Famous Ham Radio Operators
and their Callsigns

Radio Room of the Hindenburg Zeppelin

A list of Famous Radio Rooms (Titanic, Hindenburg, etc.)

"Famous Hams and ex-Hams" from qsl.net

"The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List" from WA6FAH

"The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List" by N2GJ and W2SG

Astronaut (and Former Astronaut) Hams

Famous Hams and their Callsigns

Reprinted with permission of the Bedworth Lions Club

CALLSIGN	NAME OR LOCATION
A41AA	Oaboos Bin Asid Al Said - Sultan of Oman
CN8MH	King Hassan II - King of Morocco (sk)
DD6CF	Reinhard Alfred Furrer - German Space Agency astronaut.
DG2KM	Dr Ernst Willi Messerschmid - German Space Agency astronaut.
EA0JC	King Carlos of Spain
F5VBY	Brother of Ray Dolby - Inventor of the Dolby Sound System
F5VBX	Ann Dolby - Wife of F5VBY
FX0STB	Jean-Pierre HaignerŽ - French government space agency spationaut. 2 Missions to MIR
GB1MIR	Helen Sharman - First British woman into space
GB2BP	Bletchley Park - Home of wartime top secret 'Station X' of ENIGMA de-coding fame

GB2RS	The news broadcasting service of the Radio Society of Great Britain. Established in 1955
GB4BLC	Bedworth Lions Club special event callsign. (Licensee Lion Brian G8GMU)
GM3ITN	Les Hamilton - He first alerted England of Argentine invasion of the Falklands 1982
GX2ASF	Coventry Amateur Radio Society. (Originally G2ASF) The oldest affiliated club to the RSGB 75 years in 2007
G1EXG	Dr. Jonathan Hare - Physicist, astronomer & BBC TV presenter
G2LO	B.B.C - Radio Club. (The licensee's address believed to be Warwick Castle ~ Enquiry pending)
G2MT	Marconi Radio Society. ~ 2MT was the Marconi callsign at Writtle experimental wireless station
G2NM	Gerald Marcuse - Amateur broadcaster of the 1920's, prior to the BBC Overseas Service as 2NM (sk)
G2QA	A J.Simkins. M.B.E.
G2YL	Nelly Corry - The 2nd UK Lady Radio Amateur in 1932 (sk)
G2XM	Sir Richard Davies, KCVO, CBE, C.Eng, FIEE - Was a member of The Household of the Duke of Edinburgh (sk)
G2BCK	F C Judd - Author of radio amateur books (sk)
G2DQU	Lord Rix of Whitehall, (Formerly Sir Brian Rix Kt CBE DL) - Actor & politician
G3BBC	Film Studios Ealing
G3EUR	Major John Brown - Designer of the famous WW2 spy B2 suitcase radios & founder of the Duxford Radio Society (sk)
G3HB	G.L.Benbow - Author radio amateur books
G3ITF	Brian Freeman - Connected with that 'British Institution' Freeman Hardy & Willis
G3PLX	Peter Martinez - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
G3PLX	Peter Martinez - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
G3SXW	Roger Western - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations
G3TPW	Stephen Webb - Prolific electronics engineer. Designer of the G3TPW Cobwebb antenna
G3TXF	Nigel Cawthorne - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations
G3TZH	A Dolby - Brother of Ray Dolby (of Dolby System fame)
G3UML	Laurie Margolis - BBC journalist who received the reports from VP8LP of the Falkland Islands invasion in 1982.
G3YLA	Jim Bacon - T V weatherman - ex BBC
G4AEH	Jim Lee - BBC radio broadcaster & producer (A local radio ham & good friend to Lions Clubs)
G4MH	James (Jim) Fish - Designer of the G4MH Mini-Beam Antennas
G4PZR	Lieutenant Commander Sir Kenneth Cradock-Hartopp DSC - 10th Bt, (sk)
G4RK	Capt. George Thomas Smith-Clarke - Designed the paediatric iron lung also motor scooter, prolific inventor (sk)
G5OG	Lord C. I. Ewing. OBE - Fellow of The Royal Television Society
G5RV	Louie Varney Antenna Designer (sk) ~ G5RV is now Mid - Sussex Amateur Radio Society callsign
G6YL	Barbara Dunn - The first UK Lady Radio Amateur (sk)
G7CDK	Alan Florence - Sound engineer. Worked on the Tony Hancock recordings of the Radio Ham & Blood Donor
G8PO	Cmdr. J E Ironmonger O.B.E.
G8TGS	Dr. W R Williams - Diplomat
G0DMU	Ian Morrison - Senior project manager at Jodrell Bank. Appears in Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
G0KRH	Chris Tarrant - TV quiz show host & TV personality
G0MSL	James Bobbett - Past Town Crier - Glastonbury
G0OAN	Fergal Sharkey - Lead singer in Irish punk band in 1970's
G0VIQ	Eugene Sully - Big brother contestant & radio broadcaster. Member of Mid - Sussex Amateur Radio Society
G0VQH	Councilor Jenny Bailey - Mayor of The City of Cambridge 2007 - 2008
HS1A	Bhumiphol Adulayadej - King of Thailand
HS1D	Maha Chakri Sirindhorn- Princess to the throne of Thailand
I0FCG	Francego Cossiga - Former Italian President
IZ0JPA	Paolo Angelo Nespoli - Itallian Astronaut of the European Space Agency
J3BB	Masaru Ibuka - Co-founder of Sony
JA3FA	Tokuzo Inoue - Founder of ICOM
JI1KIT	Keizo Obuchi - Japanese Prime Minister
JK1SIU	Noria Ohga - Chairman of Sony
JP1DPJ	Akio Morita - Founder of Sony
JY1	King Hussain of Jordan (sk)
JY1H	Queen Noor of Jordan

