Famous radio amateurs


          Monarch / Kings / Prince:


       

        - King Hussein was JY1

        - The mother of the present King of Jordan, Muna Hussein, is JY2

        - Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan is JY2HT, brother of King Hussein

        - Prince Raad of Jordan is JY2RZ

        - King Juan Carlos is EAØJC

        - Alberto Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco is 3A0AG

        - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia was HZ1AA

        - Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia is SU1VN / P

        - King Bhumibol of Thailand is HS1A

        - Prince Yousuf Al-Sabah of Kuwait and 9K2CS SU1CS

        - Tunku A. Rahman, Prince of Johor, Malaysia is 9M2TR

        - Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said, the Sultan of Oman is A41AA

        - Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Sheikh of Qatar istA71AP

        - Hamed Bin Isa Al Khalifa, Shaikh of Bahrain is A92AK

        - Former King of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal was AC3PT

        - Former Prince of Persia, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was EP1MP

        - Hassan II, King of Morocco to 1999 CN8MH



          Politicians:

        - Ex-Member of the German Bundestag Friedrich Merz is DK7DQ

        - Rajiv Gandhi's wife Sonia has the call sign VU2SON

        - The assassinated Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi VU2RG

        - Ex-president of Italy Francesco Cossiga has the call sign IØFCG

        - Minister of Transport and Communications (Japan) Katsutsugu Sekiya is JA5FHB

        - U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater was K7UGA

        - Former President Carlos Saul Menem of Argentina is LU1SM

        - President of Lebanon until 2007, Emile Lahoud is OD5LE

        - General Augusto Pinochet CE3GP, former President of Chile

        - Dr. Hugo Banzer CP1CL, former President of Bolivia

        - Fernando Belaunte OA4FB Terry, Ex-President of Peru

        - General Anastacio Somoza YN1AS, former President of Nicaragua

        - Prince Albert Grimaldi of Monaco 3A0AG

        - Keizo Obuchi JI1KIT, former Japanese Prime Minister



           Astronaut / Cosmonaut
        
        - Ulf Merbold is DB1KM

        - Dr. Reinhold Ewald is DL2MIR

        - Ernst Messerschmid is DG2KM

        - Thomas Reiter is DF4TR

        - Klaus-Dietrich Flade is DL1MIR

        - Hans Schlegel is DG1KIH

        - Franz Viehboeck was OE0MIR

        - Eileen Collins is KD5EDS

        - Yuri Gagarin was UA1LO

        - Space tourist Dennis Tito and U.S. billionaire is KG6FZX

        - Claude Nicollier is HB9CN



         Actors:

        - Marlon Brando (whose real name is Martin Brandeaux) was FO5GJ

        - Actress Priscilla Presley (the widow of Elvis Presley) is N6YOS

         - Actor Stewart Granger was N6KGB

        - Actor Wolfgang Ivens is DO3WI



          Musicians:

        - The guitarist Chet Atkins was WA4CZD

        - The band leader, Tex Beneke was KØHWY

        - Joe Walsh (The Eagles) is WB6ACU

        - John Lees (Barclay James Harvest) is GØHEP


           

        - Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is N6FUP


        - Sir Cliff Richard is W2JOF




          Other famous people:

        - Cardinal in Los Angeles, Roger Mahony is W6QYI

        - Samuel F.B. Morse W6FZZ, the third descendant of the telegraph father.

        - Maria Elettra Marconi IY4FGM is the daughter of Guglielmo Marconi

        - Maximilian Kolbe, martyr, was SP3RN

        - Clifford Stoll, researcher, writer (The Cuckoo's Egg) is K7TA

        - Kevin Mitnick, hacker, N6NHG

        - Sako Hasegawa, founder of the Japanese company was JA1MP Yaesu

        - Anton Habsburg, grandson of the last Austrian emperor, was OE5AH

        - John Kraus, a radio astronomer and antennas developers W8JK

        - Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Physics Nobel Laureate 1993 and developer of WSJT, K1JT

        - Heinz Oskar Vetter, German trade unionist, was DL6BQ

        - Wau Holland, founder of the CCC, was DB4FA

        - Sergey Rebrov, Dynamo Kiev striker / Ukrainian National Soccer Team UT5UDX

        - Ellie Arroway in the movie Contact, W9FOG

        - Wolfgang Rudolph, WDR Computer Club DC3PA

        - Tony Bongiovi KX2Z the cousin of Jon Bon Jovi (Musician)

        - John Sculley K2HEP, former CEO of Apple Computer

        - Paul J. Cohen KB6OLJ, mathematician