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Famous Freemasons

Many lists of famous Freemasons are available on-line and in Masonic literature. Why do today's Freemasons compile lists of famous Freemasons? A college, for instance, would take pride in the achievements of its alumni and list prominent alumni in its catalogue. Freemasonry is no different. Freemasons take pride in the accomplishment of the great men in all fields that chose to become part of the Craft. There is no reason to believe that the accomplishments of these men were due to the fact that they were Freemasons, but the lessons of Freemasonry may well have helped shape their views and actions. The many Masons listed show clearly that Freemasonry attracts men of the highest standing, but we must remember that beyond these well-known names are the millions of ordinary men who benefited from the lessons and the fellowship of Freemasonry, as well as the many men who devoted their time and energies to Freemasonry even though they are unknown to the world at large.

The following list is far from exhaustive, but gives a good cross-section of the many fields of endeavor where Freemasons have made contributions. In the case of living Freemasons, only those who have publicly acknowledged their membership or have given permission are listed.

Presidents of the United States of America

1st: George Washington (1732–1799)

5th: James Monroe (1758–1831)

7th: Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

11th: James K. Polk (1795–1849)

15th: James Buchanan (1791–1868)

17th: Andrew Johnson (1808–1875)

20th: James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

26th: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

27th: William H. Taft (1857–1930)

29th: Warren G. Harding (1865–1923)

32nd: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

33rd: Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)

36th: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973)

38th: Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Nine of the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence were Freemasons.

William Ellery, Rhode Island

Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania

John Hancock, Massachusetts

Joseph Hewes (or Howes), North Carolina

William Hooper, North Carolina

Thomas McKean, Delaware

Robert Treat Paine, Massachusetts

Richard Stockton, New Jersey

George Walton, Georgia

William Whipple, New Hampshire

Signers of the Constitution of the United States

Thirteen of the thirty-nine men who signed the U.S. Constitution were Freemasons.

Gunning Bedford, Jr., Delaware

John Blair, Virginia

David Brearley, New Jersey

Jacob Broom, Delaware

Daniel Carroll, Maryland

Jonathan Dayton, New Jersey

John Dickinson, Delaware

Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania

Nicholas Gilman, New Hampshire

Rufus King, Massachusetts

James McHenry, Maryland

William Paterson, New Jersey

George Washington, Virginia

Generals of the Continental Army

Seventy-four men were commissioned as General Officers in the Continental Army from 1775 through 1783. Thirty-three were Freemasons, including:

Benedict Arnold, Connecticut

James Clinton, New York

Mordecai Gist, Maryland

Edward Hand, Pennsylvania

Henry Knox, Massachusetts

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, France

Peter Muhlenberg, Virginia

Israel Putnam, Connecticut

John Stark, New Hampshire

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, Prussia

John Sullivan, New Hampshire

Jethro Sumner, North Carolina

William Thompson, Pennsylvania

James M. Varnum, Rhode Island

David Wooster, Connecticut

The United States Supreme Court

There have been 108 Justices of the Supreme Court since 1789. Forty of them were Freemasons.

Five Chief Justices of the Supreme Court were Freemasons:

Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807)

John Marshall (1755-1835)

William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

Frederick Vinson (1890-1953)

Earl Warren (1891-1974)

Other prominent Freemasons on the Court:

Hugo L. Black (1886-1971)

William O. Douglas (1898-1980)

Potter C. Stewart (1915-1985)

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)

Recipients of the Medal of Honor

Of the 3,465 Medals of Honor awarded to date, 224 were to Freemasons.

