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Argentina
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
José de San Martín (source: mentioned in the article)
Carlos Pellegrini (source: ?)

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Australia
Sir Edmund Barton
Sir Donald Bradman AO (1908-2001)
Sir Joseph Cook
Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies AO (1894-1978)
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser CH (born 1930)
Governor-General and Former CO of SAS Regiment Major-General (retired) Michael Jeffrey
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Belgium
Charles Picqué, minister-president of the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Bahamas
Prime Minister Lynden Pindling

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Brazil
Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, Past Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Brazil
Bento Gonçalves, leader of Farroupilha Revolution
Júlio de Castilhos, governor of Rio Grande do Sul
Borges de Medeiros, governor of Rio Grande do Sul
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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, Weyburn Lodge No. 20 GRS, Weyburn, 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
Alexander Keith, Mayor of Halifax, founder of Alexander Keith's beer, Founder of Keith lodge #23 in Moncton New Brunswick
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
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Chile
President Salvador Allende, Lodge Progresso No. 4, Valparaíso
Bernardo O'Higgins
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Colombia
Francisco de Paula Santander
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Cuba
José Martí
Jaime Ramón Ferrer Nodal
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Czechoslovakia
Edvard Beneš, Lodge Ian Amos Komensky No. 1, Prague and Lodge Pravda Vitezi
Alois Rašín, Minister of Finance, anti-Communist resistance leader
Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau stylist, graduate of the Academie Julian
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Egypt
Isma'il Pasha, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Egypt

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France
Frédéric Bartholdi sculptor responsible for the Statue of Liberty, Grand Orient de France, "Alsace-LOrraine" oct 14 1875
Napoléon Bonaparte (disputed)
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
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Gabon
Omar Bongo, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Gabon, 1983
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Greece
Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister (disputed)
Ioannis Kapodistrias, 1st Governor
King George II
Ion Dragoumis, politician
Miltiades Evert, politician
Constantine Karamanlis, Prime Minister, President of the Republic
Nikos Kazantzakis, author and philosopher
Theodoros Kolokotronis, general in the War of Independence, national hero (disputed)
Alexandros Mavrokoradatos, 1st Prime Minister
Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister
Prince Alexander Ypsilanti, Military Commander, Leader of the Filiki Eteria
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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

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Iceland
President Sveinn Björnsson, Past Grand Master of Iceland
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India
Governor-General Earl Minto
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Ireland
Daniel O'Connell, Lodge No. 189, Dublin; Lodge No. 13, Limerick; charter member, Lodge in Tralee
Edmund Burke, Jerusalem Lodge No. 44
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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, writer and politician
Silvio Berlusconi, As a P2 member
Lucio Gelli, Grand Master P2, Officer Herman Goering Division, operated C.I.A. "Rat-line" of Nazi War Criminals escaping to South America, conducted "false flag" bombing, kidnapping, and assassination campaign across Southern Europe in 1970's and 1980's under direction of Italian Military Intelligence and the C.I.A.. Implicated in murder of banker Roberto Calvi and assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II.
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Japan
Hatoyama Ichiro, Prime Minister of Japan (1883-1959). A graduate of the law school of Tokyo Imperial University, he was first elected to the lower house of the Japanese legislature in 1915. Hatoyama was education minister in the Inukai and Saito cabinets (1931-34). A leader of the prewar Seiyukai party, he organized the conservative postwar Liberal party and became its first president. In a series of moves he formed the Democratic party and became prime minister, deposing Shigeru Yoshida and forming three successive cabinets (1954-56).
Hatoyama was made a Mason in March 1955 in Tokyo

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Jordan
King Hussein of Jordan, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Jordan
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Malaysia
HRH Colonel Sir Ibrahim, The Sultan of Johor. Initiated, 11th April 1906 in Empire Lodge No. 2108 in London.
H.H. Tunku Abdul Malik Ibni Sultan Badlishah, House of Kedah. Initiated, 9th January 1959, Lodge Kedah No. 3830 E.C. Sungei Petani.
HRH Sultan Idris Ibni Sultan Iskandar Shah, Sultan of Perak. Initiated 9th July 1960, Lodge Napier No. 3418 EC in Ipoh.
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Mexico
Porfirio Díaz (Shriner)
Benito Juárez
Abelardo L. Rodríguez (Shriner)
Pascual Ortiz Rubio (Shriner)
Miguel Alemán Valdés (Shriner)
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Philippines
Emilio Aguinaldo
José Rizal, Acacia Lodge No. 9, Spain
Manuel L. Quezon, Past Grand Master of the Philippines
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Poland
Andrzej Mokronowski, (1713-1784), first Polish mason.
