FAMOUS FREEMASONS
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Abrahams, Harold - British Olympic Gold medal winning athlete (Chariots of fire film)
Aldrin, Edwin E - Astronaut
Amundsen, Roald - Norwegian explorer - first to South Pole
Armstrong, Louis - Musician
Arne, Thomas Augustine - Composed 'Rule Britannia'
Arnold, Benedict - American General and later traitor
Ataturk, Mustapha Kemal - Founder of modern Turkey
Astor, John Jacob - German-American merchant and financier
Austin, Stephen F - Father of Texas
Autry, Gene - Actor
Bach, Johann - Composer
Basie, William "Count" - Composer
Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft Corp.
Berlin, Irving - Entertainer Blanc, Mel - voice of thousands of cartoon characters
Bolivar, Simon - Fought for South American independence from Spain
Boomer, Walter - Commander of Marine forces during Desert Storm
Borglum, Gutzon - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Borglum, Lincoln - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Borgnine, Ernest - US Actor
Boswell, James - Scottish writer, biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson
Bowie, James - Alamo
Bradley, Omar N - US Military leader
Bradman, Sir Donald - Australian Cricketer
Buchanan, James - President of the U.S.
Burke, Edmund - Irish-born British politician and writer
Burns, Robert - The National Poet of Scotland
Burton, Sir Richard - English Explorer
Byrd, Admiral Richard E - US Polar explorer
Byron, Lord William - British poet
Campbell, Donald - Land & water speed record holder (son of Sir Malcolm)
Campbell, Sir Malcolm - Land & water speed record holder Canning, George - British Prime Minister 1827
Cantor, Eddie - American entertainer
Carnegie, Andrew - Philanthropist and steel industry industrialist
Carson, Christopher "Kit" - Frontiersman
Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
Chagal, Marc - Russian artist, domiciled in France Chrysler, Walter P - Automotive fame
Churchill, Lord Randolph - British politician who led the so-called Fourth Party
Churchill, Sir Winston - British Prime Minister & WWII leader
Citroen, Andre - French Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Clark, William - Explorer (Lewis and Clark Fame)
Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William
Cole, Nat 'King' - Great ballad singer
Collodi, Carlo - Writer of Pinocchio
Colt, Samuel - Firearms inventor
Compton, Leslie - English international footballer
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur - Writer
Cooper, Tommy - TV Comic & (supposedly) inept conjurer - born in Caerphilly!
Crocket, David - Frontiersman and Alamo fame
Davidson, Jim - British Comedian
DeMille, Cecil B - US Film director
Dempsey, Jack - US Boxer, later ran New York restaurant
Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium
Diefenbaker, John G. - Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63
Dole, Robert - US Senator, Vice Pres Candidate 1976, Pres. Candidate 1996
Doolittle, General James - US Air Force Pilot, led early WWII raids on Tokyo
Dow, William H - Dow Chemical Co.
Dunant, Jean Henri - Founder of the Red Cross
Edinburgh, Duke of (Prince Philip of Greece) - Consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Edward VII - King 1901-10 Edward VIII - King 1936 (later Duke of Windsor)
Ellington, Duke - Composer, bandleader, pianist
Fairbanks, Douglas - Actor
Fields, W C - Actor
Fisher, Geoffrey - Archbishop of Canterbury 1945-61
Fleming, Sir Alexander - Invented Penicillin
Ford, Gerald R - President of the US
Ford, Henry - Pioneer automobile manufacturer
Franklin, Benjamin - 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the US
Frederick II ("the Great"), King of Prussia 1712-86
Gable, Clark - Actor
Garfield, James A - President of the U.S.
Garibaldi, Guiseppe - Italian patriot and hero
Gatling, Richard J - Built the Gatling Gun
George IV - King 1820-30
George VI - King 1936-52
Gershwin, George - American composer
Gibbon, Edward - Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilbert, Sir William S - half of Gilbert and Sullivan
Gillette, King C - Gillette Razor Co. Glenn, John - First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Goethe (von), Johan Wolfgang - German poet
Grissom, Virgil "Gus" - Astronaut
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace - Inventor of the Guillotine
Haig, Earl Douglas - British Field Marshal during World War I
Haley, Alex - Author of 'Roots'
Hancock, John - 1 of 9 Masons to sign the US Declaration of Independence.
Harding, Warren G - President of the U.S.
