Greg Johnson

Cape Cod Renaissance Man

Greg “blew the whistle” on his 44 year career at Nauset Beach on Labor Day, 2023. Read this tribute to his work as a lifeguard, from the Cape Cod Chronicle.

UNH Alumni Magazine featured Greg Johnson in its Spring 2017 issue. Read the article.

Greg Johnson competed in the 2016 World Lifesaving Championships in the Netherlands. Read about him in this Cape Cod Times story.

Since 1979, Greg Johnson has worked as a lifeguard at Nauset Beach in Orleans and was the subject of an article in the Boston Globe, PrimeTime Magazine and most recently was featured in the UNH Alumni Magazine (above). Other articles about his victories have appeared in the Provincetown Banner and Cape Cod Times.

Decades later, lifeguard still devotes himself to ‘cool job’

By Claire McNeill, Boston Globe correspondent,  July 19, 2014

Read this Boston Globe feature story.