Service

Notable recipients of the Distinguished Service Medals

Exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility.

400 notable recipients

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

Name	Life	Branch	War
Winston Churchill	1874–1965	British Army	World War I
Dwight D. Eisenhower	1890–1969	United States Army	World War I
Chiang Kai-shek	1887–1975	Imperial Japanese Army	Chinese Civil War
Douglas MacArthur ★ MoH	1880–1964	Philippine Army	World War I
George Marshall	1880–1959	United States Army	World War I
Philippe Pétain	1856–1951	French Armed Forces	World War I
James Stewart	1908–1997	United States Army Air Corps	World War II
George S. Patton	1885–1945	United States Cavalry	World War I
Colin Powell	1937–2021	United States Army	Vietnam War
Bernard Montgomery	1887–1976	British Army	World War I
Frank Capra	1897–1991	United States Army	World War I
Ferdinand Foch	1851–1929	French Army	World War I
Chester W. Nimitz	1885–1966	United States Navy	World War I
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma	1900–1979	Royal Navy	World War I
Joseph Joffre	1852–1931	French Army	World War I
Omar Bradley	1893–1981	United States Army	World War I
Lloyd J. Austin III	1953	United States Army	Syrian Civil War
John J. Pershing	1860–1948	United States Army	World War I
Jim Mattis	1950	United States Marine Corps	Gulf War
David Petraeus	1952	United States Army	War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig	1861–1928	British Army	World War I
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.	1934–2012	United States Army	Vietnam War
Alexander Pokryshkin	1913–1985	Soviet Air Forces	World War II
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis	1891–1969	British Army	World War I
Armando Diaz	1861–1928	Royal Italian Army	World War I
William Westmoreland	1914–2005	United States Army	World War II
Robert Nivelle	1856–1924	French Army	World War I
Maxime Weygand	1867–1965	French Army	World War I
Leslie Groves	1896–1970	military engineering	World War I
Mark W. Clark	1896–1984	United States Army	World War I
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny	1889–1952	army	World War I
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby	1861–1936	British Army	World War I
Henry H. Arnold	1886–1950	aviation	World War I
William Halsey Jr.	1882–1959	United States Navy	World War I
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope	1883–1963	Royal Navy	World War I
Curtis LeMay	1906–1990	Ohio National Guard	World War II
Edward Brooke	1919–2015		World War II
Creighton Abrams	1914–1974	United States Army	World War II
Smedley Butler ★ MoH	1881–1940	United States Marine Corps	World War I
Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder	1890–1967	British Army	World War I
James Forrestal	1892–1949	United States Navy Reserve	World War I
Mark A. Milley	1958	United States Army	War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Živojin Mišić	1855–1921	Serbian Army	World War I
Martin Dempsey	1952	United States Army	Gulf War
Claire Lee Chennault	1893–1958	aviation	World War I
Leonard Wood ★ MoH	1860–1927	United States Army	World War I
Courtney Hodges	1887–1966	United States Army	World War I
Joseph Lawton Collins	1896–1987	United States Army	World War I
Matthew Ridgway	1895–1993	United States Army	World War II
Stanley A. McChrystal	1954	United States Army	War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
H. R. McMaster	1962	United States Army	Iraq War
John Monash	1865–1931	Australian Army	World War I
Alphonse Juin	1888–1967	infantry	World War I
Lucius D. Clay	1897–1978	United States Army	World War II
Tommy Franks	1945	United States Army	Cold War
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.	1955	United States Marine Corps	War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Charles Mangin	1866–1925	French Armed Forces	World War I
Henri Mathias Berthelot	1861–1931	infantry	World War I
