Freemasonry is not a secret society, and throughout history prominent members of the fraternity have made no secret of their involvement. As a result, many famous (and infamous) Freemasons are well-known. These run the gamut from dictators to revolutionaries, segregationists to civil rights leaders, industrialists to labor activists, humanitarians to serial killers; many that today's Masons are proud to proclaim, and others they prefer to minimize. The membership of Freemasonry is vast, diverse, and resists any single characterization.

However, Masonic membership can sometimes be difficult to verify, particularly for historical figures. Membership records are most often kept at the individual Lodge level, and may be lost due to fire, flood, deterioration, or simple carelessness. Grand Lodge governance may have shifted or reorganized, resulting in further loss of records on the member or the name, number, location or even existence of the Lodge in question. In areas of the world where Masonry has been suppressed by governments, records of entire Grand Lodges have been destroyed.

Standards of "proof" for those on this list vary widely; some figures with no verified Lodge affiliation are claimed as Masons if anecdotal evidence suggests they were familiar with the "secret" signs and passes, but other figures are rejected over technical questions of irregularity in the Lodge that initiated them. Where available, specific Lodge membership information is provided; where serious questions of verification have been noted by other sources, this is indicated as well.

Contents

1 Famous Freemasons 1.1 Political and Civil Rights Leaders 1.1.1 Afghanistan 1.1.2 Argentina 1.1.3 Australia 1.1.4 Bahamas 1.1.5 Bolivia 1.1.6 Brazil 1.1.7 Canada 1.1.8 Chile 1.1.9 Colombia 1.1.10 Cuba 1.1.11 Czechoslovakia 1.1.12 Egypt 1.1.13 France 1.1.14 Gabon 1.1.15 Hawaii 1.1.16 Hungary 1.1.17 Iceland 1.1.18 India 1.1.19 Ireland 1.1.20 Italy 1.1.21 Jordan 1.1.22 Mexico 1.1.23 Philippines 1.1.24 Poland 1.1.25 Prussia 1.1.26 Puerto Rico 1.1.27 Romania 1.1.28 Singapore 1.1.29 South Africa 1.1.30 Switzerland 1.1.31 Turkey 1.1.32 U.K. 1.1.33 U.S. 1.1.34 Venezuela 1.2 Military Leaders 1.3 American Revolution 1.4 Republic of Texas 1.5 Composers, Fine Artists and Popular Musicians 1.6 Actors and Entertainers 1.7 Industrialists and Labor Leaders 1.8 Adventurers 1.9 Philosophers 1.10 Athletes and Other Sports Figures 1.11 Astronauts 1.12 Writers, Journalists and Publishers 1.13 Lawyers, Jurists and Law Enforcement 1.14 Doctors, Scientists and Inventors 1.15 Educators, Religious Leaders and Others 2 Famous Entered Apprentices 3 Famous Non-Famous Masons 4 Famous Non-Masons 5 Links

Famous Freemasons

Political and Civil Rights Leaders

Afghanistan

• Emir Habibullah Khan, Lodge Concordia No. 3102, Calcutta, India

Argentina

• José de San Martín

Australia

• Sir Edmund Barton
• Sir Joseph Cook

Bahamas

• Prime Minister Lynden Pindling

Bolivia

• Antonio José de Sucre

Brazil

• Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, Past Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Brazil

Canada

• Prime Minister John J.C. Abbott, St Paul's Lodge No. 374 E.R., Montreal, QC
• James T.M. Anderson, Banner Lodge No. 154, Regina, SK
• Robert Alexander Anderson, Acacia Lodge No. 22
• Robert Beaven, Quadra Lodge No. 8, Victoria
• Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, Miramichi Lodge No. 187, Chatham, NB
• W.A.C. Bennett, St. George Lodge No. 41, Kelowna, BC
• Alexander Bethune, founding member of Acacia Lodge No. 22
• Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden, St. Andrew's Lodge No. 1, Halifax, NS
• Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell, St. Lawrence Lodge No. 640 E.R., Montreal, QC
• William John Bowser, Past Provincial Grand Master of Vancouver, BC
• Harlan Carey Brewster, Vancouver and Quadra Lodge No. 2, Victoria, BC
• John E. Brownlee
• John Buchanan
• Frederick Buscombe, Cascade Lodge No. 12
• Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Assiniboine Lodge No. 7, Portage La Prairie
• Frederick Cope, Cascade Lodge No. 12
• Amor De Cosmos, Victoria Lodge No. 1085
• A.E.B. Davie, Cariboo Lodge No. 4, Barkerville
• William Davis
• Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, Wakaw Lodge No. 166, Wakaw, SK
• Charles Douglas, Mount Hermon Lodge No. 7
• Tommy Douglas, Wayburn Lodge No. 20 GRS, Wayburn, SK
• James Garden, Cascade Lodge No. 12
• Governor-General Earl Albert Grey
• Josiah Henson Mount Moriah Lodge No. 4 GRC, Dresden, ON
• Byron Ingemar Johnson, Saint Andrew's Lodge No, 41, Victoria, BC
• Peter Lougheed
• Prime Minister John A. MacDonald, St. John's Lodge No. 5, Kingston, ON
• William M. Martin, Past Grand Master of Saskatchewan
• Sir Richard McBride, Union Lodge No. 9, New Westminster, BC
• John Foster McCreight, Victoria Lodge No. 783, BC
• John Duncan MacLean, Pacific Lodge No. 16, Mission, BC
• Thomas Neelands, Mount Hermon Lodge No. 7
• David Oppenheimer, Vancouver Lodge No. 2
• William John Patterson, Evening Star Lodge No. 10, Grenfell, SK
• Edward Gawler Prior, Victoria Columbia Lodge No. 1, Victoria, BC
• Dufferin Roblin
• Alexander C. Rutherford, Acacia Lodge No. 11
• Sir John Graves Simcoe, Union Lodge No. 307, E.R. (Moderns), Exeter, England
• Joey Smallwood, Northcliffe Lodge No. 1886
• Governor-General Lord Frederick Stanley
• W. Ross Thatcher, St. George's Lodge No. 136, Moose Jaw, SK
• Thomas Townley, Cascade Lodge No. 12
• John Herbert Turner, Vancouver Lodge No. 421 SR, Victoria, BC
• George Anthony Walkem, King Solomon's Lodge No. 22, Toronto, ON

