List_of_Scouts
This is a list of notable Scouts and Scouters.
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Ghana
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Hon. Nana Amanfi III | CBE, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Asebu State | [1] |
| Peter Awoonor-Renner | Chairman of APSOG | [1] |
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Kenya
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Jeremiah J.M. Nyagah | Chief Scout. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1982. | |
| Elizabeth Nyaruai | Scout. |
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Libya
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Ali Khalifa el-Zaidi | Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1965. | |
| Muammar Gaddafi | Autocratic ruler of Libya | [2] |
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Morocco
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Abdelaziz Drissi-Kacemi | Recipient, Bronze Wolf. | |
| Mahmoud el-Alamy | Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1978. | |
| Mohamed Afilal | Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 2005. | |
| Moulay Rachid ben al Hassan | President, Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain. |
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Rwanda
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| IGIRANEZA Valentin(Lapin Brillante),UWASE TETA Diolinda(Senge Souryante),RUTAHANA M. Dan(Girraffé Courageux) and NIYOMUNGERI Christian(Tirteau Malbar) | Founders of Groupe de Base Kiziguro Chasse au Loup in 2022. |
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South Africa
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Victor J. Clapham | Originator of the Join-In Jamboree. Founder of Veld Lore. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1976. | |
| Herbert William Garnet de la Hunt | Cub; Scout; Scoutmaster; Commissioner; Chief Scout; Vice Chairman, Africa Region; Chairman, World Scout Committee; Vice President, South Africa Scout Association; Chairman, National Scout Council. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1996. | [3] |
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Bangladesh
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Md. Abul Kalam Azad | President, Bangladesh Scouts. | |
| Dr. Md. Mozammel Haque Khan | Chief National Commissioner | [4] |
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Cambodia
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Leang Meng Ho | Post-Khmer Rouge Scouting pioneer. | |
| Sisowath Monireth | Scouting pioneer. |
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China
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Noel Jacobs | Jewish British Scoutmaster, Shanghai. | |
| F. C. Millington | British Scoutmaster, Shanghai. | |
| Fredy Mittler | Austrian Scouter, Shanghai. | |
| Sun Li-jen / 孫立人 | Scout. Military commander. | |
| G. R. Welch | British Scoutmaster, Shanghai. | |
| L. R. Wheen | British Scoutmaster, Shanghai. | |
| Yang Huimin / 楊惠敏 | Scout and heroine, Battle of Shanghai, 1937. Depicted in Eight Hundred Heroes. | |
| Yen Chia-lin | Following the birth of the Republic of China, the first Scout troop was organized by Reverend Yen Chia-lin in Wuchang on 25 February 1912. |
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Hong Kong
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Francis Henry May | Chief Scout. | |
| Tung Chee Hwa | Chief Scout. |
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India
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| George Sydney Arundale | Co-Founder, Indian Scout Association. | |
| Girija Shankar Bajpai | Co-Founder, Seva Samiti. | |
| T. H. Baker | Scouting started in India in the year 1909, when Captain T.H. Baker established the first Scout Troop in Bangalore and got it registered with Imperial Headquarters, London. | |
| Annie Besant | Founder, Indian Scout Association. | |
| Vivian Bose | Pioneer of Scouting for Indian boys. | |
| Shankarrao Chavan | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Dharma Vīra | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Lalit Mohan Jain | National Commissioner, Bharat Scouts and Guides. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 2008. | |
| Hrdaya Nāth Kunzru | Co-Founder, Seva Samiti. | |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | Co-Founder, Seva Samiti. | |
| Lakshmi Mazumdar | National Commissioner, Bharat Scouts and Guides. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1969. | |
| Mangal Dās Pakvasa | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Sharad Pawar | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Alfred Donald Pickford (1872-1947) | Scouting pioneer. Served as Calcutta District Scout Commissioner in 1916, and in May 1919 was promoted to Chief Scout Commissioner for India. | |
| Jagjīvan Rām | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Rustomji Edulji Sethna (1898–1954) | Pioneer of Scouting for Indian boys. Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scout Group, established in 1914, is the oldest continuously running Scout Group in India. | |
