Famous People That Served In The Marine Corps
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Scott Levy, an American actor born on February 13, 1971 in Westwood, New Jersey, grew up in Longwood, Florida, just outside of Orlando. After graduating from Lake Brantley High School in 1990, he served in the United States Marine Corps as a FIM-92 Stinger Missile Gunner during the Persian Gulf War, earning the National Defense Service Medal.
He enlisted in the Marines on August 17, 1942 in Los Angeles, and reported to the Marine base at San Diego, California as a recruit. After boot camp, he was assigned to the 2d Battalion, 18th Marines (Engineers), 2d Marine Division at Camp Elliott, California. Powell saw action at Tarawa (in 1943) and Saipan (in 1944). On July 30, 1944, Sgt. Lee Powell, serial number 442926, died on Tinian (Marianas Islands). World War II era reports indicated he was killed in action, and that information has been carried forward to current times.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he studied music at Yale University, graduating in 1943. He served in the United States Marine Corps as a cargo pilot during World War II and a night fighter pilot during the Korean War.
Hill got his start on television, directing such episodic series as Kraft Television Theatre. His first films were versions of such Broadway plays as Period of Adjustment in 1962 and Toys in the Attic.
George Roy Hill is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Other films are Slaughterhouse-Five, The World According to Garp, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot and The Little Drummer Girl.
Born in Greenwood, Arkansas, Burns is most remembered for coining a word of wide usage in World War II and later: bazooka. Burns's bazooka was not a weapon, though, but a rustic homemade novelty instrument fashioned from stove pipes and a whiskey funnel. World War II GIs nicknamed their hand-held anti-tank rocket launchers after their physical similarity to Burns's instrument.
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Brian Kelly ~ Flipper
Bea Arthur was born in New York City to parents Philip and Rebecca Frankel and was raised in Maryland. She became a medical technologist before World War II, when she volunteered for the U.S. Marine Corps, becoming one of its first female recruits.
Her notable television roles included the title role on the popular sitcom Maude in the 1970s, and a starring role on The Golden Girls in the 1980s and 1990s. In the former she played Maude Findlay, an outspoken "limousine liberal" and "New Deal fanatic", living in the community of Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York, with her husband, Walter (Bill Macy).
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F. Lee Bailey studied at Harvard College, and was a member of the class of 1954. He dropped out of Harvard to join the United States Marine Corps in 1952, and received his aviator wings in 1954. He served as a jet fighter pilot and a legal officer. He was discharged in 1956. Bailey received his law degree from Boston University, where he was first in the graduating class of 1960.
Joseph M. Acaba - first Puerto Rican astronaut
Mike Anderson - NFL football player
Walter Anderson (editor) - author; PARADE Magazine editor; Parade Publications CEO; GED spokesperson
Paul Arizin - basketball player
James Baker - former U.S. Secretary of State, elder statesman, advisor and friend of the Bush family
Leslie M. "Bud" Baker, Jr. - Chairman of the Board of Wachovia Bank.
Nick Barone - boxer (1950s)
Monte Barrett - heavyweight boxer
Carmen Basilio - world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
John Basilone - Medal of Honor recipient
Hank Bauer - baseball player
Bob Bell - Bozo the Clown (TV)
Patty Berg - LPGA golfer
Rod Bernard - musician
Charles F. Bolden, Jr. - space shuttle commander
Carol Bongiovi - model, mother of Jon Bon Jovi
John Bongiovi - hairdresser, father of Jon Bon Jovi
Robert Bork - retired federal judge, law professor, and Supreme court nominee.
Blackbear Bosin - artist
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington - WWII pilot ace
Daniel B. Brewster - U.S. Senator from Maryland
Art Buchwald - humor columnist
Dale Bumpers - U.S. Senator from Arkansas
Conrad Burns - U.S. Senator from Montana
Smedley Butler - two-time Medal of Honor recipient
Enrique Camarena - murdered Mexican-American DEA agent
Philip Caputo - author, journalist
Rod Carew - baseball Hall of Famer
James Carville - political strategist and manager
Roberto Clemente - baseball Hall of Famer
Jerry Coleman - baseball player, announcer
Eddie Collins - baseball Hall of Famer
Charles Colson - White House special counsel, convicted Watergate felon, evangelist
Donald Conroy - author Pat Conroy's father, the model for "The Great Santini".
