List of United States Navy people

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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
• Don Brown – former US Navy JAG officer, author of the Navy Justice Series
• Arleigh Burke – destroyer captain
• Richard Evelyn Byrd – polar explorer
• James F. Cahill – one of the first scuba divers and first Navy SEALs
• Vern Clark – former Chief of Naval Operations
• Donnie Cochran – first African-American aviator assigned to the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels)
• Thomas Preston Davis – notable surgeon
• Stephen Decatur – hero of Tripoli
• Terry Deitz – naval aviator, TV presenter and former Survivor contestant
• Robert Dennison – retired admiral, presidential aide
• 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
• Jon "Mike" Foster, LT, USNR - OIC MDSU-1 DET-1 Persian Gulf deployment, Diving Officer for SR-71 recovery, F-15 recovery, and CH-53E recovery.
• 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)
• 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
• Isaac Hull – captain of USS Constitution
• 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.
• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. – naval aviator, elder brother of future President John F. Kennedy, killed in World War II.
• 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
• 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
• Alfred Thayer Mahan – military strategist
• J.W. Marriott, Jr. – chairman and CEO of Marriott International
• Richard Marcinko – author, founder and commander of SEAL Team Six
• Homer A. McCrerey – earth sciences futurist, Fleet Meteorologist and oceanographer
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Eli Thomas Reich – vice admiral, only submariner to sink a Japanese battleship unaided during WW2
• Hyman G. Rickover – admiral, "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
• Jamila Reinhardt – naval aviator, current player on the USA Rugby women's national team
• 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
• Rodger W. Simpson – distinguished himself during World War II, recipient of 2 Navy Crosses
• 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
• Patrick M. Walsh – admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations
• Robert F. Willard – admiral, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations
• John Wooden – famous college basketball coach
• Bruce Bromley – associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals, prominent trial lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• George H.W. Bush – naval aviator, former U.S. President; former director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 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
• Duke Cunningham – naval aviator, former member of the US House of Representatives
• Glenn Robert Davis – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Gerald Ford – former U.S. President; served aboard carrier during World War II
• George Howard, Jr. – first African-American federal judge in Arkansas history; served in World War II.
• Lyndon B. Johnson – former U.S. President; worked as a bomb observer with the Army during 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 F. Kennedy – former U.S. President; decorated PT Boat commander in World War II
• 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".
• John McCain – senior U.S. Senator from Arizona and Republican presidential candidate in 2008; former naval aviator and POW
• 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]
• Richard M. Nixon – former U.S. President; supply officer in World War II
• Larry Seaquist – current Democratic member in the Washington House of Representatives; former captain of the Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61)
• 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.

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)
• Malcolm 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)
• 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)
• Ronald Evans – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 17)
• Owen Garriott – astronaut (Skylab 3)
• 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)
• Fred Haise, Jr. – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 13)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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[]

• Eddie Albert – Academy Award-nominated actor (Roman Holiday)
• Kirk Alyn – first actor to play Superman in live-action (Superman)
• James Avery – actor (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
• Lloyd Bacon – actor and film director (42nd Street)
• Bob Barker – naval aviator and former Emmy Award-winning host of The Price is Right
