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James Stockdale
James Bond Stockdale (1923-2005) was a US Navy vice admiral, highest-ranking naval POW in Vietnam at the Hanoi Hilton, Medal of Honor recipient (1976), Hoover Institution Stoicism scholar, and Ross Perot's 1992 independent vice-presidential running mate.
Jeffrey Trail
Jeffrey Trail (1969–1997) was a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Gulf War veteran, and gay naval officer, the first of Andrew Cunanan's five murder victims, killed April 27, 1997, in Minneapolis.
Jeromy B. Williams
Rear Admiral Jeromy B. Williams, U.S. Navy SEAL officer born in Las Vegas, Nevada; Naval Academy 1993; commands as Director of Operations J-3, U.S. Special Operations Command, after leading Special Operations Command Pacific; distinct from Medal of Honor recipient James E. Williams.
Jocko Willink
Jocko Willink, retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer, led SEAL Team Three's Task Unit Bruiser in the 2006 Battle of Ramadi, earned the Silver Star, and co-founded Echelon Front, co-authoring Extreme Ownership and hosting the Jocko Podcast.
John Kirby (admiral)
John F. Kirby, retired U.S. Navy rear admiral (lower half), served as chief spokesman at the Pentagon, State Department, and White House; NSC strategic communications coordinator from 2022, later University of Chicago Institute of Politics director.
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (born John Paul, 1747-1792) was a Scottish-born captain in the Continental Navy who raided British waters, defeated HMS Serapis in 1779, served as a rear admiral under Catherine the Great, and died in Paris in 1792; not the Led Zeppelin bassist.
John Perryman
John Perryman is a U.S. Navy submariner and the 17th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, sworn in September 8, 2025; former Fleet Master Chief of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, distinct from Australian naval historian John Perryman.
John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772)
Commodore John Rodgers (11 July 1772, Havre de Grace, Maryland – 1 August 1838), US Navy officer in the Quasi-War, Barbary War, and War of 1812; Little Belt affair; president, Board of Navy Commissioners.
John S. McCain Jr.
John S. McCain Jr. (John Sidney McCain Jr.), 1911-1981, U.S. Navy admiral; submarine commander in World War II, Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Command 1968-1972 during the Vietnam War, father of Senator John McCain III.
John S. McCain Sr.
John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (1884–1945) was a U.S. Navy admiral, pioneer naval aviator, and commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force (TF-38) under Halsey; posthumously promoted to full admiral in 1949, distinct from his admiral son and senator grandson.
Lisa Franchetti
Lisa Marie Franchetti: 33rd US Chief of Naval Operations (November 2023 to February 2025), first woman as Navy service chief and Joint Chiefs member; retired admiral later on Cincinnati Financial's board, removed by Hegseth without explanation.
List of United States Navy four-star admirals
United States Navy four-star admirals: officers holding the grade of admiral under 10 U.S.C. § 601, including the CNO, VCNO, and fleet and combatant commanders; 215 Naval Academy graduates have reached the rank, with Howard the first woman.
Lloyd M. Bucher
Lloyd M. Bucher, also known as Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, was a U.S. Navy officer who commanded the USS Pueblo. He surrendered the ship to North Korea in 1968.
Lou Conter
Lou Conter (Louis Anthony Conter, 1921-2024) was a US Navy lieutenant commander, the last living survivor of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, a Black Cat PBY pilot with 200 combat missions, and founder of the Navy's first SERE program.
Marcus Luttrell
Marcus Luttrell (born 1975) is a retired United States Navy SEAL, the sole survivor of an ambush in Afghanistan during Operation Red Wings in 2005.
Matthew C. Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794–1858), American commodore and brother of Oliver Hazard Perry, led the 1853–1854 expedition whose Treaty of Kanagawa opened Japan and built the steam navy.
McCain family
McCain family: American naval and political dynasty of Scots-Irish origin; admirals John S. McCain Sr. and Jr., the first father-son four-star admirals, and Senator and POW John McCain III.
Michael M. Gilday
Michael M. Gilday, retired U.S. Navy admiral and 32nd Chief of Naval Operations (August 22, 2019 to August 14, 2023), a Lowell, Massachusetts-born surface warfare officer known for readiness-first guidance, Get Real Get Better, and a 500-ship fleet goal.
Michael Mullen
Michael Glenn Mullen (born 1946), American Navy admiral; 28th Chief of Naval Operations 2005–2007 and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 2007–2011; known for the 313-ship plan and Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal testimony.
Michael S. Rogers
Michael S. Rogers, retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral, was Director of the NSA and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command from 2014 to 2018, the first cryptologic-community Navy NSA director, later a corporate board member.
Oliver Hazard Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819) was a U.S. Navy officer who won the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, receiving the first surrender of an entire Royal Navy squadron; famed for "We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Raymond A. Spruance
Raymond Ames Spruance (1886–1969), American admiral, commanded Task Force 16 at Midway and the Fifth Fleet through the Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa; later Naval War College president and ambassador to the Philippines.
Reuben James
Reuben James (c. 1776-1838) was a U.S. Navy boatswain's mate of the Quasi-War, Barbary Wars, and War of 1812, famed, probably wrongly, for saving Stephen Decatur at Tripoli; three Navy ships, including DD-245 sunk in 1941, bore his name.
Richard Marcinko
Richard Marcinko (1940–2021), US Navy SEAL commander, founded and led SEAL Team Six from 1980 after Operation Eagle Claw; later convicted of contract fraud and author of Rogue Warrior.
Ryan Job
Ryan Job (1981–2009), Navy SEAL SO2 with SEAL Team Three's Task Unit Bruiser, blinded by a sniper in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006; later climbed Mount Rainier, earned a business degree, and died at 28 after reconstructive surgery.
Samuel Francis Du Pont
Samuel Francis Du Pont was a United States Navy rear admiral from Delaware's du Pont family, best known for leading the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in the Civil War.
Scott Speicher
Scott Speicher was the US Navy F/A-18 pilot shot down the first night of the 1991 Gulf War, reclassified MIA in 2001 and Missing/Captured in 2002, whose remains were found and identified in Iraq in 2009.
Stanford Caldwell Hooper
Stanford Caldwell Hooper (1884–1955) was a United States Navy rear admiral known as the "Father of Navy Radio" who headed the Navy's Radio Division and helped establish RCA.
Stephen Decatur
Stephen Decatur (1779–1820), American naval officer and commodore, burned USS Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804, captured HMS Macedonian in 1812, defeated Algiers in 1815, and died in a duel with James Barron.
Thomas G. Allan Jr.
Thomas G. Allan Jr. (born 1968, Belleville, Illinois) is a U.S. Coast Guard admiral and Vice Commandant since February 2026; former Coast Guard CFO, First District commander, and SOUTHCOM J3, Coast Guard Academy class of 1990.