Chile

• President Salvador Allende, Lodge Progresso No. 4, Valparaíso
• Bernardo O'Higgins

Colombia

• Francisco de Paula Santander

Cuba

• José Martí

Czechoslovakia

• Edvard Benes, Lodge Ian Amos Komensky No. 1, Prague and Lodge Pravda Vitezi
• Alois Rašín , Minister of Finance, anti-Communist resistance leader

Egypt

• Isma'il Pasha, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Egypt

France

• Frédéric Bartholdi sculptor responsible for the Statue of Liberty, Grand Orient de France, "Alsace-LOrraine" oct 14 1875
• Napoléon Bonaparte (disputed)

Gabon

• Omar Bongo, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Gabon, 1983

Hawaii

• King David Kalakaua, Lodge Le Progress de l'Oceanie No. 124
• King Kamehameha III
• King Kamehameha IV, Lodge Le Progress de l'Oceanie No. 124
• King Kamehameha V, Hawaiian Lodge No. 21

Hungary

• Lajos Kossuth

Iceland

• President Sveinn Björnsson, Past Grand Master of Iceland

India

• Governor-General Earl Minto
• Jawaharlal Nehru

Ireland

• Daniel O'Connell, Lodge No. 189, Dublin; Lodge No. 13, Limerick; charter member, Lodge in Tralee
• Edmund Burke, Jerusalem Lodge No. 44

Italy

• Giacomo Casanova
• Giuseppe Garibaldi, Loge Les Amis de la Patrie, Uruguay; Tompkinsville Lodge No. 471, Staten Island, NY
• Giuseppe Mazzini, Past Grand Master, Grand Orient of Italy
• Silvio Berlusconi, As a P2 member

Jordan

• King Hussein of Jordan, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Jordan

Mexico

• Porfirio Díaz (Shriner)
• Benito Juárez
• Abelardo L. Rodríguez (Shriner)
• Pascual Ortiz Rubio (Shriner)
• Miguel Alemán Valdés (Shriner)

Philippines

• Emilio Aguinaldo
• José Rizal, Acacia Lodge No. 9, Spain
• Manuel L. Quezon, Past Grand Master of the Philippines

Poland

• Andrzej Mokronowski, (1713-1784), first Polish mason.

Prussia

• King Frederick II
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Puerto Rico

• Manuel Fernández Juncos

Romania

• Vasile Alecsandri, L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris
• Grigore Alexandrescu , L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris
• Ion C. Brătianu, L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris; "Steaua Dunării" Lodge, Bucharest
• Nicolae Bălcescu, "Frăţia" Secret Society
• Dimitrie Bolintineanu
• Cezar Bolliac , Philharmonic Society
• Dumitru Brătianu
• Dimitrie Cantemir, Scottish Rosicrucian
• Petre P. Carp
• Alexandru Ioan Cuza
• Nicolae Filipescu
• Ion Ghica, L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris; "Frăţia" Secret Society
• Horea
• Take Ionescu
• Mihail Kogălniceanu
• Constantin Mavrocordat
• Titu Maiorescu, "Steaua României" Lodge, Iaşi
• Nicolae Milescu
• Eftimie Murgu , "Frăţia" Secret Society
• Ion Heliade Rădulescu , L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris; Philharmonic Society; Marea Lojă "Steaua Dunării"
• C.A. Rosetti , L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris
• Alecu Russo , L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris
• Mihail Sadoveanu, "Dimitrie Cantemir" Lodge
• Christian Tell , L’athénée des Etrangers, Paris
• Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, "Ernest Renan" Lodge

Singapore

• Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lodge De Vriendschap

South Africa

• Cecil Rhodes
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Switzerland

• Jonas Furrer

Turkey

• Kemal Atatürk, Lodge Macedonia Resorta e Veritus, Italy

U.K.

• Prince Arthur, Past Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
• Robert Burns
• Tony Baldry
• Winston Churchill, Studholme Alliance Lodge No. 1591, Rosemary Lodge No. 2851
• Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
• Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, Past Grand Master of the Ancient Grand Lodge of England
• King Edward VII, Past Grand Master of United Grand Lodge of England; Protector of the Craft
• Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, Household Brigade Lodge No. 2614; Past Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
• Lord Elgin , Past Grand Master Mason of Scotland
• Gerald Gardner
• King George IV of the United Kingdom, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England (Moderns)
• King George VI, Naval Lodge No. 2612; Past Grand Master of Scotland; honorary Past Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
• Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England (Moderns); granted Prince Hall his charter in 1884
• James Oglethorpe, first Master of King Solomon's Lodge No. 1, Savannah, GA
• George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Past Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
• King William IV, Plymouth, England

U.S.