| Evelyn Norah Shullai | Guide, Guider. | |
| Bhuvaneshwar Prasād Sinha | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Ammu Swāmīnāthan | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Rameshwar Thākur | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. | |
| Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. |
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Indonesia
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Hamengkubuwono IX | Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1973. |
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Iran
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Hossein Banai | Served on the World Scout Committee, 1959-65 and 1967-73. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1961. |
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Japan
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Korea
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Ban Ki-moon | Eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations | [6] |
| Kim Kyu-young | Director of the World Scout Bureau Asia-Pacific Office, Makati, Philippines. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 2002. | |
| Lee Yun-sook | politician | [7] |
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Maldives
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Mohammed Jaisham Ibrahim | saved the President of Maldives Maumoon Abdul Gayoom from assassination | [8] |
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Philippines
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Valeriano Abello | Hero | [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] |
| Estefania Aldaba-Lim | GSP President | |
| Benigno Aquino III | Chief Scout | |
| Corazon Aquino | Chief Scout. Chief Girl Scout. | |
| Jejomar Binay | BSP National President | |
| Elwood Brown | First Scoutmaster of the Philippines, 1910 | [16] |
| Manuel Camus | BSP Charter Member | [17][18] |
| Tomás Confesór | Legislator | [19] |
| Gabriel Daza | BSP Charter Member, President and Chief Scout of the BSP, Reorganised BSP | [20][21] |
| Antonio C. Delgado | Ambassador | [22] |
| Josefa Llanes Escoda | GSP Founder | [23] |
| Joseph Estrada | Chief Scout | |
| Roilo Golez | BSP National President | |
| Ralph Hawkins | BSP National Director | [24][25] |
| Pilar Hidalgo-Lim | GSP Co-Founder | |
| Vicente Lim | BSP Charter Member | [26][27] |
| Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | Chief Scout. Chief Girl Scout. | |
| Ferdinand Marcos | Chief Scout | |
| Imelda Marcos | Chief Girl Scout | |
| Guillermo Padolina | BSP National Director | [25][28][29] |
| Roberto Pagdanganan | BSP National President | [30] |
| William H. Quasha | Scouter | [31][32] |
| Manuel Quezon | President, Commonwealth of the Philippines | [33] |
| Fidel V. Ramos | Chief Scout | [34] |
| Hermenegildo Reyes | Member, World Scout Committee | |
| Carlos P. Romulo | BSP Charter Member | [35][36][37] |
| Samuel Stagg | BSA Commissioner | [38][39] |
| Joseph E. Stevenot | BSP Founder | [35][40][41] |
| Jorge B. Vargas | Member, World Scout Committee | [35][42] |
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Singapore
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Lee Kuan Yew | First Prime Minister of Singapore | [43] |
| Goh Chok Tong | Second Prime Minister of Singapore | [43] |
| Yong Pung How | Former Chief Justice of Singapore | [43] |
| Ong Teng Cheong | Fifth (First Elected) President of Singapore | [43] |
| S.R. Nathan | Sixth President of Singapore | [43] |
| Tony Tan | Seventh President of Singapore | [44] |
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Sri Lanka
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Senator E. W. Kannangara | [45] | |
| Kingsley C. Dassanaike | [45] |
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Thailand
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Abhai Chandavimol | Member, World Scout Committee. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1971. |
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Vietnam
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Trần văn Khắc | Founder of Vietnamese Scouting, 1930. He was assisted in the early years by Tạ Văn Rục, Hoàng Đạo Thúy, Lương Thái, Huỳnh văn Diệp, and Trần Con. After the 1975 Communist takeover of South Vietnam, Trần văn Khắc migrated and lived out life in Canada. | [46][47][48] |
| Hoàng Đạo Thúy (1900-1994) | Scout leader in North Vietnam and Communist Party member. | Hoàng Đạo Thúy [vi] |
| Tạ Quang Bửu (1910-1986) | First Deputy Gilwell Camp Chief of Việt Nam. Deputy Defense Minister, North Vietnam. | Tạ Quang Bửu [vi] |
| Cung Giũ Nguyên (1909-2008) | Scoutmaster. In 1958 the Tùng Nguyên national training camp was established under his leadership, where all Scoutmasters trained between 1958 and 1975. | Cung Giũ Nguyên [vi] |
| Nguyễn Hữu Đang (1913-2007) | Raider Scout. High-ranking Communist operative. Scouting leader. Attempted to convince other Scout leaders to join Communist Party. Purged from the Party and arrested 1958. | Nguyễn Hữu Đang |
| Lưu Hữu Phước (1921-1989) | Composer. | Lưu Hữu Phước |
