List of sailors

This list of sailors includes any seagoing person who does not qualify for the list of naval commanders and/or list of sea captains. It includes both professional and amateur sailors.

Explorers

*Ernest Shackleton. Antarctic, was 3rd Mate in Union Castle
*James Cook, Sub-Antarctic, Pacific, North America, apprenticed on a Whitby collier

Actors

*Raymond Bailey, American actor, Milburn Drysdale, on "The Beverly Hillbillies."
*Carroll O'Connor, American actor, Archie Bunker on "All in the Family"
*Rupert Davies, British actor, title role on the BBC's "Maigret"
*Peter Falk, American actor, "Columbo"
*James Garner, American actor, Jim Rockford on "The Rockford Files"
*Sterling Hayden, American actor and author, Gen. Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove"
*Jack Lord, American actor, Steve McGarret on "Hawaii Five-O"
*Denver Pyle, American actor, Uncle Jesse Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard"
*George Sewell, English actor was a steward, and Frank Cottam on "The Detectives"
*Frederick Treves (actor), much loved English character actor, over a hundred credits in theatre, television, and film
*Clint Walker, American actor, Cheyenne Bodie on "Cheyenne"
*Jack Warden, American actor, Emmy Award winning, Academy Award nominated

Comedians

*Dave Broadfoot, Canadian comedian
*George Roper, English stand-up comedian best known for work on television series The Comedians.

Labor leaders

*Joseph Curran, American labor leader
* Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882), wrote "Two Years Before the Mast"
* Andrew Furuseth (1854-1938), merchant seaman and labour leader
*Shannon J. Wall, American merchant seaman and labor leader

Maritime Industry

*Jeremiah O'Brien captain of privateer 'Unity' in Revolutionary War's first battle
*Captain John Bury, Canadian mariner involved in standardising international buoyage
*Harry McNish, Scottish carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
*Herbert Pitman, Third Officer of the Titanic.
*John Wallace Thomas, Newfoundland captain made Commander of the Order of the British Empire for actions during a Luftwaffe attack

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

Musicians and composers

*Ken Colyer, British jazz trumpeter
*Suezenne Fordham, American Jazz pianist
*Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist in the original lineup of The Quarry Men
*Woody Guthrie, musician and songwriter, wrote "This Land Is Your Land"
*Chick Henderson (singer), English singer in the 1930s and 1940s, "Begin the Beguine"
*Cisco Houston, American folk singer
*Ferlin Husky, American country-pop singer, hit number one with "Wings of a Dove"
*Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator, "C'mon...Get Happy"
*Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street."
*Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer of children's songs, 'Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor'
*Ted Weems, American bandleader and musician, directed the Merchant Marine Band

Notorious

*William Colepaugh, Nazi spy in World War II
*George Hennard, American mass murderer who claimed twenty-four victims at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas
*Fritz Sauckel, Nazi war criminal
*Duncan Scott-Ford, British merchant seaman hanged for treachery in World War II
*Perry Smith (murderer), made famous in Truman Capote's non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood"

Other

*Granville Conway, public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient
*Harvey Cox, preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School
*James Dougherty, first husband of Marilyn Monroe
*Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival
*David Fasold salvage expert, self-proclaimed "Arkologist"
*Freddie Lennon, father of English musician John Lennon
*Joseph D. Stewart, Vice Admiral, Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
*Paul Teutul, Sr., American television personality
*Jordan Weisman, American game designer

Politics and activism

*Alvin Baldus, former Democratic member of Congress
*Traian Băsescu, President of Romania, inaugurated on 20 December 2004
*Gordon Canfield, Republican congressman from New Jersey
*Alfonso J. Cervantes, forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri
*Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), author
*Mark Croucher, Director of Communications for the UK Independence Party, pub landlord, journalist, former radio officer
*Frederick Arthur Cobb, Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
*Arthur Davidson, British Labour Party Member of Parliament
*Jack O'Dell, prominent African-American member of the U.S. Civil Rights
*Jim Folsom, Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama
*Ian Doric Glachan, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
*Brian Haw, British peace activist
*Harry Haywood, a leading African American member of both the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
*John Horner, British firefighter, trade unionist and politician
* Wayne Mapp, New Zealand politician
*Alfred von Niezychowski, Polish noble, a German Count, author and lecturer, and American politician
*Albert Owen, Welsh politician, Labour Party MP for Ynys Môn
*John Prescott, British Labour Party politician, Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State and Member of Parliament, was a steward and waiter
*Joseph Resnick, Democratic congressman from New York
*Montfort Stokes, Democratic Senator
*John S. Watson, African-American politician in New Jersey
*Terry Wynn, retired Labour Party Member of the European Parliament for North West England

Producers

*Alex Bonner, American Emmy Award winning radio and television producer
*John Clark (actor/director), English actor, director, producer, and ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave
*John Kenley, former American theatrical producer
*Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter.

