The alphabetical list below is a partial list of prominent people who are current or former Rotarians
Please Note; names are in alphabetical order, and this list is not exhaustive. Unfortunately we were unable to find the early history from 1923 to 1930.
- King Albert I of Belgium – Honorary (RC Brussels; RC San Francisco)
- Dr. Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, college basketball coach and Basketball Hall of Fame member
- Clinton P. Anderson, US Congressman; US secretary of agriculture; US Senator
- Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, astronaut and second man to walk on the moon, USA
- Neil Armstrong, astronaut and first man to walk on the moon, USA
- Ásgeir Ásgeirson, president, Iceland, RC Reykjavik; past RI district governor
- Eusebio Ayala, president, Paraguay
- King Baudouin I of Belgium
- Eduard Benes, president, Czechoslovakia
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- King Baudouin I of Belgium
- Eduard Benes, president, Czechoslovakia
- Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
- Clarence Birdseye, developer of a process for quick freezing food, USA
- Harry A. Blackmun, associate justice of the Supreme Court, USA
- Frank Borman, astronaut, USA
- Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer, Australia
- Sir Norman Brearley, aviation pioneer, Australia
- Frank Brennan past president Madison Rotary and past district governor 1942 – 1943
- William Jennings Bryan, statesman and orator
- George W. Bush, president, USA
- Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero, president, Peru
- Richard E. Byrd, admiral and arctic explorer, USA
- Josep Ma. Vayreda Canadell, painter, Spain
- Alcino Cardoso, secretary of state, Portugal
- Jimmy Carter, president, USA
- Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister, England
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Senator (2000-2009); US Secretary of State (2009–), USA
- William C. Coleman, founder Coleman Co. (camping equipment, e.g., lanterns, stoves, and coolers)
- Arthur “Holly” Compton, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, USA
- Calvin Coolidge, president; Nobel Prize laureate in peace, USA
- L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut, USA (RC Space Center (Houston, Texas)
- William H. Davidson, former CEO of Harley-Davidson and son of founder
- Sir William Deane, governor general, Australia
- Dave Dillon past president Madison Rotary and past district governor 1991 to 1992
- Walt Disney, animation filmmaker, USA
- Major General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, leader of the United States Army “Doolittle Raid” in WWII
- William O. Douglas, associate justice of the Supreme Court, USA
- Thomas A. Edison, inventor, USA
- Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, England
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, president, USA
- King Farouk of Egypt
- Marcelo B. Fernan, chief justice of the Supreme Court, Philippines
- John F. Fitzgerald, mayor of Boston, USA
- Pope Francis, when he was Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio
- Greve Af Rosenborg Flemming, Danish Count
- Gerald R. Ford, president, USA
- Prince Frederik of Denmark (became Frederik IX King of Denmark in 1947)
- J. William Fulbright, senator, USA
- Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-Fan, director of the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., Hong Kong
- Donald M Hegy member Madison Rotary club and scholarship founder
- James Howard, member of Madison Rotary Club, Chair of the Spengler Howard Raffle
- Sir W. Hudson Fysh, founder of Qantas Airlines, Australia
- William H. Gates, Sr., Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
- Edgar A. Guest, poet and journalist, USA
- Karl Gullers, photographer, USA
- RC Stockholm West; RC Phoenix, Arizona
- King Gustaf VI Adolph of Sweden
- King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Lorenzo Guerrero Gutierrez, president, Nicaragua
- Warren G. Harding, president, USA
- Harvey Harper – Madison business men, RC of Madison member and scholarship founder
- Joel Chandler Harris, author, USA
- King Hassan II of Morocco
- Mark O. Hatfield, senator and governor, US
- Reijiro “Rei” Hattori, chairman of Seiko, Japan
- Steingrimur Hermannsson, prime minister, Iceland
- Sir Edmund Hillary, explorer and mountaineer, New Zealand
- Ko Hirasawa, anatomist and president of Kyoto University, Japan
- Luther H. Hodges, state governor, secretary of commerce, USA
- Herbert Hoover, president, USA
- Cordell Hull, Secretary of State and Nobel Prize laureate in peace, USA
- John Jakes, historical fiction author, USA
- Duke Kahanamoko, Olympic swimmer, USA
- John F. Kennedy, president, USA
- Abdulla Khalil, prime minister, Sudan
- Chung Yul Kim, prime minister, South Korea
- Karl Kobelt, president, Swiss Confederation
- Chucri Kouatly, president, Syria
- Hans Küng, theologian, Germany