John Shalikashvili	1936–2011	United States Army	Vietnam War
Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford	1893–1971	Royal Air Force	World War I
William Crawford Gorgas	1854–1920	United States Army	World War I
Jacob L. Devers	1887–1979	United States Army	World War II
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape	1888–1981	Royal Navy	World War II
George W. Casey, Jr.	1948	United States Army	Iraq War
Oveta Culp Hobby	1905–1995	United States Army
Harold Rainsford Stark	1880–1972	United States Navy	World War I
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy	1862–1935	British Army	World War I
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet	1864–1922	British Army	World War I
Peter Pace	1945	United States Marine Corps	Vietnam War
John Abizaid	1951	United States Army	Gulf War
Anthony McAuliffe	1898–1975	United States Army	World War II
Walter Krueger	1881–1967	United States Army	World War II
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV ★ MoH	1883–1953	United States Army	World War II
John Dill	1881–1944	British Army	World War I
Henri Gouraud	1867–1946	French Army	World War I
Robert Abercrombie Lovett	1895–1986	United States Navy	World War I
Raymond T. Odierno	1954–2021	United States Army	Gulf War
William H. Simpson	1888–1980	United States Army	World War I
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard	1873–1956	British Army	World War I
Boris Pash	1900–1995	United States Army	World War II
Newton Diehl Baker Jr.	1871–1937
Alexander M. Patch	1889–1945	United States Army	World War I
Émile Fayolle	1852–1928	French Army	World War I
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer	1857–1932	British Army	World War I
Édouard de Castelnau	1851–1944	infantry	World War I
Ann E. Dunwoody	1953	United States Army	Gulf War
Robert R. Gilruth	1913–2000
Arthur Currie	1875–1933	infantry	World War I
Frederick C. Weyand	1916–2010	United States Army	World War II
Kenneth Nichols	1907–2000	United States Army	World War II
Walter Short	1880–1949	United States Army	World War II
Aloys Van de Vyvere	1871–1961
Adolphe Guillaumat	1863–1940	French Army	World War I
Telford Taylor	1908–1998	United States Army	World War II
Lloyd Fredendall	1883–1963	United States Army	World War II
John Taliaferro Thompson	1860–1940	United States Army	World War I
Aleksey Botyan	1917–2020	KGB	Cold War
Tasker H. Bliss	1853–1930	United States Army	World War I
Jean-Marie Degoutte	1866–1938	French Army	World War I
William Robertson	1860–1933	British Army	World War I
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson	1864–1925	British Army	World War I
Robert Michael White	1924–2010	United States Air Force	Korean War
Curtis Scaparrotti	1956	United States Army	Iraq War
Adna R. Chaffee Jr.	1884–1941	United States Army	World War I
Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan	1865–1946	British Army	World War I
Bernt Balchen	1899–1973	United States Air Force	World War II
William F. Dean ★ MoH	1899–1981	United States Army	World War II
Philip Vian	1894–1968	Royal Navy	World War II
Robert L. Ghormley	1883–1958	United States Navy	World War II
Hugh Shelton	1942	United States Army	Vietnam War
Peter Schoomaker	1946	United States Army	Gulf War
James C. McConville	1959	United States Army
Daniel J. Callaghan ★ MoH	1890–1942	United States Navy	World War I
Anna Mae Hays	1920–2018	United States Army	World War II
Oliver P. Smith	1893–1977	United States Marine Corps	World War II
Paul M. Nakasone	1963	United States Army
Troy H. Middleton	1889–1976	United States Army	World War I
Albert d'Amade	1856–1941		World War I
Arthur Coningham	1895–1948	Royal Air Force	World War I
William H. Rupertus	1889–1945	United States Marine Corps	World War II
Frank Maxwell Andrews	1884–1943	United States Army	World War II
William S. Benson	1855–1932	United States Navy	World War I
Carter Ham	1952	United States Army	Gulf War
