Here are just a few famous and well known Freemasons.
US Presidents
- Buchanan, James – President of the US
- Ford, Gerald R. – President of the US
- Garfield, James A. – President of the US
- Harding, Warren G. – President of the US
- Jackson, Andrew – President of the US
- Johnson, Andrew – President of the US
- McKinley, William – President of the US
- Monroe, James – President of the US
- Polk, James Knox – President of the US
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. – President of the US
- Roosevelt, Theodore – President of the US
- Taft, William Howard – President of the US
- Truman, Harry S. – President of the US
- Washington, George – President of US, 1st
Supreme Court Justices
- Black, Hugo L. – Supreme Court Justice
- Blair, Jr., John – Supreme Court Justice
- Blatchford, Samuel – Supreme Court Justice
- Baldwin, Henry – Supreme Court Justice
- Burton, Harold H. – Supreme Court Justice
- Byrnes, James F. – Supreme Court Justice
- Catton, John – Supreme Court Justice
- Clark, Thomas C. – Supreme Court Justice
- Clarke, John H. – Supreme Court Justice
- Cushing, William – Supreme Court Justice
- Devanter, Willis Van – Supreme Court Justice
- Douglas, William O. – Supreme Court Justice
- Ellsworth, Oliver – Supreme Court Justice
- Field, Stephen J. – Supreme Court Justice
- Harlan, John M. – Supreme Court Justice
- Jackson, Robert H. – Supreme Court Justice
- Lamar, Joseph E. – Supreme Court Justice
- Marshall, John – Chief Justice US Supreme Court 1801 – 1835
- Marshall, Thurgood – Supreme Court Justice
- Mathews, Stanley – Supreme Court Justice
- Minton, Sherman – Supreme Court Justice
- Moody, William H. – Supreme Court Justice
- Nelson, Samuel – Supreme Court Justice
- Paterson, William – Supreme Court Justice
- Pitney, Mahlon – Supreme Court Justice
- Reed, Stanley F. – Supreme Court Justice
- Rutledge, Wiley B. – Supreme Court Justice
- Stewart, Potter – Supreme Court Justice
- Swayne, Noah H. – Supreme Court Justice
- Todd, Thomas – Supreme Court Justice
- Trimble, Robert – Supreme Court Justice
- Vinson, Frederick M. – Supreme Court Justice
- Warren, Earl – Supreme Court Justice
- Woodbury, Levi – Supreme Court Justice
- Woods, William B. – Supreme Court Justice
Actors\Writers
- Autry, Gene – Actor
- Borgnine, Ernest – Actor
- Burns, Robert – The National Poet of Scotland
- Casanova – Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
- Clemens, Samuel L. – Mark Twain – writer
- Cohan, George M. – Broadway star
- Collodi, Carlo – Writer of Pinocchio
- Doyle, Sir Author Conan – Writer – Sherlock Holmes
- Fairbanks, Douglas – Silent film actor
- Fields, W.C. – Actor
- Gable, Clark – Actor
- Gibbon, Edward – Writer – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Godfrey, Arthur – Actor
- Gray, Harold Lincoln – Creator of “Little Orphan Annie
- Hardy, Oliver – Actor – Comedian
- Kipling, Rudyard – Writer
- Lincoln, Elmo – First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
- Mix, Tom – US Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films
- Murphy, Audie – Most decorated American Soldier of WWII
- Pushkin, Aleksander – Russian Poet
- Rogers, Roy – American cowboy and screen star
- Rogers, Will – Actor
- Scott, Sir Walter – Writer
- Sellers, Peter – Actor
- Shakespeare, William – Writer
- Swift, Jonathan – Wrote Gulliver’s Travels
- Voltaire – French writer and philosopher
- Wallace, Lewis – Wrote “Ben Hur”
- Wayne, John – Actor
Musicians\ Entertainers
- Bassie, William “Count” – Orchestra leader/composer
- Berlin, Irving – Entertainer
- Clark, Roy – Country Western Star
- Dickens, Little Jimmy – Grand Ole Opry Star
- Ellington, Duke – Composer, Arranger and Stylist
- Jolson, Al – Fame as the first ‘talking picture’ the Jazz Singer
- Key, Francis Scott – Wrote US National Anthem
- Lloyd, Harold C. – Entertainer
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus – Composer
- Sax, Antoine Joseph – Invented the Saxophone (1846)
- Sibelius, Jean – Composer (Finland)
- Skelton, Red – Entertainer
- Smith, John Stafford – Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem.
- Sousa, John Philip – Led the US Marine Band from 1880 – 1892
- Stratton, Charles “Tom Thumb” – Entertainer
- Tillis, Mel – Country Singer
- Whiteman, Paul – “King of Jazz”
Government Leaders
- Abbott, Sir John J.C. – Prime Minister of Canada 1891-92
- Bennett, Viscount R.B. – Prime Minister of Canada 1930-35
- Borden, Sir Robert L. – Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920
- Bowell, Sir Mackenzie – Prime Minister of Canada 1894-96
- Churchill, Winston – British Leader
- Diefenbaker, John G. – Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63
- Edward VII – King of England
- Edward VIII – King of England who abdicated the throne in less than 1 year
- George VI – King of England during W.W. II
- MacDonald, Sir John A. – Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
- Nunn, Sam – US Senator
- Wallace, Governor George C. – Presidential Candidate who was nearly assassinated
- Franklin, Benjamin – 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the US
- Hancock, John – 1of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independence
Astronauts
- Aldrin, Edwin E. – Astronaut
- Armstrong, Neil – Astronaut
- Glenn, John H. – First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
- Grissom, Virgil – Astronaut