ACHIEVEMENT

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 2 Scene 5)

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." (St. Paul of Tarsus, II Timothy 4:7)

Most human beings, I think, rarely aspire to greatness. Most of us find dealing with getting through each day difficult enough, and too many of our poor don't manage to do that! Yet those of us who are blessed with the freedom and resources to hope to achieve our own destiny often dream of achieving something special, by which our lives are made meaningful to our society, and become worthy of respect and remembrance. When we add a list of resources to the dream, it becomes a plan.

The goal of that plan is our own individual achievement of greatness!

To know if we are achieving our own goals, it may help to note at what ages others have achieved theirs. For this purpose, I have chosen a metric of two different types of greatness, promotion to four star general or admiral, and reception of the Nobel Prize.

People promoted to four star rank must excel in a great many things. They must be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and honorable, They must do their duty to their country and the often tens of thousands of people they command, often in spite of terrible hardships. The very existence of their society often depends on how they discharge this awesome responsibility. They must be physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight! United States military personnel take a solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, sometimes at the cost of their very lives!

Receipt of one's fourth star is often the pinnacle of success for a military officer. On December 14, 1944, Congress passed Public Law 482, authorizing the temporary establishment of a five-star rank for those officers who exercised authority over others holding four stars: "General of the Army" and, for the U.S. Navy, "Fleet Admiral." None are now living.

The Title of "General of the Armys of the United States" was conferred by Congress upon George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and General John J. Pershing. Admiral George Dewey was designated "Admiral of the Navy," which is considered to be equivalent, and a rank equivalent to or above fleet admiral. The title was abolished in 1917.

Since the end of WWII, the following have been promoted to four stars, with ages at the year of promotion noted:

General of the Army and Air Force Hap Arnold,
the only person in history to hold the U. S. ranks of
General of the Army and General of the Air Force.
He intially had to overcome a fear of flying!

Age of Promotion of Four Star U.S. Generals and Admirals

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE FOUR STAR GENERALS
# Name Date of rank Age at Prom Position Yrs Source of Commission YC Dates Notes
1Henry H. Arnold19 Mar 194357Commanding General, Army Air Forces (CG AAF), 1942 - 1944; Commanding General, Army Air Forces/Commanding General, Twentieth Air Force (CG AAF), 1944 - 1945; Commanding General, Army Air Forces; Commanding General, Continental Air Forces; Commanding General, Twentieth Air Force (CG AAF; CG CAF), 1945; Commanding General, Army Air Forces; Commanding General, Continental Air Forces (CG AAF; CG CAF), 1945 - 1946.31907 (USMA)36(1886 - 1950)Promoted to General of the Army, 21 Dec 1944; to General of the Air Force, 7 May 1949; His career saw the development of the intercontinental bomber, the jet fighter, the extensive use of radar, global airlift and atomic warfare as mainstays of modern air power.
2Joseph T. McNarney7 Mar 194552Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean; Commanding General, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army (DSACMED; CG MTOUSA), 1944 - 1945; Commanding General, U.S. Forces European Theater; Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany (CG USFET; USMILGOV), 1945 - 1947; Senior Member, United Nations Military Staff Committee, 1947; Commanding General, Air Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1947 - 1949; Chairman, Department of Defense Management Committee, 1949 - 1952.71915 (USMA)30(1893 - 1972)
3George C. Kenney9 Mar 194556Commanding General, Allied Air Forces, South West Pacific Area (CG AAFSWPA), 1942 - 1945; Member, Military Staff Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1945 - 1946; Commanding General, Strategic Air Command (CG SAC), 1946 - 1948; Commander, Air University, 1948 - 1951.61917 (cadet)28(1889 - 1977)
4Carl A. Spaatz11 Mar 194554Commanding General, U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe (CG USSAFE), 1944 - 1945; Commanding General, U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (CG USASTAF), 1945; Deputy to the Commanding General, Army Air Forces for Special Organizational Planning, 1945 - 1946; Commanding General, Army Air Forces (CG AAF), 1946 - 1947; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1947 - 1948.31914 (USMA)31(1891 - 1974)
5Hoyt S. Vandenberg1 Oct 194748Commanding General of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England and in France, supporting the Army, from August 1944 until V-E Day; Director of Central Intelligence, 1946 - 1947. Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1947 - 1948; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1948 - 1953.61923 (USMA)24(1899 - 1954)Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast of California is named after him; Nephew of U.S. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg; son married daughter of Air Force four-star general Leon W. Johnson.
6Muir S. Fairchild27 May 194854On May 27, 1948, he became the second vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), with the rank of general. (This made him the only officer in the history of the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of general without having served as a lieutenant general first.), 1948 - 1950.21918 (cadet)30(1894 - 1950On 20 December 1945, Fairchild was named commandant of the Army Air Forces School at Maxwell Field, later Army Air Forces School was renamed Air University on 15 March 1946; Fairchild Hall, the main academic building at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, and the library at the Air University in Alabama, Fairchild Memorial Hall, were named for him. In his home state of Washington, Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane was named for him shortly after his death of a stroke in office.
7Nathan F. Twining10 Oct 195053Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1950 - 1953; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1953 - 1957; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1957 - 1960.101918 (USMA)32(1897 - 1982Brother of Marine Corps four-star general Merrill B. Twining.
8John K. Cannon29 Oct 195153Commanding General, Tactical Air Command (CG TAC), 1951 - 1954.31917 (direct)34(1892 - 1955)
9Benjamin W. Chidlaw29 Oct 195151Commanding General, Air Defense Command (CG ADC), 1951 - 1954; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command; Commanding General, Air Defense Command (CINCONAD; CG ADC), 1954 - 1955.41922 (USMA)29(1900 - 1977)
10Curtis E. LeMay29 Oct 195145Commanding General, Strategic Air Command (CG SAC), 1948 - 1953; Commander, Strategic Air Command (COMSAC), 1953 - 1955; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command (CINCSAC), 1955 - 1957; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1957 - 1961; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1961 - 1965.141929 (cadet)22(1906 - 1990American Independent Party nominee for U.S. Vice president, 1968.
11Lauris Norstad5 Jul 195245Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1951; Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Air Forces in Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; CINCAIRCENT), 1951 - 1953; Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (Air Deputy SHAPE), 1953 - 1956; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1956 - 1962; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR), 1962 - 1963.111930 (USMA)22(1907 - 1988)
12Otto P. Weyland5 Jul 195250Commanding General, Far East Air Forces (CG FEAF), 1951 - 1954; Commanding General, Tactical Air Command (CG TAC), 1954 - 1959.71923 (Texas A&M)29(1902 - 1979)
13Thomas D. White30 Jun 195351Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1953 - 1957; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1957 - 1961.81920 (USMA)33(1902 - 1965)
14Edwin W. Rawlings19 Feb 195450Commanding General, Air Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1951 - 1959.51930 (cadet)24(1904 - 1997)
15Earle E. Partridge19 Feb 195454Commanding General, Far East Air Forces (CG FEAF), 1954 - 1955; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command; Commander, Air Defense Command (CINCONAD; COMADC), 1955 - 1956; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command (CINCONAD), 1956 - 1957; Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD), 1957 - 1959.51924 (USMA)30(1900 - 1990)
16Orval R. Cook1 Apr 195456Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1954 - 1956.21922 (USMA)32(1898 - 1980)
17Laurence S. Kuter29 May 195550Commanding General, Far East Air Forces (CG FEAF), 1955 - 1957; Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1957 - 1959; Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD), 1959 - 1962.71927 (USMA)28(1905 - 1979U.S. Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization, 1946 - 1948.
18Thomas S. Power30 Jun 195752Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command (CINCSAC), 1957 - 1960; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1960 - 1964.71929 (cadet)28(1905 - 1970)
19Frank F. Everest1 Jul 195753Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1957 - 1959; Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1959 - 1961.41928 (USMA)29(1904 - 1983)
20Leon W. Johnson31 Aug 195753U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1956 - 1958; Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (Air Deputy SHAPE), 1958 - 1961; Director, Net Evaluation Subcommittee Staff, National Security Council, 1961 - 1965.81926 (USMA)31(1904 - 1997Awarded Medal of Honor, 1943. Daughter married son of Air Force four-star general Hoyt S. Vandenberg.
21Charles P. Cabell11 Jul 195855Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI), 1953 - 1962.41925 (USMA)33(1903 - 1971)Distant cousin of Navy four-star admiral Richard H. Jackson.
22Samuel E. Anderson10 Mar 195955Commander, Air Materiel Command (COMAMC), 1959 - 1961; Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1961; Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (Air Deputy SHAPE), 1961 - 1963.41928 (USMA)31(1906 - 1982)
23Emmett O'Donnell Jr.31 Jul 195953Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1959 - 1963.41928 (USMA)31(1906 - 1971)
24Frederic H. Smith Jr.1 Aug 195951Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1959 - 1961; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1961 - 1962.31929 (USMA)30(1908 - 1980Son-in-law of Navy five-star admiral Ernest J. King.
25Truman H. Landon28 Jun 196156Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1961 - 1963.21928 (USMA)33(1905 - 1986)
26William F. McKee29 Jun 196155Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1961 - 1962; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1962 - 1964.31929 (USMA)32(1906 - 1987Assistant Administrator for Management and Development, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1964 - 1965; Administrator, Federal Aviation Agency, 1965 - 1968.
27Walter C. Sweeney Jr.30 Jun 196152Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1961 - 1965.41930 (USMA)31(1909 - 1965)
28Bernard A. Schriever1 Jul 196151Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1961 - 1966.51931 (Texas A&M)30(1910 - 2005)
29John K. Gerhart29 Jun 196251Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD), 1962 - 1965.31929 (cadet)33(1907 - 1981)
30Dean C. Strother30 Jun 196254U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1962 - 1965; Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD), 1965 - 1966.41931 (USMA)31(1908 - 2000)
31Mark E. Bradley Jr.1 Jul 196255Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1962 - 1965.31930 (USMA)32(1907 - 1999)
32John P. McConnell1 Oct 196254Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1962 - 1964; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1964 - 1965; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1965 - 1969.71932 (USMA)30(1908 - 1986)
33Robert M. Lee4 Jun 196354Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (Air Deputy SHAPE), 1963 - 1966.31931 (USMA)32(1909 - 2003)
34Jacob E. Smart5 Jun 196354Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1963 - 1964; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1964 - 1966.31931 (USMA)32(1909 - 2006Assistant Administrator for Policy; DoD and Interagency Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1967 - 1973.
35Joe W. Kelly6 Jun 196353Commander, Military Air Transport Service (COMMATS), 1960 - 1964.11932 (USMA)31(1910 - 1979)
36Gabriel P. Disosway1 Aug 196353Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1963 - 1965; Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1965 - 1968.51933 (USMA)30(1910 - 2001)
37Hunter Harris Jr.18 Jul 196455Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1964 - 1967.31932 (USMA)32(1909 - 1987)
38Howell M. Estes II19 Jul 196450Commander, Military Airlift Command (COMAC), 1964 - 1969.51936 (USMA)28(1914 - 2007Father of Air Force four-star general Howell M. Estes III.
39John D. Ryan1 Dec 196449Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1964 - 1967; Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1967 - 1968; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1968 - 1969; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1969 - 1973.91938 (USMA)26(1915 - 1983Father of Air Force four-star general Michael E. Ryan.
40William H. Blanchard19 Feb 196549Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1965 - 1966.11938 (USMA)27(1916 - 1966Died in office.
41Kenneth B. Hobson31 Jul 196557Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1965 - 1967.21932 (USMA)33(1908 - 1979)
42Bruce K. Holloway1 Aug 196553Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1965 - 1966; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1966 - 1968; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1968 - 1972.71937 (USMA)28(1912 - 1999)
43William S. Stone28 Jul 196656Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (Air Deputy SHAPE), 1966 - 1968.21934 (USMA)32(1910 - 1968Died in office. Superintendent, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1959 - 1962.
44Raymond J. Reeves29 Jul 196657Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD), 1966 - 1969.31934 (USMA)32(1909 - 1998)
45James Ferguson30 Jul 196653Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1966 - 1970.41937 (cadet)29(1913 - 2000)
46David A. Burchinal31 Jul 196651Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1966 - 1973.71940 (cadet)26(1915 - 1990)
47Maurice A. Preston1 Aug 196654Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1966 - 1968.21937 (USMA)29(1912 - 1983)
48Joseph J. Nazzaro1 Feb 196754Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1967 - 1968; Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1968 - 1971.41936 (USMA)31(1913 - 1990)
49Thomas P. Gerrity1 Aug 196754Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1967 - 1968.11940 (cadet)27(1913 - 1968Died in office.
50William W. Momyer13 Dec 196751Commander, Seventh Air Force, 1966 - 1968; Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1968 - 1973.61939 (cadet)28(1916 - 2012)
51Jack G. Merrell29 Mar 196853Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1968 - 1972.41939 (USMA)29(1915 - 1993)
52Horace M. Wade31 Jul 196852Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1968 - 1969; Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1969 - 1972; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1972 - 1973.51938 (cadet)30(1916 - 2001)
53George S. Brown1 Aug 196850Commander, Seventh Air Force, 1968 - 1970; Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1970 - 1973; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1973 - 1974; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1974 - 1978.101941 (USMA)27(1918 - 1978)
54Joseph R. Holzapple1 Feb 196955Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1969 - 1971.21941 (cadet)28(1914 - 1973)
55Seth J. McKee30 Jul 196953Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD), 1969 - 1973; Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command; Commander, Aerospace Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD; COMADC), 1973.41939 (cadet)30(1916 - 2016)
56John C. Meyer31 Jul 196950Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1969 - 1972; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1972 - 1974.51940 (cadet)29(1919 - 1975)
57Jack J. Catton1 Aug 196949Commander, Military Airlift Command (COMAC), 1969 - 1972; Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1972 - 1974.51941 (cadet)28(1920 - 1990)
58Lucius D. Clay Jr.1 Sep 197051Commander, Seventh Air Force, 1970 - 1971; Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1971 - 1973; Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command; Commander, Aerospace Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD; COMADC), 1973 - 1975; Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Aerospace Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCONAD; CINCAD), 1975.51942 (USMA)28(1919 - 1994Son of Army four-star general Lucius D. Clay; grandson of U.S. Senator Alexander S. Clay.
59Theodore R. Milton31 Jul 197156U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1971 - 1974.31940 (USMA)31(1915 - 2010)
60John D. Lavelle1 Aug 197155Commander, Seventh Air Force, 1971 - 1972.11940 (cadet)31(1916 - 1979Relieved, 1972.
61David C. Jones1 Sep 197150Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE), 1971 - 1974; Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1974; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1974 - 1978; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1978 - 1982.111943 (cadet)28(1921 - 2013)
62John W. Vogt Jr.7 Apr 197250Commander, Seventh Air Force, 1972 - 1973; Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1973 - 1974; Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1974 - 1975.31942 (cadet)30(1920 - 2010)
63Russell E. Dougherty1 May 197252Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1972 - 1974; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1974 - 1977; Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, 1977.51943 (cadet)29(1920 - 2007Father-in-law of Air Force four-star general Joseph W. Ralston.
*George B. Simler16 Aug 197251(posthumous)01942 (cadet)30(1921 - 1972)
64Paul K. Carlton9 Oct 197251Commander, Military Airlift Command (COMAC), 1972 - 1977; Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (CINCMAC), 1977.51942 (cadet)30(1921 - 2009)
65George J. Eade18 Apr 197352Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1973 - 1975.21942 (cadet)31(1921 - 2018)
66Samuel C. Phillips1 Aug 197352Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1973 - 1975.21942 (ROTC)31(1921 - 1990Director, National Security Agency, 1972 - 1973.
67Richard H. Ellis30 Sep 197354Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1973 - 1975; Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1975 - 1977; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1977 - 1981.81942 (cadet)31(1919 - 1989U.S. Commissioner for the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Standing Consultative Commission, 1982 - 1989.
68Robert J. Dixon1 Oct 197353Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1973 - 1978.51942 (RCAF)31(1920 - 2003)
69Timothy F. O'Keefe8 Oct 197354Commander, Seventh Air Force, 1973 - 1974.11940 (cadet)33(1919 - 1984)
70Louis L. Wilson Jr.1 Jul 197455Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1974 - 1977.31943 (USMA)31(1919 - 2010)
71Louis T. Seith1 Aug 197453Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1974 - 1977.31943 (USMA)31(1921 - 2007)
72William V. McBride1 Sep 197452Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1974 - 1975; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1975 - 1978.41942 (cadet)32(1922 - 2022)
73William J. Evans30 Aug 197551Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1975 - 1977; Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1977 - 1978.31946 (USMA)29(1924 - 2000)
74F. Michael Rogers1 Sep 197554Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1975 - 1978.31943 (cadet)32(1921 - 2014)
75Daniel James Jr.1 Sep 197555Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Aerospace Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCAD), 1975 - 1977; Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, 1977 - 1978.31943 (cadet)32(1920 - 1978First African-American to achieve four-star rank in any service.
76Robert E. Huyser1 Sep 197551Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1975 - 1979; Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (CINCMAC), 1979 - 1981.61944 (cadet)31(1924 - 1997U.S. Special Envoy to Iran, 1979.
77John W. Roberts29 Mar 197756Commander, Air Training Command (COMATC), 1975 - 1979.21944 (cadet)33(1921 - 1999)
78William G. Moore Jr.1 Apr 197757Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (CINCMAC), 1977 - 1979.21941 (cadet)36(1920 - 2012)
79Lew Allen Jr.31 Jul 197752Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1977 - 1978; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1978; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1978 - 1982.51946 (USMA)31(1925 - 2010Director, National Security Agency, 1973 - 1977; Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1982 - 1990.
80James R. Allen1 Aug 197752Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1977 - 1979; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1979 - 1981; Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (CINCMAC), 1981 - 1983.61948 (USMA)29(1925 - 1992Superintendent, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1974 - 1977.
81James E. Hill21 Dec 197756Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command; Commander in Chief, Aerospace Defense Command (CINCNORAD; CINCAD), 1977 - 1979; Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD), 1979.21943 (cadet)34(1921 - 1999)
82Bryce Poe II2 Feb 197854Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1978 - 1981.31946 (USMA)32(1924 - 2000)
83Alton D. Slay1 Apr 197854Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1978 - 1981.31944 (cadet)34(1924 - 2015)
84Wilbur L. Creech1 May 197851Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1978 - 1984.61949 (cadet)29(1927 - 2003)
85James A. Hill10 Jul 197855Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1978 - 1980.21944 (cadet)34(1923 - 2010)
86John W. Pauly1 Aug 197855Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1978 - 1980.21945 (USMA)33(1923 - 2013)
87Bennie L. Davis1 Apr 197951Commander, Air Training Command (COMATC), 1979 - 1981; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1981 - 1985.61950 (USMA)29(1928 - 2012)
88William Y. Smith1 Jul 197954Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1979 - 1981; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1981 - 1983.41948 (USMA)31(1925 - 2016)
89Robert C. Mathis1 Mar 198053Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1980 - 1982.21948 (USMA)32(1927 - 2016)
90Richard L. Lawson1 Jul 198051U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1980 - 1981; Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1981 - 1983; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1983 - 1986.61951 (ARNG)29(1929 - 2020)
91Charles A. Gabriel1 Aug 198052Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1980 - 1982; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1982 - 1986.61950 (USMA)30(1928 - 2003)
92Robert T. Marsh1 Feb 198156Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1981 - 1984.31949 (USMA)32(1925 - 2017)
93Thomas M. Ryan Jr.31 Jul 198153Commander, Air Training Command (COMATC), 1981 - 1983; Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (CINCMAC), 1983 - 1985.41950 (cadet)31(born 1928)
94James P. Mullins1 Aug 198153Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1981 - 1984.31949 (cadet)32(born 1928)
95James V. Hartinger1 Oct 198156Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command (CINCNORAD), 1980 - 1981; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command (CINCNORAD), 1981 - 1982; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; COMAFSPC), 1982 - 1984.31949 (USMA)32(1925 - 2000)
96Jerome F. O'Malley1 Jun 198250Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1982 - 1983; Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1983 - 1984; Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1984 - 1985.31953 (USMA)29(1932 - 1985Died in office.
97Billy M. Minter1 Jul 198256Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1982 - 1984.21949 (cadet)33(1926 - 2005)
98Andrew P. Iosue1 Jul 198356Commander, Air Training Command (COMATC), 1983 - 1986.31951 (AFROTC)32(born 1927)
99James E. Dalton1 Aug 198353Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1983 - 1985.21954 (USMA)29(born 1930)
100Lawrence A. Skantze6 Oct 198355Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1983 - 1984; Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1984 - 1987.41952 (USNA)31(1928 - 2018)
101Larry D. Welch1 Aug 198450Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1984 - 1985; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1985 - 1986; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1986 - 1990.61953 (cadet)31(born 1934President, Institute for Defense Analyses, 1990 - 2003, 2006 - 2009.
102Robert T. Herres1 Aug 198452Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; COMAFSPC), 1984 - 1985; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE; COMAFSPC), 1985 - 1986; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE), 1986 - 1987; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 1987 - 1990.61954 (USNA)30(1932 - 2008)
103Robert W. Bazley1 Nov 198459Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1984 - 1986.21945 (cadet)29(1925 - 2012)
104Charles L. Donnelly Jr.1 Nov 198455Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1984 - 1987.31952 (cadet)32(1929 - 1994)
105Earl T. O'Loughlin1 Nov 198454Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1984 - 1987.31952 (cadet)32(1930 - 2023)
*James H. Doolittle4 Apr 198589(retired)01918 (cadet)67(1896 - 1993Awarded Medal of Honor, 1942; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1989. First Air Force reservist to attain rank of general.
*Ira C. Eaker26 Apr 198589(retired)01917 (direct)68(1896 - 1987Awarded Congressional Gold Medal, 1978.
106Robert D. Russ22 May 198552Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1985 - 1991.61955 (AFROTC)30(1933 - 1997)
107John T. Chain Jr.1 Jul 198551Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1985 - 1986; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1986 - 1991.61956 (AFROTC)29(1934 - 2021U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, 1984 - 1985.
108John L. Piotrowski1 Aug 198551Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1985 - 1987; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE), 1987 - 1990.51954 (cadet)31(born 1934)
109Duane H. Cassidy8 Nov 198552Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (CINCMAC), 1985 - 1987; Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (USCINCTRANS; CINCMAC), 1987 - 1989.41954 (cadet)31(1933 - 2016)
110Robert H. Reed1 Jul 198657Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1986 - 1988.21953 (cadet)33(1929 - 2017)
111Thomas C. Richards1 Dec 198656Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1986 - 1989.31956 (VPI)30(1930 - 2020Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, 1992 - 1993.
112Jack I. Gregory1 Jan 198756Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1986 - 1988.11953 (AFROTC)34(born 1931)
113Monroe W. Hatch Jr.29 Jan 198754Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1987 - 1990.31951 (USNA)36(born 1933)
114William L. Kirk1 May 198755Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1987 - 1989.21954 (cadet)33(1932 - 2017)
115Bernard P. Randolph1 Aug 198754Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1987 - 1990.31956 (cadet)31(1933 - 2021)
116Alfred G. Hansen1 Aug 198754Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1987 - 1989.21955 (cadet)32(born 1933)
117John A. Shaud1 Jul 198855Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1988 - 1991.31956 (USMA)32(born 1933)
118Merrill A. McPeak1 Aug 198852Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1988 - 1990; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1990 - 1994.61957 (AFROTC)31(born 1936Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 2010 - 2018.
119Michael J. Dugan1 May 198952Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1989 - 1990; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1990; Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, 1990 - 1991.21958 (USMA)31(born 1937Relieved as chief of staff, 1990.
120James P. McCarthy1 Oct 198954Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1989 - 1992.31957 (AFROTC)32(born 1935)
121Hansford T. Johnson1 Oct 198953Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command (USCINCTRANS; CINCMAC), 1989 - 1992; Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander, Air Mobility Command (USCINCTRANS; COMAMC), 1992.31959 (USAFA)30(born 1936U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment, 2002 - 2005.
122Charles C. McDonald1 Nov 198956Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC), 1989 - 1992.31956 (AFROTC)33(1933 - 2017)
123Donald J. Kutyna1 Apr 199057Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE), 1990 - 1992; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE; COMAFSPC), 1992.21957 (USMA)33(born 1933)
124Ronald W. Yates1 Apr 199052Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC), 1990 - 1992; Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 1992 - 1995.51960 (USAFA)30(born 1938)
125John M. Loh1 Jun 199052Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1990 - 1991; Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC), 1991 - 1992; Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 1992 - 1995.51960 (USAFA)30(born 1938)
126Robert C. Oaks1 Jul 199054Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAAFCE), 1990 - 1993; Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAIRCENT), 1993 - 1994.41959 (USAFA)31(born 1936)
127George L. Butler25 Jan 199152Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (CINCSAC), 1991 - 1992; Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command (USCINCSTRAT), 1992 - 1994.31961 (USAFA)30(born 1939)
128Jimmie V. Adams13 Feb 199155Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF), 1991 - 1993.21958 (AFROTC)33(born 1936)
129Michael P. C. Carns16 May 199154Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1991 - 1994.31959 (USAFA)32(1937 - 2023)
130James B. Davis24 Jul 199156Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1991 - 1993.21958 (USNA)33(born 1935)
131Chuck A. Horner1 Jul 199256Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE; COMAFSPC), 1992 - 1994.21958 (AFROTC)34(born 1936)
132Ronald R. Fogleman1 Sep 199250Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander, Air Mobility Command (USCINCTRANS; COMAMC), 1992 - 1994; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1994 - 1997.51963 (USAFA)29(born 1942)
133Charles G. Boyd1 Dec 199254Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1992 - 1995.31960 (cadet)32(1938 - 2022)
134Henry Viccellio Jr.1 Dec 199252Commander, Air Training Command (COMATC), 1992 - 1993; Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 1993 - 1995; Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 1995 - 1997.51963 (USAFA)29(born 1940)
135Robert L. Rutherford1 Feb 199355Commander, Pacific Air Forces (COMPACAF), 1993 - 1994; Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander, Air Mobility Command (USCINCTRANS; COMAMC), 1994 - 1996.31961 (AFROTC)32(1938 - 2013)
136Thomas S. Moorman Jr.1 Aug 199454Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1994 - 1997.31962 (AFROTC)32(1940 - 2020)
137James L. Jamerson1 Sep 199453Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAIRCENT), 1994 - 1995; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1995 - 1998.41963 (USAFA)31(born 1941)
138Joseph W. Ashy13 Sep 199454Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE; COMAFSPC), 1994 - 1996.21962 (Texas A&M)32(born 1940)
139John G. Lorber12 Oct 199453Commander, Pacific Air Forces (COMPACAF), 1994 - 1997.31964 (USAFA)30(1941 - 2021)
140Billy J. Boles1 Jul 199557Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 1995 - 1997.21962 (AFROTC)33(1938 - 2021)
141Joseph W. Ralston1 Jul 199552Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 1995 - 1996; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 1996 - 2000; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 2000 - 2003.81965 (AFROTC)30(born 1943U.S. Special Envoy for Countering the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), 2006 - present. Son-in-law of Air Force four-star general Russell E. Dougherty.
142Richard E. Hawley1 Aug 199553Commander in Chief, U.S. Air *orces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAIRCENT), 1995 - 1996; Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 1996 - 1999.41964 (USAFA)31(born 1942)
143Eugene E. Habiger1 Mar 199657Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command (USCINCSTRAT), 1996 - 1998.21963 (OTS)33(1939 - 2022Director of Security and Emergency Operations, U.S. Department of Energy, 1999 - 2001.
144Michael E. Ryan4 Apr 199655Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAIRCENT), 1996 - 1997; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1997 - 2001.51965 (USAFA)31(born 1941Son of Air Force four-star general John D. Ryan.
145Walter Kross1 Aug 199654Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander, Air Mobility Command (USCINCTRANS; COMAMC), 1996 - 1998.21964 (OTS)32(born 1942)
146Howell M. Estes III1 Oct 199655Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE; COMAFSPC), 1996 - 1998.21965 (USAFA)31(1941 - 2024Son of Air Force four-star general Howell M. Estes Jr.
147Lloyd W. Newton1 Apr 199755Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 1997 - 2000.31966 (AFROTC)31(born 1942)
148George T. Babbitt Jr.1 Jun 199755Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 1997 - 2000.31965 (AFROTC)32(born 1942Director, Defense Logistics Agency, 1996 - 1997.
149Ralph E. Eberhart1 Aug 199751Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1997 - 1999; Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 1999 - 2000; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE; COMAFSPC), 2000 - 2002; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Northern Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCNORTH), 2002; Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, U.S. Northern Command (CDRNORAD; CDRUSNORTHCOM), 2002 - 2004.71968 (USAFA)29(born 1946)
150Richard B. Myers1 Sep 199755Commander, Pacific Air Forces (COMPACAF), 1997 - 1998; Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CINCNORAD; USCINCSPACE; COMAFSPC), 1998 - 2000; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2000 - 2001; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 2001 - 2005.81965 (AFROTC)32(born 1942President, Kansas State University, 2016 - 2022. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2005.
151John A. Gordon31 Oct 199751Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI), 1997 - 2000.31968 (AFROTC)29(1946 - 2020U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 1993 - 1994; U.S. Undersecretary of Energy for Nuclear Security, 2000 - 2002; Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, 2002 - 2003; Homeland Security Advisor, 2003 - 2004.
152John P. Jumper17 Nov 199752Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAIRCENT), 1997 - 2000; Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 2000 - 2001; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 2001 - 2005.81966 (VMI)31(born 1945)
153Charles T. Robertson Jr.1 Sep 199852Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander, Air Mobility Command (USCINCTRANS; COMAMC), 1998 - 2001.31968 (USAFA)30(born 1946)
154Patrick K. Gamble1 Oct 199853Commander, Pacific Air Forces (COMPACAF), 1998 - 2001.31967 (Texas A&M)31(born 1945President, University of Alaska System, 2010 - 2015.
*Benjamin O. Davis Jr.9 Dec 199886(retired)01936 (USMA)62(1912 - 2002Director of Aviation Security, 1970 - 1971; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Safety and Consumer Affairs, 1971 - 1975.
155Lester L. Lyles1 Jul 199953Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 1999 - 2000; Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2000 - 2003.41968 (AFROTC)31(born 1946Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 1996 - 1999.
156Gregory S. Martin1 Jun 200052Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Northern Europe (CINCUSAFE; COMAIRNORTH), 2000 - 2002; Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Northern Europe (COMUSAFE; COMAIRNORTH), 2002 - 2003; Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2003 - 2005.51970 (USAFA)30(born 1948)
157John W. Handy1 Jul 200056Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2000 - 2001; Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander, Air Mobility Command (USCINCTRANS; COMAMC), 2001 - 2002; Commander, U.S. Transportation Command; Commander, Air Mobility Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM; COMAMC), 2002 - 2005.51967 (OTS)33(born 1944)
158Hal M. Hornburg1 Aug 200055Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 2000 - 2001; Commander, Air Combat Command; Air Component Commander for U.S. Joint Forces Command (COMACC; AIRUSJFCOM), 2001 - 2002; Commander, Air Combat Command; Air Component Commander for U.S. Joint Forces Command and U.S. Northern Command (COMACC; AIRUSJFCOM-USNORTHCOM), 2002 - 2004.41968 (Texas A&M)32(born 1945)
159Charles R. Holland1 Dec 200054Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command (USCINCSOC), 2000 - 2002; Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2002 - 2003.31968 (USAFA)32(born 1946)
160William J. Begert1 May 200154Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (COMPACAF; AIRCINCUSPACOM), 2001 - 2002; Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSPACOM), 2002 - 2004.31968 (USAFA)33(born 1946)
161Robert H. Foglesong5 Nov 200156Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2001 - 2003; Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Forces Northern Europe (COMUSAFE; COMAIRNORTH), 2003 - 2004; Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (COMUSAFE), 2004 - 2005.41972 (AFROTC)29(born 1945President, Mississippi State University, 2006 - 2008.
162Donald G. Cook17 Dec 200155Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 2001 - 2005.41969 (AFROTC)32(born 1946)
163Lance W. Lord19 Apr 200256Commander, Air Force Space Command (COMAFSPC), 2002 - 2006.41968 (AFROTC)34(born 1946)
164Charles F. Wald1 Jan 200355Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 2002 - 2006.41971 (AFROTC)32(born 1948)
165T. Michael Moseley1 Oct 200354Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2003 - 2005; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 2005 - 2008.51971 (Texas A&M)32(born 1949Resigned, 2008.
166Paul V. Hester1 Aug 200457Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSPACOM), 2004 - 2007.31971 (AFROTC)33(born 1947)
167Michael V. Hayden21 Apr 200560Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI), 2005 - 2006; Director, Central Intelligence Agency (DCIA), 2006 - 2009.41969 (AFROTC)36(born 1945Director, National Security Agency, 1999 - 2005.
168Ronald E. Keys27 May 200560Commander, Air Combat Command; Air Component Commander for U.S. Joint Forces Command and U.S. Northern Command (COMACC; AIRUSJFCOM-USNORTHCOM), 2005 - 2007.21967 (AFROTC)38(born 1945)
169William R. Looney III1 Aug 200556Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 2005 - 2008.31972 (USAFA)33(born 1949)
170Bruce A. Carlson1 Sep 200556Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2005 - 2008.31971 (AFROTC)34(born 1949Director, National Reconnaissance Office, 2009 - 2012.
171Norton A. Schwartz1 Oct 200554Commander, U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), 2005 - 2008; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 2008 - 2012.71973 (USAFA)32(born 1951President, Institute for Defense Analyses, 2020 - present.
172John D. W. Corley1 Nov 200554Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2005 - 2007; Commander, Air Combat Command; Air Component Commander for U.S. Joint Forces Command (COMACC; AIRUSJFCOM), 2007 - 2009.41973 (USAFA)32(born 1951)
173Lance L. Smith7 Nov 200559Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation; Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (SACT; CDRUSJFCOM), 2005 - 2007.21970 (OTS)35(born 1946)
174Duncan J. McNabb1 Dec 200553Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2005 - 2007; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2007 - 2008; Commander, U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), 2008 - 2011.61974 (USAFA)31(born 1952)
175William T. Hobbins1 Feb 200660Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Air Component Command, Ramstein; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAIR-COM Ramstein; DIRJAPCC), 2005 - 2007.11969 (OTS)37(born 1946)
176Kevin P. Chilton26 Jun 200652Commander, Air Force Space Command (COMAFSPC), 2006 - 2007; Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2007 - 2011.51976 (USAFA)30(born 1954First astronaut to attain rank of general.
177Victor E. Renuart Jr.23 Mar 200758Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, U.S. Northern Command (CDRNORAD; CDRUSNORTHCOM), 2007 - 2010.31972 (OTS)35(born 1949)
178Arthur J. Lichte7 Sep 200758Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2007 - 2009.21971 (AFROTC)36(born 1949)
179C. Robert Kehler12 Oct 200755Commander, Air Force Space Command (COMAFSPC), 2007 - 2011; Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2011 - 2013.61975 (AFROTC)32(born 1952)
180Carrol H. Chandler30 Nov 200755Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2007 - 2009; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2009 - 2011.41974 (USAFA)33(born 1952)
181Roger A. Brady9 Jan 200862Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Air Component Command, Ramstein; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAIR-COM Ramstein; DIRJAPCC), 2008 - 2010.21968 (AFROTC)40(born 1946)
182Stephen R. Lorenz2 Jul 200857Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 2008 - 2010.21973 (USAFA)35(born 1951)
183William M. Fraser III9 Oct 200856Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2008 - 2009; Commander, Air Combat Command; Air Component Commander for U.S. Joint Forces Command (COMACC; AIRUSJFCOM), 2009 - 2011; Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 2011; Commander, U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), 2011 - 2014.61974 (Texas A&M)34(born 1952)
184Craig R. McKinley17 Nov 200856Chief, National Guard Bureau (CNGB), 2008 - 2012.41974 (AFROTC)34(born 1952First National Guard officer to achieve the rank of general.
185Donald J. Hoffman21 Nov 200856Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2008 - 2012.41974 (USAFA)34(born 1952)
186Douglas M. Fraser25 Jun 200956Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2009 - 2012.31975 (USAFA)34(born 1953)
187Gary L. North19 Aug 200955Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2009 - 2012.31976 (AFROTC)33(born 1954)
188Raymond E. Johns Jr.20 Nov 200955Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2009 - 2012.31977 (USAFA)32(born 1954)
189Edward A. Rice Jr.17 Nov 201054Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 2010 - 2013.31978 (USAFA)32(born 1956)
190Mark A. Welsh III13 Dec 201057Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, Air Component Command, Ramstein; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAIR-COM Ramstein; DIRJAPCC), 2010 - 2012; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 2012 - 2016.61976 (USAFA)34(born 1953Dean, Bush School of Government and Public Service, 2016 - 2023; President, Texas A&M University, 2023 - present.
191William L. Shelton5 Jan 201157Commander, Air Force Space Command (COMAFSPC), 2011 - 2014.31976 (USAFA)35(born 1954)
192Philip M. Breedlove14 Jan 201156Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2011 - 2012; Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa; Commander, Air Component Command, Ramstein; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAFAFRICA; COMAIR-COM Ramstein; DIRJAPCC), 2012 - 2013; Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Air Command; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAFAFRICA; AIRCOM; DIRJAPCC), 2013; Commander, U.S. European Command; Supreme Allied Commander Europe (CDRUSEUCOM; SACEUR), 2013 - 2016.51977 (AFROTC)34(born 1955)
193Gilmary M. Hostage III13 Sep 201156Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 2011 - 2014.31977 (AFROTC)34(born 1955)
194Janet C. Wolfenbarger5 Jun 201254Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2012 - 2015.31980 (USAFA)32(born 1958First woman to achieve the rank of general in the Air Force.
195Larry O. Spencer27 Jul 201258Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2012 - 2015.31980 (OTS)32(born 1954Served nine years in the enlisted ranks before receiving his commission in 1980.
196Herbert J. Carlisle2 Aug 201255Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2012 - 2014; Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 2014 - 2017.51978 (USAFA)34(born 1957)
197Paul J. Selva29 Nov 201254Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2012 - 2014; Commander, U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), 2014 - 2015; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2015 - 2019.71980 (USAFA)32(born 1958)
198Frank Gorenc2 Aug 201356Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Air Command; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAFAFRICA; AIRCOM; DIRJAPCC), 2013 - 2016.31979 (USAFA)34(born 1957)
199Robin Rand10 Oct 201355Commander, Air Education and Training Command (COMAETC), 2013 - 2015; Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command (COMAFGSC), 2015 - 2017; Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command; Commander, Air Forces Strategic- )Air, U.S. Strategic Command (COMAFGSC; COMAFSTRATAIR), 2017 - 2018.51979 (USAFA)34(born 1958)
200Darren W. McDew5 May 201454Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2014 - 2015; Commander, U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), 2015 - 2018.41982 (VMI)32(born 1960)
201John E. Hyten15 Aug 201455Commander, Air Force Space Command (COMAFSPC), 2014 - 2016; Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2016 - 2019; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2019 - 2021.71981 (AFROTC)33(born 1959)
202Lori J. Robinson16 Oct 201455Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2014 - 2016; Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, U.S. Northern Command (CDRNORAD; CDRUSNORTHCOM), 2016 - 2018.41981 (AFROTC)33(born 1959First woman in any service to lead a unified combatant command.
203Ellen M. Pawlikowski8 Jun 201559Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2015 - 2018.31978 (AFROTC)37(born 1956)
204Carlton D. Everhart II11 Aug 201554Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2015 - 2018.31983 (Virginia Tech)32(born 1961)
205David L. Goldfein17 Aug 201556Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2015 - 2016; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 2016 - 2020.51983 (USAFA)32(born 1959)
206Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy12 Jul 201652Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2016 - 2018; Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, U.S. Northern Command (CDRNORAD; CDRUSNORTHCOM), 2018 - 2020.41986 (USAFA)30(born 1964)
207Stephen W. Wilson22 Jul 201656Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2016 - 2020.41981 (Texas A&M)35(born 1960)
208Joseph L. Lengyel3 Aug 201657Chief, National Guard Bureau (CNGB), 2016 - 2020.41981 (AFROTC)35(born 1959)
209Tod D. Wolters11 Aug 201655Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Air Command; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAFAFRICA; AIRCOM; DIRJAPCC), 2016 - 2019; Commander, U.S. European Command; Supreme Allied Commander Europe (CDRUSEUCOM; SACEUR), 2019 - 2022.61982 (USAFA)34(born c. 1961)
210John W. Raymond25 Oct 201654Commander, Air Force Space Command (COMAFSPC), 2016 - 2017; Commander, Air Force Space Command; Joint Force Space Component Commander (COMAFSPC; JFSCC), 2017 - 2019; Commander, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CDRUSSPACECOM; COMAFSPC), 2019.31984 (AFROTC)32(born 1962)Chief of Space Operations, 2019 - 2022.
211James M. Holmes10 Mar 201760Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 2017 - 2020.31981 (OTS)36(born 1957)
212Charles Q. Brown Jr.26 Jul 201856Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSINDOPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2018 - 2020; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 2020 - 2023; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 2023 - present.61985 (AFROTC)33(born 1962)
213Timothy M. Ray21 Aug 201855Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command; Commander, Air Forces Strategic- )Air, U.S. Strategic Command (COMAFGSC; COMAFSTRATAIR), 2018 - 2021.31985 (USAFA)33(born 1963)
214Maryanne Miller7 Sep 201857Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2018 - 2020.21981 (AFROTC)37(born 1961)First Air Force Reserve officer to achieve the rank of general.
215Jeffrey L. Harrigian1 May 201957Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Air Command; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAFAFRICA; AIRCOM; DIRJAPCC), 2019; Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe - )Air Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Air Command; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAFAFRICA; AIRCOM; DIRJAPCC), 2019 - 2022.31985 (USAFA)34(born c. 1962)
216Arnold W. Bunch Jr.31 May 201957Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2019 - 2022.31984 (USAFA)35(born 1962)
217Kenneth S. Wilsbach8 Jul 202058Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSINDOPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2020 - 2024; Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 2024 - present.41985 (AFROTC)35(born c. 1962)
218Glen D. VanHerck20 Aug 202058Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, U.S. Northern Command (CDRNORAD; CDRUSNORTHCOM), 2020 - 2024.41987 (AFROTC)33(born 1962)
219Jacqueline D. Van Ovost20 Aug 202055Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2020 - 2021; Commander, U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), 2021 - present.41988 (USAFA)32(born 1965)
220Mark D. Kelly28 Aug 202058Commander, Air Combat Command (COMACC), 2020 - 2024.41986 (AFROTC)34(born c. 1962)
221David W. Allvin12 Nov 202057Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2020 - 2023; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 2023 - present.41986 (USAFA)34(born c. 1963)
222Anthony J. Cotton27 Aug 202158Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command; Commander, Air Forces Strategic- )Air, U.S. Strategic Command (COMAFGSC; COMAFSTRATAIR), 2021 - 2022; Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2022 - present.31986 (AFROTC)35(born c. 1963)
223Michael A. Minihan5 Oct 202154Commander, Air Mobility Command (COMAMC), 2021 - present.31989 (AFROTC)32(born c. 1967)
224Duke Z. Richardson13 Jun 202258Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), 2022 - present.21989 (OTS)33(born c. 1964)
225James B. Hecker27 Jun 202254Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe - )Air Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Air Command; Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center (COMUSAFE; COMAFAFRICA; AIRCOM; DIRJAPCC), 2022 - present.21989 (USAFA)33(born c.1968)
226Thomas A. Bussiere7 Dec 202259Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command; Commander, Air Forces Strategic- )Air, U.S. Strategic Command (COMAFGSC; COMAFSTRATAIR), 2022 - present.21985 (Norwich)37(born c. 1963)
227James C. Slife19 Dec 202356Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF), 2023 - present.11989 (AFROTC)34(born c. 1967)
228Timothy D. Haugh2 Feb 202455Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency; Chief, Central Security Service (CDRUSCYBERCOM; DIRNSA; CCSS), 2024 - present.01991 (AFROTC)33(Born 1969
229Gregory M. Guillot5 Feb 202456Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; Commander, U.S. Northern Command (CDRNORAD; CDRUSNORTHCOM), 2024 - present.01989 (USAFA)35(born c. 1968)
230Kevin B. Schneider9 Feb 202457Commander, Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff (COMPACAF; AIRCDRUSINDOPACOM; EXDIRPACOPS), 2024 - present.01988 (USAFA)36(born c. 1967)
 54.12Average age promoted to four stars, Not including retired promotions 

