Military
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Abizaid (born 1951) | A.M. 1981 | U.S. Army general, Commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM) | |
| Douglas Campbell (aviator) {1896–1990} | A.B. 1917 | Soldier-World War I ace | |
| Erle Cocke, Jr. (1921–2000) | M.B.A. 1947 | U.S. National Guard general | |
| Harry F. Cruver {1916–2000} | B.A. | U.S. Army Air Forces aviator in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal | |
| George Downing (c. 1624–1684) | College 1640s | English soldier, diplomat | |
| Peter Fanta | M.P.A. | U.S. Navy admiral | |
| Manning Force (1824–1899) | College 1845; Law 1848 | Union Army general, Medal of Honor recipient, judge, author | |
| Pierpont M. Hamilton (1898–1982) | College 1920; A.M. 1946 | U.S. Army Air Forces general in World War II, Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Walter Newell Hill (1881–1955) | College 1904 | U.S. Marine Corps general, Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Henry S. Huidekoper (1839–1918) | College 1862; A.M. 1872 | Union Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Claud Ashton Jones (1885–1948) | M.S. 1915 | U.S. Navy admiral, Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Henry Ware Lawton (1843–1899) | Law 1866 | U.S. Army general, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in the Philippine–American War | |
| John N. Lotz | Business 1971 | Air National Guard general | |
| George G. McMurtry (1876–1958) | College 1899 | U.S. Army officer in World War I with the "Lost Battalion", Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Hal Moore (born 1922) | U.S. Army general, author of We Were Soldiers Once… And Young | ||
| Robert C. Murray (1946–1970) | Business 1970 | U.S. Army soldier killed in the Vietnam War, Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu (1946–1970) | attended 1967-68 | commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal; killed in action during Operation Entebbe in Uganda; awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War | |
| Norris W. Overton (born 1926) | Business 1972 | U.S. Air Force general | |
| Charles E. Phelps (1833–1908) | Law 1853 | Union Army general, Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Representative from Maryland, lawyer, judge | |
| Horace Porter (1837–1921) | Lawrence Scientific School 1857 | Union Army general, Medal of Honor recipient, businessman, ambassador to France | |
| Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887–1944) | College 1909 | Son of President Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Army general, Medal of Honor recipient, businessman, Governor of Puerto Rico, Governor-General of the Philippines | |
| Sherrod E. Skinner, Jr. (1929–1952) | 1951 | U.S. Marine Corps officer killed in the Korean War, Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Phillips Waller Smith (1906–1963) | M.B.A. 1940 | U.S. Air Force general | |
| Hazard Stevens (1842–1918) | College 1865 | Union Army general, Medal of Honor recipient, Massachusetts state legislator, mountaineer | |
| Charles White Whittlesey (1884–1921) | Law 1908 | U.S. Army officer in World War I, commander of the "Lost Battalion", Medal of Honor recipient | |
| Arthur Harold Webber {1893–1918} | Harvard 1915 | Volunteer with RAF Squadron 84, Killed in Flying Accident Texas April 10, 1918 | |
| Leonard Wood (1860–1927) | Medical 1884 | U.S. Army general, military surgeon, commander of the Rough Riders, 5th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines, Medal of Honor recipient |
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)
“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.”
—Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)