| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Abizaid |
Military |
1-Apr-1951 |
|
C-in-C, US Central Command, 2003-07 |
| David Abshire |
Diplomat |
11-Apr-1926 |
31-Oct-2014 |
US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87 |
| Buzz Aldrin |
Astronaut |
20-Jan-1930 |
|
Second man on the Moon |
| Keith B. Alexander |
Military |
1952 |
|
Former Director of U.S. National Security Agency |
| Lew Allen, Jr. |
Military |
30-Sep-1925 |
4-Jan-2010 |
Director of the NSA, 1973-77 |
| Robert Allston |
Agriculturalist |
21-Apr-1801 |
7-Apr-1864 |
Rice planter, Governor |
| Joseph B. Anderson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
TAG Holdings LLC |
| Mark Andrews |
Politician |
19-May-1926 |
|
US Senator from North Dakota, 1981-87 |
| Rand V. Araskog |
Business |
30-Oct-1931 |
|
CEO of ITT, 1979-98 |
| Hap Arnold |
Military |
25-Jun-1886 |
15-Jan-1950 |
Commander, US Army Air Corps, WWII |
| Lloyd J. Austin |
Military |
8-Aug-1953 |
|
Commander-in-Chief, CENTCOM |
| Andrew J. Bacevich |
Historian |
5-Jul-1947 |
|
American Empire |
| Alexander Dallas Bache |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1806 |
17-Feb-1867 |
First President, National Academy of Sciences |
| F. William Barnett |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Partner, McKinsey & Co. |
| Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr. |
Attorney |
6-Jul-1944 |
|
Partner, Adams and Reese |
| George Bascom |
Military |
c. 1837 |
21-Feb-1862 |
Launched Cochise on the warpath |
| Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard |
Military |
28-May-1818 |
20-Feb-1893 |
Confederate General |
| Earl Blaik |
Football |
15-Feb-1897 |
6-May-1989 |
Head Coach at Army, 1941-58 |
| Montgomery Blair |
Attorney |
10-May-1813 |
27-Jul-1883 |
Dred Scott's lawyer |
| Doc Blanchard |
Football |
11-Dec-1924 |
19-Apr-2009 |
Winner, 1945 Heisman Trophy |
| John R. Block |
Government |
13-Feb-1935 |
|
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1981-86 |
| Charles H. Bonesteel III |
Military |
26-Sep-1909 |
13-Oct-1977 |
Commander, U.S. Forces, Korea |
| Frank Borman |
Astronaut |
14-Mar-1928 |
|
First to circumnavigate moon |
| Omar Bradley |
Military |
12-Feb-1893 |
8-Apr-1981 |
US Army Chief of Staff |
| Braxton Bragg |
Military |
22-Mar-1817 |
27-Sep-1876 |
Confederate Army General |
| George S. Brown |
Military |
17-Aug-1918 |
5-Dec-1978 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1974-78 |
| Don Carlos Buell |
Military |
23-Mar-1818 |
19-Nov-1898 |
Union Army General |
| Ambrose Burnside |
Military |
23-May-1824 |
13-Sep-1881 |
Inspiration for term sideburns |
| Henry A. Byroade |
Diplomat |
24-Jul-1913 |
31-Dec-1993 |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1973-77 |
| Louis Caldera |
Government |
1-Apr-1956 |
|
US Secretary of the Army, 1998-2001 |
| John Archibald Campbell |
Judge |
24-Jun-1811 |
12-Mar-1889 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1853-61 |
| Eugene Asa Carr |
Military |
20-Mar-1830 |
2-Dec-1910 |
Union Army General |
| Frank J. Caufield |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers |
| Mark Clark |
Military |
1-May-1896 |
17-Apr-1984 |
US Army Chief of Staff |
| Wesley Clark |
Military |
23-Dec-1944 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 |
| Lucius D. Clay |
Military |
23-Apr-1898 |
16-Apr-1978 |
Military Governor of Occupied Germany |
| Michael Collins |
Astronaut |
31-Oct-1930 |
|
Apollo 11 command module pilot |
| Ralph D. Crosby, Jr. |
Business |
23-Sep-1947 |
|
CEO of EADS North America |
| George Armstrong Custer |
Military |
5-Dec-1839 |
25-Jun-1876 |
Battle of the Little Big Horn |
| Kiki Cuyler |
Baseball |
30-Aug-1898 |