UNITED STATES ARMY FOUR STAR GENERALS PROMOTED AFTER 1945
# Name Date of rank Age at Prom Position Yrs Source of Commission YC Dates Notes
14Walter Krueger5 Mar 194564Commanding General, Sixth Army, 1943 - 1946.1 1901 (direct) 44 (1881 - 1967) 
15Brehon B. Somervell6 Mar 194553Commanding General, Army Service Forces (CG ASF), 1942 - 1946.1 1914 (USMA) 31 (1892 - 1955) 
16Joseph T. McNarney7 Mar 194552Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean; Commanding General, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army (DSACMED; CG MTOUSA), 1944 - 1945; Commanding General, U.S. Forces European Theater; Military Governor, U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany (CG USFET), 1945 - 1947; Senior Member, United Nations Military Staff Committee, 1947; Commanding General, Air Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1947 - 1949; Chairman, Department of Defense Management Committee, 1949 - 1952.7 1915 (USMA) 30 (1893 - 1972) 
17Jacob L. Devers8 Mar 194558Commanding General, Sixth Army Group, 1944 - 1945; Commanding General, Army Ground Forces (CG AGF), 1945 - 1948; Chief, Army Field Forces (CAFF), 1948 - 1949.4 1909 (USMA) 36 (1887 - 1979) Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1960 - 1969.
18George C. Kenney9 Mar 194556Commanding General, Allied Air Forces, South West Pacific Area (CG AAFSWPA), 1942 - 1945; Member, Military Staff Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1945 - 1946; Commanding General, Strategic Air Command (CG SAC), 1946 - 1948; Commander, Air University, 1948 - 1951.6 1917 (cadet) 28 (1889 - 1977) 
19Mark W. Clark10 Mar 194549Commanding General, Fifteenth Army Group, 1944 - 1945; U.S. High Commissioner, Austria; Commanding General, U.S. Forces Austria, 1945 - 1947; Commanding General, Sixth Army, 1947 - 1949; Chief, Army Field Forces (CAFF), 1949 - 1952; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, Far East Command; Military Governor of the Ryukyu Islands (CINCUNC; CINCFE), 1952 - 1953.8 1917 (USMA) 28 (1896 - 1984) President, The Citadel, 1954 - 1966; Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969 - 1984.
20Carl A. Spaatz11 Mar 194554Commanding General, U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe (CG USSAFE), 1945; Commanding General, U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (CG USASTAF), 1945; Deputy to the Commanding General, Army Air Forces for Special Organizational Planning, 1945 - 1946; Commanding General, Army Air Forces (CG AAF), 1946 - 1947; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (CSAF), 1947 - 1948.3 1914 (USMA) 31 (1891 - 1974) 
21Omar N. Bradley12 Mar 194552Commanding General, Twelfth Army Group, 1944 - 1945; Administrator, Veterans Administration, 1945 - 1947; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1948 - 1949; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Chairman, NATO Military Committee (CJCS), 1949 - 1950; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (CJCS; USMILREP), 1950 - 1953.8 1915 (USMA) 30 (1893 - 1981) Promoted to general of the Army, 22 Sep 1950. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1977.
22Thomas T. Handy13 Mar 194553Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (DCSA), 1944 - 1947; Commanding General, Fourth Army, 1947 - 1949; Commander in Chief, European Command (CINCEUR), 1949 - 1952; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1952; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1952 - 1954.9 1916 (VMI) 29 (1892 - 1982) 
23George S. Patton Jr.14 Apr 194553Commanding General, Third Army, 1944 - 1945; Commanding General, Fifteenth Army, 1945.0 1909 (USMA) 36 (1885 - 1945) Died in office. Father-in-law of Army four-star general John K. Waters.
24Courtney H. Hodges15 Apr 194558Commanding General, First Army, 1944 - 1949.4 1909 (direct) 36 (1887 - 1966) 
25Jonathan M. Wainwright IV5 Sep 194562Commanding General, Fourth Army, 1946.1 1906 (USMA) 39 (1883 - 1953) Awarded Medal of Honor, 1945.
26Lucius D. Clay28 Mar 194750Commander in Chief, European Command; Military Governor, U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany (CINCEUR), 1947 - 1949.2 1918 (USMA) 29 (1897 - 1978) Special Representative of the President in Berlin, 1961 - 1962. Son of U.S. Senator Alexander S. Clay; father of Air Force four-star general Lucius D. Clay Jr.
27J. Lawton Collins24 Jan 194850Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1948 - 1949; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1949 - 1953; U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1953 - 1956.8 1917 (USMA) 31 (1896 - 1987) U.S. Special Representative to Vietnam, 1954 - 1955.
28Wade H. Haislip1 Oct 194952Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1949 - 1951.2 1912 (USMA) 37 (1889 - 1971) Governor, U.S. Soldiers' Home, 1951 - 1966.
*Walton H. Walker2 Jan 195162(posthumous)0 1912 (USMA) 39 (1889 - 1950) Died in office. Father of Army four-star general Sam S. Walker.
29Matthew B. Ridgway11 May 195156Supreme Commander, Allied Powers; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, Far East Command; Military Governor of the Ryukyu Islands (SCAP; CINCUNC; CINCFE), 1951; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, Far East Command; Military Governor of the Ryukyu Islands (CINCUNC; CINCFE), 1951 - 1952; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR), 1952; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1952 - 1953; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1953 - 1955.4 1917 (USMA) 34 (1895 - 1993) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1986; Congressional Gold Medal, 1990.
30Walter Bedell Smith1 Jul 195156Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), 1950 - 1953.2 1917 (direct) 34 (1895 - 1961) U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1946 - 1949; U.S. Under Secretary of State, 1953 - 1954.
31John E. Hull30 Jul 195156Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1951 - 1953; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, Far East Command; Military Governor of the Ryukyu Islands (CINCUNC; CINCFE), 1953 - 1955.4 1917 (direct) 34 (1895 - 1975) 
32James A. Van Fleet31 Jul 195159Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CG EUSA), 1951 - 1953.2 1915 (USMA) 36 (1892 - 1992) Special Representative of the President in the Far East, 1954.
33Alfred M. Gruenther1 Aug 195152Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1951 - 1953; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1953 - 1956.5 1917 (USMA) 34 (1899 - 1983) President, American Red Cross, 1957 - 1964.
34John R. Hodge5 Jul 195259Chief, Army Field Forces (CAFF), 1952 - 1953.1 1917 (direct) 35 (1893 - 1963) 
35Maxwell D. Taylor23 Jun 195359Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CG EUSA), 1953 - 1954; Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Far East; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CG USAFFE; CG EUSA), 1954 - 1955; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, Far East Command; Military Governor of the Ryukyu Islands (CINCUNC; CINCFE), 1955; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1955 - 1959; Military Representative of the President (MILREP), 1961 - 1962; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1962 - 1964.9 1922 (USMA) 31 (1901 - 1987) Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1945 - 1949; U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1964 - 1965; President, Institute for Defense Analyses, 1966 - 1969.
36Charles L. Bolte30 Jul 195358Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1953; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1953 - 1955.2 1917 (direct) 36 (1895 - 1989) 
37William M. Hoge Jr.23 Oct 195359Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1953 - 1955.2 1916 (USMA) 37 (1894 - 1979) 
*Robert L. Eichelberger19 Jul 195468(retired)0 1909 (USMA) 45 (1886 - 1961) Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1940 - 1942.
*Lucian K. Truscott Jr.19 Jul 195459(retired)0 1917 (direct) 37 (1895 - 1965) 
*Leonard T. Gerow19 Jul 195466(retired)0 1911 (VMI) 43 (1888 - 1972) 
*William H. Simpson19 Jul 195466(retired)0 1909 (USMA) 45 (1888 - 1980) 
*Ben Lear Jr.19 Jul 195475(retired)0 1901 (direct) 53 (1879 - 1966) 
*Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.19 Jul 195468(posthumous)0 1908 (USMA) 46 (1886 - 1945) Killed in action. Son of Kentucky Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
*Alexander M. Patch19 Jul 195465(posthumous)0 1913 (USMA) 41 (1889 - 1945) Died in office.
*Lesley J. McNair19 Jul 195471(posthumous)0 1904 (USMA) 50 (1883 - 1944) Killed in action.
*John L. DeWitt19 Jul 195474(retired)0 1898 (direct) 56 (1880 - 1962) 
*Albert C. Wedemeyer19 Jul 195457(retired)0 1918 (USMA) 36 (1897 - 1989) Special Representative of the President in China and Korea, 1947. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1985.
*Robert C. Richardson Jr.19 Jul 195472(posthumous)0 1904 (USMA) 50 (1882 - 1954) 
38John E. Dahlquist18 Aug 195458Chief, Army Field Forces (CAFF), 1953 - 1955; Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1955 - 1956.2 1917 (direct) 37 (1896 - 1975) 
39Anthony C. McAuliffe1 Mar 195557Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1955 - 1956.1 1918 (USMA) 37 (1898 - 1975) 
40Lyman L. Lemnitzer25 Mar 195556Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Far East; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CG USAFFE; CG EUSA), 1955; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, Far East Command; Military Governor of the Ryukyu Islands (CINCUNC; CINCFE), 1955 - 1957; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1957 - 1959; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1959 - 1960; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1960 - 1962; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (USCINCEUR), 1962 - 1963; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1963 - 1969; Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1969.14 1920 (USMA) 35 (1899 - 1988) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1987.
41Williston B. Palmer1 May 195556Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1955 - 1957; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1957 - 1959; Director of Military Assistance, 1959 - 1962.7 1919 (USMA) 36 (1899 - 1973) Brother of Army four-star general Charles D. Palmer.
42Isaac D. White22 Jun 195554Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Far East; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CG USAFFE; CG EUSA), 1955 - 1957; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1957 - 1961.6 1922 (Norwich) 33 (1901 - 1990) 
43Willard G. Wyman1 Mar 195658Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1956 - 1958.2 1919 (USMA) 37 (1898 - 1969) 
44Cortlandt V. R. Schuyler18 May 195656Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1953 - 1959.3 1922 (USMA) 34 (1900 - 1993) Commissioner, New York State Office of General Services, 1960 - 1971.
45George H. Decker31 May 195654Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1956 - 1957; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1957 - 1959; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1959 - 1960; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1960 - 1962.6 1924 (ROTC) 32 (1902 - 1980) 
46Henry I. Hodes1 Jun 195657Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1956 - 1959.3 1920 (USMA) 36 (1899 - 1962) 
47Bruce C. Clarke1 Aug 195857Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1958 - 1960; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1960 - 1962.4 1925 (USMA) 33 (1901 - 1988) 
48Clyde D. Eddleman1 Apr 195957Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1959 - 1960; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1960 - 1962.3 1924 (USMA) 35 (1902 - 1992) 
49Carter B. Magruder1 Jul 195959Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1959 - 1961.2 1923 (USMA) 36 (1900 - 1988) 
50Charles D. Palmer1 Oct 195957Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1959 - 1962.3 1924 (USMA) 35 (1902 - 1999) Brother of Army four-star general Williston B. Palmer.
51Clark L. Ruffner1 Mar 196057U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1960 - 1962.2 1924 (VMI) 36 (1903 - 1982) 
52James E. Moore21 Apr 196058Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1959 - 1963.3 1924 (USMA) 36 (1902 - 1986) U.S. High Commissioner, Ryukyu Islands, 1955 - 1958.
53Herbert B. Powell1 Oct 196057Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1960 - 1963.3 1926 (ROTC) 34 (1903 - 1998) U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 1963 - 1967.
54James F. Collins1 Apr 196156Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1961 - 1964.3 1927 (USMA) 34 (1905 - 1989) President, American Red Cross, 1964 - 1970.
55Guy S. Meloy Jr.1 Jul 196158Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1961 - 1963.2 1927 (USMA) 34 (1903 - 1964) 
56Paul D. Adams3 Oct 196155Commander in Chief, U.S. Strike Command (USCINCSTRIKE), 1961 - 1963; Commander in Chief, U.S. Strike Command; U.S. Commander in Chief, Middle East, Africa south of the Sahara, and South Asia (USCINCSTRIKE; USCINCMEAFSA), 1963 - 1966.5 1928 (USMA) 33 (1906 - 1987) 
57Paul D. Harkins2 Jan 196258Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (COMUSMACV), 1962 - 1964.2 1929 (USMA) 33 (1904 - 1984) 
58Earle G. Wheeler1 Mar 196254Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1962; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1962 - 1964; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1964 - 1970.8 1932 (USMA) 30 (1908 - 1975) Widow married Army four-star general Frank S. Besson Jr.
59Barksdale Hamlett2 Apr 196254Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1962 - 1964.2 1930 (USMA) 32 (1908 - 1979) President, Norwich University, 1966 - 1972.
60Paul L. Freeman Jr.1 May 196255Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1962 - 1965; Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1965 - 1967.5 1929 (USMA) 33 (1907-1988)  
61Robert J. Wood1 Sep 1962 57Director of Military Assistance, 1962-1965.3 1930 (USMA) 32 (1905-1986) 
62John K. Waters28 Feb 1963 57Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1963-1964; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1964-1966.3 1931 (USMA) 32 (1906-1989) Son-in-law of Army four-star general George S. Patton.
63Andrew P. O'Meara6 Jun 1963 56Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1961-1965; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR/COMCENTAG), 1965-1967.4 1930 (USMA) 33 (1907-2005) 
64Theodore W. Parker1 Jul 1963 54Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE), 1963-1969.6 1931 (USMA) 32 (1909-1994) Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation, 1969-1972.
65Hamilton H. Howze1 Aug 1963 55Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander, U.S. Forces Korea/Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC/COMUSFK/CG EUSA), 1963-1965.2 1930 (USMA) 33 (1908-1998) 
66Hugh P. Harris1 Mar 1964 55Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1964-1965.1 1931 (USMA) 33 (1909-1979) President, The Citadel, 1965-1970.
67Frank S. Besson Jr.27 May 1964 54Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1962-1969; Chairman, Joint Logistics Review Board, 1969-1970.6 1932 (USMA) 32 (1910-1985) Incorporator, National Rail Passenger Corporation, 1970-1971; Member, Board of Directors, AMTRAK, 1971-1974. Married widow of Army four-star general Earle G. Wheeler.
68Harold K. Johnson3 Jul 1964 52Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1964-1968.4 1933 (USMA) 31 (1912-1983) 
69William C. Westmoreland1 Aug 1964 50Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (COMUSMACV), 1964-1965; Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam/Commanding General, U.S. Army Vietnam (COMUSMACV/CG USARV), 1965-1968; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1968-1972.8 1936 (USMA) 28 (1914-2005) Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1960-1963; candidate for Republican Party nomination for Governor of South Carolina, 1974.
70Creighton W. Abrams Jr.4 Sep 1964 50Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1964-1967; Deputy Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (Deputy COMUSMACV), 1967-1968; Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam/Commanding General, U.S. Army Vietnam (COMUSMACV/CG USARV), 1968-1972; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1972-1974.10 1936 (USMA) 28 (1914-1974) Died in office. Father of Army four-star generals John N. Abrams and Robert B. Abrams.
71Robert W. Porter Jr.18 Mar 1965 57Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1965-1969.4 1930 (USMA) 35 (1908-2000) 
72Dwight E. Beach1 Jul 1965 57Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander, U.S. Forces Korea/Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC/COMUSFK/CG EUSA), 1965-1966; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1966-1968.3 1932 (USMA) 33 (1908-2000) 
73Charles H. Bonesteel III1 Sep 1966 57Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander, U.S. Forces Korea/Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC/COMUSFK/CG EUSA), 1966-1969.3 1931 (USMA) 35 (1909-1977) 
74Theodore J. Conway1 Nov 1966 57Commander in Chief, U.S. Strike Command/U.S. Commander in Chief, Middle East, Africa south of the Sahara, and South Asia (USCINCSTRIKE/USCINCMEAFSA), 1966-1969.3 1933 (USMA) 33 (1909-1990) 
75James H. Polk31 May 1967 56Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army/Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR/COMCENTAG), 1967-1971.4 1933 (USMA) 34 (1911-1992) Distant cousin of U.S. President James K. Polk.
76Ralph E. Haines Jr.1 Jun 1967 54Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1967-1968; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1968-1970; Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1970-1973.6 1935 (USMA) 32 (1913-2011) 
77James K. Woolnough1 Jul 1967 57Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1967-1970.3 1932 (USMA) 35 (1910-1996) 
78Andrew J. Goodpaster3 Jul 1968 53Deputy Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (Deputy COMUSMACV), 1968; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe/Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR/USCINCEUR), 1969-1974.6 1939 (USMA) 29 (1915-2005) Staff Secretary/Defense Liaison Officer to the President, 1954-1961; Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1977-1981; President, Institute for Defense Analyses, 1983-1985; Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1985-1990. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1961 and 1984.
79Ben Harrell4 Jul 1968 57Commander, Allied Land Forces South-Eastern Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST), 1968-1971.3 1933 (USMA) 35 (1911-1981) 
80Berton E. Spivy Jr.31 Jul 1968 57U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1968-1971.3 1934 (USMA) 34 (1911-1997) 
81Bruce Palmer Jr.1 Aug 1968 55Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1968-1973; Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1973-1974.6 1936 (USMA) 32 (1913-2000) 
82George R. Mather1 Mar 1969 58Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1969-1971.2 1932 (USMA) 37 (1911-1993) 
83Ferdinand J. Chesarek10 Mar 1969 55Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1969-1970.1 1938 (USMA) 31 (1914-1993) 
84William B. Rosson15 May 1969 51Deputy Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (Deputy COMUSMACV), 1969-1970; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1970-1973; Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1973-1975.6 1940 (ROTC) 29 (1918-2004) 
85John L. Throckmorton1 Aug 1969 56Commander in Chief, U.S. Strike Command/U.S. Commander in Chief, Middle East, Africa south of the Sahara, and South Asia (USCINCSTRIKE/USCINCMEAFSA), 1969-1972; Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1972-1973.4 1935 (USMA) 34 (1913-1986) 
86John H. Michaelis1 Oct 1969 57Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander, U.S. Forces Korea/Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC/COMUSFK/CG EUSA), 1969-1972.3 1936 (USMA) 33 (1912-1985) 
87Lewis B. Hershey23 Dec 1969 76Presidential Advisor on Manpower Mobilization, 1970-1973.4 1913 (ARNG) 56 (1893-1977) Director, Selective Service System, 1941-1970.
88Frederick C. Weyand31 Oct 1970 54Deputy Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (Deputy COMUSMACV), 1970-1972; Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam/Commanding General, U.S. Army Vietnam (COMUSMACV/CG USARV), 1972-1973; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1973; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1973-1974; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1974-1976.6 1938 (ROTC) 32 (1916-2010) 
89Henry A. Miley Jr.1 Nov 1970 55Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1970-1975.5 1940 (USMA) 30 (1915-2010) 
90Frank T. Mildren1 Apr 1971 58Commander, Allied Land Forces South-Eastern Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST), 1971-1973.2 1939 (USMA) 32 (1913-1990) 
91Michael S. Davison26 May 1971 54Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army/Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR/COMCENTAG), 1971-1975.4 1939 (USMA) 32 (1917-2006) Aunt married Navy four-star admiral Arthur W. Radford.
92George V. Underwood Jr.1 Oct 1971 58Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1971-1973.2 1937 (USMA) 34 (1913-1984) 
93Donald V. Bennett1 Sep 1972 57Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander, U.S. Forces Korea/Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC/COMUSFK/CG EUSA), 1972-1973; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific (CINCUSARPAC), 1973-1974.2 1940 (USMA) 32 (1915-2005) Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1966-1969; Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, 1969-1972.
94Alexander M. Haig Jr.4 Jan 1973 49Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1973; White House Chief of Staff, 1973-1974; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe/Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR/USCINCEUR), 1974-1979.5 1947 (USMA) 26 (1924-2010) Deputy National Security Advisor, 1970-1973; U.S. Secretary of State, 1981-1982; candidate for Republican Party nomination for U.S. President, 1988.
95Walter T. Kerwin Jr.1 Feb 1973 56Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1973; Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1973-1974; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1974-1978.5 1939 (USMA) 34 (1917-2008) Married widow of Marine Corps four-star general Keith B. McCutcheon.
96William E. DePuy1 Jul 197354Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1973 - 1977.4 1941 (ROTC) 32 (1919 - 1992) 
97Richard G. Stilwell31 Jul 197356Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1973 - 1976.3 1938 (USMA) 35 (1917 - 1991) U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 1981 - 1985.
98Melvin Zais1 Aug 197357Commander, Allied Land Forces South-Eastern Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST), 1973 - 1976.3 1937 (ROTC) 36 (1916 - 1981) 
99Bernard W. Rogers7 Nov 197453Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1974 - 1976; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1976 - 1979; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1979 - 1987.13 1943 (USMA) 31 (1921 - 2008) 
100John J. Hennessey8 Nov 197453Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1974 - 1979.5 1944 (USMA) 30 (1921 - 2001) 
101John R. Deane Jr.12 Feb 197556Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1975 - 1976; Commanding General, U.S. Army Development and Readiness Command (CG DARCOM), 1976 - 1977.2 1942 (USMA) 33 (1919 - 2013) 
102George S. Blanchard1 Jul 197555Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1975 - 1979.4 1944 (USMA) 31 (1920 - 2006) 
103William A. Knowlton1 Jun 197656Commander, Allied Land Forces South-Eastern Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST), 1976 - 1977; U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1977 - 1980.4 1943 (USMA) 33 (1920 - 2008) Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1970 - 1974. Father-in-law of Army four-star general David H. Petraeus.
104Frederick J. Kroesen Jr.1 Oct 197653Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1976 - 1978; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1978 - 1979; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1979 - 1983.7 1943 (OCS) 33 (1923 - 2020)Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1992.
105John W. Vessey Jr.1 Nov 197654Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1976 - 1978; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1978 - 1979; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1979 - 1982; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1982 - 1985.9 1944 (battlefield) 32 (1922 - 2016)  
106Sam S. Walker197752Commander, Allied Land Forces South-Eastern Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST), 1977 - 1978.1 1946 (USMA) 31 (1925 - 2015) Superintendent, Virginia Military Institute, 1981 - 1988. Son of Army four-star general Walton H. Walker.
107John R. Guthrie1 May 197756Commanding General, U.S. Army Development and Readiness Command (CG DARCOM), 1977 - 1981.4 1942 (ROTC) 35 (1921 - 2009) 
108Donn A. Starry1 Jul 197752Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1977 - 1981; Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1981 - 1983.6 1948 (USMA) 29 (1925 - 2011) 
109Robert M. Shoemaker22 Aug 197854Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1978 - 1982.4 1946 (USMA) 32 (1924 - 2017) 
110Edward C. Meyer22 Jun 197951Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1979 - 1983.4 1951 (USMA) 28 (1928 - 2021) 
111John A. Wickham Jr.10 Jul 197951Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1979 - 1982; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1982 - 1983; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1983 - 1987.8 1950 (USMA) 29 (1928 - 2024) 
112Volney F. Warner1 Aug 197953Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1979 - 1981.2 1950 (USMA) 29 (1926 - 2019) 
113Glenn K. Otis1 Aug 198152Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1981 - 1983; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1983 - 1988.7 1953 (USMA) 28 (1929 - 2013) 
114Donald R. Keith1 Sep 198154Commanding General, U.S. Army Development and Readiness Command (CG DARCOM), 1981 - 1984.3 1949 (USMA) 32 (1927 - 2004) 
115Richard E. Cavazos19 Feb 198253Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1982 - 1984.2 1951 (ROTC) 31 (1929 - 2017) Brother of U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos. First Hispanic to achieve the rank of general in the Army.
116Robert W. Sennewald24 May 198253Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1982 - 1984; Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1984 - 1986.4 1951 (ROTC) 31 (1929 - 2023) 
117Roscoe Robinson Jr.30 Aug 198254U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1982 - 1985.3 1951 (USMA) 31 (1928 - 1993) First African-American to achieve the rank of general in the Army.
118William R. Richardson28 Feb 198354Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1983 - 1986.3 1951 (USMA) 32 (1929 - 2023) 
119Paul F. Gorman25 May 198356Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1983 - 1985.2 1950 (USMA) 33 (1927 - ) 
120Wallace H. Nutting25 May 198355Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1983 - 1985.2 1950 (USMA) 33 (1928 - 2023) 
121Maxwell R. Thurman23 Jun 198352Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1983 - 1987; Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1987 - 1989; Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1989 - 1990.7 1953 (ROTC) 30 (1931 - 1995) 
122William J. Livsey3 May 198453Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1984 - 1987.3 1952 (ROTC) 32 (1931 - 2016) 
123Richard H. Thompson29 Jun 198458Commanding General, U.S. Army Development and Readiness Command (CG DARCOM), 1984; Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1984 - 1987.3 1950 (direct) 34 (1926 - 2016) 
124Robert C. Kingston6 Nov 198456Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (USCINCCENT), 1983 - 1985.1 1949 (OCS) 35 (1928 - 2007) 
125John R. Galvin25 Feb 198556Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1985 - 1987; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1987 - 1992.7 1954 (USMA) 31 (1929 - 2015) U.S. Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1994.
126Fred K. Mahaffey17 Jun 198551Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1985 - 1986.1 1955 (ROTC) 30 (1934 - 1986) Died in office.
127Jack N. Merritt1 Dec 198555U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1985 - 1987.2 1953 (OCS) 32 (1930 - 2018) 
128Carl E. Vuono1 Jul 198652Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1986 - 1987; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1987 - 1991.5 1957 (USMA) 29 (1934 - ) 
129Joseph T. Palastra Jr.1 Jul 198655Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1986 - 1987; Commander in Chief, Forces Command (CINCFOR), 1987 - 1989.3 1954 (USMA) 32 (1931 - 2015) 
130James J. Lindsay10 Oct 198654Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED), 1986 - 1987; Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command (USCINCSOC), 1987 - 1990.4 1953 (OCS) 33 (1932 - 2023) 
131Louis C. Wagner Jr.13 Apr 198755Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1987 - 1989.2 1954 (USMA) 33 (1932 - ) 
132Frederick F. Woerner Jr.6 Jun 198754Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1987 - 1989.2 1955 (USMA) 32 (1933 - 2023) Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1994 - 2001. Relieved, 1989.
133Arthur E. Brown Jr.24 Jun 198758Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1987 - 1989.2 1953 (USMA) 34 (1929 - ) 
134Louis C. Menetrey24 Jun 198758Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1987 - 1990.3 1953 (ROTC) 34 (1929 - 2009) 
135Crosbie E. Saint24 Jun 198852Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1988 - 1992.4 1958 (USMA) 30 (1936 - 2018) 
136H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.23 Nov 198854Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (USCINCCENT), 1988 - 1991.3 1956 (USMA) 32 (1934 - 2012) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1991; Congressional Gold Medal, 1991.
137Robert W. RisCassi17 Jan 198953Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1989 - 1990; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea; Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK; CG EUSA), 1990 - 1992; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK), 1992 - 1993.4 1958 (ROTC) 31 (1936 - ) 
138Colin L. Powell4 Apr 198952Commander in Chief, Forces Command (CINCFOR), 1989; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1989 - 1993.4 1958 (ROTC) 31 (1937 - 2021) Deputy National Security Advisor, 1987; National Security Advisor, 1987 - 1989; U.S. Secretary of State, 2001 - 2005. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal, 1991; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1991 and, with distinction, 1993.
139John W. Foss2 Aug 198956Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1989 - 1991.2 1956 (USMA) 33 (1933 - 2020) 
140Edwin H. Burba Jr.27 Sep 198953Commander in Chief, Forces Command (CINCFOR), 1989 - 1993.4 1959 (USMA) 30 (1936 - ) 
141William G. T. Tuttle Jr.1 Oct 198954Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1989 - 1992.3 1958 (USMA) 31 (1935 - 2020) 
142Gordon R. Sullivan4 Jun 199053Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1990 - 1991; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1991 - 1995.5 1959 (Norwich) 31 (1937 - 2024) 
143Carl W. Stiner1 Jul 199054Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command (USCINCSOC), 1990 - 1993.3 1958 (ROTC) 32 (1936 - 2022) 
144George A. Joulwan21 Nov 199051Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1990 - 1993; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1993 - 1997.7 1961 (USMA) 29 (1939 - ) 
145Dennis J. Reimer21 Jun 199152Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1991 - 1993; Commander in Chief, Forces Command (CINCFOR), 1993; Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1993 - 1995; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1995 - 1999.8 1962 (USMA) 29 (1939 - ) 
146Frederick M. Franks Jr.23 Aug 199155Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1991 - 1994.3 1959 (USMA) 32 (1936 - ) Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 2005 - 2009.
147Jimmy D. Ross1 Feb 199256Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1992 - 1994.2 1958 (ROTC) 34 (1936 - 2012) 
148John M. Shalikashvili24 Jun 199256Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1992 - 1993; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1993 - 1997.5 1959 (OCS) 33 (1936 - 2011) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1997.
149David M. Maddox9 Jul 199254Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR; COMCENTAG), 1992 - 1993; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army (CINCUSAREUR), 1993 - 1994.2 1960 (VMI) 32 (1938 - ) 
150J. H. Binford Peay III26 Mar 199353Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1993 - 1994; Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (USCINCCENT), 1994 - 1997.4 1962 (VMI) 31 (1940 - )Superintendent, Virginia Military Institute, 2003 - 2020.
151Wayne A. Downing20 May 199353Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command (USCINCSOC), 1993 - 1996.3 1962 (USMA) 31 (1940 - 2007) Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, 2001 - 2002.
152Gary E. Luck1 Jul 199356Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK), 1993 - 1996.3 1960 (ROTC) 33 (1937 - ) 
153Leon E. Salomon11 Feb 199458Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1994 - 1996.2 1959 (OCS) 35 (1936 - ) 
154Barry R. McCaffrey17 Feb 199452Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1994 - 1996.2 1964 (USMA) 30 (1942 - )Director, National Drug Control Policy, 1996 - 2001.
155John H. Tilelli Jr.19 Jul 199453Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1994 - 1995; Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1995 - 1996; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK), 1996 - 1999.5 1963 (PMC) 31 (1941 - ) 
156William W. Hartzog1 Dec 199453Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1994 - 1998.4 1963 (Citadel) 31 (1941 - 2020) 
157William W. Crouch1 Jan 199554Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army (CINCUSAREUR), 1994 - 1996; Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; Commander, Allied Land Forces Central Europe (CINCUSAREUR; COMLANDCENT), 1996 - 1997; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1997 - 1998.3 1963 (ROTC) 32 (1941 - ) 
158Ronald H. Griffith6 Jun 199559Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1995 - 1997.2 1960 (ROTC) 35 (1936 - 2018) 
159H. Hugh Shelton1 Mar 199654Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command (USCINCSOC), 1996 - 1997; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1997 - 2001.5 1964 (ROTC) 32 (1942 - )Awarded Congressional Gold Medal, 2002.
160Johnnie E. Wilson1 May 199652Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1996 - 1999.3 1967 (OCS) 29 (1944 - ) 
161Wesley K. Clark21 Jun 199652Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1996 - 1997; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; USCINCEUR), 1997 - 2000.4 1966 (USMA) 30 (1944 - )Candidate for Democratic Party nomination for U.S. President, 2004. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2000.
162David A. Bramlett1 Sep 199655Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1996 - 1998.2 1964 (USMA) 32 (1941 - ) 
163Eric K. Shinseki5 Aug 199755Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army; Commander, Allied Land Forces Central Europe (CG USAREUR; COMLANDCENT), 1997 - 1998; Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army (CG USAREUR), 1998; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1998 - 1999; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 1999 - 2003.6 1965 (USMA) 32 (1942 - )U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2009 - 2014. First Asian-American to achieve the rank of general in the Army.
164Peter J. Schoomaker4 Oct 199751Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command (USCINCSOC), 1997 - 2000; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 2003 - 2007.7 1969 (ROTC) 28 (1946 - )Brother of Army lieutenant general Eric Schoomaker.
165Thomas A. Schwartz31 Aug 199853Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1998 - 1999; Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK), 1999 - 2002.4 1967 (USMA) 31 (1945 - ) 
166John N. Abrams14 Sep 199852Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 1998 - 2002.4 1968 (OCS) 30 (1946 - 2018) Son of Army four-star general Creighton Abrams; brother of Army four-star general Robert B. Abrams.
167Montgomery C. Meigs10 Nov 199853Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army (CG USAREUR), 1998 - 2002.4 1967 (USMA) 31 (1945 - 2021) Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, 2005 - 2007. Distant cousin of Navy four-star admiral Montgomery M. Taylor and great-great-great grandnephew of Montgomery C. Meigs.
168John M. Keane22 Jan 199956Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 1999 - 2003.4 1966 (ROTC) 33 (1943 - ) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2020.
169John G. Coburn14 May 199958Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 1999 - 2001.2 1963 (ROTC) 36 (1941 - ) 
170John W. Hendrix23 Nov 199957Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 1999 - 2001.2 1965 (ROTC) 34 (1942 - ) 
171William F. KernanJul 200054Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Joint Forces Command (SACLANT; CINCUSJFCOM), 2000 - 2002.2 1968 (OCS) 32 (1946 - ) 
172Tommy R. Franks6 Jul 200055Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (USCINCCENT), 2000 - 2002; Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2002 - 2003.3 1967 (OCS) 33 (1945 - )Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2004.
173Paul J. Kern30 Oct 200156Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 2001 - 2004.3 1967 (USMA) 34 (1945 - ) 
174Larry R. Ellis19 Nov 200155Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2001 - 2004.3 1969 (ROTC) 32 (1946 - ) 
175Leon J. LaPorte1 May 200256Commander in Chief, United Nations Command; Commander in Chief, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CINCUNC; CINCCFC; COMUSFK), 2002; Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; COMUSFK), 2002 - 2006.4 1968 (ROTC) 34 (1946 - ) 
176James T. Hill18 Aug 200256Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 2002; Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2002 - 2004.2 1968 (ROTC) 34 (1946 - ) 
177Kevin P. Byrnes7 Nov 200252Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 2002 - 2005.3 1969 (OCS) 33 (1950 - )Relieved, 2005.
178Burwell B. Bell III3 Dec 200255Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army (CG USAREUR), 2002 - 2005; Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; COMUSFK), 2006 - 2008.6 1969 (ROTC) 33 (1947 - ) 
179John P. Abizaid27 Jun 200352Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2003 - 2007.4 1973 (USMA) 30 (1951 - )U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 2019 - 2021.
180Bryan D. Brown25 Aug 200355Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2003 - 2007.4 1970 (OCS) 33 (1948 - ) 
181George W. Casey Jr.1 Dec 200355Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2003 - 2004; Commanding General, Multi-National Force - )Iraq (CG MNF-I), 2004 - 2007; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 2007 - 2011.8 1970 (ROTC) 33 (1948 - ) 
182Richard A. Cody24 Jun 200454Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2004 - 2008.4 1972 (USMA) 32 (1950 - ) 
183Dan K. McNeill1 Jul 200458Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2004 - 2007; Commander, International Security Assistance Force (CDRISAF), 2007 - 2008.4 1968 (ROTC) 36 (1946 - ) 
184Benjamin S. Griffin5 Nov 200458Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 2004 - 2008.4 1970 (OCS) 34 (1946 - ) 
185Bantz J. Craddock1 Jan 200556Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2004 - 2006; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; CDRUSEUCOM), 2006 - 2009.4 1971 (ROTC) 33 (1949 - ) 
186William S. Wallace13 Oct 200559Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 2005 - 2008.3 1969 (USMA) 36 (1946 - ) 
187David D. McKiernan14 Dec 200555Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army (CG USAREUR), 2005 - 2008; Commander, International Security Assistance Force (CDRISAF), 2008; Commander, International Security Assistance Force; Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (CDRISAF; CDRUSFOR-A), 2008 - 2009.4 1972 (ROTC) 33 (1950 - )Resigned, 2009.
188William E. Ward3 May 200655Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command (DCDRUSEUCOM), 2006 - 2007; Commander, U.S. Africa Command (CDRUSAFRICOM), 2007 - 2011.5 1971 (ROTC) 35 (1949 - )U.S. Security Coordinator, Israel-Palestinian Authority, 2005.
189Charles C. Campbell9 Jan 200759Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2007 - 2010.3 1970 (ROTC) 37 (1948 - 2016) 
190David H. Petraeus10 Feb 200755Commanding General, Multi-National Force - )Iraq (CG MNF-I), 2007 - 2008; Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2008 - 2010; Commander, International Security Assistance Force; Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (CDRISAF; CDRUSFOR-A), 2010 - 2011.4 1974 (USMA) 33 (1952 - )Director, Central Intelligence Agency, 2011 - 2012. Son-in-law of Army four-star general William A. Knowlton.
191Walter L. Sharp2 Jun 200856Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; CDRUSFK), 2008 - 2011.3 1974 (USMA) 34 (1952 - ) 
192Peter W. Chiarelli4 Aug 200858Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2008 - 2012.4 1972 (ROTC) 36 (1950 - ) 
193Carter F. Ham28 Aug 200856Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army (CG USAREUR), 2008 - 2011; Commander, U.S. Africa Command (CDRUSAFRICOM), 2011 - 2013.5 1976 (ROTC) 32 (1952 - ) 
194Raymond T. Odierno16 Sep 200854Commanding General, Multi-National Force - )Iraq (CG MNF-I), 2008 - 2009; Commanding General, U.S. Forces - )Iraq (CG USF-I), 2010; Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (CDRUSJFCOM), 2010 - 2011; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 2011 - 2015.7 1976 (USMA) 32 (1954 - 2021) 
195Ann E. Dunwoody14 Nov 200855Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 2008 - 2012.4 1975 (direct) 33 (1953 - )First woman to achieve four-star rank in any service.
196Martin E. Dempsey8 Dec 200856Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 2008 - 2011; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 2011; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 2011 - 2015.7 1974 (USMA) 34 (1952 - ) 
197Stanley A. McChrystal15 Jun 200955Commander, International Security Assistance Force; Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (CDRISAF; CDRUSFOR-A), 2009 - 2010.1 1976 (USMA) 33 (1954 - )Resigned, 2010.
198Keith B. Alexander21 May 201058Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency; Chief, Central Security Service (CDRUSCYBERCOM; DIRNSA; CCSS), 2010 - 2014.4 1974 (USMA) 36 (1952 - )Director, National Security Agency, 2005 - 2014.
199James D. Thurman3 Jun 201057Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2010 - 2011; Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; CDRUSFK), 2011 - 2013.3 1975 (ROTC) 35 (1953 - ) 
200Lloyd J. Austin III1 Sep 201057Commanding General, U.S. Forces - )Iraq (CG USF-I), 2010 - 2011; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2012 - 2013; Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2013 - 2016.6 1975 (USMA) 35 (1953 - )U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2021 - present.
201Robert W. Cone29 Apr 201154Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 2011 - 2014.3 1979 (USMA) 32 (1957 - 2016) 
202Charles H. Jacoby Jr.3 Aug 201157Commander, U.S. Northern Command; Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (CDRUSNORTHCOM; CDRNORAD), 2011 - 2014.3 1978 (USMA) 33 (1954 - )Chair, Modern War Institute, 2015 - 2019.
203David M. Rodriguez12 Sep 201157Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2011 - 2013; Commander, U.S. Africa Command (CDRUSAFRICOM), 2013 - 2016.5 1976 (USMA) 35 (1954 - ) 
204Dennis L. Via7 Aug 201254Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 2012 - 2016.4 1980 (ROTC) 32 (1958 - ) 
205Frank J. Grass7 Sep 201261Chief, National Guard Bureau (CNGB), 2012 - 2016.4 1981 (OCS) 31 (1951 - )Served 12 years in the enlisted ranks before receiving his commission in 1981. First Army National Guard officer to achieve the rank of general.
206John F. Campbell8 Mar 201356Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2013 - 2014; Commander, International Security Assistance Force; Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (CDRISAF; CDRUSFOR-A), 2014 - 2015; Commander, Resolute Support Mission; Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (CDRRS; CDRUSFOR-A), 2015 - 2016.3 1979 (USMA) 34 (1957 - ) 
207Daniel B. Allyn10 May 201354Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2013 - 2014; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2014 - 2017.4 1981 (USMA) 32 (1959 - ) 
208Vincent K. Brooks2 Jul 201355Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific (CG USARPAC), 2013 - 2016; Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; COMUSFK), 2016 - 2018.5 1980 (USMA) 33 (1958 - ) 
209Curtis M. Scaparrotti2 Oct 201357Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; COMUSFK), 2013 - 2016; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; CDRUSEUCOM), 2016 - 2019.6 1978 (USMA) 35 (1956 - ) 
210David G. Perkins14 Mar 201457Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC), 2014 - 2015; Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Chancellor, Army University (CG TRADOC; Ch. ArmyU), 2015 - 2018.4 1980 (USMA) 34 (1957 - ) 
211Mark A. Milley15 Aug 201456Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2014 - 2015; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 2015 - 2019; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 2019 - 2023.9 1980 (ROTC) 34 (1958 - ) 
212Joseph L. Votel28 Aug 201456Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2014 - 2016; Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2016 - 2019.5 1980 (USMA) 34 (1958 - ) 
213Robert B. Abrams10 Aug 201555Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2015 - 2018; Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; COMUSFK), 2018 - 2021.6 1982 (USMA) 33 (1960 - )Son of Army four-star general Creighton Abrams; brother of Army four-star general John N. Abrams.
214John W. Nicholson Jr.2 Mar 201659Commander, Resolute Support Mission; Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (CDRRS; CDRUSFOR-A), 2016 - 2018.2 1982 (USMA) 34 (1957 - )Nephew of U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert J. Nicholson.
215Raymond A. Thomas III30 Mar 201658Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2016 - 2019.3 1980 (USMA) 36 (1958 - ) 
216Robert B. Brown30 Apr 201657Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific (CG USARPAC), 2016 - 2019.3 1981 (USMA) 35 (1959 - ) 
217Gustave F. Perna30 Sep 201656Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 2016 - 2020; Chief Operating Officer, Operation Warp Speed (COO OWS), 2020 - 2021; Chief Operating Officer, COVID-19 Response for Vaccine and Therapeutics (COO COVID-19 Response), 2021.5 1981 (VFMAC) 35 (1960 - ) 
218James C. McConville16 Jun 201758Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2017 - 2019; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 2019 - 2023.6 1981 (USMA) 36 (1959 - ) 
219Stephen J. Townsend2 Mar 201859Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Chancellor, Army University (CG TRADOC; Ch. ArmyU), 2018 - 2019; Commander, U.S. Africa Command (CDRUSAFRICOM), 2019 - 2022.4 1982 (NGCSU) 36 (1959 - ) 
220Paul M. Nakasone4 May 201855Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency; Chief, Central Security Service (CDRUSCYBERCOM; DIRNSA; CCSS), 2018 - 2024.6 1986 (ROTC) 32 (1963 - ) 
221Stephen R. Lyons24 Aug 201856Commander, U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), 2018 - 2021.3 1983 (ROTC) 35 (c. 1962 - ) 
222John M. Murray24 Aug 201858Commanding General, U.S. Army Futures Command (CG AFC), 2018 - 2021.3 1982 (ROTC) 36 (c. 1960 - ) 
223Austin S. Miller2 Sep 201857Commander, Resolute Support Mission; Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (CDRRS; CDRUSFOR-A), 2018 - 2021.3 1983 (USMA) 35 (1961 - ) 
224Michael X. Garrett21 Mar 201958Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2019 - 2022.3 1984 (ROTC) 35 (1961 - )Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 2023 - present.
225Richard D. Clarke Jr.29 Mar 201957Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2019 - 2022.3 1984 (USMA) 35 (1962 - ) 
226Paul E. Funk II21 Jun 201957Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Chancellor, Army University (CG TRADOC; Ch. ArmyU), 2019 - 2022.3 1984 (ROTC) 35 (1962 - )Son and son-in-law of Army lieutenant generals Paul E. Funk and John J. Yeosock.
227Joseph M. Martin26 Jul 201957Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2019 - 2022.3 1986 (USMA) 33 (1962 - ) 
228Paul J. LaCamera18 Nov 201956Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific (CG USARPAC), 2019 - 2021; Commander, United Nations Command; Commander, ROK; U.S. Combined Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Forces Korea (CDRUNC; CDRCFC; COMUSFK), 2021 - present.5 1985 (USMA) 34 (1963 - ) 
229Edward M. Daly2 Jul 202055Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 2020 - 2023.3 1987 (USMA) 33 (1965 - ) 
230Daniel R. Hokanson3 Aug 202057Chief, National Guard Bureau (CNGB), 2020 - present.4 1986 (USMA) 34 (1963 - ) 
231James H. Dickinson20 Aug 202058Commander, U.S. Space Command (CDRUSSPACECOM), 2020 - 2024.4 1985 (ROTC) 35 (c. 1962 - ) 
232Christopher G. Cavoli1 Oct 202055Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Africa (CG USAREUR-AF), 2020 - 2022; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Commander, U.S. European Command (SACEUR; CDRUSEUCOM), 2022 - present.4 1987 (ROTC) 33 (c. 1965 - ) 
233Charles A. Flynn4 Jun 202158Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific (CG USARPAC), 2021 - present.3 1985 (ROTC) 36 (c. 1963 - )Brother of former National Security Advisor, Michael T. Flynn.
234Laura J. Richardson29 Oct 202158Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2021 - present.3 1986 (ROTC) 35 (1963 - )First female U.S. Army officer to lead a combatant command.
235Michael E. Kurilla1 Apr 202256Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2022 - present.2 1988 (USMA) 34 (1966 - ) 
236Darryl A. Williams27 Jun 202261Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Africa (CG USAREUR-AF), 2022; Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Africa; Commander, Allied Land Command (CG USAREUR-AF; CDRLANDCOM), 2022 - present.2 1983 (USMA) 39 (1961 - )Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 2018 - 2022.
237Andrew P. Poppas8 Jul 202256Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM), 2022 - present.2 1988 (USMA) 34 (c. 1966 - ) 
238Randy A. George5 Aug 202258Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2022 - 2023; Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (CSA), 2023 - present.2 1988 (USMA) 34 (1964 - ) 
239Bryan P. Fenton30 Aug 202257Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2022 - present.2 1987 (ROTC) 35 (1965 - ) 
240Gary M. Brito8 Sep 202258Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Chancellor, Army University (CG TRADOC; Ch. ArmyU), 2022 - present.2 1987 (ROTC) 35 (1964 - ) 
241James E. Rainey4 Oct 202258Commanding General, U.S. Army Futures Command (CG AFC), 2022 - present.2 1987 (ROTC) 35 (c. 1964 -) 
242Charles R. Hamilton16 Mar 202356Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command (CG AMC), 2023 - 2024.1 1988 (OCS) 35 (c. 1967 - )Relieved, 2024
243James J. Mingus3 Jan 202460Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA), 2024 - present.0 1985 (ROTC) 39 (1964 - ) 
 52.50Average age at promotion to four stars

