List of United States Marines

The following is a list of people who served in the United States Marine Corps and have gained fame through previous or subsequent endeavors, infamy, or successes. Marines who became notable in the United States Marine Corps and are part of the Marine Corps history and lore are listed and posted in the List of historically notable United States Marines.

A

 * Joseph M. Acaba &mdash; NASA astronaut
 * Don Adams &mdash; Emmy Award-winning actor (Get Smart)
 * Eddie Adams &mdash; Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
 * Sandy Alderson — General Manager of the New York Mets
 * Andrew M. Allen &mdash; NASA astronaut


 * Mike Anderson &mdash; NFL football player
 * Walter Anderson &mdash; author; PARADE editor; Parade Publications CEO; GED spokesperson
 * Paul Arizin &mdash; NBA basketball player
 * Bea Arthur &mdash; actor; (Maude); she denied her membership in the USMC in later life.

B

 * F. Lee Bailey &mdash; lawyer, notable for his involvement in cases relating to the My Lai Massacre and the O.J. Simpson trial
 * Dusty Baker &mdash; Major League Baseball manager, second only to John McGraw in managerial wins for the San Francisco Giants
 * James Baker &mdash; former U.S. Secretary of State, elder statesman, advisor and friend of the Bush family
 * Leslie M. "Bud" Baker, Jr. &mdash; Chairman of the Board of Wachovia Bank
 * Greg Ballard &mdash; Mayor of Indianapolis
 * Nick Barone &mdash; boxer (1950s), the "Fighting Marine"
 * Thomas D. Barr — attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, "father of modern big-case litigation"
 * James Lee Barrett &mdash; Tony Award-winning writer (Shenandoah)
 * Carmen Basilio &mdash; world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
 * Hank Bauer &mdash; professional baseball player
 * Jim Beaver &mdash; actor/writer & star of Deadwood and Supernatural
 * John Beckett &mdash; college football star and coach
 * Bob Bell &mdash; Bozo the Clown (TV)
 * Glen Bell &mdash; Founder of Taco Bell fast food chain
 * Terrel Bell &mdash; U.S. Secretary of Education (1981–1984) during the Reagan administration
 * Donald P. Bellisario &mdash; Television producer and screenwriter of the television shows Magnum, P.I., JAG, and NCIS.
 * Henry Bellmon &mdash; Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator (OK-R)
 * John Besh &mdash; noted chef and restaurant owner
 * Patty Berg &mdash; LPGA golfer
 * Rod Bernard &mdash; swamp pop musician
 * Charles F. Bolden, Jr. &mdash; NASA shuttle pilot and administrator
 * Robert Bork &mdash; retired federal judge, law professor and Supreme court nominee
 * Blackbear Bosin &mdash; artist
 * Alpha L. Bowser - Lieutenant General, decorated for actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, former commander of the Recruit Training Command, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, former Commanding General, Marine Corps Base, Twentynine Palms, CA, former Commanding General, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, and former Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic. Awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with 2 award stars & valor device and Bronze Star with 1 award star & valor device.
 * Hugh Brannum &mdash; "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo
 * Donald Bren &mdash; CEO The Irvine Company
 * Daniel B. Brewster &mdash; U.S. Senator from Maryland
 * Art Buchwald &mdash; humor columnist
 * Dale Bumpers &mdash; Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator from Arkansas
 * Bob Burns &mdash; comedian
 * Conrad Burns &mdash; U.S. Senator from Montana