11-Feb-1950 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
| Dell L. Dailey |
Diplomat |
c. 1949 |
|
State Dept. Coordinator for Counterterrorism |
| Geoff Davis |
Politician |
26-Oct-1958 |
|
Congressman, Kentucky 4th |
| Glenn Davis |
Football |
26-Dec-1924 |
9-Mar-2005 |
Winner, 1946 Heisman Trophy |
| Jefferson Davis |
Head of State |
3-Jun-1808 |
6-Dec-1889 |
President of the Confederacy |
| Pete Dawkins |
Football |
8-Mar-1938 |
|
Winner, 1958 Heisman Trophy |
| Martin E. Dempsey |
Military |
14-Mar-1952 |
|
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Joseph M. DePinto |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
President and CEO of 7-Eleven |
| Abner Doubleday |
Military |
26-Jun-1819 |
26-Jan-1893 |
Didn't invent baseball |
| Michael J. Dugan |
Military |
22-Feb-1937 |
|
USAF Chief of Staff, 1990 |
| Jubal Early |
Military |
3-Nov-1816 |
2-Mar-1894 |
Confederate General |
| Glen E. Edgerton |
Military |
17-Apr-1887 |
1956 |
Canal Zone Governor, 1940-44 |
| John Bel Edwards |
Politician |
16-Sep-1966 |
|
Governor of Louisiana |
| Karl W. Eikenberry |
Military |
1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1890 |
28-Mar-1969 |
34th US President, 1953-61 |
| William P. Foley II |
Business |
1944 |
|
CEO of Fidelity National Financial |
| Frederick M. Franks, Jr. |
Military |
c. 1935 |
|
Retired US Army General |
| Charles A. Gabriel |
Military |
21-Jan-1928 |
4-Sep-2003 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1982-86 |
| John Gibbon |
Military |
20-Apr-1827 |
6-Feb-1896 |
Led the Civil War's Iron Bigade |
| Albert W. Gilchrist |
Politician |
15-Jan-1858 |
15-May-1926 |
Governor of Florida, 1909-13 |
| George Goethals |
Architect |
29-Jun-1858 |
21-Jan-1928 |
Creator of the Panama Canal |
| Ulysses S. Grant |
Head of State |
27-Apr-1822 |
23-Jul-1885 |
Eighteenth President of the United States |
| Michael W. Grebe |
Attorney |
c. 1941 |
|
President of the Bradley Foundation |
| Leslie R. Groves |
Military |
17-Aug-1896 |
13-Jul-1970 |
Director of the Manhattan Project |
| Brett Guthrie |
Politician |
18-Feb-1964 |
|
Congressman, Kentucky 2nd |
| Alexander Haig |
Government |
2-Dec-1924 |
20-Feb-2010 |
US Secretary of State, 1981-82 |
| Henry W. Halleck |
Military |
16-Jan-1815 |
9-Jan-1872 |
Commander of US Army, 1862-64 |
| Winfield Scott Hancock |
Military |
14-Feb-1824 |
9-Feb-1886 |
Union General, presidential candidate |
| Joseph S. Hardin, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Kinko's, 1997-2001 |
| Richard Hatch |
TV Personality |
8-Apr-1961 |
|
Survivor |
| Warren E. Hearnes |
Politician |
24-Jul-1923 |
16-Aug-2009 |
Governor of Missouri, 1965-73 |
| Dave Heineman |
Politician |
12-May-1948 |
|
Governor of Nebraska |
| John Hill Hewitt |
Songwriter |
11-Jul-1801 |
7-Oct-1890 |
The Minstrels Return'd from the War |
| Ken C. Hicks |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Foot Locker |
| A. P. Hill |
Military |
9-Nov-1825 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Confederate General |
| Alfred Hoffman, Jr. |
Business |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal, 2005-07 |
| John H. Holdridge |
Diplomat |
21-Aug-1924 |
12-Jul-2001 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1983-86 |
| John Bell Hood |
Military |
29-Jun-1831 |
30-Aug-1879 |
Confederate General |
| Joseph Hooker |
Military |
13-Nov-1814 |
31-Oct-1879 |
Union Army General |
| Lon Horiuchi |
Government |
9-Jun-1954 |
|
Sniper who killed Vicki Weaver |
| Oliver O. Howard |
Military |
8-Nov-1830 |
26-Oct-1909 |
Headed the Freedmen's Bureau |
| Dave Hughes |
Journalist |
18-May-1928 |
|
Electronic bulletin boards |