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS FOUR STAR GENERALS
#NameDate of rank Age at PromPosition Yrs Source of Commission YC DatesNotes
1Alexander A. Vandegrift21 Mar 194558Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1944 - 1947.2 1909 (OCS) 36 (1887 - 1973)Awarded Medal of Honor, 1942.
*Roy S. Geiger23 Jan 194762(posthumous)0 1909 (OCS) 38 (1885 - 1947)
2Clifton B. Cates1 Jan 194855Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1948 - 1951.4 1917 (OCS) 31 (1893 - 1970)
3Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.1 Jan 195256Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1952 - 1955; Chairman, Inter-American Defense Board, 1956 - 1959.7 1917 (VMI) 35 (1896 - 1990)
4Randolph M. Pate1 Jan 195658Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1956 - 1959.4 1921 (VMI) 35 (1898 - 1961)
5David M. Shoup1 Jan 196056Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1960 - 1963.4 1926 (ROTC) 34 (1904 - 1983)Awarded Medal of Honor, 1943.
6Wallace M. Greene Jr.1 Jan 196457Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1964 - 1967.4 1930 (USNA) 34 (1907 - 2003)
7Leonard F. Chapman Jr.1 Jan 196852Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1968 - 1971.4 1935 (NROTC) 33 (1913 - 2000)U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, 1973 - 1977.
8Lewis W. Walt2 Jun 196956Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1968 - 1971.2 1936 (ROTC) 33 (1913 - 1989)
9Raymond G. Davis12 Mar 197156Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1971 - 1972.1 1938 (ROTC) 33 (1915 - 2003)Awarded Medal of Honor, 1950.
10Keith B. McCutcheon1 Jul 197156Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1971.0 1937 (ROTC) 34 (1915 - 1971)
11Robert E. Cushman Jr.1 Jan 197258Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1972 - 1975.4 1935 (USNA) 37 (1914 - 1985)Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, 1969 - 1971.
12Earl E. Anderson31 Mar 197253Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1972 - 1975.3 1940 (NROTC) 32 (1919 - 2015)
13Louis H. Wilson Jr.1 Jul 197555Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1975 - 1979.4 1941 (OCS) 34 (1920 - 2005)Awarded Medal of Honor, 1944.
14Samuel Jaskilka4 Mar 197657Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1975 - 1978.3 1942 (OCS) 34 (1919 - 2012)
15Robert H. Barrow1 Jul 197856Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1978 - 1979; Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1979 - 1983.5 1942 (OCS) 36 (1922 - 2008)
16Kenneth McLennan2 Jul 197954Assistant Commandant; Chief of Staff, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC/COFS), 1979 - 1981.3 1945 (OCS) 34 (1925 - 2005)
17Paul X. Kelley1 Jul 198153Assistant Commandant/Chief of Staff, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC/COFS), 1981 - 1983; Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1983 - 1987.6 1950 (NROTC) 31 (1928 - 2019)Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1991 - 1994, 2001 - 2005.
18John K. Davis1 Jul 198356Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1983 - 1986.3 1950 (NROTC) 33 (1927 - 2019)
19George B. Crist22 Nov 198554Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (USCINCCENT), 1985 - 1988.3 1952 (NROTC) 33 (1931)
20Thomas R. Morgan1 Jun 198656Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1986 - 1988.2 1952 (NROTC) 34 (1930)
21Alfred M. Gray Jr.1 Jul 198759Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1987 - 1991.4 1952 (OCS) 35 (1928 - 2024)
22Joseph J. Went1 Jul 198858Assistant Commandant/Chief of Staff, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC/COFS), 1988 - 1990.2 1952 (NROTC) 36 (1930)
23John R. Dailey1 Aug 199056Assistant Commandant/Chief of Staff, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC/COFS), 1990 - 1992.3 1956 (NROTC) 34 (1934)AssociateDeputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1992 - 1999; Director, National Air and Space Museum, 2000 - 2018.
24Carl E. Mundy Jr.1 Jul 199156Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1991 - 1995.4 1957 (NROTC) 34 (1935 - 2014)President, United Service Organizations, 1996 - 2000.
25Joseph P. Hoar1 Sep 199157Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (USCINCCENT), 1991 - 1994.3 1957 (NROTC) 34 (1934 - 2022)
26Walter E. Boomer1 Sep 199254Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1992 - 1994.2 1960 (NROTC) 32 (1938)
27Richard D. Hearney15 Jul 199455Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1994 - 1996.2 1962 (OCS) 32 (1939)
28John J. Sheehan31 Oct 199455Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic/Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (SACLANT/CINCLANT), 1994 - 1997.3 1962 (NROTC) 32 (1940)
29Charles C. Krulak29 Jun 199553Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1995 - 1999.4 1964 (USNA) 31 (1942)President, BirminghamSouthern College, 2011 - 2015. Son of Marine Corps lieutenant general Victor H. Krulak.
30Richard I. Neal19 Sep 199654Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1996 - 1998.2 1965 (NROTC) 31 (1942 - 2022)
31Anthony C. Zinni8 Aug 199754Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (USCINCCENT), 1997 - 2000.3 1965 (NROTC) 32 (1943)U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, 2002 - 2003; U.S. Special Envoy to Qatar, 2017 - 2019.
32Charles E. Wilhelm25 Sep 199756Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 1997 - 2000.3 1964 (NROTC) 33 (1941)
33Terrence R. Dake5 Sep 199854Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 1998 - 2000.2 1966 (OCS) 32 (1944)
34James L. Jones30 Jun 199956Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1999 - 2003; Supreme Allied Commander, EuropeCommander, U.S. European Command (SACEUR/CDRUSEUCOM), 2003 - 2006.7 1967 (NROTC) 32 (1943)National Security Advisor, 2009 - 2010.
35Peter Pace8 Sep 200055Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command (USCINCSO), 2000 - 2001; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2001 - 2005; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 2005 - 2007.7 1967 (USNA) 33 (1945)Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2008.
36Carlton W. Fulford Jr.1 Oct 200056Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 2000 - 2002; Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command (DCDRUSEUCOM), 2002.2 1966 (USNA) 34 (1944)
37Michael J. Williams1 Nov 200057Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2000 - 2002.2 1967 (USNA) 33 (1943)
38William L. Nyland4 Sep 200256Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2002 - 2005.3 1968 (NROTC) 34 (1946)
39Michael W. Hagee14 Jan 200359Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 2003 - 2006.3 1968 (USNA) 35 (1944)
40James E. Cartwright1 Sep 200455Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2004 - 2007; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2007 - 2011.7 1971 (NROTC) 33 (1949)
41Robert Magnus1 Nov 200558Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2005 - 2008.3 1969 (NROTC) 36 (1947)
42James T. Conway13 Nov 200659Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 2006 - 2010.4 1970 (OCS) 36 (1947)
43James N. Mattis9 Nov 200757Supreme Allied Commander Transformation/Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (SACT/CDRUSJFCOM), 2007 - 2009; Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (CDRUSJFCOM), 2009 - 2010; Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2010 - 2013.6 1972 (ROTC) 35 (1950)U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2017 - 2019.
44James F. Amos2 Jul 200862Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2008 - 2010; Commandant. U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 2010 - 2014.6 1970 (NROTC) 38 (1946)First naval aviator to become commandant.
45Joseph F. Dunford Jr.23 Oct 201055Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2010 - 2013; Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, U.S. ForcesAfghanistan (CDRISAF/CDRUSFOR-A), 2013 - 2014; Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 2014 - 2015; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 2015 - 2019.9 1977 (OCS) 33 (1955)
46John R. Allen18 Jul 201158Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, U.S. ForcesAfghanistan (CDRISAF/CDRUSFOR-A), 2011 - 2013.2 1976 (USNA) 35 (1953)Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, 2014 - 2015; President, Brookings Institution, 2017 - 2022.
47John F. Kelly19 Nov 201262Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2012 - 2016.3 1976 (OCS) 36 (1950)U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, 2017; White House Chief of Staff, 2017 - 2019.
48John M. Paxton Jr.15 Dec 201261Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2012 - 2016.4 1974 (OCS) 38 (1951)
49Robert B. Neller24 Sep 201562Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 2015 - 2019.4 1975 (OCS) 40 (1953)
50Thomas D. Waldhauser18 Jul 201663Commander, U.S. Africa Command (CDRUSAFRICOM), 2016 - 2019.3 1976 (OCS) 40 (1953)
51Glenn M. Walters2 Aug 201659Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2016 - 2018.2 1979 (Citadel) 37 (1957)President, The Citadel, 2018 - present.
52Gary L. Thomas4 Oct 201856Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2018 - 2021.3 1984 (NROTC) 34 (1962)
53Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.28 Mar 201956Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2019 - 2022.3 1979 (Citadel) 40 (1957)
54David H. Berger11 Jul 201960Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 2019 - 2023.4 1981 (NROTC) 38 (1959)
55Eric M. Smith8 Oct 202156Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2021 - 2023; Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 2023 - present.3 1987 (Texas A&M) 34 (c. 1965)
56Michael E. Langley6 Aug 202259Commander, U.S. Africa Command (CDRUSAFRICOM), 2022 - present.2 1985 (NROTC) 37 (c. 1963)First African-American to achieve the rank of general in the Marine Corps.
57Christopher J. Mahoney2 Nov 202357Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (ACMC), 2023 - present.1 1987 (NROTC) 36 (c. 1966)
 57.7Average age promoted to four star rank, not including retired promotions

