List of United States Air Force personnel

E

• Ivan Edwards – flight surgeon, minister, and humanitarian
• Sherman Edwards – composer, jazz pianist and songwriter best known for his songs from the 1969 Broadway musical 1776 and the 1972 film adaptation
• Donn F. Eisele – Astronaut (Apollo 7)
• Robert Ellenstein – Film and television actor
• Sam Elliott – Oscar-nominated film actor
• Cliff Emmich – Film and television actor (Payday)
• Jules Engel – Oscar-nominated film producer, filmmaker and animator
• Joe Engle – Astronaut, X-15 and space shuttle pilot* Eralia – YouTuber who specializes in reaction videos to film, TV and video game content
• Bill Erwin – Character actor known for his 1993 Emmy Award-nominated performance on Seinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields in the episode "The Old Man"

F

• Fred D. Fagg Jr. – 2nd Director of Air Commerce and 6th president of the University of Southern California
• Al Feldstein – Writer, editor and artist best known for his work at EC Comics and as editor of the satirical magazine Mad
• Norman Fell – Film and television actor
• Michael Fincke – Astronaut (STS-134)
• Morton S. Fine – Emmy and Edgar Award-nominated and WGA Award-winning screenwriter known for his writing partnership with David Friedkin (The Pawnbroker, I Spy)
• Bryce Fisher – Professional football player
• Joe Flaherty – Emmy Award-winning actor, writer and comedian known for his role as Donald the heckler in Happy Gilmore (1996)
• Pat Flaherty – Film actor and professional baseball and football player who also served in the U.S. Army during the Pancho Villa Expedition, as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Service during the First World War and as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War
• Kelly Flinn – First female B-52 pilot
• Med Flory – Jazz saxophonist, bandleader and actor
• Tennessee Ernie Ford – Television comedian and recording artist
• Nathan Bedford Forrest III – Great-grandson of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest
• John Forsythe – Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning film and television actor
• Roger Fortson – Black Air Force serviceman who was fatally shot in his home in Fort Walton Beach, Florida by Deputy Eddie Duran of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office in May 2024. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office concluded that Duran's "use of deadly force was not objectively reasonable".
• Joe Foss – U.S. Marine Corps flying ace and 20th Governor of South Dakota
• William Price Fox – Novelist and screenwriter
• John Frankenheimer – Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker
• Arthur Franz – Film actor
• Al Freeman Jr. – Emmy Award-nominated film and TV actor
• Morgan Freeman – Oscar-winning film actor
• Theodore Freeman – Astronaut (first fatality)
• Jacque Fresco – American futurist, social engineer, founder of The Venus Project, and advocate of global implementation of a socioeconomic system known as a "resource-based economy"
• Bruce Jay Friedman – Oscar-nominated screenwriter, novelist, playwright and actor

G

• Clark Gable – Oscar-winning film actor
• William Gaines – Publisher and co-editor of EC Comics
• Ernest K. Gann – Novelist
• Daniel Garber – Artist
• William T. Gardiner – 55th Governor of Maine
• Arthur Gardner – Film actor and producer
• Robert Gates – 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
• Marvin Gaye – Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter
• Michael V. Gazzo – Broadway playwright and Oscar-nominated film actor best known for playing Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Elmer Gedeon – Three-sport college athlete and professional baseball player
• Leigh Gerdine – Musician, civic leader, Webster University president
• Henry Gibson – Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter
• Nelson Gidding – Oscar-nominated screenwriter
• Lewis Gilbert – Oscar-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker
• Guy Gilpatric – Pilot, flight instructor, journalist, short-story writer and novelist, best known for his Mr. Glencannon stories
• Sidney Glazier – Oscar-winning film producer
• John Glenn – Aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician who became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn initially enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II, then later served as a naval aviator in the Marine Corps.
• George Gobel – Television comedian
• Arthur Godfrey – Television personality
• Barry Goldwater – Senator from Arizona and 1964 Republican presidential nominee
• Alberto Gonzales – 80th United States Attorney General
• Bert I. Gordon – Visual effects artist and filmmaker
• Dick Grace – Film stunt flyer
• Lindsey Graham – Senator from South Carolina
• Susan Grant – Novelist
• Peter Graves – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning film and television actor
• Hank Greenberg – Major League Baseball player
• Frederick D. Gregory – Astronaut (STS-51-B, STS-33, STS-44)
• John Howard Griffin – Journalist and author best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line first-hand published under the title Black Like Me (1961)
• Gus Grissom – Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Astronaut