JY2HT	Former Crown Prince Hassan - Brother of the late King Hussein of Jordan
JY2RZ	Prince Raad Ibn Zeid- Cousin of King Hussein of Jordan, Prince of Jordan and chairman of the Royal Jordan Radio Amateur Society.
KB2GSD	Walter Cronkite - "The worlds most recognised" US television newsreader - Walter has an asteroid named after him
KB5UAC	Mike Foale - British born US astronaut
KB6LQR	Jeana Yeager - Pilot of non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft.
KB6LQS	Richard Glenn 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.
KC5ZSU	Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D. - Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107.
KC5ZTC	David M. Brown. - Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107.
KD4WUJ	Patty Loveless - Country Music Singer
KG4UYY	James Lance Bass - 'N SYNC pop singer.
KD5PLB	Suni Williams - Suni has set a record for spacewalks by a female astronaut, a total of 29 hours, 17 minutes
KG6FZX	Dennis Tito - First space tourist
KX2Z	Tony Bonjovi - Cousin of Jon Bonjovi
K1ADJ	Peter Guber - Possibly Hollywood's most successful and powerful producer and executive.
K1AKE	James M. Moran - Leading researcher in the field of astronomical masers and black holes.
K1OKI	Mickey Schulhof - Head of Sony USA
K2AMH	"Bob" Moog - Invented the "Moog Synthesizer" amongst many other electronic instruments (sk)
K2HEP	John Sculley - former CEO of Pepsi
K4ZVZ	Paul Tibbits - pilot of the Ò Enola Gay Ò aircraft (The plane that dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima in WW2)
K6BP	Software engineer with movie credits on "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story 2" also holds Also WA2TNM
K9EID	Bob Heil - Legendary sound engineer to such The Eagles & The Who, Head of Heil Sound
LU1SM	Carlos Saul Menem - President of Argentina
M0SDX	Sergei Rebrov - Professional soccer player
M3HBM	Joshua Baxter - Youngest radio ham to activate Snowdon Mountain Summit at 9 years old in 2005 as MW3HBM/P
N5YYV	Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan Ph.D.- NASA astonaut. First American woman to walk in space 1984.
N6FUP	Stuart Alden Cook (Stu Cook) - Bass guitar player in American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival
N9FZX	Dr. Paul A. Flaherty - Co-inventor of the Alta Vista Search Engine.
N9LC	George Sweigert - Inventor of the mobile phone
NY6YOS	Priscilla Presley - (Lou Lou Beaulieu) Film star & businesswoman. Was Married to Elvis Presley
OD5LE	Emil Lahoud - President of Lebanon
ON1AFD	Count Dirk Fairmouth Ph.D. - Belgian Astronaut
ON1DWN	Frank De Winne. - European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. Flight engineer on the newly designed Soyuz, Odissea mission.
PE1LFO	Wubbo Johannes Ockels - First Dutch citizen in space and payload specialist on 2 missions
RK3DUO	Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko - Russian cosmonaut. Mir and ISS missions. He has been named a Hero of Russia, been awarded two Armed Forces medals and named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honour
RK3DUP	Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko - Russian cosmonaut. The first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas,
RN3DX	Oleg Kononenko - Russian cosmonaut, flown on the ISS
RO3FT	Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev - Kazakhstan born cosmonaut, flight engineer of the Mir-25 mission. Later founded National Kazakhstan Space Agency and became Director of Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan.
SP9VRC	Pawel Jalocha - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
SU1VN	Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia
WA3SWS	Stephen E. Uhrig - Surveillance expert who appeared with Gene Hackman in 1998 movie "Enemy of the State"
WA6IOG	Vern Orr - Secretary of the USAF at The Pentagon
WB2LAV	Russell Alan Hulse - Co-winner with K1JT of 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of binary pulsar
WB6ACU	Joe Walsh - Of The Eagles & James Gang
WD4LZC	Larnell Harris - Singer 7 Times Grammy Winner
WD4SKT	Donnie Osmond - Singer
W1AW	Hiram Percy Maxim - Prolific Inventor & most famous for inventing the firearms silencer & machine gun (sk)
W1GBE	Percy Lebaron Spencer - Inventor of the Microwave Oven, Senior Vice President of Raytheon Co.
W2JOF	Sir Cliff Richard - Singer (W2JOF is his USA callsign)
W2QBO	Wilson Greatbatch - Inventor of the cardiac pacemaker.
W5CY	Howard Hughes - Billionaire, Inventor, aviator, aircraft designer

