Military
- Kingsmill Bates, British Distinguished Service Cross recipient
- Philip Bent, Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- George H. O'Brien, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
- David Broadfoot, Scottish recipient of the George Cross
- Lionel Crabb, British Royal Navy frogman who vanished during a reconnaissance mission in 1956
- Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French Baron and rear admiral of the Navy, was helmsman early in his career
- Peter Horsley, British Air Marshal
- Lawrence Joel, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
- John Paul Jones, American naval officer
- "Yank" Levy, Canadian soldier, military instructor and author of a manual on guerrilla warfare
- Charles Andrew MacGillivary, Canadian Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas McClelland, American naval officer
- Kim Malthe-Bruun, member of the Danish resistance movement
- Arthur Phillip, British naval officer, colonial administrator, Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the city of Sydney
- William Sanders, New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Miguel Grau Seminario, renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos
- John Young (naval officer), Naval Officer in American Revolutionary War
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)