- Jim Webb
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is the junior Senator from Virginia. He is also an author and a former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb was a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972, and is a highly decorated Vietnam War combat veteran. During his four years with the Reagan administration, … - Archibald Henderson
Archibald Henderson (January 21, 1783 - January 6, 1859) was the longest-serving Commandant of the Marine Corps, serving from 1820 to 1859. He is often referred to as the "Grand old man of the Marine Corps," serving in the United States Marine Corps for 53 years. - Presley O'Bannon
Presley Neville O’Bannon was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, famous for his exploits in the First Barbary War. He received a sword for his role in restoring Prince Hamet Karamali to his throne at Tripoli in recognition of his bravery. That sword became the model for the Mameluke Sword adopted in 1825 as the Marine officers' sword that is still part of the dress uniform today. - John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio) is an American astronaut, Marine Corps fighter pilot, ordained Presbyterian elder, corporate executive, and politician. He was the third American to fly in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7. He is the oldest living person to have flown in space when, at the age of 77 in 1998, flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95. - Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 - July 5, 2002), best known as Ted Williams, nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame and The Thumper, was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston Red Sox. - Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Hayes') (born November 14 1933) is a former NASA astronaut. Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He attended Biloxi High School and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College). He graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. - Oliver North
Oliver L. North is a combat decorated marine, a #1 best-selling author, the founder of a small business, an inventor with three U.S. patents, a syndicated columnist, and the host of War Stories on the Fox News Channel. Yet, he claims his most important accomplishment is to be "the husband of one, the father of four and the grandfather of eleven." North was born in San Antonio, Texas, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and served 22 years as a U.S. Marine. - Baldomero Lopez
Baldomero Lopez was a First Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for smothering a hand grenade with his own body during the Inchon Landing, on September 15 1950. Baldomero Lopez was born in Tampa Bay, Florida. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, and upon graduating June 6, 1947, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He attended The Basic School at Quantico, Virginia, … - William E. Barber
William Earl Barber (1919-2002) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps awarded with the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. With only 220 men under his command, Barber held off more than 1,400 People's Republic of China soldiers during six days of fighting. Despite the extreme cold weather conditions and himself suffering a bone fracturing wound to the leg, … - 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. - Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War. He was noted for making unsubstantiated claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government. - Lloyd Williams
Lloyd Williams (Jun. 5, 1887 - June 12, 1918) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps who served and died in World War I. A famous saying is attributed to Captain Williams, who was serving as a company commander in the 5th Marines. When advised to withdraw by a French officer at the defensive line just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage on June 1, 1918, he is said to have replied: "Retreat? Hell, … - Nathaniel Fick
Nathaniel Fick is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining CNAS, he served as a Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance officer, including operational assignments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. Fick led a Marine infantry platoon into Afghanistan only weeks after the 9/11 attacks, and then commanded a Marine Recon platoon during the opening months of the Iraq war in 2003. - Anthony Gale
Anthony Gale (born September 17, 1782 in Dublin, Ireland) was the fourth Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and the only one ever fired. Fewer records survive concerning him than any other Commandant but it is known that he was commissioned a second lieutenant on September 2, 1798. Thereafter he fought, in fairly quick succession, the French, the Barbary pirates, the British, and one of his Navy mess-mates. The last encounter, involving an affront to the Corps, … - Rob Riggle
Rob Riggle , who joined The Daily Show's "News" bureau in 2006, has been performing sketch and improv comedy in New York and Los Angeles for the last 9 years as part of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He is also a United States Marine Corps officer. Rob Riggle served in Liberia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has over 19 medals and ribbons as a result of his service, to include the Combat Action Ribbon. Rob Riggle is currently a Major in the Marine Corps Reserves. - John Warner
John William Warner (born February 18, 1927) is an American politician, who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and has served as the Republican senior U.S. Senator from Virginia since his appointment on January 2, 1979. He is one of the few World War II veterans left in the United States Senate. (the others are Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).) - Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She lives in Florence, Texas (about 40 miles (70 km) northeast of Austin). She attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant during active service with the US Marine Corps, which she joined in 1968 having obtained a Bachelor's degree in History from Rice University. Later she additionally obtained a B.A. in Biology. She is also an experienced paramedic. - Megan McClung
Major Megan M. McClung (April 14, 1972- December 6, 2006) was the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat during the Iraq War. Maj McClung was serving as the head of U.S. Marine Corps public affairs for Al Anbar Province, Iraq when she was killed. - Howell Heflin
Howell Thomas Heflin was a United States Senator from Alabama, and a member of the Democratic Party. Although born in Poulan, Georgia, Heflin was the nephew of prominent Alabama politician James Thomas Heflin. Following graduation from high school, Heflin attended Birmingham-Southern College (graduated 1942) and the University of Alabama Law School (graduated 1948). - Alfred Austell Cunningham
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Austell Cunningham, (8 March 1882 - 27 May 1939) was a United States Marine Corps officer who became the first Marine Corps aviator and the first Director of Marine Corps Aviation.His military career included service in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and U.S. operations in the Caribbean during the 1920s. - Tom O'Brien
Thomas P. O'Brien (born October 5, 1948), is an American college football coach. He is the current head coach of the North Carolina State Wolfpack. Previously, O'Brien was the head coach at Boston College and served as an assistant at Virginia and Navy. - Pappy Boyington
Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC, (December 4, 1912 - January 11, 1988) was an American fighter ace. Boyington flew initially with the American Volunteer Group ("The Flying Tigers") in the Republic of China Air Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He later commanded the famous U.S. Marine Corps squadron, VMF-214 ("The Black Sheep Squadron") during World War II. Boyington became a prisoner of war later in the war. - Van Taylor
Nicholas Van Campen "Van" Taylor (born 1972) is a Texas businessman and Iraq War veteran who was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Congress in Texas' 17th Congressional District in 2006. Taylor challenged 16-year incumbent Chet Edwards. He is a former Marine platoon leader in Iraq. - Maury Maverick Jr.
