Notable V-12 Veterans
- George Allen, football coach, (Alma College & Marquette University)
- Howard Baker, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (University of the South & Tulane University)
- Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame Football star and Heisman Trophy Winner
- John Robert Beyster, founder, SAIC, Foundation for Enterprise Development, and Beyster Institute
- Ray Bishop, Los Angeles Pierce College football coach
- Harry Bonk, played college football as a fullback for the University of Maryland from 1945 to 1948, and Dartmouth College and Bucknell University in 1944
- Frederick C. Branch, first African American United States Marine Corps officer (Purdue University)
- M. Scott Carpenter, Project Mercury astronaut (Colorado College & Saint Mary's College of California).
- Earl H. Carroll, United States federal judge in senior status, for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- Johnny Carson, television personality (Millsaps College)
- Warren Christopher, 63rd U.S. Secretary of State (University of Redlands)
- Louis J. Cioffi, TV Newsman
- Henry S. Coleman (1926–2006), acting dean of Columbia College, Columbia University who was held hostage during the Columbia University protests of 1968.
- Jackie Cooper, actor from Los Angeles, California, attained rank of Captain
- Roger Corman, filmmaker from Los Angeles, California, (Stanford University)
- John Piña Craven, helped pioneer the use of Bayesian search techniques to locate objects lost at sea
- Bill Daley, All-American fullback who played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1940–1942 and the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1943
- Robert V. Daniels, American historian and educator specializing in the history of the Soviet Union
- Alvin Dark, Baseball Player, Manager (LSU & University of Louisiana-Lafayette)
- Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., Senator, Navy Admiral
- Alfred J. Eggers, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), NASA
- Bump Elliott, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, played halfback at Purdue University (1943–1944) and the University of Michigan (1946–1947)
- Daniel J. Evans, Senator, Governor
- Jim Fitzgerald, businessman and philanthropist (University of Notre Dame)
- Aloysius C. Galvin, American Jesuit priest, teacher, administrator
- Warren Giese, South Carolina legislator and football coach
- Bernard M. Gordon, inventor and philanthropist.
- Samuel Gravely, first African-American Admiral (UCLA & Columbia University)
- Wyndol Gray, American professional basketball player in the 1940s
- Peter Hackes, TV Newsman, White House Correspondent
- John Woodland Hastings, leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and is one of the founders of the field of circadian biology
- Wilmot N. Hess, physicist, NASA Apollo moon missions, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane research and oil spill cleanup
- Bruce Hilkene, captain and starting left tackle of the undefeated 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team
- Elroy Hirsch, LA Rams Football Great
- Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Senator (Bates College & Harvard University)
- E. Henry Knoche, deputy director of the CIA, from 1976 to 1977, and acting Director of Central Intelligence in 1977
- Bowie Kuhn, Baseball Commissioner (Franklin & Marshall College & Princeton University)
- Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense
- John Black Lee, architect in New Canaan, Connecticut
- Jack Lemmon, actor (Harvard University)
- Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Senator
- Norman Mead Maxon, Community Developer and Architect for Green Valley Arizona, Streamwood and Trout Valley, Illinois
- James McClure, Senator
- Sam Mele, (right fielder, manager, coach and scout in Major League Baseball, led the Minnesota Twins to their first American League championship in 1965
- Wayne E. Meyer, regarded as the "Father of Aegis" for his service as the Aegis Weapon System Manager, founding project manager of the Aegis Shipbuilding Project Office
- William Middendorf II, Ambassador, Secretary of the Navy
- Frank N. Mitchell, Marine First Lieutenant who posthumously received the United States' highest military decoration – the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the Korean War
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (Tufts University)
- Fred Negus, played college football for University of Wisconsin and University of Michigan and professional in the All-America Football Conference and the National Football League
- Paul Newman, actor, entered the program at Ohio University but had to drop out because of color blindness
- David "Sam" Peckinpah, film director (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)
- John A. Peoples, Jr., College President (1967-1984) Jackson State University (Jackson State University) and (University of Chicago)
- Sidney Phillips, author, physician, US Marine
- William Dale Phillips, chemist, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist, federal science policy advisor and member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Robert C. Pierpoint, TV Newsman, White House Correspondent
- Victor Prather, American flight surgeon famous for taking part in "Project RAM", a government project to develop the space suit
- John Prchlik, NFL Player – Detroit Lions
- Al Rosen, Baseball Player
- Carl T. Rowan, Columnist, TV Personality, Ambassador
- Harold Lyman Ryan, served as a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Idaho.
- Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman killed in Guyana before the Jonestown Massacre (Bates College)
- Kenneth G. Ryder, president of Northeastern University from 1975-1989
- Pierre Salinger, Newsman, Presidential Press Secretary
- Phillip Shriver, historian and college administrator who was president of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from 1965 to 1981
- G. William Skinner, leading American anthropologist and scholar of China
- Eugene Sledge, Author US Marine
- William Styron, novelist and essayist (Duke University)
- Lachlan Maury Vass, petroleum industry executive noted for increasing existing petroleum reserves and off shore exploration
- Robert Lawson Vaught, mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory
- James Logan Waters, founder of Waters Corporation, a publicly traded laboratory analytical instrument and software company
- William Webster, Director, CIA and FBI
- Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker, Columnist
- Roger Williams (pianist), Musician, Entertainer
- William W. Winpisinger, president of the million-member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- Benjamin Drake Wright American psychometrician, largely responsible for the widespread adoption of Georg Rasch's measurement principles and models
- Ernest M Zaiser Jr - General Manager McDonnell Douglas F-4 Technical Services, Representative Director McDonnell Douglas Japan, Vice President Operations McDonnell Douglas F-15 Technical Services {Yale University}.
- Zig Ziglar, author, salesperson, and motivational speaker (University of South Carolina).
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