• Sherman Adams
• Nelson W. Aldrich
• Charles Herbert Allen
• Dennis Archer
• David Rice Atchison, Platte Lodge No. 56, MO
• Roy Barnes
• Frederick Bates
• Birch Bayh
• Gunning Bedford, Jr., Lodge No. 14, Christina Ferry, DE; Past Grand Master of Delaware
• Thomas Hart Benton
• Lloyd M. Bentsen
• Julian Bond, St. James Lodge No. 4
• Thomas Bradley
• John C. Breckinridge
• John Brown, Hudson Lodge No. 68, Hudson, OH
• William Jennings Bryan
• President James Buchanan, Past Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, PA; Past District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
• Bob Bullock
• Conrad Burns
• Aaron Burr
• Robert Byrd
• James F. Byrnes
• Lewis Cass
• Henry Clay, Past Grand Master of Kentucky
• DeWitt Clinton, Past Grand Master of New York
• George Clinton
• George M. Dallas
• Thomas E. Dewey
• W.E.B. Du Bois, Widow's Son Lodge No. 1, New Haven, CT
• Everett Dirksen
• Bob Dole, Russell Lodge No. 177, KS
• Henry Dodge
• Jim Douglas
• Mike Enzi
• Sam Ervin
• Medgar Evers
• President Gerald Ford Columbia Lodge No. 3, Washington, DC, courtesy to Malta Lodge No. 465, Grand Rapids, MI
• James Forten
• President James A. Garfield, Magnolia Lodge No. 20, OH
• Dan Glickman
• Barry Goldwater, Arizona Lodge No. 2, Phoenix, AZ
• President Warren G. Harding, Marion Lodge No. 70, OH
• Augustus F. Hawkins
• Jesse Helms, Past Grand Orator of North Carolina
• Christian Herter
• Benjamin Hooks
• Hubert H. Humphrey
• President Andrew Jackson, Harmony Lodge No. 1; Past Grand Master of Tennessee
• Jesse Jackson, Harmony Lodge No. 88 PHA, Chicago, IL
• President Andrew Johnson, Greenville Lodge No. 119, TN
• Richard Mentor Johnson
• Estes Kefauver
• Jack Kemp, Fraternal Lodge No. 625, Hamburg, NY
• William King, Past Grand Master of Maine
• William R. King
• Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Garibaldi Lodge No. 542, NY
• Alf Landon
• Trent Lott
• Thomas R. Marshall
• George McGovern
• President William McKinley, Hiram Lodge No. 21, VA
• Kweisi Mfume, Mt. Olive Lodge No. 25, Baltimore, MD
• Wilbur Mills
• President James Monroe, Williamsburgh Lodge No. 6, VA
• Sam Nunn
• Claude Pepper
• Joel Roberts Poinsett, Solomon's Lodge No. 1, Charleston
• President James K. Polk, Columbia Lodge No. 31, TN
• John A. Quitman, Past Grand Master of Mississippi
• Charles B. Rangel
• Elliot Richardson
• Buddy Roemer
• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Holland Lodge No. 8, NY
• President Theodore Roosevelt, Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, NY
• Edmund G. Ross
• Richard Russell, Jr.
• Leverett Saltonstall
• Charles Schumer
• Leland Stanford
• Harold Stassen
• John C. Stennis
• William Stephens
• Adlai E. Stevenson (I)
• Carl B. Stokes
• Louis Stokes
• Stuart Symington
• President William Howard Taft, "Mason at sight"; affiliated Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, OH
• Strom Thurmond
• Daniel D. Tompkins
• President Harry S. Truman, Belton Lodge No. 450, Belton, MO; Past Grand Master of Missouri
• George Wallace, Past Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Alabama
• President George Washington, Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4; Alexandria Lodge No. 22, VA
• Wellington Webb
• Benning Wentworth
• Douglas Wilder
• Wendell Willkie
• Andrew Young
• Whitney Young

Venezuela

• Simón Bolívar, founder of Lodge Order and Liberty No. 2, Peru

Military Leaders

• Major Robert Anderson
• General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold
• General P.G.T. Beauregard
• General Omar N. Bradley, West Point Lodge No. 877, NY
• Admiral Arleigh Burke
• Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield
• Major General Joshua Chamberlain
• Major General Claire Chennault
• General Mark W. Clark, Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, Indianapolis, IN
• Admiral William J. Crowe
• Major General Henry Dearborn
• General Jimmy Doolittle
• Admiral David Farragut
• Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Elgin Lodge No. 91, Leven, Scotland
• General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. , one of the Tuskegee Airmen
• Admiral John Jellicoe, Past Provincial Grand Master, United Grand Lodge of England
• Fleet Admiral Ernest King
• Lord Horatio Kitchener, Past District Grand Master of Egypt and Sudan; Past Grand Warden and District Grand Master, Punjab, India; founder of several Lodges
• Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
• Captain James Lawrence
• Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune
• General Curtis LeMay
• General Douglas MacArthur, Manila Lodge No. 1, Philippines
• General George Marshall, "Mason at sight", Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia
• Admiral Horatio Nelson, York Lodge No. 256
• Major Samuel Nicholas
• Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon
• General John J. Pershing, Lincoln Lodge No. 19, Lincoln, NE
• General George Pickett
• Brigadier General Albert Pike
• Commodore Edward Preble
• Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Kilwinning Lodge No. 297, MI
• General Matthew Ridgway
• General Winfield Scott
• Field Marshal Aleksandr Suvorov, Lodge Zu Den Drei Kronen, Königsberg
• Chief Tecumseh (unverified)
• Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Lodge Zur Aufrichtigen Herzen, Frankfurt
• Sir Richard Ernest Turner
• General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV
• General Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Lodge at Trim No. 494, Meath, Ireland
• General James Wolfe