William Boog Leishman	1865–1926	British Army
Louis de Maud'huy	1857–1921		World War I
Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze	1860–1955	French Navy	World War I
Thomas T. Handy	1892–1982	United States Army	World War I
Paul Maistre	1858–1922	French Army	World War I
Bonner Fellers	1896–1973	United States Army	World War I
John Archer Lejeune	1867–1942	United States Marine Corps	World War I
Hugh L. Scott	1853–1934	United States Army	World War I
Malin Craig	1875–1945	United States Army	World War I
David C. Jones	1921–2013	United States Air Force	World War II
Paul D. Harkins	1904–1984	United States Army	World War II
Joseph T. McNarney	1893–1972	United States Air Force	World War II
Robert Cutler	1895–1974		World War I
William J. Crowe	1925–2007	United States Navy	Vietnam War
William G. Boykin	1948	United States Army
William C. Lee	1895–1948	United States Army	World War I
Millard Harmon	1888–1945	United States Army Air Forces	World War I
William Fechteler	1896–1967	United States Navy	World War I
Brehon B. Somervell	1892–1955	United States Army	World War I
Auguste Edouard Hirschauer	1857–1943		World War I
Thomas D. White	1901–1965	United States Air Force	World War II
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.	1912–2002	United States Air Force	World War II
Earle Wheeler	1908–1975	United States Army	World War II
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.	1877–1970	United States Army	World War II
Cornelius Vanderbilt III	1873–1942		World War I
Joseph Votel	1958	United States Army	Iraq War
Maurice Rose	1899–1945	United States Army	World War I
Augustus Peabody Gardner	1865–1918		World War I
Frank W. Milburn	1892–1962	United States Army	World War I
Mariano Goybet	1861–1943	French Army	World War I
Robert Rutherford McCormick	1880–1955	National Guard of the United States	World War I
William Sidney Graves	1865–1940	United States Army	World War I
Willis Dale Crittenberger	1890–1980	United States Army	World War I
William V. Pratt	1869–1957	United States Navy	World War I
John William Vessey	1922–2016	United States Army	World War II
Alfred Gruenther	1899–1983	United States Army	World War II
Jean de Laborde	1878–1977	French Navy	World War II
John L. DeWitt	1880–1962	United States Army	World War II
Franklin Matthias	1908–1993	United States Army	World War II
Carl E. Vuono	1934	United States Army	Vietnam War
Paul X. Kelley	1928–2019	United States Marine Corps	Vietnam War
Harry Augustus Garfield	1863–1942		World War I
Jean Jules Henri Mordacq	1868–1943		World War I
J. Franklin Bell ★ MoH	1856–1919	United States Army	World War I
Franklin C. Sibert	1891–1980	United States Army	World War I
Claud Jacob	1863–1948	British Army	World War I
Charles P. Hall	1886–1953	United States Army	World War I
Robert Lee Bullard	1861–1947	United States Army	World War I
Wendell Cushing Neville ★ MoH	1870–1930	United States Marine Corps	World War I
Oscar Griswold	1886–1959	United States Army	World War I
Edward P. King	1884–1958	United States Army	World War II
William S. Knudsen	1879–1948		World War II
John A. Samford	1905–1968	United States Air Force	World War II
Elizabeth P. Hoisington	1918–2007	United States Army	World War II
Henry Tureman Allen	1859–1930	United States Army	World War I
Gary Roughead	1951	United States Navy	Vietnam War
Bryan D. Brown	1948	United States Army	Vietnam War
Wayne A. Downing	1940–2007	United States Army	Vietnam War
Ghukas Madoyan	1906–1975	Red Army	Eastern Front
Peter W. Chiarelli	1950	United States Army	Iraq War
William E. Ward	1949	United States Army
Antonio Taguba	1950	United States Army
Stanley Eric Reinhart	1893–1975	United States Army	World War I
James Harbord	1866–1947	United States Army	World War I
Daniel I. Sultan	1885–1947	United States Army	World War I
Roscoe B. Woodruff	1891–1975	United States Army	World War I
Édouard Rist	1871–1956		World War I
