Abbott, William "Bud"
- Actor (Abbott and Costello)

 

Abbott, Sir John J.C.
- Prime Minister of Canada 1891-92
 

Abbott, Robert Sengstacke
- Founder/publisher "Chicago Defender"

 

Acuff, Roy
- Musician
 

Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz"
- Astronaut - Second man to walk on the moon
 

Allen, Richard
- Founder/first bishop AME Church

 

Allende, Salvador
- President of Chile, overthrown in 1970

 

Armstrong, Louis
- Jazz Musician

 

Arnold, Eddie
- Actor

 

Arnold, General Henry "Hap"
- Commander of the Army Air Force

 

Astor, John Jacob
- Fur trader and financier

 

Atkins, Chet
- Musician

 

Austin, Stephen F.
- Father of Texas

 

Autry, Gene
- Actor

 

Baldwin, Henry
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Balfour, Lloyd
- Jewelry

 

Bartholdi, Frederic A.
- Designed the Statue of Liberty

 

Basie, William "Count"
- Orchestra leader/composer

 

Baylor, Robert E. B.
- Founder Baylor University

 

Beard, Daniel Carter
- Founder Boy Scouts

 

Bell, Lawrence
- Bell Aircraft Corp.

 

Bellamy, Rev. Francis
- Authored U.S. Pledge of Allegiance

 

Bennett, Viscount R.B.
- Prime Minister of Canada 1930-35

 

Berlin, Irving
- Entertainer

 

Black, Hugo L.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Blair, Jr., John
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Blake, James Herbert "Eubie"
- Composer/pianist

 

Blanc, Mel
- Cartoonist (Bugs Bunny and others)

 

Blatchford, Samuel
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Bolivar, Simon
- South American freedom fighter

 

Booth, Rev. William
- Founder of the Salvation Army

 

Borden, Sir Robert L.
- Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920

 

Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln
- Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore

 

Borgnine, Ernest
- Actor

 

Botha, Pik
- Former Foreign Minister of South Africa

 

Bowell, Sir Mackenzie
- Prime Minister of Canada 1894-96

 

Bowie, James
- Alamo

 

Bradley, Omar N.
- Military leader

 

Bradley, Thomas
- Former mayor of Los Angeles, California

 

Brant, Joseph
- Chief of the Mohawks 1742 - 1807

 

Brown, Joe E.
- Entertainer

 

Brundage, Avery
- Olympic Committee

 

Bryan, Richard
- U.S. Senator

 

Buchanan, James
- President of the U.S.

 

Burbank, Luther
- Pioneering botanist

 

Burnett, David G.
- 1st President of the Republic of Texas

 

Burns, Conrad
- U.S. Senator

 

Burns, Robert
- The National Poet of Scotland

 

Burton, Harold H.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Byrd, Robert
- U.S. Senator

 

Byrd, Admiral Richard E.
- Flew over North Pole

 

Byrnes, James F.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Cain, Michael
- Actor

 

Calvo, Father Francisco
- Catholic Priest who started Freemasonry in Costa Rica 1865

 

Campbell, Sir Malcolm
- Land speed record holder

 

Carlson, Curtis L.
- Entrepreneur

 

Carnahan, Melvin
- Governor of Missouri

 

Carson, Christopher "Kit"
- Frontiersman, scout and explorer

 

Casanova
- Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer

 

Catton, John
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Chagall, Marc
- Artist

 

Chrysler, Walter P.
- Automotive fame

 

Churchill, Sir Winston
- British Leader

 

Citroen, Andre
- French Engineer and motor car manufacturer

 

Clark, Roy
- Country Western Star

 

Clark, Thomas C.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Clark, William
- Explorer

 

Clarke, John H.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Clemens, Samuel L.
- Mark Twain - writer

 

Cobb, Ty
- Baseball Player

 

Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William
- Indian fighter, Wild West Show

 

Cohan, George M.
- Broadway star

 

Cole, Nat "King"
- Great ballad singer

 

Collodi, Carlo
- Writer of Pinocchio

 

Colt, Samuel
- Firearms inventor

 

Combs, Earle Bryan
- Baseball Hall of Fame

 

Cooper, Gordon
- Astronaut

 

Crockett, David
- American Frontiersman and Alamo fame

 

Cushing, William
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Dempsey, Jack
- Sports

 

DeMille, Cecil B.
- Movie director

 

Desaguliers, John Theophilus
- Inventor of the planetarium

 

Devanter, Willis Van
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Diefenbaker, John G.
- Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63

 

Disney, Walt
- Cartoonist/movies

 

Dole, Robert
- U.S. Senator

 

Doolittle, General James
- Famous Army Air Corps Pilot

 

Douglas, William O.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Dow, William H.
- Dow Chemical Co.

