Notable Recipients
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- Bernard L. Austin (with two gold stars)
- David W. Bagley
- Ralph Austin Bard
- George Barnett
- Reginald R. Belknap
- Jeremy Michael Boorda (with 2 gold stars)
- Delbert D. Black (1st Master Chief Petty Officer Of The Navy)
- Omar Bradley
- Miles Browning
- Smedley Butler
- Richard E. Byrd
- Arthur C. Davis (with 1 gold star)
- Kirkland H. Donald (with 1 gold star)
- Charles A. Doyen (first recipient)
- Charles W. Dyson
- Thomas Edison
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Frank Jack Fletcher
- Daniel V. Gallery
- Roy Alexander Gano
- Edmund P. Giambastiani (with 4 gold stars)
- Jonathan W. Greenert (with 1 silver star)
- John L. Hall, Jr.
- William F. Halsey, Jr. (with 3 gold stars)
- H. Kent Hewitt
- Frank B. Kelso II (with 2 gold stars)
- Ernest J. King (with 2 gold stars)
- Alan G. Kirk
- Henry Louis Larsen (with 1 gold star)
- Julien J. LeBourgeois (2 awards)
- Lewis G. Lee
- John A. Lejeune
- Douglas MacArthur
- Mildred H. McAfee
- Joseph V. Medina
- Michael Mullen (with 1 gold star)
- John Murtha
- Wendell C. Neville
- Chester W. Nimitz (with 3 gold stars)
- Eric T. Olson
- John Cyril Porte
- Eli Thomas Reich (with 1 gold star)
- Hyman G. Rickover (with 2 gold stars)
- Herbert D. Riley
- Maurice H. Rindskopf
- Louis Robertshaw
- Joseph Rochefort (posthumously)
- Gary Roughead (with 1 gold star)
- Ross E. Rowell
- Harry Schmidt (with 2 gold stars)
- Benedict J. Semmes, Jr.
- James E. Service
- Raymond A. Spruance (with 2 gold stars, Army DSM)
- Harold Rainsford Stark
- Clark Daniel Stearns
- James Stockdale (with 2 gold stars)
- Joseph C. Strasser
- David W. Taylor
- Patricia A. Tracey
- Pedro del Valle
- Alexander Vandegrift
- Russell R. Waesche
- Patrick M. Walsh
- Edward F. Welch, Jr.
- Theodore S. Wilkinson
- James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
- Jerauld Wright (with 1 gold star)
- James A. Zimble
- Elmo Zumwalt (with 2 gold stars)
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