H

• Larry Hagman – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated film and television actor, director and producer
• William Wister Haines – Novelist, screenwriter and playwright
• Fred Haise – Naval aviator, Air Force pilot, test pilot and NASA astronaut (Apollo 13 and Space Shuttle Enterprise). Of the 24 men to have ever flown to the moon, Haise is also the only Marine.
• Arch Hall Sr. – Screenwriter, actor and filmmaker
• James Norman Hall – American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy who holds the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies during World War I; Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator
• Iceal Hambleton – Missile expert, subject of "Bat 21" rescue
• Arthur B. Hancock, Jr. – Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
• Jack Hanlon – Child actor known for his role in Our Gang and silent films
• Brian Harnois – former paranormal investigator for Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International
• Pat Harrington Jr. – Emmy Award-winning stage and television actor
• Harry Harrison – Science fiction author known mostly for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966)
• Paul Harvey – Peabody Award-winning radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio
• Bob Hastings – Film and TV actor
• Howard Hawks – Oscar-nominated filmmaker who served as an aviator and flight instructor with the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps and with the United States Army Air Service during World War I
• Michael Hayden – 19th CIA Director
• John Morse Haydon – Governor of American Samoa from 1969 to 1974
• Peter Lind Hayes – Vaudeville entertainer and film and television actor
• Van Heflin – Oscar-winning film actor
• H. John Heinz III – Senator from Pennsylvania
• Joseph Heller – Novelist
• Susan Helms – Astronaut (STS-54, STS-64, STS-78, STS-101, Expedition 2 - STS-102 / STS-105)
• Sherman Hemsley – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated actor and musician
• Skitch Henderson – Band leader
• Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks - Rapper, singer and record producer
• Chad Hennings – Professional football player
• Jim Hensley – Beer executive and father-in-law to John McCain
• Don Herbert – Television personality better known as "Mr. Wizard"
• Charlton Heston – Oscar-winning film actor
• Nat Hiken – Five-time Emmy Award-winning television writer, director, producer and songwriter
• John Hillerman – Film actor
• Don Ho – Hawaiian traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer
• Ben Hogan – Professional golfer
• Dick Hogan – Film actor
• William Holden – Oscar-winning film actor
• Tim Holt – Film actor
• LeRoy Homer Jr. – Airline pilot, co-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93
• John Hope – Television meteorologist
• A.E. Hotchner – editor, novelist, playwright and biographer who co-founded the charity food company Newman's Own with Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman
• Rance Howard – Film and television actor, also father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard
• David Huddleston – Emmy Award-nominated film and television actor
• John Hudson – Film and TV actor
• Rune Hultman – Film actor
• E. Howard Hunt – Intelligence officer and author known for his involvement in the Watergate scandal, also served in the U.S. Navy and the Office of Strategic Services
• Rick Husband – NASA astronaut killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster (STS-96, STS-107)
• Bobby Hutchins – Child actor known for his role in Our Gang shorts
• Mac Hyman – Novelist

I

• James Irwin – Astronaut (Apollo 15 - eighth person to walk on the Moon)
• Burl Ives – Oscar-winning film actor and Grammy Award-winning musician

J

• James Jabara – First American jet ace
• Bernard James – NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks
• Randall Jarrell – Poet
• Rick Jason – Film and television actor
• Russell Johnson – Film and television actor
• Sam Johnson – Member of Congress of Texas
• Bobby Jones – Amateur golf champion
• David M. Jones – Doolittle Raider and POW of Stalag Luft III.
• Jimmy J. Jumper – Air Force Major General and father of General John P. Jumper
• John P. Jumper – 17th Air Force Chief of Staff and retired four star General

