| | - Joseph M. Acaba - NASA astronaut
- Don Adams - Actor
- Mike Anderson - NFL football player
- Walter Anderson - Parade Publications CEO
- Paul Arizin - NBA basketball player
- Beatrice Arthur - Actress
- F. Lee Bailey - Lawyer, O.J. Simpson trial
- James Baker - Former U.S. Secretary of State
- Leslie M. "Bud" Baker, Jr. - Chairman of the Board of Wachovia Bank.
- Nick Barone - Boxer
- James Lee Barrett - Author
- Carmen Basilio - World champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
- Hank Bauer - Baseball player
- Bob Bell - Bozo the Clown
- Terrel Bell - U.S. Secretary of Education
- Henry Bellmon - Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator (OK-R)
- Patty Berg - LPGA golfer
- Rod Bernard - Musician
- Charles F. Bolden, Jr. - Space Shuttle Commander
- Robert Bork - Retired federal judge
- Blackbear Bosin - Artist
- Hugh Brannum - Captain Kangaroo
- Daniel B. Brewster - U.S. Senator from Maryland
- Art Buchwald - Humor columnist
- Dale Bumpers - Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator from Arkansas
- Conrad Burns - U.S. Senator from Montana
- Smedley Darlington Butler - Police Commissioner of Philadelphia
- Robert D. Cabana - NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut
- Philip Caputo - Author, journalist
- Rod Carew - Baseball Hall of Famer
- Drew Carey - Comedian
- James Carville - Political strategist and manager
- Francis H. Case - Former South Dakota Representative and Senator
- John Chafee - Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy, United States Senator (RI-R)
- Roberto Clemente - Baseball Hall of Famer
- Jerry Coleman - Baseball player, announcer
- Eddie Collins - Baseball Hall of Famer
- Mike Connors - Actor
- Donald "The Great Santini" Conroy - Black Sheep Squadron member;The Great Santini
- Jon Corzine - Governor of New Jersey.
- Bill Cowan - Hostage rescue expert, television news commentator
- Walter Cunningham - Apollo 7 Astronaut
- Brian Dennehy - Actor
- Richard Diebenkorn - Artist
- David Dinkins - Mayor of New York City
- Art Donovan - Football Hall of Famer
- Terry Downes - World boxing champion
- Andre Dubus - Author
- David Douglas Duncan - Photographer
- William L. Durkin - Rescued billionaire Howard Hughes from an aircraft accident
- Dale Dye - Actor, Hollywood military advisor.
- David Eigenberg - Actor, Sex and the City
- R. Lee Ermey - Actor, TV show host
- Don Everly - Musician member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Phil Everly - Musician member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Hussein Mohamed Farrah - Son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
- Mike Farrell - American actor
- Jesse Ferguson - American heavyweight boxer
- Nathaniel Fick - Author of the book One Bullet Away
- Bill Fitch - Basketball coach
- Shelby Foote - Author, civil war historian
- Glenn Ford - Actor
- Joe Foss - Former Governor of South Dakota, first Commissioner of the American Football league, former NRA President
- James Franciscus - Actor
- Mark Fuhrman - LAPD detective who became famous during the O.J. Simpson trial
- Bob Ferguson - Song writer, record producer, and historian
- Hayden Fry - Football coach, University of Iowa
- Freddie Fender - Tejano music recording artist
- Bill Gallo - Cartoonist, journalist
- Christopher George - Actor
- Wayne Gilchrest - Republican U.S. Representative from Maryland
- John Glenn - Astronaut, first American to orbit Earth, oldest man in space, U.S. Senator
- Scott Glenn - Actor
- Clu Gulager - Actor
- Gene Hackman - Actor
- Fred Haise - NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 & Space Shuttle Enterprise)
- Nathaniel Dawayne "Nate Dogg" Hale - Rapper
- Ahmard Hall - NFL football player
- 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 - Sniper during Vietnam War with 93 confirmed kills
- Brent Hatley - Producer of the Bubba The Love Sponge show
- Sterling Hayden - Actor
- Howell Heflin - U.S. Senator from Alabama
- George Roy Hill - Director, Oscar-nomination for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as well as win for directing The Sting.
- Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch - Football Hall of Famer
- Gil Hodges - Baseball player
- Keith Jackson - Broadcaster
- Brian Gerard James - TNA/WWE professional wrestler
- Bill Janklow - Governor of South Dakota
- George Jones - Country music artist
- Bob Keeshan - Captain Kangaroo
- Harvey Keitel - Actor
- Brian Keith - Actor
- Greg Kelly - News reporter
- Raymond W. Kelly - Police commissioner of the City of New York
- Skip Kenney - Men's Olympic Swim Coach, Head Swim Coach at Stanford University
- Robert Kiyosaki - Author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- Ron Kovic - Author Born on the Fourth of July
- Ted Kulongoski - Governor, State of Oregon
- Mills Lane - Boxing referee and TV's People's Court judge
- Jim Lehrer - Journalist, host of the PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
- Alfred Lerner - Financier, Chairman of MBNA Corporation
- Scott Levy - Professional wrestler
- Joe Lisi - Actor - retired NYPD Captain
- Clayton J. Lonetree - Spied for Russia in the mid-1980s
- Tommy Loughran - World boxing champion
- Jack Robert Lousma - NASA Astronaut
- Robert A. Lutz - Chairman of the Board of Chrysler
- Robert Ludlum - Author of Bourne Identity and many others
- William Manchester - Author and historian
- Mike Mansfield - U.S. Representative and Senator, Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Ambassador to Japan; co-author of the Douglas-Mansfield Bill (1951) supporting the Marine Corps
- Nicole Marciano - Penthouse Pet
- Lee Marvin - Actor
- Bob Mathias -Two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon;U.S. congressman
- Ed McMahon - Television personality
- Sid McMath - Governor of Arkansas
- Robert C. McFarlane - National Security Advisor to Pres. Reagan, infamous for his role in the Iran-Contra Scandal
- Paul F. McHale, Jr. - U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense
- Steve McQueen - Actor
- Ray Mercer - World boxing champion
- Zell Miller - Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator
- Billy Mills - Olympic gold medalist (1964), 10,000m
- Tom Monaghan - Founder of Domino's Pizza
- Mike Montler - Professional NFL football player, Buffalo Bills
- Alvy Moore - Actor, played Hank Kimball on Green Acres
- 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 (D - PA)
- Carlos I. Noriega - NASA astronaut
- Oliver North - Infamous for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
- Ken Norton - World champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
- Tom O'Brien - NCAA head football coach, Boston College, NC State
- Randy Orton - Professional wrestler
- Ilario Pantano - Author of the book Warlord
- Sam Peckinpah - Director
- George Peppard - Actor
- Bum Phillips - NFL Head coach
- Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. - Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Tyrone Power - Actor
- CJ Ramone - Musician. Former member of The Ramones
- Lawrence G. Rawl - CEO of Exxon (1988-1993)
- Donald Regan - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff (Reagan administration)
- Robert Remus - "Sgt. Slaughter" in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
- Hari Rhodes - Actor
- Buddy Rich - Musician
- Rob Riggle - Actor/comedian
- Scott Ritter - Former United Nations arms inspector, intelligence officer, outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
- Charles S. "Chuck" Robb - Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, married to Linda Bird Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson)
- Pat Robertson - Televangelist
- Rick Romley - Attorney general
- James Roosevelt - Son of FDR, former Marine Raider
- Barney Ross - World champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
- Josh Rushing - News reporter for Al Jazeera network
- Jim Sasser - U.S. Senator from Tennessee
- George Schultz - Economist, U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury
- George C. Scott - Actor
- Tom Seaver - Baseball Hall of Famer
- Shaggy - Musician (rapper)
- Gerald L. Shaffer - Businessman, founder of Leatherneck.com.
- Bernard Shaw - CNN news anchor
- M. Zachary Sherman - Writer
- Mark Shields - Journalist.
- 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
- Leon Spinks - World boxing champion
- Richard Steele - Boxing referee
- Eugene Stoner - Designer of the AR-15 rifle adopted by the US military as the M-16.
- William Styron - Pulitzer Prize winning author.
- 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
- Steven W. Taylor - Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
- Frank M. Tejeda - U.S. Congressman from Texas
- Jerald terHorst - Press secretary (1974) for President Gerald Ford
- Craig Thomas - U.S. Senator from Wyoming
- Bernard Trainor - Foreign policy analyst and author
- Lee Trevino - PGA Tour golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
- Gene Tunney - World boxing champion, Boxing Hall of Famer
- Bill Veeck - Baseball team owner, baseball Hall of Famer
- John Warner - Former Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator from Virginia (Republican)
- Mike Weaver - World boxing champion
- James Webb - U.S. Senator (D - VA), 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 - Former NBA basketball player with the Boston Celtics
- James Whitmore - Actor
- Ted Williams - Baseball Hall of Famer
- Jonathan Winters - Actor, comedian
- Pete Wilson - Former Governor of California
- Ed Wood, Jr. - Film director
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