American Revolution

• John André
• Benedict Arnold, Hiram Lodge No. 1, New Haven, CT
• John Blair, Williamsburg Lodge No. 6; Past Grand Master of Virginia
• Chief Joseph Brant, Hiram's Cliftonian Lodge No. 47, Barton Lodge No. 6, Hamilton, ON
• General Charles Cornwallis (unverified)
• Benjamin Franklin, Lodge at Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, PA; Loge des Neuf Soeurs, Paris; Past Grand Master of Pennsylvania
• Elbridge Gerry
• John Hancock, Massachusetts Lodge No. 277, QC; St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, MA
• Patrick Henry
• Brigadier General Nicholas Herkimer, St. Patrick's Lodge, Johnstown, NY
• Joseph Hewes
• William Hooper, Hanover Lodge, Masonborough, NC
• John Paul Jones, St. Bernards Lodge No. 122, Kirkudbright, Scotland
• Rufus King, St John's Lodge, Newburyport, MA
• Major General Henry Knox
• Marquis de Lafayette, made a Mason in France; received honorary memberships in Lodges across North America
• Robert R. Livingston
• James McHenry
• Brigadier General Richard Montgomery
• James Otis
• General Israel Putnam
• General Rufus Putnam, Past Grand Master of Ohio
• Paul Revere, St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, MA; Past Grand Master of Massachusetts
• Baron von Steuben, Trinity Lodge No. 10, New York, NY
• Richard Stockton, charter Master, St. John's Lodge, Princeton, NJ
• George Walton, Solomon's Lodge No. 1, Savannah, GA
• Joseph Warren, St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, MA; Past Provincial Grand Master of Massachusetts
• William Whipple, St. John's Lodge, Portsmouth, NH

Republic of Texas

• Stephen F. Austin, Louisiana Lodge No. 109, St. Genevieve, MO
• Jim Bowie, Humble Cottage Lodge No. 19, Opelousas, LA
• David G. Burnet
• Davy Crockett
• Sam Houston, Cumberland Lodge No. 8, Nashville, TN
• Anson Jones
• Mirabeau B. Lamar
• General Antonio López de Santa Anna (unverified)
• William B. Travis, Alabama Lodge No. 3, Claiborne, AL

Composers, Fine Artists and Popular Musicians

• Roy Acuff, East Nashville Lodge No. 560, TN
• George Antheil
• Louis Armstrong Montgomery Lodge No. 18 PHA, NY (unverified; was a member of Knights of Pythias)
• Johann Christian Bach, Lodge of Nine Muses No. 235, London
• Frédéric Bartholdi, Lodge Alsace-Lorraine, Paris
• William "Count" Basie, Wisdom Lodge No. 102, Chicago, IL
• Ludwig van Beethoven (unverified)
• Irving Berlin, Munn Lodge No. 190, New York, NY
• James Herbert "Eubie" Blake
• Gutzon Borglum, Howard Lodge No. 35, NY
• Dmytro Bortniansky
• Jerry "Ice Man" Butler
• Marc Chagall, Vitebsk, Belorussia
• Roy Clark, Jenks Lodge No. 497, OK
• George M. Cohan, Pacific Lodge No. 223, CA
• Nat King Cole, Thomas Waller Lodge No. 49, Los Angeles, CA, PHA
• Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, Social Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC, PHA
• Sir Banister Flight Fletcher , architect, Authors Lodge No. 3456, London
• George Gershwin
• Sir William S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, Lodge St. Machar No. 54, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Lionel Hampton, Boyer Lodge No. 1, New York, NY, PHA
• William C. Handy, Hiram Lodge No. 4, New York, NY, PHA
• Joseph Haydn, Lodge Zur Wahren Eintracht, Vienna
• William Hogarth
• Ferlin Husky
• Jean Michel Jarre, see the 1991 concert in La Defence
• Gus Kahn
• Jerome Kern
• Karl King
• Tony Martin
• Winsor McCay
• Lauritz Melchior
• Franz Liszt, Lodge Zur Einigkeit, Frankfurt
• Jimmie Lunceford
• Giacomo Meyerbeer
• Leopold Mozart
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lodge Zur Woltatigkeit, Vienna; Lodge Zur Wahren Eintracht
• Alfons Mucha, Paris; founder of Czech Freemasonry
• Charles Willson Peale
• Oscar Peterson
• Tex Ritter, Metropolitan Lodge No. 646, CA
• Sigmund Romberg
• Adolphe Sax, Loge Les Vrais Amis de L'Union
• Jean Sibelius, Suomi Lodge No. 1, Helsinki, Finland
• John Stafford Smith
• John Philip Sousa, Hiram Lodge No. 10, Washington, DC
• Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan, Past Grand Organist of the United Grand Lodge of England
• Hank Thompson
• Bertel Thorvaldsen
• Mel Tillis , Branson Lodge No. 587
• Thomas "Fats" Waller
• Paul Whiteman
• Grant Wood

