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[edit] Officers
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- W. W. Behrens, Jr. — earth sciences futurist & NOAA plank owner
- Douglas A. Block — Captain of Simpson (FFG-56) when it assisted a Russian merchant sailor in a medical matter
- Jeremy Michael Boorda — Admiral, former Chief of Naval Operations
- Richard Evelyn Byrd — polar explorer
- Vern Clark — former Chief of Naval Operations
- Donnie Cochran — first African-American aviator assigned to the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels)
- Stephen Decatur — Hero of Tripoli
- Gerald F. DeConto — former Captain of USS Simpson (FFG-56), killed in Sept 11 attack
- Robert Dennison — retired admiral, presidential aide
- George Dewey — Hero of the Battle of Manila Bay in Spanish-American War; first and only Admiral of the Navy
- David Farragut — American Civil War Admiral, first officer to become an Admiral in the U.S. Navy
- Lillian E. Fishburne — first African-American female to hold the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.
- Wilson Flagg — retired Admiral, killed in Sept 11 attack
- Edmund Giambastiani — 7th and current Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- William Halsey, Jr. — Third Fleet Commander, won battles off Guadalcanal and the Solomons; attained rank of Fleet Admiral (5 stars)
- Esek Hopkins — first Commander in Chief of the Navy during the Revolutionary War
- Grace Hopper — futurist, early computing pioneer, attained the rank of Rear Admiral in the Navy Reserve
- Isaac Hull — captain of USS Constitution.
- John Paul Jones — commander during the American Revolutionary War, considered to be the founder of the American Naval tradition
- Ernest King — Fleet Admiral; former Chief of Naval Operations
- William D. Leahy — first Fleet Admiral; first head of the Chiefs of Staff (before the post was renamed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff); former Chief of Naval Operations; former Governor of Puerto Rico; former U.S. ambassador to France
- Richard Marcinko — author, founder and commander of SEAL Team Six
- Homer A. McCrerey — earth sciences futurist, Fleet Meteorologist and oceanographer
- Michael Mullen — 28th and current Chief of Naval Operations
- Chester Nimitz — Fleet Admiral; former Chief of Naval Operations; signed for the U.S. when Japan formally surrendered onboard the USS Missouri, class of carriers named after him
- Matthew Perry — Commodore who forced the opening of Japan
- Oliver Hazard Perry — Commanded the Battle of Lake Erie
- Eli Thomas Reich — Vice Admiral, only submariner to sink a Japanese battleship unaided during WW2.
- Hyman G. Rickover — Admiral, "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
- Rodger W. Simpson — Distinguished himself during World War II, recipient of 2 Navy Crosses
- Raymond A. Spruance -Commander at the Battle of Midway, led the Fifth Fleet in the Central Pacific and Okinawa. Rebuilt the Naval War College after World War II
- James Stockdale — One of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the Navy
[edit] Politicians
[edit] Astronauts
- Neil Armstrong — naval aviator (Korean War), X-15 pilot, astronaut, first man on the moon
- Pete Conrad — naval aviator, astronaut, commander of Apollo 12 and 3rd man to walk on the moon
- Jim Lovell — naval aviator, astronaut, pilot of first lunar orbit flight (Apollo 8) and commander of Apollo 13 mission
- William C. McCool — naval aviator, astronaut, pilot of Columbia mission STS-107
- Alan Shepard — naval aviator and flag officer (Rear Admiral), first American in space (Mercury-Redstone 3) and Apollo 14 commander
- Richard Truly — naval aviator and flag officer (Vice Admiral), Manned Orbiting Laboratory and Space Shuttle astronaut, serving as pilot for both Space Shuttle Enterprise landing tests and on second orbital test flight (STS-2). Later became first astronaut to serve as NASA Administrator under President George H. W. Bush.
- John Young — naval aviator and Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle astronaut
[edit] Others
[edit] Groups
- * Blue Angels — the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