W5LFL	Owen Garriott - First radio Amateur in Space, on Shuttle mission STS-9, launched November 28, 1983,
W6DOE	Clarence Leonidas Fender (Leo Fender) - He of Fender electric guitars. Prolific inventor & designer of instruments
W6RO	Queen Mary Ocean Liner - Wireless room operated by The Associated Radio Amateurs Of Long Beach Calif.
W6UK	Alvino Rey - Musician, reportedly invented / pioneered the electric guitar
W6VZA	Henry Richter - Brother of Charles Richter (He of the Richter Scale)
W6YX	Oswald Garrison - was the first to use the SSB mode for an amateur QSO with W0TQK in 1947
W7DUK	Nolan Bushnell - Inventor, Computer Pioneer, Founded Atari
W9GTY	Jack Kilby - Inventor, invented the microchip for Texas Instruments in 1958, then the hand held digital calculator
W0TQK	Mike Villard jr. - was the first to use the SSB mode for an amateur QSO with W6YX in 1947
UA1LO	Yuri Gagarin - First man in space (sk)
UV3AM	Musa Moronov - Russian Cosmonaut
VE2QS	Maurice Durieux - Canadian musician, composed CQ Serenade, possibly the only radio ham song?
VK2BL	Graham Conolly - Australian Radio broadcaster and former voice on VNG
VK2KB	Sir Allan Fairhall - Australian Statesman & Businessman
VK2AHU	Dick Huey - Professor - Emeritus (Previous callsign VK2HU)
VK2CAX	Dr. Ken McCracken - Founding Chief of CSIRO Mineral Physics
VK5AX	Alf Traeger - Inventor of the pedal powered wireless
VU2LC1	Permanent Lions Club Disaster station Bangalore India, operated by Lion Ajoy VU2JHM
VU2RBI	Bharathi Prasad - The only lifeline for thousands during the 2005 Tsunami. ~ "Teresa of the Bay of Bengal."
VU2RG	Rajiv Ghandi - Late Prime Minister of India (sk)
VU2SON	Sonia Ghandi - Widow of VU2RG
XE1GC	Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena - Inventor of the colour television Tri-colour Cathode Ray Tube 1940 (sk)
YU1RL	Radivoje Lazarevic - Yugoslav ambassador to Brazil
ZK1AN	Sir Thomas Davis - former Premier of The Cook Islands
1XS	Reginald Aubrey Fessenden - Made the first broadcast of the human voice and music, on Christmas Eve 1906
2CVJ	Robert Hart - First person in USA to receive a transatlantic T V image transmitted by John Logie Baird in 1928
2KZ	Station used by John Logie Baird in 1928 to transmit the first transatlantic TV signal from England to New York
2YT	Belonged to the Marconi Company, used by Marconi on his yacht?
3A0AG	Prince Alberto Grimaldi - Monte Carlo, Monaco
3BEC	Arthur Middleton Young- Inventor of the first commercially practical helicopter, philosopher, poet and painter
7L2NJY	Dr Mamoru Mohri - Japanese astronaut
9DRV	David Packard - Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard.(sk). Bill Hewlett was probably a radio ham, callsign not known.
9K2CS	Prince Yousuf Al-Sabah
9M1	King of Malaya (possible sk)
A41AA	Oaboos Bin Asid Al Said - Sultan of Oman
A41FK	Ahmed Bin Suwaidan Al Balushi - President of the Royal Omani Amateur Radio Society (ROARS),and Minister for Posts Telephones and Telegraphs for Oman.
A61AJ	Ali Abdullah Al Futtaim - Industrialist Al Futtaim Group, Dubai Telephones and Telegraphs for Oman.
A71AP	Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani - Amir of Qatar
A92AK	Sheikh Hamed Bin Isa Al Khalifa - Amir of Bahrain
A92KK	Sheikh Khalifa Bin Sulman Al Khalifa - Royalty, Bahrain
AA7BQ	Fred L Lloyd - Founder of QRZ.COM - The radio amateur database - to check many on this page
AC3 PT	Palden Thondup Namgyal - Former King of Sikkim (sk).
AC4RF	Robert Ford - radio engineer and technician who, while working for the Tibetan government, in 1950 was imprisoned for 5 years when the Chinese communists over ran the country. Author of "Wind Between the Worlds".
AC4YN.	Reg Fox - Known for operating in the Tibet are during politcaly unstable times with AC4RF.
CE3GP	General Augusto Pinochet The Radio Club of Chile now hold this callsign (sk).
CN8MH	King Hassan II - King of Morocco (sk)
CP1 CL	Hugo Banzer - Former President of Bolivia
DD6CF	Reinhard Alfred Furrer - German Space Agency astronaut.
DG2KM	Dr Ernst Willi Messerschmid - German Space Agency astronaut.
EA0JC	King Carlos of Spain
EA8AK	Dr. Fernando Fernandez Martin - Member of European Parliament
EP1MP	Mohmud Pahlavi - Former Prince of Iran
F5VBY	Brother of Ray Dolby - Inventor of the Dolby Sound System
F5VBX	Ann Dolby - Wife of F5VBY
FX0STB	Jean-Pierre HaignerŽ - French government space agency spationaut. 2 Missions to MIR
GB1MIR	Helen Sharman - First British woman into space
GB2BP	Bletchley Park - Home of wartime top secret 'Station X' of ENIGMA de-coding fame
GB2RS	The news broadcasting service of the Radio Society of Great Britain. Established in 1955
GB4BLC	Bedworth Lions Club special event callsign. (Licensee Lion Brian G8GMU)
GM3ITN	Les Hamilton - He first alerted England of Argentine invasion of the Falklands 1982
GX2ASF	Coventry Amateur Radio Society. (Originally G2ASF) The oldest affiliated club to the RSGB 75 years in 2007

