Famous Marines
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Joseph M. Acaba — first Puerto Rican astronaut
Don Adams — actor
Eddie Albert — actor. Eddie deserves an honorable mention, because he served as a lieutenant in the Navy with the Marines at Tarawa and even earned a Bronze Star with combat 'V' for rescuing 70 Marines during the battle.
Mike Anderson — NFL football player
Walter Anderson (editor) — author; PARADE Magazine editor; Parade Publications CEO; GED spokesperson
Paul Arizin — basketball player
Bea Arthur — actor
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F. Lee Bailey — lawyer
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)
Monte Barrett — heavyweight boxer
Carmen Basilio — world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
John Basilone — Medal of Honor recipient
Hank Bauer — baseball player
Bob Bell — Bozo the Clown (TV)
Patty Berg — LPGA golfer
John Wayne Bobbitt — Famous for his dismembered member.
Charles F. Bolden, Jr. — space shuttle commander
Carol Bongiovi — model, mother of Jon Bon Jovi
John Bongiovi — hairdresser, father of Jon Bon Jovi
Robert Bork — retired federal judge, law professor, and Supreme court nominee.
Blackbear Bosin — artist
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington — WWII pilot ace
Hugh Brannum — "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo
Daniel B. Brewster — U.S. Senator from Maryland
Art Buchwald — humor columnist
Dale Bumpers — U.S. Senator from Arkansas
Conrad Burns — U.S. Senator from Montana
Smedley Butler — two-time Medal of Honor recipient
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Enrique Camarena — murdered Mexican-American DEA agent
Vincent Capodanno — Medal of Honor recipient, Chaplain to USMC in Vietnam
Philip Caputo — author, journalist
Rod Carew — baseball Hall of Famer
Drew Carey — comedian
James Carville — political strategist and manager
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 Conroy — author Pat Conroy's father, the model for "The Great Santini".
John Corzine — Governor of New Jersey.
Bill Cowan — hostage rescue expert, television news commentator
Louis Cukela — recipient of both Navy and Army Medal of Honor
Alfred Cunningham — First Marine Aviator.
Walter Cunningham — Apollo 7 astronaut
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Daniel "Dan" Daly — only Marine to be awarded two different versions of the Navy Medal of Honor
Sarah Deal — first female Marine Corps helo aviator
Brian Dennehy — actor
Lou Diamond — "Mr. Leatherneck," namesake of actor Lou Diamond Phillips
David Dinkins — Mayor of New York City
Art Donovan — football Hall of Famer
Terry Downes — world boxing champion
Buster Drayton — world boxing champion
Barbara Dulinsky — first female Marine deployed to a combat zone
William L. Durkin — earned fame for rescuing billionaire Howard Hughes from an aircraft accident
Dale Dye — actor, Hollywood military advisor.
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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
John A. Eastman - NFL football player, actor, writer, motivational speaker
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Hussein Mohamed Farrah — son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Mike Farrell — American actor
Jesse Ferguson — American heavyweight boxer
Bill Fitch — basketball coach
Glenn Ford — actor
Joe Foss — Former Governor of South Dakota, first Commissioner of the American Football league and former NRA President
James Franciscus — actor
Rose Franco — first Hispanic female Marine officer
Mark Fuhrman — LAPD detective who became famous during the O. J. trial
Bob Ferguson — song writer, record producer, and historian
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Nathan Gale — murderer of guitarist Dimebag Darrell and several others
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
Josh Gracin — singer
Clu Gulager — actor
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Gene Hackman — actor
Fred Haise — NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 & Space Shuttle Enterprise)
Nathaniel Dawayne Hale — rapper
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 — Marine Sniper
Sterling Hayden — actor
Ira Hayes — in the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photo
Archibald Henderson — Grand old man of the Marine Corps. The longest-serving Commandant of the Marine Corps (1820-1859).
George Roy Hill — Cargo pilot during WWII and jet night fighter pilot during Korean War. Oscar-nominated director for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as well as winning an Oscar for directing The Sting.
Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch — football Hall of Famer
Gil Hodges — baseball player
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Mike Ilitch — founder of Little Caesars Pizza.
