List of sailors

This list of sailors includes any seagoing person who does not qualify for the list of naval commanders and/or list of sea captains. It includes both professional and amateur sailors.For example some sailors are

Explorers

Ernest Shackleton. Antarctic, was 3rd Mate in Union Castle
James Cook, Sub-Antarctic, Pacific, North America, apprenticed on a Whitby collier
Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi

Actors

Raymond Bailey, American actor, Milburn Drysdale, on The Beverly Hillbillies.
Carroll O'Connor, American actor, Archie Bunker on All in the Family
Rupert Davies, British actor, title role on the BBC's Maigret
Peter Falk, American actor, Columbo
James Garner, American actor, Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files
Sterling Hayden, American actor and author, Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove
Jack Lord, American actor, Steve McGarret on Hawaii Five-O
Denver Pyle, American actor, Uncle Jesse Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard
George Sewell, English actor was a steward, and Frank Cottam on The Detectives
Frederick Treves (actor), much loved English character actor, over a hundred credits in theatre, television, and film
Clint Walker, American actor, Cheyenne Bodie on Cheyenne
Jack Warden, American actor, Emmy Award winning, Academy Award nominated

Comedians

Dave Broadfoot, Canadian comedian
George Roper, English stand-up comedian best known for work on television series The Comedians.

Labor leaders

Joseph Curran, American labor leader
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), wrote Two Years Before the Mast
Andrew Furuseth (1854–1938), merchant seaman and labour leader
Shannon J. Wall, American merchant seaman and labor leader

Maritime Industry

Jeremiah O'Brien captain of privateer 'Unity' in Revolutionary War's first battle
Captain John Bury, Canadian mariner involved in standardising international buoyage
Harry McNish, Scottish carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Herbert Pitman, Third Officer of the Titanic.
John Wallace Thomas, Newfoundland captain made Commander of the Order of the British Empire for actions during a Luftwaffe attack

Military

Kingsmill Bates, British Distinguished Service Cross recipient
Philip Bent, Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
George H. O'Brien, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
David Broadfoot, Scottish recipient of the George Cross
Lionel Crabb, British Royal Navy frogman who vanished during a reconnaissance mission in 1956
Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French Baron and rear admiral of the Navy, was helmsman early in his career
Peter Horsley, British Air Marshal
Lawrence Joel, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
John Paul Jones, American naval officer
"Yank" Levy, Canadian soldier, military instructor and author of a manual on guerrilla warfare
Charles Andrew MacGillivary, Canadian Medal of Honor recipient
Thomas McClelland, American naval officer
Kim Malthe-Bruun, member of the Danish resistance movement
Arthur Phillip, British naval officer, colonial administrator, Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the city of Sydney
William Sanders, New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross
Miguel Grau Seminario, renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos
John Young (naval officer), Naval Officer in American Revolutionary War

Musicians and composers

Ken Colyer, British jazz trumpeter
Suezenne Fordham, American Jazz pianist
Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist in the original lineup of The Quarry Men
Woody Guthrie, musician and songwriter, wrote This Land Is Your Land
Chick Henderson (singer), English singer in the 1930s and 1940s, Begin the Beguine
Cisco Houston, American folk singer
Ferlin Husky, American country-pop singer, hit number one with Wings of a Dove
Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator, C'mon...Get Happy
Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street."
Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer of children's songs, 'Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor'
Ted Weems, American bandleader and musician, directed the Merchant Marine Band

Notorious

William Colepaugh, Nazi spy in World War II
George Hennard, American mass murderer who claimed twenty-four victims at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas
Fritz Sauckel, Nazi war criminal
Duncan Scott-Ford, British merchant seaman hanged for treachery in World War II
Perry Smith (murderer), made famous in Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood

Other

Granville Conway, public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient
Harvey Cox, preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School
James Dougherty, first husband of Marilyn Monroe
Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival
David Fasold salvage expert, self-proclaimed "Arkologist"
Freddie Lennon, father of English musician John Lennon
Joseph D. Stewart, Vice Admiral, Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
Paul Teutul, Sr., American television personality
Jordan Weisman, American game designer
Abdul Awal Mintoo, Bengali Businessman and former President of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry

Politics and activism

Alvin Baldus, former Democratic member of Congress
Traian Băsescu, President of Romania, inaugurated on 20 December 2004
Gordon Canfield, Republican congressman from New Jersey
Alfonso J. Cervantes, forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), author
Mark Croucher, Director of Communications for the UK Independence Party, pub landlord, journalist, former radio officer
Frederick Arthur Cobb, Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
Arthur Davidson, British Labour Party Member of Parliament
Jack O'Dell, prominent African-American member of the U.S. Civil Rights
Jim Folsom, Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama
Ian Doric Glachan, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Brian Haw, British peace activist
Harry Haywood, a leading African American member of both the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
John Horner, British firefighter, trade unionist and politician
Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Wayne Mapp, New Zealand politician
Alfred von Niezychowski, Polish noble, a German Count, author and lecturer, and American politician
Albert Owen, Welsh politician, Labour Party MP for Ynys Môn
John Prescott, British Labour Party politician, Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State and Member of Parliament, was a steward and waiter
Joseph Resnick, Democratic congressman from New York
Montfort Stokes, Democratic Senator
John S. Watson, African-American politician in New Jersey
Terry Wynn, retired Labour Party Member of the European Parliament for North West England
Emmanuel Iheanach: Minister Federal Republic of Nigeria, Master Mariner and was a sea captain

Producers

Alex Bonner, American Emmy Award winning radio and television producer
John Clark (actor/director), English actor, director, producer, and ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave
John Kenley, former American theatrical producer
Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter.

