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FAMOUS ROTARIANS 

 
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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 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
  • 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) Note the Rotary Pin on his Lapel
  • 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

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
  • 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
  • John F. Kennedy   Rotary Club of Hyannis, MA   President, USA
  • Diane Feinstein   Rotary Club of San Francisco, CA   U.S. Senator
  • 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
  • Gerald R. Ford   Rotary Club of Grand Rapids, MI   President, USA
  • J. William Fulbright   Rotary Club of Fayetteville, AR   U.S. Senator from Arkansas
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt   Rotary Club of Albany, NY   President, USA

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

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

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 +Kyoto University, president
  • Luciano Pavarotti   Rotary Club of Modena   Italian opera singer
  • Donna Shalala   Rotary Club of Madison, WI   Secretary of Health and Human Services, USA
  • Connie Mack   Rotary Club of Fort Myers, FL   Baseball Hall of Fame manager and team owner
  • Tris Speaker   Rotary Club of Cleveland, OH   Baseball Hall of Fame player

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
  • Norman Vincent Peale   Rotary Club of New York, NY   American author and minister
  • Maurice Denuzière   Rotary Club of Vitry-Sud-Est de Paris   French writer Louisiana
  • Walt Disney   Rotary Club of Palm Springs, CA   Animation filmmaker
PHOTO CREDIT: President John F. Kennedy meets with officials from the Rotary Club, and is presented with the Rotary Club publication Seven Paths to Peace on 29 November 1961.
 
(L-R) Philip S. Bowie, President of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C.; President Kennedy; F. Eugene Richter, former president of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C.; Joseph A. Abey, president of Rotary International; George R. Means, general secretary of Rotary International. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
 
 
 
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