Frank Baldwin (1842-1923), Civil War and Indian Wars, one of only 14 men to receive the award twice

Dennis Bell (1866-1953), Spanish-American War

William Blackwood (1838-1897), Civil War

General Daniel Butterfield (1831-1901), Civil War, the composer of "Taps"

General Joshua L. Chamberlain (1828-1914), Civil War

William "Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917), Indian Wars, civilian scout

General Jimmy Doolittle (1896-1993), World War II

Joe M. Jackson (b. 1923), Vietnam

Nelson D. Miles (1839-1925), Civil War

Lewis L. Millet (b. 1920), Korea

Audie Murphy (1924-1971), the most decorated American soldier of World War II

Pressley Neville O’Bannon (1776-1850), U.S. Marine Corps, hero of “the shores of Tripoli”

Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973), World War I Flying Ace

William Shomo (1918-1990), World War II Flying Ace

Carl L. Sitter (1922-2000), Korea

General Jonathan Wainwright (1883-1953), World War II

Leonard Wood (1860-1927), Indian Wars

Prime Ministers of Canada

John A. MacDonald (1815-1891), the first Prime Minister of Canada

John J. C. Abbott (1821-1893)

MacKenzie Bowell (1823-1917)

Robert Borden (1854-1937)

Richard B. Bennett (1870-1947)

John G. Diefenbaker (1895-1979)

Monarchs of the United Kingdom

George IV (1762–1830)

William IV (1765–1837)

Edward VII (1841–1910)

Edward VIII (1894–1972)

George VI (1895–1952)

Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize

1901: The first Nobel Peace Prize, Henry Dunant, Switzerland (1828-1910). Founder of the International Red Cross.

1902: Elie Duccomun (1833-1906). Switzerland

1906: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S. For brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War.

1911: Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921). Germany.

1913: Henri Lafontaine (1854-1943). Belgium.

1920: Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (1851-1925). France. President of the League of Nations.

1925. Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951). U. S.

1926. Aristide Briand (1862-1932). France.

1929. Frank. B. Kellog (1856-1937). U.S.

1935. Carl von Ossietsky (1889-1959). Germany.

1953. George Marshall (1880-1959). U.S., Originator of the Marshall Plan.

Statesmen and Politicians (not listed above)

Salvador Allende (1908–1973), President of Chile

Mustapha Kemal Ataturk (1881–1938), founder of modern Turkey

Ira Allen (1751-1814), the “Father of Vermont”

Governor Roy Barnes, (b. 1948) U.S. (Georgia)

Sir Edward Barton (1849-1938), Prime Minister of Australia

Congressman Charles Bass, (b. 1952), U.S. (New Hampshire)

Dr. Eduard Benes (1884–1948), President of Czechoslovakia

Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. (1921-2006), U.S. (Texas)

Sveinn Bjornsson (1881–1951), First President of Iceland

Simon Bolivar (1783–1830), South America freedom fighter

Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1883-1967), Prime Minister of Australia

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), U.S. Secretary of State

Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895), U.K.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), U.K.

Sir Joseph Cook (1860-1950), Prime Minister of Australia

Thomas Dewey (1902–1971), U.S. (New York)

Porfirio Diaz (1830–1915), President of Mexico

Hal Daub (b. 1941), U.S., Congressman, Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska

Senator Robert Dole (b. 1923), U.S. (Kansas)

Governor James Douglas (b. 1952), U.S., (Vermont)

Paul Doumer (1857–1932), President of France

Governor James H. Douglas (b. 1951), U.S. (Vermont)

Senator Michael Enzi (b. 1944), U.S. (Wyoming)

Sir Arthur William Fadden (1895-1973), Prime Minister of Australia

Felix Faure (1841–1899), President of France

Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia (1712–1786)

General Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), Italy

Dan Glickman (b. 1944), U.S. Kansas Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture

Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998), U.S. (Arizona)

Sir John Grey Gorton (1911-2002), Prime Minister of Australia

Senator Chuck Grassley (b. 1933), U.S. (Iowa)

Henry Grattan (1746–1820), Ireland

Sam Houston (1793–1863), U. S. (Texas)

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978), U.S. Vice-President and Senator (Minnesota)

Tommy Irvin (b. 1929), U.S., Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture

Benito Juarez (1806–1872), President of Mexico

Senator Jack Kemp, (1935-2009), U.S. (New York)

Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947), U.S. Mayor of New York City