| Laban P. Jackson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Clear Creek Properties |
| Stonewall Jackson |
Military |
21-Jan-1824 |
10-May-1863 |
Robert E. Lee's "right arm" |
| Tim Johnson |
Politician |
23-Jul-1946 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 15th |
| Albert Sidney Johnston |
Military |
2-Feb-1803 |
6-Apr-1862 |
Confederate General felled at Shiloh |
| J. Bennett Johnston |
Politician |
10-Jun-1932 |
|
US Senator from Louisiana, 1972-97 |
| Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
Military |
3-Feb-1807 |
21-Mar-1891 |
Confederate General, surrendered to Sherman |
| George A. Joulwan |
Military |
16-Nov-1939 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1993-97 |
| Robert M. Kimmitt |
Diplomat |
19-Dec-1947 |
|
US Deputy Treasury Secretary |
| James Kimsey |
Business |
15-Sep-1939 |
1-Mar-2016 |
AOL's founding CEO |
| William R. Kintner |
Scholar |
21-Apr-1915 |
1-Feb-1997 |
Peace and the Strategy Conflict |
| John A. Knebel |
Politician |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1976-77 |
| Dudley Wright Knox |
Military |
21-Jun-1877 |
11-Jun-1960 |
A History of the United States Navy |
| Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. |
Military |
c. 1950 |
|
The Army and Vietnam |
| Mike Krzyzewski |
Basketball |
13-Feb-1947 |
|
Duke Head Coach |
| Robert C. Lamb, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Tercet Capital |
| Marshall O. Larsen |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Goodrich |
| Timothy Leary |
Activist |
22-Oct-1920 |
31-May-1996 |
Tune in, turn on, drop out |
| Fitzhugh Lee |
Politician |
19-Nov-1835 |
28-Apr-1905 |
Governor of Virginia, 1886-90 |
| George Washington Custis Lee |
Educator |
16-Sep-1832 |
18-Feb-1913 |
Eldest son of Robert E. Lee |
| Robert E. Lee |
Military |
19-Jan-1807 |
12-Oct-1870 |
Confederate General |
| Lyman L. Lemnitzer |
Military |
29-Aug-1899 |
12-Nov-1988 |
Supreme Allied Commander, 1963-69 |
| James Longstreet |
Military |
8-Jan-1821 |
2-Jan-1904 |
Confederate Army General |
| Rod Lurie |
Film Director |
15-May-1962 |
|
The Contender |
| Douglas Lute |
Military |
c. 1953 |
|
White House War Czar |
| Douglas MacArthur |
Military |
26-Jan-1880 |
5-Apr-1964 |
General of the Army |
| Fred Malek |
Government |
22-Dec-1936 |
|
Thayer Capital Partners |
| Charles H. Martin |
Politician |
1-Oct-1863 |
22-Sep-1946 |
Governor of Oregon, 1935-39 |
| Haldane Robert Mayer |
Judge |
21-Feb-1941 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
| Barry McCaffrey |
Government |
17-Nov-1942 |
|
White House Drug Czar, 1996-2001 |
| Stanley McChrystal |
Military |
14-Aug-1954 |
|
Commander, US Forces Afghanistan, 2009-10 |
| George B. McClellan |
Military |
3-Dec-1826 |
29-Oct-1885 |
Union Army General |
| John P. McConnell |
Military |
7-Feb-1908 |
21-Nov-1986 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1965-69 |
| Robert A. McDonald |
Business |
20-Jun-1953 |
|
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
| Irvin McDowell |
Military |
15-Oct-1818 |
4-May-1885 |
Defeated at First Battle of Bull Run |
| Thomas McInerney |
Military |
1937 |
|
Fox News military analyst |
| Jerry McNerney |
Politician |
18-Jun-1951 |
|
Congressman, California 11th |
| James F. McNulty |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
President and CEO, Parsons Corp. |
| Dana G. Mead |
Business |
1936 |
|
Chairman of MIT Corporation |
| George Gordon Meade |
Military |
31-Dec-1815 |
6-Nov-1872 |
Accomplished Union Army general |
| John J. Mearsheimer |
Political Scientist |
14-Dec-1947 |
|
Conventional Deterrence |
| Montgomery Meigs |
Military |
11-Jan-1945 |
|
Military analyst |
| Merrill A. Miller, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of National Oilwell Varco |
