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Valor / merit

Notable recipients of the Bronze Star Medal

Heroic or meritorious achievement or service in connection with military operations against an armed enemy.

About this decoration

400 notable recipients

Names link to Wikipedia; ★ MoH marks people who also received the Medal of Honor (links to their profile here).

NameLifeBranchWar
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Spanish Civil War
Henry Kissinger1923–2023United States ArmyVietnam War
John McCain1936–2018United States NavyVietnam War
Douglas MacArthur ★ MoH1880–1964Philippine ArmyWorld War I
John Kerry1943United States NavyVietnam War
Henry Fonda1905–1982United States NavyWorld War II
Colin Powell1937–2021United States ArmyVietnam War
Oliver Stone1946United States ArmyVietnam War
George S. Patton1885–1945United States CavalryWorld War I
Spiro Agnew1918–1996World War II
Mickey Rooney1920–2014World War II
Tony Bennett1926–2023United States ArmyWorld War II
Glenn Miller1904–1944
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco1923–2005World War II
Bob Dole1923–2021United States ArmyWorld War II
Omar Bradley1893–1981United States ArmyWorld War I
Lindsey Graham1955–2026Air Force Reserve CommandGulf War
Lee Van Cleef1925–1989United States NavyWorld War II
Chuck Yeager1923–2020United States Army Air ForcesVietnam War
Pete Hegseth1980United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Robert Mueller1944–2026Vietnam War
Ron DeSantis1978United States Navy ReserveIraq War
Jim Mattis1950United States Marine CorpsGulf War
David Petraeus1952United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Lloyd Shapley1923–2016
Chris Kyle1974–2013United States Navy
Charles Durning1923–2012United States ArmyWorld War II
Desmond Doss ★ MoH1919–2006United States ArmyWorld War II
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.1934–2012United States ArmyVietnam War
Audie Murphy ★ MoH1925–1971National Guard of the United StatesWorld War II
Timothy McVeigh1968–2001United States ArmyGulf War
Alexander Haig1924–2010United States ArmyVietnam War
William Westmoreland1914–2005United States ArmyVietnam War
Robert Jordan1948–2007United States NavyVietnam War
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld1911–2004SchutzstaffelWorld War II
Wesley Clark1944United States ArmyVietnam War
Daniel Inouye ★ MoH1924–2012442nd Infantry RegimentWorld War II
Strom Thurmond1902–2003United States ArmyWorld War II
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque1902–1947French ArmyWorld War II
Eddie Albert1906–2005United States NavyWorld War II
Mark W. Clark1896–1984United States ArmyKorean War
Rod Serling1924–1975United States ArmyWorld War II
Tom Cotton1977United States Army ReserveWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Beau Biden1969–2015United States ArmyIraq War
Michael Flynn1958United States Army
Jim Webb1946United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Mark T. Esper1964United States ArmyGulf War
John Connally1917–1993United States NavyWorld War II
Samuel Fuller1912–1997United States ArmyWorld War II
Ferruccio Parri1890–1981World War I
John Paul Stevens1920–2019United States NavyWorld War II
Joseph Kittinger1928–2022United States Air ForceVietnam War
Richard Winters1918–2011United States ArmyWorld War II
Stefan Heym1913–2001United States ArmyWorld War II
Creighton Abrams1914–1974United States ArmyVietnam War
Edward Brooke1919–2015World War II
Timothy Kopra1963
Anne McClain1979
Maxwell D. Taylor1901–1987United States ArmyVietnam War
James Arness1923–2011United States ArmyWorld War II
Joseph Stilwell1883–1946United States ArmyWorld War I
Jimmy Doolittle ★ MoH1896–1993United States Air ForceWorld War I
Dan Caine1968United States Air Force
Hugh Thompson Jr.1943–2006United States NavyVietnam War
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.1902–1985United States ArmyVietnam War
Lauri Törni1919–1965Finnish ArmyVietnam War
Cyril M. Kornbluth1923–1958United States ArmyWorld War II
Mark A. Milley1958United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Mike Waltz1974United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Martin Dempsey1952United States ArmyGulf War
