List of United States Marines

A

• Joseph M. Acaba - NASA astronaut
• Don Adams - Emmy Award-winning actor
• Eddie Adams - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
• Sandy Alderson – General Manager of the New York Mets
• Andrew M. Allen - NASA astronaut
• Art Anderson - NFL football player
• Mike Anderson - NFL football player
• Walter Anderson - author; PARADE editor; Parade Publications CEO; GED spokesperson
• Paul Arizin - NBA basketball player
• Bea Arthur - actor ; she denied her service in the USMC in later life

  B

• F. Lee Bailey - lawyer, notable for his involvement in cases relating to the My Lai Massacre and the O.J. Simpson trial
• Dusty Baker - Major League Baseball manager for the San Francisco Giants
• James Baker - former U.S. Secretary of State, elder statesman, advisor and friend of the Bush family
• Leslie M. "Bud" Baker, Jr. - Chairman of the Board of Wachovia Bank
• Greg Ballard - Mayor of Indianapolis
• Nick Barone - boxer, the "Fighting Marine"
• Thomas D. Barr – attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, "father of modern big-case litigation"
• James Lee Barrett - Tony Award-winning writer
• Carmen Basilio - world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
• Hank Bauer - professional baseball player
• Jim Beaver - actor, writer, star of Deadwood and Supernatural
• John Beckett - college football star and coach
• Bob Bell - Bozo the Clown
• Glen Bell - founder of Taco Bell fast food chain
• Terrel Bell - U.S. Secretary of Education during the Reagan administration
• Donald P. Bellisario - television producer and screenwriter of Magnum, P.I., JAG, and NCIS
• Henry Bellmon - Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator
• John Besh - noted chef and restaurant owner
• Patty Berg - LPGA golfer
• Rod Bernard - swamp pop musician
• Charles F. Bolden, Jr. - NASA shuttle pilot and administrator
• Robert Bork - retired federal judge, law professor and Supreme court nominee
• Blackbear Bosin - artist
• Hugh Brannum - "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo
• Donald Bren - CEO, The Irvine Company
• Randolph Bresnik - NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle Crew STS-129, and ISS Flight Engineer/Commander 52/53
• Daniel B. Brewster - U.S. Senator from Maryland
• Art Buchwald - humor columnist
• Dale Bumpers - Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator from Arkansas
• Lem Burnham - American football player
• Bob Burns - comedian
• Conrad Burns - U.S. Senator from Montana

  C

• Robert D. Cabana - NASA space shuttle astronaut, director of Stennis and Kennedy Space Centers
• Enrique Camarena - Mexican-American DEA agent murdered in 1985
• Philip Caputo - author, journalist
• Rod Carew - baseball Hall of Famer
• Drew Carey - comedian, actor, host of The Price Is Right
• Gerald P. Carr - NASA astronaut
• James Carville - political strategist and manager
• Francis H. Case - represented South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate
• Ronald D. Castille - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• John Chafee - Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy, U. S. Senator
• Roberto Clemente - baseball Hall of Famer
• Stephen Cochran - country music singer and songwriter
• Mike Coffman - U.S. Congressman representing Colorado
• Eddie Collins - baseball Hall of Famer
• Jerry Coleman - baseball player, announcer
• Charles Colson - White House special counsel, Nixon staffer, evangelist
• Charlie Conerly - pro football player and College Football Hall of Fame inductee
• Gene L. Coon - writer, ; Coon also wrote under the pseudonym Lee Cronin.
• Courtney Ryley Cooper - writer
• Barry Corbin - actor "Northern Exposure"
• Jon Corzine - former Governor of New Jersey and U.S. Senator
• Bill Cowan - hostage rescue expert, Fox News television commentator
• Allan F. P. Cruz - Commander General, NOUS, Naval Order of the United States, 2020-2021
• Josh Culbreath - 1956 Summer Olympics 400m hurdles bronze medalist, college track coach with 10 national championships, actor on the Cosby Show
• Walter Cunningham - Apollo 7 astronaut

  D

• Jack Davis - American football player
• James Devereux - U.S. Congressman from Maryland
• Albert Diaz - 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, first Hispanic judge to serve the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Richard Diebenkorn - artist
• Bradford Dillman - actor
• David Dinkins - Mayor of New York City
• Vince Dooley - head football coach and athletic director of University of Georgia
• Art Donovan - football Hall of Famer
• Terry Downes – former world middleweight boxing
• Paul Douglas - United States Senator and the oldest Marine recruit to have completed recruit training
• Buster Drayton - world champion boxer
• Adam Driver - Actor
• Andre Dubus - author
• David Douglas Duncan - photographer
• Dale Dye - American actor, Film industry Military technical advisor and Historian.