G1EXG	Dr. Jonathan Hare - Physicist, astronomer & BBC TV presenter
G2LO	B.B.C - Radio Club. (The licensee's address believed to be Warwick Castle ~ Enquiry pending)
G2MT	Marconi Radio Society. ~ 2MT was the Marconi callsign at Writtle experimental wireless station
G2NM	Gerald Marcuse - Amateur broadcaster of the 1920's, prior to the BBC Overseas Service as 2NM (sk)
G2QA	A J.Simkins. M.B.E.
G2YL	Nelly Corry - The 2nd UK Lady Radio Amateur in 1932 (sk)
G2XM	Sir Richard Davies, KCVO, CBE, C.Eng, FIEE - Was a member of The Household of the Duke of Edinburgh (sk)
G2BCX	F C Judd, FISTC, MIOA, AssocIPRE, AJnst.E - Author, Designer of the 'Slim Jim' Antenna (sk))
G2DQU	Lord Rix of Whitehall, (Formerly Sir Brian Rix Kt CBE DL) - Actor & politician
G3BBC	Film Studios Ealing
G3CY	Professor Sir Martin Ryle FRS, Nobel Laureate. Inventor of interferometry as applied to radio astronomy, joint discoverer of pulsars, and after whom the Ryle Telescope at Cambridge is named (sk)
G3EUR	Major John Brown - Designer of the famous WW2 spy B2 suitcase radios & founder of the Duxford Radio Society (sk)
G3HB	G.L.Benbow - Author radio amateur books
G3ITF	Brian Freeman - Connected with that 'British Institution' Freeman Hardy & Willis
G3KOX	Nick Waite - ABC-TV NEWS in England. Also holds or held 5B4FL VE3AMJ VE3XD VY2TX 9H3FN ZF1NW JY8OX 5B4AGN
G3PLX	Peter Martinez - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
G3SXW	Roger Western - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations
G3TPW	Stephen Webb - Prolific electronics engineer. Designer of the G3TPW Cobwebb antenna
G3TXF	Nigel Cawthorne - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations
G3TZH	A Dolby - Brother of Ray Dolby (of Dolby System fame)
G3UML	Laurie Margolis - BBC journalist who received the reports from VP8LP of the Falkland Islands invasion in 1982
G3VA	(Pat) John Patrick Hawker MBE - Professional & amateur radio engineer. Started writing his column in RSGB publications in 1958
G3YHW	'Capt.' John (Jack) Henry Onions - Inventor of The Crookshank Golf Club, Inventor & or patentee of aircraft landing gear systems, railway buffers, hydraulic motors, & improved dental grinding wheel. Reportedly WW1 pilot, also a ships captain. Certainly a captain of industry (sk)
G3YLA	Jim Bacon - T V weatherman - ex BBC
G4AEH	Jim Lee - BBC radio broadcaster & producer (A local radio ham & good friend to Lions Clubs)
G4MH	James (Jim) Fish - Designer of the G4MH Mini-Beam Antennas
G4PZR	Lieutenant Commander Sir Kenneth Cradock-Hartopp DSC - 10th Bt.
G4RK	Capt. George Thomas Smith-Clarke - Designed the pediatric iron lung also motor scooter, 9-cylinder Alvis Leonides radial engine, front wheel drive, a prolific inventor (sk)
G5BC	Sir Trevor Dawson - Armaments manufacturer.(sk)
GW5KJ	Lt Colonel Morton Evans - Deputy Controller of the wartime Radio Security Service, he served as officer i/c at Arkley View top secret interception (Y) station from 1941 to 1946 (sk)
G5OG	Lord C. I. Ewing. OBE - Fellow of The Royal Television Society
G5RV	Louie Varney - Antenna Designer (sk) ~ G5RV is now Mid - Sussex Amateur Radio Society callsign
G5UM	Jack Hum - " Father of amateur radio in Liecestershire". ÔUncle MikeÕ who's operating standards should be adopted by all. (sk)
G5VF	Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes (sk) ~ Worked with R Watson-Watt and JD Cockroft on the development of radar. Designed U boat & aircraft tracking systems. Computer pioneer
G5WQ	John R. "Reg" Witty (sk) ~ Brother of Barbara Dunn G6YL. He heard the SOS distress messages of the crashed airship ITALIA in June 1928 from the North Pole with Italian scientists on board.
G6IP	Lord Egerton of Tatton, Knutsford - Believed to be; The 4th Baron of Tatton in the County Palatine of Chester (sk)
G6YL	Barbara Dunn - The first UK Lady Radio Amateur licensed, on April 14, 1927 (sk) Click this link. There is too much for this list
G7CDK	Alan Florence - Sound engineer. Worked on the Tony Hancock recordings of the Radio Ham & Blood Donor, Alan has a large discography, working with The Who, The Beatles and many other famous musicians and groups
G8GMU	Brian Leathley - Andrew - Lead the teams for the 75th anniversary Birth of RADAR Daventry Experiment re-enactment
G8IA	Lord Beaverbrook - William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, ONB. was an Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, newspaper magnate. He was an influential and often mentioned figure in British society of the first half of the 20th century. (sk)
G8PO	Cmdr. J E Ironmonger O.B.E.
G8TGS	Dr. W R Williams - Diplomat
G0DMU	Ian Morrison - Senior project manager at Jodrell Bank. Appears in Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
G0KRH	Chris Tarrant - TV quiz show host & TV personality
G0MSL	James Bobbett - Past Town Crier - Glastonbury
G0NZI	Carl Peake - Designer of the Wonder Wand Antenna
G0OAN	Fergal Sharkey - Lead singer in Irish punk band in 1970's
G0VIQ	Eugene Sully - Big brother contestant & radio broadcaster. Member of Mid - Sussex Amateur Radio Society
G0VQH	Councilor Jenny Bailey - Mayor of The City of Cambridge 2007 - 2008
G0VVT	Eddie Murphy - The first UK station to broadcast the RSGB news (GB2RS) using solar power
HS1A	Bhumiphol Adulayadej - King of Thailand
HS1D	Maha Chakri Sirindhorn - Princess to the throne of Thailand
HS1 LY	Titiphan - Prince to the throne of Thailand
HZ1FM	Faisal Bin Mashaal Al Saoud - Prince, Member of the Saudi Royal Family
HZ1HZ	Ahmed Zaidan - Ex - Deputy Minister for Communications Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
HZ1NA	Naief Bin Abdul Aziz - Prince Member of the Saudi Royal family
HZ1TA	Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia
HZ1TC	Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz - Prince Member of the Saudi Royal family
I0FCG	Francego Cossiga - Former Italian President
IZ0JPA	Paolo Angelo Nespoli - Itallian Astronaut of the European Space Agency
J3BB	Masaru Ibuka - Co-founder of Sony
JA3FA	Tokuzo Inoue - Founder of ICOM
JI1KIT	Keizo Obuchi - Japanese Prime Minister
JK1SIU	Noria Ohga - Chairman of Sony
JP1DPJ	Akio Morita - Founder of Sony
JY1	King Hussain of Jordan (sk)
JY1H	Queen Noor of Jordan
JY2HT	Former Crown Prince Hassan - Brother of the late King Hussein of Jordan
JY2RS	Prince Raad Ibn Zeid- Cousin of King Hussein of Jordan, Prince of Jordan and chairman of the Royal Jordan Radio Amateur Society
KA7EVD	Donnie Osmond - Singer
KB2GSD	Walter Cronkite - "The worlds most recognised" US television newsreader - Walter has an asteroid named after him
KB5UAC	Mike Foale - British born US astronaut
KB6LQR	Jeana Yeager - Pilot of non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft
KB6LQS	Richard Glenn 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
KC5ZSU	Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D. - Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107
KC5ZTC	David M. Brown. - Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107
KC5ZTH	Catherine G Coleman Ph.D - US astronaut, (Colonel, USAF, RET)
KD4WUJ	Patty Loveless - Country Music Singer

