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:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)