C

 * Robert D. Cabana &mdash; NASA space shuttle astronaut; director of Stennis & Kennedy Space Centers
 * Enrique Camarena &mdash; Mexican-American DEA agent murdered in 1985
 * Philip Caputo &mdash; author, journalist
 * Rod Carew &mdash; baseball Hall of Famer
 * Drew Carey &mdash; comedian, actor, host of The Price Is Right (2007 – present)
 * Gerald P. Carr &mdash; NASA astronaut
 * James Carville &mdash; political strategist and manager
 * Francis H. Case – represented South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1950) and the U.S. Senate (1951–1962)
 * Ronald D. Castille – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
 * John Chafee &mdash; Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy, U. S. Senator (R-RI)
 * Roberto Clemente &mdash; baseball Hall of Famer
 * Stephen Cochran &mdash; Country music singer and songwriter
 * Mike Coffman &mdash; U.S. Congressman representing Colorado
 * Eddie Collins &mdash; baseball Hall of Famer
 * Jerry Coleman &mdash; baseball player, announcer
 * Charles Colson &mdash; White House special counsel, Nixon staffer (Watergate), evangelist
 * Courtney Ryley Cooper &mdash; writer
 * Charlie Conerly &mdash; Pro football player and College Football Hall of Fame inductee
 * Gordon Cooper&mdash; Mercury 7 astronaut
 * Barry Corbin &mdash; actor (WarGames)
 * Jon Corzine &mdash; former Governor of New Jersey and U.S. Senator (D-NJ)
 * Bill Cowan &mdash; hostage rescue expert, Fox News television commentator
 * Josh Culbreath &mdash; 1956 Summer Olympics 400m hurdles bronze medalist, college track coach with 10 national championships, actor on the Cosby Show
 * Walter Cunningham &mdash; Apollo 7 astronaut

D

 * James Devereux &mdash; U.S. Congressman from Maryland
 * Albert Diaz &mdash; 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, First Hispanic Judge to serve the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
 * Richard Diebenkorn &mdash; artist
 * Bradford Dillman &mdash; actor (Compulsion)
 * David Dinkins &mdash; Mayor of New York City
 * Art Donovan &mdash; football Hall of Famer
 * Paul Douglas &mdash; United States Senator and the oldest Marine recruit to have completed recruit training
 * Buster Drayton &mdash; world champion boxer
 * Andre Dubus &mdash; author
 * David Douglas Duncan &mdash; photographer


 * Dale Dye &mdash; Hollywood military advisor

E
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 * William A. Eddy &mdash; World War I Navy Cross, university professor and president, World War II Marine Corps intelligence officer, U.S. minister to Saudi Arabia (1943–1946)
 * David Eigenberg &mdash; actor (Sex and the City)
 * R. Lee Ermey &mdash; actor (Full Metal Jacket), host of Mail Call and Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey
 * Nicholas Estavillo, NYPD Chief of Patrol (Ret.)''
 * Don Everly &mdash; musician, member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
 * Phil Everly &mdash; musician, member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

F

 * Hussein Mohamed Farrah &mdash; son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
 * Mike Farrell &mdash; actor (M*A*S*H)
 * Freddie Fender &mdash; Tejano music recording artist
 * Bob Ferguson &mdash; song writer, record producer, and historian


 * Jesse Ferguson &mdash; American heavyweight boxer
 * Nathaniel Fick &mdash; author (One Bullet Away)
 * Morris Fisher &mdash; five time Olympic Gold Medalist for shooting
 * Bill Fitch &mdash; basketball coach
 * Shelby Foote &mdash; author, American Civil War historian
 * Glenn Ford &mdash; actor (Gilda)
 * Joe Foss &mdash; former Governor of South Dakota, first Commissioner of the AFL, former NRA President
 * Rose Franco &mdash;Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy
 * Orville Freeman &mdash; 29th Governor of Minnesota
 * Hayden Fry &mdash; football coach, University of Iowa
 * Mark Fuhrman &mdash; LAPD detective who became famous during the O.J. Simpson trial

G

 * Bill Gallo &mdash; cartoonist, journalist
 * Christopher George &mdash; actor (The Rat Patrol)
 * Merlin German &mdash; "Miracle Marine", founder of Merlin's Miracles
 * Wayne Gilchrest &mdash; Republican U.S. Representative from Maryland
 * John Glenn &mdash; astronaut, first American to orbit Earth, oldest man in space, U.S. Senator
 * Scott Glenn &mdash; actor (The Right Stuff)
 * Josh Gracin &mdash; country singer and American Idol contestant
 * Clu Gulager &mdash; actor (The Return of the Living Dead)