Actors and Entertainers

• Bud Abbott, Daylight Lodge No. 525, MI
• Cliff Arquette, Ravenwood Lodge No. 777, Chicago, IL
• Gene Autry, Catoosa Lodge No. 185, OK
• Wallace Beery, Blaney Lodge No. 271, IL
• Mel Blanc, Mid Day Lodge No. 188, OR
• Ernest Borgnine, Abingdon Lodge No. 48, VA
• Eddie Cantor, Munn Lodge No. 190, New York, NY
• William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Platte Valley Lodge No. 15, NE
• Harry H. Corbett, Chevin Lodge No. 6848, UK
• Charles Correll, Trio Lodge No. 57, Chicago, IL
• Donald Crisp, Harry S. Orme Lodge No. 458, CA
• Norm Crosby
• Jim Davidson
• Cecil B. DeMille, Prince of Orange Lodge No. 16, NY
• Richard Dix, Harry S. Orme Lodge No. 458, CA
• Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Beverly Hills Lodge No. 528, CA
• W.C. Fields, E. Coppee Mitchell Lodge No. 605, Philadelphia, PA
• Glenn Ford
• Clark Gable, Beverly Hills Lodge No. 528, CA
• John Gilbert
• Arthur Godfrey, Acacia Lodge No. 18, Washington, DC
• Freeman Gosden, Petersburg Lodge No. 15, VA
• D.W. Griffith, St. Cecile Lodge No. 568, NY
• Oliver Hardy, Solomon Lodge No. 20, Jacksonville, Florida
• William S. Hart
• Jean Hersholt
• Harry Houdini, St. Cecile Lodge No. 568, NY
• Sir Henry Irving, Jerusalem Lodge No. 44, London
• Burl Ives, Magnolia (now Magnolia-La Cumbre) Lodge No. 242, CA
• Al Jolson, St. Cecile Lodge No. 568, NY
• Harry Kellar
• Harold Lloyd, Hamilton Lodge No. 535, Hollywood, CA
• Harpo Marx (unverified)
• Louis B. Mayer, St. Cecile Lodge No. 568, New York, NY
• Tom Mix, Utopia Lodge No. 537, CA
• Audie Murphy, Hollywood Lodge No. 542, North Hollywood, CA
• Bronson Pinchot
• Richard Pryor, Henry Brown Lodge No. 22, Peoria, IL
• Michael Richards, Riviera Lodge No. 780, CA
• Alfred, John, Albert, Charles, William, August and Henry Ringling and their father, August Rüngeling, Baraboo Lodge No. 34, Baraboo, WI
• Paul Robeson, "Mason at sight"
• Jimmie Rodgers, John L. Spinks Lodge No. 507, MS
• Roy Rogers, Hollywood Lodge No. 355, CA
• Will Rogers, Claremore Lodge No. 55, OK
• Telly Savalas
• Joseph T. Schenck of Van and Schenck
• Peter Sellers, Chelsea Lodge No. 3098, London, England
• Red Skelton, Vincennes Lodge No. 1, Vincennes, IN
• Charles Sherwood Stratton , "General Tom Thumb"
• Carl Switzer
• Danny Thomas
• Robert Pershing Wadlow, Franklin Lodge No. 25, Alton, IL
• Hal B. Wallis, Prudence Lodge No. 958, Chicago, IL
• Jack Warner, Mount Olive Lodge No. 506, Los Angeles, CA
• John Wayne, Marion McDaniel Lodge No. 56, Tucson, AZ
• Billy Wilder
• Bert Williams
• Jonathan Winters
• William Wyler
• Ed Wynn, Philadelphia Lodge No. 9, PA
• Darryl F. Zanuck, Mount Olive Lodge No. 506, Los Angeles, CA
• Florenz Ziegfeld, Accordia Lodge No. 277
• Adolph Zukor, Centennial Lodge No. 763, New York, NY