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Vietnamese Scouting in exile
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Nguyễn Quang Minh | Scouts-in-exile organizer. | |
| Nguyễn văn Thuất | President, International Central Committee of Vietnamese Scouting, 2002-06 |
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Armenia
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Kourkène Medzadourian | Scouting-in-exile founder | |
| Bagrat Yesayan | World Scout Committee, editor in chief of Yerker Daily newspaper |
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Azerbaijan
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Ilyas Ismayilli | president of the Association of Scouts of Azerbaijan |
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Austria
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Hermann Buhl | first mountaineer to Scale Nanga Parbat | |
| Marie Antoinette Hofmann | Guiding pioneer | |
| Heinrich Maier | important Nazi resistance fighter | |
| Emmerich Teuber (1877-1943) | Began the first Scouting group in Vienna in 1912, later served on the International Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from its creation in 1922 until 1929 |
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Belgium
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Albert II of Belgium | King of the Belgians, 1993-2013 | [49] |
| Baudouin of Belgium | King of the Belgians, 1951-1993 | [50] |
| Jacques Brel | singer | |
| Jean-Luc Dehaene | Prime Minister of Belgium | |
| Hergé | Belgian cartoonist and creator of The Adventures of Tintin | [51] |
| Leo Tindemans | Prime Minister of Belgium |
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Czech Republic
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Václav Havel | 1st president of the Czech Republic | [52] |
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Denmark
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Ove Holm | First patrol leader and later Chief Scout 1924-1960, Bronze Wolf 1949 | |
| Ingrid of Sweden | chairman for Joint Committee of Girl Guides in Denmark | |
| Princess Benedikte of Denmark | chairman for Joint Committee of Girl Guides in Denmark | |
| Frederik IX of Denmark | King of Denmark 1947-1972 | |
| Jens Hvass | Forester and influential leader of Det Danske Spejderkorps, Bronze Wolf 1957 | |
| Vilhelm Bjerregaard | Author and troop leader, later BSA leader, Bronze Wolf 1985 |
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France
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Greece
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Demetrios Alexatos | Commissioner, Soma Hellinon Proskopon. Member, World Scout Committee, 1957-63. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1963. |
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Hungary and Hungarian Scouting
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| László Almásy | Pilot. | |
| Béla Heinrich Bánáthy | Scout. | |
| Gábor Bodnár | Organizer of Hungarian Scouts in exile. | |
| Fritz M. de Molnár | Scouting pioneer. Deputy Camp Chief. | |
| László Nagy | Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, 1968-1988 | [54] |
| Aladar de Szillassy | Scouting pioneer. | |
| István Kanitz | Scouting pioneer. | |
| Kisbarnaki Farkas Ferenc | Chief Scout. | |
| Králik László | Scouting pioneer. | |
| Sík Sándor | Scouting pioneer. | |
| Pál Teleki | Chief Scout. |
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Iceland
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Páll Gíslason | Chief Scout. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1981. | |
| Ingvar Ólafsson | Scouting was introduced in Iceland as early as 1911, when Ingvar Ólafsson, who had entered the Scout Movement in Denmark, formed the first Boy Scout patrol. | |
| Helgi Tómasson | Chief Scout | |
| Axel Tulinius | First Chief Scout, Bandalag Íslenskra Skáta, 1925-38. |
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Ireland
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Brendan Corish | Tánaiste from 1973 to 1977. | [55] |
| Liam Cosgrave | Taoiseach of Ireland from 1973 to 1977. | [56] |
| Brian Cowen | Taoiseach of Ireland from 2008 to 2011. | [57] |
| Bob Geldof | Singer-songwriter and political activist. | |
| Ernest Farrell | Co-Founder, Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland. | |
| Tom Farrell | Co-Founder, Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland. | |
| Richard P. Fortune | Founder, Scouting in Ireland. | |
| Graham Norton | Comedian and television presenter | [57] |
| Michael O'Leary | Chief executive officer of Ryanair | [57] |
| Cornelius Ryan | Journalist and author mainly known for his writings The Longest Day, and A Bridge Too Far. | [55] |
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Italy
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Eduardo Missoni | medical doctor and Secretary General of the WOSM from April 1, 2004 through November 30, 2007 |
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Netherlands
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Jan Peter Balkenende | Prime Minister | [58][59] |
