Famous hams

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Insert: N4BQW Charles Brady, astronaut Insert: N4HDP USAF Col (ret) Joe Kittinger, pilot First to fly faster than the speed of sound without an aircraft (in free fall test jump from a high altitude balloon in late 50's) First to cross the Atlantic solo in a balloon. >N4KET David French, CNN newsman (K4... ?) Now with the PAO at CIA >N4RH Ralph Haller, FCC PRB chief Insert: N5QWL Jay Apt, astronaut Insert: N5RAW Steve Nagel, astronaut Insert: N5RAX Linda Godwin, astronaut and XYL of N5RAW >N5YYV Kathy Sullivan, Chief Scientist NOAA (former astronaut) >N6FUP Stu Cook[s], baseball player Stu Cook, not Cooks >N6GGM Laura, XYL of N6FUP >N6KGB Stewart Granger (born James Stewart), actor >VK2BL Graham Connelly, radio announcer >VK2DIK Dick Smith, entrepreneur & millionaire >VK2IG Dave Grey, Deputy Commissioner (???) >VK2KB Sir Allan Fairhall, politician >VK2YOW Bob Hughes, radio announcer >VR6TC Tom Christian, great**n-grandson of Fletcher Christian >VU2RG Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (SK) >VU2SON Sonia Gandhi, XYL of VU2RG >W0ORE Tony England, astronaut >W2TQ Joel Miller, IEEE lawyer >W3ACE Armin Meyer, US Ambassador to Japan >W4ZG Worth Gruelle, started Raggedy Ann and Andy >W5LFL Owen Garriot, astronaut >W6EZV General Curtis LeMay (SK) >W6FZZ Samuel F.B. Morse III >W6JKV James Treybig, CEO of Tandem >W6QHS President of California Microware >W6QYI Cardinal Roger Mahony >W6ZH Herbert Hoover Jr (son of ARRL Pres, grandson of US Pres) >W8JK John Kraus (astronomer?) >WA2MKI Larry Ferrari, organ player >WA4CZD Chet Atkins, GUITAR PLAYER (alright! alright!) >WA4SIR Ron Parise, astronaut >WA6TJM President of ISD Inc >WB4KCG Ronnie Milsap, singer >FO0MB Marlon Brondo (Actor) Typo? New/old call? What? See FO5GJ above.

Callsign	Name	Details
7L2NJY	Dr Mamoru Mohri	Japanese astronaut
9K2CS	Prince Yousuf Al-Sabah
9N1MM	Father Marshall Moran	Missionary (SK)
A41AA	Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said	Sultan of Oman (In callbook as A4XAA)
EA0JC	Juan Carlos	King of Spain
FO5GJ	Martin Brandeaux aka Marlon Brando	Actor (SK), in callbook as FO8GJ (see also FO0MB below)
G2DQU	Lord Rix (formerly Sir Brian)	former actor and charity head
G3TZH	Tony Dolby	Brother of "the" Dolby
G3YLA	Jim Bacon OBE	Weatherman
GB1MIR	Helen Sharman	Astronaut
HS1A	Bhumiphol Adulayadej	King of Thailand
I0FCG	Francesco Cossiga	Former President of Italy
JA5FHB		Japanese Minister for Transport and Communications
JY1	King Hussein of Jordan	SK, JY1 also held reciprocal call EP1JY in Iran
JY1NH	Noor Alhussein	Queen and XYL of JY1
JY2	Queen of above
K0HWY	Tex Beneke	Band leader
K1OKI	Mickey Schulhof	Head of Sony US
K2HEP	John Sculley	CEO of Apple
K2ORS	Jean Shepard	author
K4LIB	Arthur Godfrey	TV performer (SK)
K6DUE	Roy Neal	Television reporter
K7TA	Clifford Stoll	Author & scientist
K7UGA	Senator (US) Barry Goldwater	(SK)
KB2GSD Walter Cronkite, news reader
KB2OOR	William T. Godbey	aka "Havana Moon" (SK)
KB6LQR	Jeana Yeager	Voyager '86 pilot
KB6LQS	Dick Rutan	Voyager '86 pilot
KB6OLJ	Paul J Cohen	Mathematician
KC4OCA	Gordon Barnes	Weatherman
KD4WUJ	Patty Ramey, aka Patti Loveless	Country singer
KB5YSQ	Charlie Precourt	Astronaut
KC5CKM	Richard Searfoss	Astronaut
KC5ETH Ronald Sega, astronaut
KC5HBR Jerry Linenger, astronaut
KC5RSY Scott Parazynsky, astronaut
KC5TIE Carl Walz, astronaut
KC5TZQ John Blaha, astronaut
KD6BUP James Treybig Jr, son of W6JKV?
KD6OY Garry Shandling, comedian
KC7NHZ Susan Helms, astronaut
KG7JF	Jeff Duntemann	Author
LU1SM	Carlos Saul Menem	President of Argentina
N6YOS	Priscilla Presley	Former wife of Elvis Presley
NK7U Joe Rudi, baseball player
ON1AFD Count Dirk Frimouth, Belgian astronaut
S21A Head of Bangladeshi PTT
SU1VN/P Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia
SV2ASP/A	Monk Apollo
U2MIR/UV3AMMusa Manarov, cosmonaut
UA1LO Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (SK)
W4LAA Paul Kangas, host of "Nightly Business Report" on PBS
WB6ACU	Joe Walsh	Singer
WB6RER	Andy Devine	Actor (SK)