H

 * Gene Hackman &mdash; Academy Award-winning actor (The French Connection, Crimson Tide)
 * Fred Haise &mdash; NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 & Space Shuttle Enterprise)
 * Nathaniel Dawayne "Nate Dogg" Hale &mdash; rapper
 * Ahmard Hall &mdash; NFL football player
 * Hugh W. Hardy &mdash; pioneer of the 3D seismic method
 * Ernie Harwell &mdash; sports journalist and Detroit Tigers broadcaster
 * Gustav Hasford &mdash; author of The Short-Timers (basis of movie Full Metal Jacket) and The Phantom Blooper
 * Sterling Hayden &mdash; actor (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
 * Louis Hayward &mdash; actor (The Saint in New York)
 * Howell Heflin &mdash; U.S. Senator from Alabama
 * Charles W. Henderson &mdash; author of books about Carlos Hathcock
 * George Roy Hill &mdash; Academy Award-winning director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting
 * Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch &mdash; football Hall of Famer
 * Gil Hodges &mdash; professional baseball player
 * Duncan D. Hunter &mdash; U.S. Congressman from California
 * Douglas G. Hurley &mdash; NASA astronaut

I

 * Mike Ilitch &mdash; founder of Little Caesars Pizza, owner of the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings
 * Paul Romanovsky Ilyinsky &mdash; Mayor of Palm Beach Florida
 * Don Imus &mdash; Radio talk show host

J

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

K

 * Bob Keeshan  &mdash; Captain Kangaroo, original Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody
 * Harvey Keitel &mdash; actor (Reservoir Dogs)
 * Brian Keith &mdash; actor (The Parent Trap)
 * Greg Kelly &mdash; Fox News broadcast journalist, news reporter
 * Raymond W. Kelly &mdash; police commissioner of the City of New York
 * Skip Kenney &mdash; U.S. Men's Olympic Swim Coach, Head Swim Coach at Stanford University
 * Robert Kiyosaki &mdash; motivational speaker,author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad
 * Russell Klika &mdash; U.S. military combat photographer, photojournalist, author of Iraq: Through the Eyes of an American Soldier
 * Ron Kovic &mdash; author (Born on the Fourth of July)
 * Ted Kulongoski &mdash; Governor of Oregon

L

 * Mills Lane &mdash; boxing referee and TV's People's Court judge
 * Eddie LeBaron &mdash; professional football player
 * Jim Lehrer &mdash; journalist, host of the PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
 * Alfred Lerner &mdash; financier, Chairman of MBNA Corporation
 * Joe Lisi &mdash; actor (Third Watch), retired NYPD Captain
 * Clayton J. Lonetree &mdash; spied for Russia in the mid-1980s
 * Tommy Loughran &mdash; world boxing champion
 * Jack R. Lousma &mdash; NASA Astronaut
 * Robert A. Lutz &mdash; Vice Chairman of Global Product Development at General Motors Corporation
 * Robert Ludlum &mdash; author (The Bourne Identity)
 * William Lundigan &mdash; actor (Men into Space)

