List of People Buried at Arlington National Cemetery - Military Burials

Military Burials

• Creighton Abrams (1914–1974), United States Army General who commanded U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968–1972
• Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1886–1950), first (and so far only) General of the Air Force
• David E. Baker (1946–2009), United States Air Force Brigadier General. Holds distinction of being the only former Prisoner of War of the Vietnam War to later fly combat missions during Operation Desert Storm.
• John Basilone (1916–1945), US Marine Gunnery Sergeant, killed at Iwo Jima, received the Medal of Honor and posthumously the Navy Cross for bravery. Portrayed in the HBO mini-series The Pacific.
• Warner B. Bayley (1845-1928), United States Navy rear admiral
• Gordon Beecher (1904–1973), United States Navy Vice Admiral and composer
• Reginald R. Belknap (1871-1959), United States Navy rear admiral
• Jeremy Michael Boorda (1939–1996), US Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
• Donald Prentice Booth (1902-1993), US Army Lieutenant General, High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands from 1958 to 1961.
• Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (1912–1988), World War II Marine Corps fighter ace, Medal of Honor recipient, and commander of VMF-214, the "Black Sheep Squadron" (basis for the 1970s TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep)
• Omar Nelson Bradley (1893–1981), commanded the 12th Army Group in Europe during World War II, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the last living five-star general.
• Ruby G. Bradley (1907–2002), Colonel and, with 34 medals, one of the most decorated women in U.S. military history
• Alfred Winsor Brown (1885–1938), naval officer and 31st Naval Governor of Guam.
• Miles Browning (1897–1954), World War I and World War II Navy officer and hero of the Battle of Midway
• Frank Buckles (1901–2011), last known American veteran of World War I.
• Omar Bundy (1861–1940), World War I Major General who commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Expeditionary Division in France, awarded the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre.
• John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), Brevet Brigadier General; American Civil War, first Governor of Wyoming Territory in 1869 and Third Assistant Secretary of State.
• Roger Chaffee (1935–1967) and Gus Grissom (1926–1967), astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 fire (Edward White was buried at West Point)
• Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), was a United States military aviator who commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II.
• William Christman (1843–1864), First soldier to be buried at Arlington Cemetery
• Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862–1918), Congressman from New York, killed in action in 1918
• John Clem (1851–1937), Major General, AKA Johnny Shiloh, arguably the youngest noncomissioned officer ever to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. Was the last living Civil War veteran on active duty at the time of his retirement.
• John M. B. Clitz, U.S. Navy rear admiral (1821-1897)
• Edmund R. Colhoun, U.S. Navy rear admiral (1821-1897)
• Charles M. "Savvy" Cooke, Jr. (1886-1970), U.S. Navy four-star admiral
• Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), Brigadier General, served in Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War and the China Relief Expedition.
• Scott Crossfield (1921–2006), US Naval aviator and test pilot, first to fly at twice the speed of sound; played a major role in the design and development of the North American X-15.

• William P. Cronan 1879-1929), U.S. Navy officer and 19th Naval Governor of Guam.
• Louis Cukela (1888–1956), Marine Corps Major, awarded two Medals of Honor for same act in World War I
• Arthur C. Davis (1893-1965), United States Navy admiral, pioneer of dive bombing
• Jane Delano (1862–1919), Director, Army Nursing Corps
• Dieter Dengler (1938–2001), U.S. Navy pilot shot down over Laos who escaped from a Pathet Lao POW camp. Subject of the film Rescue Dawn.
• Sir John Dill (1881–1944) United Kingdom, British Diplomat and Field Marshal
• William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959), Major General and Chief of the OSS during World War II
• Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), Civil War general erroneously credited with inventing baseball
• Franklin J. Drake (1846-1929), U.S. Navy rear admiral
• John Dunn (19__-2009), US Army Colonal, ranking officer of the Tiger Prisoners while POW during the Korean War, and credited with saving the lives of the Tiger Survivors.
