List of American mariners

Famous members of the U.S. Merchant Marine have included:

*Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
*Raymond Bailey, actor
*Alvin Baldus, former Democratic member of Congress
*Alex Bonner, Emmy Award winning radio and television producer
*Nathaniel Bowditch, author
*Gordon Canfield, Republican congressman from New Jersey
*Alfonso J. Cervantes, forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri
*G. N. Chandler, Famous Canadian-American Photographer and LDS Church Official
*Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - inland waters - author
*Granville Conway, public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient
*Harvey Cox, preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School
*Joseph Curran, labor leader
*Richard Henry Dana, author
*Deborah Doane Dempsey, 1st American female master to command a cargo ship sailing internationally [http://www.womensmaritimeassoc.com/fall_2006_newsletter.pdf]
*Dan Devine, football coach
*Peter Falk, actor
*James Garner, actor
*Allen Ginsberg, poet
*Woody Guthrie, musician
*David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
*Sterling Hayden, actor and author
*Cisco Houston, folk singer
*Cornelius Cooper Johnson, Olympic medal-winning high jumper
*Irving Johnson, author, adventurer and sail training pioneer
*John Paul Jones, naval officer
*Jack Kerouac, author
*Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, AB, portrait and watercolor artist
*Jack London, author
*Jack Lord, actor
*Herman Melville, author
*Hugh Mulzac, master mariner and civil rights activist
*James Nachtwey, photojournalist and war photographer
*George H. O'Brien, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
*Jeremiah O'Brien captain of privateer 'Unity' in Revolutionary War's first battle
*Carroll O'Connor, actor
*Mary Patten (1837–1861), only woman to take command of a clipper ship after the captain was incapcitated [http://members.aol.com/sailoreye/ShippingOut.pdf] .
*Richard Scott Prather, mystery novelist
*Denver Pyle, actor
*Joseph Resnick, Democratic congressman from New York
*Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator
*Ernie Schroeder, American comic book artist
*Otto Scott, journalist and author
*Hubert Selby, Jr., author
*Frank Sinkwich, 1842 Heisman Trophy winner
*Gary Snyder, poet
*Joseph D. Stewart, Vice Admiral, Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
*Montfort Stokes, Democratic Senator
*Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter.
*Celia Sweet, 1st female pilot in San Diego Bay; 1912 [http://www.lighthousedigest.com/digest/Storypage.cfm?storykey=1389]
*Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers
*Jim Thorpe, olympic athlete
*Eliza Thorrold, licensed tugboat master, San Francisco Bay; 1897 [https://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/maritimewomenhistory.htm]
*Dave Van Ronk, folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street."
*Clint Walker, actor
*Jack Warden, actor
*John S. Watson, African-American politician in New Jersey
*Ted Weems, bandleader and musician
*Carlia Wescott, 1st American woman to be granted marine engineer's license, 1922 [https://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/maritimewomenhistory.htm]
*Haskell Wexler, Academy Award-winning American cinematographer
*Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
*Robin Wilson (author), science fiction author and editor, and former President of California State University, Chico.

ee also

*United States Merchant Marine
*List of notable mariners