M



 * Jock Mahoney &mdash; actor, stuntman (Tarzan Goes to India, The Range Rider)
 * William Manchester &mdash; author and historian
 * Arman T. Manookian &mdash; noted artist of  Hawaiian themes
 * Mike Mansfield &mdash; U.S. Representative and Senator, Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Ambassador to Japan; co-author of the Douglas-Mansfield Bill (1951) supporting the Marine Corps
 * Karl Marlantes &mdash;  businessman, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
 * Lee Marvin &mdash; Academy Award-winning actor (Cat Ballou)
 * Bob Mathias &mdash; two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon &mdash; U.S. Congressman (California-R)
 * Hugh McColl &mdash; Former chairman and CEO of Bank of America
 * Pete McCloskey &mdash; U.S. Congressman (California-R)
 * Robert C. McFarlane &mdash; 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. &mdash; U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (D), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense
 * Ed McMahon &mdash; television personality
 * Sid McMath &mdash; Governor of Arkansas
 * Steve McQueen &mdash; actor (Bullitt)
 * William McMillan &mdash; Olympic gold medalist (1960), 25mm rapid fire pistol
 * Donald E. McQuinn — Author of military and science fiction
 * Zell Miller &mdash; Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator (Georgia-D)
 * Billy Mills &mdash; Olympic gold medalist (1964), 10,000m run
 * Tom Monaghan &mdash; founder of Domino's Pizza
 * Elizabeth Moon &mdash; Award winning fantasy and science fiction author
 * Alvy Moore &mdash; actor (Green Acres)
 * Paul Moore, Jr. &mdash; 13th Bishop of New York
 * Jim E. Mora &mdash; NFL head football coach
 * Robert S. Mueller III &mdash; current director of the FBI
 * Jimmy Murray &mdash; former GM of Philadelphia Eagles and co-founder of Ronald McDonald House charities
 * John Murtha &mdash; U.S. Representative (D - PA)
 * Franklin Story Musgrave &mdash; NASA astronaut
 * Clay Myers &mdash; photographer (Pawprints of Katrina), animal welfare advocate
 * Anton Myrer &mdash; author (Once an Eagle)

N

 * Oliver Nelson &mdash;Jazz composer and musician
 * Carlos I. Noriega &mdash; NASA astronaut
 * Oliver North &mdash; Iran-Contra involvement; political commentator
 * Ken Norton &mdash; world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer

O

 * Tom O'Brien &mdash; NCAA head football coach, Boston College, NC State
 * Gerald S. O'Loughlin &mdash; actor (The Rookies)
 * Lee Harvey Oswald — assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
 * Hugh O'Brian &mdash; actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp)

P

 * Ralph Parcaut — Professional Wrestler, Middleweight Champion of the World
 * Bob Parsons — Founder & CEO of GoDaddy.com
 * Sam Peckinpah &mdash; director of The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs
 * George Peppard &mdash; actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
 * Andy Phillip &mdash; basketball hall of famer
 * Bum Phillips &mdash; NFL Head coach
 * Charles Phillips &mdash; businessman, president of Oracle Corporation
 * Tony Poe &mdash; CIA paramilitary officer during the Vietnam War
 * Lee Powell &mdash; actor (The Lone Ranger)
 * Tyrone Power &mdash; actor (Alexander's Ragtime Band)
 * Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. &mdash; Pulitzer Prize-winning author, son of Lewis "Chesty" Puller.
 * Artimus Pyle &mdash; Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer
 * Joe Pyne &mdash; 1960's conservative talk show host

R

 * CJ Ramone (b. Christopher Joseph Ward) &mdash; musician, former member of The Ramones
 * Lawrence G. Rawl &mdash; CEO of Exxon (1988–1993)
 * Donald Regan &mdash; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff (Reagan administration)
 * Robert Remus &mdash; "Sgt. Slaughter" in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
 * Buddy Rich &mdash; jazz drummer
 * Félix Rigau Carrera &mdash; First Puerto Rican pilot and first Hispanic fighter pilot in the USMC
 * Rob Riggle &mdash; actor/comedian (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
 * Scott Ritter &mdash; former United Nations arms inspector, intelligence officer, outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's foreign policy
 * Charles S. "Chuck" Robb &mdash; Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, married to Linda Bird Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson)
 * Pat Robertson &mdash; evangelist, social commentator
 * James Roosevelt &mdash; U.S. Congressman (California); son of FDR, former Marine Raider
 * Barney Ross &mdash; world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
 * John Russell &mdash; actor (Lawman)
 * Mark Russell &mdash; political satirist
 * Robert Ryan &mdash; actor (The Wild Bunch, Crossfire)

