text: Don Cornelius – Grammy-winning and Emmy Award-nominated television show host and producer (Soul Train)
  Jon Corzine – former Governor of New Jersey and U.S. Senator (D-NJ)
  Bill Cowan – hostage rescue expert, Fox News television commentator
  Brad Crandall – radio personality, voice-over announcer and film narrator, best known for his radio show on WNBC in New York City which aired from March 1964 to September 1971. Crandall also served in the U.S. Air Force.
  Bob Crosby – jazz singer and bandleader (The Jack Benny Program)
  Josh Culbreath – 1956 Summer Olympics 400m hurdles bronze medalist, college track coach with 10 national championships, actor on The Cosby Show
  Walter Cunningham – Apollo 7 astronaut
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  Jack Davis – American football player
  Brian Dennehy – Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated actor (First Blood)
  James Devereux – U.S. Congressman from Maryland
  Albert Diaz – 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, first Hispanic judge to serve the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
  Richard Diebenkorn – artist
  Charles Dierkop – actor (The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
  Bradford Dillman – Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor (Compulsion)
  David Dinkins – 106th Mayor of New York City (1990-1993)
  Nate Dogg – Grammy Award-nominated rapper and singer