List of notable Scouts

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This is a List of famous Scouts and Scouters.

Asia

Japan

  • Ryutaro Hashimoto, the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan
  • Yukio Hattori, the fifth president of the Hattori Nutrition College.a commentator on the Japanese cooking competition program Iron Chef
  • Soichi Noguchi, Japanese astronaut
  • Makoto Raiku, mangaka (Zatch Bell!)
  • Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo (Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Metroid)

Korea

Australia

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Europe

Belgium

Czech Republic

  • Eduard Beneš (1884-1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia
  • Jaroslav Foglar (1907-1999), writer
  • Jiří Grygar (*1936), astronomer and popularizer of science
  • Tomáš Halík (*1948), public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest and scholar
  • Václav Havel (*1936), 1st president of the Czech Republic[3]
  • Helena Illnerová (*1937), research worker, president of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2001-2005)
  • Erazim Kohák (*1933), philosopher and writer
  • Jan Kubiš (1913-1942), Czechoslovakian resistance fighter
  • Ivo Lukačovič (*1974), founder, chairman and vision-maker of Seznam.cz
  • Václav Marhoul (*1960), film director and producer
  • Jiří Menzel (*1938), film and theatre director, actor and scriptwriter
  • Václav Pačes (*1942), biochemist, president of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2005-)
  • Šimon Pánek (*1967), director and co-founder of People in Need Foundation (PINF)
  • Theodor Pištěk (*1932), painter and film designer
  • Petr Pithart (*1941), politician, lawyer and political scientist
  • Břetislav Rychlík (*1958), film director
  • Ladislav Sitenský (*1919), landscape photographer
  • Jiří Stránský (*1931), writer, scriptwriter, dramatist, interpreter
  • Jiří Suchý (*1931), dramatist, poet, writer, composer, musician
  • Antonín Benjamin Svojsík (1876-1938), founder of Czech Scouting
  • Štěpán Cardinal Trochta (1905-1974) salesian and bishop of Litomerice
  • Václav Vorlíček (*1930), film director and scriptwriter
  • Jiří Wolker (1900-1924), poet, journalist and playwright
  • Rudolf Zahradník (*1928), chemist, president of the Czech Academy of Sciences (1993-2001)

Denmark

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

  • László Almásy pilot, researcher of Sahara Desert, title character of The English Patient
  • Ferenc Csík swimmer, gold medal winner of 1936 Summer Olympics
  • Ferenc Mádl President of Hungary (2000-2005)
  • Pál Maléter military leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
  • Ernő Rubik flight engineer, father of Ernő Rubik jr., inventor of Rubik's Cube
  • Pál Teleki scientist, prime minister of Hungary (1920-1921) and (1939-1941)

Ireland

Luxembourg

The Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Spain

Sweden

United Kingdom

Girlguiding UK

The Scout Association

North America

Canada

United States

Girl Scouts of the USA

These notable individuals were in the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA). Also see Gold Award recipients.

Boy Scouts of America

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The Ideal Scout

These notable individuals were in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). For Eagle Scout recipients, see List of notable Eagle Scouts.

South America

Brazil

  • Caio Vianna Martins National hero


See also

External links

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bush, Laura. "Mrs. Bush's Remarks at Girl Scouts of Korea Event". U.S. Government. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020220-6.html. Retrieved 2006-08-03.  Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "BushL" defined multiple times with different content
  2. "Scouting - The Way to Success". Scouts Australia. http://www.scouts.com.au/main.asp?iMenuID=768. Retrieved 2006-12-24. 
  3. skauting.cz
  4. "NPG x76303; Princess Anne". National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp05015&rNo=7&role=sit. Retrieved 2006-08-08. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 "Girlguiding UK - About Us - What is Guiding?". Girlguiding UK. http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/xq/asp/sID.66/qx/new/about/article.asp. Retrieved 2006-07-31.  Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "GgUKWiG" defined multiple times with different content
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Isabel Oakeshott (2006-10-22). "Dib dib dib - the way to a better life - Sunday Times - Times Online". timesonline.co.uk. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2415901.html. Retrieved 2006-10-24. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Jasper Copping (2006-07-09). "Telegraph - News - Computing, faith and even PR, the Scout badges leading the pack". telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/09/nscout09.xml. Retrieved 2006-08-08. 
  8. "Rhys' Everest Adventure". BBC.co.uk. 2006-10-26. http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/content/articles/2006/04/24/rhys_jones_everest_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2007-02-25. 
  9. "Ottawa man reaches Everest summit". CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2006/05/19/ot-everest20060519.html. Retrieved 2007-03-15. 
  10. "Astronauts and the BSA". Fact sheet. Boy Scouts of America. http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-558.html. Retrieved 2006-03-20. 
  11. 11.0 11.1 Bush, George W.. "President Addresses 2005 National Boy Scout Jamboree". The White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050731.html. Retrieved 2006-12-28. 
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  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Larson, Keith. "The Immortal Chaplains". Scouts on Stamps Society International. http://www.sossi.org/scouters/chaplains.htm. Retrieved June 01. 
  14. Peterson, Robert. "Scouting in a World War II Refugee Troop". The Way It Was. Scouting Magazine. http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0410/d-wwas.html. Retrieved June 01. 
  15. DaGroomes, Kathy Vilim (2006). "Dodgers Icon Shares Love Of Baseball and Scouting". Scouting magazine. Boy Scouts of America. http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0603/a-dont.html. Retrieved March 20. 
  16. Storm, Jonathan. "Penn & Teller Are Back To Skewer New Targets =". Philadelphia Daily News. http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/14237292.htm. Retrieved June 01. 
  17. Colombraro, Rosemarie (2007). "The World's tallest Boy Scout". Boys' Life Feb 2007: 24-25. 

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