List of Sailors - Military

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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