Norman Schwarzkopf	1895–1958	United States Army	World War I
Joseph Theodore Dickman	1857–1927	United States Army	World War I
John P. McConnell	1908–1986	United States Air Force	World War II
Harold Robert Aaron	1921–1980	United States Army	World War II
William Howard Arnold	1901–1976		World War II
John K. Singlaub	1921–2022	United States Army	World War II
Paul Caraway	1905–1985	United States Army	World War II
Donald Prentice Booth	1902–1993	United States Army	World War II
Raymond Albert Wheeler	1885–1974	United States Army	World War II
Robert H. Barrow	1922–2008	United States Marine Corps	World War II
Charles C. Campbell	1948–2016	United States Army	Vietnam War
James J. Lindsay	1932–2023	United States Army	Vietnam War
Joe N. Ballard	1942	United States Army	Vietnam War
Kenneth Preston	1957	United States Army	Gulf War
Gustave F. Perna	1960	United States Army
Arthur L. Conger	1872–1951		World War I
Cyriaque Gillain	1857–1931	Belgian Army	World War I
Harry C. Ingles	1888–1976	United States Army	World War I
George LeRoy Irwin	1868–1931	United States Army	World War I
Henry Pinckney McCain	1861–1941	United States Army	World War I
Edwin Burr Babbitt	1862–1939	United States Army	World War I
Julian Larcombe Schley	1880–1965	United States Army	World War I
Robert Miller Montague	1899–1958	United States Army	World War I
Charles E. Stanton	1858–1933	United States Army	World War I
Lutz Wahl	1869–1928	United States Army	World War I
Robert E. Wood	1879–1969	United States Army	World War I
Wilhelm D. Styer	1893–1975	United States Army	World War I
Ralph Canine	1895–1969	United States Army	World War I
Joseph A. Green	1881–1963	United States Army	World War I
Julian Hatcher	1888–1963	United States Army	World War II
Clarence L. Tinker	1887–1942		World War II
Albert Watson II	1909–1993	United States Army	World War II
Joseph Mauborgne	1881–1971	United States Army	World War I
Robert W. RisCassi	1936	United States Army	Cold War
Gary E. Luck	1937–2024	United States Army	Vietnam War
Carl Stiner	1936–2022	United States Army	Vietnam War
Edward D. Baca	1938–2020	United States Army	Vietnam War
John M. Murray	1960	United States Army	Iraq War
David G. Perkins	1957	United States Army	Iraq War
Samuel Escue Tillman	1847–1942	United States Army
William Murray Black	1855–1933	United States Army	World War I
Harry Hill Bandholtz	1864–1925	United States Army	World War I
Harry Taylor	1862–1930	United States Army	World War I
John Henry Parker	1866–1942	United States Army	World War I
Edwin "Pa" Watson	1883–1945	infantry	World War I
Emory Sherwood Adams	1881–1967	United States Army	World War I
Eugene Reybold	1884–1961	United States Army	World War I
Florence A. Blanchfield	1884–1971		World War I
George Bell	1867–1926	United States Army	World War I
George M. Parker	1889–1968	United States Army	World War I
Mason Mathews Patrick	1863–1942	United States Army	World War I
Benjamin Alvord, Jr.	1860–1927	United States Army	World War I
Charles D. Herron	1877–1977	United States Army	World War I
Peter Charles Harris	1865–1951	United States Army	World War I
Robert Courtney Davis	1876–1944	United States Army	World War I
Stanley H. Ford	1877–1961	United States Army	World War I
Stephen J. Chamberlin	1889–1971	United States Army	World War I
Townsend F. Dodd	1886–1919	United States Army Air Service	World War I
Walter Leo Weible	1896–1980	United States Army	World War I
William Frederick Hase	1874–1935		World War I
Hubert R. Harmon	1892–1957	United States Air Force	World War I
Henry Alby	1858–1935		World War I
Preston Brown	1872–1948	United States Army	World War I
James F. Collins	1905–1989	United States Army	World War II
John K. Cannon	1892–1955	United States Air Force	World War II
William F. McKee	1906–1987	United States Air Force	World War II
Frank S. Besson, Jr.	1910–1985	United States Army	World War II
Frederick J. Clarke	1915–2002	United States Army	World War II
Julia Catherine Stimson	1881–1948		World War II
