List of sailors

This list of sailors includes any seagoing person who does not qualify for the list of sea captains. It includes both professional and amateur sailors.

Explorers

• Ernest Shackleton. Antarctic, was 3rd Mate in Union Castle
• James Cook, Sub-Antarctic, Pacific, North America, apprenticed on a Whitby collier
• Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi

Actors

• Raymond Bailey, American actor, Milburn Drysdale, on The Beverly Hillbillies.
• Carroll O'Connor, American actor, Archie Bunker on All in the Family
• Rupert Davies, British actor, title role on the BBC's Maigret
• Peter Falk, American actor, Columbo
• James Garner, American actor, Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files
• Sterling Hayden, American actor and author, Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove
• Jack Lord, American actor, Steve McGarret on Hawaii Five-O
• Denver Pyle, American actor, Uncle Jesse Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard
• George Sewell, English actor was a steward, and Frank Cottam on The Detectives
• Frederick Treves (actor), much loved English character actor, over a hundred credits in theatre, television, and film
• Clint Walker, American actor, Cheyenne Bodie on Cheyenne
• Jack Warden, American actor, Emmy Award winning, Academy Award nominated

Comedians

• Dave Broadfoot, Canadian comedian
• George Roper, English stand-up comedian best known for work on television series The Comedians.

Labor leaders

• Joseph Curran, American labor leader
• Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), wrote Two Years Before the Mast
• Andrew Furuseth (1854–1938), merchant seaman and labour leader
• Shannon J. Wall, American merchant seaman and labor leader

Maritime Industry

• Jeremiah O'Brien captain of privateer 'Unity' in Revolutionary War's first battle
• Captain John Bury, Canadian mariner involved in standardising international buoyage
• Harry McNish, Scottish carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
• Herbert Pitman, Third Officer of the Titanic.
• John Wallace Thomas, Newfoundland captain made Commander of the Order of the British Empire for actions during a Luftwaffe attack

Military

• Kingsmill Bates, British Distinguished Service Cross recipient
• Philip Bent, Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• George H. O'Brien, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
• David Broadfoot, Scottish recipient of the George Cross
• Lionel Crabb, British Royal Navy frogman who vanished during a reconnaissance mission in 1956
• Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French Baron and rear admiral of the Navy, was helmsman early in his career
• Peter Horsley, British Air Marshal
• Lawrence Joel, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
• John Paul Jones, American naval officer
• "Yank" Levy, Canadian soldier, military instructor and author of a manual on guerrilla warfare
• Charles Andrew MacGillivary, Canadian Medal of Honor recipient
• Thomas McClelland, American naval officer
• Kim Malthe-Bruun, member of the Danish resistance movement
• Arthur Phillip, British naval officer, colonial administrator, Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the city of Sydney
• William Sanders, New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Miguel Grau Seminario, renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos
• John Young (naval officer), Naval Officer in American Revolutionary War

Musicians and composers

• Ken Colyer, British jazz trumpeter
• Suezenne Fordham, American Jazz pianist
• Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist in the original lineup of The Quarry Men
• Woody Guthrie, musician and songwriter, wrote This Land Is Your Land
• Chick Henderson (singer), English singer in the 1930s and 1940s, Begin the Beguine
• Cisco Houston, American folk singer
• Ferlin Husky, American country-pop singer, hit number one with Wings of a Dove
• Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator, C'mon...Get Happy
• Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street."
• Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer of children's songs, 'Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor'
• Ted Weems, American bandleader and musician, directed the Merchant Marine Band

Notorious

• William Colepaugh, Nazi spy in World War II
• George Hennard, American mass murderer who claimed twenty-four victims at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas
• Fritz Sauckel, Nazi war criminal
• Duncan Scott-Ford, British merchant seaman hanged for treachery in World War II
• Perry Smith (murderer), made famous in Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood

Other

• Granville Conway, public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient
• Harvey Cox, preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School
• James Dougherty, first husband of Marilyn Monroe
• Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival
• David Fasold salvage expert, self-proclaimed "Arkologist"
• Freddie Lennon, father of English musician John Lennon
• Joseph D. Stewart, Vice Admiral, Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
• Paul Teutul, Sr., American television personality
• Jordan Weisman, American game designer
• Abdul Awal Mintoo, Bengali Businessman and former President of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry

Politics and activism

• Alvin Baldus, former Democratic member of Congress
• Traian Băsescu, President of Romania, inaugurated on 20 December 2004
• Gordon Canfield, Republican congressman from New Jersey
• Alfonso J. Cervantes, forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri
• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), author
• Mark Croucher, Director of Communications for the UK Independence Party, pub landlord, journalist, former radio officer
• Frederick Arthur Cobb, Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
• Arthur Davidson, British Labour Party Member of Parliament
• Jack O'Dell, prominent African-American member of the U.S. Civil Rights
• Jim Folsom, Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama
• Ian Doric Glachan, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• Brian Haw, British peace activist
• Harry Haywood, a leading African American member of both the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
• John Horner, British firefighter, trade unionist and politician
• Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• Wayne Mapp, New Zealand politician
• Alfred von Niezychowski, Polish noble, a German Count, author and lecturer, and American politician
• Albert Owen, Welsh politician, Labour Party MP for Ynys Môn
• John Prescott, British Labour Party politician, Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State and Member of Parliament, was a steward and waiter
• Joseph Resnick, Democratic congressman from New York
• Montfort Stokes, Democratic Senator
• John S. Watson, African-American politician in New Jersey
• Terry Wynn, retired Labour Party Member of the European Parliament for North West England
• Emmanuel Iheanach: Minister Federal Republic of Nigeria, Master Mariner and was a sea captain

Producers

• Alex Bonner, American Emmy Award winning radio and television producer
• John Clark (actor/director), English actor, director, producer, and ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave
• John Kenley, former American theatrical producer
• Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter.

