Liste over bemærkelsesværdige nuværende og tidligere aktive og æresmedlemmer af Rotary International-klubber
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | King Charles III | Prince Axel of Denmark | Thomas Edison | Thor Heyerdahl | Walt Disney |
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- Clinton Presba Anderson, US Secretary of Agriculture and Senator from New Mexico, former Rotary president
- Neil Armstrong, First astronaut to walk on the Moon, Rotary Club of Wapakoneta, OH
- Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, President of Iceland, Rotary Club of Reykjavík[2]
- Prince Axel of Denmark, Prince of Denmark and businessman, Rotary Club of Copenhagen[3]
- Kalyan Banerjee, chemical engineer, former Rotary International President
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, isolated the aids virus at the Pasteur Institute, Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Club of La Rochelle-Aunis, France
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince of the Netherlands, Rotary Club of Amsterdam, Netherlands[3]
- Clarence Birdseye, II, invented method for fast freezing food, Rotary Club of Gloucester, MA
- William Jennings Bryan, US House of Representatives 1891–95, US Secretary of State 1913–15, US Presidential candidate, Rotary Club of Lincoln, Nebraska
- Richard E. Byrd Rear Admiral USN, Medal of Honor recipient, North and South Pole explorer, Rotary Club of Winchester, VA[2]
- Carlos Canseco, physician and philanthropist, Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor laureate, former RI President
- Charles III, Charles Philip Arthur George, Honorary member of Rotary Club of Banchory-Ternan,[4]Scotland, UK since 15 September 1992, King Charles III
- Jean-Claude Chermann, isolated the aids virus at the Pasteur Institute, Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Club of La Rochelle-Aunis D1690, France
- Winston Churchill Sir, Prime Minister England, Rotary Club of London[3]
- Arthur Compton, Nobel Prize for Physics for the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation, Rotary Club of St Louis, Missouri[3]
- J. Howard Crocker, Canadian educator and sports executive for the YMCA and Amateur Athletic Union of Canada[5]
- Walt Disney, Animation filmmaker, Honorary member Rotary Club of Palm Springs, CA[3]
- Thomas Edison, Inventor and businessman, Honorary member Rotary Club of Orange, New Jersey[3]
- Richard L. Evans, Mormon apostle and radio presenter (Music and the Spoken Word), former RI president
- Cyrus Fees, Host of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, former ring announcer for Ultimate Fighting Championship, Rotary Club of Johnson City, TN.
- Dianne Feinstein, US Senator from California, Rotary Club of San Francisco, CA[3][2]
- Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, Canada.
- Gerald R. Ford, US President, Rotary Club of Grand Rapids, MI[3][2]
- Pope Francis, Head of the Catholic Church, Bishop of Rome[6]
- W. B. George (1899–1972), Governor of District 250 of Rotary International for 1956–57, president of the Kemptville Rotary Club
- Sir Nigel Gresley, Locomotive designer and engineer, founder of Rotary Club of Doncaster, Britain[9]
- Doug Grimston (1900–1955), president of the New Westminster Rotary Club and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association[10]
- Edgar Guest, American poet, Rotary Club of Detroit, MI
- Joyce Hall, Founder of Hallmark Cards, Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri[2]
- Warren G. Harding, US President. Rotary Club of Washington, D.C.[2]
- Paul P. Harris, founder of Rotary International, first RI President 1910–12, Rotary Club of Chicago, IL
- Mark Hatfield, Governor, Secretary of State, Representative, Senator in Oregon, Rotary Club of Eugene, OR
- Luther H. Hodges, US Secretary of Commerce and Governor of North Carolina, RI President 1967–68[2]
- James Innes, British entrepreneur, author and philanthropist, Rotary Club of London, England
- Sheik-Umarr Mikailu Jah, Former Minister of Health of Sierra Leone, and founder of Rotary Club Bo, Sierra Leone
- Edmund Jones, Pennsylvania State Representative, Rotary Clubs of Chester, Pennsylvania and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
- Duke Kahanamoku, US Olympic gold medalist, called "Father of Surfing", Rotary Club of Honolulu, HI[3]
- John F. Kennedy, US President, Rotary Club of Hyannis, Massachusetts[3]
- Spencer W. Kimball, former president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Sir Harry Lauder born Henry, vaudeville comedian, Rotary Club of Glasgow, Scotland