UNITED STATES NAVY FOUR STAR ADMIRALS PROMOTED AFTER 1945
# Name Date of rank Age at Prom Position Yrs Source of Commission YC Dates Notes
62Richard S. Edwards Jr.3 Apr 194560Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (DCOMINCH; DCNO), 1944-1945; Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1945-1946; Commander, Western Sea Frontier; Commander, Pacific Reserve Fleet (COMWESTSEAFRON; COMPACRESFLT), 1946-1947.2 1907 (USNA) 38 (1885-1956) 
63H. Kent Hewitt3 Apr 194558Commander, U.S. Eighth Fleet (COMEIGHTHFLT), 1943-1945; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe (COMNAVEUR), 1945-1946; U.S. Naval Representative, U.N. Military Staff Committee (USNAVYMILCOMUNO), 1947-1949.4 1907 (USNA) 38 (1887-1972) 
64Thomas C. Kinkaid3 Apr 194557Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet (COMSEVENTHFLT), 1943-1945; Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier; Commander, Atlantic Reserve Fleet (COMEASTSEAFRON; COMLANTRESFLT), 1946-1950.5 1908 (USNA) 37 (1888-1972) Brother-in-law of Navy four-star admiral Husband E. Kimmel.
65Richmond K. Turner24 May 194560Commander, Amphibious Forces, Pacific (COMPHIBPAC), 1944-1945; U.S Naval Representative, U.N. Military Staff Committee (USNAVYMILCOMUNO), 1945-1947.2 1908 (USNA) 37 (1885-1961) 
66Samuel M. Robinson27 Aug 194563Director, Office of Procurement and Material, 1942-1946.1 1903 (USNA) 42 (1882-1972) Administrator, Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, 1946-1951. First staff corps officer to attain rank of admiral.
*John S. McCain Sr.6 Sep 194561(posthumous)0 1906 (USNA) 39 (1884-1945) Father of Navy four-star admiral John S. McCain Jr.; grandfather of U.S. Senator John S. McCain III.
67John H. Towers7 Nov 194560Commander, U.S. Fifth Fleet (COMFIFTHFLT), 1945-1946; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas; Military Governor of the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands (CINCPAC; CINCPOA), 1946-1947; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Military Governor of the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands (CINCPAC; CINCPACFLT), 1947; Chairman, General Board of the Navy, 1947.2 1906 (USNA) 39 (1885-1955) 
68DeWitt C. Ramsey28 Dec 194557Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1946-1948; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet; High Commissioner, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (CINCPAC; CINCPACFLT), 1948-1949.4 1912 (USNA) 33 (1888-1961) 
69Louis E. Denfeld7 Jan 194655Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Military Governor of the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands (CINCPAC; CINCPACFLT), 1947; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet; High Commissioner, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (CINCPAC; CINCPACFLT), 1947; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1947-1949.2 1912 (USNA) 34 (1891-1972) Candidate for Republican Party nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, 1950. Relieved, 1949.
70Charles M. Cooke Jr.8 Jan 194660Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet (COMSEVENTHFLT), 1946-1947; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Western Pacific (COMNAVWESPAC), 1947-1948.2 1910 (USNA) 36 (1886-1970) 
71Marc A. Mitscher1 Mar 194659Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1946-1947.1 1910 (USNA) 36 (1887-1947) Died in office.
72Ben Moreell11 Jun 194654Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1946.0 1917 (direct) 29 (1892-1978) 
73Richard L. Conolly23 Sep 194654Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe (COMNAVEUR), 1946; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (COMNAVEASTLANTMED), 1946-1947; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNAVEASTLANTMED), 1947-1948; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM), 1948-1950.4 1914 (USNA) 32 (1892-1962) President, Naval War College, 1950-1953; President, Long Island University, 1953-1962.
74William H.P. Blandy3 Feb 194757Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1947; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1947-1950.3 1913 (USNA) 34 (1890-1954) 
75Arthur W. Radford7 Apr 194953Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet; High Commissioner, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (CINCPAC; CINCPACFLT), 1949-1951; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC; CINCPACFLT), 1951-1953; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1953-1957.8 1916 (USNA) 33 (1896-1973) Married aunt of Army four-star general Michael S. Davison.
76Forrest P. Sherman2 Nov 194953Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1949-1951.2 1917 (USNA) 32 (1896-1951) Died in office.
77William M. Fechteler1 Feb 195054Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1950-1951; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1951-1953; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1953-1956.6 1916 (USNA) 34 (1896-1967) 
78Robert B. Carney2 Oct 195055Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM), 1950-1951; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCSOUTH; CINCNELM), 1951-1952; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1952-1953; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1953-1955.5 1916 (USNA) 34 (1895-1990) Aunt married Navy four-star admiral Frank B. Upham.
79Lynde D. McCormick22 Dec 195055Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1950-1951; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1951-1952; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1952-1954.4 1915 (USNA) 35 (1895-1956) President, Naval War College, 1954-1956.
80Donald B. Duncan9 Aug 195155Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1951-1956.5 1917 (USNA) 34 (1896-1975) Governor, U.S. Naval Home, 1957-1962. Brother-in-law of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins.
81Felix B. Stump27 Jun 195359Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC; CINCPACFLT), 1953-1958; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1958.5 1917 (USNA) 36 (1894-1972) 
82Jerauld Wright6 Apr 195456Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1954-1960.6 1917 (USNA) 37 (1898-1995) U.S. Ambassador to China, 1963-1965.
83John H. Cassady7 Apr 195458Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM), 1954-1956.2 1918 (USNA) 36 (1896-1969) 
84Arleigh A. Burke6 Jun 195554Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1955-1961.6 1923 (USNA) 32 (1901-1996) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1977.
85Robert P. Briscoe30 Apr 195659Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1956-1959.3 1918 (USNA) 38 (1897-1968) 
86Walter F. Boone1 May 195658Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM), 1956-1958; U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1958-1960.4 1920 (USNA) 36 (1898-1995) Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, 1954-1956; Deputy Associate Administrator for Defense Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962-1968.
87Harry D. Felt1 Sep 195654Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1956-1958; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1958-1964.8 1923 (USNA) 33 (1902-1992) 
88Maurice E. Curts29 Apr 195759Deputy Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (DCINCPAC; DCINCPACFLT), 1955-1958; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1958.1 1919 (USNA) 38 (1898-1976) 
89James L. Holloway Jr.1 Jan 195860Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; Commander in Chief, Specified Command Middle East (CINCNELM; CINCSPECOMME), 1958-1959.1 1918 (USNA) 40 (1898-1984) Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, 1947-1950; Governor, U.S. Naval Home, 1962-1966. Father of Navy four-star admiral James L. Holloway III.
90Herbert G. Hopwood1 Feb 195860Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1958-1960.2 1919 (USNA) 39 (1898-1966) 
91James S. Russell21 Jul 195855Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1958-1961; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1961-1965.7 1926 (USNA) 32 (1903-1996) 
92Charles R. Brown1 Jan 195960Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1959-1961.2 1921 (USNA) 38 (1899-1983) 
93Robert L. Dennison1 Feb 195958Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; Commander in Chief, Specified Command Middle East (CINCNELM; CINCSPECOMME), 1959-1960; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1960-1963.4 1923 (USNA) 36 (1901-1980) 
94Harold Page Smith1 Feb 196056Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCNELM), 1960-1963; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1963-1965.5 1924 (USNA) 36 (1904-1993) Uncle of Navy four-star admiral Leighton W. Smith Jr.
95John H. Sides1 Mar 196056Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1960-1963.3 1925 (USNA) 35 (1904-1978) 
96George W. Anderson Jr.1 Aug 196155Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1961-1963.2 1927 (USNA) 34 (1906-1992) U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1963-1966.
97Claude V. Ricketts1 Nov 196155Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1961-1964.3 1929 (USNA) 32 (1906-1964) Died in office.
98David L. McDonald1 Apr 196357Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCNELM), 1963; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1963-1967.4 1928 (USNA) 35 (1906-1997) 
99Charles D. Griffin26 Jun 196357Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCNELM), 1963; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1963-1965; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1965-1968.5 1927 (USNA) 36 (1906-1996) 
100U.S. Grant Sharp Jr.27 Sep 196357Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1963-1964; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1964-1968.5 1927 (USNA) 36 (1906-2001) Great-aunt married U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
101Thomas H. Moorer26 Jun 196452Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1964-1965; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1965-1967; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1967-1970; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1970-1974.10 1933 (USNA) 31 (1912-2004) 
102Horacio Rivero Jr.31 Jul 196454Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1964-1968; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1968-1972.8 1931 (USNA) 33 (1910-2000) U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1972-1974.
103John S. Thach25 Mar 196560Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1965-1967.2 1927 (USNA) 38 (1905-1981) 
104Alfred G. Ward27 Mar 196556U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1965-1968.3 1932 (USNA) 33 (1909-1982) 
105Roy L. Johnson31 Mar 196559Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1965-1967.2 1929 (USNA) 36 (1906-1999) 
106John S. McCain Jr.1 May 196756Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1967-1968; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1968-1972.5 1931 (USNA) 36 (1911-1981) Son of Navy four-star admiral John S. McCain Sr.; father of U.S. Senator John S. McCain III.
107Ignatius J. Galantin19 May 196757Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1965-1970.3 1933 (USNA) 34 (1910-2004) 
108Ephraim P. Holmes17 Jun 196759Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1967-1970.3 1930 (USNA) 37 (1908-1997) 
109John J. Hyland Jr.1 Dec 196755Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1967-1970.3 1934 (USNA) 33 (1912-1998) 
110Bernard A. Clarey17 Jan 196856Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1968-1970; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1970-1973.5 1934 (USNA) 34 (1912-1996) 
111Waldemar F.A. Wendt12 Jul 196856Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1968-1971.3 1933 (USNA) 35 (1912-1997) 
112Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.1 Jul 197050Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1970-1974.4 1942 (USNA) 28 (1920-2000) Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1976. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1998.
113Charles K. Duncan1 Sep 197059Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1970-1972.2 1933 (USNA) 37 (1911-1994) 
114Jackson D. Arnold14 Oct 197058Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1970-1971.1 1934 (USNA) 36 (1912-2007) First restricted line officer to attain rank of admiral.
115Ralph W. Cousins30 Oct 197055Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1970-1972; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1972-1975.5 1937 (USNA) 33 (1915-2009) 
116William F. Bringle1 Jul 197158Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1971-1973.2 1937 (USNA) 34 (1913-1999) 
117Isaac C. Kidd Jr.1 Dec 197152Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1971-1975; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1975-1978.7 1942 (USNA) 29 (1919-1999) 
118Richard G. Colbert1 Jun 197257Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1972-1973.1 1937 (USNA) 35 (1915-1973) President, Naval War College, 1968-1971.
119Noel A.M. Gayler1 Sep 197258Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1972-1976.4 1935 (USNA) 37 (1914-2011) Director, National Security Agency, 1969-1972.
120Maurice F. Weisner1 Sep 197255Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1972-1973; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1973-1976; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1976-1979.7 1941 (USNA) 31 (1917-2006) 
121James L. Holloway III1 Sep 197351Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1973-1974; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1974-1978.5 1942 (USNA)31 (1922-2019)Son of Navy four-star admiral James L. Holloway Jr.
122Worth H. Bagley1 Sep 197349Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1973-1974; Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1974-1975.2 1947 (USNA) 26 (1924-2016) Son of Navy four-star admiral David W. Bagley; brother of Navy four-star admiral David H. Bagley; great-aunt married Navy five-star admiral William D. Leahy; great-aunt married U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
123Hyman G. Rickover16 Nov 197373Director, Division of Nuclear Reactors, 1948-1982.9 1922 (USNA) 51 (1900-1986) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1980; Congressional Gold Medal, 1958 and 1982.
124Means Johnston Jr.25 Nov 197357Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1973-1975.2 1939 (USNA) 34 (1916-1989) 
125Harold E. Shear24 May 197456Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1974-1975; Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1975-1977; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1977-1980.6 1942 (USNA) 32 (1918-1999) Administrator, U.S. Maritime Administration, 1981-1985.
126John P. Weinel2 Aug 197458U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1974-1977.3 1939 (USNA) 35 (1916-2004) 
127Frederick H. Michaelis19 Apr 197558Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1975-1978.3 1940 (USNA) 35 (1917-1992) 
128David H. Bagley21 May 197555Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), 1975-1977.2 1943 (USNA) 32 (1920-1992) Son of Navy four-star admiral David W. Bagley; brother of Navy four-star admiral Worth H. Bagley; great-aunt married Navy five-star admiral William D. Leahy; great-aunt married U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
129Stansfield Turner1 Sep 197552Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1975-1977; Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), 1977-1981.4 1946 (USNA) 29 (1923-2018) President, Naval War College, 1972-1974.
130Daniel J. Murphy28 May 197654Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community (D; DCI; IC), 1976-1977.1 1943 (OCS) 33 (1922-2001) U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 1977-1981; Chief of Staff to the U.S. Vice President, 1981-1985.
131Thomas B. Hayward12 Aug 197652Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1976-1978; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1978-1982.6 1947 (USNA) 29 (1924-2022) 
132Robert L. J. Long5 Jul 197757Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1977-1979; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1979-1983.6 1943 (USNA) 34 (1920-2002) 
133Donald C. Davis9 May 197857Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1978-1981.3 1943 (USNA) 35 (1921-1998) 
134Alfred J. Whittle Jr.1 Aug 197854Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1978-1981.3 1945 (USNA) 33 (1924-1993) 
135Harry D. Train II1 Oct 197851Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1978-1982.4 1949 (USNA) 29 (1927- 
136James D. Watkins18 Sep 197952Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1979-1981; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1981-1982; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1982-1986.7 1949 (USNA) 30 (1927-2012) Chairman, Watkins Commission, 1987-1988; U.S. Secretary of Energy, 1989-1993.
137William J. Crowe Jr.30 May 198055Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), 1980-1983; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1983; Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), 1983; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 1983-1985; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 1985-1989.9 1947 (USNA) 33 (1925-2007) Chairman, President's Intelligence Advisory Board, 1993-1994; U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1994-1997. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2000.
138Bobby R. Inman12 Feb 198150Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI), 1981-1982.1 1952 (OCS) 29 (1931- ) Director of Naval Intelligence, 1974-1976; Director, National Security Agency, 1977-1981. First naval intelligence specialist to attain rank of admiral.
139William N. Small1 Jul 198154Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1981-1983; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1983-1985.4 1948 (USNA) 33 (1927-2016) 
140John G. Williams Jr.1 Jul 198157Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1981-1983.2 1947 (USNA) 34 (1924-1991) 
141George E.R. Kinnear II31 Jul 198153U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1981-1982.1 1948 (OCS) 33 (1928-2015) 
142Kinnaird R. McKee2 Mar 198253Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Deputy Administrator, NNSA's Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08), 1982-1988.6 1951 (USNA) 31 (1929-2013) Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, 1975-1978.
143Sylvester R. Foley Jr.28 May 198254Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1982-1985.3 1950 (USNA) 32 (1928-2019) U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs, 1985-1988.
144Wesley L. McDonald1 Oct 198258Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; CINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1982-1983; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (SACLANT; USCINCLANT; CINCLANTFLT), 1983-1985.3 1946 (USNA) 36 (1924-2009) 
145Ronald J. Hays29 Apr 198355Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1983-1985; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 1985-1988.5 1950 (USNA) 33 (1928-2021) 
146Steven A. White1 Aug 198355Chief of Naval Material (CNM), 1983-1985.2 1952 (NROTC) 31 (1928-2021) Manager of Nuclear Power, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1986-1988.
147Lee Baggett Jr.30 May 198558Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1985; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (SACLANT; USCINCLANT), 1985-1988.3 1950 (USNA) 35 (1927-1999) 
148James A. Lyons Jr.16 Sep 198558Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1985-1987.2 1952 (USNA) 33 (1927-2018) 
149Carlisle A.H. Trost4 Oct 198555Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (CINCLANTFLT; DCINCLANT), 1985-1986; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1986-1990.5 1953 (USNA) 32 (1930-2020) 
150James B. Busey IV17 Oct 198553Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1985-1987; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1987-1989.4 1954 (NAVCAD) 31 (1932-2023) Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, 1989-1991; U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation, 1991-1992.
151Arthur S. Moreau Jr.15 Nov 198554Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1985-1986.1 1953 (USNA) 32 (1931-1986) Died in office. 
152Frank B. Kelso II13 Jun 198653Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (CINCLANTFLT; DCINCLANT), 1986; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1986-1988; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (SACLANT; USCINCLANT), 1988-1990; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1990-1994.8 1956 (USNA) 30 (1933-2013) 
153Huntington Hardisty11 Mar 198758Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1987-1988; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 1988-1991.4 1952 (USNA) 35 (1929-2003) President, Naval War College, 1977.
154Powell F. Carter Jr.1 Oct 198756U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1987-1988; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1988-1991.4 1955 (USNA) 32 (1931-2017) 
155David E. Jeremiah1 Oct 198753Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1987-1990; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 1990-1994.7 1956 (OCS) 32 (1934-2013) 
156Leon A. Edney1 Oct 198853Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1988-1990; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (SACLANT; USCINCLANT), 1990-1992.4 1957 (USNA) 31 (1935- 
157Bruce DeMars1 Nov 198853Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Deputy Administrator, NNSA's Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08), 1988-1996.8 1957 (USNA) 31 (1935- 
158James R. Hogg1 Dec 198854U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1988-1991.3 1956 (USNA) 32 (1934- 
159Jonathan T. Howe1 Jun 198954Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1989-1991; Deputy National Security Advisor, 1991-1993.3 1957 (USNA) 32 (1935- ) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, 1982-1984; Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Somalia, 1993-1994.
160Charles R. Larson1 Mar 199054Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1990-1991; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 1991-1994; Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, 1994-1998.8 1958 (USNA) 32 (1936-2014) Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, 1983-1986; Democratic Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, 2002.
161Jerome L. Johnson1 Jul 199055Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1990-1992.2 1956 (NROTC) 34 (1935- ) 
162Paul D. Miller1 Feb 199150Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1991-1992; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (SACLANT; USCINCLANT), 1992-1993; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (SACLANT; USCINCACOM), 1993-1994.3 1964 (OCS) 27 (1941- ) 
163William D. Smith22 Feb 199158U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee (USMILREP), 1991-1993.2 1955 (USNA) 36 (1933-2020) 
164Robert J. Kelly1 Mar 199153Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1991-1994.3 1959 (USNA) 32 (1938- ) 
165Jeremy M. Boorda2 Mar 199254Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1991-1994; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1994-1996.4 1962 (OCS) 30 (1938-1996) Died in office.
166William O. Studeman9 Apr 199252Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI), 1992-1995.3 1962 (NROTC) 30 (1940- )Director of Naval Intelligence, 1985-1988; Director, National Security Agency, 1988-1992. Father of Navy rear admiral Michael W. Studeman.
167Stanley R. Arthur6 Jul 199257Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1992-1995.3 1957 (NROTC) 35 (1935- ) 
168Henry H. Mauz Jr.1 Aug 199256Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1992-1994.2 1959 (USNA) 33 (1936- ) 
169Henry G. Chiles Jr.14 Feb 199456Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command (USCINCSTRAT), 1994-1996.2 1960 (USNA) 34 (1938- ) 
170William A. Owens1 Mar 199456Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 1994-1996.2 1962 (USNA) 32 (1940- ) 
171Leighton W. Smith Jr.1 May 199455Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1994-1996.2 1962 (USNA) 32 (1939- )Nephew of Navy four-star admiral Harold Page Smith.
172Richard C. Macke1 Oct 199456Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 1994-1996.2 1960 (USNA) 34 (1938-2022) Relieved, 1996.
173Ronald J. Zlatoper5 Oct 199453Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1994-1996.2 1963 (NROTC) 31 (1941-2022) 
174William J. Flanagan Jr.1 Nov 199451Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1994-1996.2 1964 (MMA) 30 (1943- ) 
175Joseph W. Prueher1 Jun 199553Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1995-1996; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 1996-1999.4 1964 (USNA) 31 (1942- )U.S. Ambassador to China, 1999-2001.
176Jay L. Johnson1 Apr 199650Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1996; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 1996-2000.4 1968 (USNA) 28 (1946- ) 
177Thomas J. Lopez31 Jul 199656Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1996-1998.2 1964 (NROTC) 32 (1940- ) 
178Frank L. Bowman1 Oct 199652Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Deputy Administrator, NNSA's Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08), 1996-2004.8 1966 (NROTC) 30 (1944- ) 
179Harold W. Gehman Jr.1 Oct 199654Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1996-1997; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command (SACLANT; USCINCACOM), 1997-1999; Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander in Chief, U.S. Joint Forces Command (SACLANT; USCINCJFCOM), 1999-2000.4 1965 (NROTC) 31 (1942- ) 
180Archie R. Clemins1 Jan 199754Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1996-1999.2 1966 (NROTC) 31 (1943-2020) 
181J. Paul Reason1 Feb 199756Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1996-1999.2 1965 (USNA) 32 (1941- )First African-American to achieve the rank of admiral.
182Donald L. Pilling30 Oct 199754Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 1997-2000.3 1965 (USNA) 32 (1943-2008) 
183Richard W. Mies1 Aug 199854Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command (USCINCSTRAT), 1998-2001.3 1967 (USNA) 31 (1944- ) 
184Charles S. Abbot1 Sep 199853Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR), 1998-2000.2 1966 (USNA) 32 (1945- )Deputy Director, Office of Homeland Security, 2001-2003.
185James O. Ellis1 Jan 199952Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 1998-2001; Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command (USCINCSTRAT), 2001-2002; Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2002-2004.5 1969 (USNA) 30 (1947- ) 
186Dennis C. Blair1 May 199953Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 1999-2002.3 1968 (USNA) 31 (1946- )President, Institute for Defense Analyses, 2003-2006; Director of National Intelligence, 2009-2010.
187Vernon E. Clark1 Nov 199955Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 1999-2000; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 2000-2005.6 1968 (OCS) 31 (1944- ) 
188Thomas B. Fargo1 Dec 199951Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 1999-2002; Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (USCINCPAC), 2002; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM), 2002-2005.6 1970 (USNA) 29 (1948- ) 
189Robert J. Natter1 Sep 200055Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), 2000-2001; Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Commander, Fleet Forces Command (CINCLANTFLT; COMFLTFORCOM), 2001-2002; Commander, Fleet Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMFLTFORCOM; COMLANTFLT), 2002-2003.3 1967 (USNA) 33 (1945- ) 
190William J. Fallon1 Nov 200056Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2000-2003; Commander, Fleet Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMFLTFORCOM; COMLANTFLT), 2003-2005; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM), 2005-2007; Commander, U.S. Central Command (CDRUSCENTCOM), 2007-2008.8 1967 (NROTC) 33 (1944- )Resigned, 2008.
191Gregory G. Johnson24 Oct 200155Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 2001-2002; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (COMUSNAVEUR; CINCSOUTH), 2002-2004; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMJFC Naples), 2004.3 1969 (NROTC) 32 (1946- ) 
192Walter F. Doran4 May 200257Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), 2002; Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2002-2005.3 1967 (NROTC) 35 (1945- ) 
193Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr.2 Oct 200254Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic; Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (SACLANT; CDRUSJFCOM), 2002-2003; Supreme Allied Commander Transformation; Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (SACT; CDRUSJFCOM), 2003-2005; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2005-2007.5 1970 (USNA) 32 (1948- ) 
194Michael G. Mullen28 Aug 200357Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2003-2004; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMJFC Naples), 2004-2005; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 2005-2007; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), 2007-2011.8 1968 (USNA) 35 (1946- ) 
195John B. Nathman1 Dec 200456Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2004-2005; Commander, Fleet Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMFLTFORCOM; COMLANTFLT), 2005-2006; Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFF), 2006-2007.3 1970 (USNA) 34 (1948- ) 
196Timothy J. Keating1 Jan 200556Commander, U.S. Northern Command; Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (CDRUSNORTHCOM; CDRNORAD), 2004-2007; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM), 2007-2009.5 1971 (USNA) 34 (1949- ) 
197Kirkland H. Donald1 Jan 200552Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Deputy Administrator, NNSA's Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08), 2004-2012.8 1975 (USNA) 30 (1953- ) 
198Robert F. Willard18 Mar 200555Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2005-2007; Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2007-2009; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM), 2009-2012.7 1973 (USNA) 32 (1950- ) 
199Henry G. Ulrich III22 Jul 200555Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMJFC Naples), 2005-2007.2 1972 (USNA) 33 (1950- ) 
200Gary Roughead1 Sep 200554Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2005-2007; Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFF), 2007; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 2007-2011.6 1973 (USNA) 32 (1951- ) 
201James G. Stavridis18 Oct 200651Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2006-2009; Commander, U.S. European Command; Supreme Allied Commander Europe (CDRUSEUCOM; SACEUR), 2009-2013.7 1976 (USNA) 30 (1955- )Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2013-2018.
202Patrick M. Walsh5 Apr 200752Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2007-2009; Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2009-2012.5 1977 (USNA) 30 (1955- ) 
203Eric T. Olson6 Jul 200755Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2007-2011.4 1973 (USNA) 34 (1952- )First Navy SEAL to achieve the rank of admiral.
204Jonathan W. Greenert29 Sep 200754Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFF), 2007-2009; Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2009-2011; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 2011-2015.8 1975 (USNA) 32 (1953- ) 
205Mark P. Fitzgerald30 Nov 200756Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMJFC Naples), 2007-2009; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMUSNAVAF; COMJFC Naples), 2009-2010.3 1973 (NROTC) 34 (1951- ) 
206John C. Harvey Jr.24 Jul 200958Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFF), 2009-2012.3 1973 (USNA) 36 (1951- )Virginia Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs, 2014-2017.
207James A. Winnefeld Jr.19 May 201054Commander, U.S. Northern Command; Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (CDRUSNORTHCOM; CDRNORAD), 2010-2011; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2011-2015.5 1978 (NROTC) 32 (1956)Chair, President's Intelligence Advisory Board, 2022-present.
208Samuel J. Locklear III6 Oct 201056Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMUSNAVAF; COMJFC Naples), 2010-2012; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM), 2012-2015.5 1977 (USNA) 33 (1954) 
209William H. McRaven8 Aug 201156Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (CDRUSSOCOM), 2011-2014.3 1977 (NROTC) 34 (1955)Chancellor, University of Texas System, 2015-2018.
210Mark E. Ferguson III22 Aug 201155Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2011-2014; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMUSNAVAF; COMJFC Naples), 2014-2016.5 1978 (USNA) 33 (1956) 
211Cecil D. Haney20 Jan 201257Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2012-2013; Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2013-2016.4 1978 (USNA) 34 (1955) 
212Bruce W. Clingan24 Feb 201257Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR; COMUSNAVAF; COMJFC Naples), 2012-2014.2 1977 (NROTC) 34 (1955) 
213William E. Gortney14 Sep 201257Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFF), 2012-2014; Commander, U.S. Northern Command; Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (CDRUSNORTHCOM; CDRNORAD), 2014-2016.4 1977 (AOCS) 35 (1955) 
214John M. Richardson2 Nov 201252Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Deputy Administrator, NNSA's Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08), 2012-2015; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 2015-2019.7 1982 (USNA) 31 (1960) 
215Harry B. Harris Jr.16 Oct 201357Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2013-2015; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM), 2015-2018.5 1978 (USNA) 35 (1956)U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 2018-2021. First Asian)American to achieve the rank of admiral.
216Michael S. Rogers3 Apr 201455Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency; Chief, Central Security Service (COMUSCYBERCOM; DIRNSA; CCSS), 2014-2018.4 1981 (NROTC) 33 (1959)First Information Warfare Community officer to achieve the rank of admiral.
217Michelle J. Howard1 Jul 201454Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2014-2016; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe - Naval Forces Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMUSNAVEUR-NAVAF & COMJFC Naples), 2016-2017.3 1982 (USNA) 32 (1960)Chair, The Naming Commission, 2021-2022. First woman to achieve the rank of admiral.
218Philip S. Davidson19 Dec 201454Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Northern Command (COMUSFF; COMUSNAVNORTHCOM), 2014-2018; Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (CDRUSINDOPACOM), 2018-2021.7 1982 (USNA) 32 (1960) 
219Scott H. Swift27 May 201558Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2015-2018.3 1979 (AOCS) 36 (1957)
220James F. Caldwell Jr.14 Aug 201556Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Deputy Administrator, NNSA's Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08), 2015-2024.9 1981 (USNA) 34 (1959)Great-grandson of Navy four-star admiral Jehu V. Chase.
221Kurt W. Tidd14 Jan 201660Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2016-2018.2 1978 (USNA) 38 (1956)Son of Navy vice admiral Emmett H. Tidd; brother of Navy rear admiral Mark L. Tidd.
222William F. Moran31 May 201658Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2016-2019.3 1981 (USNA) 35 (1958) 
223James G. Foggo III20 Oct 201758Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMCNE-CNA & COMJFC Naples), 2017-2020.3 1981 (USNA) 36 (1959) 
224Christopher W. Grady4 May 201856Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Northern Command (COMUSFF; COMUSNAVYNORTH), 2018-2019; Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Northern Command; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Strategic Command; Joint Force Maritime Component Commander (COMUSFF; COMUSNAVYNORTH; NAVSTRAT; JFMCC), 2019-2021; Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (VJCS), 2021-present.6 1984 (NROTC) 34 (1962) 
225John C. Aquilino17 May 201857Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2018-2021; Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (CDRUSINDOPACOM), 2021-2024.6 1984 (USNA) 34 (1961) 
226Craig S. Faller26 Nov 201857Commander, U.S. Southern Command (CDRUSSOUTHCOM), 2018-2021.3 1983 (USNA) 35 (1961) 
227Robert P. Burke10 Jun 201957Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2019-2020; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMCNE-CNA & COMJFC Naples), 2020-2022.3 1983 (NROTC) 36 (1962) 
228Michael M. Gilday22 Aug 201957Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 2019-2023.4 1985 (USNA) 34 (1962) 
229Charles A. Richard18 Nov 201960Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (CDRUSSTRATCOM), 2019-2022.3 1982 (NROTC) 37 (1959) 
230William K. Lescher29 May 202062Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2020-2022.2 1980 (USNA) 40 (1958) 
231Samuel J. Paparo Jr.5 May 202157Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2021-2024; Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (CDRUSINDOPACOM), 2024-present.3 1987 (NROTC) 34 (1964) 
232Daryl L. Caudle7 Dec 202158Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Northern Command; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Strategic Command; Joint Force Maritime Component Commander (COMUSFF; COMUSNAVYNORTH; NAVSTRAT; JFMCC), 2021-present.3 1985 (OCS) 36 (1963) 
233Stuart B. Munsch27 Jun 202260Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples (COMCNE-CNA & COMJFC Naples), 2022-present.2 1985 (USNA) 37 (1962) 
234Lisa M. Franchetti2 Sep 202258Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2022-2023; Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), 2023-present.2 1985 (NROTC) 37 (1964) 
235James W. Kilby5 Jan 202461Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO), 2024-present.0 1986 (USNA) 38 (1963) 
236William J. Houston10 Jan 202456Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Deputy Administrator, NNSA's Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08), 2024-present.0 1990 (NROTC) 34 (1968) 
237Stephen T. Koehler5 Apr 202460Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), 2024-present.0 1986 (NROTC) 38 (1964) 
 56.04Average age at promotion to four stars

UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE FOUR STAR GENERALS
#NameDate of rankAge at PromPositionYrsSource of CommissionYCDatesNotes
1John W. Raymond25 Oct 201654Commander, Air Force Space Command (COMAFSPC), 2016-2017; Commander, Air Force Space Command; Joint Force Space Component Commander (COMAFSPC; JFSCC), 2017-2019; Commander, U.S. Space Command; Commander, Air Force Space Command (CDRUSSPACECOM; COMAFSPC), 2019; Chief of Space Operations; Commander, U.S. Space Command (CSO; CDRUSSPACECOM), 2019-2020; Chief of Space Operations (CSO), 2020-2022.6 1984 (AFROTC) 32 (born 1962) 
2David D. Thompson1 Oct 2020 47Vice Chief of Space Operations (VCSO), 2020-2023.3 1985 (USAFA) 35 (born 1963) 
3B. Chance Saltzman2 Nov 202253Chief of Space Operations (CSO), 2022- Present.2 1991 (AFROTC) 31 (born 1969) 
4Michael A. Guetlein21 Dec 202356Vice Chief of Space Operations (VCSO), 2023- Present.1 1991 (AFROTC) 31 (born 1967) 
5Stephen N. Whiting10 Jan 202457Commander, U.S. Space Command (CDRUSSPACECOM), 2024- Present.0 1989 (USAFA) 35 (born 1967) 
 53.4Average age at promotion to four stars