  E

• William A. Eddy - university professor and president, U.S. minister to Saudi Arabia
• David Eigenberg - actor
• Ronald "R." Lee Ermey - actor, host of Mail Call and Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey
• Nicholas Estavillo - NYPD Chief of Patrol ; became in 2002 the first Puerto Rican and the first Hispanic in the history of the NYPD to reach the three-star rank of Chief of Patrol
• Don Everly - musician, member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
• Phil Everly - musician, member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  F

• Hussein Mohamed Farrah - son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
• Mike Farrell - actor
• Freddie Fender - Tejano music recording artist
• Bob Ferguson - songwriter, record producer, and historian
• Jesse Ferguson - heavyweight boxer
• Morris Fisher - five-time Olympic gold medalist for shooting
• Bill Fitch - basketball coach
• Shelby Foote - author, American Civil War historian
• Glenn Ford - actor
• Joe Foss - former Governor of South Dakota, first Commissioner of the AFL, former NRA President
• Rose Franco - Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy
• Orville Freeman - 29th Governor of Minnesota
• Hayden Fry - football coach, University of Iowa
• Mark Fuhrman - LAPD detective who became famous during the O.J. Simpson trial

  G

• Bill Gallo - cartoonist, journalist
• Christopher George - actor
• Merlin German - "Miracle Marine", founder of Merlin's Miracles
• Wayne Gilchrest - Republican U.S. Representative from Maryland
• John Glenn - astronaut, first American to orbit Earth, oldest man in space, U.S. Senator
• Scott Glenn - actor
• Josh Gracin - country singer and American Idol contestant
• Clu Gulager - actor

  H

• Gene Hackman - Academy Award-winning actor
• Fred Haise - NASA astronaut. Of the 24 men to have ever flown to the moon, Haise is the only Marine.
• Ahmard Hall - NFL football player
• Hugh W. Hardy - pioneer of the 3D seismic method
• Ernie Harwell - sports journalist and Detroit Tigers broadcaster
• Gustav Hasford - author of The Short-Timers and The Phantom Blooper
• Sterling Hayden - actor
• Louis Hayward - actor
• Howell Heflin - U.S. Senator from Alabama
• Charles W. Henderson - author of books about Carlos Hathcock
• George Roy Hill - Academy Award-winning director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting
• Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch - football Hall of Famer
• Gil Hodges - professional baseball player
• Duncan D. Hunter - U.S. Congressman
• Douglas G. Hurley - NASA astronaut

  I

• Paul Romanovsky Ilyinsky - Mayor of Palm Beach Florida
• Don Imus - radio talk show host

  J

• Keith Jackson - sportscaster
• Brian Girard James - TNA professional wrestler
• Bill Janklow - Governor of South Dakota, U.S. Congressman
• Jamey Johnson - country music artist
• Howard Johnson - American football player for the Green Bay Packers
• George Jones - country music artist

  K

• Bob Keeshan - Captain Kangaroo, original Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody
• Harvey Keitel - actor
• Brian Keith - actor
• Greg Kelly - Fox News broadcast journalist, news reporter
• John F. Kelly - United States Secretary of Homeland Security
• Raymond W. Kelly - police commissioner of the City of New York
• Skip Kenney - U.S. Men's Olympic Swim Coach, Head Swim Coach at Stanford University
• Treddy Ketchum - President, United States Squash Racquets Association
• Robert Kiyosaki - motivational speaker, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Russell Klika - U.S. military combat photographer, photojournalist, author of Iraq: Through the Eyes of an American Soldier
• Ron Kovic - author
• Ted Kulongoski - Governor of Oregon
• Bill Kurtis - American television journalist, producer, narrator, and news anchor

  L

• Mills Lane - boxing referee and TV's People's Court judge
• Dan Lauria - Television, stage, and film actor
• Eddie LeBaron - professional football player
• Jim Lehrer - journalist, host of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• Alfred Lerner - financier, Chairman of MBNA Corporation
• Joe Lisi - actor, retired NYPD Captain
• Clayton J. Lonetree - spied for Russia in the mid-1980s
• Tommy Loughran - world boxing champion
• Jack R. Lousma - NASA astronaut
• Robert A. Lutz - Vice Chairman of Global Product Development at General Motors Corporation
• Robert Ludlum - author
• William Lundigan - actor
• Ted Lyons - baseball Hall of Famer

