- Joely Richardson
Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress. - Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War", and "War and Remembrance". Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia. After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned an B.A. from Columbia University in 1934, … - Thomas B. Fargo
Admiral Thomas Boulton Fargo (born June 1948) served in the United States Navy during the late 20th century and early 21st century. He served as Commander, United States Pacific Command, at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii from May 2, 2002 to February 26, 2005. He was the twentieth officer to hold the position. Born in San Diego, California, in June 1948, Fargo attended high school in Coronado, California, and Sasebo, Japan, … - Chandran Nair
Chandran Nair is a Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO in Paris. - John Woodruff
John Youie Woodruff (born July 5, 1915) is a former American athlete, winner of 800 m at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, "Long" John Woodruff was only a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh in 1936 when he placed second at the National AAU meet, earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Despite his inexperience, he was the favorite in the Olympic 800 m, and he did not disappoint. - Dennis Reimer
Dennis Joe Reimer (born July 12, 1939) was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from June 20, 1995 to June 21, 1999. Reimer grew up in Medford, Oklahoma. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and commissioned a second lieutenant in June 1962. After commissioning, he attended the field artillery officer orientation course at Fort Sill. He is also a graduate of Ranger and Airborne school. He served as assistant executive officer and executive officer, … - Robert F. Willard
Admiral Robert F. Willard became the 32nd Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT) on May 8, 2007. He is responsible for the world’s largest fleet command, encompassing 100 million square miles and more than 170 ships and submarines, 1,300 aircraft, and 122, 000 Sailors, Reservists and civilians. Adm. Willard is a Los Angeles native and a 1973 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. - Worth Bagley
Ensign Worth Bagley (April 6, 1874 - May 11, 1898) was a United States Navy officer during the Spanish-American War, distinguished as the only U.S. naval officer killed in action during that war. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, he graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1895. After serving two years on the USS "Montgomery", "Texas", and "Maine", he was made ensign, July 1, 1897. - Bob Davoli
Bob joined Sigma in 1995. He has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was President and CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market. - Jonathan W. Greenert
Vice Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert is a native of Butler, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering and completed studies in nuclear power for service as a submarine officer. His career as a submariner included assignments onboard USS Flying Fish (SSN-673) as Electrical Material Officer, USS Tautog (SSN-639) as Electrical/Operations Officer, and Submarine NR-1 as Engineer Officer. - James H. Flatley
Vice Admiral James Henry "Jimmy" Flatley Jr. was a World War II naval aviator for the United States Navy. Flatley remained in the Navy after the war and became a key figure with Navy's postwar air-training program. After commanding the carrier USS "Block Island" (CVE-106) for a year, Flatley became deeply involved with assessing Naval Aviation's disastrous safety record and ultimately helped develop the Naval Aviation Safety Center, today's Naval Safety Center. - William T. Sampson
William Thomas Sampson (9 February 1840 - 6 May 1902) was a United States Navy admiral known for his victory in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. He was born in Palmyra, New York, and entered the United States Naval Academy on 24 September 1857. After graduating first in his class four years later, he served as an instructor at the Academy. - Catesby Ap Roger Jones
Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 - June 20, 1877) was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Jones was born in Fairfield, Virginia, son of Major General Roger Jones and Mary Ann Mason Page. (The "ap" in his name is a Welsh patronymic meaning "son of".) His mother was a lineal descendant of William Byrd of Westover and Robert "King" Carter. This also made her a cousin of General Robert E. Lee. - Jesse B. Oldendorf
Jesse Bartlett "Oley" Oldendorf (16 February 1887 - 27 April 1974) was an admiral in the United States Navy, famous for defeating a Japanese force in the Battle of Leyte Gulf during World War II. Graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1909, he served on cruisers and destroyers before World War I, then after assignments on a freighter and a transport, was engineering officer on the USS "Seattle", and executive officer of the transport "Patricia". - Wesley L. Fox
Wesley Lee Fox (born September 30, 1931) is a decorated United States Military veteran and retired Colonel in the Marine Corps. Fox earned the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor, for valor during the Vietnam War. In addition, as a 43-year veteran, he is uniquely distinguished by having held all but one enlisted and officer rank from private to colonel. (The exception is Sergeant Major.) He retired only upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 62. - Fred D. Robinson Jr
