Famous Rotarians

ROTARIANS COME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND MANY ARE FAMOUS – HERES JUST A FEW

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BUSINESS LEADERS

• Max Cointreau – Rotary Club of Paris, France – Owner, Cointreau liquor enterprise
• Raymond F. Firestone – Rotary Club of Akron, OH – Chairman and CEO, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
• Joyce C. Hall – Rotary Club of Kansas City, MO – Founder of Hallmark Cards
• Reijiro Hattori – Rotary Club of Tokyo Ginza, Japan – chairman, Seiko
• Konosuke Matsushita – Rotary Club of Osaka, Japan – President, Matsushita Electric Co.
• Charles H. Mayo – Rotary Club of Rochester, MN – Co-founder of Mayo Clinic
• Toyohiko Mikimoto – Rotary Club of Tokyo, Japan – Mikimoto Pearl Co.
• Heinrich Nordhoff – Rotary Club of Braunschweig, Germany – President, Volkswagen
• C. Penney – Rotary Club of New York, NY – Founder of J.C. Penney stores
• Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-Fan – Rotary Club of Hong Kong – Bank of East Asia, Ltd., Hong Kong; past RI Director
• Leopoldo Pirelli – Rotary Club of Milano – President, Pirelli Tire Co. Italy
• The ‘Colonel’ Harland Sanders – Rotary Club of Jeffersonville, ID – Founder, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
• Kiyoshi Seike – Rotary Club of Tokyo-Meguro – Japanese architect
• Kiyoshi Togasaki – Rotary Club of Tokyo – President and Chairman, Japan Times; past RI President
• Claude Vuitton – Rotary Club of Paris-Nord, France – Owner, Vuitton luggage enterprise
• Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. – Rotary Club of Chicago, IL – Chairman of the board of the Walgreen Drug Company
• Sam Walton – Rotary Club of Bentonville, AK – Founder of Wal-Mart

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EXPLORERS

• Roald Amundsen – Rotary Club of Oslo, Norway – First person to reach the South Pole in 1911
• Neil Armstrong – Rotary Club of Wapakoneta, OH – Astronaut & first man to walk on the moon
• Frank Borman – Rotary Club of Space Center, Houston, TX – U.S. astronaut
• Richard E. Byrd – Rotary Club of Winchester, VA – Arctic explorer
• Gordon Cooper – Rotary Club of Space Center,  Houston, TX – U.S. astronaut
• Sir Edmund Hillary – Rotary Club of Auckland – New Zealand explorer, philanthropist and 1st person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest
• Charles Lindberg – Rotary Club of Edinburgh – American aviator

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INVENTORS

• Thomas A. Edison – Rotary Club of Orange, NJ – Inventor
• Guglielmo Marconi – Rotary Club of Bologna, Italy – Inventor of the wireless telegraphy, 1909 Nobel Prize recipient for physics
• Orville Wright – Rotary Club of Dayton, OH – Co-inventor of the first successful airplane

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ROYALTY

• Prince Axel – Rotary Club of Copenhagen, Denmark – Prince of Denmark
• Prince Bernhard – Rotary Club of Amsterdam, Netherlands – Prince of the Netherlands
• HRH Prince Charles – Rotary Club of Banchory-Ternan – Prince of England
• HRH Prince Phillip – Rotary Club of Edinburgh – Prince of England
• Prince Rainier III – Rotary Club of Monaco – Prince of Monaco
• Greve Af Rosenborg Flemming – Rotary Club of Copenhagen – Danish Count
• Tsuneyoshi Takeda – Rotary Club of Tokyo-North – Japanese Royal Prince