Radio Industry

Dave Cash (disc jockey), British disk jockey
James Redmond (broadcaster), pioneer of modern public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom
Tommy Vance, British pop radio broadcaster

Real estate

John Q. Hammons, American businessman and resort developer

Science, engineering, architecture

Patrick Young Alexander, British aeronautical pioneer
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Scottish physician, geographer zoologist and botanist
Allan V. Cox, American chemist and geologist
Norman Jaffe, American architect
D. Holmes Morton, American physician specializing in genetic disorders

Social scientists

Douglass Cecil North, American economist and Nobel Prize winner

Sports

Bobby Atherton, Welsh international footballer
Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
Fred Blackburn (footballer), English footballer and coach
Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer and cornerman
Dan Devine, American football coach
Joe Gold, bodybuilding and fitness guru of Gold's Gym
Cornelius Johnson, American Olympic medal-winning high jumper
Charlie Keller, left fielder in Major League Baseball
Frank Sinkwich, American footballer, won 1942 Heisman Trophy, 1944 NFL MVP
Edwin Stratton, a British aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan UK
Agostino Straulino (1914–2004) Olympic champion and Italian admiral
Jim Thorpe, American Olympic athlete
Henk de Velde, Dutch seafarer known for his long solo-voyages around the world
Matthew Webb, first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aid

Unclassified

Crispus Attucks (1723–1770), victim of "Boston Massacre"
Peter Blake (yachtsman) (1944–2001), winner of the Whitbread Round the World Race, the America's Cup and the Jules Verne Trophy
Chay Blyth (born 1940), first westwards single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world 1971
Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), scientist and engineer working at sea
William Harvey Carney (1842–1908), Civil War soldier previously a sailor
Donald Crowhurst, lost at sea during the Golden Globe race.
Russ Chauvenet (1920–2003), science fiction fan and amateur sailor
Sir Francis Chichester, first single-handed circumnavigation of the world with just one port of call 1966-1967
Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk and 13th Earl of Berkshire, Apprentice on windjammer Mount Stewart. See Wikipedia article Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk
Samuel Leech (1798–1848), wrote of experiences in both Royal Navy and US Navy
Robin Knox-Johnston (born 1939), first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world 1968-1969
Doris Miller (1919–1943), cook that fought back at Pearl Harbor
Jacob Nagle (1762–1841), well-traveled seaman who wrote a journal.
Ellen McArthur British sailor and round the world record holder.
Bernard Motissier (1925–1994) renowned French yachtsman and author of books about his voyages and sailing.
Jure Šterk (1937–2009) Slovenian round-the-world sailor and author of books about his voyages and sailing.

Visual arts

Richard Avedon, American photographer
Johnny Craig, American comic book artist
Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist
Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, American AB, portrait and watercolor artist
James Nachtwey, American photojournalist and war photographer
George Rodger, British photojournalist noted for work in Africa and death camps at Bergen-Belsen
Ken Russell, an iconoclastic English film director
Ernie Schroeder, American comic book artist
Haskell Wexler, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer
Wally Wood, American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher

Writers and publishers

John Arthur Barry, Australian journalist and author
John Blackburn (author), British novelist
Peter Baynham, Welsh screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated. Co-writer of Borat
Nathaniel Bowditch, author, The American Practical Navigator
E. S. Campbell, American author, broadcaster and radio officer
A. Bertram Chandler, Australian science fiction author of over 40 novels and 200 works of short fiction
Brian Cleeve, English writer and popular TV broadcaster
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American author, Two Years Before the Mast
Clare Francis, British novelist
Allen Ginsberg, poet, Howl, Kaddish
David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
Kevin McClory, Irish screenwriter, producer, and director, Never Say Never Again,
Herbert Huncke, American beat generation figure
John L. Hess, prominent American journalist
Bob Kaufman, American Beat poet and surrealist
Jack Kerouac, American author, On The Road
James Lennox Kerr, Scottish socialist author noted for his children's stories
Jack London, American author, Call of the Wild
Veeresh Malik, Indian businessman and writer
John Masefield O.M., LL.D. Poet Laureate, sailing ship Apprentice
Herman Melville, American author, Moby Dick
Charles Muñoz, American poet, novelist, publisher, and radio officer
Alun Owen, a British screenwriter, noted for writing The Beatles's film A Hard Day's Night
Donn Pearce, author of Cool Hand Luke
Dudley Pope, British writer of both nautical fiction and history
Richard Scott Prather, American mystery novelist
Otto Scott, American journalist and author
Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
James Sites, American novelist
Joshua Slocum (1848-1909?), first single-handed circumnavigation of the world 1895 - 1898
Gary Snyder, American poet
Lyle Stuart, controversial American publisher
Derek Turner, Irish magazine editor and freelance journalist
Nedd Willard (1928– ), writer and journalist
Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
Robin Wilson (author), American science fiction author and university president
Bernard Wolfe, American fiction writer
Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet
Altaf Shaikh, Pakistani Travelogue Writer and Novelist, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.