List of U.S. 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:

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z   See also  References

A

• Joseph M. Acaba — NASA astronaut
• Don Adams — actor
• Mike Anderson — NFL football player
• Walter Anderson (editor) — author; PARADE Magazine  editor; Parade Publications CEO; GED spokesperson
• Paul Arizin — NBA basketball player
• Beatrice Arthur — star of the television series Maude and The Golden Girls

B

• F. Lee Bailey — lawyer, notable for his involvement in cases relating to the My Lai Massacre, and the O.J. Simpson trial.
• 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.
• Nick Barone — boxer (1950s)
• James Lee Barrett — author, screenplay writer.
• Carmen Basilio — world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
• Hank Bauer — baseball player
• Bob Bell — Bozo the Clown (TV)
• Terrel Bell — U.S. Secretary of Education (1981- 1984) during the Reagan administration
• Henry Bellmon — Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator (OK-R)
• Patty Berg — LPGA golfer
• Rod Bernard — musician
• John Wayne Bobbitt — Famous for his dismembered member and being convicted of domestic abuse.
• Charles F. Bolden, Jr. — space shuttle commander
• Robert Bork — retired federal judge, law professor, and Supreme court nominee.
• Blackbear Bosin — artist
• Hugh Brannum — "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo
• Daniel B. Brewster — U.S. Senator from Maryland
• Art Buchwald — humor columnist
• Dale Bumpers — Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator from Arkansas
• Conrad Burns — U.S. Senator from Montana
• Smedley Darlington Butler — became an outspoken critic of war profiteers and testified in congress regarding a plot to overthrow the government. Also served as the Police Commissioner for the city of Philadelphia.

C

• Robert D. Cabana — NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut
• 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 (2007-Present)
• James Carville — 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)
• John Chafee — Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy, United States Senator (RI-R)
• Roberto Clemente — baseball Hall of Famer
• Jerry Coleman — baseball player, announcer
• Eddie Collins — baseball Hall of Famer
• Charles Colson — White House special counsel, convicted Watergate felon, evangelist
• Mike Connors — actor
• Donald "The Great Santini" Conroy — Black Sheep Squadron member and father of author Pat Conroy, who based his novel The Great Santini on him.
• Jon Corzine — Governor of New Jersey.
• Bill Cowan — hostage rescue expert, television news commentator
• Walter Cunningham — Apollo 7 astronaut

D

• Brian Dennehy — actor
• Richard Diebenkorn — artist
• David Dinkins — Mayor of New York City
• Art Donovan — football Hall of Famer
• Terry Downes — world boxing champion
• Andre Dubus — author
• David Douglas Duncan — photographer
• William L. Durkin — earned fame for rescuing billionaire Howard Hughes from an aircraft accident
• Dale Dye — actor, Hollywood military advisor.

E

• David Eigenberg — actor, Sex and the City
• R. Lee Ermey — actor, TV show host
• Don Everly — musician member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Phil Everly — musician member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

F

• Hussein Mohamed Farrah — son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
• Mike Farrell — American actor
• Jesse Ferguson — American heavyweight boxer
• Nathaniel Fick — Author of the book One Bullet Away

• Bill Fitch — basketball coach
• Shelby Foote — author, civil war historian
• Glenn Ford — actor
• Joe Foss — Former Governor of South Dakota, first Commissioner of the American Football league, former NRA President
• James Franciscus — actor
• Mark Fuhrman — LAPD detective who became famous during the O.J. Simpson trial
• Bob Ferguson — song writer, record producer, and historian
• Hayden Fry — Football coach, University of Iowa
• Freddie Fender — Tejano music recording artist

G

• Bill Gallo — cartoonist, journalist
• Christopher George — actor
• 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
• Clu Gulager — actor

H

• Gene Hackman — actor
• Fred Haise — NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 & Space Shuttle Enterprise)
• Nathaniel Dawayne "Nate Dogg" Hale — rapper
• Ahmard Hall — NFL football player
• Hugh W. Hardy — pioneer of the 3D seismic method
• Gustav Hasford — author of The Short-Timers, the Vietnam novel on which the movie Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based.
• Carlos Hathcock — sniper during Vietnam War with 93 confirmed kills
• Brent Hatley — producer of the Bubba The Love Sponge show
• Sterling Hayden — actor
• Howell Heflin — U.S. Senator from Alabama
• George Roy Hill — director, Oscar-nomination for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as well as win for directing The Sting.
• Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch — football Hall of Famer
• Gil Hodges — baseball player

I

• Mike Ilitch — founder of Little Caesars Pizza.
• John Donald "Don" Imus — talk radio host

J

• Keith Jackson — broadcaster
• Brian Gerard James — TNA/WWE professional wrestler
• Bill Janklow — Governor of South Dakota
• George Jones — Country music artist

K

• Bob Keeshan — Captain Kangaroo
• Harvey Keitel — actor
• Brian Keith — actor
• Greg Kelly — news reporter
• Raymond W. Kelly — police commissioner of the City of New York
• Skip Kenney — Men's Olympic Swim Coach, Head Swim Coach at Stanford University
• Robert Kiyosaki — author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Ron Kovic — author Born on the Fourth of July
• Ted Kulongoski — Governor, State of Oregon