| Jo Cals | Prime Minister | [60] |
| Arjan Erkel | medical aid worker for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), abducted in Dagestan | [61] |
| Jan van Hoof | member of the Dutch resistance (Operation Market Garden) | [62] |
| Henk Kamp | politician | [63] |
| Bert Koenders | politician | [64] |
| Piet J. Kroonenberg | Scouting historian and author. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1996. | [65] |
| Willem Oltmans | journalist | [66] |
| Frits Philips | chairman of the board of directors of Dutch electronics company Philips | [67] |
| Jean Jacques Rambonnet | vice admiral, Minister (Navy, Colonies, War), the only Chief Scout of the Netherlands prior to 2021 | [68] |
| Joost Swarte | comic artist and graphical designer | [69] |
| Freek Vonk | biologist, Chief Scout of Scouting Nederland | [70] |
| Beatrix of the Netherlands | [71] | |
| Juliana of the Netherlands | also known as Movavedo (Mother of many daughters) | [71] |
| Duke Hendrik of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Prince of the Netherlands, Prince Consort, Chairman of Netherlands Pathfinders | [71] |
| Princess Máxima of the Netherlands | Princess of Orange, now patron of Scouting Nederland | [71] |
| Princess Christina of the Netherlands | [71] | |
| Claus von Amsberg | Prince of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg, Prince Consort | [71] |
| Princess Irene of the Netherlands | [71] | |
| Princess Margriet of the Netherlands | [71] |
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Norway
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Kari Aas | Guider. Designed World Guide Flag. |
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Poland
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Jan Roman Bytnar | Scouter. Szarych Szeregów. | [72] |
| Sławomir Maciej Bittner | Scoutmaster. Officer, Armia Krajowa. Arrested and killed by Gestapo. | |
| Stanisław Broniewski | Naczelnik (Chief Scout), Szare Szeregi. Officer, Armia Krajowa. | |
| Tadeusz Chciuk | Biali Kurierzy, Szare Szeregi. | |
| Aleksander Maciej Dawidowski | Scouter. Szarych Szeregów. | [72] |
| Jadwiga Falkowska | Co-Founder of Polish Girl Guides. Executed by the Russians. | |
| Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski | Scout. Scouter. Priest. Died in Nazi prison. Beatified. | |
| Józef Andrzej Grzesiak | Scoutmaster. Szarych Szeregów. | |
| Kazimierz Iwiński | Teacher. Education official. Scouter. Commander of Scout resistance fighters. | |
| Karolina Kaczorowska | First Lady of Poland in exile. | |
| Ryszard Kaczorowski | President of Poland in exile. | |
| Aleksander Kamiński | Teacher, Scoutmaster, Szarych Szeregów. Editor-in-Chief, Biuletyn Informacyjny, Armia Krajowa. Declared Righteous Among the Nations. | |
| Józefa Kantor | Founder of Mury, the clandestine Polish Girl Guide group inside Ravensbrück concentration camp. | |
| Anna Komorowska | First Lady of Poland. | |
| Bronisław Maria Komorowski | President of Poland. | |
| Kazimierz Lutosławski | Physician, priest, Scouter. | |
| Andrzej Małkowski and Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska | Founders of Scouting and Guiding in Poland. Andrzej translated Scouting for Boys into Polish. | |
| Florian Marciniak | Naczelnik (Chief Scout), Szare Szeregi. Executed by the Nazis. | [73] |
| Kazimierz Piechowski | War hero | |
| Witold Pilecki | ZHP Scout and soldier. Armia Krajowa intelligence officer. Allied spy and war hero. | [74][75][76][77][78][79] |
| Józef Pukowiec | Teacher. Scoutmaster. Tortured and killed by Nazis. | |
| Jan Rodowicz | Scouter. Szarych Szeregów. | |
| Andrzej Romocki | Scouter. Szarych Szeregów. | [80] |
| Kazimierz Aleksander Sabbat | President of Poland in exile. | |
| Stanisław Sedlaczek | Professor. Scoutmaster. Murdered at Auschwitz. | |
| Eugeniusz Stasiecki | Scouter. Szarych Szeregów. | |
| Tadeusz Strumiłło | Scouter. President of the ZHP. Professor of the underground university system. | |
| Anna Zawadzka | Sister of Tadeusz Zawadzki. Scouter. Szarych Szeregów. Teacher. Vice President of the post-Communist ZHP. | |
| Tadeusz Zawadzki | Codename "Zośka." Scouter. Szarych Szeregów, after whom the Batalion Zośka was named. | [72] |
| Jerzy Eugeniusz Zborowski | Scoutmaster. Commander, Batalion Parasol, Armia Krajowa. |
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Serbia
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| Vlade Divac | retired basketball player | |
| Serbian Patriarch Pavle | 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church | |
| Emir Kusturica | filmmaker, actor and musician | |
| Mika Antić | poet, movie director, journalist and painter | |
| Desanka Maksimović | poet |
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Sweden
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Carl XVI Gustaf | King. | [81] |
| Gustaf VI Adolf | King, Chief Scout. | [81] |
| Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten | Gustaf Adolf was a Boy Scout and as an adult became a Scoutmaster. He earned his Wood Badge beads at Gilwell Park in England. When the Svenska Scoutrådet was formed, he served as its first president or Chief Scout. He was leader of the Swedish contingent at the 5th World Scout Jamboree in 1937 and to the World Scout Moot in 1939. He served on the World Scout Committee from May 1937 until his death. | |
