1. Admiral Grace Hopper
   John Paul Jones
2. Admiral Arleigh Burke
   Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

John Paul Jones spoke these words on September 23, 1779, during his engagement with the HMS Serapis.

1. President John Adams
   Sir Francis Drake
2. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
   President Theodore Roosevelt

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz made this slightly droll remark at a time there wasn't much in the way of diverse hiring in the Navy.

1. Admiral William Halsey Jr.
   Admiral William D. Leahy
2. John Paul Jones
   Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

Farragut gave this famous order in 1864 during the Battle of Mobile Bay in the Civil War. Farragut was the son of one of the Revolutionary War's greatest admirals.

1. Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
   Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
2. Admiral William D. Leahy
   Admiral Grace Hopper

Born in Rhode Island in 1785, shortly after the birth of his nation, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was an American war hero of the Second Barbary War.

1. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
   Admiral Arleigh Burke
2. Admiral Ernest King
   Admiral Grace Hopper

Burke commanded the Atlantic Fleet in World War Two and was one of the most significant US military leaders of the war.

1. President Abraham Lincoln
   President George Washington
2. President Theodore Roosevelt
   President Ronald Reagan

Teddy Roosevelt's military background was very important in his vision of how American power should be used globally.

1. Admiral Louis Nulton
   Admiral Frank Upham
2. Admiral Orin Murfin
   Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Hopper is one of the most significant figures in the creation of computer programming, as well as being a woman of color who made it to the highest rank after the Navy initially rejected her repeatedly.

1. President George Washington
   General George S. Patton
2. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
   Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

Patton was so good with a sword that he represented the US in the 1912 Olympics. The quote can easily relate to Navy service!

1. Arthur C. Clarke
   Robert Heinlein
2. Neal Stephenson
   Isaac Azimov

Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by Neal Stephenson with two timelines, one of which takes place in World War Two.

1. Commodore Isaac Hull
   Captain John Paul Jones
2. Admiral Ernest King
   Commodore Stephen Decatur

Hull fought in the Revolutionary War and commanded "Old Ironsides" itself, the USS Constitution.

1. Rudyard Kipling
   James Patterson
2. Sara Jane Stone
   Chris Ryan

Sara Jane Stone is a popular writer of military romance!

1. Captain John Paul Jones
   Admiral William D. Leahy
2. FADM William F. Halsey
   Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

William F. Halsey fought in the Pacific and later commanded the Third Fleet during World War Two.

1. Rudyard Kipling
   George Orwell
2. William Golding
   Aldous Huxley

This is the opening to "My Father's Son" and is only attributed to Orwell, but is likely his work.

1. Captain John Paul Jones
   President Thomas Jefferson
2. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
   Admiral William D. Leahy

Captain John Paul Jones' ship Ranger was the first American vessel to be formally saluted by the French navy.

1. Commander Howard W. Gilmore
   Admiral Clarence Williams
2. Commodore Stephen Decatur
   Commodore Isaac Hull

Gilmore said these heroic words after his sub was shot by the Japanese vessel Hayasaki in 1943. He knew that he did not have time, with his injuries, to get below, and made the supreme sacrifice to save his men.

1. Captain John Paul Jones
   President George Washington
2. President James Madison
   Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton

Washington made the case that America needed a navy despite its protective massive oceans. He was later proven right when the U.S. Navy secured the borders against various incursions.

1. Commodore George Dewey
   Admiral William Halsey Jr.
2. Admiral Grace Hopper
   Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

Dewey was a great military commander who spoke these words at the pivotal Battle of Manila Bay in World War Two.

1. Daryl Strawberry
   Hank Greenberg
2. Bob Feller
   Kevin Youkilis

This MLB pitcher had strong opinions about professional vs military games! World War Two put a four-year dent into his career, but he didn't stop playing.