KD5 ESI	Kalpana Chawla - NASA Astronaut (Indian Born) Space Shuttle Columbia (sk on 01/02/2003)
KD5PLB	Suni Williams - Suni has set a record for space walks by a female astronaut, a total of 29 hours, 17 minutes
KE6PZH	Marlon Brando - Prolific film star involved in apprx. 45 films. Civil rights activist. French Polynesian callsign FO5GJ (sk)
KG4UYY	James Lance Bass - 'N SYNC pop singer
KG6FZX	Dennis Tito - First space tourist
KX2Z	Tony Bonjovi - Cousin of Jon Bonjovi
K1ADJ	Peter Guber - Possibly Hollywood's most successful and powerful producer and executive
K1AKE	James M. Moran - Leading researcher in the field of astronomical masers and black holes
K1JT	Dr. Joseph H. "Joe" Taylor - Nobel Laureate (1993)
K1OKI	Mickey Schulhof - Head of Sony USA
K2AMH	"Bob" Moog - Invented the "Moog Synthesizer" amongst many other electronic instruments (sk)
K2HEP	John Sculley - former CEO of Pepsi
K2SSQ	Henry R. Feinberg - Designed "E.T.'s" communicator in Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie "E.T."; has had a long career as "interpreter of science and technology for the public."
K2ZCZ	George Pataki - Governor of New York (1994)
K4AF	The Pentagon Amateur Radio Club - Located at the Pentagon USA
K4LIB	Arthur Godfrey - TV entertainer. Had his own popular television show in the 1950's in the USA (sk)
K4ZVZ	Paul Tibbits - pilot of the Ò Enola Gay Ò aircraft (The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in WW2)
K5FLU	Martin F. Jue - President of MFJ Enterprises, Inc., which he founded in 1972
K5PSG	Peggy Sue Rackham - She is Peggy Sue of the song Peggy Sue written by Buddy Holly
K6BP	Software engineer with movie credits on "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story 2" also holds Also WA2TNM
K7UGA	Senator Barry Goldwater - United States Senator (sk)
K9EID	Bob Heil - Legendary sound engineer to such The Eagles & The Who, Head of Heil Sound
LU1SM	Carlos Saul Menem - President of Argentina
LZ1 MS	Rumen Gechev - Ex - Deputy Prime Minister Bulgaria
M0SDX	Sergei Rebrov - Professional soccer player
M3HBM	Joshua Baxter - Youngest radio ham to activate Snowdon Mountain Summit at 9 years old in 2005 as MW3HBM/P
N4HDP	Col (ret) Joe Kittinger - USAF Test pilot, first to cross the Atlantic solo in a balloon. Set the high-altitude jump record @102,800 feet in 1960. Operated 'CAPCOM' on Felix Baumgardner's record sound barrier breaking jump.
N5YYV	Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan Ph.D.- NASA astronaut. First American woman to walk in space 1984
N6FUP	Stuart Alden Cook (Stu Cook) - Bass guitar player in American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival
N6YJA	Bertrand R. Trottier, Jr (Bert.) - The last United States Navy bugler
N9FZX	Dr. Paul A. Flaherty - Co-inventor of the Alta Vista Search Engine
N9LC	George Sweigert - Inventor of the mobile phone
NY6YOS	Priscilla Presley - (Lou Lou Beaulieu) Film star & businesswoman. Was Married to Elvis Presley
OD5LE	Emil Lahoud - President of Lebanon
ON1AFD	Count Dirk Fairmouth Ph.D. - Belgian Astronaut
ON1DWN	Frank De Winne. - European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. Flight engineer on the newly designed Soyuz, Odissea mission
PE1LFO	Wubbo Johannes Ockels - First Dutch citizen in space and payload specialist on 2 missions
RAEM	Ernst Krenkel (sk) - Polar radio operator, member of the first drifting North pole station in 1937. RAEM was originally the call of the icebreaker "Chelyuskin", which was crashed in 1934 in the Arctic ocean and this call was reissued personally to it's heroic chief radio operator. Named as a Hero of Russia
RK3DUO	Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko - Russian cosmonaut. Mir and ISS missions. He has been named a Hero of Russia, been awarded two Armed Forces medals and named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honour
RK3DUP	Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko - Russian cosmonaut. The first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas,
RN3DX	Oleg Kononenko - Russian cosmonaut, flown on the ISS