• Clarence Ransom Edwards (1860–1931), commanded the 26th "Yankee" Division in World War I
• Alan Louis Eggers, Medal of Honor recipient for World War I.
• Frank J. Fletcher (1885–1973), Admiral, U.S. Navy, World War II; operational commander at Coral Sea and Midway; awarded Medal of Honor.
• Nathan Bedford Forrest III (1905–1943) Brigadier General of the United States Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. First American general to be killed in action during World War II
• Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes and Michael Strank: three of the six servicemen immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Strank was killed in action just days after the photo was taken)
• John Gibbon (1827–1896), Brigadier General, Union Army, Civil War, most notably commander of 2nd Division, US II Corps that repelled Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
• William A. Glassford (1886-1958), U.S. Navy vice admiral
• Charles D. Griffin (1906–1996), Navy four-star Admiral
• David Haskell Hackworth (1930–2005), Colonel and most decorated American soldier
• William "Bull" Halsey (1882–1959), World War II Navy five-star Fleet Admiral
• John Spencer Hardy (1913-2012), Chief of operations in the Mediterranean of U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II; later Lieutenant General of U.S. Air Force
• Juliet Opie Hopkins (1818–1890), Florence Nightingale of the South
• Grace Hopper (1906–1992), rear admiral, pioneering computer scientist
• Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), the first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot
• Olaf M. Hustvedt (1886-1978), United States Navy vice admiral
• John Irwin (1832-1901), United States Navy rear admiral
• James Jabara (1923–1966), the first American jet ace in history. He's credited with shooting down 15 enemy aircraft during aerial combat.
• Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (1920–1978), USAF, first African American four-star General in the U.S. Armed Forces
• George Juskalian (1914-2010), U.S. Army veteran, three decades and fought for three wars including World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War.
• Philip Kearny (1815–1862), "fearless" one-armed cavalry general killed at Chantilly during the Civil War
• Jack Koehler (died 2012), U.S. Army veteran, Associated Press executive and former White House Communications Director
• Włodzimierz B. Krzyżanowski (1824–1887), Polish military leader and Civil War Union general.
• Henry Louis Larsen (1890–1962), Marine Lieutenant General; commanded the first deployed American troops in both World Wars; Governor of Guam and American Samoa.
• Francis Lupo (1895–1918), Private killed in France during World War I; holds the distinction of possibly being the longest U.S. service member missing in action to be found (1918–2003)
• Newton E. Mason (1850-1945), United States Navy rear admiral
• Mark Matthews (1894–2005), last surviving Buffalo Soldier
• Henry Pinckney McCain (1861–1941), US Army officer and Adjutant Generals of the U.S. Army; Uncle to McCain Sr, grand-uncle of McCain Jr.
• John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981), USN Admiral - father of Senator John McCain
• John S. McCain, Sr. (1884–1945), USN Admiral - grandfather of Senator John McCain and father of McCain Jr.
• David McCampbell (1910–1996), Captain, the US Navy's top World War II Ace with 34 kills
• Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1816–1892), Brigadier General. Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House and appropriated the grounds on June 15, 1864 for use as a military cemetery. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet (6.1 m) wide and 10 feet (3.0 m) deep, and containing the remains of 2,111 Civil War dead, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards (91 m) of Arlington House with his wife, father and son.
• Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925) U.S. Army Lieutenant General; served in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War. Noted for accepting the surrender of Geronimo and his band of Apache.
• Glenn Miller (1904–1944), Major and well known band leader who disappeared over the English Channel while flying to Paris. His body was never found, but he has a memorial headstone.
• Audie Murphy (1924–1971), U.S. Army, America's most decorated combat soldier of World War II and popular movie actor.
