List of United States Navy people

This page contains a list of notable people (officers and sailors) of the U.S. Navy.

Officers

Astronauts
  • Neil Armstrong – naval aviator (Korean War), X-15 pilot, astronaut Gemini 8 and Apollo 11, first man on the moon
  • Alan Bean – astronaut (Apollo 12 and Skylab 3)
  • Malcolm Carpenter – naval aviator, astronaut, Mercury 7
  • Christopher Cassidy – Navy SEAL
  • Eugene Cernan – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 9), Lunar Module Pilot (Apollo 10), Commander of Apollo 17 (last man on moon)
  • Laurel Clark – astronaut
  • Pete Conrad – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 5 and 11, Apollo 12 and Skylab 2)
  • Robert Crippen – naval aviator, astronaut (STS-1, STS-7, STS-41C and STS-41G)
  • Ronald Evans – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 17)
  • Owen Garriott – astronaut (Skylab 3)
  • Richard F. Gordon, Jr. – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 11 and Apollo 12)
  • Fred Haise, Jr. – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 13)
  • Joseph Kerwin – astronaut (Skylab 2)
  • Susan Kilrain – astronaut
  • Wendy Lawrence – astronaut
  • Jim Lovell – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 7 and 12, Apollo 8 and 13)
  • Thomas Mattingly, Jr. – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 16)
  • William C. McCool – naval aviator, astronaut, pilot of Columbia mission STS-107
  • Edgar Mitchell – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 14)
  • Lisa Nowak – astronaut
  • Alan G. Poindexter – Aviation – Son of John Poindexter and a NASA astronaut.
  • Walter Schirra, Jr. – naval aviator, astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6A and Apollo 7)
  • Alan Shepard – naval aviator and flag officer (Rear Admiral), first American in space (Mercury-Redstone 3) and Apollo 14 commander
  • William Shepherd – Navy SEAL, astronaut (STS-27, STS-41, STS-52)
  • Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – astronaut
  • Richard Truly – naval aviator and flag officer (Vice Admiral), Manned Orbiting Laboratory and Space Shuttle astronaut, serving as pilot for both Space Shuttle Enterprise landing tests and on second orbital test flight (STS-2). Later became first astronaut to serve as NASA Administrator under President George H. W. Bush.
  • Paul J. Weitz – astronaut (Skylab 2)
  • John Young – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, Shuttle flight STS-1 and STS-9)

Others

Groups
  • Golden Thirteen – the thirteen African-American enlisted men who became the first African-American commissioned officers in the United States Navy.
  • The Port Chicago 50 – group of 50 African-American Sailors who refused to return to work until changes were made at the U.S. Navy's Port Chicago near San Francisco.

References
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