• John Drew Barrymore – actor, enlisted in the Navy during WWII at age 13 with his cousin Dirk Drew Davenport (The Big Night, While the City Sleeps, Rawhide)
• Ed Begley, Sr. – Academy Award-winning actor (12 Angry Men)
• Harry Belafonte – Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning singer and actor (BlacKkKlansman)
• 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 (Nat David in Curb Your Enthusiasm)
• Yogi Berra – baseball Hall of Famer, catcher for the New York Yankees
• Charles Bickford – Academy Award-nominated actor (A Star Is Born)
• 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 and competitor on the TV show Survivor
• Humphrey Bogart – Academy Award-winning actor (Casablanca)
• Tommy Bond – actor (Superman)
• Richard Boone – actor (The Shootist)
• Ernest Borgnine – Academy Award-winning actor (Marty, The Wild Bunch)
• 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 and personal bodyguard to pro-skateboarder Rob Dyrdek
• Carl Brashear – first African American master diver
• Peter Breck – actor (Maverick, Benji)
• James Broderick – Emmy-nominated actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Family)
• Lenny Bruce – pioneering stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist
• Pete Buttigieg – United States Secretary of Transportation and 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana
• Adolph Caesar – Academy Award-nominated actor (A Soldier's Story, The Color Purple)
• Joseph Campanella – Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actor (Mannix, The Bold and the Beautiful)
• Harry Carey Jr. – actor (The Searchers)
• Johnny Carson – longtime Emmy and Peabody Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated host of The Tonight Show
• Seymour Cassel – Academy Award-nominated actor (Faces)
• James H. Clark – American entrepreneur, founder of Netscape and other Silicon Valley startups
• Lee Van Cleef – actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
• Preston Cloud – eminent American scientist
• Jerry Clower – country comedian
• Junior Coghlan – actor, naval aviator and 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, saxophonist and composer
• Glenn Corbett – actor (Route 66, Star Trek: The Original Series)
• Jeff Corey – actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
• Roger Corman – film director, producer and actor, known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film (House of Usher)
• Bill Cosby – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, comedian and educational philanthropist (The Cosby Show)
• Tony Curtis – Academy Award-nominated actor (Some Like It Hot)
• Dirk Drew Davenport (Dirk Wayne Summers) – actor, writer and producer, enlisted in the Navy during WWII at age 14 with his cousin John Drew Barrymore (Kojak)
• Ron DeSantis – 46th governor of Florida
• Lou Donaldson – jazz alto saxophonist
• Richard Donner – Emmy Award-nominated director and producer (Superman)
• Paul Dooley – Emmy Award-nominated actor and comedian (Breaking Away)
• Kirk Douglas – Academy Award-nominated actor and producer (Spartacus)
• Fred Durst – rapper, frontman and lyricist of Limp Bizkit, and director (The Fanatic)
• Anthony Eisley – actor and TV writer (Hawaiian Eye)
• Dana Elcar – actor (The Sting)
• 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)
• Bob Feller – baseball Hall of Famer, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians
• John Fiedler – actor and voice actor (12 Angry Men, voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise)
• Antwone Fisher – author and film producer who was the basis for the 2002 motion picture Antwone Fisher
• Paul Fix – actor (The Rifleman)
• Eric Fleming – actor (Rawhide, Bonanza)
• Larry Flynt – publisher of Hustler
• Henry Fonda – Academy Award-winning actor and producer (The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry Men)
• Glenn Ford – Golden Globe-winning actor (Blackboard Jungle)
• John Ford – Academy Award-winning director (The Searchers), attained the rank of Rear Admiral
• Bob Fosse – Academy Award-winning director (Cabaret)
• Douglas Fowley – actor (Singin' in the Rain)
• Warren Frost – actor (Twin Peaks, Matlock, Henry Ross in Seinfeld)
• Chris Gardner – self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his toddler son, Christopher. The 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness is based on his life.
• Dick Gautier – actor, comedian and singer (Get Smart)
• John Gavin – Golden Globe-winning actor (Psycho)
• Arthur Hill Gilbert – impressionist painter
• Russ Goetz – professional baseball umpire
• Don Gordon – Emmy Award-nominated actor (Bullitt)
• Calvin Graham – At age 12, Graham became the youngest U.S. serviceman to serve and fight in WWII. The TV movie Too Young the Hero was based on his life.
