Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Famous Marines: D - H

We are continuing our list of famous Marines from Wikipedia. Again, some are obvious (such as R. Lee Ermey) and some not so much...

D
Brian Dennehy — actor
Lou Diamond — "Mr. Leatherneck," namesake of actor Lou Diamond Phillips
David Dinkins — Mayor of New York City
Art Donovan — football Hall of Famer
Terry Downes — world boxing champion
Buster Drayton — world boxing champion
Andre Dubus — author
David Douglas Duncan — photographer
William L. Durkin — earned fame for rescuing billionaire Howard Hughes from an aircraft accident
Dale Dye — actor, Hollywood military advisor.

E
David Eigenberg — actor, Sex and the City
R. Lee Ermey — actor, TV show host
Don Everly — musician member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Phil Everly — musician member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
John A. Eastman - NFL football player, actor, writer, motivational speaker

F
Hussein Mohamed Farrah — son and successor of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Mike Farrell — American actor
Jesse Ferguson — American heavyweight boxer
Nathaniel Fick — Author of the book One Bullet Away
Bill Fitch — basketball coach
Shelby Foote — author, civil war historian
Glenn Ford — actor
Joe Foss — Former Governor of South Dakota, first Commissioner of the American Football league, former NRA President
James Franciscus — actor
Mark Fuhrman — LAPD detective who became famous during the O.J. Simpson trial
Bob Ferguson — song writer, record producer, and historian
Hayden Fry — Football coach, University of Iowa
Freddie Fender — Tejano music recording artist

G
Nathan Gale — murderer of guitarist Dimebag Darrell and several others
Bill Gallo — cartoonist, journalist
Christopher George — actor
Wayne Gilchrest — Republican U.S. Representative from Maryland
John Glenn — astronaut, first American to orbit Earth, oldest man in space, U.S. Senator
Scott Glenn — actor
Josh Gracin — singer
Clu Gulager — actor

H
Gene Hackman — actor
Fred Haise — NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 & Space Shuttle Enterprise)
Nathaniel Dawayne Hale — rapper
Ahmard Hall — NFL football player
Hugh W. Hardy — pioneer of the 3D seismic method
Gustav Hasford — author of The Short-Timers, the Vietnam novel on which the movie Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based.
Sterling Hayden — actor
Louis Hayward —
George Roy Hill — Oscar-nominated director for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as well as winning an Oscar for directing The Sting.
Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch — football Hall of Famer
Gil Hodges — baseball player

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