture – actor (Scent of a Woman)
• Mickey Vernon – baseball player,first baseman for theCleveland Indians andBoston Red Sox
• Mike Wallace – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winningjournalist, game show host and media personality (60 Minutes)
• Edward Lewis Wallant – author of the 1961 novelThe Pawnbroker which was adapted into the 1964Oscar-nominatedfilm of the same name
• Jack Warden – Oscar-nominated actor (12 Angry Men,Shampoo)
• John Warner – formerRepublicanU.S. Senator fromVirginia andU.S. Secretary of the Navy who later served as an officer in theU.S. Marine Corps; former husband of movie starElizabeth Taylor
• Dennis Weaver – naval aviator and Emmy Award-winning actor (Touch of Evil)
• Paul Francis Webster – Oscar-winninglyricist (Rio Bravo,Mutiny on the Bounty)
• George Westinghouse –entrepreneur,engineer who created therailway air brake, and pioneer of theelectrical 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 ofcrime fiction (Dead Calm,Hell Hath No Fury)
• Montel Williams – Emmy Award-winning talk show host (The Montel Williams Show)
• Roger Williams –popular musicpianist (Swingin' Along)
• Sunita Williams – naval aviator and astronaut
• Ted Williams – naval aviator and baseball Hall of Famer for theBoston Red Sox, also served in theU.S. Marine Corps
• Butch Wilmore – navy test pilot and astronaut
• Walter Winchell – newspapergossip columnist and radio news commentator
• Bill Withers – Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and musician
• Bob Woodward – Pulitzer Prize-winninginvestigative journalist, uncovered theWatergate scandal withCarl Bernstein
• Chuck Woolery –Daytime Emmy Award-nominatedgame show host (Wheel of Fortune,Greed)
• Jeremiah Wright – senior pastor,Trinity United Church of Christ;cardiopulmonary technician (surgery on PresidentLyndon 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!)

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