K

• James Karen – Saturn Award-winning film, television and theater actor
• Phil Karlson – Emmy-nominated film and television director
• Todd Karns – Film actor who played George Bailey's younger brother, Harry, in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life
• Nicholas Katzenbach – 65th United States Attorney General
• William Keighley – Film director and actor who supervised the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II
• DeForest Kelley – Film and television actor
• Jack Kelly – Film, TV and stage actor
• Orry-Kelly – Three-time Oscar-winning Hollywood costume designer
• Arthur Kennedy – Five-time Oscar-nominated film actor
• Ron Kenoly – Christian music worship leader
• Irvin Kershner – Film director
• Algene and Frederick Key – Brothers and aviation pioneers
• Shawna Kimbrell – Lieutenant Colonel and first female African-American fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force
• Iven Kincheloe – Air Force test pilot
• Micki King – Olympic diving gold-medalist and athletic coach
• Wally Kinnan – Pioneering meteorologist
• Julian Koenig – American copywriter who was inducted into The One Club Creative Hall of Fame in 1966
• Lester Koenig – Screenwriter, film producer, and founder of the jazz record label Contemporary Records
• Gene Kranz – aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11
• Norman Krasna – Oscar-winning screenwriter

L

• Alan Ladd – Film actor
• David Ladd – Film and TV producer and former actor
• Fiorello H. La Guardia – Mayor of New York City
• Tim LaHaye – Baptist evangelical Christian minister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the Left Behind apocalyptic fiction series
• Frank Purdy Lahm – First military aviator
• Jay Lambert – Olympic and professional boxer and general surgeon
• Paul Lambert – Film and television actor
• Tom Landry – Dallas Cowboys football coach
• Mario Lanza – Grammy Award-nominated tenor and actor
• Arnold Laven – Film and television director and producer
• Beirne Lay, Jr. – Screenwriter, co-author of Twelve O'Clock High
• Norman Lear – Emmy Award-winning TV and film producer, director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter
• Jeannie Leavitt – First female USAF fighter pilot in 1993 and first woman to command a combat fighter wing
• Robert LeFevre – American libertarian businessman, radio personality and primary theorist of autarchism
• Curtis LeMay – USAF Chief of Staff and 1968 vice presidential candidate
• C.W. Lemoine – author, fighter pilot and YouTuber who also served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy
• John Levitow – Enlisted recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Jules V. Levy – Film and television producer and screenwriter
• Buddy Lewis – Major League Baseball player
• Larry Lieber – Comic book artist and writer best known as co-creator of Iron Man, Thor and Ant-Man
• Charles Lindbergh – Legendary aviator
• George Lindsey – Film and TV actor and stand-up comedian
• James Lipton – Emmy Award-winning writer, lyricist, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was also the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo TV series Inside the Actors Studio.
• Roger Locher – USAF pilot whose rescue was the deepest inside North Vietnam of the entire Vietnam War
• Jon Locke – Film and TV actor
• Frank Loesser – Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning songwriter
• Donald S. Lopez, Sr. – Ace with the Flying Tigers
• Pare Lorentz – Filmmaker known for his film work about the New Deal
• Robert Moffat Losey – Meteorologist; considered to be the first American military casualty of World War II
• Charlie Louvin – Grammy Award-nominated country music singer and songwriter best known as one of the Louvin Brothers
• Nancy Harkness Love – Aviator and co-founder of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
• Frank Luke Jr. – Medal of Honor recipient during World War I
• Anna Paulina Luna – Maxim magazine model and politician
• Jeffrey Lynn – Actor and film producer

