 9DRV |
David Packard | Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939). Awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988). |
| 9N1MC | Krishna B Khatry | Chief engineer for the Ministry of Communications Nepal. |
 9N1MM |
Father Marshall Moran | Missionary in Nepal. |
 G0DMU |
Ian Morison | Senior project manager at Jodrell Bank. |
| G2XM | Sir Richard Davies, KCVO, CBE, C.Eng, FIEE | A member of The Household of the Duke of Edinburgh. |
| G3ITF | Brian S Freeman | One of the Freeman family in Freeman Hardy & Willis shoes. |
 GM3ITN |
Les Hamilton | He first alerted England of Argentine invasion of the Falklands 1982. |
 J3BB (earlier 3BB) |
Masaru Ibuka | Co-founder of  . |
 JK1SIU |
Norio Ohga | Persident, then CEO, then Chairman of the board, then Honourary Chairman of . |
 JP1DPJ |
Akio Morita | Co-founder of . |
| K1OKI | Mickey Schulhof | Head of USA. |
 K4ZVZ |
Brigadier General Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr (USAF Ret.) |
Pilot of the "Enola Gay" aircraft. (The plane that dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima in WW2) |
| KB2LHI | Joseph M. Walsh (Joe Walsh) |
The "Guinness Book of World Records" listed him as the "World's Fastest Shooter." (not to be confused with rock singer Joe Walsh, WB6ACU). |
 KB6LQR |
Jeana Yeager | Pilot non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft. |
 KB6LQS |
Richard Glenn Rutan (Dick Rutan) | Rutan Voyager aircraft designer and pilot for non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world. |
 KC5VWK |
Richard J. Abruzzo | World famous balloonist and world record holder; the first balloon voyage from North America to Africa. |
Kon-Tiki Raft Expedition 1947 LI2B |
 The callsign was used on the raft by two radio operators: Lieut. Knut Malvin Haugland (LA3KY) (no photo) Torstein Raaby (top).  Dr. Thor Heyerdahl (bottom) was the leader of this famous expedition.The callsign was also issued to Heyerdahls' later expeditions of the reed boats: Ra (1969) and Ra II (1970). | |
 N6OTW |
Sidney Padrick | TV and radio technician who claims to have flown in an alien flying saucer on January 30, 1965. (Some people will do anything to get on this list!) |
 RAEM |
Ernst Krenkel | Famous polar explorer, saved the lives of 104 people for which he was named "Hero of the Soviet Union". Here's an interesting page that explains his unusual callsign, written by Alf Lindgren SM5IQ. |
 SP3RN |
St. Maximilian Kolbe (also known as: Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe) Born Rajmund Kolbe |
The Patron Saint of Amateur Radio Operators. Roman Catholic WW II martyr / canonised saint. (died 1941 at Auschwitz by lethal injection, he offered his life to the Nazi camp commandant in exchange for another prisoner chosen at random in reprisal for an escape). |
 SV2ASP |
Monk Apollo | Elder of the Docheiariou Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece. |
 VK2FV |
Florence Violet McKenzie OBE | Australia's first female electrical engineer and first female certified telegrapher. Trained over 10,000 servicemen in use of Morse code. Founded the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps, which became the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, for which she received the OBE. In May 1941, the RAAF appointed Mrs McKenzie as an honorary Flight Officer in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) in appreciation of her services. |
| VK2DIK | Richard Harold Smith (Dick Smith) |
Australian entrepreneur, businessman and aviator. Australian of the Year in 1986. |
| W1UHI | Ernest Wheatley | Was once known as the "oldest living US ham," died, still licenced, at age 106 in 1993. |
 W2YHO |
Herman Gross | Recognised, at age 86, as the World's Oldest Active Scuba Diver. |
| W2ZH | Dr. E. Stuart Davis | Personal Telegrapher to President Franklin D. Roosevelt original spark call was "4IV". |
 W5BQU |
Byrl H. "Tex" Burdick, Sr. | Was the "oldest living US ham," at 103 years old on 25 September 2003. Passed away at his home on May 30th, 2004. |
 W6QYI |
Cardinal Roger Michael Mahony | Archbishop of Los Angeles. |
| W6FZZ | Samuel F.B. Morse III | Grandson of Morse code inventor and speed record holder (75 words per minute). |
 WA3MFH |
Lt. Col. Pierre A. Finck, MD | Forensic pathologist, one of three doctors who performed the controversial autopsy of John F. Kennedy shortly after JFK's assassination. |