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Prussia
King Frederick II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Puerto Rico
Manuel Fernández Juncos
Hiram D. Cabassa
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Romania
Vasile Alecsandri, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris [1]
Grigore Alexandrescu, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris [2]
Constantin Argetoianu [2]
Ion C. Brătianu, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris; "Steaua Dunării" Lodge, Bucharest [1]
Nicolae Bălcescu, "Frăţia" Secret Society [1]
Dimitrie Bolintineanu [2]
Cezar Bolliac, Philharmonic Society [3]
Dumitru Brătianu
Dimitrie Cantemir, Scottish Rosicrucian [1]
Petre P. Carp
Alexandru Ioan Cuza [1]
Victor Eftimiu [2]
Nicolae Filipescu
Nicolae Filimon [2]
Octavian Goga [2]
Ion Ghica, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris; "Frăţia" Secret Society [2]
Horea [1]
Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu [2]
Take Ionescu
Mihail Kogălniceanu [1]
Gheorghe Magheru [1]
Constantin Mavrocordat
Titu Maiorescu, "Steaua României" Lodge, Iaşi [2]
Nicolae Milescu
Ion Minulescu [2]
Eftimie Murgu, "Frăţia" Secret Society
Costache Negruzzi [1]
Ion Heliade Rădulescu, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris; Philharmonic Society; Marea Lojă; "Steaua Dunării" [2]
C.A. Rosetti, L';athénée des Etrangers, Paris [1]
Alecu Russo, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris
Mihail Sadoveanu, "Dimitrie Cantemir" Lodge [2]
Christian Tell, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris
Nicolae Titulescu [2]
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, "Ernest Renan" Lodge
Tudor Vladimirescu [1]
Traian Vuia [2]
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Russia
Mikhail Bakunin
Ivan Perfilevich Elagin, Grand Provincial Master for the Grand Lodge of England
Alexander Kerensky, La Petite Ourse(Ursa Minor)), "Rose" lodge
Maxim Maximovich Kovalevsky, L"Avangard Masonnique, Les Vrais Amis Fideles
Grigoriy Nikolayevich Vyrubov, Rose of the perfect silence (Worshipful Master)
Pavel Yablochkov, Worshipful Master of Scottish rite lodges in Paris, first Worshipful master of Scottish lodge "Cosmos", 1887-1888
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Singapore
Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lodge De Vriendschap
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South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Switzerland
Jonas Furrer

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U.K.
Prince Arthur, Past Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
Annie Besant, Founder of the Droit Humain in London
Robert Burns
Tony Baldry
Winston Churchill, Studholme Alliance Lodge No. 1591, Rosemary Lodge No. 2851. It is claimed by the "Churchill Society" that he publicly resigned from Freemasonry 1912.
Aleister Crowley, EA:10/8/1904, ~FC:11/1904, MM:12/17/1904; he is listed in the 'Tableau annuel' dated 12/31/1904 with the Grand Lodge number 41210, Lodge number 54. , (Premier 20th century Mage/Satanist), Grandmaster Ordo Templi Orientis
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
Robert Moray, Newcastle 1641
James Oglethorpe, first Master of King Solomon's Lodge No. 1, Savannah, GA
Cecil Parkinson, Member of Parliament 1970-1992
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
Sir Christopher Wren, Master of Lodge Original, No. 1, now the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2
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U.S.
Sherman Adams
Nelson W. Aldrich
Charles Herbert Allen
Dennis Archer
John Jacob Aster, Holland Lodge No. 8, NY
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
Hugo Black
Mel Blanc
Julian Bond, St. James Lodge No. 4
Ernest Borgnine, Lodge No. 48, Abingdon, VA
Thomas Bradley
John C. Breckinridge
John William Bricker, (Governor of Ohio 1939-1945), (Ohio state attorney general, 1933-37), Order of the Coif; American Legion; Freemason; Knights Templar; Shriners; Optimist Club; Rotary; Delta Chi; Delta Sigma Rho
John Brown, Hudson Lodge No. 68, Hudson, OH
John William Brown, (Governor of Ohio Jan 3-14, 1957), (Lt. Gov of OH 1953-57, 1963-75), (Ohio State House of Representatives 1959-1960), Freemason; Shriner
William Jennings Bryan
Bob Bullock
Conrad Burns
Asa S. Bushnell, (Governor of Ohio 1896-1900), made a Mason at Sight by Grand Master Levi C. Goodale in 1894, Affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 455 in Springfield on 4/3/1894
Richard E. Byrd
Robert Byrd
James F. Byrnes
Kit Carson
Lewis Cass
Walter P. Chrysler
Henry Clay, Past Grand Master of Kentucky
William Clark
Roy Clark
Samuel L. Clemens - Mark Twain, Polar Star Lodge No. 79, St. Louis, Missouri
DeWitt Clinton, Past Grand Master of New York, Holland Lodge No. 8, NY
George Clinton
Ty Cobb
Mickey Cochrane (Hall of Famer)
Buffalo Bill Cody
Samuel Colt
George M. Dallas
Cecil B. DeMille
Thomas E. Dewey
W.E.B. Du Bois, Widow's Son Lodge No. 1, New Haven, CT
Everett Dirksen
Henry Dodge
Bob Dole, Russell Lodge No. 177, KS
Jimmy Doolittle
Jim Douglas
Herbert Henry Dow
Mike Enzi
Sam Ervin
Medgar Evers
Glenn Ford
Henry Ford
James Forten
Benjamin Franklin, February 1731, St. John's Lodge of Philadelphia
Clark Gable
John H. Glenn, Jr.