| Folke Bernadotte | Diplomat, United Nations mediator in Palestine. | [81] |
| Carl-Henric Svanberg | CEO of BP. | [82] |
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Switzerland
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Walther von Bonstetten | Prominent Scouting leader. Founder of Kandersteg International Scout Centre. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1937. | |
| László Nagy | An expert in sociology and political science, he was a research specialist at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva when the Institute, under contract with the World Scout Bureau and the Ford Foundation, assigned him to conduct a two-year international study of the Scout Movement. This led to reorganization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and his appointment as Secretary General. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1977. |
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Turkey
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Şenay Aybüke Yalçın | A scout leader who killed by PKK |
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United Kingdom
Baden-Powell Scouts Association
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Lawrie Dring (1931–2012) | Co-Founder, Baden-Powell Scouts' Association. Founder, World Federation of Independent Scouts. |
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Girlguiding UK
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| Name | Notability | Reference |
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| Anne, Princess Royal | [83][84] | |
| Cherie Booth | human rights lawyer | [85] |
| Betty Boothroyd | first female Speaker of the House of Commons | [86] |
| Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | Queen Consort | [84] |
| Queen Elizabeth II | [84] | |
| Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson | athlete and television presenter | [85] |
| Glenda Jackson | actress and politician | [85] |
| Lorraine Kelly | television presenter | [85] |
| Princess Margaret | [84] | |
| Mo Mowlam | politician | [85] |
| Dame Anita Roddick | entrepreneur and environmental campaigner | [85] |
| Helen Sharman | the first British woman in space | [85] |
| Delia Smith | television chef | [85] |
| Faye White | athlete and sports commentator | [87] |
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The Scout Association
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| Henry Allingham | World War I veteran believed to have been the oldest Scout in Europe | [88] |
| David Attenborough | Naturalist, TV personality | [89] |
| Vera Barclay | First prominent Cub leader. Authored Jungle Wisdom. | [90] |
| David Beckham | midfielder of the England football squad | [91] |
| David Bellamy | TV personality | [89] |
| Tony Benn | Politician | [89] |
| Tony Blair | Former-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | [91] |
| Chris Bonington | mountaineer | [92] |
| David Bowie | singer-songwriter, producer and actor | [93] |
| Gyles Brandreth | author and politician | [94] |
| Richard Branson | Entrepreneur | [91] |
| Sir Trevor Brooking | footballer | [89] |
| Ernest Stafford Carlos | painter and war artist | [95] |
| Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge | wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | [96] |
| Brian Clough | football manager | [89] |
| Nigel Clough | Footballer | [89] |
| Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan | Governor of Tasmania and Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth, 1945-1959 | [97] |
| Jack Cornwell | war hero | [98] |
| John Craven | TV personality | [89] |
| Jim Davidson | entertainer | [89] |
| Ken Dodd | entertainer | [89] |
| Roger Gale | politician | [94] |
| Bear Grylls | TV presenter, adventurer and writer, Chief Scout of the United Kingdom since 2009 | [99] |
| Richard Hammond | TV presenter | [89] |
| Mike Harding | comedian/songwriter and radio presenter | [89] |
| Ainsley Harriott | TV chef | [89] |
| James Jakes | Racing driver; sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America for the 2012 IndyCar season | [100] |
| Rhys Jones | youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest | [101] |
| Natasha Kaplinsky | BBC news presenter | [89] |
| Neil Kinnock | politician | [89] |
| Sammy Lee | footballer | [89] |
| William Frederick de Bois Maclaren (1856–1921) | Businessman and District Scout Commissioner of Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Donated Gilwell Park to the Scout Movement. In his honor, the Clan MacLaren tartan adorns the Wood Badge neckerchief in most, if not all, countries implementing the Wood Badge program. | |
| John Major | former Prime Minister | [89] |
| Simon Mayo | disc jockey/TV presenter | [89] |
| Paul McCartney | singer/songwriter/bassist of the Beatles and Wings | [89] |
| Derek Mountfield | footballer | [89] |
| Denis Norden | TV personality | [89] |
