Noble Rotarians

Rotarians are your neighbors, your community leaders and some of the world’s greatest history-makers: 

• Warren G. Harding, U.S. president
• Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
• Dr. Charles H. Mayo, co-founder of Mayo Clinic
• Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of the wireless radio and Nobel laureate
• Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel laureate
• Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel laureate
• Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer
• Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia
• H.E. Soleiman Frangieh, president of Lebanon
• Dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator
• Manny Pacquaio, Filipino world-champion boxer and congressman
• Richard Lugar, U.S. senator
• Frank Borman, American astronaut
• Edgar A. Guest, American poet and journalist
• Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer
• Franz Lehar, Austrian composer
• Lennart Nilsson, Swedish photographer
• James Cash Penney, founder of JC Penney Co.
• Carlos Romulo, UN General Assembly president
• Sigmund Sternberg, English businessman and philanthropist
• Edgar Allan, Founder Easter Seals
• Neil Armstrong, Astronaut – First Man on the Moon
• Harry A. Blackmun, Supreme Court Justice
• Omar Bradley, Army General
• George W. Bush, President USA
• Richard E. Byrd, Admiral – Arctic Explorer
• Jimmy Carter, President USA – Noble Peace Prize
• Arthur H. Compton, Nobel Prize Laureate – Physics
• Walt Disney, Animation Filmmaker
• Thomas A. Edison, Inventor
• Gerald Ford, President USA
• Edgar A. Guest, Poet – Journalist
• Warren G. Harding, President USA
• Joel Chandler Harris, Author
• John F. Kennedy, President USA
• Douglas MacArthur, Army General
• George C. Marshall, Army General – Nobel prize Laureate
• Cornelius McGillicuddie, Baseball Manager – Team Owner
• Karl Menninger, Psychiatrist – Co-Founder Menninger Clinic
• Richard Nixon, President USA
• Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman – Author
• James Cash Penny, Founder J.C. Penny
• Ronald Reagan, President USA
• James W. Riley, Poet
• Sigmund Romberg, Composer
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, President USA
• Harlan Sanders, Fast Food Fried Chicken Chain
• Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Alan Shepard, Astronaut
• Tris Speaker, Baseball Player
• Adlai E. Stevenson, US Ambassador to The UN
• Sidney Toler, Actor – “Charlie Chan”
• Ted Turner, Founder CNN
• Charles R. Walgreen, Chairman – Walgreen Drug, Co.
• Sam Walton, Founder Wal-Mart
• Earl Warren, Supreme Court Chief Justice
• Jack Williamson, Science Fiction Writer
• Woodrow Wilson, President USA – Noble Prize Laureate
• Orville Wright, Aviation Pioneer
• Philip Wylie, Author – Social Commentator