John R. Deane	1896–1982	United States Army	World War II
Mildred Inez Caroon Bailey	1919–2009	United States Army	World War II
Sherman Miles	1882–1966	United States Army	World War II
Gordon Blake	1910–1997	United States Air Force	World War II
Elliott Cutler	1888–1947	United States Army	World War II
Charles E. Hart	1900–1991	United States Army	World War II
Richard Horner Thompson	1926–2016	United States Army	World War II
Roy E. Lindquist	1907–1986	United States Army	World War II
John Millikin	1888–1970	United States Army	World War II
Albin F. Irzyk	1917–2018	United States Army	World War II
Theodore J. Conway	1909–1990	United States Army	World War II
Walter K. Wilson Jr.	1906–1985		World War II
Frederic E. Davison	1917–1999		World War II
F. Trubee Davison	1896–1974	United States Army	World War I
Henri Claudel	1871–1956	French Colonial Forces	World War I
Alphonse Nudant	1861–1952		World War I
Henry P. Davison	1867–1922		World War I
John A. Hull	1874–1944	United States Army	World War I
Albert Stubblebine	1930–2017	United States Army	Cold War
Willard Warren Scott, Jr.	1926–2009		Cold War
Joseph K. Bratton	1926–2007	United States Army	Vietnam War
Walter L. Reed	1891–1956	United States Army	Spanish–American War
Daniel A. Dailey	1969	United States Army	Gulf War
Gary J. Volesky	1961	United States Army	Gulf War
Patricia Horoho	1960	United States Army
Meriwether Lewis Walker	1869–1947	United States Army
Jay Leland Benedict	1882–1953	United States Army
Samuel D. Rockenbach	1869–1952	United States Army
Paul E. Funk II	1960	United States Army
William C. Mayville Jr.	1955	United States Army
Darryl A. Williams	1961	United States Army
David Hodne	1969	United States Army
Charles R. Hamilton		United States Army
William M. Wright	1863–1943	United States Army	World War I
Henry Braid Wilson	1861–1954	United States Navy	World War I
Harold Ross Harris	1895–1988	United States Army	World War I
Henry Conger Pratt	1882–1966	United States Army	World War I
John F. Williams	1887–1953	United States Army	World War I
George William Goddard	1889–1987	United States Air Force	World War I
Aldebert de Chambrun	1872–1962		World War I
Georges de Bazelaire	1858–1954		World War I
Jean de Bertier de Sauvigny	1877–1926		World War I
Pierre Berdoulat	1861–1930	French Army	World War I
Reba Cameron	1885–1959	United States Army	World War I
George H. Weems	1891–1957	United States Army	World War I
Barton Kyle Yount	1884–1949		World War I
Charles Justin Bailey	1859–1946	United States Army	World War I
Charles Thomas Menoher	1862–1930	United States Army	World War I
Charles Treat	1859–1941	United States Army	World War I
Edgar Thomas Conley	1874–1956		World War I
Edmund B. Gregory	1882–1961	United States Army	World War I
Edmund L. Gruber	1879–1941	United States Army	World War I
Edward McGlachlin, Jr.	1868–1946	United States Army	World War I
Rapp Brush	1889–1958	United States Army	World War I
Robert Emmet Callan	1874–1936	United States Army	World War I
Albert Gleaves	1858–1937	United States Navy	World War I
Albert Jesse Bowley, Sr.	1875–1945	United States Army	World War I
Amos Fries	1873–1963	United States Army	World War I
Russell Burton Reynolds	1894–1970	United States Army	World War I
Samuel Matthews Vauclain	1856–1940		World War I
Sidney Mashbir	1891–1973		World War I
Stanley Dunbar Embick	1877–1957	United States Army	World War I
Thomas H. Green	1889–1971	United States Army	World War I
Thomas W. Herren	1895–1985	United States Army	World War I
Willard Ames Holbrook	1860–1932		World War I
Willard Stewart Paul	1894–1966		World War I
William E. Cole	1874–1953		World War I
William Edward Bergin	1892–1978		World War I
William George Haan	1863–1924	United States Army	World War I
John Loomis Chamberlain	1858–1948	United States Army	World War I
John F. O'Ryan	1874–1961	United States Army	World War I
Harry J. Malony	1889–1971		World War I