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LEADERS

• Asgeir Asgeirsson – Rotary Club of Reykjavík, Iceland – President, Iceland
• Eduard Benes – Rotary Club of Prague, Czechoslovakia – President, Czechoslovakia
• Alcino Cardoso – Rotary Club of Porto-Douro – Secretary of State, Portugal
• Sir Winston Churchill – Rotary Club of London – Prime Minister, England & Leader of UK during WWII
• Michel Debré – Rotary Club of Amboise – Foreign Minister and Minister of Finance, France
• Jorge Fidel Duron – Rotary Club of Tegucigalpa; past RI vice president – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Honduras
• Diane Feinstein – Rotary Club of San Francisco, CA – U.S. Senator
• Gerald R. Ford – Rotary Club of Grand Rapids, MI – President, USA
• William Fulbright – Rotary Club of Fayetteville, AR – U.S. Senator from Arkansas
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher – Rotary Club of Bonn Süd-Bad Godesberg – Foreign Minister, Germany
• Zbigniew Gertych – Rotary Club of London, England – Polish Ambassador to GreatBritain
• Lorenzo Guerrero Gutierrez – Rotary Club of Granada – President, Nicaragua
• Warren G. Harding – Rotary Club of Washington, DC – President, USA
• Steingrimur Hermannsson – Rotary Club of Reykjavík – Prime Minister, Iceland
• Sydney G. Holland – Rotary Club of Christchurch – Prime Minister, New Zealand
• John F. Kennedy – Rotary Club of Hyannis, MA – President, USA
• Abdulla Khalil – Rotary Club of Khartoum – Prime Minister, Sudan
• Chung Yul Kim – Rotary Club of Hanyang – Prime Minister, Korea
• Karl Kobelt – Rotary Club of St. Gallen – President, Swiss Confederation
• Chucri Kouatly – Rotary Club of Damascus – President, Syria
• Jan Masaryk – Rotary Club of Prague – Foreign Minister, Czechoslovakia
• Cesare Merzagora – Rotary Club of Milano – President of the Senate, Italy
• Leonard Mulama – Rotary Club of Kisangani – Prime Minister, DemocraticRepublic of the Congo
• Duck Wo Nam – Rotary Club of Hanyang – Prime Minister, Korea
• Choong Hoon Park – Rotary Club of Hanyang – Prime Minister, Korea
• Raul Sapena Pastor – Rotary Club of Asunción – Prime Minister, Paraguay; past RI District Governor
• Konstantin Päts – Rotary Club of Tallinn – President, Estonia
• Antoine Pinet – Rotary Club of Saint-Etienne – Prime Minister, France
• General Augusto Pinochet – Rotary Club of Santiago, Chile – General and Leader
• Emilio Pucci – Rotary Club of Florence, Italy – Italian couturier and politician
• Nereu Ramos – Rotary Club of Florianópolis – President, Brasil
• Bhichai Rattakul – Rotary Club of Dhonburi – Foreign Minister, Thailand; RI president
• Carlos P. Romulo – Rotary Club of Manila – Philippine Brigadier General in WWII,
• Ambassador of the Philippines to the US, President of the 4th session of the United Nations 1949
• Franklin D. Roosevelt – Rotary Club of Albany, NY – President, USA
• General Carlos Romulo – Rotary Club of Manila – President, Philippines; past RI Vice President
• Wolfgang Schallenberg – Rotary Club of Wien – Austrian Ambassador to France
• Walter Scheel – Rotary Club of Bonn am Rhein – President, Germany
• Adlai E. Stevenson – Rotary Club of Springfield, IL – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Governor of Illinois
• Woodrow Wilson – Rotary Club of Birmingham, AL – President, USA & Nobel Prize laureate in peace
• Chia-kan “C. K.” Yen – Rotary Club of Taipei, Taiwan – President, Republic of China-Taiwan
• Chang Soon Yoo – Rotary Club of Hanyang, South Korea – Prime Minister

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JUSTICES

• Harry A. Blackmun – Rotary Club of Rochester, MN – U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Marcelo B. Fernan – Rotary Club of Cebu West – Chief Justice, Supreme Court,
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• Earl Warren – Rotary Club of Sacramento, CA – Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
• Byron R. White – Rotary Club of Denver, CO – U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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ARTISTS, COMPOSERS, AND AUTHORS

• Jose Belloni – Rotary Club of Montevideo – Sculptor, Uruguay
• John Briggs – Rotary Club of Bingley, England – British concert pianist
• Josep MaVayreda Canadell – Rotary Club of Gerona – Spanish painter
• Roger Chapelain-Midy – Rotary Club of Paris – French painter
• Cecil B. De Mille – Rotary Club of Hollywood, CA – motion picture director
• Maurice Denuzière – Rotary Club of Vitry-Sud-Est de Paris – French writer Louisiana
• Walt Disney – Rotary Club of Palm Springs, CA – Animation filmmaker
• Edgar A. Guest – Rotary Club of Detroit, MI – American journalist and poet
• Franz Lehar – Rotary Club of Vienna – Austrian composer
• Thomas Mann – Rotary Club of Munich – German novelist, 1929 Nobel Prize recipient for literature
• Robert Manuel – Rotary Club of Paris, France – Director, Marigny Theatre, Paris
• Norman Vincent Peale – Rotary Club of New York, NY – American author and minister
• Joan Abello Prat – Rotary Club of Barcelona Condal – Spanish painter
• James Whitcomb Riley – Rotary Club of Indianapolis, ID – American poet
• Sigmund Romberg – Rotary Club of New York, NY – American composer
• Jean Sibelius – Rotary Club of Helsinki- Helsingfors, Finland – Composer
• Jack Williamson – Rotary Club of Portales, N.M. – American science fiction author
• Philip Wylie – Rotary Club of Middletown, CO – American author and social commentator
• Willy Zumblick – Rotary Club of Tubarão – Brazilian painter

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OTHER FAMOUR ROTARIANS

• Holly Compton – Rotary Club of St. Louis, MO – 1927 Nobel Prize recipient for physics
• Pope Francis – Rotary Club of Buenos Aires – Pope
• Ko Hirasawa – Rotary Club of Kyoto East, Japan – Japanese anatomist and president of Kyoto University
• Duke Kahanamoku – Rotary Club of Honolulu, HI – Olympic gold medalist, “Father of Surfing”
• Tapio Korjus – Rotary Club of Lapua Kiviristi, Finland – 1988 Olympic Gold Medal winner javelin
• Hans Küng – Rotary Club of Reutlingen-Tübingen, Germany – Theologian
• Jean Leclant – Rotary Club of Paris – French Egyptologist
• Connie Mack – Rotary Club of Fort Myers, FL – Baseball Hall of Fame manager and team owner
• Georges Octors – Rotary Club of Brussels – Belgian orchestra conductor
• Emmanuel “Manny” Dapidran Pacquiao – Rotary Club of Manila, Philippines – World champion professional boxer & politician
• Luciano Pavarotti – Rotary Club of Modena – Italian opera singer
• Donna Shalala – Rotary Club of Madison, WI – Secretary of Health and Human Services, USA
• Kenjiro Shoda – Rotary Club of Osaka – President, Osaka University, Japan
• Tris Speaker – Rotary Club of Cleveland, OH – Baseball Hall of Fame player
• Sir Sigmund Sternberg – Rotary Club of London – Director, Sternberg Centre for Judaism, England