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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
- Lloyd
Bridges, Actor
- Frank
Brimsek, Professional Hockey Player, National Hockey Hall of Fame
Inductee
- Sid
Caesar, Comedian
- Robert Maurice Campbell, Producer, Director
- Gower
Champion, Dancer, Actor, Director
- Howard
Coble, Congressman (NC)
- Hamilton
Cochran, Writer
- Lou
Carnesecca, College Basketball Coach
- 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
- Buddy
Ebsen, Actor
- Blake
Edwards, Writer, Director, Producer
- Arthur
Feidler, Conductor
- Anton Otto Fischer, Artist
- Preston
Foster, Actor
- Elizabeth
Smith Friedman, Cryptographer
- Neal Gay, Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee
- Charles Gibson, Newscaster
- 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
- Wynn Handman, Actor, Director & Founder of the
American Place Theatre
- William O. Harbach, Producer
- Jim "Shanty" Hegan, Professional Baseball
Player & Coach
- Christopher Hibler, Producer, Director
- Robert Horton, Actor
- Tab
Hunter, Actor
- Charles Isaacs, Writer
- Lew "Sweetwater Slinger"
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
- Guy Madison, Actor
- Monte Markham, Actor, Producer
- John
Mariucci, Professional Hockey Player, National Hockey Hall of Fame
Inductee
- Victor
Mature, Actor
- 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.
- Claiborne
Pell, former Senator (RI)
- 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
- Walter
Sande, Actor
- 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
- Patrick Wayne, Actor
- 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