List of United States Coast Guard people

The following is a list of people who served in the United States Coast Guard and have gained notability through previous or subsequent endeavors, infamy, or successes:

Note: When adding a name to this list, please place the same in alphabetical order and provide a reliable verifiable source. Secondary sources such as fansites are not allowed. As a guide please see: sources. Additions that are not in alphabetical order and/or do not provide a primary reliable verifiable source will be removed.

A

 * John C. Acton – retired rear admiral who serves as the Director of Operations Coordination for DHS. Acton formerly served as Director of the DHS Presidential Transition Team.
 * Derroll Adams – folk musician
 * Nick Adams – actor (served 1952–1955)
 * Eddie Albert – actor and activist
 * Thad Allen – former commandant, incident commander for Deep Water Horizon oil spill and Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery operations.
 * Gerald Arpino – choreographer

B

 * Al Barlick – professional baseball umpire, National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee (served during World War II)
 * Edward T. Barry – American professional hockey player
 * Panayiota Bertzikis – executive director, Military Rape Crisis Center
 * Tom Blake - Surfer and inventor
 * Humphrey Bogart – actor (Bogart volunteered his yacht Santana (as well as himself) in 1944 for service with the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve)
 * Corey Brandt – baseball executive and former baseball general manager (served 1996-2000)
 * Milton H. Bren – producer (Tars and Spars), writer, director
 * Beau Bridges – actor (served from 1959 to 1967 in the Coast Guard Reserve)
 * Jeff Bridges – actor (served from 1967 to 1975 in the Coast Guard Reserve)
 * Lloyd Bridges – actor (he was a member of Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary and did a number of public service announcements for the Coast Guard)
 * Frank Brimsek – professional hockey player, National Hockey Hall of Fame inductee (Served from 1943 to 1945)
 * Aaron Brown – broadcast journalist, professor of journalism at Arizona State
 * Danny Joe Brown – lead singer for the southern rock group Molly Hatchet
 * Erroll M. Brown – the first Coast Guard African-American admiral
 * Nathan Bruckenthal – the only Coast Guardsman killed in action in Iraq, and the first KIA since the Vietnam War
 * Daniel C. Burbank – second Coast Guard astronaut, Captain, USCG

C

 * Sid Caesar – comedian
 * Richard R. Callahan – Coast Guard Medal recipient
 * Gil Carmichael – Mississippi businessman, transportation specialist and politician
 * Lou Carnesecca – college basketball coach
 * Gower Champion – dancer, actor, director
 * Howard Coble – congressman (North Carolina), retired Coast Guard Reserve captain
 * Edwin Louis Cole – author, pastor
 * Chris Cooper – actor
 * Art Coulter – professional hockey player, National Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
 * Warren Covington – musician and band leader (took over the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)
 * Richard Cromwell – actor
 * Walter Cronkite – newscaster, member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and an honorary commodore

D

 * Valentine Davies – Oscar-winning screenwriter and director (Miracle on 34th Street, The Glenn Miller Story)
 * Jim Davis – actor
 * William D. Delahunt – congressman (Massachusetts)
 * Jack Dempsey – professional boxer
 * Andre Douglas – NASA astronaut
 * Vernon Duke – composer

E

 * Buddy Ebsen – actor
 * Blake Edwards – writer, director, producer
 * Perry Ellis – fashion designer
 * Edwin D. Eshleman – former U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania

F

 * William R. "Willie" Flores – Coast Guard Medal recipient, namesake of the Sentinel-class cutter USCGC William Flores
 * Arthur Fiedler – conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra
 * Anton Otto Fischer – artist
 * Glenn Ford – actor
 * Preston Foster – actor
 * William A. Fraker – cinematographer
 * Elizebeth Smith Friedman – cryptanalyst for the U.S. Treasury Department and the Coast Guard