Nobel Prize Recipients

The receipt of the Nobel Prize is often viewed as the pinnacle of success for a scientist, an author, a peace activist, or an economist. The Prizes were established by Alfred Nobel, to those "who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The committees deciding upon the recipients consider only those whose works, or the result of them, can be independently verified. Individual prizes are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for Physics, Chemistry, and Economics; the Swedish Academy awards the Prize for Literature; the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. A sixth Prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize, was added by a contribution by the Riksbank on its 300th anniversary in 1968. The awards are presented in Stockholm in an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

Unlike military officers, Nobel Lauriates are a varied lot. Some are individuals, working essentially alone to discover some new truth about the universe. Others have been famous in their various fields, often internationally recognized. Their common characteristic is that they are verified to have contributed substantially to the benefit of the human race. They are these:

Nobel Prize Ceremony, 2023

Nobel Prize Recipients

NOBEL PRIZE RECIPIENTS BY YEAR AND DISCIPLINE
Year Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine Literature Peace Economics
(The Sveriges Riksbank Prize)
Established 1968, first awarded 1969
1901 Wilhelm Rontgen [Age 56]Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff [Age 49]Emil von Behring [Age 47]Sully Prudhomme [Age 62]Henry Dunant [Age 73]
Frederic Passy [Age 79]
 
1902Hendrik Lorentz [Age 49]
Pieter Zeeman [Age 37]
Emil Fischer [Age 50]Ronald Ross [Age 45]Theodor Mommsen [Age 85]Elie Ducommun [Age 69]
Charles Albert Gobat [Age 59]
 
1903Henri Becquerel [Age 51]
Pierre Curie [Age 44]
Marie Curie [Age 36]
Svante Arrhenius [Age 44]Niels Ryberg Finsen [Age 43]Bjornstjerne Bjornson [Age 71]Randal Cremer [Age 75] 
1904John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh [Age 62]William Ramsay [Age 52]Ivan Pavlov [Age 55]Frederic Mistral [Age 74]
Jose Echegaray [Age 72]
Institut de Droit International 
1905Philipp Lenard [Age 43]Adolf von Baeyer [Age 70]Robert Koch [Age 62]Henryk Sienkiewicz [Age 59]Bertha von Suttner [Age 59] 
1906J. J. Thomson [Age 50]Henri Moissan [Age 54]Camillo Golgi [Age 63]
Santiago Ramon y Cajal [Age 54]
Giosue Carducci [Age 71]Theodore Roosevelt [Age 48] 
1907Albert A. Michelson [Age 55]Eduard Buchner [Age 47]Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran [Age 62]Rudyard Kipling [Age 42]Ernesto Teodoro Moneta [Age 74]
Louis Renault [Age 64]
 
1908Gabriel Lippmann [Age 63]Ernest Rutherford [Age 37]Elie Metchnikoff [Age 63]
Paul Ehrlich [Age 54]
Rudolf Christoph Eucken [Age 62]Klas Pontus Arnoldson [Age 64]
Fredrik Bajer [Age 71]
 
1909Karl Ferdinand Braun [Age 59]
Guglielmo Marconi [Age 35]
Wilhelm Ostwald [Age 56]Emil Theodor Kocher [Age 68]Selma Lagerlof [Age 51]Auguste Beernaert [Age 80]
Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant [Age 57]
 
1910Johannes Diderik van der Waals [Age 73]Otto Wallach [Age 63]Albrecht Kossel [Age 57]Paul Heyse [Age 80]International Peace Bureau 
1911Wilhelm Wien [Age 47]Marie Curie [Age 44]Allvar Gullstrand [Age 49]Maurice Maeterlinck [Age 49]Tobias Asser [Age 73]
Alfred Hermann Fried [Age 47]
 
1912Gustaf Dalen [Age 43]Victor Grignard [Age 41]
Paul Sabatier [Age 58]
Alexis Carrel [Age 39]Gerhart Hauptmann [Age 50]Elihu Root [Age 67] 
1913Heike Kamerlingh Onnes [Age 60]Alfred Werner [Age 47]Charles Richet [Age 63]Rabindranath Tagore [Age 52]Henri La Fontaine [Age 59] 
1914Max von Laue [Age 35]Theodore William Richards [Age 46]Robert Barany [Age 38]NONENONE 
1915William Henry Bragg [Age 53]
Lawrence Bragg [Age 25]
Richard Willstatter [Age 43]NONERomain Rolland [Age 49]NONE 
1916NONENONENONEVerner von Heidenstam [Age 57]NONE 
1917Charles Glover Barkla [Age 58]NONENONEKarl Adolph Gjellerup [Age 60]
Henrik Pontoppidan [Age 60]
International Committee of the Red Cross  
1918Max Planck [Age 60]Fritz Haber [Age 50]NONENONENONE 
1919Johannes Stark [Age 45]NONEJules Bordet [Age 49]Carl Spitteler [Age 74]Woodrow Wilson [Age 63] 
1920Charles Edouard Guillaume [Age 59]Walther Nernst [Age 56]August Krogh [Age 46]Knut Hamsun [Age 61]Leon Bourgeois [Age 69] 
1921Albert Einstein [Age 42]Frederick Soddy [Age 44]NONEAnatole France [Age 77]Hjalmar Branting [Age 61]
Christian Lous Lange [Age 52]
 
1922Niels Bohr [Age 37]Francis William Aston [Age 45]Archibald Hill [Age 36]
Otto Fritz Meyerhof [Age 38]
Jacinto Benavente [Age 38]Fridtjof Nansen [Age 61] 
1923Robert Andrews Millikan [Age 55]Fritz Pregl [Age 54]Frederick Banting [Age 32]
John Macleod [Age 47]
W. B. Yeats [Age 58]NONE 
1924Manne Siegbahn [Age 38]NONEWillem Einthoven [Age 64]Wladyslaw Reymont [Age 57]NONE 
1925James Franck [Age 43]
Gustav Ludwig Hertz [Age 38]
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy [Age 60]NONEGeorge Bernard Shaw [Age 69]Austen Chamberlain [Age 62]
Charles G. Dawes [Age 60]
 
1926Jean Baptiste Perrin [Age 56]Theodor Svedberg [Age 42]Johannes Fibiger [Age 59]Grazia Deledda [Age 55]Aristide Briand [Age 64]
Gustav Stresemann [Age 48]
 
1927Arthur Compton [Age 35]
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson [Age 58]
Heinrich Otto Wieland [Age 50]Julius Wagner-Jauregg [Age 70]Henri Bergson [Age 68]Ferdinand Buisson [Age 86]
Ludwig Quidde [Age 69]
 
1928Owen Willans Richardson [Age 49]Adolf Windaus [Age 52]Charles Nicolle [Age 62]Sigrid Undset [Age 46]NONE 
1929Louis de Broglie [Age 37]Arthur Harden [Age 64]
Hans von Euler-Chelpin [Age 45]
Christiaan Eijkman [Age 71]
Frederick Gowland Hopkins [Age 68]
Thomas Mann [Age 54]Frank B. Kellogg [Age 73] 
1930C. V. Raman [Age 42]Hans Fischer [Age 49]Karl Landsteiner [Age 62]Sinclair Lewis [Age 45]Nathan Soderblom [Age 64] 
1931NONECarl Bosch [Age 57]
Friedrich Bergius [Age 47]
Otto Heinrich Warburg [Age 48]Erik Axel Karlfeldt [Age 67]Jane Addams [Age 71]
Nicholas Murray Butler [Age 69]
 
1932Werner Heisenberg [Age 31]Irving Langmuir [Age 51]Charles Scott Sherrington [Age 75]
Edgar Adrian [Age 43]
John Galsworthy [Age 65]NONE 
1933Erwin Schrodinger [Age 46]
Paul Dirac [Age 31]
NONEThomas Hunt Morgan [Age 67]Ivan Bunin [Age 63]Norman Angell [Age 61] 
1934NONEHarold Urey [Age 41]George Whipple [Age 56]
George Minot [Age 49]
William P. Murphy [Age 42]
Luigi Pirandello [Age 67]Arthur Henderson [Age 71] 
1935James Chadwick [Age 44]Frederic Joliot-Curie [Age 35]
Irene Joliot-Curie [Age 38]
Hans Spemann [Age 66]NONECarl von Ossietzky [Age 46] 
1936Victor Francis Hess [Age 53]
Carl David Anderson [Age 31]
Peter Debye [Age 52]Henry Hallett Dale [Age 61]
Otto Loewi [Age 63]
Eugene O'Neill [Age 48]Carlos Saavedra Lamas [Age 58] 
1937Clinton Davisson [Age 56]
George Paget Thomson [Age 45]
Norman Haworth [Age 54]
Paul Karrer [Age 48]
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi [Age 44]Roger Martin du Gard [Age 56]Lord Robert Cecil of Chelwood [Age 69] 
1938Enrico Fermi [Age 37]Richard Kuhn [Age 37]Corneille Heymans [Age 46]Pearl S. Buck [Age 46]Nansen International Office for Refugees 
1939Ernest Lawrence [Age 38]Adolf Butenandt [Age 36]
Leopold Ruzicka [Age 52]
Gerhard Domagk [Age 44]Frans Eemil Sillanpaa [Age 51]NONE 
1940NONENONENONENONENONE 
1941NONENONENONENONENONE 
1942NONENONENONENONENONE 
1943Otto Stern [Age 55]George de Hevesy [Age 58]Henrik Dam [Age 48]
Edward Adelbert Doisy [Age 50]
NONENONE 
1944Isidor Isaac Rabi [Age 46]Otto Hahn [Age 65]Joseph Erlanger [Age 70]
Herbert Spencer Gasser [Age 56]
Johannes V. Jensen [Age 71]International Committee of the Red Cross 
1945Wolfgang Pauli [Age 45]Artturi Ilmari Virtanen [Age 50]Alexander Fleming [Age 64]
Ernst Chain [Age 39]
Howard Florey [Age 47]
Gabriela Mistral [Age 56]Cordell Hull [Age 74] 
1946Percy Williams Bridgman [Age 64]James B. Sumner [Age 59]
John Howard Northrop [Age 55]
Wendell Meredith Stanley [Age 42]
Hermann Joseph Muller [Age 56]Hermann Hesse [Age 69]Emily Greene Balch [Age 79]
John Mott [Age 81]
 
1947Edward Victor Appleton [Age 55]Sir Robert Robinson [Age 61]Carl Ferdinand Cori [Age 51]
Gerty Cori [Age 51]
Bernardo Houssay [Age 60]
Andre Gide [Age 78]Friends Service Council
American Friends Service Committee
 
1948Patrick Stuart Baron Blackett [Age 51]Arne Tiselius [Age 46]Paul Hermann Muller [Age 49]T. S. Eliot [Age 60]NONE 
1949Hideki Yukawa [Age 42]William Giauque [Age 54]Walter Rudolf Hess [Age 68]
Antonio Egas Moniz [Age 75]
William Faulkner [Age 52John Boyd Orr [Age 69] 
1950C. F. Powell [Age 70]Otto Diels [Age 74]
Kurt Alder [Age 48]
Philip Showalter Hench [Age 54]
Edward Calvin Kendall [Age 64]
Tadeus Reichstein [Age 53]
Bertrand Russell [Age 78]Ralph Bunche [Age 46] 
1951John Cockcroft [Age 54]
Ernest Walton [Age 54]
Edwin McMillan [Age 44]
Glenn T. Seaborg [Age 39]
Max Theiler [Age 52]Par Lagerkvist [Age 60]Leon Jouhaux [Age 72] 
1952Felix Bloch [Age 47]
Edward Mills Purcell [Age 40]
Archer Martin [Age 42]
Richard Laurence Millington Synge [Age 38]
Selman Waksman [Age 64]Francois Mauriac [Age 67]Albert Schweitzer [Age 77] 
1953Frits Zernike [Age 65]Hermann Staudinger [Age 72]Hans Adolf Krebs [Age 53]
Fritz Albert Lipmann [Age 54]
Sir Winston Churchill [Age 79]George C. Marshall [Age 73] 
1954Max Born [Age 72]
Walther Bothe [Age 63]
Linus Pauling [Age 53]John Franklin Enders [Age 57]
Frederick Chapman Robbins [Age 38]
Thomas Huckle Weller [Age 39]
Ernest Hemingway [Age 55]United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
1955Willis Lamb [Age 42]
Polykarp Kusch [Age 44]
Vincent du Vigneaud [Age 54]Hugo Theorell [Age 52]Halldor Laxness [Age 53]NONE 
1956John Bardeen [Age 48]
Walter Houser Brattain [Age 54]
William Shockley [Age 46]
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood [Age 59]
Nikolay Semyonov [Age 60]
Andre Frederic Cournand [Age 61]
Werner Forssmann [Age 52]
Dickinson W. Richards [Age 61]
Juan Ramon Jimenez [Age 75]NONE 
1957Yang Chen-Ning [Age 75]
Tsung-Dao Lee [Age 31]
Alexander, Baron Todd [Age 50]Daniel Bovet [Age 50]Albert Camus [Age 44]Lester B. Pearson [Age 60] 
1958Pavel Cherenkov [Age 54]
Ilya Frank [Age 50]
Igor Tamm [Age 63]
Frederick Sanger [Age 40]George Beadle [Age 55]
Edward Tatum [Age 49]
Joshua Lederberg [Age 33]
Boris Pasternak [Age 68]Dominique Pire [Age 68] 
1959Emilio Segre [Age 54]
Owen Chamberlain [Age 39]
Jaroslav Heyrovsky [Age 69]Arthur Kornberg [Age 41]
Severo Ochoa [Age 54]
Salvatore Quasimodo [Age 58]Philip Noel-Baker [Age 70] 
1960Donald A. Glaser [Age 34]Willard Libby [Age 52]Macfarlane Burnet [Age 61]
Peter Medawar [Age 45]
Saint-John Perse [Age 73]Albert Lutuli [Age 62] 
1961Robert Hofstadter [Age 46]
Rudolf Mossbauer [Age 32]
Melvin Calvin [Age 50]Georg von Bekesy [Age 62]Ivo Andric [Age 69]Dag Hammarskjold [Age 56] 
1962Lev Landau [Age 54]Max Perutz [Age 48]
John Kendrew [Age 45]
Francis Crick [Age 46]
James Watson [Age 34]
Maurice Wilkins [Age 46]
John Steinbeck [Age 60]Linus Pauling [Age 61] 
1963Eugene Wigner [Age 61]
Maria Goeppert Mayer [Age 57]
J. Hans D. Jensen [Age 56]
Karl Ziegler [Age 65]
Giulio Natta [Age 60]
John Eccles [Age 60]
Alan Hodgkin [Age 49]
Andrew Huxley [Age 46]
Giorgos Seferis [Age 63]International Committee of the Red Cross
League of Red Cross societies
 
