Famous Rotarians
BUSINESS LEADERS
Max Cointreau - Rotary Club of Paris, France Owner, Cointreau liquor enterprise
Raymond F. Firestone - Rotary Club of Akron, OH Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 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.
Dr. 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
J.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
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 mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist and the first person to reach the top of Mt. Everest.
Charles Lindberg - Rotary Club of Edinburgh American aviator
INVENTORS
Thomas A. Edison - Rotary Club of Orange, NJ Inventor
Guglielmo Marconi - Rotary Club of Bologna, Italy Inventor of the wireless, 1909 Nobel Prize recipient for physics
Orville Wright - Rotary Club of Dayton, OH Co-inventor of the first successful airplane
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
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
J. 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
Dr. 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
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, Philippines
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
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
OTHER
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