 

Doyle, Sir Author Conan
- Writer - Sherlock Holmes

 

Drake, Edwin L
- American Pioneer of the Oil industry

 

DuBois, W.E.B.
- Educator/scholar

 

Dunant, Jean Henri
- Founder of the Red Cross

 

Ebbets, Charles
- Baseball Owner, Ebbets Field

 

Edward VII
- King of England

 

Edward VIII
- King of England who abdicated the throne in less than 1 year

 

Ellery, William
- 1 of 9 Masonic signers of the Declaration of Independance

 

Ellington, Duke
- Composer, Arranger and Stylist

 

Ellsworth, Oliver
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Elway, John
- Football Player Denver Broncos

 

Evers, Medger Wiley
- Civil rights leader

 

Ervin Jr, Samual J.
- U. S. Senator - headed "Watergate" committee

 

Faber, Eberhard
- Head of the famous Eberhard Faber Pencil Company

 

Fairbanks, Douglas
- Silent film actor

 

Field, Stephen J.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Fields, W.C.
- Actor

 

Fisher, Geoffrey
- Archbishop of Canterbury 1945 - 1961

 

Fitch, John
- Inventor of the Steamboat

 

Fleming, Sir Alexander
- Discovered Penicillin

 

Ford, Gerald R.
- President of the U.S.

 

Ford, Henry
- Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer

 

Forten, James
- Abolitionist/manufacturer

 

Fortune, Timothy Thomas
- Journalist

 

Franklin, Benjamin
- 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S.

 

Freeman, Orville
- Former governor of Minnesota and secretary of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

 

Gable, Clark
- Actor

 

Garfield, James A.
- President of the U.S.

 

Garibaldi, Giuseppe
- Italian freedom fighter

 

Gatling, Richard J.
- Built the "Gatling Gun"

 

George VI
- King of England during W.W. II

 

Gibbon, Edward
- Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

 

Gilbert, Sir William S.
- Was the libretis for "Pirates of Penzance"

 

Gillette, King C.
- Gillette Razor Co.

 

Glenn, John H.
- First American to orbit the earth/U.S. Senator

 

Godfrey, Arthur
- Radio and early televison personality

 

Goldwater, Barry
- Former U.S. Senator

 

Gompers, Samuel
- Founder American Federation of Labor

 

Grassley, Charles
- U.S. Senator

 

Gray, Harold Lincoln
- Creator of "Little Orphan Annie"

 

Griffeth, David W.
- Movie Director

 

Gris, Juan
- Spanish artist- Synthetic Cubism

 

Grissom, Virgil
- Astronaut

 

Grock
- Swiss Circus Clown

 

Groat, Richard
- St. Louis Cardinals - Duke University Basketball

 

Guillotin, Joseph Ignace
- Inventor of the "Guillotin"

 

Hall, Prince
- First black American Freemason

 

Haley, Alex
- Author of "Roots"

 

Hampton, Lionel
- Orchestra leader/composer

 

Hancock, John
- 1 of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independance

 

Handel, George Fredrick
- Composer

 

Handy, William C.
- Composer "Father of the Blues"

 

Harding, Warren G.
- President of the U.S.

 

Hardy, Oliver
- Actor - Comedian

 

Harlan, John M.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Harvey, Paul
- Radio personality

 

Hatfield, Mark
- U.S. Senator

 

Hawkins, Augustus F.
- U.S. Congressman California

 

Haydn, Franz Joseph F.
- Composer and Musician

 

Hedges, Cornelius
- "Father" of Yellowstone National Park

 

Helms, Jesse
- U.S. Senator

 

Henson, Josiah
- Inspired the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

 

Henson, Matthew
- Explorer

 

Hilton, Charles C.
- American Hotelier

 

Hoban, James
- Architect for the U.S. White House

 

Hoe, Richard M.
- Invented the rotary press, revolutionizing newspaper printing

 

Hollings, Ernest
- U.S. Senator

 

Hooks, Benjamin L.
- Former Executive Director NAACP

 

Hoover, Frank
- Vacuum cleaner fame

 

Hoover, J. Edgar
- Director of FBI

 

Hope, Bob
- Comedian

 

Hornsby, Rogers
- An original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

 

Houdini, Harry
- Magician

 

Houston, Sam
- 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas

 

Humphrey, Hubert H.
- Vice President of the U.S.

 

Irwin, Jim
- Astronaut

 

Ives, Burl
- Musician

Jackson, Andrew
- President of the U.S.