Major General Fred "Doug" Robinson Jr. was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1976 from the University of Tennessee at Martin. His first assignment was as a platoon leader with A Troop, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry, 2nd Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas. This was followed by assignments as A Troop’s Executive Officer and the Support Platoon Leader of the Squadron. Over the course of his career, his assignments have included Commander A Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, … - Charles J. Leidig
Rear Admiral Charles Joe Leidig is U.S. Pacific Defense Representative to Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia, and Republic of Palau. He assumed command of U.S. Naval Forces Marianas and Navy Region Marianas in June 2005. In 1978 he graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. - Thomas Whitfield
Thomas Whitfield (b. 1979) is a Welsh politician and Plaid Cymru member standing for the Cardiff Constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007 Thomas Whitfield was born in Hereford, in England and currently lives in Whitchurch, Cardiff ("Caerdydd"), Wales. Having achieved a BSc in "Environmental Geoscience" from Cardiff University in 2001, Thomas completed PGCE in Geographical Education from the University of Wales, Swansea in 2004. - Lloyd Levitin
Professor Lloyd A. Levitin, (October 25, 1932 -) is an American businessman, former business executive, and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. He teaches financial analysis and valuation courses in the full-time MBA and undergraduate programs. He has published articles on corporate diversification and accountants' scope of liability for defective financial reports. - William Raborn
Vice admiral William Francis Raborn, Jr., USN (June 8, 1905 - March 6, 1990) was a United States Navy officer, the leader of the project to develop the Polaris missile system, and the seventh Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Born in Bromlow, Texas on June 8, 1905, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1928. During World War II he directed the Gunnery Training Section at the Bureau of Aeronautics. - Terence E. McKnight
Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in May 1978. He completed his master's degree in International Relations at Salve Regina University in May 1998. Additionally, he graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1994 and attended the National Security Seminar at Syracuse University in 2001. - Charles Q. Williams
Charles Q. Williams was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Williams joined the Army from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and by June 9 1965 was serving as a Second Lieutenant with the 5th Special Forces Group. On that day, in Dong Xoai, Republic of Vietnam, the Special Forces camp where Williams was executive officer was attacked by a large Viet Cong force. - Doug Roulstone
Doug Roulstone is an American politician and 27-year veteran of the United States Navy. He was the 2006 Republican candidate for Congress in Washington's Second Congressional District, challenging incumbent Democrat Rick Larsen. Roulstone was defeated by Larsen, receiving 35.8% of the vote to Larsen's 64.2%. Roulstone, born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Navy Captain Don John "Jack" Roulstone, … - Harold Rainsford Stark
Harold Raynsford Stark (12 November 1880 - 21 August 1972) served as an officer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II. Stark was the US Navy's 8th Chief of Naval Operations, from August 1 1939 to 26 March 1942. Stark was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1899 and graduated with the class of 1903. From 1907 to 1909, he served in the battleship "Minnesota" before and during the Atlantic Fleet's epic cruise around the world. - Harris Hull
Harris B. Hull (1909-1993) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, and part of the original staff of the Eighth Air Force during the Second World War. Hull was born in 1909, in Williamsburg, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of science degree in 1930. He received a commission as a 2d lieutenant through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program and, from August 1934 to January 1942, … - Roger Sarty
Roger Sarty (born 27 September, 1952 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is among Canada's leading military historians, specializing in the history of Canada's Navy and coastal defence. Sarty's publications include: *"Coast Artillery 1815-1914" *"Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships: Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea Raiders, 1880-1918" (with Michael L. Hadley) *"The Maritime Defence of Canada" *"Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic". - George Owen Squier
Major General George Owen Squier (March 21, 1863 - March 24, 1934) was born in Dryden, Michigan, United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1887 and received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. George Squier wrote and edited many books and articles on the subject of radio and electricity. An inventor, his biggest contribution was that of multiplexing in 1910 for which he was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1919. - Patricia Ann Tracey