• Reginald F. Nicholson (1852-1939), United States Navy rear admiral, last U.S. Navy officer on active duty to have seen service during the American Civil War, first U.S. naval attaché to Ecuador and Peru
• Michael J. Novosel (1922-2006), U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 4, Medal of Honor recipient, known as Dean of the Dustoff Pilots for his two tours in the Vietnam War during which he flew 2,534 missions and airlifted nearly 5,600 medical evacuees. A former Army Air Corp B-29 command pilot, Novosel was the last World War II pilot on active flying duty when he retired in 1985.
• Buckey O'Neill (1860-1898), an officer in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, who was killed in the Battle of San Juan Hill.
• Edward Ord (1818–1883), Major General, Army of the James during the Appomattox Campaign, Union Army, Civil War.
• Robert F. Overmyer (1936 - 1996), an American test pilot, Colonel in the United States Marine Corps and NASA astronaut.
• Brandon Van Parys (fought in Iraq from January 15, 2007 until his death on February 5, 2007. He was killed by a rocket propelled grenade in the Al Anbar Providence.)
• George S. Patton IV (1923–2004), Major General of the Army and son of famed WWII General, George S. Patton
• John J. Pershing (1860–1948), America's first General of the Armies, commanded American forces in World War I
• David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), Admiral, Union Navy, Civil War, most notable as the Union naval commander during the Vicksburg Campaign, a turning point of the war which split the Confederacy in two.
• Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
• Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (1945 – 1994), attorney, Pulitzer prize winning author and officer in the United States Marine Corps
• John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869), Civil War general, chief of staff and later Secretary of War to Ulysses S. Grant
• Alfred C. Richmond (1902–1984), Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
• Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986), father of the Nuclear Navy
• Matthew Ridgway (1895–1993), WWII and Korean War General, Chief of Staff of the Army
• William S. Rosecrans (1819–1898), Major General, Army of the Cumberland, Union Army, Civil War
• William T. Ryder (1913–1992), Brigadier General, first American paratrooper.
• August Schomburg (1908–1972), Lieutenant General, Commander United States Army Ordnance and Missile Command; Commander, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
• Thomas Selfridge (1882–1908), First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane
• Benedict J. Semmes, Jr., U.S. Navy Vice Admiral
• Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), commanding general, Union Army, Civil War
• Daniel E. Sickles (1819–1914), Major General, III Corps, Army of the Potomac, Union Army, Civil War. Also served as U.S. Minister to Spain and as U.S. Representative from New York
• Robert F. Sink Lt. General, and former Regimental Commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, he was also a close friend of "Easy Company" commander Major Richard Winters, he is portrayed by Vietnam Veteran, and retired Marine Captain Dale Dye in the HBO/BBC miniseries Band of Brothers.
• Joseph S. Skerrett (1833-1897), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
• Mark Edward Smith II (1899 - 1983), Mexican Border War (w/Massachusetts Volunteer Militia) WWI, USMA Class of 1924, WWII, Korea
• Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), General, U.S. Army, World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during Eisenhower's tenure at SHAEF and Director of the CIA from 1950 to 1953. Also served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1948.
• Larry Thorne (1919–1965) Finland, Finnish soldier who served in the US special forces and was a World War II veteran; called "soldier who fought under three flags (Finland, Germany and USA)". Reputedly the only former Waffen-SS member to be buried at the cemetery.
• Matt Urban (1919–1995), Colonel, U.S Army, most highly decorated soldier for valor in the history of the US Military
• Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (1883–1953),General, hero of Bataan and Corregidor; highest ranking POW in World War II
• Robert Webb (1922–2002), B-17 Flying Fortress pilot
• Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), served as a Major General for two opposing forces: the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War and Philippine-American War
• Orde Charles Wingate (1903–1944) United Kingdom, British major general, creator and commander of the Chindits
• Spencer S. Wood (1861-1940), United States Navy rear admiral
• Clark H. Woodward (1877–1968), Vice Admiral, served in five wars: the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Boxer Rebellion and both World Wars
• Charles Young (1864–1922), first African-American Lieutenant colonel in the US Army

As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery, nine of whom are Canadians.