A random list of famous Freemasons.
SPORT/EXPLORATION
Matthew Webb - First man to swim the English Channel
Sir Malcolm Campbell - Land speed record holder
Charles Lindbergh - Aviator who made the first solo transatlantic flight
John Jeffries - Made first crossing of the English Channel by Balloon
John Glenn – Astronaut, first American to orbit the earth in a spacecraft
Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin – Astronaut, 2nd man on the Moon
Edgar Mitchell – Astronaut Apollo 14
James Irwin - Astronaut, member of the 4th moon landing team
Arnold Palmer - Golf Professional
Daniel Boone – US pioneer and explorer
Sir Richard Burton - Explorer (1821 - 1890)
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
Henri Lafontaine - Nobel Prize winner
Sir Edward Victor Appleton - Nobel Prize winner
George Marshall - European Recovery Plan ‘The Marshall Plan’. Nobel Peace Prize winner
Albert Abraham Michelson - First American scientist to win a Nobel Prize
Sir Alexander Fleming - Discovered penicillin and Nobel Prize winner
Rudyard Kipling - Nobel Prize for literature
INVENTORS/ENTREPRENEURS/FOUNDERS
Antoine Joseph Sax - Invented the Saxophone
George Pullman - Built first sleeping car on train
Joseph Guillotin - Inventor of the "Guillotine"
Simon Lake - Built the first submarine to operate successfully in open sea
King Gillette - Inventor of the safety razor
Edward Jenner - Discoverer of small pox vaccine
Hart Massey - Massey-Ferguson farm equipment
Frank Hoover – Manufacturer of the vacuum cleaners
Sir Thomas Lipton - Yacht racer, grocery store owner and tea processing factories owner
James Penney - US retailer
Cornelius Hedges - "Father" of Yellowstone National Park
Jean Henri Dunant - Founder of the Red Cross
Henry Ford - Founded Ford Motor Co.
Ransom E. Olds - Founded the Olds Motor Co., which produced the Oldsmobile
Andre Citroen - French engineer and motorcar manufacturer
HISTORICAL
Robert Jackson - Prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Trials
Jean Francious Chagrin - Designer of The Arc De Triomphe
Cecil Rhodes - Rhodes Scholarship
Robert Waslow - Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall
ROYALTY
King Edward VII
King Edward VIII
King William IV - (1765 - 1837)
King George IV - (1762 - 1830)
King George VI
Prince Philip - Duke of Edinburgh
King Hussein - King of Jordan
Frederick ‘The Great’ - King of Prussia (1712-1786)
King David Kalakaua - Last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom
ENTERTAINERS
Oscar Wilde - Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet
Peter Sellers - British film actor, comedian and singer
Douglas Fairbanks – Actor
W. C. Fields – Entertainer
Oliver Hardy – Comedian with partner Stan Laurel
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss) - magician and escapologist
Clark Gable – Actor
Al Jolson - Film performer
Harold Lloyd - Entertainer and silent film actor
Louis B. Mayer - Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
LITERATURE
Robert Burns - Poet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Creator of the famous ‘Sherlock Holmes’
Sir William Gilbert - Playwright and lyricist with Sir Arthur Sullivan
Rudyard Kipling - Nobel Prize for literature
Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
POLITICAL
Sir Robert Laird Borden – Canadian PM during WW1
Gutzon & Lincoln Borglum - Father and Son who carved the busts on Mt. Rushmore
Sir Mackenzie Bowell - British-born Canadian PM 1894-96
Winston Churchill - British PM 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
J. Edgar Hoover - Director of the FBI
David ‘Davy’ Crockett - Frontiersman and politician
Robert Livingston – Helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence
John Hancock – 1st signatory of the US Declaration of Independence
Robert Dole - Nominee for President of the US 1996
Reverend Jesse Jackson - Baptist Minister, American civil rights leader
Benjamin Franklin - One of the 13 Masonic signatories of the Constitution of the US
Sir John MacDonald - First PM of Canada
Yitzak Rabin - Assassinated leader of Israel
Yassar Arafat -Leader of the PLO
Bob Hawke –- Australian PM
George Washington - 1st US President
James Monroe – 5th US President
Andrew Jackson - 7th US President
James Knox Polk - 11th US President
James Buchanan -15th US President
Andrew Johnson - 17th US President
James Garfield - 20th US President
William McKinley - 25th US President
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th US President
William Taft - 27th US President
Warren Harding - 29th US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 32nd US President
Harry S. Truman - 33rd US President
Lyndon Johnson - 36th US President
Gerald Ford - 38th US President
Agha Khan - 1877-1957
Aga Khan III – Statesman
MILITARY
Major General Henry Knox - US Revolutionary War hero
Richard J. Gatling - Inventor of the famous "Gatling Gun"
Samuel Colt - Invented the first revolver
General Douglas MacArthur - Commanded the Allies in the South Pacific during WW II
1st Duke of Wellington - (1769 - 1852)
Earl Kitchener of Khartoum - (1850 - 1916)
MUSIC
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Composer
Franz Joseph Haydn - Austrian composer
Antoine Joseph Sax - Invented the Saxophone
Irving Berlin – Songwriter ‘Annie get you gun’ and ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Blues’
Duke Ellington - Jazz composer, bandleader, and pianist
RELIGION
John Wesley Lord - Bishop, United Methodist Church
Billy Graham – ‘Christian’ Evangelist
Joseph Smith – Founder of the Mormon Church
Geoffrey Fisher - Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 - 1972)
Reverend Jesse Jackson - Baptist Minister, American civil rights leader