Famous Eagle Scouts

From A to Z

• Bill Alexander, U.S. Representative from Arkansas

• Gary Anderson, U.S. Representative from New York

• Neil Armstrong, 1st man on moon

• Charles Bennett, U.S. Representative from Florida

• William Bennett, Former Secretary of Education

• Guy Bluford, 1st African-American in space

• James Brady, Former Press Secretary to President Reagan

• Bill Bradley, Pro basketball star and U.S. Senator from New Jersey

• Milton Caniff, Comic Strip Artist "Steve Canyon"

• Walter Cronkite - Journalist, T.V. commentator

• Clive Cussler, adventure novelist

• William Dannemeyer, U.S. Representative from California

• William C. DeVries, M.D., Transplanted first artificial heart

• Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts

• Arthur Rose Eldred – 1st Eagle Scout

• Daniel J. Evans, Former US Senator and Governor of Washington state

• Gerald Ford – 38th President of the United States

• Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Governor of Louisiana

• Dick Gephadrt – Former Majority Leader

• William Hanna – co-founder of Hanna-Barbera

• Jay L. Johnson – 26th Chief of Naval Operations

• Michael Kahn – Film editor

• James Lovell – Apollo 13 astronaut

• Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator from Indiana

• J. Willard Marriott, Jr., President, Marriott Corporation

• Robert McNamara – Former Secretary of Defense

• Ozzie Nelson – band leader and entertainer

• Sam Nunn, U.S. Senator from Georgia

• Ellison Onizuka – Space Shuttle Challenger Astronaut

• H. Ross Perot – Chairman, EDS Corp.

• J.J. Pickle, U.S. Representative from Texas

• Samuel Pierce, Former Secreatry of HUD

• Donald Rumsfeld – Former Secretary of Defense

• Harrison Salisbury, Pulitzer Prize winning Author

• Willaim Sessions, Former FBI Director

• Steven Spielberg – Academy Award Winning Director/Producer

• Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize winning Author

• Percy Sutton, Chairman of CBS John Tesh, TV Celebrity

• James Stewart - Actor

• John Tesh -- musician

• J. Kim Vandiver – MIT professor and engineer

• Sam Walton – Founder of Wal-mart

• Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. – Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations

Other Famous Scouts

People who participated in Scouting in some form, but did not achieve Eagle Scout status. 

• David Hartman, Actor (Life Scout)

• Henry "Hank" Aaron, Baseball Superstar (Boy Scout)

• Richard Gere - Actor

• Bruce Jenner - Olympic Gold Medal Decathlon (Cub Scout)

• Jim Morrison - Rock Legend (Boy Scout)

• Merlin Olsen, Actor, Sportscaster (Boy Scout)

• Eddie Rabbitt, Country/Western singer (Boy Scout)

• Richard Roundtree, Actor (Boy Scout)

• Alberto Salazar, 3-time winner, NYC Marathon (Life Scout)

• John Schneider, Actor/Singer (Cub Scout)

• Howard K. Smith, Former ABC-TV commentator (Boy Scout)

• Mark Spitz - Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer (Cub Scout)

• George Strait - Country/Western Singer (Cub Scout)

• Joe Theisman, Sportscaster, former NFL player (Life Scout)

• Peter Ueberroth, Former Commissioner of Baseball (Cub Scout)

• Paul Winfield, Actor (Cub Scout)

• Steve Young, NFL Quarterback