RO3FT	Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev - Kazakhstan born cosmonaut, flight engineer of the Mir-25 mission. Later founded National Kazakhstan Space Agency and became Director of Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan
SP9VRC	Pawel Jalocha - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
SU1VN	Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia
UA1LO	Yuri Gagarin - First man in space (sk)
UA4PW	Dr. George Khodzhae - Professor of the Kazan conservatoire, world-class violinist (sk)
UV3AM	Musa Moronov - Russian Cosmonaut
VE2QS	Maurice Durieux - Canadian musician, composed CQ Serenade, possibly the only radio ham song?
VK2BL	Graham Conolly - Australian Radio broadcaster and former voice on VNG
VK2KB	Sir Allan Fairhall - Australian Statesman & Businessman
VK2AHU	Dick Huey - Professor - Emeritus (Previous callsign VK2HU)
VK2CAX	Dr. Ken McCracken - Founding Chief of CSIRO Mineral Physics
VK5AX	Alf Traeger - Inventor of the pedal powered wireless
VP8LP	Bob McLeod - Broke the news to G3UML Laurie Margolis of the Falklands invasion, with the words " We have some new friends".
VR6TC	Tom Christian - A direct descendent of Fletcher Christian of HMS Bounty fame
VU2 AMY	Amitabh Bachchan - Amitabh Bachchan Cine Actor Hindi Film Star
VU2 AWN	Ashwin Muthiah - Industrialist, Chairman, SICAL
VU2 DMK	Dayanidhi Maran - Union Minister Of India
VU2 DXD	Dr. S. Arulraj - Founder and Chairman Sundaram Arulraj Hospital, Awarded Dr. B.C. Roy National Award
VU2 GHA	Guhan - Film Producer AVM Studio
VU2 HAS	Kamal Hassan - Actor, Tamil Film Star
VU2 HHJ	Pince Sawai Bhawani Singh - City Palace, Jaipur, Rajasthan (sk in 2011)
VU2 KMI	K.Malaiswamy - Member of Parliament
VU2 KUN	Sampath Kumaran - High Court Judge (Retd)
VU2LC1	Permanent Lions Club Disaster station Bangalore India, operated by Lion Ajoy VU2JHM
VU2 MED	Dr. N.Mayil Vahanan - Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Madras Medical College, Padma Shri Award, Dr. B.C. Roy National Award
VU2MPH	Purushothaman - Industrialist, President All India Hotel Association
VU2MSS	M.Saravanan - Chairman of AVM Productions, Past President Film Federation of India
VU2MUT	A.C.Muthiah - Industrialist, Chairman SPIC, Past President BCCI
VU2NG	Nandendra G Nanda - Ex - Prime Minister
VU2NRV	N.Ravi - Editor The Hindu Newspaper, Past President Amateur Radio Society of India
VU2NTR	Dr.N.Tata Rao - Ex- Chairman Andhra Pradesh Electricity Board (sk)
VU2PGY	Priyanka Gandhi Vadra - Member of the Nehru Family Daughter of Late Rajiv Gandhi
VU2NTR	Dr.N.Tata Rao - Ex- Chairman Andhra Pradesh Electricity Board (sk)
VU2PIJ	Mohammed Kutty (AKA) Mammooty - Malayalam Film Star
VU2PQ	Venkatachalapathy - Surgeon, Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Govt. General Hospital (Chennai)
VU2PUG	Kalanithi Maran - Chairman & Managing Director SUN TV
VU2PV	P.Vetrivel - Member of Legislative Assembly (Tamil Nadu), Past President, Madras Amateur Radio Society
VU2QV	Dr.Bhaskar Balakrishnan - Indian Ambassador for Cuba Ex Call Sign - 9J2 QV (Zambia)
VU2RAI	R.Ravikrishnan - Industrialist, Past President, Madras Amateur Radio Society
VU2RBI	Bharathi Prasad - The only lifeline for thousands during the 2005 Tsunami. ~ "Mother Teresa of the Bay of Bengal"
VU2REH	Dr. Radhakrishnan - Eye specialist, and Secretary of the Repeater Society of Kodai
VU2RG	Rajiv Ghandi - Late Prime Minister of India (sk)
VU2RI	Rajesh Kumar Sharma - Late Minister of Haryana State (sk)
VU2RTM	N.Ratnavel - Industrialist KSPS Natarajan & Co, Tuticorin
VU2SCU	Charu Hassan- Tamil Cine Actor & Barrister at Law
VU2SJA	Shrikant Jichkar- Ex - Member of Parliament (sk)