John Profumo1915–2006British ArmyWorld War II
Ryan Zinke1961United States NavyIraq War
Oliver North1943United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Gray Davis1942
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990United States Army
Joseph Glasco1925–1996World War II
Luigi Longo1900–1980International BrigadesSpanish Civil War
Joseph Lawton Collins1896–1987United States ArmyWorld War I
Stanley A. McChrystal1954United States ArmyGulf War
Matthew Ridgway1895–1993United States ArmyKorean War
Courtney Hodges1887–1966United States ArmyWorld War I
Christopher Cassidy1970United States Navy
James C. Adamson1946Vietnam War
Walter Bedell Smith1895–1961United States ArmyWorld War I
James M. Gavin1907–1990United States ArmyWorld War II
H. R. McMaster1962United States ArmyGulf War
Hal Moore1922–2017United States CavalryKorean War
Michael Hayden1945United States Air ForceWar on Terrorism
Eric Ken Shinseki1942United States ArmyVietnam War
Jonny Kim1984United States Navy Reserve
Tom Ridge1945United States ArmyVietnam War
Tommy Franks1945United States ArmyCold War
Lucius D. Clay1897–1978United States ArmyWorld War II
Dan Crenshaw1984War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Carl Andrew Spaatz1891–1974United States Air ForceWorld War I
Otto Ruge1882–1961Norwegian ArmyWorld War II
Joe E. Brown1891–1973
Francisco Rubio1975United States Army
John Shalikashvili1936–2011United States ArmyVietnam War
James Stockdale ★ MoH1923–2005United States NavyVietnam War
J. D. Tippit1924–1963United States ArmyWorld War II
Clifton James1920–2017United States ArmyWorld War II
Bob Kerrey ★ MoH1943United States NavyVietnam War
Jessica Lynch1983United States Army
Duncan L. Hunter1948United States ArmyVietnam War
Ron Kovic1946United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Charles Cooper II1967United States NavyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Charles B. Rangel1930–2025United States ArmyKorean War
Thomas J. Hudner ★ MoH1924–2017United States NavyKorean War
Jacob L. Devers1887–1979United States ArmyWorld War II
Enrico Mattei1906–1962
James R. Clapper1941United States Air ForceVietnam War
James L. Jones1943United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Peter Pace1945United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Andy Rooney1919–2011United States ArmyWorld War II
Joseph Medicine Crow1913–2016United States ArmyWorld War II
John Abizaid1951United States ArmyGulf War
William Hopper1915–1970United States NavyWorld War II
Robert L. Stewart1942United States ArmyVietnam War
George Gerbner1919–2005
David H. McCormick1965United States ArmyGulf War
Anthony McAuliffe1898–1975United States ArmyWorld War II
Fritz Hollings1922–2019United States ArmyWorld War II
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV ★ MoH1883–1953United States ArmyWorld War II
Chesty Puller1898–1971United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen1890–1965Royal Norwegian Navy Air ServiceWorld War II
Elmo Zumwalt1920–2000United States NavyVietnam War
Sherwood C. Spring1944Vietnam War
Jeremiah Denton1924–2014United States NavyVietnam War
Tony Hillerman1925–2008United States ArmyWorld War II
Raymond T. Odierno1954–2021United States ArmyGulf War
Ronald Speirs1920–2007United States ArmyKorean War
Jack Reacher1960Military Police Corps
William Stevenson1900–1985
John Murtha1932–2010United States Marine Corps Reserve
Andrew R. Morgan1976
Seth Moulton1978United States Marine Corps
Eric Greitens1974United States NavyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Allen West1961United States ArmyGulf War
William H. McRaven1955United States NavyGulf War
Terry Sanford1917–1998World War II
William Guarnere1923–2014United States ArmyWorld War II
Dale Dye1944United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Richard Overton1906–2018United States ArmyWorld War II
Richard Marcinko1940–2021United States NavyVietnam War
Sam Johnson1930–2020United States Air ForceVietnam War
John Sherman Cooper1901–1991armyWorld War II
Lewis Hyde Brereton1890–1967United States ArmyWorld War I
Douglas Wilder1931Korean War
Vasily Margelov1908–1990Soviet Airborne ForcesWinter War
Walton H. Walker1889–1950United States ArmyKorean War