  M

• Jock Mahoney - actor, stuntman
• William Manchester - author and historian
• Arman T. Manookian - noted artist of Hawaiian themes
• Mike Mansfield - U.S. Representative and Senator for Montana, Longest-serving Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, co-author of the Douglas-Mansfield Bill supporting the U.S. Marine Corps.
• Karl Marlantes - businessman, author of
• Lee Marvin - Academy Award-winning actor
• Robert F. Marx - pioneer scuba diver and author
• Carlo Mastrototaro - Mafia boss
• Al Matthews - actor and singer, he played Gunny Apone in the James Cameron film Aliens
• Bob Mathias - two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon, U.S. Congressman
• James Mattis - United States Secretary of Defense
• Sam Mele, baseball player and manager
• Ronald Meyer - Vice Chairman of NBCUniversal, former President and Chief Operating Officer of Universal Studios
• Hugh McColl - former chairman and CEO of Bank of America
• Pete McCloskey - U.S. Congressman
• Robert C. McFarlane - National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan; known for his role in Iran-Contra
• Tug McGraw - Major League relief pitcher and two-time World Series winner
• Paul F. McHale, Jr. - U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense
• Ed McMahon - television personality
• Walter Stauffer McIlhennyserved as president of McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand pepper sauce.
• Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas
• Steve McQueen - actor
• William McMillan - Olympic gold medalist, 25mm rapid fire pistol
• Donald E. McQuinn – author of military and science fiction
• Zell Miller - Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator
• Billy Mills - Olympic gold medalist, 10,000m run
• Tom Monaghan - founder of Domino's Pizza
• Elizabeth Moon - award-winning fantasy and science fiction author
• Alvy Moore - actor
• Paul Moore, Jr. - 13th Bishop of New York
• Jim E. Mora - NFL head football coach
• Robert S. Mueller III - former director of the FBI
• Blackjack Mulligan - aka Robert Windham retired professional wrestler
• Jimmy Murray - former GM of Philadelphia Eagles and co-founder of Ronald McDonald House charities
• John Murtha - U.S. Representative
• Franklin Story Musgrave - NASA astronaut
• Clay Myers - photographer, animal welfare advocate
• Anton Myrer - author

  N

• Art Nalls - pilot/owner of an air show business starring his privately-owned Harrier jump jet
• John Nelson - founder of SWAT.
• Oliver Nelson - jazz composer and musician
• Nick Newlin - rugby league player at the 2017 Rugby League World Cup
• Cody Nickson - American television personality, winner of The Amazing Race 30, contestant of Big Brother 19
• Carlos I. Noriega - NASA astronaut
• Oliver North - Iran-Contra involvement, political commentator
• Ken Norton - world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer

  O

• Tom O'Brien - NCAA head football coach, Boston College, NC State
• Gerald S. O'Loughlin - actor
• Lee Harvey Oswald – accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
• Hugh O'Brian - actor

  P

• Ralph Parcaut – professional wrestler, Middleweight Champion of the World
• Bob Parsons – founder and CEO of GoDaddy.com
• Sam Peckinpah - director of The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs
• Paul Pender - Middleweight Boxing Champion
• George Peppard - actor
• Andy Phillip - Basketball Hall of Famer
• Bum Phillips - NFL head coach
• Charles Phillips - businessman, president of Oracle Corporation
• Tony Poe - CIA paramilitary officer during the Vietnam War
• Charles Portis - author, best known for True Grit
• Lee Powell - actor
• Tyrone Power - actor
• Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. - Pulitzer Prize-winning author, son of Lewis "Chesty" Puller
• Artimus Pyle - Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer
• Joe Pyne - 1960s conservative talk show host

  R

• C.J. Ramone - musician, former member of The Ramones
• Lawrence G. Rawl - CEO of Exxon
• Alex Raymond - cartoonist
• Donald Regan - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff
• Buddy Rich - jazz drummer
• Rudy Reyes - Actor and Martial Arts instructor
• Rob Riggle - actor/comedian
• Scott Ritter - former United Nations arms inspector, intelligence officer, outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's foreign policy
• Charles S. "Chuck" Robb - Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, married to Linda Bird Johnson
• Pat Robertson - evangelist, social commentator
• James Roosevelt - U.S. Congressman ; son of FDR, former Marine Raider
• Barney Ross - world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
• John Russell - actor
• Mark Russell - political satirist
• Robert Ryan - actor