| Grayson Murphy |
Business |
1878 |
Nov-1937 |
Banker, Co-Founder of American Legion |
| John M. Murphy |
Politician |
3-Aug-1926 |
25-May-2015 |
Congressman snagged in ABSCAM |
| John Newton |
Military |
24-Aug-1823 |
1-May-1895 |
Union Army General and engineer |
| Jim Nicholson |
Government |
4-Feb-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
| Lauris Norstad |
Military |
24-Mar-1907 |
12-Sep-1988 |
Supreme Allied Commander, 1956-63 |
| Anthony Noto |
Business |
2-May-1968 |
|
CFO of Twitter |
| Raymond T. Odierno |
Military |
8-Sep-1954 |
|
US Army Chief of Staff |
| William Odom |
Military |
23-Jun-1932 |
30-May-2008 |
NSA Director 1985-88 |
| Vayl S. Oxford |
Government |
c. 1952 |
|
Director, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office |
| Robert Paige |
Actor |
2-Dec-1910 |
21-Dec-1987 |
Son of Dracula |
| George S. Patton |
Military |
11-Nov-1885 |
21-Dec-1945 |
American WWII Army commander |
| James B. Peake |
Government |
18-Jun-1944 |
|
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
| John J. Pershing |
Military |
13-Sep-1860 |
15-Jul-1948 |
General of the Armies of the United States |
| David Petraeus |
Military |
7-Nov-1952 |
|
CIA Director, 2011-12 |
| Joseph Carlton Petrone |
Diplomat |
30-Nov-1922 |
24-Mar-2016 |
US Ambassador to UN in Europe, 1987-89 |
| George Pickett |
Military |
16-Jan-1825 |
30-Jul-1875 |
Battle of Gettysburg |
| John W. Poduska |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Founder of Apollo Computer |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Author |
19-Jan-1809 |
7-Oct-1849 |
The Raven |
| Leonidas Polk |
Military |
10-Apr-1806 |
14-Jun-1864 |
Confederate general |
| Mike Pompeo |
Politician |
30-Dec-1963 |
|
Congressman, Kansas 4th |
| John Pope |
Military |
16-Mar-1822 |
23-Sep-1892 |
Union Army General |
| Wesley W. Posvar |
Educator |
14-Sep-1925 |
27-Jul-2001 |
Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh, 1967-91 |
| Fidel Ramos |
Head of State |
18-Mar-1928 |
|
12th President of the Philippines |
| Jack Reed |
Politician |
12-Nov-1949 |
|
US Senator from Rhode Island |
| Dennis J. Reimer |
Military |
12-Jul-1939 |
|
US Army Chief of Staff, 1995-99 |
| Wilds Preston Richardson |
Military |
20-Mar-1861 |
20-May-1929 |
Brigadier General, invaded Russia |
| Henry M. Robert |
Administrator |
2-May-1837 |
11-May-1923 |
Robert's Rules of Order |
| Hugh G. Robinson |
Military |
4-Aug-1932 |
|
CEO of Global Building Systems |
| William S. Rosecrans |
Military |
6-Sep-1819 |
11-Mar-1898 |
Union Army General |
| John D. Ryan |
Military |
10-Dec-1915 |
27-Oct-1983 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1969-73 |
| Carl Sandburg |
Author |
6-Jan-1878 |
22-Jul-1967 |
Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer |
| Robert Scales |
Military |
5-Aug-1944 |
|
Military analyst |
| George A. Schaefer, Jr. |
Business |
17-May-1945 |
|
CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp, 1991-2007 |
| John McAllister Schofield |
Military |
29-Sep-1831 |
4-Mar-1906 |
Union General later Secretary of War |
| Norman Schwarzkopf |
Military |
22-Aug-1934 |
27-Dec-2012 |
Leader in Persian Gulf War |
| David Scott |
Astronaut |
6-Jun-1932 |
|
Commander, Apollo 15 |
| Willard W. Scott, Jr. |
Military |
18-Feb-1926 |
1-Jan-2009 |
Superintendent of West Point, 1981-86 |
| Brent Scowcroft |
Government |
19-Mar-1925 |
|
National Security Advisor to Ford and GHWB |
| Richard Secord |
Military |
6-Jul-1932 |
|
Iran-Contra figure |
| Robert F. Seedlock |
Military |
6-Feb-1913 |
5-May-2004 |
Built the Burma Road in WWII |
| Philip Henry Sheridan |
Military |
6-Mar-1831 |
5-Aug-1888 |