1. Commodore James Barron
   Commodore Isaac Hull
2. Sir Francis Drake
   Commodore William Bainbridge

Drake sailed as a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I and introduced the potato and tobacco to Britain. The former is still very popular, the latter now less so.

1. President James Garfield
   President Richard Nixon
2. Admiral William D. Leahy
   President Theodore Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt was a military man before he was a president. He wasn't meant to be president, getting the VP position to shut him up so he wouldn't use his popularity against his own party - but McKinley's death put him into the top seat.

1. Samuel Pepys
   Samuel Johnson
2. John Milton
   William Shakespeare

Dr. Johnson did not like being on the sea and he didn't mind who knew it.

1. Sir Francis Drake
   Prime Minister Winston Churchill
2. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
   Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Nelson said this during the vital sea battle that secured Britain against the imperial navy of Napoleonic France, setting the stage for Wellington to ultimately defeat Napoleon.

1. President Dwight Eisenhower
   Winston Churchill
2. General George Patton
   Admiral Charles Hughes

Churchill said this about Dunkirk, when the British army was evacuated just in time to escape being massacred by Nazi forces. They regrouped, came back on D-Day, and kicked the Nazis' tails.

1. Neil Degrasse Tyson
   Stephen Hawking
2. Bill Nye
   Albert Einstein

Nye made this comment in talking about celestial navigation, a skill that naturally is not lost in the Navy no matter the technical advances they enjoy.

1. Captain John Paul Jones
   Admiral Walter Cowles
2. Admiral Arleigh Burke
   Admiral Edwin Anderson

Arleigh Burke is a major deal in US naval history, hence having a fancy ship named for him in 1991 during his lifetime.

1. Rudyard Kipling
   Admiral Grace Hopper
2. President John Adams
   Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

Kipling was a British writer who grew up in colonized India and is noted for his "Just So" stories.

1. U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Norman Hathcock
   U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Chuck Mawhinney
2. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Adelbert Waldron
   U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle

Chris Kyle is one of the best snipers in history. He was sadly killed on the way to a shooting range after he came home, by a friend of a friend who had a mental break.

1. Admiral Leighton W. Smith Jr.
   Captain John Paul Jones
2. Admiral David Farragut
   Admiral Frank Fletcher

Admiral Leighton W. Smith Jr. commanded during the Balkan War, when the US military was part of a NATO intervention that stopped the genocide against Muslims in Yugoslavia.

1. Captain William Bligh
   Captain Pugwash
2. Captain Nemo
   Captain Jack

Bligh was a notoriously sadistic captain whose crew eventually rebelled and put him in a boat. By an amazing bit of seamanship, he made it home but was court-martialed for his barbarous ways.

1. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
   Admiral Chester Nimitz
2. President John Adams
   President Theodore Roosevelt

Nimitz commanded the Pacific leet during the Second World War.

1. Admiral Arleigh Burke
   Admiral Hyman George Rickover
2. Oliver Hazard Perry
   Admiral Grace Hopper

Admiral Hyman George Rickover was a nuclear propulsion specialist who made the nuclear submarines much safer.

1. Admiral William Halsey Jr.
   Admiral Yi Sun Shin
2. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
   Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Admiral Yi Sun Shin was a Korean war hero during the Joseon Dynasty of the 1500s who held the Japanese navy at bay.

1. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
   Admiral Arleigh Burke
2. Admiral William Halsey Jr.
   Admiral Ernest King

Burke served under the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and has an AEGIS destroyer class named for him.

1. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
   Admiral Ernest King
2. Admiral William Halsey Jr.
   Admiral William D. Leahy

King was the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, during the Second World War, and as such is one of America's great military leaders.

1. Admiral William Halsey Jr.
   Adolf Hitler
2. Winston Churchill
   Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

Churchill made this famous speech in response to a catastrophic military defeat at Dunkirk. It stiffened the spine of Britain and empowered the nation to fight back and eventually destroy the Nazi menace.