M

• John E. Mack – Psychiatrist
• Gavin MacLeod – Film and television actor
• Gordon MacRae – Broadway and Film actor
• John Lee Mahin – Screenwriter and film producer
• Nicole Malachowski – First woman pilot with United States Air Force Thunderbirds
• Karl Malden – Oscar-winning film actor
• Henry Mancini – Four-time Oscar-winning and 20-time Grammy Award-winning film composer and musician
• Herman J. Mankiewicz – Oscar-winning screenwriter of Citizen Kane who also served in the U.S. Marine Corps
• Delbert Mann – Oscar-winning film and TV director
• Paul Mantz – Film stunt pilot
• Steven Marlo – Film and television actor
• Barney Martin – Film and television actor and retired NYPD detective
• Dean Paul Martin – Singer and actor
• Tony Martin – Entertainer
• Vernon Martin – Professional football player
• Candy Massaroni – Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Kentucky's 50th House district
• Jerry Mathers – Television actor
• Kerwin Mathews – Film and television actor
• Walter Matthau – Oscar-winning film actor
• MC Tee – Musician
• T. Allen McArtor – Business executive and FAA Administrator
• Cormac McCarthy – Pulitzer Prize-winning author and screenwriter
• Kevin McCarthy – Oscar-nominated film actor
• Joseph C. McConnell – Leading U.S. ace of the Korean War
• Tim McCoy – Film actor
• James McDivitt – Astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
• Spanky McFarland – Child actor known for playing Spanky in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s
• George McGovern – Senator from South Dakota, 1972 presidential nominee
• – Cinematographer and friend of movie star Clark Gable who enlisted together in the Army Air Force during World War II
• Robert McNamara and the Whiz Kids – Ford Motor Company executives
• Joseph McNeil – USAF major general best known for being a member of the Greensboro Four—a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers
• Pamela Melroy – Astronaut (STS-92, STS-112, STS-120)
• Lee Mendelson – Six-time Emmy-winning animation producer and executive producer of many Peanuts animated specials
• Burgess Meredith – Oscar-nominated film, theater and TV actor and filmmaker
• James Meredith – Civil Rights figure; first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi
• Gary Merrill – Film actor

• Ray Milland – Oscar-winning film actor and director who served in the British Army and later as a civilian flight instructor with the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII
• Glenn Miller – Grammy Award-winning musician and band leader
• Walter M. Miller, Jr. – Science fiction author
• John Purroy Mitchel – 95th Mayor of New York City
• Billy Mitchell – Grandfather of the U.S. Air Force.
• Cameron Mitchell – Film actor
• Nicole Mitchell – TV meteorologist
• Dana Mohler-Faria – President, Bridgewater State College
• Rudy Moise – flight surgeon, lawyer, and politician
• George Montgomery – Film and television actor
• Clayton Moore – Television actor
• Robin Moore – Author of The Green Berets and The French Connection and Razzie Award-winning screenwriter
• Dodge Morgan – Single-handed sailor and entrepreneur
• Tad Mosel – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of the leading dramatists of hour-long teleplay genre for live television during the 1950s
• Charlie Munger – Billionaire investor
• Richard Murphy – Oscar-nominated screenwriter

N

• Jack Narz – TV game show host
• George N. Neise – Film actor
• Barry Nelson – Film and television actor noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent character James Bond
• Ralph Nelson – Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who served as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the Army Air Corps during WWII
• Willie Nelson – Oscar-nominated and Grammy Award-winning musician, singer and songwriter
• Mike Nesmith – Guitarist, member of "The Monkees," and heir to the Liquid Paper fortune
• Jack Nicholson – Oscar-winning film actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• Cody Nickson – American television personality, winner of The Amazing Race 30, contestant of Big Brother 19
• Charles Nordhoff – American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy who served in the Ambulance Corps during World War I, as well as a military aviator in both the French Lafayette Flying Corps and the U.S. Army Air Service
• Chuck Norris – B-movie the most famous B movie actor ever

O

• Edmond O'Brien – Oscar-winning film actor
• Donald O'Connor – Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning film actor
• Jarvis Offutt – U.S. Army Air Service aviator and namesake of Offutt Air Force Base
• Robin Olds – Two-war triple flying ace
• George Olesen – Cartoonist
• Patrick O'Neal – Film actor
• Robert Osborne – Actor, film historian and author best known as the primary host of the cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for more than 20 years

