FAMOUS HONORARY ROTARIANS (RETURN TO FAMOUS ROTARIANS)

Walt Disney, who brought some of the Harris tales to the movie screen, was an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Palm Springs, California, U.S.A.	Another daring adventurer, Thor Heyerdahl, is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Larvik, Norway.	Marshall Carl-Gustaf Mannerheim who was a honorary member of The Rotary Club of Helsinki from 1934 until his death in 1951. Submitted by: PDG Kari Tallberg	H.M. Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, honorary member of Rotary Club of Rome
Many of the illustrious figures in world affairs have been and are Rotarians.  Royalty and elected political officials have been drawn to Rotary's ideal of "Service Above Self."
The Presidents of the United States that were Honorary Rotarians are: Woodrow Wilson (RC of Birmingham, AL) (TR April 1915 p.76), Calvin Coolidge, (Obituary)	Other honorary U.S., Presidents were Herbert Hoover, ...	Franklin D. Roosevelt (honorary member of the RC of Albany,,	Harry S. Truman, ... ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower,  (honorary member of the RC of Abilene, Kansas (1942), Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1952), and Newport, Rhode Island, (1957)), ..	John F. Kennedy have been honorary Rotarians. .	Richard Nixon - Whittier, CA since 1948	Ronald W. Reagan - Pacific Palisades, CA
George W. Bush - RC of Washington DC (made an honorary member by RI Past President Frank Devlyn at a ceremony on 2 July, 2001 at the White House)	There is royalty in Rotary.	HRH the Prince of Wales, honorary member Windsor, Ontario, Canada, from The Rotarian May 1921, also see King Edward 8 (Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler)	Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor - Honorary member of two Canadian Rotary clubs. TR March 1936 p. 27.
H.R.H. the Duke of Aosta was honorary member of RC Naples, Italy, District 2100. (provided by Pietro Brunoldi)	Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, Birmingham, UK	Another honorary member was  Associate Justice William O. Douglas.	Sir Winston Churchill was an honorary member of the Rotary Club of London, England.
Albert I King of Belgium	The honorary president of the Rotary Cub of Monaco, Monaco, is Prince Rainier III.	King Baudouin I of Belgium, is an honorary member of the Rotary Cub of Brussels.	King Hassan II of Morocco,
	I. K. Gujaral, Prime Minister	H. R. H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - honorary member of the Rotary Club of Windsor and Eton, England - TR June 1970 p. 28 an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Edinburgh.	Charles H.R.H the Prince of Wales, Honorary Member, Rotary Club of Banchory-Ternan, D1010 UK (webmaster Rtn. Chris Engle)
King Carl VI Gustav of Sweden, and ...	Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands are patrons of Rotary in their countries.	General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, chief executive of Chile, was, at one time, an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Santiago.	Many of the world's leading industrialists and businessmen are Rotarians.
Dr. Karl A. Menninger, M.D. - Chairman of the Board of Trustees Menninger Foundation - Honorary Member Rotary Club of Topeka, Kansas. Rotary International Archives / Central Files-Subject Files / Notables - General. Letter dated 28 January, 1977 from Claire Hettinger, DG 571.	Nobel Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer, philosopher and physician, was an honorary member of the Rotary clubs of Colmar, France, and Passau, Germany.	The opera singer Florence MacBeth, born in Mankato/Minnesota, Primadonna of the Chicago Civic Opera, was made honorary member of the RC St. Paul, Minnesota as early as 1915.	Crown Prince Umberto of Savoia, was honorary member of the Rotary Club of Cuneo (district 2030, Italy), because this city was his born place.  (provided by Pietro Brunoldi)
		Provided by Wolfgang Ziegler
Rotarians are impressive travelers.  Sir Edmund Hillary, an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Auckland, New Zealand, has trekked to the top of Mt. Everest.	Another honorary Rotarian has flown to the moon!  Former U.S. astronaut Neil A. Armstrong is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Wapakoneta, Ohio, U.S.A.	Former astronaut Alan B. Shephard, Jr., was an honorary Rotarian in Derry, New Hampshire, U.S.A.	Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper was once a down-to-earth honorary Rotarian in Space Center (Houston) Texas, U.S.A
Frank Borman, Astronaut, Houston #53	Charles Lindberg, First Trans-Atlantic Flight	Thomas A. Edison - Inventor - Honorary member of the RC of Orange, NJ - The Weekly Letter Monday, 26, 1931 page 1.	General John J. Pershing - WWI US General - Honorary member of the RC of Lincoln, NB 14 - The Rotarian December 1938 page 33.
General Douglas MacArthur - WWII US General - Honorary member of the RC of Tokyo, Japan (Approximately April or May 1949) The Rotarian - July 1949 page 21.	British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - 1990	Zardari - RC of Karachi Bay RGHF members RIVP 97/98 Bob Scott and DG 09/10 Usman Masud present an honorary Rotary membership to Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari

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.

Rotary Global History researchers Basil Lewis, Cal Thomson, Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler, and individual Rotarians have contributed to this section. Special thanks for a major portion of this material to the Rotary International Archives Department's Cyndi Beck.