Jean Marie Faircloth (December 28, 1898 in Nashville, Tennessee - January 22, 2000), was a socialite and philanthropist. After attending Ward-Belmont College, Faircloth married MacArthur on April 30, 1937. They remained married until the general's death in 1964. She called him "Sir Boss". In her later years she often gave speeches on her late husband's military career. She died at the age of 101 of natural causes on January 22, 2000 in New York City.

Bonner Frank Fellers, during World War II, was a Colonel who served as the USA military attaché to Cairo, Egypt. Adolph Hitler called Feller "our good source" because, for months during the darkest days of WW II, he acted recklessly in collecting and then sending military facts and gossip concerning Malta, North Africa and the Mediterranean, (learned from Allies who had trusted his discretion too much), to Gen.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American, was most identified with "Tokyo Rose", a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately a dozen English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. Identified by the press as Tokyo Rose after the war, she was detained for a year by the U.S. military before being released for lack of evidence.

Joseph Clark Grew was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 27, 1880. He served as the U. S. ambassador to Denmark 1920–1921 and ambassador to Switzerland 1921–1924. In 1924, Grew became the Under Secretary of State and oversaw the establishment of the Foreign Service. Grew was the US Ambassador to Turkey 1927–1932 and the ambassador to Japan beginning in 1932.

James Glynn (1800-1871) was a U.S. Navy officer who in 1848 distinguished himself by being the first American to negotiate successfully with the Japanese during the "Closed Country" period. James Glynn entered the United States Navy on March 4, 1815. He became a lieutenant in 1825, a commander in 1841, and served on the California coast during the Mexican-American War. He was put in command of the sloop-of-war USS "Preble" (16 guns) and sent to China.

Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 - March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.

Beate Sirota Gordon (born in Vienna, October 25, 1924), former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society; a member of the team that worked under Douglas MacArthur on the Constitution of Japan. She is the only child of pianist Leo Sirota, a Ukrainian Jew who had fled war-torn Russia and settled in Vienna, Austria. Sirota's family later emigrated to Japan, where Leo Sirota taught at the Imperial Academy of Music in Tokyo.

Dave Spector (デーブ・スペクター born in Chicago, Illinois) is one of the more visible "foreign celebrities" (gaijin tarento) in Japan. He is a Jewish American. He studied abroad at Sophia University in 1972. He has lived in Japan since 1983. He appears regularly as a commentator on several different Japanese television programmes (such as 'Soko made itte, iinkai').

Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was the leading U.S. educator and noted scholar of the history and culture of Japan, and of East Asia. From 1961–66, he was the U.S. ambassador to Japan.

Charles Taylor McDowell (November 23, 1921 - July 8, 2007) is professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Post-Soviet and Eastern European Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, and a member of the Military Science Hall of Honor. Prior to becoming director of the Center for Post Soviet and Eastern European Studies, McDowell served as Assistant to the President and Dean of Student Life at the University during the late 1960's, …

Juliet Winters Carpenter is an award-winning translator of modern Japanese literature into English. Born in the American Mid-West, she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan. After a stint at the Inter-University Centre for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo, she completed her graduate studies at the University of Michigan in 1973 before returning to Japan, where she became involved in the translation of modern Japanese literature.

Hugh Bryan Hester (1895-1983) was an Army Brigadier General born in Hester, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina graduating in 1916. Although he had objections to World War I, Hester enlisted in the Army, and became a 2nd lieutenant in the artillery. For his war service, he received the Silver Star, the Croix de Guerre, and the French Legion of Honor.