Lone Sailor Award Recipients
The United States Navy Memorial presents a Lone Sailor Award to Sea Service Veterans who have distinguished themselves, drawing upon their Sea Service experience to become successful, in their subsequent careers and lives, while exemplifying the core values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment.
2023
Robert “Bob” Work
U.S. Navy Master Chief William Goines
2022
James Rex Barker
Admiral Thomas “Tom” B. Fargo
2021
Drew Carey
U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
2020
Bill Withers
James Mattis
2019
Jack London
Paul Galanti
2018
Harvey Barnum, Jr.
William Hannigan
Robert E. Naser*
2017
Delbert & Ima Black
Christopher Gardner
David Robinson
2016
Daniel D'Aniello
Senator John Glenn
Rear Admiral Robert H. Shumaker
John Cosgrove
2015
Admiral James S. Gracey
J. William Middendorf II
Robert S. Morrison
C. Michael Petters
2014
Honorable Samuel A. Nunn, Jr.
James A. Skinner
Robert J. Stevens
2013
Dan Akerson
General Paul X. Kelley
Ted Turner
2012
Evertt Alvarez, Jr.
John Paul DeJoria
J. David Power III
Mark Russell
2011
Lloyd V. "Beau" Bridges III
Jeffrey L. Bridges
Lloyd V. Bridges, Jr.*
Gerald F. "Jerry" Coleman
Robert W.A. "Bob" Feller*
Brian P. Lamb
2010
Lanier W. Phillips
Edward W. Lebaron, Jr.
2009
Lawrence P. "Yogi" Berra
Leonard A. Lauder
Frederick W. Smith
2008
A.G. Lafley
John H. McConnell*
Arnold Palmer
2007
Tom Benson
Morgan L. Fitch, Jr., Esq.
Stan Musial
Senator John W. Warner, Jr.
2006
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
Arnold "Red" Auerbach
2005
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper*
Senator John McCain
2004
Benjamin Bradlee
Admiral Stansfield Turner
2003
Captain Dan A. Carmichael
Joseph F. Cullman, III
Captain James A. Lovell, Jr.
2002
Gordon M. Bethune
Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Representative Floyd D. Spence*
Representative Bob Stump
2000
Nickolas Davatzes
Honorable Robert M. Morgenthau
President Theodore Roosevelt*
Honorable John C. Whitehead
1999
Charles Francis Adams*
Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr.
President John F. Kennedy*
Senator John F. Kerry
1998
Eddie Albert
Ambassador John Gavin
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover*
Esther L. Snyder
1997
Ernest Borgnine
Captain Winidred Quick Collins
Senator Robert Kerrey
Austin H. Kiplinger
Edmund W. Littlefield
Henry Trione
Jonathan Winters
1996
Dr. Robert Ballard
Roger T. Staubach
Dr. Kathryn Sullivan
1995
President Richard M. Nixon*
1994
Tony Curtis
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Jr.
1993
James A. Michener
Allen E. Murray
Harold A. Poling
Rear Admiral William Thompson
1992
President Gerald R. Ford
Honorable H. Lawrence Garrett, III
1991
Admiral Arleigh Burke
President George H.W. Bush
Justice William S. White
1989
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
1987
Herman Wouk
*Posthumously
Naval Heritage Award Recipients
The United States Navy Memorial presents a Naval Heritage Award to distinguished Americans who have significantly supported the nation's Sea Services, and whose lives and career exemplify the core value of Honor, Courage and Commitment.
2023
U.S. Senator Susan Collins
2022
Christine H. Fox
2016
Peter Ho
Martin A. Kropelnicki
2013
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
2008
Representative Norm Dicks
2006
Senator Daniel Inouye
2005
Representative Ike Skelton
2002
Clive Cussler
1998
President Ronald W. Reagan
John Wayne
1997
Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher
Ambassador Paul H. Nitze
1996
Bob Hope
1995
Senator Margaret Chase Smith