  We compute the spectrum of light hadrons in a holographic dual of QCD defined
on $AdS_5 \times S^5$ which has conformal behavior at short distances and
confinement at large interquark separation. Specific hadrons are identified by
the correspondence of string modes with the dimension of the interpolating
operator of the hadron's valence Fock state. Higher orbital excitations are
matched quanta to quanta with fluctuations about the AdS background. Since only
one parameter, the QCD scale $\Lambda_{QCD}$, is used, the agreement with the
pattern of physical states is remarkable. In particular, the ratio of Delta to
nucleon trajectories is determined by the ratio of zeros of Bessel functions.