Industrialists and Labor Leaders

• Harold Alfond
• John Jacob Astor, W.M. Holland Lodge No. 8, NY
• Lawrence Bell
• Samuel Bronfman, Covenant Lodge No. 108, QC
• Walter Chrysler
• André Citroën, Lodge La Philosophie Positive, Paris
• Samuel Colt, St. John's Lodge, Hartford, CT
• Herbert Henry Dow
• Edwin Drake, Oil Creek Lodge No. 3, Titusville, PA
• Eberhard Faber, CEO of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Co., Chancellor Walworth Lodge No. 271, New York, NY
• Henry Ford, Palestine Lodge No. 357, Detroit, MI
• Robert Fulton (unverified)
• King C. Gillette
• Samuel Gompers, Dawson Lodge No. 16, Washington, DC
• Richard M. Hoe
• Frank G. Hoover , 3rd President of The Hoover Company and supporter of Boy Scouting, William McKinley Lodge No. 431, OH
• Sebastian S. Kresge, Palestine Lodge No. 357, Detroit, MI
• John L. Lewis
• Sir Thomas Lipton, Scotia Lodge No. 178, Glasgow
• R.H. Macy , founder of Macy's
• James W. Marshall
• Hart Massey , head of Massey-Ferguson
• Frederick L. Maytag , founder of the Maytag Corporation, Newton Lodge No. 59, IA
• John J. McLaughlin , creator of Canada Dry ginger ale, Cedar Lodge No. 270, Oshawa, ON
• R. Samuel McLaughlin, founder of the McLaughlin Carriage Co., Cedar Lodge No. 270, Oshawa, ON; Past Grand Steward; 75-year member
• Andrew W. Mellon
• George J. Mecherle , founder of State Farm Insurance
• John Molson, St. Paul's Lodge, No. 374, Montreal, QC; Past Provincial Grand Master of Lower Canada
• Ransom E. Olds, Capitol Lodge No. 66, Lansing, MI
• J.C. Penney, Wasatch Lodge No. 1, Salt Lake City, UT
• George Pullman, Renovation Lodge No. 97, Albion, NY
• A. Phillip Randolph , founder and first president of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• James Mayer Rothschild
• Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Emulation Lodge No. 12, London
• Horace Saks , founder of Saks Fifth Avenue
• Colonel Harland Sanders
• David Sarnoff, Strict Observance Lodge No. 94, NY
• Dave Thomas, Sol. D. Bayless Lodge No. 359, Fort Wayne, IN
• John Wanamaker
• Thomas J. Watson
• Steve Wozniak, Charity Lodge No. 362, Campbell, CA

Adventurers

• Roald Amundsen
• Sir Joseph Banks
• James Bruce
• Sir Richard Francis Burton, Hope Lodge, Kurrachee, Scinde, India
• Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC; established Antarctica Lodge No. 777 under the Grand Lodge of New Zealand
• Kit Carson, Montezuma Lodge No. 109, Taos, NM
• Giacomo Casanova
• William Clark, Saint Lewis Lodge No. 111, PA
• Adolphus W. Greeley , polar explorer
• Matthew Henson, Celestial Lodge No. 3, PHA, New York, NY
• Elisha Kent Kane
• Meriwether Lewis, Door to Virtue Lodge No. 44, VA; founder, St. Louis Lodge No. 111, St. Louis, MO under the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
• Charles Lindbergh, Keystone Lodge No. 243, MO
• Commodore Robert Peary, Kane Lodge No. 454, New York, NY
• Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Drury Lane Lodge No. 2127, London; Navy Lodge No. 2612
• Sir Ernest Shackleton, Navy Lodge No. 2612
• Matthew Webb, Neptune Lodge No. 22
• William Wentworth

Philosophers

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lodge Amalia, Weimar
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lodge Zu den Drei Goldenen Rosen
• Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), Loge des Neuf Soeurs, Paris

Athletes and Other Sports Figures

• Red Auerbach,
• Harold Ballard, Corinthian Lodge No. 481, GRC
• Avery Brundage, North Shore Lodge No. 937, Chicago, IL
• Ron Burton
• Harry Caray
• Ty Cobb, Royston Lodge No. 426, Detroit, MI
• Earle Combs
• Jack Dempsey, Kenwood Lodge No. 800, Chicago, IL
• Bob Feller
• Jimmie Foxx
• Bob "Hoot" Gibson
• Curt Gowdy
• Penny Hardaway
• Rogers Hornsby, Beacon Lodge No. 3, St. Louis, MO
• Tim Horton, Kroy Lodge No. 676, Toronto, ON
• Jack Johnson, Lodge Forfar and Kincardine No. 225, Dundee, Scotland
• Ted Lyons
• Willie Mays
• Ralph Metcalfe
• James Naismith
• Arnold Palmer, Loyalhanna Lodge No. 275, Latrobe, PA
• Scottie Pippen
• Dell Rice
• Branch Rickey, Tuscan Lodge No. 360, St. Louis, MO
• Sugar Ray Robinson, Joppa Lodge No. 55, NY, PHA
• Ray Schalk
• Tris Speaker
• Carl E. Stotz , co-founder of Little League
• Joe Tinker (of "Tinker to Evers to Chance")
• Paul "Dizzy" Trout
• Honus Wagner
• Cy Young

Astronauts

• Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., Clear Lake Lodge No. 1417, Seabrook, TX
• Leroy Gordon Cooper, Carbondale Lodge No. 82, Carbondale, CO
• Donn F. Eisele, Luthor B. Turner Lodge No. 732, Columbus, OH
• John Glenn, Concord Lodge No. 688, Concord, OH
• Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Mitchell Lodge No. 228, Mitchell, IN
• James Irwin, Tejon Lodge No. 104, Colorado Springs, CO
• Edgar Mitchell, Artesia Lodge No. 28, Artesia, NM
• Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Canaveral Lodge No. 339, Cocoa Beach, FL
• Thomas Stafford, Western Star Lodge No. 138, Weatherford, OK
• James E. Webb, University Lodge No. 408, Chapel Hill, NC
• Paul J. Weitz, Lawrence Lodge No. 708, Erie, PA