  S

• Jim Sasser - U.S. senator from Tennessee
• George Shultz - economist, U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury
• George C. Scott - Academy Award-winning actor
• Mike Scotti - author and producer of the documentary film Severe Clear
• Tom Seaver - baseball Hall of Famer
• Shaggy - musician and singer
• John Patrick Shanley - playwright, screenwriter, and director
• Bernard Shaw - CNN news anchor
• Mark Shields - journalist
• Alana Shipp - American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Scott Shriner - bass guitarist, member of Weezer
• Oliver Sipple - saved President Gerald Ford's life during an assassination attempt
• Otis Sistrunk - Defensive tackle, Oakland Raiders, National Football League
• Eugene Sledge - author of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, basis in part for Ken Burns' World War II documentary
• Frederick W. Smith - businessman, founder of FedEx
• W. Thomas Smith, Jr. - author, journalist
• John Philip Sousa - composer, conductor/orchestra leader
• Anthony Sowell - Ohio serial murder suspect
• Thomas Sowell – economist, social commentator, and author
• Leon Spinks - world boxing champion
• Robert C. Springer - NASA astronaut.
• Scott H. Stalker - Command Senior Enlisted Leader of the United States Cyber Command, and the National Security Agency
• Laurence Stallings - writer
• Brian Stann - World Extreme Cagefighting Light Heavyweight champion, Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter
• Ernie Stautner - NFL football player and coach
• Richard Steele - boxing referee
• Robert J. Stevens - Retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Tuffy Stone - chef and competitive barbecue master
• Eugene Stoner - designer of the AR-15 rifle, adopted by the US military as the M-16
• Frederick W. Sturckow – NASA astronaut and shuttle commander
• William Styron - Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger - publisher of The New York Times
• Charles R. Swindoll - evangelical Christian pastor, radio preacher
• Anthony Swofford - author of the memoir Jarhead

  T

• Steven W. Taylor - Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
• Frank M. Tejeda - U.S. Congressman from Texas
• Jerald terHorst - press secretary for President Gerald Ford
• Craig Thomas - U.S. Senator from Wyoming
• Jason Thomas - saved two police officers' lives on September 11 who were trapped in the rubble of the towers
• Bernard Trainor - author, journalist, NBC military analyst
• Lee Trevino - PGA Tour golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
• Bobby Troup - actor, singer, songwriter of Route 66
• William M. Tuck - U.S. Congressman from Virginia, Governor of Virginia
• Gene Tunney - world boxing champion, Boxing Hall of Famer
• Martin Tytell - owner of the Tytell Typewriter Company who became known as "Mr. Typewriter, New York"

  U

• Leon Uris - author

  V

• J. D. Vance - writer and venture capitalist known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy
• Bill Veeck - baseball team owner, baseball Hall of Famer

  W

• Ralph Waite - actor
• Walter Walsh - FBI agent, award-winning shooter
• Joseph Wambaugh - bestselling American writer
• John Warner - former Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator from Virginia
• Charles Waterhouse - artist
• Mike Weaver - world boxing champion
• James E. Webb - second Administrator of NASA
• James H. "Jim" Webb - U.S. Senator, former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, author
• Chuck Wepner - boxer, often named as the inspiration for the Rocky movie series
• Bing West - author, former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration
• Jo Jo White - former NBA basketball player with the Boston Celtics
• Charles Whitman - University of Texas clocktower sniper
• James Whitmore - actor
• Larry Wilcox USMC 1967-70, Sgt, Vietnam, I Corps, actor, CHIPS TV Series, NBC, Producer, The Ray Bradbury Theater.
• Steve Wilkos - TV host, Chicago Police Department veteran
• Ted Williams - baseball Hall of Famer
• Jonathan Winters - comedian
• Pete Wilson - former Governor of California
• Ed Wood - director
• Jeremiah Wright - controversial pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago

  Y

• Burt Young - actor

  Z

• George D. Zamka - NASA astronaut
• Anthony Zinni - foreign policy analyst and television commentator
• Barry Zorthian - press officer for 4 1/2 years during the Vietnam War