Notable members of the United States Merchant Marine have included:
Main category: United States Merchant Mariners
Jim Bagby Jr. – Major League Baseball pitcher
Raymond Bailey – actor
Alvin Baldus – former Democratic member of Congress
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
Eric Fleming – actor
James Garner – actor
Allen Ginsberg – poet
Seamon Glass – actor and author
Harry Guardino – actor
Woody Guthrie – musician
David Hackworth – retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
Sterling Hayden – actor and author
Chuck Hayward – actor and stuntman
Don Hewitt – television news producer and executive
Chuck Hicks – actor and stuntman
Sadie O. Horton – female mariner 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
Richard Jaeckel – actor
Cornelius Johnson – Olympic medal-winning high jumper
Irving Johnson – author, adventurer and sail training pioneer
John Paul Jones – naval officer
Jack Kerouac – author
Daniel Keyes – author and professor
Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, AB – portrait and watercolor artist
Leonard LaRue – naval officer who saved 14,000 lives during the Korean War
Jack London – author
Louis L'Amour – author
Jack Lord – actor
Jerry Marcus – cartoonist of comic strip Trudy
Steve McQueen – actor
Herman Melville – author
Ray Montgomery – actor
Hugh Mulzac – master mariner and civil rights activist
James Nachtwey – photojournalist and war photographer
Lloyd Nolan – actor
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]
Donn Pearce – author and journalist
Richard Phillips – held hostage by pirates and later rescued
Richard Scott Prather – mystery novelist
Denver Pyle – actor
Bill Raisch – actor, stuntman, dancer and acting coach
Joseph Resnick – Democratic congressman from New York
Nelson Riddle – bandleader, arranger and orchestrator
Cliff Robertson – actor and aviator
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, director, producer and screenwriter
Nedd Willard (born 1928) – writer, artist, journalist
Andy Williams – singer
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
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