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We are Rotary

 

We are People of Action

Our global network of 1.4 million neighbors, friends, and leaders volunteer their skills and resources to solve issues and address community needs.

Rotary International, the world's first service club organization, is made-up of some 33,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. It's members form a global network of business, professional and community leaders who volunteer their time and talents to serve their communities around the world.

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Famous Rotarians

  • J.C. Penny, Founder of J.C. Penny
  • Sam Walton, Founder of Wall-mart
  • Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft
  • Orville Wright, aviation pioneer
  • Neil Armstrong, Astronaut
  • Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut
  • President Jimmy Carter,
  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 
  • President George W. Bush
  • Douglas MacArthur, General in WWII
  • Sir Winston Churchill
  • Walt Disney 
  • Thomas A. Edison, Inventor
  • President Dwight Eisenhower,
  • Sir Edmond Hillary, 1st to summit Mt Everest
  • Charles Lindberg, First Trans-Atlantic Flight
  • President Richard Nixon
  • President Ronald Regan
  • President John F Kennedy
  • Prince Charles
  • Prince Phillip
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Prize philosopher and physician
  • President Harry S. Truman
  • President Woodrow Wilson
  • President Herbert Hoover
  • Mia Farrow, actress and UNICEFambassador
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • President Warren G. Harding
  • Dolly Parton
  • President Howard Taft
  • Ted Turner, philanthropist

Many more Rotarians have achieved prominence, imparting a measure of their good reputations to Rotary itself, but Rotary is not just an organization of the famous. It is an organization of men of goodwill, in which the 4-Way Test and the ideal of "Service Above Self" are the really important measures of fame.