List of American mariners

Notable members of the United States 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
• 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, first 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
• Sadie O. Horton, who spent World War II working aboard a coastwise U.S. Merchant Marine barge, and posthumously received official veteran’s status for her wartime service in 2017, becoming the first recorded female Merchant Marine veteran of World War II.^[2]
• 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 comic strip Trudy
• 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 the privateer Unity in the first battle of the Revolutionary War
• Carroll O'Connor, actor
• Jack Paar, created TV talk show; was replaced by Johnny Carson
• Mary Patten (1837–1861), only woman to take command of a clipper ship after the captain was incapacitated ^[3]
• 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, bandleader, arranger and orchestrator
• Ernie Schroeder, 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 film director and screenwriter
• Celia Sweet, first female pilot in San Diego Bay, 1912^[4]
• Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers motorcycle manufacturer
• Jim Thorpe, Olympic athlete
• Eliza Thorrold, licensed tugboat master, San Francisco Bay, 1897^[5]
• Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), author; inland waters
• Dave Van Ronk, folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street"
• Clint Walker, actor
• Jack Warden, actor
• John S. Watson, New Jersey politician
• Ted Weems, bandleader and musician
• Carlia Wescott, first American woman to be granted marine engineer's license, 1922^[5]
• Haskell Wexler, Academy Award-winning cinematographer
• Nedd Willard (born 1928), writer, artist, journalist
• Charles Williams, writer of hardboiled crime fiction
• Robin Wilson, science fiction author and editor, and former President of California State University, Chico
• Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa

See also

• List of notable mariners

References