Maury Maverick, Jr. (January 3 1921 - January 28 2003) was an American lawyer, politician, activist, and columnist from the U.S. state of Texas. A member of the prominent Maverick family, he was the great-grandson of Samuel Maverick, the rancher who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and famously refused to brand his cattle, and the son of Maury Maverick, Sr., a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives and one-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas. - Alexander Bonnyman Jr.
Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman, Jr. was a United States Marine Corps officer killed in action at Betio, Tarawa during World War II. A combat engineer, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three Bronze Stars and the World War II Victory Medal posthumously for extreme bravery during the strategically important assault on a Japanese bombproof shelter during the Battle of Tarawa. - Brian Chontosh
Brian R. Chontosh<br> First Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps<br> For Services as Set Forth in the Following Citation:<br> </center> For extraordinary heroism as Combined Anti-Armor Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 25 March 2003. While leading his platoon north on Highway I toward Ad Diwaniyah, … - James Baker
James Addison Baker III (born April 28 1930) served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration, Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 in the second Reagan administration, and Secretary of State in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He is also the founder of the James Baker Institute. - John Ripley
John Walter Ripley (born 1939) is a retired United States Marine Corps officer who received the Navy Cross for his combat actions during Vietnam. On Easter morning 1972, Captain Ripley, while under intense enemy fire, blew up a bridge to stop a major invasion; the story of Ripley's actions - "Ripley at the Bridge" - is legendary in the Marine Corps and is captured in a diorama at the United States Naval Academy. - Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University. - Frederick C. Branch
Frederick Clinton Branch (May 31 1922 - April 10 2005) was the first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps. - Patty Berg
Patricia Jane Berg was a founding member and then leading player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended the University of Minnesota where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She took up golf in 1931 and began her amateur career in 1934, winning her first title that year - the Minneapolis City Championship. - John Murtha
John Patrick “Jack” Murtha, Jr. is an American politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. A Democrat, Murtha has served in the United States House of Representatives since 1974, representing Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district. The district's largest city is Johnstown and includes Pittsburgh's eastern and southern suburbs as well as a large rural area encompassing the southwest corner of the state. - Earl Hancock Ellis
Lieutenant Colonel Earl Hancock "Pete" Ellis (December 19, 1880 - May 12, 1923) was a United States Marine Corps officer, and author of "Operations Plan 712-H: Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia", which became the basis for the American campaign of amphibious assault that defeated the Japanese in World War II. - Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born April 8, 1947) is an investor, businessman, self-help author and motivational speaker. Kiyosaki is best known for his "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of motivational books and other material. He has written 18 books which combined have sold over 26 million copies. Although beginning as a self-publisher, he was subsequently published by Warner Books, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, … - John P. Bobo
John Paul Bobo (1943-1967) was a United States Marine Corps second lieutenant who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in March 1967. - Scott Ritter
William Scott Ritter, Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is noted for his role as a chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later for his criticism of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, Ritter repeatedly stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Because of the prevailing political climate in the United States at the time, … - Charles Gittins
Charles Gittins is an American lawyer, who was worked for a number of noteworthy defendants in military courts martial -- including:class="wikitable" |+ Charles Gittins's clients | Lieutenant Ilario Pantano || US Marine who was found not guilty of murder in Iraq. |- | Specialist Charles Graner || Military Police reservist involved in the Abu Ghraib scandal. - John Harris
Colonel John Harris (May 20, 1790 - May 12, 1864) was the sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps. Harris was born in East Whiteland, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on 23 April 1814. Two months later he was promoted to first lieutenant and, during the summer of that year, served with the forces that opposed the advance of the British on the city of Washington during the concluding days of the War of 1812. - Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly (February 14, 1932 - February 12, 2005) was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Flipper". Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of former Governor Harry F. Kelly. The younger Kelly began his acting career after serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Kelly graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1953. - Danny Bubp
Danny R. Bubp (born 1954) is a first term member of the Ohio House of Representatives from District 88, West Union, Ohio. He is a member of the US Republican Party. Bubp has a B.S. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati in 1978 and a J.D. from the Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1984. He earned the rank of colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves. Bubp worked as a lawyer in Adams County, Ohio and served as probate and juvenile judge for a year.
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