1964Charles H. Townes [Age 49]
Nikolay Basov [Age 42]
Alexander Prokhorov [Age 48]
Dorothy Hodgkin [Age 54]Konrad Emil Bloch [Age 52]
Feodor Lynen [Age 53]
Jean-Paul Sartre [Age 59]Martin Luther King Jr. [Age 35] 
1965Shin'ichiro Tomonaga [Age 59]
Julian Schwinger [Age 47]
Richard Feynman [Age 47]
Robert Burns Woodward [Age 48]Francois Jacob [Age 45]
Andre Michel Lwoff [Age 63]
Jacques Monod [Age 55]
Mikhail Sholokhov [Age 60]United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund 
1966Alfred Kastler [Age 64]Robert S. Mulliken [Age 70]Francis Peyton Rous [Age 87]
Charles Brenton Huggins [Age 65]
Shmuel Yosef Agnon [Age 79]
Nelly Sachs [Age 75]
NONE 
1967Hans Bethe [Age 61]Manfred Eigen [Age 40]
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish [Age 70]
George Porter [Age 47]
Ragnar Granit [Age 67]
Haldan Keffer Hartline [Age 64]
George Wald [Age 61]
Miguel Angel Asturias [Age 68]NONE 
1968Luis Walter Alvarez [Age 57]Lars Onsager [Age 65]Robert W. Holley [Age 46]
Har Gobind Khorana [Age 46]
Marshall Warren Nirenberg [Age 41]
Yasunari Kawabata [Age 69]Rene Cassin [Age 81] The Sveriges Riksbank Prize Established
1969Murray Gell-Mann [Age 40]Derek Barton [Age 51]
Odd Hassel [Age 72]
Max Delbruck [Age 63]
Alfred Hershey [Age 61]
Salvador Luria [Age 57]
Samuel Beckett [Age 63]International Labour OrganizationRagnar Frisch [Age 74]
Jan Tinbergen [Age 66]
1970Hannes Alfven [Age 62]
Louis Neel [Age 66]
Luis Federico Leloir [Age 64]Julius Axelrod [Age 58]
Ulf von Euler [Age 65]
Bernard Katz [Age 59]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Age 52]Norman Borlaug [Age 56]Paul Samuelson [Age 55]
1971Dennis Gabor [Age 71]Gerhard Herzberg [Age 67]Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. [Age 56]Pablo Neruda [Age 67]Willy Brandt [Age 58]Simon Kuznets [Age 70]
1972John Bardeen [Age 64]
Leon Cooper [Age 42]
John Robert Schrieffer [Age 41]
Christian B. Anfinsen [Age 56]
Stanford Moore [Age 59]
William Howard Stein [Age 59]
Gerald Edelman [Age 43]
Rodney Robert Porter [Age 55]
Heinrich Boll [Age 55]NONEJohn Hicks [Age 68]
Kenneth Arrow [Age 51]
1973Leo Esaki [Age 48]
Ivar Giaever [Age 44]
Brian Josephson [Age 33]
Ernst Otto Fischer [Age 55]
Geoffrey Wilkinson [Age 52]
Karl von Frisch [Age 87]
Konrad Lorenz [Age 70]
Nikolaas Tinbergen [Age 66]
Patrick White [Age 61]Henry Kissinger [Age 50]Wassily Leontief [Age 68]
1974Martin Ryle [Age 56]
Antony Hewish [Age 50]
Paul Flory [Age 64]Albert Claude [Age 75]
Christian de Duve [Age 57]
George Emil Palade [Age 62]
Eyvind Johnson [Age 74]
Harry Martinson [Age 70]
Sean MacBride [Age 70]
Eisaku Sato [Age 73]
Gunnar Myrdal [Age 76]
Friedrich Hayek [Age 75]
1975Aage Bohr [Age 53]
Ben Roy Mottelson [Age 49]
James Rainwater [Age 58]
John Cornforth [Age 58]
Vladimir Prelog [Age 69]
David Baltimore [Age 37]
Renato Dulbecco [Age 61]
Howard Martin Temin [Age 41]
Eugenio Montale [Age 79]Andrei Sakharov [Age 54]Leonid Kantorovich [Age 63]
Tjalling Koopmans [Age 65]
1976Burton Richter [Age 45]
Samuel C. C. Ting [Age 40]
William Lipscomb [Age 57]Baruch Samuel Blumberg [Age 51]
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek [Age 53]
Saul Bellow [Age 61]Betty Williams [Age 33]
Mairead Maguire [Age 32]
Milton Friedman [Age 64]
1977Philip W. Anderson [Age 54]
Nevill Francis Mott [Age 72]
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck [Age 78]
Ilya Prigogine [Age 60]Roger Guillemin [Age 53]
Andrew Schally [Age 51]
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow [Age 56]
Vicente Aleixandre [Age 79]Amnesty InternationalBertil Ohlin [Age 78]
James Meade [Age 70]
1978Pyotr Kapitsa [Age 84]
Arno Allan Penzias [Age 45]
Robert Woodrow Wilson [Age 42]
Peter D. Mitchell [Age 58]Werner Arber [Age 49]
Daniel Nathans [Age 50]
Hamilton O. Smith [Age 47]
Isaac Bashevis Singer [Age 74]Anwar Sadat [Age 60]
Menachem Begin [Age 47]
Herbert A. Simon [Age 62]
1979Sheldon Glashow [Age 47]
Abdus Salam [Age 53]
Steven Weinberg [Age 46]
Herbert C. Brown [Age 67]
Georg Wittig [Age 82]
Allan McLeod Cormack [Age 55]
Godfrey Hounsfield [Age 60]
Odysseas Elytis [Age 68]Mother Teresa [Age 69]Theodore Schultz [Age 77]
W. Arthur Lewis [Age 64]
1980James Cronin [Age 49]
Val Logsdon Fitch [Age 57]
Paul Berg [Age 54]
Walter Gilbert [Age 48]
Frederick Sanger [Age 62]
Baruj Benacerraf [Age 60]
Jean Dausset [Age 64]
George Davis Snell [Age 77]
Czeslaw Milosz [Age 69]Adolfo Perez Esquivel [Age 49]Lawrence Klein [Age 60]
1981Nicolaas Bloembergen [Age 61]
Arthur Leonard Schawlow [Age 60]
Kai Siegbahn [Age 63]
Kenichi Fukui [Age 63]
Roald Hoffmann [Age 44]
Roger Wolcott Sperry [Age 68]
David H. Hubel [Age 55]
Torsten Wiesel [Age 57]
Elias Canetti [Age 76]United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesJames Tobin [Age 63]
1982Kenneth G. Wilson [Age 46]Aaron Klug [Age 56]Sune Bergstrom [Age 66]
Bengt I. Samuelsson [Age 48]
John Vane [Age 55]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Age 55]Alva Myrdal [Age 80]
Alfonso Garcia Robles [Age 71]
George Stigler [Age 71]
1983Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar [Age 73]
William Alfred Fowler [Age 72]
Henry Taube [Age 68]Barbara McClintock [Age 81]William Golding [Age 72]Lech Walesa [Age 40]Gerard Debreu [Age 62]
1984Carlo Rubbia [Age 50]
Simon van der Meer [Age 59]
Robert Bruce Merrifield [Age 63]Niels Kaj Jerne [Age 73]
Georges J. F. Kohler [Age 38]
Cesar Milstein [Age 57]
Jaroslav Seifert [Age 83]Desmond Tutu [Age 53]Richard Stone [Age 71]
1985Klaus von Klitzing [Age 42]Herbert A. Hauptman [Age 68]
Jerome Karle [Age 67]
Michael Stuart Brown [Age 44]
Joseph L. Goldstein [Age 45]
Claude Simon [Age 72]International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear WarFranco Modigliani [Age 67]
1986Ernst Ruska [Age 80]
Gerd Binnig [Age 39]
Heinrich Rohrer [Age 53]
Dudley R. Herschbach [Age 54]
Yuan T. Lee [Age 50]
John Polanyi [Age 57]
Stanley Cohen [Age 64]
Rita Levi-Montalcini [Age 77]
Wole Soyinka [Age 52]Elie Wiesel [Age 58]James M. Buchanan [Age 67]
1987Georg Bednorz [Age 37]
K. Alex Muller [Age 60]
Donald J. Cram [Age 68]
Jean-Marie Lehn [Age 48]
Charles J. Pedersen [Age 83]
Susumu Tonegawa [Age 48]Joseph Brodsky [Age 47]Oscar Arias [Age 47]Robert Solow [Age 63]
1988Leon M. Lederman [Age 66]
Melvin Schwartz [Age 56]
Jack Steinberger [Age 67]
Johann Deisenhofer [Age 45]
Robert Huber [Age 51]
Hartmut Michel [Age 40]
James W. Black [Age 64]
Gertrude B. Elion [Age 70]
George H. Hitchings [Age 83]
Naguib Mahfouz [Age 77]United Nations peacekeeping forcesMaurice Allais [Age 77]
1989Norman Ramsey Jr. [Age 74]
Hans Georg Dehmelt [Age 67]
Wolfgang Paul [Age 76]
Sidney Altman [Age 50]
Thomas Cech [Age 42]
J. Michael Bishop [Age 53]
Harold E. Varmus [Age 50]
Camilo Jose Cela [Age 73]Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th Dalai Lama) [Age 54]Trygve Haavelmo [Age 78]
1990Jerome Isaac Friedman [Age 60]
Henry Way Kendall [Age 64]
Richard E. Taylor [Age 64]
Elias James Corey [Age 62]Joseph Murray [Age 71]
E. Donnall Thomas [Age 70]
Octavio Paz [Age 76]Mikhail Gorbachev [Age 59]Harry Markowitz [Age 63]
Merton Miller [Age 67]
William F. Sharpe [Age 56]
1991Pierre-Gilles de Gennes [Age 59]Richard R. Ernst [Age 58]Erwin Neher [Age 47]
Bert Sakmann [Age 49]
Nadine Gordimer [Age 68]Aung San Suu Kyi [Age 46]Ronald Coase [Age 81]
1992Georges Charpak [Age 68]Rudolph A. Marcus [Age 69]Edmond H. Fischer [Age 72]
Edwin G. Krebs [Age 74]
Derek Walcott [Age 62]Rigoberta Menchu [Age 33]Gary Becker [Age 62]
1993Russell Alan Hulse [Age 43]
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. [Age 52]
Kary Mullis [Age 49]
Michael Smith [Age 61]
Richard J. Roberts [Age 50]
Phillip Allen Sharp [Age 49]
Toni Morrison [Age 62]Nelson Mandela [Age 75]
F. W. de Klerk [Age 57]
Robert Fogel [Age 67]
Douglass North [Age 73]
1994Bertram Brockhouse [Age 76]
Clifford Shull [Age 79]
George Andrew Olah [Age 67]Alfred G. Gilman [Age 53]
Martin Rodbell [Age 69]
Kenzaburo Oe [Age 59]Yasser Arafat [Age 65]
Shimon Peres [Age 71]
Yitzhak Rabin [Age 72]
John Harsanyi [Age 74]
John Forbes Nash Jr. [Age 66]
Reinhard Selten [Age 64]
1995Martin Lewis Perl [Age 68]
Frederick Reines [Age 77]
Paul J. Crutzen [Age 62]
Mario J. Molina [Age 52]
F. Sherwood Rowland [Age 68]
Edward B. Lewis [Age 77]
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard [Age 53]
Eric F. Wieschaus [Age 48]
Seamus Heaney [Age 56]Joseph Rotblat [Age 87]
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Robert Lucas Jr. [Age 58]
1996David Lee [Age 65]
Douglas Osheroff [Age 51]
Robert Coleman Richardson [Age 59]
Robert Curl [Age 63]
Harry Kroto [Age 57]
Richard Smalley [Age 53]
Peter C. Doherty [Age 56]
Rolf M. Zinkernagel [Age 52]
Wislawa Szymborska [Age 73]Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo [Age 48]
Jose Ramos-Horta [Age 47]
James Mirrlees [Age 60]
William Vickrey [Age 82]
1997Steven Chu [Age 49]
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji [Age 64]
William Daniel Phillips [Age 49]
Paul D. Boyer [Age 79]
John E. Walker [Age 56]
Jens Christian Skou [Age 79]
Stanley B. Prusiner [Age 55]Dario Fo [Age 71]International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Jody Williams [Age 47]
Robert C. Merton [Age 53]
Myron Scholes [Age 56]
1998Robert B. Laughlin [Age 48]
Horst Ludwig Stormer [Age 49]
Daniel C. Tsui [Age 59]
Walter Kohn [Age 75]
John Pople [Age 73]
Robert F. Furchgott [Age 82]
Louis Ignarro [Age 57]
Ferid Murad [Age 62]
Jose Saramago [Age 76]John Hume [Age 61]
David Trimble [Age 54]
Amartya Sen [Age 65]
1999Gerard 't Hooft [Age 53]
Martinus J. G. Veltman [Age 68]
Ahmed Zewail [Age 53]Gunter Blobel [Age 63]Gunter Grass [Age 72]Medecins Sans FrontieresRobert Mundell [Age 67]
2000Jack Kilby [Age 77]
Zhores Alferov [Age 70]
Herbert Kroemer [Age 72]
Alan J. Heeger [Age 64]
Alan MacDiarmid [Age 73]
Hideki Shirakawa [Age 64]
Arvid Carlsson [Age 77]
Paul Greengard [Age 75]
Eric Kandel [Age 71]
Gao Xingjian [Age 60]Kim Dae-jung [Age 76]James Heckman [Age 56]
Daniel McFadden [Age 63]
2001Eric Allin Cornell [Age 40]
Wolfgang Ketterle [Age 44]
Carl Wieman [Age 50]
William Standish Knowles [Age 84]
Ryoji Noyori [Age 63]
Karl Barry Sharpless [Age 60]
Leland H. Hartwell [Age 62]
Tim Hunt [Age 58]
Paul Nurse [Age 52]
V. S. Naipaul [Age 69]United Nations
Kofi Annan [Age 63]
George Akerlof [Age 61]
Michael Spence [Age 58]
Joseph Stiglitz [Age 58]
2002Riccardo Giacconi [Age 71]
Raymond Davis Jr. [Age 88]
Masatoshi Koshiba [Age 76]
John B. Fenn [Age 85]
Koichi Tanaka [Age 43]
Kurt Wuthrich [Age 64]
Sydney Brenner [Age 75]
H. Robert Horvitz [Age 55]
John Sulston [Age 60]
Imre Kertesz [Age 73]Jimmy Carter [Age 78]Daniel Kahneman [Age 68]
Vernon L. Smith [Age 75]
2003Alexei Abrikosov [Age 75]
Vitaly Ginzburg [Age 87]
Anthony James Leggett [Age 65]
Peter Agre [Age 54]
Roderick MacKinnon [Age 47]
Paul Lauterbur [Age 74]
Peter Mansfield [Age 70]
J. M. Coetzee [Age 63]Shirin Ebadi [Age 56]Robert F. Engle [Age 61]
Clive Granger [Age 69]
2004David Gross [Age 63]
Hugh David Politzer [Age 55]
Frank Wilczek [Age 53]
Aaron Ciechanover [Age 57]
Avram Hershko [Age 67]
Irwin Rose [Age 78]
Richard Axel [Age 58]
Linda B. Buck [Age 57]
Elfriede Jelinek [Age 58]Wangari Maathai [Age 64]Finn E. Kydland [Age 61]
Edward C. Prescott [Age 64]
2005Roy J. Glauber [Age 80]
John L. Hall [Age 71]
Theodor W. Hansch [Age 64]
Yves Chauvin [Age 75]
Robert H. Grubbs [Age 63]
Richard R. Schrock [Age 60]
Barry Marshall [Age 54]
Robin Warren [Age 68]
Harold Pinter [Age 75]International Atomic Energy Agency
Mohamed El Baradei [Age 63]
Robert Aumann [Age 75]
Thomas Schelling [Age 84]
2006John C. Mather [Age 60]
George Smoot [Age 61]
Roger D. Kornberg [Age 59]Andrew Fire [Age 47]
Craig Mello [Age 46]
Orhan Pamuk [Age 54]Muhammad Yunus [Age 66]
Grameen Bank
Edmund Phelps [Age 73]
2007Albert Fert [Age 69]
Peter Grunberg [Age 68]
Gerhard Ertl [Age 71]Mario Capecchi [Age 70]
Martin Evans [Age 66]
Oliver Smithies [Age 82]
Doris Lessing [Age 88]Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Al Gore [Age 88]
Leonid Hurwicz [Age 90]
Eric Maskin [Age 57]
Roger Myerson [Age 56]
2008Yoichiro Nambu [Age 87]
Makoto Kobayashi [Age 64]
Toshihide Maskawa [Age 68]
Osamu Shimomura [Age 80]
Martin Chalfie [Age 61]
Roger Y. Tsien [Age 56]
Harald zur Hausen [Age 72]
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi [Age 61]
Luc Montagnier [Age 76]
J. M. G. Le Clezio [Age 68]Martti Ahtisaari [Age 71]Paul Krugman [Age 55]
2009Charles K. Kao [Age 76]
Willard S. Boyle [Age 85]
George E. Smith [Age 79]
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan [Age 57]
Thomas A. Steitz [Age 69]
Ada Yonath [Age 70]
Elizabeth Blackburn [Age 61]
Carol W. Greider [Age 48]
Jack W. Szostak [Age 57]
Herta Muller [Age 56]Barack Obama [Age 48]Elinor Ostrom [Age 76]
Oliver E. Williamson [Age 77]
2010Andre Geim [Age 52]
Konstantin Novoselov [Age 36]
Richard F. Heck [Age 79]
Ei-ichi Negishi [Age 75]
Akira Suzuki [Age 80]
Robert Edwards [Age 85]Mario Vargas Llosa [Age 74]Liu Xiaobo [Age 55]Peter A. Diamond [Age 70]
Dale T. Mortensen [Age 71]
Christopher A. Pissarides [Age 62]
2011Saul Perlmutter [Age 52]
Adam Riess [Age 42]
Brian Schmidt [Age 44]
Dan Shechtman [Age 70]Bruce Beutler [Age 54]
Jules A. Hoffmann [Age 70]
Ralph M. Steinman [Age 68]
Tomas Transtromer [Age 80]Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [Age 73]
Leymah Gbowee [Age 39]
Tawakel Karman [Age 32]
Thomas J. Sargent [Age 68]
Christopher A. Sims [Age 68]
2012Serge Haroche [Age 68]
David J. Wineland [Age 68]
Brian K. Kobilka [Age 57]
Robert J. Lefkowitz [Age 69]
John B. Gurdon [Age 79]
Shinya Yamanaka [Age 50]
Mo Yan [Age 57]European UnionAlvin E. Roth [Age 61]
Lloyd S. Shapley [Age 89]
2013Francois Englert [Age 81]
Peter W. Higgs [Age 84]
Martin Karplus [Age 83]
Michael Levitt [Age 66]
Arieh Warshel [Age 73]
James E. Rothman [Age 63]
Randy W. Schekman [Age 65]
Thomas C. Sudhof [Age 58]
Alice Munro [Age 82]Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical WeaponsEugene F. Fama [Age 74]
Lars Peter Hansen [Age 61]
Robert J. Shiller [Age 67]
2014Isamu Akasaki [Age 85]
Hiroshi Amano [Age 54]
Shuji Nakamura [Age 60]
Eric Betzig [Age 54]
Stefan Hell [Age 52]
William Moerner [Age 61]
John O'Keefe [Age 75]
May-Britt Moser [Age 51]
Edvard Moser [Age 52]
Patrick Modiano [Age 69]Kailash Satyarthi [Age 69]
Malala Yousafzai [Age 17]
Jean Tirole [Age 61]
2015Takaaki Kajita [Age 56]
Arthur B. McDonald [Age 72]
Tomas Lindahl [Age 77]
Paul L. Modrich [Age 69]
Aziz Sancar [Age 69]
William C. Campbell [Age 85]
Satoshi Omura [Age 80]
Tu Youyou [Age 85]
Svetlana Alexievich [Age 67]Tunisian National Dialogue QuartetAngus Deaton [Age 70]
2016David J. Thouless [Age 82]
Duncan Haldane [Age 65]
John M. Kosterlitz [Age 73]
Jean-Pierre Sauvage [Age 72]
Fraser Stoddart [Age 74]
Ben Feringa [Age 65]
Yoshinori Ohsumi [Age 71]Bob Dylan [Age 75]Juan Manuel Santos [Age 65]Oliver Hart [Age 68]
Bengt R. Holmstrom [Age 67]
2017Rainer Weiss [Age 85]
Barry Barish [Age 81]
Kip Thorne [Age 77]
Jacques Dubochet [Age 75]
Joachim Frank [Age 77]
Richard Henderson [Age 72]
Jeffrey C. Hall [Age 72]
Michael Rosbash [Age 73]
Michael W. Young [Age 68]
Kazuo Ishiguro [Age 63]International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsRichard Thaler [Age 72]
2018Arthur Ashkin [Age 96]
Gerard Mourou [Age 74]
Donna Strickland [Age 59]
Frances H. Arnold [Age 62]
George Smith [Age 77]
Greg Winter [Age 67]
James P. Allison [Age 70]
Tasuku Honjo [Age 76]
Olga Tokarczuk [Age 56] Denis Mukwege [Age 63]
Nadia Murad [Age 25]
William Nordhaus [Age 77]
Paul Romer [Age 63]
2019Jim Peebles [Age 84]
Michel Mayor [Age 77]
Didier Queloz [Age 53]
John B. Goodenough [Age 97]
M. Stanley Whittingham [Age 78]
Akira Yoshino [Age 71]
William Kaelin Jr. [Age 62]
Peter J. Ratcliffe [Age 65]
Gregg L. Semenza [Age 63]
Peter Handke [Age 77]Abiy Ahmed [Age 43]Abhijit Banerjee [Age 58]
Esther Duflo [Age 47]
Michael Kremer [Age 55]
2020Roger Penrose [Age 89]
Reinhard Genzel [Age 68]
Andrea M. Ghez [Age 55]
Emmanuelle Charpentier [Age 52]
Jennifer Doudna [Age 56]
Harvey J. Alter [Age 85]
Michael Houghton [Age 71]
Charles M. Rice [Age 68]
Louise Gluck [Age 77]World Food ProgrammePaul Milgrom [Age 72]
Robert B. Wilson [Age 83]
2021Giorgio Parisi [Age 73]
Klaus Hasselmann [Age 90]
Syukuro Manabe [Age 90]
Benjamin List [Age 53]
Sir David MacMillan [Age 53]
David Julius [Age 66]
Ardem Patapoutian [Age 54]
Abdulrazak Gurnah [Age 73]Maria Ressa [Age 58]
Dmitry Muratov [Age 60]
David Card [Age 65]
Joshua Angrist [Age 61]
Guido Imbens [Age 58]
2022Alain Aspect [Age 75]
John Clauser [Age 80]
Anton Zeilinger [Age 77]
Carolyn Bertozzi [Age 56]
Morten P. Meldal [Age 68]
Karl Barry Sharpless [Age 81]
Svante Paabo [Age 67]Annie Ernaux [Age 82]Ales Bialiatski [Age 60]
Memorial Society
Centre for Civil Liberties (human rights organization)
Ben Bernanke [Age 69]
Douglas Diamond [Age 69]
Philip H. Dybvig [Age 67]
2023Pierre Agostini [Age 2023-1941]
Ferenc Krausz [Age 61]
Anne L'Huillier [Age 65]
Moungi Bawendi [Age 62]
Louis E. Brus [Age 80]
Alexey Ekimov [Age 78]
Katalin Kariko [Age 68]
Drew Weissman [Age 64]
Jon Fosse [Age 64]Narges Mohammadi [Age 51]Claudia Goldin [Age 77]

LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE RECIPIENTS BY DISCIPLINE AND AGE
Physics Age at Year of Award Chemistry Age at Year of Award Physiology or Medicine Age at Year of Award Literature Age at Year of Award Peace Age at Year of Award Economics (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize) Age at Year of Award
Average Age57.61Average Age61.66Average Age55.81Average Age64.74Average Age61.07Average Age66.94
Lawrence Bragg25Frederic Joliot-Curie35Frederick Banting32Jacinto Benavente38Malala Yousafzai17Esther Duflo47
Werner Heisenberg31Adolf Butenandt36Joshua Lederberg33Rudyard Kipling42Nadia Murad25Kenneth Arrow51
Paul Dirac31Ernest Rutherford37James Watson34Albert Camus44Mairead Maguire32Robert C. Merton53
Carl David Anderson31Richard Kuhn37Archibald Hill36Sinclair Lewis45Tawakel Karman32Paul Samuelson55
Tsung-Dao Lee31Irene Joliot-Curie38David Baltimore37Sigrid Undset46Betty Williams33Paul Krugman55
Rudolf Mossbauer32Richard Laurence Millington Synge38Robert Barany38Pearl S. Buck46Rigoberta Menchu33Michael Kremer55
Brian Josephson33Glenn T. Seaborg39Otto Fritz Meyerhof38Joseph Brodsky47Martin Luther King Jr.35James Heckman56
Donald A. Glaser34Frederick Sanger40Frederick Chapman Robbins38Eugene O'Neill48Leymah Gbowee39William F. Sharpe56
Guglielmo Marconi35Manfred Eigen40Georges J. F. Kohler38Maurice Maeterlinck49Lech Walesa40Myron Scholes56
Max von Laue35Hartmut Michel40Alexis Carrel39Romain Rolland49Abiy Ahmed43Roger Myerson56
Arthur Compton35Victor Grignard41Ernst Chain39Gerhart Hauptmann50Carl von Ossietzky46Eric Maskin57
Marie Curie36Harold Urey41Thomas Huckle Weller39Selma Lagerlof51Ralph Bunche46Michael Spence58
Konstantin Novoselov36Theodor Svedberg42Arthur Kornberg41Frans Eemil Sillanpaa51Aung San Suu Kyi46Abhijit Banerjee58
Pieter Zeeman37Wendell Meredith Stanley42Marshall Warren Nirenberg41Rabindranath Tagore52Alfred Hermann Fried47Robert Lucas Jr.58
Niels Bohr37Archer Martin42Howard Martin Temin41William Faulkner52Menachem Begin47Joseph Stiglitz58
Louis de Broglie37Thomas Cech42William P. Murphy42Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn52Oscar Arias47Guido Imbens58
Enrico Fermi37Richard Willstatter43Niels Ryberg Finsen43Wole Soyinka52Jose Ramos-Horta47James Mirrlees60
Georg Bednorz37Koichi Tanaka43Edgar Adrian43Halldor Laxness53Jody Williams47Lawrence Klein60
Manne Siegbahn38Svante Arrhenius44Gerald Edelman43Thomas Mann54Theodore Roosevelt48George Akerlof61
Gustav Ludwig Hertz38Marie Curie44Albert Szent-Gyorgyi44Orhan Pamuk54Gustav Stresemann48Robert F. Engle61
Ernest Lawrence38Frederick Soddy44Gerhard Domagk44Grazia Deledda55Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo48Finn E. Kydland61
Owen Chamberlain39Edwin McMillan44Michael Stuart Brown44Ernest Hemingway55Barack Obama48Alvin E. Roth61
Gerd Binnig39Roald Hoffmann44Ronald Ross45Heinrich Boll55Adolfo Perez Esquivel49Lars Peter Hansen61
Edward Mills Purcell40Francis William Aston45Peter Medawar45Gabriel Garcia Marquez55Henry Kissinger50Joshua Angrist61
Murray Gell-Mann40Hans von Euler-Chelpin45Francois Jacob45Roger Martin du Gard56Narges Mohammadi51Jean Tirole61
Samuel C. C. Ting40John Kendrew45Joseph L. Goldstein45Gabriela Mistral56Christian Lous Lange52Herbert A. Simon62
Eric Allin Cornell40Johann Deisenhofer45August Krogh46Seamus Heaney56Desmond Tutu53Gerard Debreu62
John Robert Schrieffer41Theodore William Richards46Corneille Heymans46Herta Muller56Andrei Sakharov54Gary Becker62
Albert Einstein42Arne Tiselius46Francis Crick46Olga Tokarczuk56Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th Dalai Lama)54Christopher A. Pissarides62
C. V. Raman42Eduard Buchner47Maurice Wilkins46Verner von Heidenstam57David Trimble54Leonid Kantorovich63
Hideki Yukawa42Alfred Werner47Andrew Huxley46Wladyslaw Reymont57Liu Xiaobo55Harry Markowitz63
Willis Lamb42Friedrich Bergius47Robert W. Holley46Mo Yan57Dag Hammarskjold56James Tobin63
Nikolay Basov42George Porter47Har Gobind Khorana46W. B. Yeats58Norman Borlaug56Robert Solow63
Leon Cooper42Roderick MacKinnon47Craig Mello46Salvatore Quasimodo58Shirin Ebadi56Daniel McFadden63
Robert Woodrow Wilson42Paul Karrer48Emil von Behring47Elfriede Jelinek58Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant57Paul Romer63
Klaus von Klitzing42Kurt Alder48John Macleod47Henryk Sienkiewicz59F. W. de Klerk57Milton Friedman64
Adam Riess42Max Perutz48Howard Florey47Jean-Paul Sartre59Carlos Saavedra Lamas58W. Arthur Lewis64
Philipp Lenard43Robert Burns Woodward48Hamilton O. Smith47Kenzaburo Oe59Willy Brandt58Reinhard Selten64
Gustaf Dalen43Walter Gilbert48Erwin Neher47Karl Adolph Gjellerup60Elie Wiesel58Edward C. Prescott64
James Franck43Jean-Marie Lehn48Andrew Fire47Henrik Pontoppidan60Maria Ressa58David Card65
Russell Alan Hulse43Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff49Otto Heinrich Warburg48T. S. Eliot60Charles Albert Gobat59Tjalling Koopmans65
Pierre Curie44Hans Fischer49Henrik Dam48Par Lagerkvist60Bertha von Suttner59Amartya Sen65
James Chadwick44Kary Mullis49Bengt I. Samuelsson48John Steinbeck60Henri La Fontaine59John Forbes Nash Jr.66
Polykarp Kusch44Emil Fischer50Susumu Tonegawa48Mikhail Sholokhov60Mikhail Gorbachev59Jan Tinbergen66
Ivar Giaever44Fritz Haber50Eric F. Wieschaus48Gao Xingjian60Charles G. Dawes60Merton Miller67
Wolfgang Ketterle44Heinrich Otto Wieland50Carol W. Greider48Knut Hamsun61Lester B. Pearson60Robert Fogel67
Brian Schmidt44Artturi Ilmari Virtanen50Allvar Gullstrand49Patrick White61Anwar Sadat60Franco Modigliani67
Johannes Stark45Alexander, Baron Todd50Jules Bordet49Saul Bellow61Dmitry Muratov60James M. Buchanan67
George Paget Thomson45Melvin Calvin50George Minot49Sully Prudhomme62Ales Bialiatski60Robert Mundell67
Wolfgang Pauli45Yuan T. Lee50Paul Hermann Muller49Rudolf Christoph Eucken62Hjalmar Branting61Robert J. Shiller67
Burton Richter45Sidney Altman50Edward Tatum49Derek Walcott62Fridtjof Nansen61Bengt R. Holmstrom67
Arno Allan Penzias45Irving Langmuir51Alan Hodgkin49Toni Morrison62Norman Angell61Philip H. Dybvig67
Erwin Schrodinger46Derek Barton51Werner Arber49Ivan Bunin63Linus Pauling61John Hicks68
Isidor Isaac Rabi46Robert Huber51Bert Sakmann49Giorgos Seferis63John Hume61Daniel Kahneman68
William Shockley46William Ramsay52Phillip Allen Sharp49Samuel Beckett63Austen Chamberlain62Thomas J. Sargent68
Robert Hofstadter46Adolf Windaus52Edward Adelbert Doisy50J. M. Coetzee63Albert Lutuli62Oliver Hart68
Steven Weinberg46Peter Debye52Daniel Bovet50Kazuo Ishiguro63Woodrow Wilson63Wassily Leontief68
Kenneth G. Wilson46Leopold Ruzicka52Daniel Nathans50Jon Fosse64Kofi Annan63Christopher A. Sims68
Wilhelm Wien47Willard Libby52Harold E. Varmus50John Galsworthy65Mohamed El Baradei63Ben Bernanke69
Felix Bloch47Geoffrey Wilkinson52Richard J. Roberts50Erik Axel Karlfeldt67Denis Mukwege63Douglas Diamond69
Julian Schwinger47Mario J. Molina52 Shinya Yamanaka50Luigi Pirandello67Louis Renault64Clive Granger69
Richard Feynman47Stefan Hell52Baruch Samuel Blumberg51Francois Mauriac67Klas Pontus Arnoldson64Peter A. Diamond70
Sheldon Glashow47Emmanuelle Charpentier52Andrew Schally51Pablo Neruda67Aristide Briand64Simon Kuznets70
John Bardeen48Linus Pauling53May-Britt Moser51Svetlana Alexievich67Nathan Soderblom64James Meade70
Alexander Prokhorov48Richard Smalley53Max Theiler52Henri Bergson68Wangari Maathai64Angus Deaton70
Leo Esaki48Ahmed Zewail53Hugo Theorell52Boris Pasternak68Yasser Arafat65Dale T. Mortensen71
Robert B. Laughlin48Benjamin List53Werner Forssmann52Miguel Angel Asturias68Juan Manuel Santos65George Stigler71
Hendrik Lorentz49Sir David MacMillan53Konrad Emil Bloch52Odysseas Elytis68Muhammad Yunus66Richard Stone71
Owen Willans Richardson49Henri Moissan54Rolf M. Zinkernagel52Nadine Gordimer68Elihu Root67Paul Milgrom72
Charles H. Townes49Fritz Pregl54Paul Nurse52J. M. G. Le Clezio68Dominique Pire68Richard Thaler72
Ben Roy Mottelson49Norman Haworth54Edvard Moser52George Bernard Shaw69Elie Ducommun69Douglass North73
James Cronin49William Giauque54Tadeus Reichstein53Hermann Hesse69Leon Bourgeois69Edmund Phelps73
Steven Chu49Vincent du Vigneaud54Hans Adolf Krebs53Ivo Andric69Ludwig Quidde69Ragnar Frisch74
William Daniel Phillips49Dorothy Hodgkin54Feodor Lynen53Yasunari Kawabata69Nicholas Murray Butler69John Harsanyi74
Horst Ludwig Stormer49Paul Berg54Daniel Carleton Gajdusek53Czeslaw Milosz69Lord Robert Cecil of Chelwood69Eugene F. Fama74
J. J. Thomson50Dudley R. Herschbach54Roger Guillemin53V. S. Naipaul69John Boyd Orr69Robert Aumann75
Ilya Frank50Peter Agre54J. Michael Bishop53Patrick Modiano69Mother Teresa69Friedrich Hayek75
Antony Hewish50Eric Betzig54Alfred G. Gilman53Harry Martinson70Kailash Satyarthi69Vernon L. Smith75
Carlo Rubbia50John Howard Northrop55Christiane Nusslein-Volhard53Bjornstjerne Bjornson71Philip Noel-Baker70Gunnar Myrdal76
Carl Wieman50Ernst Otto Fischer55Santiago Ramon y Cajal54Giosue Carducci71Sean MacBride70Elinor Ostrom76
Henri Becquerel51Wilhelm Ostwald56Paul Ehrlich54Johannes V. Jensen71Fredrik Bajer71Theodore Schultz77
Carl Ferdinand Cori51Walther Nernst56Philip Showalter Hench54Dario Fo71Jane Addams71William Nordhaus77
Gerty Cori51Christian B. Anfinsen56Fritz Albert Lipmann54Jose Echegaray72Arthur Henderson71Maurice Allais77
Patrick Stuart Baron Blackett51Aaron Klug56Severo Ochoa54William Golding72Alfonso Garcia Robles71Oliver E. Williamson77
Douglas Osheroff51John E. Walker56Barry Marshall54Claude Simon72Shimon Peres71Claudia Goldin77
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.52Roger Y. Tsien56Bruce Beutler54Gunter Grass72Martti Ahtisaari71Bertil Ohlin78
Andre Geim52Jennifer Doudna56Ardem Patapoutian54Saint-John Perse73Leon Jouhaux72Trygve Haavelmo78
Saul Perlmutter52Carolyn Bertozzi56Ivan Pavlov55Camilo Jose Cela73Yitzhak Rabin72Ronald Coase81
William Henry Bragg53Carl Bosch57George Beadle55Wislawa Szymborska73Henry Dunant73William Vickrey82
Victor Francis Hess53William Lipscomb57Jacques Monod55Imre Kertesz73Tobias Asser73Robert B. Wilson83
Aage Bohr53John Polanyi57Rodney Robert Porter55Abdulrazak Gurnah73Frank B. Kellogg73Thomas Schelling84
Abdus Salam53Harry Kroto57Allan McLeod Cormack55Frederic Mistral74George C. Marshall73Lloyd S. Shapley89
Heinrich Rohrer53Aaron Ciechanover57David H. Hubel55Carl Spitteler74Eisaku Sato73Leonid Hurwicz90
Gerard 't Hooft53Venkatraman Ramakrishnan57John Vane55Eyvind Johnson74Ellen Johnson Sirleaf73
Frank Wilczek53Brian K. Kobilka57Stanley B. Prusiner55Isaac Bashevis Singer74Ernesto Teodoro Moneta74
Didier Queloz53Paul Sabatier58H. Robert Horvitz55Mario Vargas Llosa74Cordell Hull74
John Cockcroft54George de Hevesy58George Whipple56Juan Ramon Jimenez75Randal Cremer75
Ernest Walton54John Cornforth58Herbert Spencer Gasser56Nelly Sachs75Nelson Mandela75
Walter Houser Brattain54Peter D. Mitchell58Hermann Joseph Muller56Harold Pinter75Kim Dae-jung76
Pavel Cherenkov54Richard R. Ernst58Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.56Bob Dylan75Albert Schweitzer77
Emilio Segre54James B. Sumner59Rosalyn Sussman Yalow56Elias Canetti76Jimmy Carter78
Lev Landau54Cyril Norman Hinshelwood59Peter C. Doherty56Octavio Paz76Frederic Passy79
Philip W. Anderson54Stanford Moore59Albrecht Kossel57Jose Saramago76Emily Greene Balch79
Hiroshi Amano54William Howard Stein59John Franklin Enders57Anatole France77Auguste Beernaert80
Albert A. Michelson55Roger D. Kornberg59Salvador Luria57Naguib Mahfouz77Alva Myrdal80
Robert Andrews Millikan55Richard Adolf Zsigmondy60Christian de Duve57Peter Handke77John Mott81
Otto Stern55Nikolay Semyonov60Torsten Wiesel57Louise Gluck77Rene Cassin81
Edward Victor Appleton55Giulio Natta60Cesar Milstein57Bertrand Russell78Ferdinand Buisson86
Hugh David Politzer55Ilya Prigogine60Louis Ignarro57Sir Winston Churchill79Joseph Rotblat87
Andrea M. Ghez55Karl Barry Sharpless60Linda B. Buck57Shmuel Yosef Agnon79Al Gore88
Wilhelm Rontgen56Richard R. Schrock60Jack W. Szostak57Eugenio Montale79
Jean Baptiste Perrin56Sir Robert Robinson61Julius Axelrod58Vicente Aleixandre79
Clinton Davisson56Michael Smith61Tim Hunt58Paul Heyse80
J. Hans D. Jensen56Martin Chalfie61Richard Axel58Tomas Transtromer80
Martin Ryle56William Moerner61Thomas C. Sudhof58Alice Munro82
Melvin Schwartz56Frederick Sanger62Johannes Fibiger59Annie Ernaux82
Takaaki Kajita56Elias James Corey62Bernard Katz59Jaroslav Seifert83
Maria Goeppert Mayer57Paul J. Crutzen62John Eccles60Theodor Mommsen85
Luis Walter Alvarez57Frances H. Arnold62Godfrey Hounsfield60Doris Lessing88
Val Logsdon Fitch57Moungi Bawendi62Baruj Benacerraf60
Charles Glover Barkla58Otto Wallach63John Sulston60
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson58Kenichi Fukui63Henry Hallett Dale61
James Rainwater58Robert Bruce Merrifield63Andre Frederic Cournand61
Karl Ferdinand Braun59Robert Curl63Dickinson W. Richards61
Charles Edouard Guillaume59Ryoji Noyori63Macfarlane Burnet61
Shin'ichiro Tomonaga59Robert H. Grubbs63George Wald61
Simon van der Meer59Arthur Harden64Alfred Hershey61
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes59Luis Federico Leloir64Renato Dulbecco61
Robert Coleman Richardson59Paul Flory64Francoise Barre-Sinoussi61
Daniel C. Tsui59Alan J. Heeger64Elizabeth Blackburn61
Donna Strickland59Hideki Shirakawa64Robert Koch62
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes60Kurt Wuthrich64Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran62
Max Planck60Otto Hahn65Charles Nicolle62
Bernardo Houssay60Karl Ziegler65Karl Landsteiner62
Arthur Leonard Schawlow60Lars Onsager65Georg von Bekesy62
K. Alex Muller60Ben Feringa65George Emil Palade62
Jerome Isaac Friedman60Michael Levitt66Ferid Murad62
John C. Mather60Gerhard Herzberg67Leland H. Hartwell62
Shuji Nakamura60Herbert C. Brown67William Kaelin Jr.62
Eugene Wigner61Jerome Karle67Camillo Golgi63
Hans Bethe61George Andrew Olah67Elie Metchnikoff63
Nicolaas Bloembergen61Avram Hershko67Charles Richet63
George Smoot61Greg Winter67Otto Loewi63
Ferenc Krausz61Henry Taube68Andre Michel Lwoff63
John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh62Herbert A. Hauptman68Max Delbruck63
Hannes Alfven62Donald J. Cram68Gunter Blobel63
Gabriel Lippmann63F. Sherwood Rowland68James E. Rothman63
Walther Bothe63Morten P. Meldal68Gregg L. Semenza63
Igor Tamm63Jaroslav Heyrovsky69Willem Einthoven64
Kai Siegbahn63Vladimir Prelog69Alexander Fleming64
David Gross63Rudolph A. Marcus69Edward Calvin Kendall64
Percy Williams Bridgman64Thomas A. Steitz69Selman Waksman64
Alfred Kastler64Robert J. Lefkowitz69Haldan Keffer Hartline64
John Bardeen64Paul L. Modrich69Jean Dausset64
Henry Way Kendall64Aziz Sancar69Stanley Cohen64
Richard E. Taylor64Adolf von Baeyer70James W. Black64
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji64Robert S. Mulliken70Drew Weissman64
Theodor W. Hansch64Ronald George Wreyford Norrish70Charles Brenton Huggins65
Makoto Kobayashi64Ada Yonath70Ulf von Euler65
Frits Zernike65Dan Shechtman70Randy W. Schekman65
David Lee65Gerhard Ertl71Peter J. Ratcliffe65
Anthony James Leggett65Akira Yoshino71Hans Spemann66
Duncan Haldane65Hermann Staudinger72Nikolaas Tinbergen66
Anne L'Huillier65Odd Hassel72Sune Bergstrom66
Louis Neel66Jean-Pierre Sauvage72Martin Evans66
Leon M. Lederman66Richard Henderson72David Julius66
Jack Steinberger67John Pople73Thomas Hunt Morgan67
Hans Georg Dehmelt67Alan MacDiarmid73Ragnar Granit67
Georges Charpak68Arieh Warshel73Svante Paabo67
Martin Lewis Perl68Otto Diels74Emil Theodor Kocher68
Martinus J. G. Veltman68Fraser Stoddart74Frederick Gowland Hopkins68
Peter Grunberg68Walter Kohn75Walter Rudolf Hess68
Toshihide Maskawa68Yves Chauvin75Roger Wolcott Sperry68
Serge Haroche68Ei-ichi Negishi75Robin Warren68
David J. Wineland68Jacques Dubochet75Ralph M. Steinman68
Reinhard Genzel68Tomas Lindahl77Michael W. Young68
Albert Fert69Joachim Frank77Charles M. Rice68
C. F. Powell70George Smith77Katalin Kariko68
Zhores Alferov70Andre Gide78Martin Rodbell69
Dennis Gabor71Irwin Rose78Julius Wagner-Jauregg70
Riccardo Giacconi71M. Stanley Whittingham78Joseph Erlanger70
John L. Hall71Alexey Ekimov78Konrad Lorenz70
Max Born72Paul D. Boyer79Gertrude B. Elion70
Nevill Francis Mott72Jens Christian Skou79E. Donnall Thomas70
William Alfred Fowler72Richard F. Heck79Peter Mansfield70
Herbert Kroemer72Osamu Shimomura80Mario Capecchi70
Arthur B. McDonald72Akira Suzuki80Jules A. Hoffmann70
Johannes Diderik van der Waals73Louis E. Brus80James P. Allison70
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar73Karl Barry Sharpless81Christiaan Eijkman71
John M. Kosterlitz73Georg Wittig82Joseph Murray71
Giorgio Parisi73Charles J. Pedersen83Eric Kandel71
Norman Ramsey Jr.74Martin Karplus83Yoshinori Ohsumi71
Gerard Mourou74William Standish Knowles84Michael Houghton71
Yang Chen-Ning75John B. Fenn85Edmond H. Fischer72
Alexei Abrikosov75John B. Goodenough97Harald zur Hausen72
Alain Aspect75Jeffrey C. Hall72
Wolfgang Paul76Niels Kaj Jerne73
Bertram Brockhouse76Michael Rosbash73
Masatoshi Koshiba76Edwin G. Krebs74
Charles K. Kao76Paul Lauterbur74
Frederick Reines77Charles Scott Sherrington75
Jack Kilby77Antonio Egas Moniz75
Kip Thorne77Albert Claude75
Michel Mayor77Paul Greengard75
Anton Zeilinger77Sydney Brenner75
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck78John O'Keefe75
Clifford Shull79Luc Montagnier76
George E. Smith79Tasuku Honjo76
Ernst Ruska80George Davis Snell77
Roy J. Glauber80Rita Levi-Montalcini77
John Clauser80Edward B. Lewis77
Francois Englert81Arvid Carlsson77
Barry Barish81John B. Gurdon79
Pierre Agostini82Satoshi Omura80
David J. Thouless82Barbara McClintock81
Pyotr Kapitsa84Robert F. Furchgott82
Peter W. Higgs84Oliver Smithies82
Jim Peebles84George H. Hitchings83
Willard S. Boyle85Robert Edwards85
Isamu Akasaki85William C. Campbell85
Rainer Weiss85Tu Youyou85
Vitaly Ginzburg87Harvey J. Alter85
Yoichiro Nambu87Francis Peyton Rous87
Raymond Davis Jr.88Karl von Frisch87
Roger Penrose89
Klaus Hasselmann90
Syukuro Manabe90
Arthur Ashkin96