Senator Trent Lott (b. 1941), U.S. (Mississippi)

Jan Masaryk (1886–1948), President of Czechoslovakia

William Massey (1865-1925), Prime Minister of New Zealand

Guiseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), Italy

Sir John McEwen (1900-1980), Prime Minister of Australia

William McMahon (1908-1988), Prime Minister of Australia

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978), Prime Minister of Australia

Kweisi Mfume (b. 1948), U.S., Congressman and President of NAACP

Senator Sam Nunn (b. 1938), U.S. (Georgia)

Bernardo O’Higgins (1778-1842), liberator of Chile

Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847), Ireland

David Oppenheimer (1834-1897), Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia

Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880-1961), Prime Minister of Australia

Manuel Luis Quezon (1878–1944), President of the Philippines

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), founder of Singapore

Congressman Charles Rangel (b. 1930), U.S. (New York)

Sir George Houston Reid (1845-1950), Prime Minister of Australia

Governor Edward G. Rendell (b. 1944), U.S. (Pennsylvania)

Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), South Africa

Governor Charles E. “Buddy” Roemer (b. 1943), U.S. (Louisiana)

Manuel A. Roxas (1892–1948), President of the Philippines

Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles (1846–1913), President of Brazil

Richard John Seddon (1845-1906), Prime Minister of New Zealand

Congressman Charles E. Shumer (b. 1950), U.S. (New York)

Congressman Robert Simmons (b. 1943), U.S. (Connecticut)

Charles Maurice Talleyrand de Perigord (1754–1838), France

Senator Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), U.S. (South Carolina)

Governor George C. Wallace, (1919–1998), U.S. (Alabama)

George C. Richard Colley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842)

Wellington Webb (b. 1941), U.S., Mayor of Denver, Colorado

Governor Lawrence Douglass Wilder (b. 1931), U.S. (Virginia)

William I of Prussia, first German Emperor (1797–1888)

Ambassador Andrew Young (b. 1932), U.S. (Georgia)

Military Leaders

Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891–1969), U.K.

General of the Air Force Henry “Hap” Arnold, U.S., father of the U.S. Air Force

Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981), U.K.

General Walter Boomer (b. 1938), U.S. Marine Corps

General of the Army Omar Bradley (1893–1981), U.S.

Admiral Arleigh A. Burke (1901-1996), U.S.

General Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984), U.S.

General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle (1896-1993), U.S., leader of the raid on Tokyo

Field Marshal Earl Haig (1861–1928), U.K.

Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1895–1935), U.K.

Marshal Jules Joffre (1852–1931), France

Captain John Paul Jones (1747–1792), U.S.

Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1878-1956), U.S.

Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850–1916), U.K.

Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov (1745–1813), Russia

James Lawrence (1781-1813), U.S. naval hero “Don’t give up the ship”

Major General John A. Lejuene (1867-1942), Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), U.S.

Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), U.K.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Newall (1886–1963), U.K.

Marshal Michel Ney (1769–1815), France

Major Samuel Nicholas (1744-1790), first Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps

General John Pershing (1860–1948), U.S.

George E. Pickett (1825-1875), U.S., commanded Confederate troops at Gettysburg

Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832–1914), U.K.

General Jose de San Martin (1778–1850), South America

General Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), Prussia

John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806), Canada

Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith (1764–1840), U.K.

Marshal Nicholas Soult (1769–1851), France

General Joseph Stilwell (1883–1946), U.S.

Field Marshal Count Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800), Russia

Stuart Symington (1901-1988), First U.S. Secretary of the Air Force

Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872), U.S., “Father of West Point”

Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), Germany

Colonel William B. Travis (1809-1836), U.S. commander of the Alamo

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren (1840–1927), U.K.

Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), U.K.

General Sir Francis Wingate (1861–1953), U.K.

Colonel Jonathan Williams (1781-1813), U.S., first superintendent of West Point

Explorers

Roald Amundsen (1872–1928), Norway, first man to reach the South Pole

Daniel Boone (1739-1820), U.S.

Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890), U.K.

Admiral Richard Byrd (1888–1957), U.S.

Christopher ‘Kit’ Carson (1809–1868), American frontiersman

Captain William Clark (1770-1838), U.S.

Adolphus W. Greely (1844-1935), U.S.

Matthew A. Henson (1866-1955), U.S.

Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), U.S.

Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (1897–1935), Australia

Henry Asbjörn Larsen (1899-1964), Norway/Canada

Colonel Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), U.S.

Captain Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809), U.S.

Robert E. Peary (1856–1920), U.S.

Zebulon Pike (1779-1813), U.S., discoverer of Pike’s Peak

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), U.K.

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), U.K.

Sir Douglas Mawson (1882–1958), Australia

Astronauts

Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin (b. 1930)

L. Gordon Cooper (1927-2004)

Donn F. Eiselle (1930-1987)

John H. Glenn, Jr. (b. 1921)

Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom (1926-1967)

James Irwin (1930-1991)

Edgar D. Mitchell (b. 1930)

Waiter M. Schirra (b. 1923)

Thomas P. Stafford (b. 1930)

Paul J. Weitz (b. 1932)

Scientists and Engineers

Sir Edward Appleton (1982–1965), U.K., Nobel laureate in physics

John James Audubon, (1785-1851) U.S., ornithologist

Sir Joseph Banks (1744–1820), U.K., botanist

Sir MacFarlane Burnett (1899–1985), Australia, Nobel laureate in medicine

Vannevar Bush (1890-1974), U.S., led World War II R&D, developed the concept of the Internet

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), France, engineer and builder of the Eiffel Tower

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), U.K., discoverer of penicillin

Edward Jenner (1749–1823), U.K., developed vaccination

Charles Glen King (1918-1988), U.S. biochemist, isolated vitamin C

Kenneth Kleinknecht (b. 1919), U.S. NASA manager of Apollo program

Friedrich Franz Mesmer (1733–1815), Austrian, physician and founder of hypnotism

John L. McAdam (1756–1836), U.K., inventor of ‘macadamizing’ roads

Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745–1799) and Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740–1810), France, inventors of the balloon

Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851), Denmark, discoverer of electromagnetism

James Smithson (1765–1829), U.S., chemist and mineralogist, founded Smithsonian Institution

Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947), U.K., pathologist

James E. Webb (1906-1992), U.S., Head of NASA during the Apollo years

Authors and Poets

Sir Walter Besant (1836–1901)

James Boswell (1740–1795)

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

Lord William Byron (1788–1824)

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798)

Samuel L. Clemens (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1893)

Edward Gibbon (1734–1794)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925)

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

Gotthold E. Lessing (1729–1781)

Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689–1755)

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

Robert Service (1874-1958)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)

Lewis Wallace (1827–1905), author of “Ben Hur”

George John Whyte-Melville (1821–1878)

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Oscar Wilde (1856–1900)

Francis Yeates-Brown (1866–1944)

Artists and Architects

Brad Anderson (b. 1924), cartoonist of “Marmaduke”

Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), sculptor of Mount Rushmore

John Crome (1768–1821), painter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), painter

William Hogarth (1697–1774), painter

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), sculptor

Alphonse Mucha (1860–1932), painter

Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), painter

Felix Salten (1869-1945), Austrian, creator of “Bambi”

Sir Robert Smirke (1781–1867), architect

Sir John Soane (1753–1837), architect

Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734), painter

Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), painter

Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789–1863), painter

Grant Wood (1891-1942), U.S., painted “American Gothic”

Musicians

Roy Acuff (1903-1990), “King of Country Music”

Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), jazz legend

Eddie Arnold (b. 1918), country musician

Thomas Arne (1710–1778), composer of ‘Rule Britannia’ and the British national anthem

William “Count” Basie (1904-1984), orchestra leader/composer

Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)

Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

Sir Henry Bishop (1786–1855)

Roy Clark (b. 1933), country music legend

Nat King Cole (1919–65)