VU2SJS	Dr. Sanjay Sinh - Member of Parliament Social Worker & Agriculturist
VU2SKW	S.Karivardhan - Pioneer of Motor Sports in India
VU2SON	Sonia Ghandi - Widow of VU2RG
VU2TAK	Khalid AK Buhary - Director, ETA Group of Companies
VU2TRB	T.R.Balu - Politian, Ex - Union Minister Of India
VU2YKN	M.M.Venkatachalam - Industrialist Murugappa Group
VU2YY	Chirayu Amin - Industrialist Vice-President of BCCI
VU3DGK	Dinesh Gundurao - Politician Member of Legislative Assembly, Karnataka State
VU3KMV	Kumar Bangarappa - Politician Ex-Minister, Karnataka State
VU3MBN	AVM.Balasubramanian - Industrialist Vice - President of SICCI
VU3MKA	Manoj Kumar Sonthalia - Journalist Chairman & Managing Director of The New Indian Express
VU3MSQ	Shivrajkumar - Cine Actor Kannada Film Star
VU3PRK	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam - Late Union Minister of India (sk)
VU3RJP	Rajendra Prasad - Cine Actor Telugu Film Star
VU3RML	Lakshmanan (alias) Lena Tamilvanan - Journalist & Publisher Kalkandu, Kumudam Tamil Weekly
VU3VIP	Krishna Moorthy - Member of Parliament
VU3VRV	Venkatachalam - Chancellor of Sri Ramachandra University
WA2JXX	Gerson Strassberg - Inventor of the plastic pocket protector
WA3SWS	Stephen E. Uhrig - Surveillance expert who appeared with Gene Hackman in the 1998 movie "Enemy of the State"
WA6IOG	Vern Orr - Secretary of the USAF at The Pentagon
WA6TWX	D. Kent Cullers - Manager of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial intelligence)
WB2LAV	Russell Alan Hulse - Co-winner with K1JT of 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of binary pulsar
WB6ACU	Joe Walsh - Of The Eagles & James Gang
WB6ZJR	Mrs Lee De Forest (Marie Mosquini) - Actress 202 films 1917 - 1929, co-starred with Stan Laurel and Will Rogers: Married Dr Lee De Forest. 1973 participated in a broadcast celebrating the centennial of her husband's birth (sk)
WD4LZC	Larnell Harris - Singer 7 Times Grammy Winner
W1AW	Hiram Percy Maxim - Prolific Inventor & most famous for inventing the firearms & vehicle silencer also machine gun. An authority on acoustics, humanity is indebted to him for many developments that make urban life more bearable. Aviator, glider designer. His Captive Flying Machines ride is still at Blackool fun fair. Founded the American Radio relay League (ARRL) (sk)
W1GBE	Dr. Percy Lebaron Spencer - Inventor of the Microwave Oven, held 150 patents, Senior Vice President of Raytheon Company
W2JOF	Sir Cliff Richard - Sorry this was the wrong Harry Webb (sk)
W2QBO	Wilson Greatbatch - Inventor of the cardiac pacemaker
W2SGG	Stan Danko - co-inventor of printed circuits; Smithsonian Web site;Click this link. There is too much for this list
W3ACE	Armin Meyer - former US Ambassador to Japan
W4CGP	Chet Atkins - ex-WA4CZD, whose guitar virtuosity and style set the standard for many years and inspired many young guitarists (sk)
W4WRO	Emory Gordy Jr - Grammy Award winning musician and music producer. Married to Patty Loveless KD4WUJ
W5CY	Howard Hughes - Billionaire, Inventor, aviator, aircraft designer
W5LFL	Owen Garriott - First radio Amateur in Space, on Shuttle mission STS-9, launched November 28, 1983
W5RRR	Johnson Space Center, Texas
W6DOE	Clarence Leonidas Fender (Leo Fender) - He of Fender electric guitars. Prolific inventor & designer of instruments
W6EZV	General Curtis LeMay - General in the United States Air Force, who commanded the Strategic Air Command in the 1950's during the Cold War and was an active proponent of SSB technology for military HF communications
W6RO	Queen Mary Ocean Liner - Wireless room operated by The Associated Radio Amateurs Of Long Beach California
W6UK	Alvino Rey - Musician, reportedly invented / pioneered the electric guitar
W6VZA	Henry Richter - Brother of Charles Richter (He of the Richter Scale)
W6YX	Oswald Garrison - was the first to use the SSB mode for an amateur QSO with W0TQK in 1947
W7DUK	Nolan Bushnell - Inventor, Computer Pioneer, Founded Atari
W7VOA	Steven L Herman - Broadcast correspondent and bureau chief for the Voice of America in Seoul. Click this link. There is too much for this list
W8GZ	Lorence G. Windom - Well known for his Windom antenna design, and low power exploits, contacting Australia from the USA using just over half a watt input to his transmitter.
W9GFZ	Dr. Grote Reber - One of the earliest pioneers of radio astronomy, he succeeded in detecting "cosmic static" in 1939. In 1941, Reber produced the first radio map of the sky, based on a series of systematic observations. He received honours oft reserved for scientists professionally trained in astronomy