• Farley Granger – Emmy Award-nominated actor (Strangers on a Train)
• James Gregory – actor (The Manchurian Candidate)
• Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin – reality TV star (Bad Girls Club: Season 16)
• Alfred Grossman – writer and novelist
• Harry Guardino – actor (Dirty Harry)
• Fred Gwynne – actor (The Munsters, My Cousin Vinny, Pet Sematary)
• MC Hammer – Grammy Award-winning rap artist
• Richard Benjamin Harrison – businessman and reality television personality (Pawn Stars)
• Herk Harvey – director, screenwriter, actor and film producer (Carnival of Souls)
• Robert A. Heinlein – science fiction author (Starship Troopers)
• Lance Henriksen – actor (Aliens)
• Frank Herbert – science fiction author (Dune)
• James Leo Herlihy – novelist, playwright and actor (Midnight Cowboy, All Fall Down)
• Chuck Hicks – actor and stuntman (Raging Bull, Dick Tracy)
• Steven Hill – Emmy Award-nominated actor (Law & Order)
• Barron Hilton – heir and co-chairman of the Hilton Hotels chain
• Pat Hingle – actor (Splendor in the Grass, Norma Rae, Batman)
• Earl Holliman – Golden Globe-winning actor, singer and animal-rights activist (Giant)
• William Hopper – Navy UDT, son of Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper and Emmy Award-nominated actor (The Bad Seed, Perry Mason)
• L. Ron Hubbard – science fiction author and founder of the Church of Scientology
• Rock Hudson – Academy Award-nominated actor (Giant)
• Jeffrey Hunter – actor (The Searchers)
• Rick James – Grammy Award-winning musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
• Buck Kartalian – actor and professional wrestler (Cool Hand Luke, Planet of the Apes)
• Gene Kelly – Academy Award-nominated actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer (Singin' in the Rain)
• Robert F. Kennedy – lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General, U.S. Senator from New York, brother of President John F. Kennedy
• Jack Kerouac – novelist, poet and pioneer of the Beat Generation (On the Road)
• 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
• Harvey Korman – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles)
• Nancy Kulp – Emmy and Grammy Award-nominated actress (The Beverly Hillbillies)
• Chris Kyle – Navy SEAL sniper and author of American Sniper
• Archie Lang – actor (Blow Out)
• Robert LaSardo – actor (Nip/Tuck)
• Paul Le Mat – Golden Globe-winning actor (American Graffiti)
• Jack Lemmon – Academy Award-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
• Marcus Luttrell – Navy SEAL, received the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for his actions in June 2005 against Taliban fighters during Operation Red Wings in which he was the lone survivor
• Richard Machowicz – Navy SEAL and host of the Discovery Channel and Military Channel show Future Weapons
• James Margolis (born 1936) – Olympic fencer
• Dewey Martin – actor and naval aviator who was shot down twice and held as a prisoner of war until Japan's surrender (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
• Napoleon McCallum – NFL running back (Los Angeles Raiders)
• 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)
• Dick Miller – actor (Gremlins)
• Guy Mitchell – pop singer and actor (Whispering Smith)
• Robert Montgomery – Lt Commander WWII USS Barton (DD-722), and Academy Award-nominated actor (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
• Wayne Morris – naval aviator and actor (Paths of Glory)
• Vic Morrow – Emmy Award-nominated actor (The Bad News Bears)
• Richard Mulligan – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor (The Golden Girls, Empty Nest)
• Charlie Murphy – entertainer and brother of comedian Eddie Murphy, known for his "True Hollywood Stories" sketches on Chappelle's Show
• Paul Newman – Academy Award-winning actor, director, producer and race car driver (The Hustler)
• George O'Brien – silent era actor (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
• Pat O'Brien – Emmy Award-winning actor (Knute Rockne, All American)
• Robert J. O'Neill – former Navy SEAL participating in Operation Neptune Spear
• Jerry Paris – Emmy Award-winning actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
• Vincent Pastore – actor (The Sopranos)
• Dick Peabody – actor (Combat!, Support Your Local Sheriff!)