Little Jimmy Dickens (b. 1920), mainstay of the Grand Ole Opry

Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington (1889–1974), jazz musician

Lionel Hampston (1908-2002), jazz musician

William C. Handy (1873–1958), jazz composer

Franz Josef Haydn (1732–1809)

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Lauritz Melchoir (1890–1973), Danish operatic tenor

Leopold Mozart (1719–1787)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1765–1791)

Bard Paisley (b. 1972), country musician

Cari Rosa (1843–1889), operatic impresario

Antoine Joseph Sax (1814–1894), Belgium, inventor of the saxophone

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)

Carl Smith of the band “Madness” (b. 1959)

John Stafford Smith (1750–1836), English, composer of the tune used for ‘The Star-spangled Banner’

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932)

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)

Mel Tillis (b. 1932), country musician

Charlie Walker (1926-2008), country musician

Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)

Entertainers

William “Bud” Abbott (1897-1974)

Gene Autry (1907–1998)

George Bancroft (1882–1956)

Leslie Banks (1890–1952)

Warner Baxter (1889–1951)

Mel Blanc (1908-1989), the voice of “Bugs Bunny”

Ernest Borgnine (b. 1917)

Eddie Cantor (1892–1964)

Donald Crisp (1882–1974)

Norm Crosby (b. 1927)

Walt Disney (1901–1966)

Glenn Ford (1916-2003)

Burl Ives (1909–1995)

Cecil B. de Mille (1881–1959)

Reginald Denny (1891–1967)

Brian Donlevy (1901–1972)

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1883–1939)

W. C. Fields (1879–1946)

Clark Gable (1901–1960)

Oliver Hardy (1892–1957)

Harry Houdini (1874–1926)

Al Jolson (1888–1950)

Harold Lloyd (1893–1971)

Louis B. Mayer (1885–1957)

Bronson Pinchot (b. 1959)

Dick Powell (1904–1963)

Michael Richards (b. 1949), Seinfeld’s “Kramer”

The Seven Ringling Brothers

Roy Rogers (1911–1998)

Will Rogers (1879–1935)

Telly Savalas (1922-1994)

Peter Sellers (1925–1980)

Richard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913–1997)

Danny Thomas (1914-191)

Jack M. Warner (1916–1995)

John Wayne (1907-1979)

William Wyler (1902–1981)

Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979)

Florenz Ziegfeld (1869–1932)

Sportsmen

Sir Donald Bradman (1908–2001), cricketer

Ron Burton (1936-2003), U.S. football, New England Patriots

Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885–1948), motorist

William ‘Jack’ Dempsey (1895–1983), boxer

Russell Ross Francis (b. 1953), U.S. football, New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers

Sam Hornish (b. 1979), U.S. auto racing, winner of Indianapolis 500

Rogers Hornsby (1896-1963), U.S. baseball

Tim Horton (1930-1974), Canadian, ice hockey player and founder of a chain of doughnut shops

John A. (‘Jack’) Johnson (1878–1946), boxer

Sir Thomas Lipton (1850–1931), yachtsman and tea magnate

Daniel Mendoza (1764–1832), boxer

James Nasimith (1861-1939), Canadian/U.S. inventor of basketball

Sir Hubert Opperman (1904–1996), cyclist

Arnold Palmer (b. 1929), U.S. golfer

Branch Rockey (1881-1965), U.S. baseball commissioner who integrated Major League Baseball

‘Sugar Ray’ Robinson (1921–1989), boxer

Milton C. “Milt” Schmidt (b. 1918), Canadian, ice hockey legend, Boston Bruins

Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley (1841-1908), Canadian, originator of the Stanley Cup