John Corzine - Governor of New Jersey.
Bill Cowan - hostage rescue expert, television news commentator
Louis Cukela - recipient of both Navy and Army Medal of Honor
Alfred Cunningham - First Marine Aviator.
Walter Cunningham - Apollo 7 astronaut
Daniel "Dan" Daly - only Marine to be awarded two different versions of the Navy Medal of Honor
Sarah Deal - first female Marine Corps helo aviator
Lou Diamond - "Mr. Leatherneck," namesake of actor Lou Diamond Phillips
David Dinkins - Mayor of New York City
Art Donovan - football Hall of Famer
Terry Downes - world boxing champion
Buster Drayton - world boxing champion
Barbara Dulinsky - first female Marine deployed to a combat zone
William L. Durkin - earned fame for rescuing billionaire Howard Hughes from an aircraft accident
Hussein Mohamed Farrah - son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Jesse Ferguson - American heavyweight boxer
Bill Fitch - basketball coach
Joe Foss - Former Governor of South Dakota, first Commissioner of the American Football league and former NRA President
Rose Franco - first Hispanic female Marine officer
Mark Fuhrman - LAPD detective who became famous during the O. J. trial
Bob Ferguson - song writer, record producer, and historian
Hayden Fry - Football coach, University of Iowa
Nathan Gale - murderer of guitarist Dimebag Darrell and several others
Bill Gallo - cartoonist, journalist
Wayne Gilchrest - Republican U.S. Representative from Maryland
John Glenn - astronaut, first American to orbit Earth, oldest man in space, U.S. Senator
Guy Gabaldon WWII hero; died 31 Aug. 2006
Fred Haise - NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 & Space Shuttle Enterprise)
Nathaniel Dawayne Hale - rapper
Hugh W. Hardy - pioneer of the 3D seismic method
Gustav Hasford - author of The Short-Timers, the Vietnam novel on which the movie Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based.
Carlos Hathcock - Marine Sniper
Ira Hayes - in the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photo
Archibald Henderson - Grand old man of the Marine Corps. The longest-serving Commandant of the Marine Corps (1820-1859).
Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch - football Hall of Famer
Gil Hodges - baseball player
Mike Ilitch - founder of Little Caesars Pizza.
John Donald "Don" Imus - talk radio host
Keith Jackson - broadcaster
Brian Gerard James - TNA/WWE professional wrestler
Bill Janklow - Governor of South Dakota
Opha Mae Johnson - first female Marine
James L. Jones, Jr. - 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps and currently serving (and the first Marine to hold the billet) as the Commander, U. S. European Command; and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (NATO).
Raymond W. Kelly - police commissioner of the City of New York
Skip Kenney - Men's Olympic Swim Coach, Head Swim Coach at Stanford University
Robert Kiyosaki - author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Ted Kulongoski - Governor, State of Oregon
Mills Lane - boxing referee and TV's People's Court judge
Jim Lehrer - journalist, host of the PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
John A. Lejeune - 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps
Alfred Lerner - financier, Chairman of MBNA Corporation
Tommy Loughran - world boxing champion
Jack Robert Lousma - NASA Astronaut
Jack H. Lucas - Medal of Honor recipient, Iwo Jima
Robert A. Lutz - Chairman of the Board of Chrysler
John F. Mackie - First Marine Medal of Honor recipient.
William Manchester - author and historian
Mike Mansfield - U.S. Representative and Senator, Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Ambassador to Japan;
Douglas-Mansfield Bill (1951) supporting the Marine Corps
Charles B. Mawhinney - sniper, 103 confirmed enemy kills
Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas
Ray Mercer - world boxing champion
Zell Miller - Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator
Billy Mills - Olympic gold medalist (1964), 10,000m
Tom Monaghan - founder of Domino's Pizza
Jim Mora - NFL head football coach
Robert S. Mueller III - director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Jimmy Murray - former GM of Philadelphia Eagles and co-founder of Ronald McDonald House charities.
