Hi I have written this apex class for a visualforce page which displays a list of Contacts sorted into Alpahabetical order displayed on a (pdf) page. I know that the way that I have written it will probably result in me hitting some of those governor limits. What I really need to do it write one SOQL statment that I then put into one list  that then gets sorted by Surname 1st character and seperated into 26 sepaerate lists. My Apex knowledge is not there yet can somone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

current vf page and result:

current Apex class:

public class attendeecheckinlist2 {
string eventID = System.currentPageReference().getParameters().get('id');


public List<App__c> getApplicant_A() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'A%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

public List<App__c> getApplicant_B() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'B%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

public List<App__c> getApplicant_C() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'C%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_D() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'D%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_E() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'E%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

public List<App__c> getApplicant_F() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'F%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_G() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'G%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_H() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'H%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

public List<App__c> getApplicant_I() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'I%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_J() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'J%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_K() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'K%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_L() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'L%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_M() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'M%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_N() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'N%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_O() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'O%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_P() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'P%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

public List<App__c> getApplicant_Q() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'Q%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_R() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'R%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

public List<App__c> getApplicant_S() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'S%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

public List<App__c> getApplicant_T() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'T%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_U() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'U%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_V() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'V%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_W() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'W%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_X() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'X%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_Y() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'Y%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}
public List<App__c> getApplicant_Z() {
return [Select a.Applicant__c, a.Applicant__r.FirstName, a.Applicant__r.LastName, a.Applicant__r.Salutation from App__c a Where a.SBS_Event__c = :eventID and a.Applicant__r.Lastname like 'Z%' Order by a.Applicant__r.Firstname ];
}

}