| Jamie Oliver | celebrity chef | [89] |
| Michael Owen | footballer | [89] |
| Michael Parkinson | radio presenter, TV personality | [89] |
| Jeremy Paxman | TV/news presenter | [91] |
| Roland Philipps | Scouter. | |
| Tim Peake | Former regular British Army Air Corps officer and a current European Space Agency astronaut and International Space Station crew | [102] |
| William Henry Ralph Reader (1903–1982) | Actor, theatrical producer, songwriter, intelligence officer. Founder of The Gang Show. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1975. | |
| Cliff Richard | entertainer | [89] |
| Keith Richards | Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter | [89] |
| Bobby Robson | former England football manager | [89] |
| Roger Scruton | philosopher | [94] |
| David Seaman | footballer | [89] |
| Chris Tarrant | TV personality | [89] |
| Harold Wilson | former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | [89] |
| Antony Worrall Thompson | chef and television presenter | [94] |
| John Thurman / Richard Francis Thurman | Camp Chief, Gilwell, 1943-69. Authored many Scouting books. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1959. | |
| Francis Vane / Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane (5th Baronet Fletcher-Vane of Hutton) | Soldier. Second Boer War veteran. Commissioner, The Boy Scouts Association. Founder, The British Boy Scouts (later The Brotherhood of British Scouts). Founder and Grand Scout Master, Order of World Scouts, the oldest Scout federation. | |
| John Skinner Wilson (1888–1969) | Soldier, intelligence officer, Scout leader. Senior Deputy Police Commissioner, Calcutta. District Scout Commissioner, Calcutta. Camp Chief, Gilwell. Director, Boy Scouts International Bureau. Held first Wood Badge Course in the USA. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1937. |
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Argentina
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| Russell D. Christian | Scouting pioneer. | [citation needed] |
| Francisco Pascasio Moreno | Scouting pioneer. |
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Brazil
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| Itamar Franco | Brazilian president | [103] |
| José Alencar | Brazilian vice-president | [103] |
| Juscelino Kubitscheck | Brazilian president | [103] |
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Chile
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| Paula Pelaez | Recipient, Bronze Wolf. |
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Cuba
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| Salvador Fernández Beltrán | General Secretary of the Inter-American Advisory Committee, assisted in the creation of the InterAmerican Scout Office. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1957. |
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Ecuador
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| Rafael Correa | President | |
| Ivan Vallejo | Mountaineer |
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Mexico
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| Juan Lainé (1884-1977) | Served on the World Scout Committee from 1947 to 1949 and again from 1951 to 1957. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1966. |
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Peru
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| Elias Mendoza | Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1972. |
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Venezuela
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| Adolfo Aristeguieta Gramcko | Surgeon, psychiatrist, homeopath. Scout leader; served at local, national, and international levels. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1976. | |
| Gustavo J. Vollmer | Chairman of the World Scout Committee. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1969. |
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Egypt
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| Mohamed Ali Hafez | Served on the World Scout Committee from 1957 to 1963 and again from 1965 to 1971. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1965. |
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Israel
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| Reuven Rivlin | President | [104] |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister | [105] |
| Gidi Gov | Singer, TV host, entertainer and actor | [106] |
| Yuval Banay | Musician | [106] |
| Shlomi Braha | Rock musician and record producer | [106] |
| Din Din Aviv | Pop and folk singer | [106] |
| Mickey Edelstein | Major-general in the Israeli Defense Forces | |
| Lucy Ayoub | Television presenter | [107] |
| Tamar Ish-Shalom | Television presenter and Israeli journalist | [108] |
| Merav Michaeli | Israeli politician | [108] |
| Miki Haimovich | Israeli politician | [108] |
| Doron Medalie | Israeli songwriter, composer and artistic director | [108] |
| Eitan Ben Eliyahu | Commander of the Israeli Air Force | [108] |
| Oded Menashe | Israeli actor, magician and television presenter | [108] |
| Michaela Bercu | Israeli model and actress | [108] |