John Donald "Don" Imus — talk radio host
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Keith Jackson — broadcaster
Bill Janklow — Governor of South Dakota
Opha Mae Johnson — first female Marine
George Jones — country music star
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Bob Keeshan — "Captain Kangaroo"
Harvey Keitel — actor
Brian Keith — actor
Raymond W. Kelly — police commissioner of the City of New York
Skip Kenney — Men's Olympic Swim Coach, Head Swim Coach at Stanford University
Ted Kulongoski Governor, State of Oregon
Brian Gerard James TNA/WWE Superstar The Road Dog Jesse James
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Mills Lane — boxing referee and TV's People's Court judge
Jim Lehrer — journalist, host of the PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
John A. Lejeune — 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps
Alfred Lerner — financier, Chairman of MBNA Corporation
Joe Lisi — actor
Clayton J. Lonetree — spied for Russia in the mid-1980s
Tommy Loughran — world boxing champion
Jack Robert Lousma — NASA Astronaut
Jack H. Lucas — Medal of Honor recipient, Iwo Jima
Robert A. Lutz — Chairman of the Board of Chrysler
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John F. Mackie — First Marine Medal of Honor recipient.
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
Lee Marvin — actor
Charles B. Mawhinney — sniper, 103 confirmed enemy kills
Ed McMahon — television personality
Sid McMath — Governor of Arkansas
Steve McQueen — actor
Ray Mercer — world boxing champion
Zell Miller — Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator
Billy Mills — Olympic gold medalist (1964), 10,000m
Tom Monaghan — founder of Domino's Pizza
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
Mike Montler — professional NFL football player, Buffalo Bills
Marco Martinez First Hispanic to recive the Navy Cross since Vietnam [Operation Iraqi freedom 2003]
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Samuel Nicholas — First Commandant of the Marine Corps
Carlos I. Noriega — NASA astronaut
Oliver North — officer who became famous in the Iran-Contra affair
Ken Norton — world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
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Presley Neville O'Bannon — (1776 – 12 September 1850) famous for his exploits in the First Barbary War.
Kenneth O'Keefe — anti-war activist
Lee Harvey Oswald — assassin of John F. Kennedy
Randy Orton — professional wrestler
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Peter Pace — first Marine to hold the billet of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2005- )
Sam Peckinpah — director
George Peppard — actor
Frank E. Petersen — first African-American General in the U.S. Marine Corps
Bum Phillips — NFL Head coach
Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller — most-decorated Marine in history
Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. — author, Pulitzer Prize winner
Tyrone Power — actor
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Lawrence G. Rawl — CEO of Exxon (1988-1993)
Ben Reed — writer
Donald Regan — U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff (Reagan administration)
Robert Remus — "Sgt. Slaughter" in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
Buddy Rich — musician
John Ripley — Navy Cross recipient.
Scott Ritter — former United Nations arms inspector, intelligence officer, outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
Manuel Rivera — first Puerto Rican and U.S. servicemen to die in Operation Desert Shield
Charles S. "Chuck" Robb — Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, married to Linda Bird Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson)
Pat Robertson — evangelist
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
Ken Ryker — gay pornographic movie star
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Angela Salinas — first Hispanic female General in the Marine Corps
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
Gerald L. Shaffer — created Leatherneck.com
Shaggy — musician (rapper)
Bernard Shaw — CNN news anchor
Mark Shields — journalist
John L. Simon — US swimming coach
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
Johnny Micheal Spann — CIA officer, first American killed in combat in the war on terror
Leon Spinks — world boxing champion
Richard Steele — boxing referee
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
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Steven W. Taylor, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
Jerald terHorst — press secretary (1974) for President Gerald Ford
Craig Thomas — U.S. Senator from Wyoming
Bernard Trainor — retired 3-star general, currently a foreign policy analyst and author.
Lee Trevino — PGA golfer and member of the Hall of Fame
Gene Tunney — world boxing champion, Boxing Hall of Famer
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Pedro del Valle — first Hispanic 3-star general, played key role in the seizure of Guadalcanal during World War ll.
Bill Veeck — baseball team owner, baseball Hall of Famer
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Robert Wagner — actor
John Warner — U.S. Senator from Virginia
Mike Weaver — world boxing champion
James Webb — 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 — basketball Hall of Famer
Charles Whitman — University of Texas at Austin Tower sniper (1966)
Montel Williams — television show host
Ted Williams — baseball Hall of Famer
Jonathan Winters — actor, comedian
Pete Wilson — former Governor of California
Ed Wood, Jr. — film director
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Anthony Zinni — Former 4-Star General, CINC US CENTCOM, and Foreign Policy Analyst.