Dan Glickman
Arthur Godfrey
Barry Goldwater, Arizona Lodge No. 2, Phoenix, AZ
Gus Grissom
John Hancock
Oliver Hardy
Augustus F. Hawkins
Jesse Helms, Past Grand Orator of North Carolina
Patrick Henry
Christian Herter
Harry Houdini
Benjamin Hooks
Hubert H. Humphrey
Burl Ives
Jesse Jackson, Harmony Lodge No. 88 PHA, Chicago, IL
Richard Mentor Johnson
John Paul Jones
Estes Kefauver
Jack Kemp, Fraternal Lodge No. 625, Hamburg, NY
William King, Past Grand Master of Maine
William Rufus King
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Garibaldi Lodge No. 542, NY
Alf Landon
Meriwether Lewis
Charles Lindbergh
Robert R. Livingston
Trent Lott
General Douglas MacArthur
George C. Marshall
Thomas R. Marshall
Charles Mayo
Abner V. McCall
George McGovern
Kweisi Mfume, Mt. Olive Lodge No. 25, Baltimore, MD
Edgar D. Mitchell
Wilbur Mills
William M. Morgan Kidnapped 9/11/1826 by Masons for writing: Illustrations of Masonry, see discussion.
Audie Murphy
Sam Nunn
Arnold Palmer
Norman Vincent Peale
Claude Pepper
Robert E. Peary
Matthew Perry, (Commodore) Holland Lodge No. 8, NY
John Joseph Pershing
Albert Pike, Western Star Lodge No. 2, Little Rock, Arkansas. Sovereign Grand Commander AASR, Southern Jurisdiction. [Source] , Famous Author of: [Morals and Dogma].
Joel Roberts Poinsett, Solomon's Lodge No. 1, Charleston
John A. Quitman, Past Grand Master of Mississippi
Charles B. Rangel
Paul Revere
Elliot Richardson
Eddie Rickenbacker
Ringling Brothers
Buddy Roemer
Roy Rogers
Will Rogers
Edmund G. Ross
Richard Russell, Jr.
Leverett Saltonstall
Harland Sanders
Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
Charles Schumer
Sir Walter Scott
Red Skelton
John Philip Sousa
John Stafford Smith
Leland Stanford
Harold Stassen
John C. Stennis
William Stephens
Adlai E. Stevenson (I)
Carl B. Stokes
Louis Stokes
Johnathan Swift
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Stuart Symington
Richard Tea Aztlan Lodge #4, Prescott, Arizona
Danny Thomas
Dave Thomas
Lowell Thomas
Strom Thurmond
Mel Tillis
Daniel D. Tompkins
William B. Travis
George Wallace, Past Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Alabama
Earl Warren
Thomas J. Watson
John Wayne
Wellington Webb
Benning Wentworth
Douglas Wilder
Wendell Willkie
Andrew Young
Cy Young
Whitney Young
Sam Ferguson
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U.S. Presidents
President George Washington, Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4; Alexandria Lodge No. 22, VA
President James Monroe, Williamsburgh Lodge No. 6, VA
President Andrew Jackson, Harmony Lodge No. 1; Past Grand Master of Tennessee.