G

 * Neal Gay – professional Rodeo Hall of Fame inductee
 * Charles Gibson – newscaster
 * Leroy Gilbert – former officer in the United States Navy and Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard
 * Arthur Godfrey – entertainer
 * Gale Gordon – actor
 * Sid Gordon, – 2-time All-Star Major League Baseball player
 * Otto Graham – professional football player and coach
 * Burton Gilliam – actor

H

 * Alan Hale, Jr. – actor
 * Alex Haley – writer
 * Wynn Handman – actor, director
 * William O. Harbach – producer
 * David Hasselhoff - actor - was made an honorary Commodore for his work alongside the USCG Auxiliary in 1997.
 * Michael A. Healy – first man of African American descent to command a U.S. Government vessel.
 * Jim Hegan – professional baseball player and coach
 * Robert Horton – actor
 * Tab Hunter – actor

J

 * Lew Jenkins – professional boxer and world lightweight champion
 * Harvey E. Johnson, Jr. – retired Coast Guard Vice Admiral, Deputy Director of FEMA
 * Victor Jory – actor

K

 * Robert Kellard – actor
 * Michael Kilian – author, writer (USCG auxiliarist)
 * Jack Kramer – tennis professional

L

 * Al Lamberti - Sheriff of Broward County
 * Jacob Lawrence – artist
 * Admiral James Loy - 21st Commandant, 2nd Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, 2nd United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

M

 * Guy Madison – actor
 * John Mariucci – professional hockey player, National Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
 * Monte Markham – actor, producer
 * Victor Mature – actor (served in World War II)
 * Bruce E. Melnick – NASA astronaut, first Coast Guard astronaut
 * G. William Miller – businessman, Secretary of the Treasury
 * Bubba Morton – baseball player
 * Douglas Munro – the only Coast Guardsman to receive the Medal of Honor
 * Frank Murkowski – governor of Alaska and former Alaska senator

N

 * Vice Admiral Peter V. Neffenger - Vice Commandant of the USCG, 6th Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
 * Frank Newcomb – commodore, USCG and Congressional Gold Medal recipient
 * Sam Nunn – former Georgia senator

O

 * Edwin O'Connor – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
 * Thomas F. O'Neil – executive
 * Jess Oppenheimer – writer, director, producer of I Love Lucy television show

P

 * Arnold Palmer – professional golfer
 * Ed Parker – founder of American Kenpo Karate
 * George S. Patton, Jr. – awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for saving three boys from drowning
 * Vincent W. Patton III – first African American to become Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard
 * Vice Admiral David P. Pekoske - 26th Vice Comandant, and 7th Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
 * Claiborne Pell – former Rhode Island senator
 * J.D. Power III – businessman (served from 1953 to 1957)
 * Ronald C. Prei – Coast Guard Medal recipient

Q

 * Richard Quine – actor

R

 * Al Roker – television personality, Honorary Commodore, Coast Guard Auxiliary
 * Cesar Romero – actor

S

 * Walter Sande – actor
 * Steve Shagan – Oscar-nominated screenwriter, film and television producer, and novelist
 * Charles S. Shapiro – former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela
 * Joe Simon – comic book writer, artist, editor and publisher
 * Carlton Skinner – first civilian governor of Guam
 * Ron Sparks – Alabama politician
 * Ted Steele – radio personality
 * Dorothy C. Stratton – first director of the SPARS

T

 * Gene Taylor – congressman (Mississippi)
 * Emlen Tunnell – professional football player
 * Ted Turner – businessman

V

 * Rudy Vallée – entertainer, musician, singer

W

 * Tom Waits – actor, singer, songwriter
 * Patrick Wayne – actor
 * Bernard C. Webber – Gold Lifesaving Medal awardee, author
 * Henry Wilcoxon – actor
 * Don "The Dragon" Wilson – martial arts master, actor
 * Sloan Wilson – writer
 * Kai Winding – musician
 * Lothar Wolff – producer, director<ref name="USCGH

Y

 * Gig Young – actor

Z

 * Paul F. Zukunft – retired commandant and admiral