United States Navy

===Officers===
Notable officers include: 
*[[John Paul Jones|John P. Jones]]
*[[John Barry (naval officer)|John Barry]] (Continental Navy officer and first flag officer of the United States Navy),<ref>{{cite web |author=One Hundred Ninth Congress |author-link=109th United States Congress |url = http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-109hjres38enr/pdf/BILLS-109hjres38enr.pdf |title=Joint Resolution Recognizing Commodore John Barry as the first flag officer of the United States Navy |website=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] |access-date=30 June 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140306061915/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-109hjres38enr/pdf/BILLS-109hjres38enr.pdf |archive-date=6 March 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> 
*[[Edward Preble]]
*[[James Lawrence]] (whose [[last words]] "don't give up the ship" are memorialized in [[Bancroft Hall]] at the United States Naval Academy)<ref>{{Cite web |title=VMH: Memorial Hall |url=https://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/Memorial_Hall |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=usnamemorialhall.org}}</ref>
*[[Stephen Decatur Jr.]], [[David Farragut]], [[David Dixon Porter|David D. Porter]], [[Oliver Hazard Perry|Oliver H. Perry]], 
*Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry]] (who, under the direction of President Millard Fillmore, forced the opening of Japan<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/opening-to-japan|title=Milestones: 1830–1860 - Office of the Historian|website=history.state.gov}}</ref>
*[[George Dewey]] (the only person in U.S. history to have attained the rank of [[Admiral of the Navy]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 March 2022 |title=Dewey, George |website=Naval History and Heritage Command |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/z-files/zb-files/zb-files-d/dewey-george.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324173704/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/z-files/zb-files/zb-files-d/dewey-george.html |archive-date=24 March 2022 |access-date=24 September 2022}}</ref>
*[[William D. Leahy]]<ref name="fleet admirals"/>
*[[Ernest J. King]]<ref name="fleet admirals"/>
*[[Chester W. Nimitz]]<ref name="fleet admirals"/>
*[[William F. Halsey Jr.]]<ref name="fleet admirals">{{Cite web |date=7 September 2022 |title=The Navy's World War II-era Fleet Admirals |website=Naval History and Heritage Command |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/the-navys-world-war-ii-era-fleet-admirals.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907053157/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/the-navys-world-war-ii-era-fleet-admirals.html |archive-date=7 September 2022 |access-date=24 September 2022}}</ref>