Coast Guard History
Frequently Asked Questions
What celebrities or other famous
persons once served in or were associated with the Coast Guard?
- Derroll Adams, Folk Musician
- Nick Adams, Actor
- Gerald Arpino, Choreographer, Dancer, Artistic Director of the Joffrey Ballet
- Al Barlick, Professional Baseball umpire, National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee
- Mike Barrier, Actor
- Edward T. Barry, Professional Hockey Player
- Tom Blake, Athlete, Professional Surfer, Inventor & Author
- Humphrey Bogart, Actor
- Lee Bonnell, Actor
- Milton H. Bren, Producer ("Tars and Spars"), Writer, Director
- Beau Bridges, Actor
- Jeff Bridges, Actor
- Lloyd Bridges, Actor
- Frank Brimsek, Professional Hockey Player, National Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee
- Danny Joe Brown, Musician ("Molly Hatchet")
- Tim Burton, Musician ("Mighty Mighty Bosstones"); Coast Guard Auxiliarist
- Sid Caesar, Comedian
- Robert Maurice Campbell, Producer, Director
- Lou Carnesecca, College Basketball Coach
- Gower Champion, Dancer, Actor, Director
- Howard Coble, Congressman (NC)
- Hamilton Cochran, Writer
- Johnny Colan, Professional Boxer, Heavyweight
- Chris Cooper, Actor
- Art Coulter, Professional Hockey Player, National Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee
- Warren Covington, Musician, Band Leader (took over Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra).
- Walter Cronkite, Newscaster
- John F. DeCuir, Jr., Art Director, Production Designer
- William D. Delahunt, Congressman (MA)
- Jack Dempsey, Professional Boxer
- Peter R.J. Deyell, Actor, Writer, Makeup Artist, Producer, Director
- Marlene Dietrich, Actress
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Martial Arts Master, Actor
- Donald Duck, Actor, Comedian, Cartoon Character
- Vernon Duke, Composer, Song Writer ("Tars and Spars")
- Buddy Ebsen, Actor
- Blake Edwards, Writer, Director, Producer
- Perry Ellis, Fashion Designer
- Thomas Farris, Professional Football Player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears)
- Arthur Feidler, Conductor
- Anton Otto Fischer, Artist
- Preston Foster, Actor
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman, Cryptographer
- Neal Gay, Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee
- Charles Gibson, Newscaster
- Burton Gilliam, Boxer, Actor
- Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer
- Gale Gordon, Radio, TV & Movie Actor
- Otto Graham, Professional Football Player and Coach
- Jimmy Grier, Musician, Jazz Band Leader (worked with Rudy Vallee in the Coast Guard during World War II).
- Alan Hale, Jr., Actor
- Alex Haley, Writer
- William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., Fleet Admiral, U. S. Navy
- Wynn Handman, Actor, Director & Founder of the American Place Theatre
- William O. Harbach, Producer
- Jim "Shanty" Hegan, Professional Baseball Player & Coach
- Roland Hemond, Professional Baseball Player
- Tommy Henrich, Professional Baseball Player
- Christopher Hibler, Producer, Director
- Clarke Hinkle, Professional Photographer
- Robert Horton, Actor
- Tab Hunter, Actor
- Charles Isaacs, Writer
- Lew "Sweetwater Swatter" Jenkins, Professional Boxer & World Lightweight Champion
- Victor Jory, Actor
- Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, Athlete, Surfer, Actor
- Michael Kilian, Author, Chicago Tribune Columnist, "Dick Tracy" Comic Strip Writer (Coast Guard Auxiliarist)
- Jack Kramer, Tennis Professional
- Jacob Lawrence, Artist
- Alex Lukachik, Professional Football Player (Pittsburg Steelers)
- Guy Madison, Actor
- Nathan Mann, Professional Boxer, Heavyweight
- Monte Markham, Actor, Producer
- John Mariucci, Professional Hockey Player, National Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee
- Rube Marquard, Hall of Fame Professional Baseball Player
- Victor Mature, Actor
- K. Gunn McKay, former Congressman (UT)
- Lorin Michael, Director-Producer
- G. William Miller, Businessman, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Secretary of the Treasury
- Bubba Morton, Major League Baseball Player (Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves & California Angels)
- Frank Murkowski, Governor of Alaska & former Senator (AK)
- Sam Nunn, former Senator (GA)
- Edwin O'Connor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Thomas F. O’Neil, Executive
- Arnold Palmer, Professional Golfer
- Edmund K. Parker, Kenpo Martial Arts Master & Founder of the American Kenpo Karate
- George S. Patton, Jr., General, U.S. Army
- Claiborne Pell, former Senator (RI)
- Jim Pollard, Professional Basketball Player (Minneapolis Lakers)
- Jose "The Punisher" Perez, Jr., Boxer
- John Perry, Producer
- Tom Philpott, Editor, Navy Times Magazine
- Popeye, Cartoon Character
- J. D. Power, III, Businessman
- Pluto, Cartoon, Actor
- Richard Quine, Actor
- Caesar Romero, Actor
- Harvey C. Russell, Jr. (first African-American to break the corporate color barrier when he became Vice President of Corporate Planning for Pepsi in 1962).
- Walter Sande, Actor
- Chiao-Shun Soong, Businessman, Chinese Patriarch
- Chester R. Simmons, Sports Broadcasting Executive, First USFL Commissioner
- Joe Simon, Comic Book Artist, Writer & Editor (creator of "Captain America")
- Sibby Sisti, Professional Baseball Player
- Ted Steele, Radio Personality, Song Writer & Band Leader
- Robert Stevens, Actor
- Gene Taylor, Congressman (MS)
- Emlen Tunnel, Professional Football Player
- Ted Turner, Businessman
- Rudy Vallee, Entertainer
- Tom Waits, Actor, Singer, Song Writer
- "Big Jim" Walker, Head Coast, Central State University
- Patrick Wayne, Actor
- Ralph Weigel, Professional Baseball Player
- Henry Wilcoxon, Actor
- Sloan Wilson, Writer (The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, among others)
- Kai Winding, Musician
- Lothar Wolff, Producer, Director
- Gig Young, Actor
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