Donald W. McGowan	1899–1967	United States Army	World War I
William F. Sharp	1885–1947	United States Army	World War I
John Knowles Herr	1878–1955	United States Army	World War I
John McAuley Palmer	1870–1955	United States Army	World War I
John Taylor Lewis	1894–1983	United States Army	World War I
Leonard Porter Ayres	1879–1946	United States Army	World War I
Harvey Jablonsky	1909–1989	United States Army	World War II
James Dunne O'Connell	1899–1984	United States Army	World War II
John J. Davis	1909–1997	United States Army	World War II
William C. Gribble, Jr.	1917–1979	United States Army	World War II
William F. Cassidy	1908–2002	United States Army	World War II
Floyd Lavinius Parks	1896–1959	United States Army	World War II
George M. Jones	1911–1996	United States Army	World War II
Laurence S. Kuter	1905–1979	United States Air Force	World War II
Leonard D. Heaton	1902–1983	United States Army	World War II
Luther D. Miller	1890–1972	United States Army	World War II
Carter B. Magruder	1900–1988	United States Army	World War II
Edward Thomas Williams	1901–1973	United States Army	World War II
Aubrey Newman	1903–1994	United States Army	World War II
Robert W. Porter Jr.	1908–2000	United States Army	World War II
William S. Stone	1910–1968	United States Air Force	World War II
Williston B. Palmer	1899–1973		World War II
Julius W. Becton, Jr.	1926–2023	United States Army	World War II
Glen W. Martin	1916–1994	United States Air Force	World War II
John F. R. Seitz	1908–1978		World War II
Allen M. Burdett, Jr.	1921–1980	United States Army	World War II
Donald B. Smith	1947	United States Army	Cold War
John Pappageorge	1931–2026	United States Army	Vietnam War
James H. McClintock	1844–1934		Spanish–American War
Walter E. Piatt	1961	United States Army	War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Haydon L. Boatner	1900–1977		Korean War
Charles T. Cleveland	1958	United States Army	Iraq War
Lytle Brown	1872–1951	United States Army	Spanish–American War
Larry D. Wyche	1957	United States Army	War on Terrorism
Burwell B. Bell III	1947	United States Army
Donald M. Campbell, Jr.	2000	United States Army
John Scott Redd	1944	United States Navy
Thomas F. Metz	1948	United States Army
Edgar S. Gorrell	1891–1945
Bennet S. Sacolick		United States Army
John W. Gulick	1874–1939
Donna W. Martin		United States Army
Douglas Sims II	1968	United States Army
William Harding Carter ★ MoH	1851–1925	United States Army	World War I
William Remsburg Grove ★ MoH	1872–1952	United States Army	World War I
William Ruthven Smith	1868–1941	United States Army	World War I
Henry W. Butner	1875–1937	United States Army	World War I
Ira C. Welborn ★ MoH	1874–1956	United States Army	World War I
James Alexander Ulio	1882–1958	United States Army	World War I
Samuel McRoberts	1868–1947		World War I
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Sr.	1865–1925		World War I
Ernest Dichmann Peek	1878–1950	United States Army	World War I
Frank McIntyre	1865–1944	United States Army	World War I
George Sherwin Simonds	1874–1938	United States Army	World War I
George Veazey Strong	1880–1946	United States Army	World War I
George Windle Read	1860–1934	United States Army	World War I
William Voorhees Judson	1865–1923		World War I
Idwal H. Edwards	1895–1981	United States Air Force	World War I
James Woodruff	1877–1969	United States Army	World War I
Charles Symmonds	1866–1941	United States Army	World War I
Don P. Moon	1894–1944	United States Navy	World War I
Edgar Jadwin	1865–1931	United States Army	World War I
Milton Reckord	1879–1975	National Guard of the United States	World War I
Oscar Westover	1883–1938	United States Army	World War I
Philip Hayes	1887–1949	United States Army	World War I
Ralph Van Deman	1865–1952	United States Army	World War I
Raynal Cawthorne Bolling	1877–1918		World War I
Robert Bruce McCoy	1867–1926	United States Army	World War I
Alexander Legge	1866–1933		World War I