| FAMOUS/NOTABLE EAGLE SCOUTS | |
| Henry Aaron | baseball player, home run king |
| Bill Alexander | US Rep from Arkansas |
| Lamar Alexander | Lawyer, Governor of Tennessee, Secretary of Education, US Presidential candidate 1996 |
| Gary L. Anderson | US Rep from NY |
| Neil Armstrong | astronaut, first man on moon, from Wapakoneta, OH |
| Willie Banks | Olympic & World Record holding track athlete |
| Albert Belle | outfielder, Chicago White Sox |
| Charles E. Bennett | US Rep from Florida |
| Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. | Former Treasury Secretary and US Senator from Texas |
| Bill Bradley | Pro basketball star and US Senator from NJ |
| James Brady | press sec to Pres. Reagan |
| Milton A. Caniff | comic strip artist "Steve Canyon" |
| John W. Creighton, Jr. | President & CEO of Weyerhaeuser Company |
| William E. Dannemeyer | US Rep from Cal. |
| William Devries | MD, transplanted first artificial heart |
| Michael Dukakis | former governor of Massachusetts |
| Arthur Eldred | First Eagle Scout in 1912 |
| Thomas Foley | former Speaker of the House and US Rep from WA |
| Murphy J. "Mike" Foster | Governor of Louisiana, Distinguished Eagle 1996 recipient |
| Robert M. Gates | former CIA Director, at CIA for almost 30 years, NESA President |
| Richard A. Gephardt | US Congressman |
| Michael Kahn | stage director, Oscar winning film editor |
| Alfred Kinsey, Dr. | insect biologist, human behavior researcher |
| John Koncak | Orlando Magic basketball player |
| Sheldon Leonard | actor, director, producer, won 3 Emmys |
| Gary Lock | Governor of Washington State, first US governor of Asian (Chinese) descent (other than Hawaii) |
| Richard G. Lugar | Senator from Indiana |
| J. Willard Marriott, Jr. | Pres. Marriott Corp. |
| W. Walter Menninger | Physician, Civil Servant, Distinguished Eagle Scout, Silver Buffalo Award |
| Michael Moore | Author and filmmaker, nominated for an Oscar for "Bowling For Columbine" |
| Jim Mora | Head Coach, New Orleans Saints football team |
| Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson | actor, earned in 1919 at age 13 |
| Sam Nunn | US Senator from Georgia |
| Ellison Onizuka | Astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger |
| Steve Oswald | Astronaut, Navy Rear Admiral, Distinguished Eagle recipient |
| J. J. Pickle | US Rep from Texas, proudly displays his Distinguished Eagle plaque inside his office |
| Samuel R. Pierce | former Sec. Housing & Urban Development |
| Frederick Reines | Nobel Prize for Physics, 1995 |
| Gary Rogers | Chairman and CEO of Dreyer's Grande Ice Cream, has 10 Eagles in his family |
| Jim Rogers | CEO of Kampgrounds of America (related to Gary Rogers) |
| Harrison Salisbury | Pulitzer Prize winning author |
| James Sanderson | Vice Admiral, US Navy (Retired), Deputy Chief US Atlantic Fleet |
| William Sessions | former FBI director |
| Sam Skinner | Secretary of Energy during the Bush administration and now CEO of Commonwealth Edison |
| John Tesh | TV celebrity and pianist |
| Sam Walton | Businessman, Retailer |
| Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. | US Navy Admiral, Chief Of Naval Operations |
| Wallace Stegner | writer and college professor, won Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for "Angle of Repose" |
| Percy Sutton | Attorney, Ch. of Board of City Broadcasting Corp. |
| Gerald Ford | U.S. President (1st Eagle to be pres.), "Junior" Ford of Troop 15, Grand Rapids, MI in 1927 |
| , 26 MBs, including Civics, "Boy Scouts was invaluable in shaping my life." | |
| Steven Fossett | Crossed the Earth solo on 6th attempt in a hot air balloon, won the Chicago to Mackinaw boat |
| races, competed in the Iditorad dog race, and competed in several iron man triathlons, and | |
| among other things lives the Scouting mottos both Cub and Boy Scout by doing his best | |
| and being prepared | |
| James Lovell | Career Navy pilot and astronaut, President of NESA Flew on Gemini 7, 12 & Apollo 8, 13. |
| Apollo 13 Mission Commander. At one time had seen more sunrises than any other | |
| human being, Distinguished Eagle recipient. Business executive. | |
| Francis J. Parater | Nominated for sainthood by Diocese of Richmond in Feb 2002. One of Richmond's first |
| Eagle Scouts. Died at age 22 in 1920 while at a seminary in Rome, Italy. | |
| H. Ross Perot | self made billionaire and presidential candidate, founder of Reform Party, EDS Corp., |
| and The Perot Group | |
| Steven Spielberg | Movie producer and director, from Scottsdale, AZ, made a movie of his troop while getting |
| Photography MB | |
| Togo D. West, Jr. | Sec. Of The Army and Sec. Of Veteran Affairs during Clinton administration, Distinguished |
| Eagle recipient | |
| FAMOUS/NOTABLE SCOUTS, but not Eagles: | |
| Richard Dean Anderson | taught Reptile Study, actor |
| Charles F. Barber | CEO of American Smelting & refining |
| Jimmy Buffett | musician and singer |
| Bill Clinton | Cub Scout, President of US |
| Walter Cronkite | Journalist, TV commentator |
| Harrison Ford | Life, taught Reptile Study, actor "Indiana Jones" |
| Bill Gates | Life, founder of Microsoft Corp. |
| David Hartman | TV personality |
| Dan Jansen | Olympic Gold Medal Speed Skating, 1994 Olympics, Lillihammer |
| Bruce Jenner | Olympic Decathlete, Gold Medalist |
| John F. Kennedy | first US President who was a Scout |
| Branford Marsalis | Life Scout, Jazz musician |
| Merlin Olson | Pro football player and sportscaster |
| Eddie Rabbitt | Country & Western singer |
| John Ritter | actor, son of singer Tex Ritter |
| Richard Roundtree | actor |
| Nolan Ryan | pro baseball pitcher |
| Alberto Salazar | Life, 3 time winner NY marathon |
| Mark Spitz | Seven Gold Medals Swimming, 1972 Munich Olympic Games |
| James Stewart | actor, USAF B. General, B17 pilot in WWII |
| Joe Theisman | Life, former QB, Washington Redskins |
| Peter Ueberroth | Cub Scout, former Commissioner of Baseball |
| Norm Mineta | Japanese American, spent WWII as a Boy Scout in an internment camp in Wyoming, |
| where he met Alan Simpson, who was a Boy Scout in a troop in Cody, WY that made | |
| visits to their fellow Scouts in the camp. Norm later became mayor of San Jose, CA; | |
| a member of the US Congress, and later a Democratic Cabinet member of Republican | |
| Pres. George W. Bush in 2001. Also see Alan Simpson, who was a long time friend of | |
| Norm's. | |
| Alan Simpson | member of a troop in Cody, WY in WWII that visited fellow Scouts in a Japanese American |
| internment camp near Cody, where he met Norm Mineta, who was a long time friend. | |
| Alan became a Republican Senator from WY and helped Norm pass the Japanese American | |
| Compensation Act. Also see Norm Mineta. This story appeared in the Jan / Feb 2002 | |
| issue of Scouting Magazine. |