John Murtha - U.S. Representative
Mike Montler - professional NFL football player, Buffalo Bills
Marco Martinez First Hispanic to recive the Navy Cross since Vietnam [Operation Iraqi freedom 2003]
Bob Mathias Two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon - U.S. congressman
Carol A. Mutter First female general in the Marine Corps
Samuel Nicholas - First Commandant of the Marine Corps
Carlos I. Noriega - NASA astronaut
Oliver North - officer who became famous in the Iran-Contra affair
Ken Norton - world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
Presley Neville O'Bannon - (1776 12 September 1850) famous for his exploits in the First Barbary War.
Kenneth O'Keefe - anti-war activist
Randy Orton - professional wrestler
Peter Pace - first Marine to hold the billet of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2005- )
Sam Peckinpah - Film Director
Frank E. Petersen - first African-American General in the U.S. Marine Corps
Bum Phillips - NFL Head coach
Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller - most-decorated Marine in history
Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. - author, Pulitzer Prize winner
Lawrence G. Rawl - CEO of Exxon (1988-1993)
Ben Reed - writer
Donald Regan - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff (Reagan administration)
Robert Remus - "Sgt. Slaughter" in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
John Ripley - Navy Cross recipient.
Scott Ritter - former United Nations arms inspector, intelligence officer, outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
Manuel Rivera - first Puerto Rican and U.S. servicemen to die in Operation Desert Shield
Charles S. "Chuck" Robb - Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, married to Linda Bird Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson)
Pat Robertson - evangelist
Rick Romley - attorney general
James Roosevelt - son of FDR, former Marine Raider
Barney Ross - world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
Josh Rushing - news reporter for Al Jazeera network
Ken Ryker - gay pornographic movie star
Angela Salinas - first Hispanic female General in the Marine Corps
George Schultz - economist, U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury
Tom Seaver - baseball Hall of Famer
Gerald L. Shaffer - created Leatherneck.com
Shaggy - musician (rapper)
Bernard Shaw - CNN news anchor
Mark Shields - journalist
John L. Simon - US swimming coach
Oliver Sipple - Saved President Gerald Ford's life during an assassination attempt.
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, radio preacher
Anthony Swofford - author of the book Jarhead
Steven W. Taylor, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
Jerald terHorst - press secretary (1974) for President Gerald Ford
Craig Thomas - U.S. Senator from Wyoming
Bernard Trainor - retired 3-star general, currently a foreign policy analyst and author
Lee Trevino - PGA golfer and member of the Hall of Fame
Ron Tucker - film producer, founder of Good-To-Go Video, award winning programs featuring the United States Marine Corps
Gene Tunney - world boxing champion, Boxing Hall of Famer
Pedro del Valle - first Hispanic 3-star general, played key role in the seizure of Guadalcanal during World War ll.
Bill Veeck - baseball team owner, baseball Hall of Famer
John Warner - U.S. Senator from Virginia
Mike Weaver - world boxing champion
James Webb - former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, author.
Chuck Wepner - boxer; often pointed as the inspiration for the Rocky movie series
Bing West - author and former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration.
Jo Jo White - basketball Hall of Famer
Charles Whitman - University of Texas at Austin Tower sniper (1966)
Ted Williams - baseball Hall of Famer
Pete Wilson - former Governor of California
Ed Wood, Jr. - Film director
Anthony Zinni - Former 4-Star General, CINC US CENTCOM, and Foreign Policy Analyst.
Patrick Curtis - Film Producer (60's-90's) Husband Of Raquel Welch 67-72
Tad Van Brunt - Actor (uncredited) 1947-1948
Richard Schall - Actor (uncredited)
Dennis Waters - Actor (uncredited)