| Kobi Oshrat | Israeli composer and conductor | [108] |
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Lebanon
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| Muhammad el-Hibri | Son of Toufik el-Hibri. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1972. | |
| Toufik El Hibri | Pioneer of Scouting in Arabia. | |
| Bachir Gemayel | President. |
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Syria
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| Ali Abdulkarim al-Dandachi (1907–2000) | Vice President, Boy Scouts de Syrie. Served on Boy Scouts International Committee, 1951-57. Promoted Scouting throughout the Middle East. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1969. |
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Bahamas
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| John R. Phillpot | International Commissioner of the Scout Association of the Bahamas, recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1986 |
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Canada
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| Pierre Berton | Author, Journalist | [109] |
| Leonard Cohen | Singer-Songwriter | [109] |
| Jean-François Carrey | youngest Canadian to climb Mount Everest | [110] |
| Jean Chrétien | Prime Minister | [109] |
| Jim Creeggan | Musician | [109] |
| Roméo Dallaire | Humanitarian, Senator, Lieutenant-General | [109] |
| A. Wallace Denny | Deputy Chief Scout, Boy Scouts of Canada, recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1977 | |
| John Diefenbaker | Prime Minister | [109] |
| Jackson Dodds | Deputy Chief Scout for Canada. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1955 | |
| Michael J. Fox | Actor | [109] |
| Chris Hadfield | Astronaut, Cub-Scout in Milton, Ontario | [111] |
| Stephen Harper | Prime Minister | |
| Len Jarrett | Director, Boy Scouts International Bureau (London), Boy Scouts World Bureau (Ottawa), and World Scout Bureau (Geneva), 1955-81 consultant for the Bureau 1981-86, organizer of Jamboree-on-the-Air 1958-88, recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1973 | [112] |
| Craig Kielburger | Children's rights activist, member, Board of Governors, Scouts Canada | |
| Roméo LeBlanc | Governor-General | |
| Gordon Lightfoot | Singer-Songwriter | [109] |
| Steve MacLean | astronaut | [113] |
| Paul Martin | Prime Minister | [109] |
| Roland Michener | Governor-General | |
| Brian Mulroney | Prime Minister | [109] |
| Kevin Newman | journalist and broadcaster | [114] |
| Seamus O'Regan | journalist and broadcaster, cabinet minister | [115] |
| Steven Page | Singer, Songwriter | [109] |
| J. Percy Ross | Chief Executive, Boy Scouts of Canada, recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1978 | |
| Daniel Spry (1913-1989) | World War II general, Director, Boy Scouts World Bureau | |
| Pierre Trudeau | Prime Minister | [109] |
| W. Brett Wilson | entrepreneur | [116] |
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United States
Girl Scouts of the USA
These notable individuals were in the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA). Also see Gold Award recipients.
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Boy Scouts of America
These notable individuals were in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Also see the lists of Eagle Scouts, Recipients of the Silver Buffalo Award, Chief Scout Executives, National presidents of the Boy Scouts of America and National Commissioner.
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| Barack Obama | 44th President of the United States | [123] |
| Buzz Aldrin | Astronaut; Tenderfoot Scout | [124] |
| Jack Andraka | Life Scout who developed a test for cancer at age 15 | [125] |
| Ezra Taft Benson | National Executive Board Member, Boy Scouts of America; US Secretary of Agriculture; President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; recipient of the Bronze Wolf Award | |
| Jack Black | Cub Scout in Los Angeles | [126] |
| Ernest Borgnine | Film and television actor | [127] |
| William D. Boyce | Entrepreneur; newspaper publisher; philanthropist; safari explorer; founder of the Boy Scouts of America and the Lone Scouts of America | [128][129] |
| George W. Bush | 43rd U.S. President; Cub Scout | [7][130] |
| Calvin Coolidge, Jr. | Son of President Calvin Coolidge; with his brother, he was the first Scout to live in the White House. | [131] |
| Walter Cronkite | Broadcast journalist | [132][133] |
| John Hope Franklin | Boy Scout; historian, author of From Slavery to Freedom; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom | [134] |
| Bill Gates | Life Scout, founder of Microsoft | [135] |
| Alexander D. Goode | Scout leader, Rabbi, Army Chaplain, one of the Four Chaplains who died when the troop transport Dorchester was torpedoed during World War II | [136] |
| Byron Hill | Nashville songwriter; Life Scout | [137] |
