Military
Medal of Honor recipients
As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery, nine of whom are Canadians.
A
- George Emerson Albee (1845–1918), US Army officer; received for actions during the Indian Wars
- Beauford T. Anderson (1922–1996), US Army soldier during World War II
B
- Absalom Baird (1824–1905), US Army Brevet Major General, commanded a Division in the Army of the Cumberland; received for his actions at Battle of Jonesborough
- William E. Barber (1919–2002), US Marine Corps Colonel; received for his actions in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War
- John Basilone (1916–1945), US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant, killed at Iwo Jima; portrayed in the HBO mini-series The Pacific
- Randolph C. Berkeley (1875–1960), US Marine Corps Major General; received for his actions during the United States occupation of Veracruz
- Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (1912–1988), World War II US Marine Corps fighter ace and commander of VMF-214, the "Black Sheep Squadron" (basis for the 1970s TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep )
- John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996), US Navy Admiral, received for his actions in the Pacific Theater during WWII.
C
- James Alexander Campbell (1844–1904), US Army Private, Company A, 2nd New York Cavalry. Received while his command was retreating before superior numbers at Woodstock, Virginia, he voluntarily rushed back with one companion and rescued his commanding officer, who had been unhorsed and left behind. At Amelia courthouse he captured two battle flags. Civil War
- Albertus W. Catlin (1868–1933), US Marine Corps Brigadier General; received for his actions during the intervention at Veracruz, Mexico
- Jon R. Cavaiani (1943–2014), US Army Command Sergeant Major. Received for his actions while serving as platoon leader providing security for an isolated radio relay site located within enemy-held territory that came under attack. Prisoner of war during the Vietnam War (1971–1973) [1]
- Justice M. Chambers (1908–1982), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions in during the Battle of Iwo Jima
- Donald Cook (1934–1967) cenotaph, US Marine Corps officer. Received for his actions while a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. His body was never recovered.
- Edwin Hyland Cooper (1881–1948), U.S. Signal Corps photographic officer in World War I, awarded two medals for bravery while covering the attack of the 26th Division, A.E.F, at Chateau-Thierry in July 1918
- Louis Cukela (1888–1956), US Marine Corps Major, awarded two Medals of Honor for same act in World War I
D
- William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (1883–1959), US Army Major General, commanded the 165th Infantry Regiment (federalized designation of the 69th New York Infantry, the "Fighting Irish") during World War I, and was Chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, and National Security Medal, making him the only person to hold all four of the United States' highest awards
E
- Merritt A. Edson (1897–1955), US Marine Corps major general; received for his actions as commanding officer of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion
- Nelson E. Edwards (1887–1954), newsreel cameraman and war photographer, sergeant with the 152nd Depot Brigade at Camp Upton, New York, during World War I (1917–1919)
- Alan Louis Eggers (1895–1968), World War I
- Henry T. Elrod (1905–1941), US Marine Corps aviator; received for his heroism in the defense of Wake Island during World War II
F
- Frank J. Fletcher (1885–1973), US Navy Admiral, World War II; operational commander at Coral Sea and Midway
- Bruno Albert Forsterer (1869–1957), US Marine Corps sergeant; received for his actions during the Philippine–American War
- Joseph J. Foss (1915–2003), World War II US Marine Corps fighter ace and governor of South Dakota
- Wesley L. Fox (1931–2017), colonel; received for his actions during the Vietnam War
G
- James A. Graham (1940–1967), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Vietnam War
- Alfred M. Gray Jr. (1928-2024), US Marine Corps General
- Arthur J. Gregg (1928-2024), US Army General
H
- William F. Halsey (1882–1959), Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy, received for his actions during World War II
- Walter Newell Hill (1881–1955), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during United States occupation of Veracruz
- Robert L. Howard (1939–2009), US Army Special Forces
- Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924–2017), US Naval Aviator; received for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War [2]
- John Arthur Hughes (1880–1942), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the United States occupation of Veracruz
- Henry L. Hulbert (1867–1918), US Marine Corps Sergeant Major; received for his actions during the Second Samoan Civil War
I
- Louis van Iersel (1893–1987), US Army Sergeant, for action during World War I at Mouzon, France
- Jonas H. Ingram (1886–1952), US Navy Admiral, for action in the 1914 Battle of Veracruz
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac (1891–1990), for action during World War I as a US Navy Lieutenant
J
- Douglas T. Jacobson (1925–2000), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions on Iwo Jima during World War II
- James E. Johnson (1926–1950) cenotaph, US Marine Corps Sergeant; received for his actions during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir; his body was never recovered
K
- Thomas R. Kerr (1843–1926), Civil War
L
- John H. Leims (1921–1985), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II
M
- Clarence Mathias (1876–1935), US Marine Corps Sergeant Major; received for his actions during the Boxer Rebellion
- Frederick W. Mausert III (1930–1951), US Marine Corps Sergeant; received for his actions in the Battle of the Punchbowl during the Korean War
- Joseph J. McCarthy (1911–1996), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II
- Walter C. Monegan Jr. (1930–1950), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Korean War
- Audie Murphy (1925–1971), US Army, America's most decorated combat soldier of World War II and popular movie actor
- Reginald R. Myers (1919–2005), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions during the Korean War.
N
- Wendell Cushing Neville (1870–1930), 14th Commandant of the Marine Corps; received for actions during the United States occupation of Veracruz
- Michael J. Novosel (1922–2006), US Army Chief Warrant Officer 4, known as Dean of the Dustoff Pilots for his two tours in the Vietnam War during which he flew 2,534 missions and airlifted nearly 5,600 medical evacuees
O
- Richard O'Kane (1911–1994), US Navy, commanding officer of the USS Tang (SS-306); received for his actions in combat against Japanese convoys on 23–24 October 1944
- Edward Albert Ostermann (1882–1969), US Marine Corps major general; received for his actions during the United States occupation of Haiti
P
- Everett P. Pope (1919–2009), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Battle of Peleliu in World War II
- David Dixon Porter (1877–1944), US Marine Corps Major General; received for his actions during the Philippine–American War
- John H. Pruitt (1896–1918), US Marine Corps Corporal; awarded two Medals of Honor for same act during the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge during World War I
Q
- Peter H. Quinn (1873–1934), for action as a US Army Private in the Philippine–American War
R
- Robert D. Reem (1925–1950), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Korean War
- George Croghan Reid (1876–1961), US Marine Corps Brigadier General; received for his actions during the United States occupation of Veracruz
- Edmund Rice (1842–1906), Brigadier General US Army; received for his actions in repelling Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettsyburg
- Robert G. Robinson (1896–1974), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions, as a Gunnery Sergeant, during World War I
S
- Christian F. Schilt (1895–1987), US Marine Corps aviator, for using his actions during the United States occupation of Nicaragua
- John Schofield (1831–1906), commanding officer of the second Army of the Ohio during 1864 and 1865; Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson; superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1876–1881; commanding general of the US Army 1888–1895; received for his actions at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in 1861
- David M. Shoup (1904–1983), 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps; received for his actions during the Battle of Tarawa during World War II
- Ronald J. Shurer (1978–2020), US Army Special Forces Medical Sergeant; received for his actions in the Battle of Shok Valley during the War in Afghanistan.
- Daniel Sickles (1819–1914), major general, III Corps, Army of the Potomac, Union Army, Civil War; served as US Minister to Spain and as US Representative from New York
- Franklin E. Sigler (1924–1995), US Marine Corps private first class; received for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II
- Carl L. Sitter (1922–2000), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions during the Korean War
- Luther Skaggs Jr. (1923–1976), US Marine Corps corporal; received for his actions in the Battle of Guam during World War II
- Sherrod E. Skinner Jr. (1929–1952), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions during the Korean War
- Larry E. Smedley (1949–1967), US Marine Corps corporal; received for his actions during the Vietnam War
- John Lucian Smith (1914–1972), US Marine Corps aviator; received for his actions as a squadron commanding officer during Solomon Islands campaign in World War II
- Paul Ray Smith (1969–2003), US Army Sergeant First Class; received for his actions during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Julius Stahel (1825–1912), Hungarian born Union general during the Civil War; received for his actions during the Battle of Piedmont
- Clarence E. Sutton (1871–1916), US Marine Corps sergeant; received for his actions during the Boxer Rebellion
T
- Clyde A. Thomason (1914–1942), US Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for leading the Raid on Makin Island in August 1942.
- William George Thordsen (1879–1932), US Navy Coxswain; received for his actions in the Philippine–American War
- Walter Thorn (1844–1920), Union Army Officer in the Civil War
U
- Frank Monroe Upton (1896–1962), US Navy Sailor; received for action during World War I
- Matt Urban (1919–1995), US Army Lieutenant Colonel; received seven Purple Hearts for service in World War II
- Micheal E. Urell (1844–1910) US Army Soldier; received for action during the American Civil War
V
- Alexander Vandegrift (1887–1973), 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps; received for his actions during the Solomon Islands campaign in World War II
W
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (1883–1953), US Army General, hero of Bataan and Corregidor, highest-ranking US prisoner of war in World War II
- Kenneth A. Walsh (1916–1998), US Marine Corps Aviator; received for his actions during the Solomon Islands campaign in World War II
- William G. Walsh (1922–1945), US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant; received for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II
- Louis H. Wilson Jr. (1920–2005), 26th Commandant of the Marine Corps; received for his actions during the Battle of Guam in World War II
- William G. Windrich (1921–1950), US Marine Corps Staff Sergeant; received for his actions in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War
Y
- Frank Albert Young (1876–1941), US Marine Corps Private; received for his actions during the China Relief Expedition
- Gerald Orren Young (1930–1990), US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; received for his actions in the Vietnam War
Z
- Jay Zeamer Jr. (1918–2007), US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; received for action during World War II with the Army Air Force
Flag officers
A
- Creighton Abrams (1914–1974), US Army General who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War 1968–1972
- Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1886–1950), first (and so far only) General of the Air Force
- Alexander Asboth (1811–1868), Hungarian leader, later Union general during the Civil War
B
- David E. Baker (1946–2009), US Air Force Brigadier General; holds distinction of being the only former prisoner of war of the Vietnam War to later fly combat missions during Operation Desert Storm
- Warner B. Bayley (1845–1928), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Gordon Beecher (1904–1973), US Navy Vice Admiral and composer
- Reginald R. Belknap (1871–1959), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Andrew E. K. Benham (1832–1905), US Navy Rear Admiral; serving in the Union Navy during the Civil War [3]
- Charles F. Blair Jr. (1909–1978), US Air Force Brigadier General; buried with wife Maureen O'Hara
- Vicente T. Blaz (1928–2014), US Marine Corps Brigadier General and Delegate to Congress from Guam
- Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), US Navy Admiral
- Jeremy Michael Boorda (1939–1996), US Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
- Donald Prentice Booth (1902–1993), US Army Lieutenant General, High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands 1958–1961
- Omar Nelson Bradley (1893–1981), commanded the 12th Army Group in Europe during World War II, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and last living five-star General
- Miles Browning (1897–1954), rear admiral, World War I and World War II Navy Officer and hero of the Battle of Midway
- Omar Bundy (1861–1940), World War I Major General who commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Expeditionary Division in France, awarded the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre
- Edward Burke (1907–1967), US Navy Rear Admiral and World War II officer, Navy Cross recipient [4]
C
- John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), brevet brigadier general; Civil War, first governor of Wyoming Territory in 1869 and Third Assistant Secretary of State
- Marion E. Carl (1915–1998), World War II US Marine Corps major general, fighter ace and record-setting test pilot
- Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), lieutenant general, military aviator who commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II
- John Clem (1851–1937), major general, aka Johnny Shiloh, arguably the youngest Non-Commissioned Officer ever to serve in the US Armed Forces; was the last living Civil War veteran on active duty at the time of his retirement
- John M. B. Clitz (1821–1897), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Edmund R. Colhoun (1821–1897), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Charles M. "Savvy" Cooke Jr. (1886–1970), US Navy Admiral
- Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), brigadier general, served in Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War and the China Relief Expedition
- Ernest T. Cragg (1922–2006), US Air Force Major General
- George Crook (1828–1890), US Army Major General during the Civil War and campaigns against the Native Americans; one of his subordinates during the Civil War was future President Rutherford B. Hayes
D
- Arthur C. Davis (1893–1965), US Navy Admiral, pioneer of dive bombing
- Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (1880–1970), United States Army General; first African-American General Officer in the US Army and in the US military
- Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (1912–2002), World War II pilot, first African-American US Air Force General
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. (1924–2014), US Navy pilot shot down over Vietnam and held as a POW for over seven years; achieve the rank of admiral before retiring from the Navy; served in the US Senate from Alabama
- Sir John Dill (1881–1944), British diplomat and Field Marshal [5]
- Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), Civil War General, erroneously credited with inventing baseball
- Franklin J. Drake (1846–1929), US Navy Rear Admiral
E
- Clarence Ransom Edwards (1860–1931), US Army Major General, commanded the 26th "Yankee" Division in World War I
F
- Nathan Bedford Forrest III (1905–1943), brigadier general of the US Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest; first American general killed in action during World War II
G
- Francis L. Garrett (1919–1992), US Navy Rear Admiral, Chief of Chaplains of the US Navy
- John Gibbon (1827–1896), brigadier general, Union Army, Civil War, most notably commander of 2nd Division, US II Corps that repelled Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg
- William A. Glassford (1886–1958), US Navy Vice Admiral
- Harold J. Greene (1959–2014), US Army Major General
- Charles D. Griffin (1906–1996), US Navy Admiral
H
- Eugene E. Habiger (1939–2022), US Air Force general
- William "Bull" Halsey (1882–1959), World War II Navy Fleet Admiral
- John Spencer Hardy (1913–2012), Chief of Operations in the Mediterranean of US Army Air Corps during World War II; later lieutenant general in US Air Force [6]
- William Babcock Hazen (1830–1887), major general, served in the Western Union Armies during the Civil War. Served as Chief Signal Officer after the war
- James Meredith Helm (1855–1927), US Navy rear admiral [7]
- Francis J. Higginson (1843–1931), US Navy rear admiral
- Jeanne M. Holm (1921–2010), US Air Force major general; first woman promoted to brigadier general in the Air Force; first woman promoted to major general in the US armed forces [8]
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), US Navy rear admiral, pioneering computer scientist who coined the term "bug"
- Olaf M. Hustvedt (1886–1978), US Navy Vice Admiral
I
- John Irwin (1832–1901), US Navy Rear Admiral
J
- Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. (1920–1978), US Air Force; first African American four-star general in the US armed forces
- David C. Jones (1921–2013), US Air Force, ninth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
K
- Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski (1824–1887), Polish military leader and Union General in the American Civil War
- Philip Kearny (1815–1862), US Army Major General in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War
- Paul X. Kelley (1928–2019), US Marine Corps General who served as the 28th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
L
- Rae Landy (1885–1952), Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Colonel who served in World War I and World War II
- Henry Louis Larsen (1890–1962), US Marine Corps Lieutenant General; commanded the first deployed American troops in both World Wars; Governor of Guam and American Samoa
- John Marshall Lee (1914–2003), US Navy Vice Admiral, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, NATO, S.A.L.T Talks; Navy Cross, DSM, Legion of Merit; son of Lieutenant Colonel Alva Lee[ citation needed ]
M
- Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845–1912), US Army lieutenant general and father of General Douglas MacArthur
- Newton E. Mason (1850–1945), US Navy rear admiral
- Henry Pinckney McCain (1861–1941), US Army major general and Adjutant General of the US Army; uncle of Admiral John S. McCain Sr., granduncle of Admiral John S. McCain Jr., great-granduncle of US Senator John S. McCain III
- John S. McCain Jr. (1911–1981), US Navy admiral, grandnephew of Major General Henry Pinckney McCain, son of Admiral John S. McCain Sr., father of US Senator John S. McCain III
- John S. McCain Sr. (1884–1945), US Navy admiral, nephew of Major General Henry Pinckney McCain, father of Admiral John S. McCain Jr., grandfather of US Senator John S. McCain III
- William Alexander McCain (1878–1960), US Army brigadier general, brother of John McCain Sr., uncle of John McCain Jr.
- Bowman H. McCalla (1844–1910), US Navy rear admiral
- Stewart L. McKenney (1917–2012), brigadier general, mayor of American Vienna Occupation
- Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892), brigadier general; Arlington National Cemetery was established by Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House and appropriated the grounds on June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery
- Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925), US Army lieutenant general; served in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War; noted for accepting the surrender of Geronimo and his band of Apache
- Joseph Mower (1827–1870), major general, served in the western Union Armies during the Civil War
- Dennis J. Murphy (1932–2023), U.S. Marine Corps major general, served in the Vietnam War and later commanded the 2nd Marine Division
N
- Reginald F. Nicholson (1852–1939), US Navy rear admiral; last US Navy officer on active duty to have seen service during the Civil War; first US naval attaché to Ecuador and Peru
O
- Raymond T. Odierno (1954–2021), general, 38th Chief of Staff, United States Army, 2011-2015
- Edward Ord (1818–1883), major general, Army of the James during the Appomattox Campaign, Union Army, Civil War
P
- Mason Patrick (1863–1942) Major General, US Army; Chief of US Air Service; Chief of US Air Corps
- George S. Patton IV (1923–2004), US Army major general and son of famed World War II general George S. Patton
- Raymond Stanton Patton (1882–1937), rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1929–1937)
- John J. Pershing (1860–1948), commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and America's first General of the Armies
- David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), admiral, Union Navy, Civil War, most notable as the Union naval commander during the Vicksburg Campaign, a turning point of the war which split the Confederacy in two
R
- John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869), Civil War general, chief of staff and later Secretary of War to Ulysses S. Grant
- Alfred C. Richmond (1902–1984), admiral, 11th Commandant of the Coast Guard
- Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986), admiral, father of the Nuclear Navy and the longest-serving member of the US Military with 63 years of service (1918–1982).
- Matthew Ridgway (1895–1993), World War II and Korean War general, Chief of Staff of the Army
- William S. Rosecrans (1819–1898), major general, Army of the Cumberland, Union Army, Civil War
- William T. Ryder (1913–1992), brigadier general; first American paratrooper
S
- Thomas R. Sargent III (1914–2010), vice admiral, Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard
- August Schomburg (1908–1972), lieutenant general, Commander US Army Ordnance and Missile Command; commander, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
- Gustavus H. Scott (1812–1882), US Navy rear admiral, exhumed in 1896 from Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C., and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery
- Benedict J. Semmes Jr. (1913–1994), US Navy vice admiral [9]
- John Shalikashvili (1936–2011), general, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1992–1993), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997)
- Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), general, Union Army, Civil War and commanding general, US Army, 1883–88
- Robert F. Sink (1905–1965), US Army lieutenant general and former regimental commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division; a close friend of Easy Company commander Major Richard Winters, he is portrayed by Vietnam veteran and retired US Marine Corps captain Dale Dye in the HBO/BBC miniseries Band of Brothers
- Joseph S. Skerrett (1833–1897), US Navy rear admiral
- Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), general, US Army, World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during Eisenhower's tenure at SHAEF and Director of the CIA 1950–1953; served as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1946–1948
- Harold I. Small (1932–2015), US Army Major General, Commanding General US Army Transportation Command, 1980–1985, Commanding General Fort Eustis, 1978–1985, Korean War, Vietnam War.
- Charles Stillman Sperry (1847–1911), US Navy rear admiral, commander of the Great White Fleet, namesake of USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-967)
- Robert Francis Anthony Studds (1896–1962), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps admiral and engineer, fourth Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
T
- Robert A. "Fuzzy" Theobald (1884–1957), US Navy rear admiral who commanded Navy forces in the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II
- Richard Trefry (1924–2023), United States Army General
V
- Howard L. Vickery (1892–1946), vice admiral, US Navy and World War II merchant shipbuilder
W
- Donald M. Weller (1908–1985), major general, pioneer of Naval gunfire support; served during World War II
- Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), served as a major general of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and the US Army during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War
- Orde Charles Wingate (1903–1944), British major general, creator and commander of the Chindits
- Spencer S. Wood (1861–1940), US Navy rear admiral
- Clark H. Woodward (1877–1968), vice admiral, served in five wars: the Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War, Boxer Rebellion and both World Wars
- Horatio Wright (1820–1899), major general; commanded VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac from the Overland Campaign to the end of the Civil War; then served as the Chief of Engineers for the US Army Corps of Engineers; worked on projects such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the completion of the Washington Monument
Other military burials
A
- Quentin C. Aanenson (1921–2008), World War II veteran fighter pilot and former captain of the 391st Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, US Army Air Corps [10]
- George Adamski (1891–1965), noted ufologist
- Olavi Alakulppi (1915–1990), Finnish cross country skier and recipient of the Mannerheim Cross who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the US Army
- Bud Anderson (1922-2024), US Air Forces Officer
- John B. Anderson (1922–2017), World War II staff sergeant and politician
B
- Alan Bean (1932–2018), astronaut, fourth person to walk on the Moon (Apollo 12)
- Van D. Bell Jr. (1918–2009), US Marine Corps colonel, recipient of two Navy Crosses
- Albert Blithe (1923–1967), US Army paratrooper; one of several Easy Company soldiers depicted in Band of Brothers .
- Ruby G. Bradley (1907–2002), colonel; with 34 medals, one of the most decorated women in US military history
- Alfred Winsor Brown (1885–1938), US Navy Captain who served as 31st Naval Governor of Guam
- Ron Brown, (1942–1996), former US Army Captain, served as the United States Secretary of Commerce, former chairman of the DNC, died in a plane crash
- Frank Buckles (1901–2011), last known American veteran of World War I [11]
- Charles Burlingame (1949–2001), US Navy Captain, pilot of hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 during September 11 attacks
C
- Roger Chaffee (1935–1967), astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 fire
- Samuel-Edmour St. Onge Chapleau (1839–1921), US Army major in the Civil War; Clerk of the Senate of Canada and Clerk of the Parliaments of Canada, 1900–1917 [12]
- Willis Carto (1926–2015), American political activist
- William Christman (1843–1864), first soldier buried at Arlington
- Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862–1918), Congressman from New York, killed in action in 1918
- William Colby (1920–1996) Member of the Office of Strategic Services, Director of Central Intelligence.
- Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930-2021), US Air Force officer, NASA Astronaut; Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11.
- Truman W. Crawford (1934–2003), US Marine Corps colonel (1966–1996); commander of the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps; oldest active duty Marine at the time of his retirement; formerly US Air Force master sergeant (1953–1963); musical director of the US Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps
- William P. Cronan (1879–1929), US Navy officer and 19th Naval Governor of Guam
- Scott Crossfield (1921–2006), US Naval aviator and test pilot; first to fly at twice the speed of sound; played a major role in the design and development of the North American X-15
D
- John Charles Daly (1914–1991), radio and TV newsman and television host on What's My Line?
- Jane Delano (1862–1919), Director of Army Nursing Corps
- Dieter Dengler (1938–2001), US Navy pilot shot down over Laos who escaped from a Pathet Lao POW camp; subject of the film Rescue Dawn
E
- Hilan Ebert (1903–1942) cenotaph, received the Navy Cross for action aboard the USS Northampton in World War II; USS Ebert was named in his honor
- John Joy Edson (1846–1935), Civil War; executive and treasurer of National Geographic Society
- Aleksander Einseln (1931–2017) United States Army colonel who later became general and commander-in-chief of the Estonian Defence Forces
G
- Rene Gagnon (1925–1979), one of the six US Marines immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
- John Glenn (1921–2016), first American to orbit the Earth; US Senator; fighter pilot in World War II and Korea
- Mike Gravel (1930–2021), first lieutenant in the US Army, US Senator
- Gus Grissom (1926–1967), astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 fire
- Jerry Don Glover (1936–2020), 20-year Air-Force military career, he was a Navigator in Vietnam and retired as a Lt. Colonel with honors and a Purple Heart
H
- David Haskell Hackworth (1930–2005), colonel and highly decorated soldier
- Ira Hayes (1923–1955), one of the six US marines immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
- Nicholas H. Heck (1882–1953), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey captain, geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, and hydrographic surveyor
- Anton Hilberath (1898–1946), one of at least 830 German Prisoners of War, who died and were buried in the United States. [13] His is the only grave of a German POW at Arlington National Cemetery. [14]
- Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), the first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot
- Alexander Hunter (1843–1914), Confederate private and author of the Civil War memoir Johnny Reb & Billy Yank [15]
J
- Benjamin R. Jacobs (1879–1963), served as a US Army captain in both World War I and World War II, with his wife, Margaret Ann Connell Jacobs (1890–1973)
- James Jabara (1923–1966), first American jet ace in history, credited with shooting down 15 enemy aircraft
- George Juskalian (1914–2010), US Army veteran, three decades and fought in three wars – World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War
K
- Mildred Kelly (1928–2003), US Army command sergeant major; first African American woman to serve as an Army sergeant major
- Jack Koehler (1930–2012), US Army veteran, Associated Press executive and former White House Communications Director [16]
- Humayun Khan (soldier) (1976–2004), Iraq War
- Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan (1987–2007) Iraq War
L
- Walter Francis Layer (1907–1965), US Marine Corps Officer; Legion of Merit award recipient, member of the Naval Order of the United States
- Felix Z. Longoria Jr. (1920–1945), Mexican American soldier in the US Army; killed in World War II
- Liu Nia-chien, Major in the Chinese Military, died October 19, 1946 [17]
- Ruth A. Lucas (1920–2013), the first African American female Air Force Colonel
- Francis Lupo (1895–1918), private killed in France during World War I; holds the distinction of possibly being the longest US service member missing in action to be found (1918–2003)
M
- Mark Matthews (1894–2005), last surviving Buffalo Soldier
- Anna Maxwell (1851–1929), the American Florence Nightingale; was buried due to her contributions to the Army Nurse Corps
- David McCampbell (1910–1996), the US Navy's top World War II fighter ace with 34 kills
- Glenn Miller (1904–1944) cenotaph, Army Air Forces Major and well known band leader who disappeared over the English Channel
O
- Buckey O'Neill (1860–1898), officer in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders who was killed in the Battle of San Juan Hill
- Peter J. Ortiz (1913–1988), US Marine Corps colonel, member of the Office of Strategic Services who fought in Europe during World War II, recipient of two Navy Crosses
- Robert F. Overmyer (1936–1996), test pilot, US Marine Corps colonel, and NASA astronaut
- William Owens (1980–2017), a US Navy SEAL who was killed during the raid on Yakla in January 2017; the first combatant to die during the presidency of Donald Trump
P
- Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
- Colin Powell (1937–2021), U.S. National Security Advisor, 1987–89, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989-93, 65th U.S. Secretary of State, 2001–05.
R
- Henry M. Robert (1837–1923), brigadier general; US Army Corps of Engineers, 1857–1901; in 1876 published the first edition of Robert's Rules of Order , his manual of parliamentary procedure, which remains today the most common parliamentary authority in the United States
- Donald Rumsfeld (1932–2021), 6th White House Chief of Staff, 1974–1975, 13th and 21st U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1975–1977, 2001–2006
S
- Thomas Selfridge (1882–1908), first lieutenant in the US Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane.
- Robert Stethem (1961–1985), United States Navy Seabee diver murdered by Hezbollah terrorists during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. USS Stethem (DDG-63) is named in his honor.
- Michael Strank (1919–1945), one of the six US marines immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ; killed in action just days after the photo was taken.
- Leroy Suddath (1931–2020), major general
T
- William Cooper Talley (1831–1901), brevet brigadier general for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War
- Larry Thorne (born as Lauri Törni, 1919–1965), Finnish soldier who served in the US special forces and was a World War II veteran; called "soldier who fought under three flags" (Finland, Germany, and US); also, the only former member of the Waffen SS to be interred in Arlington
- Thomas Tipton Thornburgh (1843–1879), soldier for the Union Army and died at the Battle of Milk Creek
- R. Ewell Thornton (1865–1928), major in World War I, Virginia state senator [18]
V
- Blake Wayne Van Leer (1926–1997), Commander and Captain in the U.S. Navy. Lead SeaBee program and lead the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze.
W
- Joshua Wheeler (1975–2015), US Army Delta Force operator. Silver Star recipient. The first American to be killed fighting ISIS insurgents and the first American to be killed in Iraq since November 2011. [19] [20]
Y
- Charles Young (1864–1922), first African-American colonel in the US Army
- John Young (1930–2018), NASA astronaut and ninth man to walk on the moon (Apollo 16).