Radio Industry

• Dave Cash (disc jockey), British disk jockey
• James Redmond (broadcaster), pioneer of modern public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom
• Tommy Vance, British pop radio broadcaster

Real estate

• John Q. Hammons, American businessman and resort developer

Science, engineering, architecture

• Patrick Young Alexander, British aeronautical pioneer
• Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Scottish physician, geographer zoologist and botanist
• Allan V. Cox, American chemist and geologist
• Norman Jaffe, American architect
• D. Holmes Morton, American physician specializing in genetic disorders

Social scientists

• Douglass Cecil North, American economist and Nobel Prize winner

Sports

• Bobby Atherton, Welsh international footballer
• Jim Bagby, Jr., major-league baseball pitcher
• Fred Blackburn (footballer), English footballer and coach
• Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer and cornerman
• Dan Devine, American football coach
• Joe Gold, bodybuilding and fitness guru of Gold's Gym
• Cornelius Johnson, American Olympic medal-winning high jumper
• Charlie Keller, left fielder in Major League Baseball
• Frank Sinkwich, American footballer, won 1942 Heisman Trophy, 1944 NFL MVP
• Edwin Stratton, a British aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan UK
• Agostino Straulino (1914–2004) Olympic champion and Italian admiral
• Jim Thorpe, American Olympic athlete
• Henk de Velde, Dutch seafarer known for his long solo-voyages around the world
• Matthew Webb, first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aid

Unclassified

• Crispus Attucks (1723–1770), victim of "Boston Massacre"
• Peter Blake (sailor) (1944–2001), winner of the Whitbread Round the World Race, the America's Cup and the Jules Verne Trophy
• Chay Blyth (born 1940), first westwards single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world 1971
• Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), scientist and engineer working at sea
• William Harvey Carney (1842–1908), Civil War soldier previously a sailor
• Donald Crowhurst, lost at sea during the Golden Globe race.
• Russ Chauvenet (1920–2003), science fiction fan and amateur sailor
• Sir Francis Chichester, first single-handed circumnavigation of the world with just one port of call 1966-1967
• Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk and 13th Earl of Berkshire, Apprentice on windjammer Mount Stewart. See Wikipedia article Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk
• Samuel Leech (1798–1848), wrote of experiences in both Royal Navy and US Navy
• Robin Knox-Johnston (born 1939), first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world 1968-1969
• Doris Miller (1919–1943), cook that fought back at Pearl Harbor
• Jacob Nagle (1762–1841), well-traveled seaman who wrote a journal.
• Ellen McArthur British sailor and round the world record holder.
• Bernard Motissier (1925–1994) renowned French yachtsman and author of books about his voyages and sailing.
• Jure Šterk (1937–2009) Slovenian round-the-world sailor and author of books about his voyages and sailing.

Visual arts

• Richard Avedon, American photographer
• Johnny Craig, American comic book artist
• Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist
• Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, American AB, portrait and watercolor artist
• James Nachtwey, American photojournalist and war photographer
• George Rodger, British photojournalist noted for work in Africa and death camps at Bergen-Belsen
• Ken Russell, an iconoclastic English film director
• Ernie Schroeder, American comic book artist
• Haskell Wexler, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer
• Wally Wood, American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher

Writers and publishers

• John Arthur Barry, Australian journalist and author
• John Blackburn (author), British novelist
• Peter Baynham, Welsh screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated. Co-writer of Borat
• Nathaniel Bowditch, author, The American Practical Navigator
• E. S. Campbell, American author, broadcaster and radio officer
• A. Bertram Chandler, Australian science fiction author of over 40 novels and 200 works of short fiction
• Brian Cleeve, English writer and popular TV broadcaster
• Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American author, Two Years Before the Mast
• Clare Francis, British novelist
• Allen Ginsberg, poet, Howl, Kaddish
• David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
• Kevin McClory, Irish screenwriter, producer, and director, Never Say Never Again,
• Herbert Huncke, American beat generation figure
• John L. Hess, prominent American journalist
• Bob Kaufman, American Beat poet and surrealist
• Jack Kerouac, American author, On The Road
• James Lennox Kerr, Scottish socialist author noted for his children's stories
• Jack London, American author, Call of the Wild
• Veeresh Malik, Indian businessman and writer
• John Masefield O.M., LL.D. Poet Laureate, sailing ship Apprentice
• Herman Melville, American author, Moby Dick
• Charles Muñoz, American poet, novelist, publisher, and radio officer
• Alun Owen, a British screenwriter, noted for writing The Beatles's film A Hard Day's Night
• Donn Pearce, author of Cool Hand Luke
• Dudley Pope, British writer of both nautical fiction and history
• Richard Scott Prather, American mystery novelist
• Otto Scott, American journalist and author
• Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
• James Sites, American novelist
• Joshua Slocum (1848-1909?), first single-handed circumnavigation of the world 1895 - 1898
• Gary Snyder, American poet
• Lyle Stuart, controversial American publisher
• Derek Turner, Irish magazine editor and freelance journalist
• Nedd Willard (1928– ), writer and journalist
• Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
• Robin Wilson (author), American science fiction author and university president
• Bernard Wolfe, American fiction writer
• Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet
• Altaf Shaikh, Pakistani Travelogue Writer and Novelist, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.

See also

• Notable mariners
• Category:Sailors
• Category:Merchant marine
• Category:Water transport