W9GTY	Jack Kilby - Inventor, invented the microchip for Texas Instruments in 1958, then the hand held digital calculator
W0TQK	Mike Villard jr. - was the first to use the SSB mode for an amateur QSO with W6YX in 1947
XE1GC	Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena - Inventor of the colour television Tri-colour Cathode Ray Tube 1940 (sk)
YI5KG	King Ghazi - One of the first amateurs in Iraq (Former King of Iraq) 1936 (sk)
YN1AS	General Anastasio Somoza - Ex - President Nicaragua (sk)
YU1RL	Radivoje Lazarevic - Yugoslav ambassador to Brazil
YU1YU	Ivica Dacic - Prime Minister of Serbia
ZK1AN	Sir Thomas Davis - former Premier of The Cook Islands
1XS	Reginald Aubrey Fessenden - Made the first broadcast of the human voice and music, on Christmas Eve 1906
2CVJ	Robert Hart - First person in USA to receive a transatlantic T V image transmitted by John Logie Baird in 1928
2E0JAB	Jason Bradbury - Television presenter and children's author
2FZ	The Manchester Wireless Society, Britain's oldest radio club, February 1911. Main station callsign
2KZ	Station used by John Logie Baird in 1928 to transmit the first transatlantic TV signal from England to New York
2YT	Belonged to the Marconi Company, used by Marconi on his yacht & at Poldhu? Click this link. There is too much for this list
3A0AG	Prince Alberto Grimaldi - Monte Carlo, Monaco
3BEC	Arthur Middleton Young- Inventor of the first commercially practical helicopter, philosopher, poet and painter
5MS	The Manchester Wireless Society, Britain's oldest radio club, February 1911. Portable station callsign
7L2NJY	Dr Mamoru Mohri - Japanese astronaut
8CR	Powel Crosley Jr - Co-founded the American Automobile Accessory Company and founded the Crosley Radio Corporation, the world's largest radio manufacturer. He was known as "The Henry Ford of Radio"
9DRV	David Packard - Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard.(sk). Bill Hewlett was probably a radio ham, callsign not known
9K2CS	Prince Yousuf Al-Sabah
9M1	King of Malaya (possible sk)
9M2TR	Prince Tunku A. Rahman - Prince of Johor, Malaysia
9X1A	Gregiore Kaylbanda - Ex - President Rwanda
Experimental licence no call sign	Sir J. Ambrose Fleming F.R.S. Kt - His invention of the valve detector in 1904 and his subsequent patenting of the thermionic valve is only one aspect of Sir Ambrose Fleming's great services in the scientific field. Elected vice-President of the Wireless Society of London in November 1913. In 1926 was elected as President of the Exeter & District wireless Society. Without his invention we may not have had communications as we know them today. (sk).

Famous Ham Radio Operatorsand their Callsigns

A list of Famous Radio Rooms (Titanic, Hindenburg, etc.) "Famous Hams and ex-Hams" from qsl.net "The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List" from WA6FAH "The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List" by N2GJ and W2SG Astronaut (and Former Astronaut) Hams

Famous Hams and their Callsigns

A41AA

Oaboos Bin Asid Al Said - Sultan of Oman

CN8MH

King Hassan II - King of Morocco (sk)

DD6CF

Reinhard Alfred Furrer - German Space Agency astronaut.

DG2KM

Dr Ernst Willi Messerschmid - German Space Agency astronaut.

EA0JC

King Carlos of Spain

F5VBY

Brother of Ray Dolby - Inventor of the Dolby Sound System

F5VBX

Ann Dolby - Wife of F5VBY

FX0STB

Jean-Pierre HaignerŽ - French government space agency spationaut. 2 Missions to MIR

GB1MIR

Helen Sharman - First British woman into space

GB2BP

Bletchley Park - Home of wartime top secret 'Station X' of ENIGMA de-coding fame

GB2RS

The news broadcasting service of the Radio Society of Great Britain. Established in 1955

GB4BLC

Bedworth Lions Club special event callsign. (Licensee Lion Brian G8GMU)

GM3ITN

Les Hamilton - He first alerted England of Argentine invasion of the Falklands 1982

GX2ASF

Coventry Amateur Radio Society. (Originally G2ASF) The oldest affiliated club to the RSGB 75 years in 2007

G1EXG

Dr. Jonathan Hare - Physicist, astronomer & BBC TV presenter

G2LO

B.B.C - Radio Club. (The licensee's address believed to be Warwick Castle ~ Enquiry pending)

G2MT

Marconi Radio Society. ~ 2MT was the Marconi callsign at Writtle experimental wireless station

G2NM

Gerald Marcuse - Amateur broadcaster of the 1920's, prior to the BBC Overseas Service as 2NM (sk)

G2QA

A J.Simkins. M.B.E.

G2YL

Nelly Corry - The 2nd UK Lady Radio Amateur in 1932 (sk)

G2XM

Sir Richard Davies, KCVO, CBE, C.Eng, FIEE - Was a member of The Household of the Duke of Edinburgh (sk)

G2BCK

F C Judd - Author of radio amateur books (sk)

G2DQU

Lord Rix of Whitehall, (Formerly Sir Brian Rix Kt CBE DL) - Actor & politician

G3BBC

Film Studios Ealing

G3EUR

Major John Brown - Designer of the famous WW2 spy B2 suitcase radios & founder of the Duxford Radio Society (sk)

G3HB

G.L.Benbow - Author radio amateur books

G3ITF

Brian Freeman - Connected with that 'British Institution' Freeman Hardy & Willis

G3PLX

Peter Martinez - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system

G3PLX

Peter Martinez - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system

G3SXW

Roger Western - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations

G3TPW

Stephen Webb - Prolific electronics engineer. Designer of the G3TPW Cobwebb antenna

G3TXF

Nigel Cawthorne - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations

G3TZH

A Dolby - Brother of Ray Dolby (of Dolby System fame)

G3UML

Laurie Margolis - BBC journalist who received the reports from VP8LP of the Falkland Islands invasion in 1982.

G3YLA

Jim Bacon - T V weatherman - ex BBC

G4AEH

Jim Lee - BBC radio broadcaster & producer (A local radio ham & good friend to Lions Clubs)

G4MH

James (Jim) Fish - Designer of the G4MH Mini-Beam Antennas

G4PZR

Lieutenant Commander Sir Kenneth Cradock-Hartopp DSC - 10th Bt, (sk)

G4RK

Famous Ham Radio Operators
and their Callsigns

A list of Famous Radio Rooms (Titanic, Hindenburg, etc.)

"Famous Hams and ex-Hams" from qsl.net

"The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List" from WA6FAH

"The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List" by N2GJ and W2SG

Astronaut (and Former Astronaut) Hams