Hardy, Oliver - Actor, Comedian
Haydn, Franz Joseph - Austrian Composer
Herbert, Bishop Percy - Bishop of Norwich
Hilton, Charles C - American Hotelier
Hogarth, William - Artist
Hoover, J Edgar - Director of FBI
Hope, Bob - Comedian
Houdini, Harry - Magician & Illusionist
Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas
Hussein, King of Jordan
Hutton, Sir Len - English cricketer
IIrving, Sir Henry - Actor
Irwin, James B. - American astronaut
Ives, Burl - Singer
Jackson, Andrew - President of the US
Jackson, Rev. Jesse - Minister
Jenner, Edward - Inventor - Vaccination
Johns, Hugh - UK sports Journalist & Commentator
Johnson, Andrew - President of the US
Johnson, Lyndon B - President of the US
Johnson, Dr Samuel - Lexicographer
Jolson, Al - Jazz Singer
Jones, John Paul - Scottish born "Father of the US Navy"
Khan, Aga - Statesman
Kipling, Rudyard - Writer
Kitchener, Lord - British Secretary of State for War (WWI)
Lewis, Meriwether - Explorer (Lewis and Clark Fame)
Lever, William Hesketh - British industrialist and philanthropist
Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator
Lipton, Sir Thomas - Grocery and tea magnate; philanthropist
Liszt (von), Franz - Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist
Lloyd, Clive - West Indies cricketer Lloyd, Harold - Entertainer
Macadam, John - Scottish engineer. Developed the macadamising process
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas - Commander of US Armed Forces
MacDonald, Sir John A - Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
McKinley, William - President of the U.S.
Marshall, Gen. George C - US soldier, diplomat, politician won Nobel Peace Prize
Marx, Harpo - one of the Marx Brothers
Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) fame
Menninger, Karl A - Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
Mesmer, Franz Anton - practiced Mesmerism, a precursor to Hypnotism
Michelson, Albert Abraham - Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Milburn, Jackie - English international footballer
Miller, Glenn - US Bandleader and composer
Mitchell, Edgar D - US Astronaut who flew on the Apollo 14 mission
Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films
Monroe, James - President of the U.S.
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne - Co-developer of first practical hot-air balloon
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Composer
Murphy, Audie - Most decorated American Soldier of WWII.
Palmer, Arnold - Professional Golfer
Peary, Robert E - First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
Penny, James C - US Retailer (J C Penny)
Pershing, John Joseph - Decorated American Soldier
Poinsett, Joel R - US Minister to Mexico who developed the flower " Poinsettia"
Polk, James Knox - President of the U.S.
Pope, Alexander - Writer
Price, Richard - Welsh mathematician, philosopher - invented actuarial tables
Pushkin, Aleksander - Russian Poet
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stanford - Founded Singapore & Zoological Society
Revere, Paul - Famous Revolutionary American
Rhodes, Cecil - Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890
Rickenbacker, Eddie - American Air Force Ace Ringling Brothers - All 7 circus brothers and their father were Masons
Robinson, Sugar Ray - American Boxer
Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Roosevelt, Franklin D - President of the US Roosevelt,
Theodore - President of the US
Rose, Sir Alec - Round the world solo yachtsman
Sanders, Harland ("Colonel") - Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant
Sarnoff, David - Father of US TV
Savalas, Telly - Actor who played 'Kojak'
Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon - British Polar Explorer
Scott, Sir Walter - Writer Sellers, Peter - Comic Actor
Shackleton, Sir Ernest - British Polar Explorer
Shackleton, Len - English international footballer
Sibelius, Jean - Composer (Finland) Sloane, Sir John - Artist
Smith, Carl - Member of Madness (the 1980s UK Pop Group).
Smith, John Stafford - Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem.
Smith, Joseph - Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Sousa, John Philip - Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard - English Scientist
Stanford, Leland - Founded Stanford University
Stein, Jock - Scottish international footballer and manager
Still, Andrew T - American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Stratton, Charles "Tom Thumb" - Entertainer
Sullivan, Sir Arthur - Half of Gilbert & Sullivan
Sutcliffe, Herbert - English cricketer
Swift, Johathan - Wrote Gulliver's Travels
Taft, William Howard - President of the U.S.
Thomas, Dave - Founder of Wendy's Restaurant
Thornhill, Sir James - English Artist
Tirpitz, Alfred Von - German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
Travis, Colonel William B - Alamo Trollope, Anthony - English novelist
Truman, Harry S - President of the U.S.
Voltaire - French writer and philosopher
Wadlow, Robert Pershing - Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall
Wallace, Governor George C - Presidential Candidate - nearly assassinated
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers Fame
Warren, Earl - US Supreme Court Justice
Washington, George - 1st President of US
Wayne, John - Actor
Webb, Capt. Matthew - First man to swim the English Channel (1875)
Wellington, Duke of - Soldier and statesman. Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
Wells, H G - Author
William IV - King (1830-37)
Wilde, Oscar - Anglo-Irish wit and dramatist
Wolfitt, Sir Donald - Actor
Wozniak, Steve. Co-founder of Apple Computers
Wyler, William - Director of "Ben Hur"
Young, Brigham - 2nd President of the Mormon Church
Zanuck, Darryl F - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions in 1933
Ziegfeld, Florenz - His Ziegfeld's Follies began in 1907