Famous people who served in the United States Marine Corps.

A

• Joseph M. Acaba — first Puerto Rican Astronaut
• Don Adams — actor
• Paul Arizin — basketball player
• Bea Arthur — actress
• Walter Anderson — author, Parade magazine publisher

B

• F. Lee Bailey — lawyer
• Nick Barone — 1950s boxer
• Carmen Basilio — world champion boxer
• Hank Bauer — baseball player
• Patty Berg — LPGA player
• Charles F. Bolden, Jr. — space shuttle commander
• Blackbear Bosin — artist
• Gregory "Pappy" Boyington — WWII pilot ace
• Hugh Brannum — "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo
• Art Buchwald — humor columnist
• Smedley Butler — two-time Medal of Honor recipient

C

• Enrique Camarena — murdered Mexican DEA official
• Philip Caputo — author, journalist
• Rod Carew — baseball player
• Drew Carey — comedian
• David Carradine — actor
• James Carville — political strategist and manager
• Roberto Clemente — baseball player
• Jerry Coleman — baseball player, announcer
• Eddie Collins — baseball Hall of Famer
• Charles Colson — White House special counsel, convicted Watergate felon, evangelist
• Chuck Connors — actor, basketball player
• Donald Conroy — author Pat Conroy's father, known as "The Great Santini"
• Bill Cowan — hostage rescue expert, television news commentator
• Louis Cukela — recipient of both Navy and Army Medals of Honor

D

• Daniel "Dan" Daly — two-time Medal of Honor recipient
• 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 player
• Terry Downes — world boxing champion
• Buster Drayton — world boxing champion
• Barbara Dulinsky — first Woman Marine deployed to a combat zone

E

• R. Lee Ermey — actor, TV show host
• Don Everly — musician
• Phil Everly — musician
• John A. Eastman - NFL player, Actor, Writer, Motivational Speaker
• Walt Disney- Former CEO of The Walt Disney company.

F

• Bill Fitch — basketball coach
• Glenn Ford — actor
• Mark Fuhrman — LAPD detective who became famous during the O. J. trial

G

• Nathan Gale — murderer of guitarist Dimebag Darrell and several others
• Bill Gallo — cartoonist, journalist
• Christopher George — actor
• John Glenn — astronaut, first man to orbit Earth, oldest man in space, U.S. Senator
• Josh Gracin — Singer

H

• Gene Hackman — actor
• Carlos Hathcock
• Sterling Hayden — actor
• Ira Hayes — in the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photo
• Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch — football player
• Gil Hodges — baseball player

I

• John Donald "Don" Imus — talk radio host

J

• Bill Janklow — Governor of South Dakota
• Opha Mae Johnson — first Woman Marine
• George Jones — country music star

K

• Bob Keeshan — Captain Kangaroo
• Harvey Keitel — actor
• Brian Keith — actor

L

• Mills Lane — boxing referee
• Clayton Lonetree — spied for Russia in the mid-1980s*
• Tommy Loughran, world boxing champion

M

• William Manchester — author and historian
• Lee Marvin — actor
• 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
• Jim Mora — NFL head football coach
• Robert S. Mueller III — director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

N

• Oliver North — officer who became famous in the Iran-Contra affair
• Ken Norton — world champion boxer
• Ken O’Keefe — anti-war activist

O

• Lee Harvey Oswald — alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy

P

• Bum Phillips — NFL head football coach
• Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller — most-decorated Marine in history
• Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. — author, Pulitzer-prize winner
• Tyrone Power — actor

R

• Ben Reed — writer
• Donald Regan — presidential cabinet official
• Robert Remus — 'Sgt. Slaughter' in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
• Burt Reynolds — actor
• Buddy Rich — musician
• Charles S. "Chuck" Robb — former Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator
• Pat Robertson — evangelist
• Rick Romley — attorney general
• Barney Ross — world champion boxer

S

• George C. Scott — actor
• Tom Seaver — baseball player
• Shaggy — musician (rapper)
• Bernard Shaw — CNN News anchor
• Oliver Sipple — foiled assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford
• 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 and radio preacher

T

• Lee Trevino — PGA golfer
• Gene Tunney — world boxing champion

V

• Pedro Del Valle — first hispanic Marine General
• Bill Veeck — baseball executive

W

• Robert Wagner — actor
• Mike Weaver — world boxing champion
• James Webb — Secretary of the Navy
• Jo Jo White — basketball player
• Charles Whitman — Texas tower sniper
• Montel Williams — television show host
• Ted Williams — baseball player
• Pete Wilson — Governor of California

X

Y

Z

• Stephanie Zavala — who was sent to Iraq without her knowing she has cancer