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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
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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
- 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 )
- 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
- Seymour Cassel – Oscar-nominated actor ( Faces )
- James H. Clark – American entrepreneur, founder of Netscape
- 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
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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.
- 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 )
- 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
- Pete Hamill – journalist, novelist, essayist and editor ( New York Post )
- MC Hammer – Grammy Award-winning rap artist
- 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 )
- Bill Hayes – actor and recording artist who also served in the U.S. Marine Corps ( The Cardinal , " The Ballad of Davy Crockett ")
- 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
- 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! )
- Dick Miller – actor ( Gremlins )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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.
References
- ↑ King, Susan (December 19, 2012). "National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Shilts, Randy (2008). The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk . New York City : St. Martin's Press . ISBN 978-0312560850 .
- ↑ Doolittle, Nancy (13 March 2018). "Military women discuss service, careers" . Cornell Chronicle . Retrieved August 21, 2022 .