Carl E. Stotz (1910-1992), U.S., one of the founders of Little League baseball

John Honus Wagner (1874-1955), U.S., baseball legend

Glen Scobey “Pop” Warner (1892-1978), U.S. football coach

Matthew Webb (1848-1833), English, first man to swim the English Channel

Businessmen

John Jacob Astor (1763–1848), financier

Walter P Chrysler (1875–1940), U.S. car manufacturer

Herbert Henry Dow (1866-1930) U.S., founded Dow Chemical Company

Bob Evans (b. 1918), U.S., founded restaurant chain

Henry Ford (1863–1947), U.S. car manufacturer

King Gillette (1855-1932), U.S., inventor of the safety razor and founder of the Gillette Company

Frank Jones (1832-1902), U.S., brewer and railroad tycoon

Sebastian Kresge (1867-1966), U.S., founder of K-Mart

Rowland H. Macy (1822-1877), U.S., founder of Macy’s

Hart Massey (1823-1896), Canadian, founder of Massey-Ferguson farm equipment

Frederick Maytag (1857-1937), U.S., Maytag appliances

Andrew Mellon (1855-1937), U.S., financier and philanthropist

John Molson (1763-1836), Canadian, founder of Molson Breweries

Ransom E. Olds (1864-1950), U.S., founder of Oldsmobile

James C. Penney (1875-1971), U.S., founder of J.C. Penney’s

James Meyer Rothschild (1792–1868), French financier

Nathan Meyer Rothschild (1777–1836), London financier

“Colonel” Harlan Sanders (1890-1980), U.S. Kentucky Fried Chicken

Julius Earl Schaefer (1893-1978), U.S., one of the founders of Boeing Aircraft

Alex G. Spanos (b. 1923), U.S. businessman, owner of the San Diego Chargers

Leland Stanford (1824-1893), U.S., railroad tycoon and namesake of Stanford University

Dave Thomas (1914-1991), U.S., founder of Wendy’s restaurants

Other Notables

Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843)

Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and astrologer

Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941), founder of the Boy Scouts of America

Francis Bellamy (1855-1931), Baptist minister who wrote the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance

The Very Rev. Sir Israel Brodie (1895–1978), U.K., Chief Rabbi 1948–65

Prince Chula Chakra-Bongse of Siam (1908–1963)

William F. Cody (‘Buffalo Bill’) (1845–1917)

Samuel Colt (1814–1862), inventor and maker of pistols

David ‘Davy’ Crockett (1786–1836), American frontiersman

W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963). U.S. educator and founder of NAACP

Most Rev. Archbishop Lord Fisher of Lambeth (1887–1972), Archbishop of Canterbury

Richard J Gatling (1818–1903), American inventor of the repeating gun

David Goodnow (b. 1949), U.S. newscaster

Curt Gowdy (1919-2006), U.S., sportscaster

Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), promoter of vaccination after whom the guillotine was named

James Hoban (1762-1831), Irish/U.S., architect of the White House

J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), U.S., Director of the FBI

H. H. Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala (1872–1949)

Rev. Jesse Jackson (b. 1941), U.S. civil rights leader

Melvin Jones (1877-1961), U.S., founder of Lions International

King David Kalakaua (1836-1891), last King of Hawaii

Edward George, Duke of Kent (b. 1935), present Grand Master, United Grand Lodge of England

Prince Michael of Kent (b. 1942), present Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, England

Most Rev. Archbishop George Kingston (1889–1950), Primate of Canada 1947–50

Charles A. Lingbergh (1902-1974), U.S. aviator

Daniel Marsh (1880-1968), clergyman and educator, President of Boston University

James W. Marshall (1810-1885), U.S., discovered gold in California in 1848

Jean Paul Marat (1743–93), French revolutionary

Dr. Charles Mayo (1865-1939), U.S., founder of the Mayo Clinic

Ismail Pasha (1830–1895), Khedive of Egypt

The Rev. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), U.S., clergyman and inspirational speaker

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)

Mohamed Raza Ali Khan, Nawab of Rampur (1906–1966)

Paul Revere (1735–1818), American patriot

George Shillibeer (1797–1866), U.K., inventor of the hearse

Joseph Smith (1805-1844), U.S., founder of the Mormon church

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), U.S. educator

Brigham Young (1801-1877), U.S., Mormon leader