Jackson, Rev. Jesse
- Minister/politician

 

Jackson, Robert H.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

James, Daniel "Chappie"
- General U.S. Air Force

 

Jenner, Edward
- Inventor - Vaccination for Small Pox

 

Johnson, Andrew
- President of the U.S.

 

Johnson, John A 'Jack'
- Heavyweight boxing tiltle holder, 1908-1915

 

Johnson, John H.
- Publisher EBONY and Jet magazines

 

Johnston, Jr. , J. Bennett
- U.S. Senator

 

Jolson, Al
- Acted in the first 'talking picture,' The Jazz Singer

 

Jones, Anson
- 5th President of the Republic of Texas

 

Jones, John Paul
- Naval Commander

 

Jones, Melvin
- One of the founders of the Lions International

 

Keaton, Buster
- Movie pioneer

 

Kemp, Jack
- Former U.S. Congressman/sports hero

 

Kern, Jerome
- Composer

 

Key, Francis Scott
- Wrote U.S. National Anthem

 

Kipling, Rudyard
- Writer

 

Knox, Henry
- Revolutionary War General

 

Lafayette, Marquis de
- Supporter of American Freedom

 

LaGuardia, Fiorello H.
- Diplomat and 3-time New York City Mayor

 

Lake, Simon
- Built first submarine successful in open sea

 

Lamar, Joseph E.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Lamar, Mirabeau B.
- 3rd President of the Republic of Texas

 

Land, Frank S.
- Founder Order of DeMolay

 

Lemon, Mark
- Founder of Punch, humorous British magazine

 

Lewis, Meriwether
- Explorer

 

Lincoln, Elmo
- First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

 

Lindbergh, Charles
- Aviator

 

Lipton, Sir Thomas
- Tea

 

Livingston, Robert
- Co-Negotiator for purchase of Louisiana Territory

 

Lloyd, Harold C.
- Entertainer

 

Lott, Trent
- U.S. Senator

 

MacArthur, General Douglas
- Commander of Armed Forces in Philipines

 

MacDonald, Sir John A.
- Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91

 

Marshall, James W.
- Discovered Gold at Sutter's Mill California 1848

 

Marshall, John
- Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1801 - 1835

 

Marshall, Thurgood
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Mathews, Stanley
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Mayer, Louis B.
- Film producer - formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

 

Mayo, Dr. William and Charles
- Began Mayo Clinic

 

Mays, Benjamin
- Educator/former president Atlanta University

 

Maytag, Fredrick
- Maytag

 

McKinley, William
- President of the U.S.

 

Menninger, Karl A.
- Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness

 

Mellon, Andrew
- American industrialis, banker and philanthropist

 

Mesmer, Franz Anton
- Practiced Mesmerism which led to Hypnotism

 

Metcalfe, Ralph H.
- Olympic champion

 

Michelson, Albert Abraham
- Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882

 

Miller, Glenn
- Musician

 

Minton, Sherman
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Mix, Tom
- U.S. Marshal turned actor - Starred in over 400 western films

 

Monroe, James
- President of the U.S.

 

Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne
- Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon

 

Montgolfier, Joseph Michel
- Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon

 

Moody, William H.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Composer

 

Murphy, Audie
- Most decorated American Soldier of WWII, Actor

 

Naismith, James
- Inventor of Basketball

 

Nash, Charles
- Automobile industry

 

Nelson, Samuel
- Supreme Court Justice

 

New, Harry S.
- Postmaster General who established Airmail

 

Newton, Joseph Fort
- Christian Minister

 

Nunn, Sam
- U.S. Senator

 

Olds, Ransom E.
- American automobile pioneer

 

Otis, James
- Famous for "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny"

 

Palmer, Arnold
- Golf Pro

 

Papst, Charles F.
- Coined the term "Athletes Foot"

 

Paterson, William
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Peale, Norman Vincent
- Founder of "Guidepost"

 

Peary, Robert E.
- First man to reach the North Pole (1909)

 

Penney, James C.
- Retailer

 

Pershing, John Joseph
- Decorated American Soldier

 

Pitney, Mahlon
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Poinsett, Joel R.
- U.S. Minister to Mexico who developed the flower: Poinsettia

 

Polk, James Knox
- President of the U.S.

 

Pound, Roscoe
- Former Dean, Harvard Law School

 

Pryor, Richard
- Actor - Comedian

 

Pullman, George
- Built first sleeping car for trains.

