List of American mariners
Notable members of the U.S. Merchant Marine have included:
- Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
- Raymond Bailey, actor
- Alvin Baldus, former Democratic member of Congress
- Alex Bonner, Emmy Award winning radio and television producer
- Nathaniel Bowditch, author
- L. Brent Bozell, Jr., conservative activist and Catholic writer
- Lenny Bruce, comedian and poet
- Gordon Canfield, Republican congressman from New Jersey
- Alfonso J. Cervantes, forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri
- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - inland waters - author
- Granville Conway, public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient
- Harvey Cox, preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School
- Joseph Curran, labor leader
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author
- Deborah Doane Dempsey, 1st American female master to command a cargo ship sailing internationally[1]
- Dan Devine, football coach
- Peter Falk, actor
- James Garner, actor
- Allen Ginsberg, poet
- Woody Guthrie, musician
- David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
- Sterling Hayden, actor and author
- Cisco Houston, folk singer
- Cornelius Johnson, Olympic medal-winning high jumper
- Irving Johnson, author, adventurer and sail training pioneer
- John Paul Jones, naval officer
- Jack Kerouac, author
- Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, AB, portrait and watercolor artist
- Leonard LaRue, naval officer who saved 14,000 lives during the Korean War
- Jack London, author
- Jack Lord, actor
- Jerry Marcus, cartoonist of Trudy (comic strip)
- Herman Melville, author
- Hugh Mulzac, master mariner and civil rights activist
- James Nachtwey, photojournalist and war photographer
- George H. O'Brien, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
- Jeremiah O'Brien captain of privateer 'Unity' in Revolutionary War's first battle
- Carroll O'Connor, actor
- Jack Paar, Created T.V. talk show whom Johnny Carson replaced
- Mary Patten (1837–1861), only woman to take command of a clipper ship after the captain was incapcitated [2].
- Richard Phillips, held hostage by pirates and later rescued.
- Richard Scott Prather, mystery novelist
- Denver Pyle, actor
- Joseph Resnick, Democratic congressman from New York
- Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator
- Ernie Schroeder, American comic book artist
- Otto Scott, journalist and author
- Hubert Selby, Jr., author
- Frank Sinkwich, 1942 Heisman Trophy winner
- Gary Snyder, poet
- Joseph D. Stewart, Vice Admiral, Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
- Montfort Stokes, Democratic Senator
- Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter.
- Celia Sweet, 1st female pilot in San Diego Bay; 1912[3]
- Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers
- Jim Thorpe, olympic athlete
- Eliza Thorrold, licensed tugboat master, San Francisco Bay; 1897[4]
- Dave Van Ronk, folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street"
- Clint Walker, actor
- Jack Warden, actor
- John S. Watson, African-American politician in New Jersey
- Ted Weems, bandleader and musician
- Carlia Wescott, 1st American woman to be granted marine engineer's license, 1922[5]
- Haskell Wexler, Academy Award-winning American cinematographer
- Nedd Willard (born 1928), writer, artist, journalist
- Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
- Robin Wilson (author), science fiction author and editor, and former President of California State University, Chico.
- Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa.
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