L

• Mills Lane — boxing referee and TV's People's Court judge
• Jim Lehrer — journalist, host of the PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• Alfred Lerner — financier, Chairman of MBNA Corporation
• Scott Levy — professional wrestler
• Joe Lisi — actor - retired NYPD Captain
• Clayton J. Lonetree — spied for Russia in the mid-1980s
• Tommy Loughran — world boxing champion
• Jack Robert Lousma — NASA Astronaut
• Robert A. Lutz — Chairman of the Board of Chrysler
• Robert Ludlum — author of Bourne Identity and many others

M

• William Manchester — author and historian
• Mike Mansfield — 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
• Nicole Marciano — Penthouse Pet
• Lee Marvin — actor
• Bob Mathias Two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon — U.S. congressman
• Ed McMahon — television personality
• Sid McMath — Governor of Arkansas
• Robert C. McFarlane — National Security Advisor to Pres. Reagan, infamous for his role in the Iran-Contra Scandal
• Paul F. McHale, Jr. — U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense
• Steve McQueen — actor
• Zell Miller — Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator
• Billy Mills — Olympic gold medalist (1964), 10,000m
• Tom Monaghan — founder of Domino's Pizza
• Mike Montler — professional NFL football player, Buffalo Bills
• Alvy Moore — actor, played Hank Kimball on Green Acres
• Jim Mora — NFL head football coach
• Robert S. Mueller III — director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Jimmy Murray — former GM of Philadelphia Eagles and co-founder of Ronald McDonald House charities.
• John Murtha — U.S. Representative (D - PA)

N

• Carlos I. Noriega — NASA astronaut
• Oliver North — Infamous for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
• Ken Norton — world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer

O

• Tom O'Brien — NCAA head football coach, Boston College, NC State
• Randy Orton — professional wrestler
• Lee Harvey Oswald — alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy

P

• Ilario Pantano — author of the book Warlord
• Sam Peckinpah — director
• George Peppard — actor
• Bum Phillips — NFL Head coach
• Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. — author, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Tyrone Power — actor
• Joe Pyne — 1960's Conservative Talk Show Host

R

• CJ Ramone (b. Christopher Joseph Ward) — musician. Former member of The Ramones
• Lawrence G. Rawl — CEO of Exxon (1988-1993)
• Donald Regan — U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff (Reagan administration)
• Robert Remus — "Sgt. Slaughter" in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
• Hari Rhodes — actor
• Buddy Rich — musician
• 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 (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson)
• Pat Robertson — televangelist
• Rick Romley — attorney general
• James Roosevelt — son of FDR, former Marine Raider
• Barney Ross — world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
• Josh Rushing — news reporter for Al Jazeera network
• Raymond Russell — Boxer, 1971 Light-Heavyweight Pan-American Games Champion ([1]), 1972 Olympics ([2])

S

• Jim Sasser, U.S. Senator from Tennessee
• George Schultz — economist, U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury
• George C. Scott — actor
• Tom Seaver — baseball Hall of Famer
• Shaggy — musician (rapper)
• Carol Sharkey — model, Playboy bunny, mother of Bon Jovi lead singer John Bongiovi
• Bernard Shaw — CNN news anchor
• Mark Shields — journalist.^[1]
• Oliver Sipple — Saved President Gerald Ford's life during an assassination attempt.
• Frederick W. Smith — businessman, founder of Fed Ex
• W. Thomas Smith, Jr. — author, journalist
• John Philip Sousa — composer, conductor/orchestra leader
• Leon Spinks — world boxing champion
• Richard Steele — boxing referee
• Eugene Stoner — designer of the AR-15 rifle — adopted by the US military as the M-16.
• William Styron — Pulitzer Prize winning author.
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger — publisher of The New York Times
• Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll — evangelical Christian pastor, radio preacher
• Anthony Swofford — author of the book Jarhead

T

• Steven W. Taylor, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
• Frank M. Tejeda — U.S. Congressman from Texas
• Jerald terHorst — press secretary (1974) for President Gerald Ford
• Craig Thomas — U.S. Senator from Wyoming
• Bernard Trainor — foreign policy analyst and author
• Lee Trevino — PGA Tour golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
• Gene Tunney — world boxing champion, Boxing Hall of Famer

U

• Leon Uris — author

V

• Bill Veeck — baseball team owner, baseball Hall of Famer

W

• John Warner — former Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator from Virginia (Republican)
• Mike Weaver — world boxing champion
• James Webb — U.S. Senator (D - VA), former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, author.
• Chuck Wepner — boxer; often pointed as the inspiration for the Rocky movie series
• Bing West — author and 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
• Montel Williams — TV host
• Ted Williams — baseball Hall of Famer
• Jonathan Winters — actor, comedian
• Pete Wilson — former Governor of California
• Ed Wood, Jr. — film director

Y

• Burt Young — actor, famous for his role as "Paulie" in the Rocky movie series

Z

• Anthony Zinni — retired as General, commanding US Central Command. Foreign policy analyst and television commentator.

See also

References

1. ^ Mark Shields

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