Throughout the history of Freemasonry many men of influence and accomplishment have been drawn to the fellowship of the fraternity. Some, by society’s standards, were successful men before they petitioned for membership. Others went on to accomplish great things because they put into practice the lessons and teachings of Masonry.
Below is a small list of well-known Freemasons. There of course are many more. Some may choose not to be publicly identified due to their position and the confusion that surrounds membership in the Craft.
Scienttists
- Voltaire
- Robert Burns
- Erasmus Darwin
- Sir Alexander Fleming
- James Watt
Authors
- James Boswell
- Robert Burns
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- William S Gilbert
- Wolfgang Goethe
- Rudyard Kipling
- Alexander Pope
- Aleksander Pushkin
- Sir Walter Scott
- Jonathan Swift
- Anthony Trotlope
- Oscar Wilde
Musicians
- Phil Collins
- Louis Armstrong
- Nat King Cole
- Roy Acuff
- Irving Berlin
- Brad Paisley
- Roy Clark
- George M. Cohan
- Little Jimmy Dickens
- Duke Ellington
- Franz Josef Haydn
- Ferlin Huskey
- Franz Liszt
- Wolfgang Mozart
- Jan Sibelius
- John Phillip Sousa
- Mel Tillis
- Burl Ives
- Hank Thompson
- Paul Whiteman
- Ludwig von Beethoven
Actors & Directors
- Peter Sellers
- Charlie Chaplin
- James Monroe
- Gene Autry
- Ernest Borgnine
- Eddie Cantor
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Douglas Fairbanks
- W. C. Fields
- Glenn Ford
- Clark Gable
- Oliver Hardy
- Harry Houdini
- Al Jolson
- Louis Mayer
- Tom Mix
- Roy Rogers
- “Red” Skelton
- John Wayne
Businessmen & Entrepreneurs
- John Jacob Astor
- Walter Chrysler
- John Eberhard Faber
- Henry Ford
- King Gillette
- Arthur Godfrey
- Charles Hilton
- Andrew Mellon
- J. C. Penny
- Nathan Rothschild
- Dave Thomas
UK Statesmen
- Cecil Rhodes
- Leopold Amery
- Lord Randolph Churchhill
- George Canning
- Edmund Burke
- Winston Churchill
USA Presidents
- George Washington
- James Monroe
- Andrew Jackson
- James K. Polk
- James Buchanan
- Andrew Johnson
- James Garfield
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Taft
- Warren Harding
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Lyndon B. Johnson (EAM)
- Gerald Ford
USA Founding Fathers
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Hancock
- Joseph Warren
- Paul Revere
- Henry Knox
- John Blair William
- John Sullivan
- John Paul Jones
- Mordecai Gist
- Edmund Randolph
- John Marshall
For a more comprehensive list of well-know Freemasons visit Wikipedia