James A. Van Fleet1892–1992United States ArmyKorean War
Winthrop Rockefeller1912–1973World War II
Byron White1917–2002United States NavyWorld War II
Paul Douglas1892–1976United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Jeffrey Lynn1909–1995World War II
Chuck Robb1939United States Marine Corps
James D. Watkins1927–2012United States Navy
John S. McCain, Jr.1911–1981United States NavyVietnam War
Frederick C. Weyand1916–2010United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert L. Eichelberger1886–1961United States ArmyWorld War I
Hoyt Vandenberg1899–1954United States Air ForceWorld War II
Alain Bosquet1919–1998World War II
Bill Bowerman1911–1999World War II
Clay Shaw1913–1974World War II
Michael Strank1919–1945United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Prince Aly Khan1911–1960British ArmyWorld War II
Frederick W. Smith1944–2025United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Mel Pender1937
René Bondoux1905–2001
Mark Green1964United States Army
Max Cleland1942–2021United States ArmyVietnam War
Edwin Walker1909–1993United States ArmyCold War
Harry Bluett Liversedge1894–1951United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
George Halas1895–1983United States NavyWorld War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.1914–1988navyWorld War II
Carl Albert1908–2000United States ArmyWorld War II
Salvatore Giunta ★ MoH1985United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Michael A. Monsoor ★ MoH1981–2006United States NavyIraq War
Dennis Wheatley1897–1977British ArmyWorld War I
Edwin Neal1945
Michael Durant1961United States Army
Louis Hayward1909–1985United States Marine Corps
Yusef Komunyakaa1947
Lori Robinson1959United States Air Force
Tim Sheehy1985United States Navy
Brian Mast1980United States Army
Homer Hickam1943United States ArmyVietnam War
Robert C. Springer1942United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Michael Higgins1920–2008United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert James O'Neill1976United States NavySecond Liberian Civil War
Christopher T. Donahue1969United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Martin Herem1973Estonian Land ForcesIraq War
Lewis F. Powell Jr.1907–1998World War II
Curtis Scaparrotti1956United States ArmyIraq War
Keith B. Alexander1951United States ArmyGulf War
Tim Kennedy1979United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Bill Graham1931–1991United States ArmyKorean War
Emil Kapaun ★ MoH1916–1951United States ArmyKorean War
Robert Michael White1924–2010United States Air ForceKorean War
Nathan Farragut Twining1897–1982United States Air ForceWorld War I
J. Caleb Boogs1909–1993World War II
Daniel Brewster1923–2007United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Leonard Matlovich1943–1988United States Air ForceVietnam War
Warren Bennis1925–2014
Stansfield Turner1923–2018United States Navy
Marcus Luttrell1975United States Navy
Jim Nicholson1938Vietnam War
Leonard Boswell1934–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Arch A. Moore1923–2015World War II
Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr.1910–1991United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Richard Mayo1902–1996United States ArmyWorld War II
Tony Radakin1965Royal NavyIraq War
Clarence R. Huebner1888–1972United States ArmyWorld War I
Carwood Lipton1920–2001United States ArmyWorld War II
Gabby Gabreski1919–2002United States Air ForceWorld War II
Hugh Shelton1942United States ArmyGulf War
Peter Schoomaker1946United States ArmyGulf War
William F. Dean ★ MoH1899–1981United States ArmyKorean War
Gil Hodges1924–1972United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Otto Kerner, Jr.1908–1976United States ArmyWorld War II
Harvey Ball1921–2001World War II
Bert T. Combs1911–1991United States ArmyWorld War II
Paul Fussell1924–2012World War II
Robert Sink1905–1965United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert McFarlane1937–2022United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
John Melcher1924–2018
Eddie Crook1929–2005United States Army
Paul Cook1943United States Marine Corps
Robert Carmody1938–1967United States Army
Scott Perry1962Pennsylvania Army National Guard