Writers, Journalists and Publishers

• Robert S. Abbott
• Antonio de Castro Alves
• Andrew Bell, Lodge St. David No. 36, Edinburgh
• James Boswell, Master of Canongate Kilwinning Lodge for two terms, Depute GM Scotland 1776-78
• Robert Burns, Saint David's Lodge No. 2174, Tarbolton; many others
• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Polar Star Lodge No. 79, St. Louis, MO
• Carlo Collodi
• Palmer Cox
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Phoenix Lodge No. 257, Southsea, Hampshire
• Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
• Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist and civil-rights activist
• Edward Gibbon, Lodge of Friendship No. 3, London
• Edgar Guest, Ashler Lodge No. 91, Detroit, MI
• Alex Haley, "Mason at sight", Prince Hall Grand Lodge of California (unverified)
• Heinrich Heine
• John H. Johnson, publisher of EBONY and Jet magazines
• Rudyard Kipling, Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782. E.C., Lahore, India; founding member, The Builders of the Silent Cities Lodge No. 12, St. Omer, France, F.R.
• Mark Lemon, Globe Lodge No. 23, London
• Leopoldo Lugones
• John B. MacLean , founder of MacLean's magazine, Ionic Lodge No. 25, Toronto, ON
• Norman Vincent Peale, Midwood Lodge No. 1062, Brooklyn, NY
• Alexander Pope, Lodge Goat-at-the-Foot-of-the-Haymarket No. 16, London
• Aleksandr Pushkin, Lodge Ovid, Kischinev
• Rafael Sabatini, Jerusalem Lodge No. 197, London
• Felix Salten
• Friedrich Schiller, Rudolstadt Lodge, Berlin (unverified)
• Sir Walter Scott, Saint David Lodge No. 36, Edinburgh
• Robert W. Service, Yukon Lodge No. 45, Dawson City, YT
• Gordon Sinclair, John Ross Robertson Lodge No. 545, Toronto, ON
• Jonathan Swift, Lodge Goat-at-the-Foot-of-the-Haymarket No. 16, London, England; Lodge No. 16, Dublin, Ireland
• Roy Thomson, North Bay Lodge No. 617
• Anthony Trollope, Banagher Lodge No. 306, Ireland
• Lew Wallace, Fountain Lodge No. 60, Covington, IN
• Oscar Wilde, Apollo University Lodge No. 357, Oxford
• Sir P.G. Wodehouse, Jerusalem Lodge No. 197, London
• Marvin Zindler

Lawyers, Jurists and Law Enforcement

• Henry Baldwin
• Hugo Black
• Samuel Blatchford
• Harold Hitz Burton
• John Catron
• Tom C. Clark
• John Hessin Clarke
• William Cushing
• Izzy Einstein, Emanuel Lodge No. 654, NY
• Oliver Ellsworth
• Stephen Johnson Field
• John Marshall Harlan
• J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC
• Robert H. Jackson
• Joseph Rucker Lamar
• John Marshall, Past Grand Master of Virginia
• Thurgood Marshall, Coal Creek Lodge No. 88, Tulsa, OK, PHA
• Thomas Stanley Matthews
• Sherman Minton
• William Henry Moody
• Samuel Nelson
• Mahlon Pitney
• Roscoe Pound
• Stanley Forman Reed
• Wiley Blount Rutledge
• Moe Smith, Emanuel Lodge No. 654, NY
• Potter Stewart
• Noah Haynes Swayne
• Thomas Todd
• Robert Trimble
• Willis Van Devanter
• Fred M. Vinson
• Earl Warren, Past Grand Master of California
• Levi Woodbury
• William Burnham Woods

Doctors, Scientists and Inventors

• Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Isaac Newton Lodge No. 859, Cambridge
• Pedro N. Arata , Argentine chemist
• Elias Ashmole, Warrington Lodge, Lancashire
• John James Audubon (unverified)
• Benjamin Banneker
• Jöns Jakob Berzelius
• Jules Bordet
• Alfred Brehm
• Luther Burbank
• Vannevar Bush, Richard C. Maclaurin Lodge, Cambridge, MA
• Erasmus Darwin, St. David's Lodge No. 36, Edinburgh
• Antoine Depage , pioneered wound care during World War I
• John Theophilus Desaguliers, invented the planetarium, Past Grand Master of England
• Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton
• Gustave Eiffel
• John Fitch, Bristol Lodge No. 25, Bristol, PA
• Sir Alexander Fleming, Past Junior Grand Warden, United Grand Lodge of England
• Sir Sandford Fleming, St. Andrew's Lodge No. 16, Toronto, ON
• Richard Jordan Gatling, Centre Lodge No. 23, Indianapolis, IN
• Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, founding member of the Grand Orient of France
• Johann Ernst Gunnerus
• C.F.S. Hahnemann
• James Hoban, founder, Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC
• Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Aesculapius Lodge No. 2410
• Edward Jenner, Royal Berkeley Lodge of Faith and Friendship No. 449, Berkeley, Gloucestershire
• Ernest Everett Just
• Charles G. King , biochemist, isolated Vitamin C, Whitman Lodge No. 49, Pullman, WA
• Simon Lake
• Joseph Leidy
• Charles H. Mayo and William J. Mayo , founders of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Lodge No. 21, MN
• John Loudon McAdam (or Macadam)
• Karl Menninger and Will Menninger, founders of the Menninger Clinic
• Franz Mesmer, Lodge Les Philadelphes, France
• Antonio Meucci (unverified)
• Albert Abraham Michelson, Washington Lodge No. 21, New York, NY
• Gaspard Monge
• Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, Loge des Neuf Soeurs, Paris
• Hans Christian Ørsted
• Wilhelm Ostwald, Past Grand Master, Grand Lodge Zur Aufgehenden Sonne, Bayreuth
• Charles Robert Richet, Lodge Cosmos, France
• George Shillibeer, Etonian Lodge of St. John No. 209, Windsor
• James Smithson (unverified)
• William Stukeley, Salutation Tavern Lodge, London
• James Watt
• Sir Christopher Wren, Lodge of Antiquity No. 2