Union Army General |
| William T. Sherman |
Military |
8-Feb-1820 |
14-Feb-1891 |
Marched to the Sea |
| John Shimkus |
Politician |
21-Feb-1958 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 19th |
| Brad Smith |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CEO of Intuit |
| Charles Ferguson Smith |
Military |
24-Apr-1807 |
25-Apr-1862 |
Union Army General, died after Shiloh |
| Edmund Kirby Smith |
Military |
16-May-1824 |
28-Mar-1893 |
Last Confederate general to surrender |
| Anastasio Somoza |
Head of State |
5-Dec-1925 |
17-Sep-1980 |
Dictator of Nicaragua |
| Carl A. Spaatz |
Military |
28-Jun-1891 |
14-Jul-1974 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1947-48 |
| Joseph Stilwell |
Military |
19-Mar-1883 |
12-Oct-1946 |
Led US and Chinese forces in WWII China |
| George Stoneman |
Military |
8-Aug-1822 |
5-Sep-1894 |
Civil War general, California governor |
| Jeb Stuart |
Military |
6-Feb-1833 |
12-May-1864 |
Confederate cavalry officer |
| Albert Stubblebine |
Military |
c. 1930 |
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats |
| James E. Sweetnam |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Senior VP at Eaton |
| Richard J. Swift |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Foster Wheeler, 1994-2001 |
| Maxwell D. Taylor |
Military |
26-Aug-1901 |
19-Apr-1987 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-64 |
| Wesley B. Taylor |
Military |
1944 |
|
President, Marshall Foundation |
| William B. Taylor, Jr. |
Diplomat |
c. 1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Ukraine |
| Conway Tearle |
Actor |
17-May-1878 |
1-Oct-1938 |
Stella Maris |
| George Henry Thomas |
Military |
31-Jul-1816 |
28-Mar-1870 |
Union Army General |
| William Tunner |
Military |
14-Jul-1906 |
6-Apr-1983 |
Organized the Berlin Airlift |
| Nathan F. Twining |
Military |
11-Oct-1897 |
29-Mar-1982 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1957-60 |
| Paul E. Vallely |
Military |
c. 1939 |
|
Fox News senior military analyst |
| Mark Valley |
Actor |
24-Dec-1964 |
|
Christopher Chance on Human Target |
| Hoyt Vandenberg |
Government |
24-Jan-1899 |
2-Apr-1954 |
CIA Director, 1946-47 |
| Carl E. Vuono |
Military |
18-Oct-1934 |
|
US Army Chief of Staff, 1987-91 |
| Jonathan M. Wainwright |
Military |
23-Aug-1883 |
2-Sep-1953 |
Commander of the Philippines |
| Edwin A. Walker |
Military |
10-Nov-1909 |
31-Oct-1993 |
Ultraconservative activist |
| Gouverneur Kemble Warren |
Military |
8-Jan-1830 |
8-Aug-1882 |
Union Army General |
| Albert C. Wedemeyer |
Military |
9-Jul-1897 |
17-Dec-1989 |
Victory Program |
| William Westmoreland |
Military |
26-Mar-1914 |
18-Jul-2005 |
Commanded US Army in Vietnam War |
| Earle G. Wheeler |
Military |
13-Jan-1908 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1964-70 |
| James Whistler |
Painter |
14-Jul-1834 |
17-Jul-1903 |
Whistler's Mother |
| Ed White |
Astronaut |
14-Nov-1930 |
27-Jan-1967 |
First American to walk in space |
| Lawrence K. White |
Spy |
10-Jun-1912 |
5-Apr-2006 |
Executive Comptroller for DCI's |
| Thomas D. White |
Military |
6-Aug-1901 |
22-Dec-1965 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1957-61 |
| John A. Wickham, Jr. |
Military |
25-Jun-1928 |
|
US Army Chief of Staff, 1983-87 |
| Robert E. Wood |
Business |
13-Jun-1879 |
6-Nov-1969 |
Chairman of Sears, 1939-54 |
| Michael W. Wynne |
Government |
4-Sep-1944 |
|
US Secretary of the Air Force, 2005-08 |
| Ralph Yarborough |
Politician |
8-Jun-1903 |
27-Jan-1996 |
US Senator from Texas, 1957-71 |
| Bill Yeoman |
Football |
26-Dec-1927 |
|
Houston Head Coach, 1962-86 |
| Jerry York |
Business |
22-Jun-1938 |
16-Mar-2010 |
CFO of IBM, 1993-95 |
