List of American mariners

Notable members of the United States Merchant Marine have included:


 * Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
 * Raymond Bailey, actor
 * Alvin Baldus, former Democratic member of Congress
 * Alex Bonner, Emmy Award winning radio and television producer
 * Nathaniel Bowditch, author
 * L. Brent Bozell, Jr., conservative activist and Catholic writer
 * Lenny Bruce, comedian and poet
 * Gordon Canfield, Republican congressman from New Jersey
 * Alfonso J. Cervantes, forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri
 * Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - inland waters - author
 * Granville Conway, public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient
 * Harvey Cox, preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School
 * Joseph Curran, labor leader
 * Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author
 * Deborah Doane Dempsey, 1st American female master to command a cargo ship sailing internationally
 * Dan Devine, football coach
 * Peter Falk, actor
 * James Garner, actor
 * Allen Ginsberg, poet
 * Woody Guthrie, musician
 * David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
 * Sterling Hayden, actor and author
 * Cisco Houston, folk singer
 * Cornelius Johnson, Olympic medal-winning high jumper
 * Irving Johnson, author, adventurer and sail training pioneer
 * John Paul Jones, naval officer
 * Jack Kerouac, author
 * Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, AB, portrait and watercolor artist
 * Leonard LaRue, naval officer who saved 14,000 lives during the Korean War
 * Jack London, author
 * Jack Lord, actor
 * Jerry Marcus, cartoonist of Trudy (comic strip)
 * Herman Melville, author
 * Hugh Mulzac, master mariner and civil rights activist
 * James Nachtwey, photojournalist and war photographer
 * George H. O'Brien, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
 * Jeremiah O'Brien captain of privateer 'Unity' in Revolutionary War's first battle
 * Carroll O'Connor, actor
 * Jack Paar, Created T.V. talk show whom Johnny Carson replaced
 * Mary Patten (1837–1861), only woman to take command of a clipper ship after the captain was incapacitated.
 * Richard Phillips, held hostage by pirates and later rescued.
 * Richard Scott Prather, mystery novelist
 * Denver Pyle, actor
 * Joseph Resnick, Democratic congressman from New York
 * Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator
 * Ernie Schroeder, American comic book artist
 * Otto Scott, journalist and author
 * Hubert Selby, Jr., author
 * Frank Sinkwich, 1942 Heisman Trophy winner
 * Gary Snyder, poet
 * Joseph D. Stewart, Vice Admiral, Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
 * Montfort Stokes, Democratic Senator
 * Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter.
 * Celia Sweet, 1st female pilot in San Diego Bay; 1912
 * Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers
 * Jim Thorpe, olympic athlete
 * Eliza Thorrold, licensed tugboat master, San Francisco Bay; 1897
 * Dave Van Ronk, folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street"
 * Clint Walker, actor
 * Jack Warden, actor
 * John S. Watson, African-American politician in New Jersey
 * Ted Weems, bandleader and musician
 * Carlia Wescott, 1st American woman to be granted marine engineer's license, 1922
 * Haskell Wexler, Academy Award-winning American cinematographer
 * Nedd Willard (born 1928), writer, artist, journalist
 * Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
 * Robin Wilson (author), science fiction author and editor, and former President of California State University, Chico.
 * Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa.