Ron Brown, (1942-1996), served as the United States Secretary of Commerce, former chairman of the DNC, died in a plane crash
John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996), US Navy Admiral, received for his actions in the Pacific Theater during WWII.
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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
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)[2]
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
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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
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)
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
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
Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), brigadier general, served in Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War and the China Relief Expedition
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
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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
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
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]
Paul X. Kelley (1928-2019), US Marine Corps General who served as the 28th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
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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
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.
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
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
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
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).
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.
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]
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
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
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
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
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]
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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
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Mildred Kelly (1928–2003), US Army command sergeant major; first African American woman to serve as an Army sergeant major
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)
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
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.
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]
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]
Bob Dole (1923-2021),[21][22] served in World War II as a second lieutenant in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, was seriously wounded by a German shell that struck his upper back and right arm while engaging in combat near Castel d'Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy. Later became a member of Kansas state House of Representatives, County Attorney of Russell County, Kansas, represented his home state of Kansas as a member of US House of Representatives and as a US Senator, and was the Republican nominee in the 1996 United States Presidential election. Awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
James Florio, Governor of New Jersey (1990–1994)[23]
Lawrence Freedman, former US Army Special operations soldier with Delta Force; CIA paramilitary operative killed in Somalia in 1992
William F. Friedman, US Army cryptologist who co-created the field of American cryptanalysis with his wife Elizebeth Friedman, and broke many ciphers, including the Japanese Code Purple in World War II
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Alex Gard (1898–1948), US Navy sailor; famous New York City restaurant and theatrical cartoonist of Russian descent
Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), US Navy officer and naval aviator; first American woman fighter pilot in the US Navy; first female fighter pilot killed after the Department of Defense Risk Rule
Richard Jaquelin Marshall (1895–1973), Major General US Army; brother to St. Julien Ravenel Marshall and cousin to George C. Marshall
St. Julien Ravenel Marshall (1904–1989), Brigadier General USMC brother to Richard Jaquelin Marshall and cousin to George C. Marshall
Lee Marvin (1924–1987), Marine Corps veteran and actor. Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Combat Action Ribbon. 56 motion picture acting appearances resulting in 18 Award nominations with 11 awards. 212 Television credits resulting in 1 Emmy nomination. Father of 4.
John C. Metzler, World War II sergeant, former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery (1951–1972); his son John C. Metzler Jr. was also the superintendent 1991–2010
Charles Herschel "Charlie" Reiner (1918-2001),[29] brother to famous comedian and producer Carl Reiner, served in the 9th Division in World War II.[30]
Earl W. Renfroe, US Army Colonel (World War II), orthodontist who helped originate the concept of preventive and interceptive orthodontics
John Raymond Rice, US Army Sergeant First Class (Korean Conflict), who was denied a burial in Sioux City, Iowa because of him being Native American (Ho-Chunk)
Henry Richardson, US Army Major (World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War), first African American state legislator in New Hampshire
Bradbury Robinson, US Army Captain (World War I); threw the first forward pass in American football history; physician; nutritionist; conservationist; and local politician
Lewis C. Rockwell, US Army aviator killed in a flying accident in 1912
William P. Rogers, US Navy Lieutenant Commander (World War II); politician; Secretary of State
Malcolm Ross, US Navy Captain (World War II), an atmospheric scientist and balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry. In 1960, set the altitude record for manned balloon flight.
Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966), Army officer involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board, science fiction author
Siegmund Spiegel (1919–2016), architect, activist, and Holocaust lecturer; Master Sergeant in World War II[32]
John Paul Stevens (1920–2019), Navy intelligence officer in the Pacific Theater, Lieutenant commander, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist, Mississippi's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army
Elizebeth Friedman, noted cryptanalyst who broke thousands of ciphers during the Prohibition Era and World Wars, trained first group of WWI cryptologists. Buried with husband William Friedman.
Astronaut John Glenn (1921-2016), the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth and his wife Annie (1920–2020)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and her husband Martin D. (1932-2010), who worked as a law professor
Priscilla Lane (1915-1995), film actress. Interred alongside her husband Colonel Joseph A. Howard. He served in the US Air Force and later the Air Force Reserves upon retiring from active duty.
Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), actress, interred as Maureen FitzSimons Blair alongside her husband, Brigadier General Charles F. Blair Jr. US Air Force Reserve.
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James Parks (1843–1929), freedman, the only person buried at Arlington Cemetery who was born on the grounds
Front face of the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery
Remains of the Space Shuttle Challenger's crew are interred in Section 46, including four civilians and three military members. Challenger Astronaut Judith Resnik is memorialized with a cenotaph.
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