| William Hillcourt (Green Bar Bill) | Boy Scout; Scoutmaster; Scouting professional who served in various positions in the Boy Scouts of America; authored many books and articles on Scouting, outdoor activities, and Scout skills, including the first Scout Fieldbook and three editions of the Boy Scout Handbook of the BSA; trainee at the first Wood Badge course in the USA, 1936 and served as Senior Patrol Leader at the second course some days later; organized Wood Badge as a regular BSA program in 1948, serving as the first Course Leader; recipient of the Bronze Wolf Award | [138] |
| Frank Reed Horton | Deputy Scout Commissioner, Easton Scout Council, Pennsylvania; Scout Executive, Homestead District Council, Pennsylvania; Scout Executive, Shenandoah Area Council, Winchester, Virginia; founder, Alpha Phi Omega | |
| John Isley | host of The John Boy & Billy Big Show | [139] |
| John F. Kennedy | Star Scout; 35th President of the United States | [140] |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Boy Scout; civil rights activist | [141] |
| Tommy Lasorda | Manager of two LA Dodgers World Series champion teams; member of National Baseball Hall of Fame | [142] |
| Richard 'Cheech' Marin | Cub Scout, Boy Scout, American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, writer | [143] |
| Ross A. McGinnis | Cub Scout, Boy Scout, awarded Medal of Honor in the Iraq War | [144] |
| Jim Morrison | Cub Scout | [145] |
| Clark V. Poling | Scout leader; Dutch Reformed minister; Army Chaplain; one of the Four Chaplains who died when the troop transport Dorchester was torpedoed during World War II | [136] |
| Slater Rhea | Singer and TV personality in China; Eagle Scout and Scouter in Far East Council and Direct Service Council | [146][147] |
| Ernest Thompson Seton | British-Canadian-American naturalist, outdoor artist, conservationist; founded the Woodcraft Indians and the Woodcraft League; inspiration and major source of Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys; co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America and the Camp Fire Girls; Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America; recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award | [148][149][150][151][152] |
| Alan K. Simpson | Scout, U.S. Senator from Wyoming | [153] |
| John Victor Skiff | Scout, Scoutmaster, New York State environmental conservationist and public servant. | [154] |
| George Takei | Actor, community leader, civil rights activist | [155][156] |
| Teller | Entertainer, Cub Scout | [157] |
| George Thorogood | Cub Scout in Delaware | [158] |
| Robert Wadlow | World's tallest Boy Scout | [159] |
| Jimmy Buffett | Singer, Songwriter. Boy Scout, St. Ignatius Parish in Mobile | [160] |
| Chris Pratt | Actor. Scout | [161] |
| Dan Reynolds | Lead singer for Imagine Dragons. Eagle Scout | [162] |
| James Valentine | Guitarist for Maroon 5. Grammy Winner. Eagle Scout | [163] |
| Harrison Ford | Actor. Life Scout, Napowan Adventure Base Scout Camp counselor | [164] |
| George Strait | Singer. Boy Scout. | [165] |
| John P. Washington | Scout leader, Catholic priest, Army Chaplain, one of the Four Chaplains who died when the troop transport Dorchester was torpedoed during World War II | [136] |
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Honorary Scouts
In 1911, President William Howard Taft accepted the position of honorary president of the BSA, and each U.S. president since has served. Theodore Roosevelt was the only honorary vice-president, as he had left office before the honorary presidency began.
In 1927, the Boy Scouts of America created Honorary Scouts to distinguish "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys...". The eighteen who were awarded this distinction were:[166]
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| Luis Matias Ferrer | Co-founder of Yokahu Lodge, Order of the Arrow | |
| Frank H. Wadsworth | Co-founder of Yokahu Lodge, Order of the Arrow |
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Australia
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| Kieran Ault-Connell | Paralympic athlete | [168] |
| Geoffrey Blainey | historian | |
| Sir Jack Brabham | racing driver | |
| Keith Conlon | television and radio presenter | |
| Jamie Durie | television host | |
| Peter Garrett | MP - Minister of Environment, Heritage and The Arts and musician | |
| Regan Harrison | Olympic swimmer | |
| Jack Heath | author | |
| Robert Irwin | television personality and wildlife conservationist | |
| Shane Jacobson | comedian | |
| Tim Jarvis | explorer and adventurer | |
| Brendan Nelson | MP - Former Federal Defence Minister | |
| Dave O'Neil | talkback radio host | |
| Clement Roy Nichols | Served on the World Scout Committee from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1967 to 1973. Recipient, Bronze Wolf, 1965. | |
| David Parkin | Australian rules footballer and coach | |
| Helen Sham-Ho | member, NSW Legislative Council | |
| Dick Smith | businessman and aviator | |
| Adam Spencer | radio DJ and media personality | |
| Jack Yabsley | television presenter |
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New Zealand
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| Eileen Louise Soper | journalist and Girl Guides commissioner | [169] |
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