- Jack Guy Lafontant, Prime Minister of Haiti, current President of the Rotary Club of Petion-Ville, Haiti
- Franz Lehár, Operetta composer, tried to prevent murder of Fritz Löhner-Beda in Auschwitz-III prison camp, Rotary Club of Vienna, Austria
- Dr. Fritz Löhner-Beda, librettist, lyricist, writer, Nazi concentration camp prisoner—died in Monowitz, Auschwitz-III
- Dr. Guia Lopez de Leon, known also for her Nightingale Project, is the Transforming President of the Rotary Club of San Pedro South, Laguna, Philippines
- Richard Lugar, US Senator from Indiana, at age 25 joined Rotary Club of Indianapolis, IN
- Thomas Mann, German Novelist Nobel Prize in Literature 1929, The Rotary Club of Munich, Germany[3][2]
- Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of the viable wireless radio, Rotary Club of Bologna, Italy[3]
- Dr. Charles H. Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, Rotary Club of Rochester, Minnesota[2]
- Kōnosuke Matsushita, founded Matsushita Electric Company Panasonic, Rotary Club of Osaka, Japan
- Lorraine H. Morton, first African-American and long serving mayor of Evanston, Illinois
- Wayne Morse, US Senator Oregon, 1945–69, Rotary Club of Eugene, OR
- Lennart Nilsson, Swedish photojournalist, Emmy winner, Rotary Club of Stockholm, Sweden
- Manny Pacquiao (Emmanuel Dapidaran Pacquiao), world boxing champion, Rotary Club of Manila, Philippines[3]
- Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking, Rotary Club of New York, NY
- James Cash Penney, founder of the J.C. Penney's department stores, Rotary Club of New York, NY[3][2]
- Emilio Pucci, fashion designer and politician, Rotary Club of Florence, Italy[3][2]
- Sir Clem Renouf, Australian accountant, Rotary Club of Nambour, Queensland; President, Rotary International 1978-79
- Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist, founded the Rotary Club of Morimondo Abbazia, Italy
- Frank Richman, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, Nuremberg trials judge, President of the Rotary Club of Columbus, IN
- Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Brigadier General WWII, Ambassador of the Philippines to the US, President of the 4th session of the United Nations 1949 and permanent member, Director of RI[3][2]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President, Rotary Club of Albany, NY[3]
- James Roosevelt, son of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Secretary to the President, US House of Representatives for California
- Jack Roxburgh, politician, farmer and president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association[12]
- Harland Sanders aka Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, founding member of Rotary Club of Jeffersonville, IN in 1919, then the Rotary Club of Corbin, Kentucky, then Rotary Club of Shelbyville, Kentucky until his death in 1980[3]
- Ian Scott, founder of Australian Rotary Health
- Jean Sibelius, Composer, Rotary Club of Helsinki-Helsingfors, Finland[3][2]
- Giacomo Simoncini, Sammarinese sports executive and politician, President of Rotaract Club of San Marino
- Sigmund Sternberg, directory of the Sternberg Centre for Judaism, Rotary Club of London[14]
- Adlai Stevenson, former US Ambassador to the UN and former governor of Illinois, Rotary Club of Springfield, IL[3][2]
- Sakuji Tanaka, President of Rotary International 2012–13, Businessperson and Foundations, Rotary Club of Yashio, Saitama, Japan[15]
- J. Millard Tawes John, State Treasurer, Comptroller, and Governor of Maryland, Rotary Club of Crisfield, MD
- Herbert J. Taylor, businessperson, civic leader and member of several Christian fraternities, RI President 1954–55, wrote the Rotary Four-Way Test[16] for his business,[17] Rotary Club of Chicago, IL
- Iyesato Tokugawa president of Japan's upper house of Congress, Honorary Keynote Speaker for Rotary's Silver Anniversary (25th) Convention, Chicago in 1930.
- Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., President of Walgreens, Rotary Club of Chicago, IL[2][3]
- Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, Rotary Club of Bentonville, Arkansas[2][3]
- Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court[2]
- William Allen White, American newspaper editor, politician, author, Rotary Club of Emporia, Kansas
- Woodrow Wilson, US President and Nobel Prize in Peace, Rotary Club of Birmingham, AL
- Jack Williamson, Prolific Science Fiction author, Rotary Club of Portales, NM
- Orville Wright, Rotary Club of Dayton, OH[2][3]
- Yen Chia-kan President of Taiwan Republic of China
- Yoo Chang-soon Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic of South Korea, Rotary Club of Hanyang, South Korea