P

• Reverend Bernard T. Pagano – Roman Catholic priest and high school teacher who was falsely accused and arrested in 1979 for committing nine robberies in Delaware and Pennsylvania, in which an otherwise polite man held store clerks at gunpoint, demanding money. Pagano was cleared of the charges when the real culprit Ronald W. Clouser turned himself in. Pagano's story was dramatized in the 1981 film The Gentleman Bandit (directed by Jonathan Kaplan), in which Pagano served as technical advisor. Pagano later taught theology at Notre Dame High School in Easton, Pennsylvania in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
• Jack Palance – Oscar-winning film actor
• Gregg Palmer – Film and TV actor
• Ron Paul – Member of Congress; 1988, 2008 & 2012 Presidential candidate
• John Payne – Film actor
• Stacy Pearsall – Combat photographer, two-time winner of the NPPA Military Photographer of the Year award
• Leo Penn – Film director
• Leonard Pennario – Concert pianist and composer
• Heather Penney – Former Air Force major and F-16 fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF Major Daniel Caine, Captain Brandon Rasmussen and Lieutenant General Marc Sasseville) on 9/11 was to find United Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, including ramming the aircraft.
• Oscar Francis Perdomo – "Ace in a Day"
• Sonny Perdue – 81st Governor of Georgia.
• H. Ross Perot, Jr. – Member of the Forbes 400 and son of Ross Perot
• Rick Perry – 47th Governor of Texas
• House Peters Jr. – Actor
• Paul Picerni – Actor
• Slim Pickens – Actor and rodeo performer
• William H. Pitsenbarger – Enlisted recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Robert M. Polich, Sr. – Recipient of Distinguished Flying Cross and POW of Stalag Luft III
• Gregg Popovich – Head Coach of the NBA professional basketball team San Antonio Spurs
• Wiley Post – Famed American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream.
• Tom Poston – Television comedian
• H.C. Potter – Film director and producer
• Jody Powell – White House Press Secretary
• Francis Gary Powers – CIA U-2 spy plane pilot
• Robert Preston – Oscar-nominated film and Broadway actor
• Robert Prosky – Film actor
• Mario Puzo – Author of The Godfather (1969) and Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 1972 film adaptation and its sequels

Q

• Elwood R. "Pete" Quesada – Aviation pioneer
• Robin Quivers – Co-host of The Howard Stern Show

R

• Dennis Rader – BTK Serial Killer
• John Randolph – Broadway and film actor
• Brandon Rasmussen – Air Force Captain and F-16 fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF Major Heather Penney, Major Daniel Caine and Lieutenant General Marc Sasseville) on 9/11 was to find United Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, including ramming the aircraft.
• Gene Rayburn – Emmy-nominated radio and television personality
• Gene Raymond – Film actor
• Ronald Reagan – B-movie actor and 40th President of the United States
• Chuck Reed – Mayor of San Jose, California and his daughter, Kim Campbell, a decorated Iraq War pilot
• George Reeves – Television and film actor
• William Rehnquist – 16th Chief Justice of the United States
• Carl Reiner – Emmy and Grammy Award-winning film and television actor, comedian, filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
• John Rich – Emmy Award-winning film and television director
• Lloyd Richards – Emmy Award-nominated television director, theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama
• Eddie Rickenbacker – Leading American World War I flying ace
• Roy Riegels – All-American football player
• Robinson Risner – Decorated USAF General and Vietnam POW.
• R. Stephen Ritchie – USAF Ace in the Vietnam War
• Martin Ritt – Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Hal Roach – Oscar-winning producer and screenwriter
• Tom Robbins – American novelist known for his seriocomedies (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tibetan Peach Pie)
• Gene Roddenberry – Emmy Award-nominated television and film producer
• Marion Rodgers – Communications Specialist, Former Tuskegee Airman
• Gilbert Roland – Golden Globe Award-nominated film and television actor
• Frank Ronzio – Film and TV actor best known for playing Litmus in Escape from Alcatraz
• Stuart Roosa – Astronaut (Apollo 14)
• Elliott Roosevelt – Son of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Quentin Roosevelt – Youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, killed in aerial combat as a pursuit pilot in World War I
• Leonard Rosenman – Oscar-winning film composer
• Bob Ross – Painter, art instructor and television host
• Chelcie Ross – Film actor
• Dan Rowan – Comedian and television actor
• Joe Mack Roy – TikTok star known for his "Pop Watch" videos
• Kurt Russell – Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated film and television actor
• Dick Rutan – Aviation record-holder and aircraft designer

