FAQ: What famous people have been Masons?
Larry the Mason from Holbrook
Version 1.0
August 2006
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What famous people have been Masons?
This is by no means a complete list. This list also includes Prince
Hall Masons.
FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (other than Presidents): Benjamin
Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, LaFayette, Rufus
King, James Otis, Baron von Steuben, Joseph Warren, Benedict Arnold
(well, you can't win them all)
POLITICAL LEADERS: Winston Churchill, Simon Bolivar, Edmund Burke,
Benito Juarez, Edward VII, George VI, Bernardo O'Higgins, Jose' de San
Martin, Francisco de Paula Santander, Jose'Rizal, Jose' Marti, Pandit
Nehru, Lajos Kossuth, Jonas Furrer, Guiseppe Mazzini, Eduard Benes,
John A. Macdonald, Aaron Burr, George McGovern, Barry Goldwater, Estes
Kefauver, Adlai Stevenson (not the governor of Illinois but his
father, who was Vice President in 1892), Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon,
Hubert H. Humphrey, Wendell Wilke, W.E.B. DuBois, William Jennings
Bryant, Emilio Aquinaldo, Andres Bonifacio, M.H. del Pilar,
Graciano Lopez. Jaena, Apolinario Mabini
MILITARY LEADERS: Omar Bradley, John J. Pershing, Douglas McArthur,
General Winfield Scott, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle,
General Mark Clark, General George C. Marshall
REPUBLIC OF TEXAS: Sam Houston, Stephen Austin, Davy Crockett, Jim
Bowie, William B. Travis (and, it should be added, General Santa Ana)
FINE ARTS: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and his father, Leopold), Ludwig
von Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, Franz Liszt, Josef Haydn, Irving Berlin,
Gutzon Borglum, Charles W. Peale, Alfons M. Mucha, John Philip Sousa,
both Gilbert & Sullivan, George Gershwin, George M. Cohen, Count
Basie, Nat King Cole, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Signmund Romberg
ACTORS: John Wayne, Red Skelton, Clark Gable, W.C. Fields, Will
Rogers, Burl Ives, Roy Rogers, Danny Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Oliver
Hardy, Tom Mix, Audie Murphy, Gene Autry, Wallace Beery, Eddie Cantor
INDUSTRY & LABOR: Henry Ford, Samuel Gompers, Walter P. Chrysler, John
Wanamaker, S.S. Kresge, J.C. Penney, John Jacob Astor, John L. Lewis
ADVENTURERS: Lewis & Clark, Charles A. Lindberg, Kit Carson, Roald
Amundsen, Adm. Richard Byrd, Commodore Robert Peary
PHILOSOPHERS: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold E. Lessing,
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
ATHLETES: Bob Feller, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Paul "Dizzy" Trout, Harry
Carey, Dell Rice, Jimmy Fox, Joe Tinker (of "Tinker to Evers to
Chance"), Jack Dempsey, Arnold Palmer, Jack Arthur Johnson
ASTRONAUTS: Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., Leroy Gordon Cooper, Donn F.
Eisele, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edgar D. Mitchell, Walter M. Schirra,
Jr., Thomas P. Stafford, Paul J. Weitz, James B. Irwin, John Glenn.
WRITERS: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard
Kipling, Robert Burns, Wassily I. Maikow, Heinrich Heine, Jean P.C. de
Florian, Leopoldo Lugoner, Antonio de Castro Alves, James Boswell,
Alexander Pushkin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde
LAW: John Marshall, Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall
MEDICINE: Drs. Alexander Fleming, Jules Bordet, Antoine DePage, Edward
Jenner, Charles and William Mayo, Karl and William Menninger
SCIENCE: Hans C. Orsted, Jons Jakob Frk. von Berzelius, Alfred Edmund
Brehm, Luther Burbank, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Albert Abraham Michelson,
Gaspard Monge, C.F.S. Hahnemann, Pedro N. Arata, Alexandre Gustave
Eiffel, Alexander Fleming, James Smithson
...as well as Harry Houdini, Norman Vincent Peale, David Sarnoff,
Thomas J. Watson, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cecil J. Rhodes, Marvin Zindler,
and many, many more.