S

 * Jim Sasser &mdash; U.S. senator from Tennessee
 * George Schultz &mdash; economist, U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury
 * George C. Scott &mdash; Academy Award-winning actor (Patton)
 * Tom Seaver &mdash; baseball Hall of Famer
 * Shaggy &mdash; musician and singer
 * John Patrick Shanley &mdash; playwright, screenwriter, and director.
 * Bernard Shaw &mdash; CNN news anchor
 * Mark Shields &mdash; journalist
 * Oliver Sipple &mdash; saved President Gerald Ford's life during an assassination attempt
 * Eugene Sledge &mdash; author of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, basis in part for Ken Burns' World War II documentary
 * Frederick W. Smith &mdash; businessman, founder of Fed Ex
 * W. Thomas Smith, Jr. &mdash; author, journalist
 * John Philip Sousa &mdash; composer, conductor/orchestra leader
 * Anthony Sowell &mdash; Ohio serial murder suspect
 * Thomas Sowell — American economist, social commentator, and author
 * Leon Spinks &mdash; world boxing champion
 * Robert C. Springer &mdash; NASA astronaut
 * Brian Stann &mdash; World Extreme Cagefighting Light Heavyweight champion, Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter
 * Ernie Stautner &mdash; NFL football player and coach
 * Richard Steele &mdash; boxing referee
 * Tuffy Stone &mdash; Chef and competitive barbecue master
 * Eugene Stoner &mdash; designer of the AR-15 rifle &mdash; adopted by the US military as the M-16
 * Frederick W. Sturckow — NASA astronaut and shuttle commander
 * William Styron &mdash; Pulitzer Prize-winning author
 * Arthur Ochs Sulzberger &mdash; publisher of The New York Times
 * Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll &mdash; evangelical Christian pastor, radio preacher
 * Anthony Swofford &mdash; author of the memoir Jarhead

T

 * Steven W. Taylor &mdash; Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
 * Frank M. Tejeda &mdash; U.S. Congressman from Texas
 * Jerald terHorst &mdash; press secretary (1974) for President Gerald Ford
 * Craig Thomas &mdash; U.S. Senator from Wyoming (R)
 * Jason Thomas &mdash; saved two police officers' lives on September 11 who were trapped in the rubble of the towers
 * Bernard Trainor &mdash; author, journalist, NBC military analyst
 * Lee Trevino &mdash; PGA Tour golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
 * William M. Tuck &mdash; U.S. Congressman from Virginia, Governor of Virginia
 * Gene Tunney &mdash; world boxing champion, Boxing Hall of Famer
 * Martin Tytell &mdash; owner of the Tytell Typewriter Company who became known as 'Mr. Typewriter, New York

U

 * Leon Uris &mdash; author

V

 * Bill Veeck &mdash; baseball team owner, baseball Hall of Famer

W

 * Ralph Waite &mdash; actor
 * John Warner &mdash; former Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator from Virginia
 * Charles Waterhouse &mdash; artist
 * Mike Weaver &mdash; world boxing champion
 * James E. Webb &mdash; second Administrator of NASA
 * James H. "Jim" Webb &mdash; U.S. Senator (D - VA), former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, author
 * Chuck Wepner &mdash; boxer; often pointed as the inspiration for the Rocky movie series
 * Bing West &mdash; author and former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration
 * Jo Jo White &mdash; former NBA basketball player with the Boston Celtics
 * Charles Whitman &mdash; University of Texas clocktower sniper
 * James Whitmore &mdash; actor (Give 'em Hell, Harry!)
 * Steve Wilkos &mdash; TV Host, Chicago Police Department
 * Montel Williams &mdash; TV host
 * Ted Williams &mdash; baseball Hall of Famer
 * Jonathan Winters &mdash; comedian
 * Pete Wilson &mdash; former Governor of California
 * Edward D. Wood, Jr. &mdash; director of Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space
 * Jeremiah Wright &mdash; controversial pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago

Y

 * Burt Young &mdash; actor (Rocky)

Z

 * George D. Zamka &mdash; NASA astronaut
 * Anthony Zinni &mdash; foreign policy analyst and television commentator
 * Barry Zorthian (1920–2011) &mdash; press officer for 4-1/2 years during Vietnam war