Roberto Vannacci1968
James C. Marshall1897–1977United States ArmyWorld War I
Karl Marlantes1944United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Anthony Zinni1943United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
John A. Wickham1928–2024United States ArmyVietnam War
Lewis Nixon III1918–1995United States ArmyWorld War II
Philip Hart1912–1976World War II
Fred Apostoli1913–1973World War II
Joseph W. Barr1918–1996World War II
Leonard T. Gerow1888–1972United States ArmyWorld War II
Ib Melchior1917–2015World War II
Bantz J. Craddock1949United States ArmyGulf War
Charles Alvin Beckwith1929–1994United States ArmyKorean War
Oliver P. Smith1893–1977United States Marine CorpsBanana Wars
Norman Cota1893–1971United States ArmyWorld War I
Robert Ward1917–2013United States ArmyWorld War II
Steve Stivers1965Ohio Army National Guard
Bradford Parkinson1935United States Air Force
Anthony G. Brown1961United States Army Reserve
Harry B. Harris Jr.1956United States Navy
Patrick Murphy1973United States Army Reserve
Rick Rescorla1939–2001British Army
John Walsh1960Montana National Guard
William B. Taylor Jr.1947United States Army
Chris Gibson1964New York Army National Guard
Paul M. Nakasone1963United States Army
Gordon R. Sullivan1937–2024Cold War
Bud Anderson1922–2024United States Air ForceVietnam War
James Peake1944United States ArmyVietnam War
George Scratchley Brown1918–1978United States Air ForceVietnam War
George Stephen Morrison1919–2008United States NavyVietnam War
John McKeithen1918–1999World War II
Charles Marquis Warren1912–1990World War II
Leo Kunnas1967Estonian Land ForcesIraq War
Carter Ham1952United States ArmyGulf War
Edward Almond1892–1979United States ArmyKorean War
Sam Gibbons1920–2012United States ArmyWorld War II
William Kunstler1919–1995World War II
Herbert Sobel1912–1987World War II
Harold J. Berman1918–2007World War II
Paul Mellon1907–1999United States ArmyWorld War II
William F. Garrison1944United States ArmyVietnam War
Melissa Stockwell1980
Woody Bledsoe1921–1995
Chris Beck1966
Steve Russell1963United States Army
Bruce Palmer Jr.1913–2000United States ArmyWorld War II
William J. Crowe1925–2007United States NavyVietnam War
David C. Jones1921–2013United States Air ForceVietnam War
Paul D. Harkins1904–1984United States ArmyVietnam War
James L. Holloway III1922–2019United States NavyVietnam War
Bernard W. Rogers1921–2008United States ArmyVietnam War
Paul LaCamera1963United States ArmyIraqi Civil War of 2014–2017
Richard Ojeda1970United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Jason Crow1979United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Stanley Rogers Resor1917–2012World War II
Douglas Macgregor1947Gulf War
Emilio Daddario1918–2010World War II
Donald Malarkey1921–2017United States ArmyWorld War II
Allen Ludden1917–1981World War II
Charles B. McVay III1898–1968United States NavyWorld War II
Waldemar Levy Cardoso1900–2009World War II
Thomas Gill1922–2009World War II
Philip J. Corso1915–1998United States ArmyWorld War II
Frederick Ashworth1912–2005United States NavyWorld War II
David Brower1912–2000World War II
Robert H. Michel1923–2017United States ArmyWorld War II
David Manker Abshire1926–2014Korean War
Aleksander Einseln1931–2017United States ArmyKorean War
Ben Chapman1928–2008United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Robert Coldwell Wood1923–2005World War II
Charles Edward Bennett1910–2003United States ArmyWorld War II
Charles Willeford1919–1988United States ArmyWorld War II
David Kenyon Webster1922–1961United States ArmyWorld War II
Frank Merrill1903–1955United States ArmyWorld War II
William P. Yarborough1912–2005United States ArmyWorld War II
Eric T. Olson1952United States Navy
C. Walton Lillehei1918–1999
Melvin Kranzberg1917–1995
Bernhard Paus1910–1999Norwegian Army
William Donald Borders1913–2010
William G. Boykin1948United States Army
Gustave Marinius Heiss1904–1982
Hobart R. Gay1894–1983United States ArmyWorld War I
Joseph S. Clark Jr.1901–1990World War II
Leo Sharp1924–2016World War II
Earl Woods1932–2006Vietnam War
William Broyles, Jr.1944United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Ralph Puckett ★ MoH1926–2024United States ArmyKorean War