• D.A. Pennebaker – documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema (Primary, Don't Look Back, 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 of Regis and Kelly
• John Pickard – actor (True Grit, The Hindenburg)
• Bella Poarch – social media personality, singer and songwriter
• Tito Puente – Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter, record producer and bandleader (The Simpsons: Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
• Denver Pyle – actor (The Dukes of Hazzard)
• Thomas Pynchon – writer and novelist (Inherent Vice)
• Paul Raci – Academy Award-nominated actor and sign-language interpreter for the California court system (Sound of Metal)
• Aldo Ray – actor (Pat and Mike)
• Bert Remsen – actor and casting director (Nashville, Carny, Maverick)
• Don Rickles – Emmy Award-winning stand-up comedian, actor and author (Kelly's Heroes)
• Jason Robards – Academy Award-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)
• Charles "Buddy" Rogers – naval aviator, actor and musician (Wings)
• Mitchell Ryan – actor (Lethal Weapon)
• Gene Saks – Tony Award-winning director and actor (The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower)
• Soupy Sales – comedian
• Franklin J. Schaffner – Academy Award-winning director (Planet of the Apes, Patton)
• Budd Schulberg – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer (On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd)
• Rick Scott – junior U.S. senator and 45th governor of Florida
• Willard Scott – Emmy Award-winning weather presenter, radio and TV personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian and author who was also the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald
• Bill Sharman – member of the Basketball Hall of Fame (Boston Celtics)
• Frank Silvera – Tony Award-nominated actor (Viva Zapata!, Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Robert Stack – host of Unsolved Mysteries and Academy Award-nominated actor (Airplane!)
• Harry Dean Stanton – actor, musician and singer (Alien)
• Roger Staubach – football hall of Famer, Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Vietnam veteran
• Rod Steiger – Academy Award-winning actor (On the Waterfront, In the Heat of the Night)
• McLean Stevenson – Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor, writer and comedian (M*A*S*H)
• Larry Storch – Emmy Award-nominated actor and comedian (The Great Race)
• William Sylvester – actor (2001: A Space Odyssey)
• Buck Taylor – actor and artist (Gunsmoke)
• Robert Taylor – naval aviator and Hollywood Golden Age actor (Quo Vadis)
• Bill Thompson – voice actor (Fibber McGee and Molly)
• Gregg Toland – Academy Award-winning cinematographer known for his innovative use of deep focus (Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath)
• Spencer Tracy – Academy Award-winning actor (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Tom Tryon – Golden Globe-nominated actor and novelist (The Cardinal, The Other)
• Tom Tully – Academy Award-nominated actor (The Caine Mutiny)
• Rudy Vallée – singer, musician, actor and radio host (The Palm Beach Story)
• Craig Venter – biologist instrumental in mapping the human genome. He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
• Jesse Ventura – former Navy UDT, professional wrestler, actor and 38th Governor of Minnesota (Predator)
• Richard Venture – actor (Scent of a Woman)
• Mike Wallace – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning journalist, game show host and media personality (60 Minutes)
• Jack Warden – Academy Award-nominated actor (12 Angry Men, Shampoo)
• Dennis Weaver – naval aviator and Emmy Award-winning actor (Touch of Evil)
• Montel Williams – Emmy Award-winning talk show host (The Montel Williams Show)
• Bill Withers – Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and musician
• Bob Woodward – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for The Washington Post who uncovered the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein
• Jeremiah Wright – senior pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ; cardiopulmonary technician (once assisted in surgery on President Lyndon B. Johnson, himself an ex-Navy officer)
• Delmer J. Yoakum – fine artist, oil and watercolor painter, serigrapher, Disneyland and Hollywood motion picture studio scenic artist
• Bill Zuckert – actor (Blazing Saddles, Tora! Tora! Tora!)

Groups[]

• Golden Thirteen – the thirteen African-American enlisted men who became the first African-American commissioned officers in the United States Navy.
• The Port Chicago 50 – group of 50 African-American Sailors who refused to return to work until changes were made at the U.S. Navy's Port Chicago near San Francisco.

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