President James K. Polk, Columbia Lodge No. 31, TN
President James Buchanan, Past Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, PA; Past District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
President Andrew Johnson, Greenville Lodge No. 119, TN
President James A. Garfield, Magnolia Lodge No. 20, OH
President William McKinley, Hiram Lodge No. 21, VA
President Theodore Roosevelt, Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, NY
President William Howard Taft, "Mason at sight"; affiliated Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, OH
President Warren G. Harding, Marion Lodge No. 70, OH
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Holland Lodge No. 8, NY
President Harry S. Truman, Belton Lodge No. 450, Belton, MO; Past Grand Master of Missouri
President Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnson City Lodge 561, Johnson City, TX
President Gerald Ford Columbia Lodge No. 3, Washington, DC, courtesy to Malta Lodge No. 465, Grand Rapids, MI
President Ronald Reagan, Made Honourary Scottish rite Mason in White House Oval office on 02/11/1988.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Henry Baldwin, Associate Justice (1830-1844)
Hugo L. Black, Associate Justice (1937-1971), Birmingham Temple Lodge No. 836, Birmingham, AL
John Blair Jr., Associate Justice (1789-1810), Grand Master of Virginia from 1778 to 1784
Samuel Blatchford, Associate Justice (1882-1893)
Harold H. Burton, Associate Justice (1945-1958)
James F. Byrnes, Associate Justice (1941-1942)
John Catton, Associate Justice (1837-1865)
Salmon P. Chase, (Chief Justice 1864-1873), Associate Justice (1796-1811)
Thomas C. Clark, Associate Justice (1949-1967)
John H. Clarke, Associate Justice (1916-1922)
William Cushing, Associate Justice (1789-1810), St. Andrews Lodge, Boston
Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice (1911-1937)
William O. Douglas, Associate Justice (1939-1975)
Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice (1796-1800)
Stephen J. Field, Associate Justice (1863-1897)
John M. Harlan, Associate Justice
Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice (1941-1954)
John Jay, Chief Justice (1789-1795)
Joseph E. Lamar, Associate Justice (1888-1893), Webb Lodge No. 166 F.& A.M., Augusta, Georgia
John Marshall, Chief Justice (1801-1835) - Grand Master of Virginia (1793 & 1794)
Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice (1967-1991)
Stanley Mathews, Associate Justice (1881-1889)
John McLean, Associate Justice (1829-1861)
Sherman Minton, Associate Justice (1949-1956)
William H. Moody, Associate Justice (1906-1910)
Samuel Nelson, Associate Justice (1845-1872)
William Paterson, Associate Justice (1793-1806)
Mahlon Pitney, Associate Justice (1912-1922)
Stanley F. Reed, Associate Justice (1938-1957)
John Rutledge, Chief Justice (1795), Associate Justice (1789-1791)
Potter Stewart, Associate Justice (1958-1981)
Joseph Story, Associate Justice (1811=1845)
Noah H. Swayne, Associate Justice (1862-1881)
William H. Taft, Chief Justice (1921-1930), Made Mason at sight by C. S. Hoskinson in Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, Cincinnati, Ohio on 2/18/1909. This conferred upon him the first three degrees.
Thomas Todd, Associate Justice (1807-1826)
Robert Trimble, Associate Justice (1826-1828), Past Master, Union Lodge No. 16 F.& A.M., Paris, Kentucky
Willis Van Devanter
Frederick M. Vinson, Chief Justice (1946-1953)
Earl Warren, Chief Justice (1953-1969) - Grand Master of California 1935 to 1936
Levi Woodbury, Associate Justice (1845-1851)
William B. Woods, Associate Justice (1881-1887)
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Venezuela
Simón Bolívar, founder of Lodge Order and Liberty No. 2, Peru. South American revolutionary hero.
Antonio Jose de Sucre. South American revolutionary hero.
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Yugoslavia (former)
Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Ivan Mestrovic
Ivo Andric
Miroslav Krleza
Josip Broz Tito
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Military leaders
Major Mirza Turohan
Major Robert Anderson
General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Cassia Mt. Horeb Lodge No. 273, PA
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
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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
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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
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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. Suggestive information presented in detail in 2003 biography by Maynard Solomon; also early Beethoven biographer Karl Holz claimed Beethoven was a Freemason, but not active in his later years.)
Irving Berlin, Munn Lodge No. 190, New York, NY
James Herbert "Eubie" Blake
Gutzon Borglum, Howard Lodge No. 35, NY
Jerry "Ice Man" Butler
Marc Chagall, Vitebsk, Belarus
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 1990 concert in La Défense
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
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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, Beverly Hills Lodge No. 528, CA
W.C. Fields, E. Coppee Mitchell Lodge No. 605, Philadelphia, PA
Glenn Ford
J.D. Fortune, Oakville Lodge No. 400, Oakville, ON
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, (Tallest Man on Record) 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
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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
Carl Lindner, Jr.
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. Philip Randolph, founder and first president of the 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
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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
Steven J. Komar
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
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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
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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
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")
Honus Wagner
Cy Young
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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
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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
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author, was initiated as Freemason in 1907
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
Fernando Pessoa
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
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Lawyers, jurists, and law enforcement
Henry Baldwin
Hugo Black
Samuel Blatchford
Harold Hitz Burton
John Catron
Tom C. Clark
John Hessin Clarke
William Cushing
William Crosby Dawson
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
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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 Horace Mayo and William James 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
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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
but sources disagree as to whether he was [1] or wasn't: [2] a member
Frederick Humphries, former president of Florida A&M University
Charles P. "Pa" Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, De Smet Lodge No. 55, De Smet, SD
He, wife Caroline and daughters Laura and Carrie were all members of Bethlehem Chapter No. 13 of the Order of the Eastern Star in De Smet
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 Morehouse College
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