Educators, Religious Leaders and Others

• Aga Khan III, Sultan Mohammed Shah
• Richard Allen
• Robert E.B. Baylor , founder of Baylor University, Past Grand Chaplain of Texas
• Francis Bellamy, Little Falls Lodge No. 181, Little Falls, NY
• Paul Bernardo (expelled)
• Frank Coleman , co-founder of Omega Psi Phi fraternity
• Henry Dunant
• Carroll A. Edson , co-founder of the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow
• Geoffrey Fisher
• E. Urner Goodman , co-founder of the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow
• Frederick Humphries , former president of Florida A&M University
• Melvin Jones, Garden City Lodge No. 141, IL
• Oliver Hudson Kelley
• J.R.E. Lee , former president of Florida A&M University
• Oliver Loving
• Daniel Carter Beard
• David S. "Doc" Maynard
• Benjamin Mays, educator and former president of Clark Atlanta University
• Parker Paul McKenzie , created alphabet and system of writing for the Kiowa language
• Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen , Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Ionic Lodge No. 25, Toronto, ON
• Joseph Smith, Nauvoo Lodge, IL
• Lowell Thomas
• Swami Vivekananda, Hope and Anchor Lodge No. 1, Calcutta, India
• Booker T. Washington, Past Grand Master of Massachusetts, PHA
• Brigham Young, Nauvoo Lodge, IL

Famous Entered Apprentices

"Mason" generally refers to a Master Mason, or one who has received all three of the initiatory degrees of Freemasonry. Those who have received only the Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft degrees are initiated members, but without all the rights and privileges accorded to Master Masons.

• General Nathan Bedford Forrest was initiated into the first degree of Freemasonry, but he never completed his second and third degrees and never returned to Lodge.
• President Lyndon B. Johnson was initiated into the first degree of Freemasonry, but his congressional duties made it impossible for him to pursue the second and third degrees.

Famous Non-Famous Masons

• Charles C. Hilton is frequently cited as the founder, in Chicago, of the Hilton Hotel chain; however, Hilton Hotels were founded in Dallas by Conrad Hilton (who did not have any family members named Charles). Charles C. Hilton, Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard in 1896-1897, may be the Mason who belonged to William B. Warren Lodge No. 309, Chicago, IL.

Famous Non-Masons

• Neil Armstrong's father was a Mason, but he was not.
• Lord Robert Baden-Powell was not a Mason, but his brother and several friends were; Lodges named for him were founded by Scouts.
• Ambrose Bierce's uncle was a Mason, but he was not.
• President George H.W. Bush took his inaugural oath on the George Washington Bible, belonging to St. John's Lodge in New York, but he is not a Mason.
• President George W. Bush cancelled plans to use the same George Washington Bible at his inauguration, owing to inclement weather.
• Charlie Chaplin
• Dick Cheney
• President Bill Clinton was a member of DeMolay, but not a Mason.
• Sean Connery
• Aleister Crowley received degrees in an irregular and unrecognized Grand Lodge in France, and was "given" a Scottish Rite 33° by an unrecognized organization in Mexico; the validity of his claim to Masonic membership is disputed.
• Walt Disney was a member of DeMolay, but not a Mason.
• General Francisco Franco was rejected.
• Billy Graham
• President Ulysses S. Grant's father and brothers were Masons, but he was not.
• Thomas Hamilton's grandfather was a Mason, but he was not (he may also have been confused with two other Thomas Hamiltons in the area who were Masons).
• Bob Hope
• President Thomas Jefferson
• Chiang Kai-shek
• Martin Luther King, Jr. was declared a "Mason at sight" more than 32 years after his death, by a Past Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Georgia, but this act is controversial and many Masons are likely to reject its legitimacy.
• Pierre Charles L'Enfant
• President Abraham Lincoln petitioned for membership in a Lodge in Illinois, but withdrew his petition; he pledged to resubmit after completing his service as President, but was assassinated.
• Timothy McVeigh was not a Mason; he possessed anti-Masonic literature and was a fan of an anti-Masonic radio talk show host.
• Carroll O'Connor wore a Masonic ring on In the Heat of the Night apparently only as a prop.
• Thomas Paine
• Yitzhak Rabin
• President Ronald Reagan was made an honorary member of Scottish Rite, but was not a Mason.
• Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, is often rumored to have been a Freemason, but such claims are unfounded. See the official Pastor Russell website here
• H.G. Wells

• Laura Ingalls Wilder, her mother Caroline and sister Carrie were all members of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Links

• http://www.internetloge.de/arst/masons1.htm
• http://www.freimaurer.org/zgs.wesel/freimaurer.htm
• http://www.masonicinfo.com/famous1.htm
• http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/index.html