Distinguished Alumni Award Program
"The NPS Distinguished Alumni Program recognizes any alumnus/a of the Naval Postgraduate School who has made distinguished contributions to a branch of learning associated with national security, has rendered distinguished service to some aspect of their national security, or has made a distinguished professional achievement which reflects great credit on the recipient and NPS."

A - K

• GEN Keith Alexander, USA (Presented 24 September 2010)
• ADM Stanley Arthur, USN (Ret)
• Col Walter H. Augustin, USMC (Ret.) (Presented 25 Jan 12)
• CAPT Jeffrey Bacon, USN (Ret) (Presented 14 Oct 06)
• VADM Roger F. Bacon, USN (Ret) (Presented 1 July 06)
• VADM Phillip Balisle, USN
• RADM Stanley Bozin, USN (Presented 2 Mar 06)
• RADM Michael A. Brown, USN (Presented 13 July 06)
• VADM Nancy E. Brown, USN (Presented 5 Mar 07)
• CAPT Daniel W. Bursch, USN (Ret) (Presented 29 May 06)
• VADM Arthur Cebrowski, USN
• CDR Sandra K. Chachula, USN (Ret) (Presented 1 Sept 06)
• Professor Lui Pao Chuen (Presented 29 Mar 02)
• RDML Philip J. Coady Jr., USN (Ret) (Presented 27 Mar 06)
• RADM Dan W. Davenport, USN (Presented 8 June 06)
• RDML Patrick W. Dunne, USN
• VADM Mark E. Ferguson, III, USN (Presented 19 Dec 08)
• CAPT Stephen Frick, USN (Presented 6 Aug 09)
• RADM James B Greene Jr. USN (Ret) (Presented 17 May 06)
• VADM Lee F. Gunn, USN (Ret) (Presented 18 Apr 06)
• RADM Charles S. Hamilton II, USN (Presented 17 May 06)
• RADM Cecil D. Haney, USN (Present 23 May 06)
• RADM Elizabeth A. Hight, USN
• Col David Hilmers, USMC (Ret) (Presented 6 Aug 09)
• CAPT Sam Houston, USN (Ret) (Presented 14 Jan 06)
• VADM Thomas J. Hughes, USN (Ret) (Presented 28 May 07)
• CAPT Wayne P. Hughes, Jr., USN (Ret) (Presented 29 May 06)
• VADM Harvey E. Johnson, Jr., USCG (Ret) (Presented 11 May 06)
• RADM John M. Kelly, USN (Presented 23 May 06)
• LtGen Richard S. Kramlich, USMC (Presented 11 Nov 06)

L - Z

• RADM William Landay III, USN (Presented 16 Feb 06)
• LCDR Marvin Langston, USN (Ret) (Presented 24 Aug 10)
• CAPT Donald M. Layton, USN (Ret) (Presented 22 Nov 06)
• LtGen Chan Lee, ROKAF (Presented 20 Sept 06)
• RADM Michael A. LeFever, USN (Presented 30 May 06)
• VADM Keith W. Lippert, USN (Presented 7 July 06)
• CAPT Michael Lopez-Alegria, USN (Presented 15 Nov 07)
• RADM Archer M. Macy, Jr., USN (Presented 31 Jan 06)
• VADM Justin McCarthy SC, USN (Presented 7 Feb 06)
• RDML Timothy J. McGee, USN (Presented 11 May 06)
• RADM Wayne Meyer, USN
• VADM Michael Mullen, USN (Presented 29 Mar 02)
• LtCol Carlos Noriega, USMC (Ret) (Presented 6 Aug 09)
• ADM Eric T. Olson, USN (Presented 4 Sept 08)
• CAPT Alan Poindexter, USN (Presented 6 Aug 09)
• VADM John Scott Redd, USN, Ret. Presented 21 June 2011
• CAPT Kenneth Reightler, Jr. USN (Ret) (Presented 6 Aug 09)
• The Honorable James Roche, Captain, USN (Ret)
• RADM Conrad J. Rorie, USN (Ret) (Presented 31Oct 07)
• CDR Carter "Buzz" Savage, USN (Ret) (Presented 11 Jun 10)
• CAPT Winston Scott, USN (Ret) (Presented 6 Aug 09)
• RADM Kenneth Slaght, USN
• VADM Stanley Szemborski, USN (Presented 7 Feb 06)
• RDML (Sel) Jan Tighe, USN (Presented 24 Sept 2010)
• VADM Patricia A. Tracey, USN (Ret) (Presented 21 Mar 06)
• LTG Thomas R. Turner, USA (Presented 19 Dec 08)
• MG Michael A. Vane, USA (Presented 12 Sept 06)
• GEN William S. Wallace, USA (Presented 23 Mar 07)
• The Honorable Thomas White, Secretary of the Army
• COL Jeff Williams, USA (Ret) (Presented 3 Apr 08)
• RADM Edward Winters III, USN (Presented 14 March 11)
• CAPT John A. Zangardi, USN (Ret) (Presented 9 Nov 06)