| | Joseph M. Acaba — NASA astronaut |
| | Don Adams — actor |
| | Mike Anderson — NFL football player |
| | Walter Anderson (editor) — author; PARADE Magazine editor; Parade Publications CEO; GED spokesperson |
| | Paul Arizin — NBA basketball player |
| | Beatrice Arthur — star of the television series Maude and The Golden Girls |
| | F. Lee Bailey — lawyer, notable for his involvement in cases relating to the My Lai Massacre, and the O.J. Simpson trial. |
| | James Baker — former 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) |
| | James Lee Barrett — author, screenplay writer. |
| | Carmen Basilio — world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer |
| | Hank Bauer — baseball player |
| | Bob Bell — Bozo the Clown (TV) |
| | Terrel Bell — U.S. Secretary of Education (1981- 1984) during the Reagan administration |
| | Henry Bellmon — Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator (OK-R) |
| | Patty Berg — LPGA golfer |
| | Rod Bernard — musician |
| | John Wayne Bobbitt — Famous for his dismembered member and being convicted of domestic abuse. |
| | Charles F. Bolden, Jr. — space shuttle commander |
| | Robert Bork — retired federal judge, law professor, and Supreme court nominee. |
| | Blackbear Bosin — artist |
| | Hugh Brannum — "Mr. Green Jeans" on 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 — became an outspoken critic of war profiteers and testified in congress regarding a plot to overthrow the government. Also served as the Police Commissioner for the city of Philadelphia. |
| | Enrique Camarena — murdered Mexican-American DEA agent |
| | Philip Caputo — author, journalist |
| | Rod Carew — baseball Hall of Famer |
| | Drew Carey — comedian |
| | James Carville — political strategist and manager |
| | Francis H. Case – represented South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives (1937-1950) and the U.S. Senate (1951-1962) |
| | 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 |
| | Charles Colson — White House special counsel, convicted Watergate felon, evangelist |
| | Mike Connors — actor |
| | Donald "The Great Santini" Conroy — Black Sheep Squadron member and father of author Pat Conroy, who based his novel The Great Santini on him. |
| | John Corzine — Governor of New Jersey. |
| | Bill Cowan — hostage rescue expert, television news commentator |
| | Walter Cunningham — Apollo 7 astronaut |
| | Daniel Daly — "an oustanding sergeant" and two-time Medal of Honor recipient |
| | 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 — earned fame for rescuing 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 |
| | Nathan Gale — murderer of guitarist Dimebag Darrell and several others |
| | 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 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 |
| | Mike Ilitch — founder of Little Caesars Pizza. |
| | John Donald "Don" Imus — talk radio host |
| | 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 |
| | Lee Harvey Oswald — assassin of John F. Kennedy |
| | 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 (b. Christopher Joseph Ward) — 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 |
| | Matt Sanchez - gained some fame as an activist against anti-military descrimination and also against gay rights, for this he was awarded the first ever Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award at the conservative political action conference, but it was later revealed that he had worked as a gay porn actor and a male prostitute. |
| | 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) |
| | Bernard Shaw — CNN news anchor |
| | 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 |
| | Leon Uris — author |
| | 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 |
| | Charles Whitman — University of Texas at Austin Tower sniper (1966) |
| | James Whitmore — actor |
| | Montel Williams — television show host |
| | Ted Williams — baseball Hall of Famer |
| | Jonathan Winters — actor, comedian |
| | Pete Wilson — former Governor of California |
| | Ed Wood, Jr. — film director |
| | Anthony Zinni — retired as General, commanding US Central Command. Foreign policy analyst and television commentator. |