S

• Sabu – Film actor
• William Sachs – Film director, producer and screenwriter (Joe)
• James Salter – Novelist
• Tommy Sands – Pop music singer and film actor
• Mark Sanford – 115th Governor of South Carolina
• Marc Sasseville – Retired Air Force lieutenant general and F-16 fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF Major Heather Penney, Major Daniel Caine and Captain Brandon Rasmussen) on 9/11 was to find United Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, including ramming the aircraft. Sasseville later served as the 12th Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
• John Monk Saunders – Oscar-winning screenwriter, film director and novelist
• William Schallert – Emmy Award-nominated actor
• Roy Scheider – Oscar-nominated film and TV actor
• Bob Schieffer – Television journalist
• Josef Schmid – NASA flight surgeon
• Tex Schramm – President and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys
• Rusty Schweickart – Astronaut (Apollo 9)
• Dick Scobee – Astronaut, killed in Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
• David Scott – Astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, and Apollo 15)
• Donald E. Scott – All-American college football quarterback
• Dr. Seuss – Famed American children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, Emmy Award-winning animator and filmmaker
• Carroll Shelby – Automotive designer, racecar driver and entrepreneur who served as a bomber pilot in World War II
• Jim Siedow – Film and TV actor
• Gregory Sierra – Film and TV actor
• Lance Sijan – Medal of Honor recipient
• John Simon – Literary, theater and film critic
• Neil Simon – Four-time Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter, playwright and author
• Sinbad – Actor and comedian
• Tom Skerritt – Film actor
• Richard X. Slattery – Film and TV actor
• Deke Slayton – Mercury and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project astronaut
• Jack Smight – Theater, film and television director
• Dean Smith – American men's college basketball head coach for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Gretchen Smith – Founder of the charity organization "Code of Vets"
• Hal Smith – Film and television actor
• Tubby Smith – NCAA Men's Basketball Coach
• William Smith – Film and television actor and champion arm-wrestler
• Carl Spaatz – Pioneer airman, first Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• Aaron Spelling – Film and television producer
• Arnold Spielberg – Father of Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg and electrical engineer who co-designed the GE-225 mainframe computer and the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register
• Mickey Spillane – Crime novelist
• Caroll Spinney – Puppeteer, cartoonist and artist most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street
• G.D. Spradlin – Film actor known for The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Thomas P. Stafford – Astronaut and aviator (Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10)
• Bill Stealey – Business CEO and co-founder of MicroProse
• David Steeves – Pilot who crashed in the Sierra Nevada and endured a nearly two month survival ordeal.
• George Steinbrenner – Team owner of the New York Yankees
• Robert Sterling – Film actor
• Craig Stevens – Television actor
• George Stevens Jr. – Oscar-nominated producer, TV director, playwright and author
• Ted Stevens – Senator from Alaska
• James Stewart – Oscar-winning film actor
• Bert Stiles – Author
• Spencer Stone – Air Force staff sergeant who, along with friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler and three other passengers, as well as an off-duty train driver, disarmed and subdued a solitary, heavily armed Moroccan terrorist in August 2015, while travelling from Amsterdam on a high speed, Paris-bound train
• Ralph Story – Television personality who served as a P-51 fighter pilot and flight instructor during World War II
• Dale E. Stovall – USAF General, decorated Vietnam War search and rescue pilot
• Joseph Strick – Oscar-winning film director, producer and screenwriter
• Woody Strode – Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor and football player
• John Sturges – Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Preston Sturges – Oscar-winning filmmaker
• Chesley Sullenberger – Airline pilot, hero of Miracle on the Hudson
• Bruce Sundlun – 71st governor of Rhode Island
• Charles Sweeney – Pilot who flew the Fat Man bomb to Nagasaki.
• Dolph Sweet – Film and TV actor
• David Swift – WGA Award-nominated screenwriter, animator, director and producer
• Jack Swigert – Astronaut and congressman-elect

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