Radio Industry

*Dave Cash (disc jockey), British disk jockey
*James Redmond (broadcaster), pioneer of modern public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom
*Tommy Vance, British pop radio broadcaster

Real estate

*John Q. Hammons, American businessman and resort developer

cience, engineering, architecture

*Patrick Young Alexander, British aeronautical pioneer
*Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Scottish physician, geographer zoologist and botanist
*Allan V. Cox, American chemist and geologist
*Norman Jaffe, American architect
*D. Holmes Morton, American physician specializing in genetic disorders

ocial scientists

*Douglass Cecil North, American economist and Nobel Prize winner

ports

*Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
*Fred Blackburn (footballer), English footballer and coach
*Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer and cornerman
*Dan Devine, American football coach
*Joe Gold, bodybuilding and fitness guru of Gold's Gym
*Cornelius Cooper Johnson, American Olympic medal-winning high jumper
*Charlie Keller, left fielder in Major League Baseball
*Frank Sinkwich, American footballer, won 1942 Heisman Trophy, 1944 NFL MVP
*Edwin Stratton, a British aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan UK
* Agostino Straulino (1914-2004) Olympic champion and Italian admiral
*Jim Thorpe, American Olympic athlete
*Henk de Velde, Dutch seafarer known for his long solo-voyages around the world
*Matthew Webb, first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aid

Unclassified

* Crispus Attucks (1723-1770), victim of "Boston Massacre"
* Peter Blake (yachtsman) (1944-2001), winner of the Whitbread Round the World Race, the America's Cup and the Jules Verne Trophy
* Chay Blyth (*1940), first westwards single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world 1971
* Jean-Charles de Borda (1733-1799), scientist and engineer working at sea
* William Harvey Carney (1842-1908), Civil War soldier previously a sailor
* Russ Chauvenet (1920-2003), science fiction fan and amateur sailor
* Sir Francis Chichester, first single-handed circumnavigation of the world with just one port of call 1966-1967
* Samuel Leech (1798-1848), wrote of experiences in both Royal Navy and US Navy
* Robin Knox-Johnston (*1939), first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world 1968-1969
* Doris Miller (1919-1943), cook that fought back at Pearl Harbor
* Jacob Nagle (1762-1841), well-traveled seaman who wrote a journal
* Ellen McArthur British sailor and round the world record holder.

Visual arts

*Richard Avedon, American photographer
*Johnny Craig, American comic book artist
*Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist
*Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, American AB, portrait and watercolor artist
*James Nachtwey, American photojournalist and war photographer
*George Rodger, British photojournalist noted for work in Africa and death camps at Bergen-Belsen
*Ken Russell, an iconoclastic English film director
*Ernie Schroeder, American comic book artist
*Haskell Wexler, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer
*Wally Wood, American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher

Writers and publishers

*John Arthur Barry, Australian journalist and author
*John Blackburn (author), British novelist
*Peter Baynham, Welsh screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated. Co-writer of "Borat"
*Nathaniel Bowditch, author, "The American Practical Navigator"
*E. S. Campbell, American author, broadcaster and radio officer
*A. Bertram Chandler, Australian science fiction author of over 40 novels and 200 works of short fiction
*Brian Cleeve, English writer and popular TV broadcaster
*Richard Henry Dana, American author, "Two Years Before the Mast"
*Clare Francis, British novelist
*Allen Ginsberg, poet, "Howl", "Kaddish"
*David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
*Kevin McClory, Irish screenwriter, producer, and director, "Never Say Never Again,"
*Herbert Huncke, American beat generation figure
*John L. Hess, prominent American journalist
*Bob Kaufman, American Beat poet and surrealist
*Jack Kerouac, American author, "On The Road"
*James Lennox Kerr, Scottish socialist author noted for his children's stories
*Jack London, American author, "Call of the Wild"
*Veeresh Malik, Indian businessman and writer
*Herman Melville, American author, "Moby Dick"
*Charles Muñoz, American poet, novelist, publisher, and radio officer
*Alun Owen, a British screenwriter, noted for writing The Beatles's film A Hard Day's Night
*Donn Pearce, author of "Cool Hand Luke"
*Dudley Pope, British writer of both nautical fiction and history
*Richard Scott Prather, American mystery novelist
*Otto Scott, American journalist and author
*Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
*James Sites, American novelist
* Joshua Slocum (1848-1909?), first single-handed circumnavigation of the world 1895 - 1898
*Gary Snyder, American poet
*Lyle Stuart, controversial American publisher
*Derek Turner, Irish magazine editor and freelance journalist.
*Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
*Robin Wilson (author), American science fiction author and university president
*Bernard Wolfe, American fiction writer
*Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet

See also

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