Patricia Ann Tracey was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy and held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy at time of her retirement on 01 October 2004. At that time she was also the senior ranking woman officer in the United States military. She is the only woman in the U.S. Navy to achieve the rank of Vice Admiral. - George H. Wadleigh
Rear Admiral George Henry Wadleigh (28 September 1842 - 11 July 1927) served in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Wadleight was born in Dover, New Hampshire. He attended the Naval Academy in 1860-1863, then had Civil War service in the Gulf of Mexico on the steam sloops "Lackawanna" and "Richmond". In 1866-1869 Wadleigh was in European, Mediterranean and African waters as an officer of "Ticonderoga", … - Raymond P. Rodgers
Rear Admiral Raymond Perry Rodgers (December 20, 1849 - December 28, 1925) was an officer in the United States Navy. He succeeded Lt. Theodorus B.M. Mason as the second head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Born in Washington, D.C., his parents were Rear Adm. C.R.P. Rodgers, and the former Julia Slidell and the brother of another rear admiral, Thomas Slidell Rodgers. He was also the grand-nephew to two renowned commodores of the Navy, … - Ralph A. Dengler
Ralph A. Dengler is a lawyer and officer in the United States Marine Corp Reserve. Dengler's current field is intellectual property law and other high-technology related fields of law, at the firm Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper and Scinto. Dengler served in Iraq in 2003, where he was the executive officer for the 2nd Battalion, 25th Regiment, 1st Marine Division. On June 5 2003 troops from his battalion, staffing Camp Whitehorse, caused a death in custody, … - Masao Takiyama
is president and representative director of noted Japanese anime satellite television network Animax and executive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (SPEJ). A noted anime producer and production designer, Takiyama first began his career in anime with Fuji Creative Corporation, a subsidiary of Fuji Television, where he was influential for producing numerous noted anime series and licensing them for release across several overseas and international markets, including Europe. - William Douglas Crowder
Vice Admiral William Douglas Crowder is the commander of the United States 7th Fleet. - James Alden Jr.
James Alden, Jr. (March 31, 1810 - February 6, 1877) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Alden was born in Portland, Maine, and was a direct descendant of John Alden, a Mayflower pilgrim. He was appointed midshipman on April 1, 1828 and spent the initial years of his naval career ashore at the Naval Station in Boston, Massachusetts before he served in the Mediterranean squadron on board the sloop of war USS "John Adams". - Edward H. Watson
Edward Howe Watson (February 28, 1874 - January 7, 1942) was a United States Navy officer, who infamously led a squadron of destroyers aground off Point Honda on the California coast in 1923. He was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, the son of Commander John Crittendon Watson, USN. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1895 and served on several ships during the rest of the decade, including Spanish-American War service on board "Detroit". - Edward D. Taussig
Edward David Taussig (November 20 1847 - January 29 1921) was a decorated Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He is best remembered for being the officer to claim Wake Island during the Spanish-American War, as well as recapturing and serving briefly as Governor of Guam, to restore order on the island after its capture by the United States. His son, Joseph Taussig, also served in the Navy. Taussig was born in St. Louis, Missouri. - Daniel Cere
Dr. Daniel Cere is a political scientist, professor of Religious Studies at McGill University and researcher on family ethics. He also serves as the director of the "Institute for the Study of Marriage Law and Culture" and co-director of the "Newman Institute of Catholic Studies". He served as director of Montreal's Newman Centre from 1990-2006. - John Bell Blish
John Bell Blish (September 8th, 1860 - December 22nd, 1921) Known mostly for inventing the Blish lock, used in the Thompson submachine gun. Blish licensed the patent for his lock to the Auto-Ordnance Corporation in 1915 in trade for company stock. Blish was a career United States naval officer, serving as executive officer on the U.S. warships Niagara and Vicksburg (PG-11) during the Spanish-American War. - John Waldegrave
Commander John Montagu Granville Waldegrave, DSC (29 August 1905 – 18 February 1944) was a British naval commander during World War II. Waldegrave was the eldest son of the 5th Baron Radstock. He commanded the cruiser HMS "Vindictive" 1938–1939, and the sloop HMS "Puffin" in 1939. He was awarded the DSC for anti-submarine work performed while commanding the "Puffin". On 29 June 1940, he married Lady Hersey Boyle, … - Gentaro Yamashita
(30 July 1863 – 18 February 1931) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Born in the Yonezawa domain, Dewa Province (present day Yamagata prefecture), Yamashita entered the 10th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1879. Earning a commission as an ensign upon his graduation in 1886, he was assigned to the Yokosuka Naval Base as a staff specialist, from August 1894 to April 1895, during the First Sino-Japanese War.
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