Famous Americans Who Were Boy Scouts
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The organization known as Boy Scouts of America is more than a century old. Any youth boy or girl in the country can join one of its five scouting programs: Cub Scouting, Venturing, Sea Scouting, Exploring, and now the Scouts BSA Program.
The Boy Scouts of America’s mission is helping to “prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes” by instilling them with key values from an early age.
Many political leaders, businessmen, celebrities, and scientists were scouts in their early years. Five presidents — John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama — were Boy Scouts. (Here are 44 Republicans and 46 Democrats who have made a career out of serving in the House of Representatives.)
24/7 Tempo reviewed media sources, including the Boy Scouts of America’s publication Scouting Magazine, to determine some of the most famous people who were Boy Scouts.
These are 50 famous people who were boy scouts
1. Alfred Kinsey
> Known as: Scientist, researcher
2. Andy Griffith
> Known as: Actor
3. Bill Clinton
> Known as: President
4. Bill Gates
> Known as: Microsoft co-founder
5. Buzz Aldrin
> Known as: Astronaut
6. Chan Gailey
> Known as: Football coach
7. Charles Dolan
> Known as: Cablevision founder
8. Chris Pratt
> Known as: Actor
9. Clive Cussler
> Known as: Novelist
10. Dan Reynolds
> Known as: Imagine Dragons lead singer
11. David Lynch
> Known as: Filmmaker
12. Donald Rumsfeld
> Known as: Politician
13. Dr. James Andrews
> Known as: Surgeon
14. Ewing Kauffman
> Known as: Former Kansas City Royals owner
15. George Strait
> Known as: Musician
16. George Takei
> Known as: Actor
17. George W. Bush
> Known as: President
18. Gerald Ford
> Known as: President
19. Hank Aaron
> Known as: Baseball player
20. Harrison Ford
> Known as: Actor
21. Jack Black
> Known as: Actor
22. James Valentine
> Known as: Maroon 5 guitarist
23. Jay Leno
> Known as: Comedian, TV host
24. Jimmy Buffett
> Known as: Musician
25. Jimmy Stewart
> Known as: Actor
26. Joe Theismann
> Known as: Football player
27. John F. Kennedy
> Known as: President
28. John Lithgow
> Known as: Actor
29. John Wayne
> Known as: Actor
30. L. Ron Hubbard
> Known as: Novelist, founder of Scientology
31. Mark Spitz
> Known as: Olympic swimmer
32. Martin Luther King Jr.
> Known as: Civil rights activist
33. Michael Bloomberg
> Known as: Businessman, Mayor
34. Michael Jordan
> Known as: Basketball player
35. Michael Moore
> Known as: Filmmaker
36. Mike Rowe
> Known as: TV host
37. Neil Armstrong
> Known as: Astronaut
38. Nolan Ryan
> Known as: Baseball player
39. Philo T. Farnsworth
> Known as: Inventor of the television
40. Rex Tillerson
> Known as: former secretary of state, former CEO of ExxonMobil
41. Richard Gere
> Known as: Actor
42. Rob Corddry
> Known as: Actor
43. Ross Perot
> Known as: Businessman
44. Sam Walton
> Known as: Walmart founder
45. Stephen Breyer
> Known as: Supreme Court Justice
46. Steve Young
> Known as: Football player
47. Steven Spielberg
> Known as: Filmmaker
48. Tommy Lasorda
> Known as: Baseball manager
49. Walter Cronkite
> Known as: Journalist
50. Zach Galifianakis
> Known as: Actor, comedian
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Grant Suneson is a senior editor at 24/7 Wall St. He was previously a digital content creator at Newsy and a reporter at NPR member station KBIA, where he contributed to their Edward R. Murrow Award-winning coverage. He graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism.
Grant’s work has been published and referenced in many major outlets such as MSN, USA Today, Yahoo Finance, Detroit Free Press, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Austin American-Statesman, The Tennessean, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Indianapolis Star, The Clarion-Ledger, WSB-TV, Des Moines Register, Asbury Park Press, KMGH-TV, and many others.