 

Pushkin, Aleksander
- Russian Poet

 

Rangel, Charles B.
- U.S. Congressman New York

 

Randolph, A. Phillip
- Founder - first president, International Brotherhood Sleeping Car Porters

 

Retief, Piet
- Afrikaans leader and and one of the founders of the South African nation

 

Reed, Stanley F.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Revere, Paul
- Famous American

 

Rhodes, Cecil
- "Rhodes Scholarship"

 

Richards, Michael
- Actor comedian "Kramer on Sienfeld"

 

Rickenbacker, Eddie
- Great American Army Air Corps "Ace"

 

Rickey, Branch
- Baseball legend

 

Ringling Brothers
- All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.

 

Robinson, Sugar Ray
- American Boxer

 

Rodgers, Jimmie
- Entertainer

 

Rogers, Roy
- American cowboy and screen star

 

Rogers, Will
- Actor

 

Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- President of the U.S.

 

Roosevelt, Theodore
- President of the U.S.

 

Rush, Benjamin
- 1 of 9 Masonic signers of the Declaration of Independance

 

Rutledge, Wiley B.
- Supreme Court Chief Justice

 

Salten, Felix
- Creator of Bambi

 

Sanders, Harland "Colonel"
- Founder Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants

 

Sarnoff, David
- Father of T.V.

 

Sax, Antoine Joseph
- Invented the Saxophone (1846)

 

Schoonover, George
- Founder of "The Builder"

 

Schirra, Wally
- Astronaut

 

Scott, Sir Walter
- Writer

 

Sellers, Peter
- Actor

 

Service, Robert
- Canadian Poet

 

Sexson, W. Mark
- Founder of Rainbow Girls, Masonic historian/author/researcher

 

Sibelius, Jean
- Composer (Finland)

 

Simpson, Alan
- U.S. Senator

 

Skelton, Red
- Entertainer

 

Smith, John Stafford
- Wrote the music that became the U.S. National Anthem.

 

Sousa, John Philip
- Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892

 

Stanford, Leland
- Railroads & Stanford University

 

Starr, Bart
- Football legend

 

Stassen, Harold
- Statesman, sole surviving signer of the United Nations Charter

 

Stewart, Potter
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Still, Andrew T.
- American Physician who devised osteopathy treatment

 

Stokes, Carl B.
- Former mayor, Cleveland, OH

 

Stokes, Louis
- U.S. Congressman Ohio

 

Stratton, Charles "Tom Thumb"
- Entertainer

 

Swayne, Noah H.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Swift, Johathan
- Wrote Gulliver's Travels

 

Taft, William Howard
- President of the U.S. & Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (only man to ever head these two branches of U.S. govenrment)

 

Teets, John W.
- Chairman and President of Dial Corporation

 

Tetau, Max
- French Doctor who presides over Homoeopathia Universalis

 

Thomas, Craig
- U.S. Senator

 

Thomas, Dave
- Founder of Wendy's Restaurants

 

Thomas, Lowell
- Brought Lawrence of Arabia to public notice

 

Thompson, Tommy
- Governor of Wisconsin

 

Thurmond, Strom
- U.S. Senator

 

Tillis, Mel
- Musician

 

Tirpitz, Alfred Von
- German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare

 

Todd, Thomas
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Tolstoi, Leo
- Author

 

Travis, Colonel William B.
- Alamo

 

Trimble, Robert
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Truman, Harry S.
- President of the U.S.

 

Vinson, Frederick M.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Voltaire
- French writer and philosopher

 

Wadlow, Robert Pershing
- Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall

 

Wagner, Honus
- Baseball legend

 

Wallace, George C.
- Former Alabama governor and presidential candidate who was nearly assasinated

 

Wallace, Lewis
- Wrote "Ben Hur"

 

Wallenda, Enrico
- Circus legend

 

Waner, Lloyd
- Baseball Hall of Fame member from Pittsburg

 

Waner, Paul
- "Big Paul" Baseball Hall of Fame member from Pittsburg

 

Warner, Jack
- Warner Brothers Fame

 

Warren, Earl
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Warren, Joseph
- Revolutionary War General - "Martyr of Bunker Hill"

 

Washington, Booker T.
- Educator and author

 

Washington, George
- First President of U.S.

 

Wayne, John
- Actor

 

Webb, Matthew
- First man to swim the English Channel (1875)

 

Wells, H. G.
- Author

 

Whiteman, Paul
- "King of Jazz"

 

Williams, Egbert Austin "Bert"
- Actor/ comedian

 

Williamson, Harry A.
- Author/Masonic historian

 

Woodbury, Levi
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Woods, William B.
- Supreme Court Justice

 

Wyler, William
- Director of "Ben Hur"

 

Wynn, Ed
- Actor

 

Young, Andrew
- Former mayor of Atlanta, GA

 

Zanuck, Darryl F.
- Co-founder of 20th Century Productions in 1933

 

Ziegfeld, Florenz
- His Ziegfeld's Follies began in 1907