A

• Joseph M. Acaba — first Puerto Rican astronaut
• Don Adams — actor
• Eddie Albert — actor. Eddie deserves an honorable mention, because he served as a lieutenant in the Navy with the Marines at Tarawa and even earned a Bronze Star with combat 'V' for rescuing 70 Marines during the battle.
• Mike Anderson — NFL football player
• Walter Anderson (editor) — author; PARADE Magazine  editor; Parade Publications CEO; GED spokesperson
• Paul Arizin — basketball player
• Bea Arthur — actress

B

• F. Lee Bailey — lawyer
• James Baker — 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
• John Basilone — Medal of Honor recipient
• Hank Bauer — baseball player
• Bob Bell — Bozo the Clown (TV)
• Patty Berg — LPGA golfer
• Charles F. Bolden, Jr. — space shuttle commander
• Carol Bongiovi — model, mother of Jon Bon Jovi
• Robert Bork — retired federal judge, law professor, and Supreme court nominee.
• Blackbear Bosin — artist
• Gregory "Pappy" Boyington — WWII pilot ace
• Hugh Brannum — "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo
• Art Buchwald — humor columnist
• Conrad Burns — U.S. Senator from Montana.
• Smedley Butler — two-time Medal of Honor recipient

C

• Enrique Camarena — murdered Mexican-American DEA agent
• Vincent Capodanno — Medal of Honor recipient, Chaplain to USMC in Vietnam
• Philip Caputo — author, journalist
• Rod Carew — baseball player
• Drew Carey — comedian
• James Carville — political strategist and manager
• Roberto Clemente — baseball player
• 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.

D

• Daniel "Dan" Daly — two-time Medal of Honor recipient
• Sarah Deal — first female Marine Corps helo aviator
• Brian Dennehy — actor
• Lou Diamond — "Mr. Leatherneck," namesake of actor Lou Diamond Phillips
• David Dinkins — Mayor of New York City
• Art Donovan — football player
• Terry Downes — world boxing champion
• Buster Drayton — world boxing champion
• Barbara Dulinsky — first female Marine deployed to a combat zone
• Dale Dye — actor, Hollywood military advisor.

E

• David Eigenberg — actor, Sex and the City
• R. Lee Ermey — actor, TV show host
• Don Everly — musician
• Phil Everly — musician
• John A. Eastman - NFL football player, actor, writer, motivational speaker

F

• Hussein Mohamed Farrah — son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
• Mike Farrell — American actor
• Bill Fitch — basketball coach
• Glenn Ford — actor
• 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

G

• Nathan Gale — murderer of guitarist Dimebag Darrell and several others
• Bill Gallo — cartoonist, journalist
• Christopher George — actor
• John Glenn — astronaut, first American to orbit Earth, oldest man in space, U.S. Senator
• Scott Glenn — actor
• Josh Gracin — singer

H

• Gene Hackman — actor
• Fred Haise — NASA astronaut
• 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
• Sterling Hayden — actor
• 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 player
• Gil Hodges — baseball player

I

• John Donald "Don" Imus — talk radio host

George Roy Hill: Cargo pilot during WWII and jet night fighter pilot during Korean War. Oscar-nominated director for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as well as winning an Oscar for directing The Sting

J

• Keith Jackson — broadcaster
• Bill Janklow — Governor of South Dakota
• Opha Mae Johnson — first female Marine
• George Jones — country music star

K

• Bob Keeshan — "Captain Kangaroo"
• Harvey Keitel — actor
• Brian Keith — actor
• Raymond W. Kelly — police commissioner of the City of New York
• Skip Kenney — Men's Olympic Swim Coach, Head Swim Coach at Stanford University
• Ted Kulongoski Governor, State of Oregon

L

• Mills Lane — boxing referee
• 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
• Joe Lisi — actor
• Clayton J. Lonetree — spied for Russia in the mid-1980s
• Tommy Loughran — world boxing champion
• Robert A. Lutz — Chairman of the Board of Chrysler

M

• William Manchester — author and historian
• John F. Mackie — First Marine Medal of Honor recipient.
• Lee Marvin — actor
• Ed McMahon — television personality
• Sid McMath — Governor of Arkansas
• Steve McQueen — actor
• Ray Mercer — world boxing champion
• Zell Miller — Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator
• 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

N

• 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

O

• Kenneth O'Keefe — anti-war activist
• Lee Harvey Oswald — assassin of John F. Kennedy
• Randy Orton — professional wrestler

P

• Peter Pace — first Marine to hold the billet of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2005- )
• Sam Peckinpah — director
• George Peppard — actor
• 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
• Tyrone Power — actor

R

• 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)
• Buddy Rich — musician
• 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
• Josh Rushing — news reporter for Al Jazeera network

S

• George Schultz — economist, U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury
• George C. Scott — actor
• Tom Seaver — baseball player
• 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

T

• 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
• Gene Tunney — world boxing champion

W

• Robert Wagner — actor
• 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 player
• Charles Whitman — University of Texas at Austin Tower sniper (1966)
• Montel Williams — television show host
• Ted Williams — baseball player
• Jonathan Winters — actor, comedian
• Pete Wilson — former Governor of California
• Ed Wood, Jr. — film director

X

Y

Z