Bruce Cooper Clarke1901–1988United States ArmyWorld War I
Robert B. Abrams1960United States ArmyGulf War
Earle Wheeler1908–1975United States ArmyWorld War II
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.1877–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Perkins Bass1912–2011World War II
William Boddington1910–1996World War II
Edward C. Meyer1928–2020United States ArmyKorean War
William Fechteler1896–1967United States NavyWorld War I
Edward Heffron1923–2013United States ArmyWorld War II
Will Rogers, Jr.1911–1993United States ArmyWorld War II
William L. Hungate1922–2007United States ArmyWorld War II
Alfred M. Gray Jr.1928–2024United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Joseph Votel1958United States ArmyIraq War
Paul Ray Smith ★ MoH1969–2003United States ArmyGulf War
Ricardo Sanchez1953United States ArmyGulf War
David M. Rodriguez1954United States ArmyGulf War
James F. Amos1946United States Marine CorpsIraq War
Leland Hobbs1892–1966United States ArmyWorld War I
Geoffrey Keyes1888–1967United States ArmyWorld War II
Eugene Roe1922–1998United States ArmyWorld War II
Floyd Haskell1916–1998United States ArmyWorld War II
Thomas J. McIntyre1915–1992World War II
Robert Halperin1908–1985United States NavyWorld War II
Wayne Gilchrest1946United States Marine Corps
Charlie Norwood1941–2007United States Army
Charles Schultze1924–2016United States Army
Robert Adair1924–2020
Jim Marshall1948United States Army
Johnny Marks1909–1985
Barbara Rose Johns1935–1991
Marshall B. Webb1961United States Air Force
Oscar López Rivera1943
John B. Coulter1891–1983World War I
Lewis Millett ★ MoH1920–2009United States ArmyWorld War II
Edward H. Brooks1893–1978United States ArmyWorld War I
Forrest Silas Petersen1922–1990United States NavyWorld War II
Harold Keith Johnson1912–1983United States ArmyWorld War II
George Decker1902–1980United States ArmyWorld War II
Richard E. Cole1915–2019United States Air ForceWorld War II
Charles McGee1919–2022United States Air ForceWorld War II
Theo Marcuse1920–1967United States NavyWorld War II
William J. Fallon1944United States NavyVietnam War
Paul X. Kelley1928–2019United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
John Galvin1929–2015United States ArmyVietnam War
Jack Keane1943United States ArmyVietnam War
Joseph L. Galloway1941–2021Vietnam War
Bruce Perry Crandall ★ MoH1933–2026United States ArmyVietnam War
John William Vessey1922–2016United States ArmyVietnam War
William Orlando Darby1911–1945United States ArmyWorld War II
James Earl Rudder1910–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Edward L. Beach, Jr.1918–2002United States NavyWorld War II
Cory Mills1980United States ArmyIraq War
Austin S. Miller1961United States ArmyGulf War
Gregory D. Gadson1966Gulf War
Raymond A. Thomas1958United States ArmyIraq War
Robert T. Frederick1907–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Thomas S. Power1905–1970United States Air ForceWorld War II
Arthur Trudeau1902–1991United States ArmyWorld War II
Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr.1896–1990United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
Maurice Rose1899–1945United States ArmyWorld War I
Frank W. Milburn1892–1962United States ArmyWorld War I
Daniel T. McCarty1912–1953World War II
Mike O'Callaghan1929–2004Korean War
Janis Karpinski1953United States ArmyGulf War
Raymond P. Shafer1917–2006United States NavyWorld War II
John Steele1912–1969United States ArmyWorld War II
Dominick Dunne1925–2009World War II
Jon Burge1947–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Jack H. Jacobs ★ MoH1945United States ArmyVietnam War
Dennis Reimer1939United States ArmyVietnam War
Carl E. Vuono1934United States ArmyVietnam War
Silvia Monfort1923–1991
Robert Harward1956United States Navy
Matt Van Epps1983Tennessee Army National Guard
Franklin C. Sibert1891–1980United States ArmyWorld War I
William C. Chase1895–1986United States ArmyWorld War I
Elizabeth P. Hoisington1918–2007United States ArmyWorld War II
Bud Day ★ MoH1925–2013United States Air ForceWorld War II
George W. Casey, Sr.1922–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Harry Schmidt1886–1968United States Marine CorpsWorld War II