- RC Reutlingen-Tübingen
- Sir Harry Lauder, entertainer, Scotland
- Jean Leclant, Egyptologist, France
- Franz Lehar, composer, Austria
- Charles A. Lindbergh, aviator, USA
- Douglas MacArthur, army general, USA
- Cornelius “Connie Mack” McGillicuddie, baseball manager and team owner, USA
- Thomas Mann, novelist; Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Germany
- Guglielmo Marconi, inventor, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, Italy
- Jan Masaryk, foreign minister, Czechoslovakia (RC Prague)
- George C. Marshall, army general and Nobel Prize laureate in peace, USA
- Konosuke Matsushita, president of Matsushita Electric Co., Japan
- Dr. Charles H. Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, USA
- Col. Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher
- Dr. Karl Menninger, psychiatrist and co-founder of the Menninger Clinic, USA
- Cesare Merzagora, president of the senate, Italy
- Toyohiko Mikimoto, president of Mikimoto Pearl Co., Japan
- A.Q. Miller, Sr., writer and newspaper publisher, father of R.I. Pres. Carl P. Miller
- Wayne L. Morse, US Senator, USA
- Dr. William P. Murphy, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine (1934), USA
- Duck Woo Nam, prime minister, Korea
- Lennart Nilsson, photographer, Sweden
- Chester W. Nimitz, admiral, USA
- Richard Nixon, president, USA
- Georges Octors, orchestra conductor, Belgium
- Choong Hoon Park, prime minister, Korea
- Raul Sapena Pastor, prime minister, Paraguay
- Konstantin Päts, president, Estonia
- Prince Paul, regent, Yugoslavia
- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman and author, USA
- Lester Pearson, prime minister, Canada; president of UN General Assembly; Nobel Prize laureate
- James Cash Penney, founder of JC Penney Co., USA
- John J. Pershing, army general, USA
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Antoine Pinay, prime minister, France
- Piero Pirelli, rubber products manufacturing, Italy
- Leopoldo Pirelli, president of Pirelli Tire Co., Italy
- Joan Abello Prat, painter, Spain
- Emilio Pucci, couturier-designer, Italy
- Prince Rainier III of Monaco
- Bhichai Rattakul, foreign Minister, Thailand
- Branch Rickey, president of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, USA
- James Whitcomb Riley, poet, USA
- Ronald Reagan, president, USA
- Sigmund Romberg, composer, USA
- Carlos Romulo, president of UN general assembly, Philippines
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, president, USA
- Dr. Albert Sabin, scientist who developed oral polio vaccine, USA
- Edwardo Santos, president, Columbia
- Wolfgang Schallenberg, secretary general of the Austrian ministry of foreign affairs
- Walter Scheel, president, Germany
- Albert Schweitzer, physician, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate in peace
- Kiyoshi Seike, architect, Japan
- Donna Shalala, secretary of health and human service, USA
- Alan B. Shephard, Jr., astronaut, USA
- Kenjiro Shoda, president of Osaka University, Japan
- Jean Sibelius, composer, Finland
- Kim Sigler, Governor of Michigan, USA
- Paul Simon, US Senator (Illinois), USA
- Glyndon “Sign” Smith, philanthropists, 69 years Rotary perfect attendance
- William Spengler, Madison Rotary Club, founder of the Spangler Howard Raffle
- Tris Speaker, baseball player, USA
- Sir Sigmund Sternberg, businessman and philanthropist, England
- Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone
- Adlai E. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, USA; ambassador to the United Nations
- Charles Strope past president Madison Rotary and past district governor 1971 to 1972
- Billy Sunday, evangelist, USA
- Dr. Albert von Szent-Györgyi, Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine (1937)
- Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda of Japan
- J. Millard Tawes, Governor of Maryland, USA
- Margaret Thatcher, prime minister, England
- Kiyoshi Togasaki, president and chairman of the Japan Times
- Harry S. Truman, president, USA
- Ted Turner, founder of cable television station CNN
- Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, military general and chief executive, Chile
- Arthur H. Vandenberg, US Senator
- Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., chairman of the Walgreen Drug Co., USA
- Earl Warren, chief justice of Supreme Court, USA
- William Allen White, newspaper editor, USA
- Jack Williamson, science fiction writer, USA
- Woodrow Wilson, president, USA; Nobel Prize laureate in peace, USA
- Ritchie Woods, Founding president Rotary Club of Madison
- Joseph Sidney Woolford, member Rotary club of Madison and scholarship founder
- Garfield Arthur “Gar” Wood, speedboat racer, inventor, USA
- Orville Wright, aviation pioneer, USA
- Philip Wylie, author and social commentator, USA
- Chia-kan “C. K.” Yen, president, Republic of China-Taiwan
- Chang Soon Yoo, prime minister, Korea
- Willy Zumblick, painter and sculptor, Brazil