Some famous freemasons
This is a short selection of thousands
ACTORS
David Garrick
Sir Donald Wolfitt
Richard Todd
Peter Sellers
ARTISTS (Painters)
Sir John Soane
William Hogarth
Marc Chagall
ASTRONAUTS
Aldrin, Buzz. - Astronaut; 2nd man on the moon
Armstrong, Neil - Astronaut; first 1st man on the moon
Glenn, John H. - Astronaut/ U.S. Senator
ENTERTAINMENT
Wakeman Rick rock musician
Philip Serrell Antiques and TV
Borgnine, Ernest
Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William
Costello, Lou
DeMille, Cecil B. film producer
Fairbanks, Douglas
Gable, Clark
Hardy, Oliver
Hope, Bob
Houdini, Harry - magician
Mayer, Louis B. - film producer (MGM)
Rogers, Roy
Phil Collins
Jim Davidson
Walt Disney
Bruce Forsyth
Bradley Walsh
Simon Cowell
INVENTORS & SCIENTISTS
Banks, Sir Joseph
Colt, Samuel - firearms inventor
Fleming, Sir Alexander - invented Penicillin
Franklin, Benjamin US Founding father and scientist
Gatling, Richard J. -(Gatling Gun)
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (Guillotin)
Jenner, Edward - invented vaccination
Mesmer, Franz Anton - invented Hypnotism
Pullman, George (coaches)
Sarnoff, David - invented colour TV
Sax, Antoine Joseph - invented the saxophone
MUSICIANS
Armstrong, Louis - jazz musician
Bach, Johann Christian - Musician/Composer
Bassie, William "Count" - orchestra leader/composer
Cole, Nat 'King' - singer
Ellington, Duke - composer, arranger and band leader
Wesley, Samuel - Musician and churchman
COMPOSERS
Bach, Johann Christian
Edward Elgar
Haydn, Joseph
Listz, Frank
Mahler Gustav
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Sibelius, Jean
Sousa, John Philip
Sullivan, Sir Arthur
PIONEERS & EXPLORERS
Prince Hal (first US black mason 1787)
Burton, Sir Richard (Tutenkhamun)
Crockett, David - Frontiersman and Alamo
Lindbergh, Charles -
Livingston, Robert
Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon - English Explorers
Shackleton, Sir Ernest - English Explorer
R J Mitchell (designed the Spitfire)
Gustav Eiffel
Henry Ford
Lord Leverhulme
SPORTSMEN
Peter Ebdon
Arnold Palmer
Ron Greenwood
Alf Ramsey
Len Hutton
Herbert Sutcliffe
Don Revie
Harold Abrahams
Alec Rose
Donald Campbell
Jock Stein
Tony Alcock
RELIGIOUS
Evans, Hugh I. Head Presbyterians USA
Fisher, Geoffrey - Archbishop of Canterbury
Jackson, Reverend Jesse - Minister
Smith, Joseph
Young, Brigham
U.S. PRESIDENTS include
Buchanan, James
Ford, Gerald R.
Garfield, James A.
Jackson, Andrew
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnson, Andrew
Madison, James
McKinley, William
Monroe, James a
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Roosevelt, Theodore
Taft, William Howard
Truman, Harry S.
Washington, George
WORLD LEADERS
Arthur Worsley, Duke of Wellington
Bjornsson, Sveinn - 1st President of Iceland
Bolivar, Simon - Liberator of South America
Bonaparte, Napolean and his four brothers
Burke, Edmund - Irish-born British politician and writer
Canning, George British Prime Minister 1827
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston S.
King Edward VII
King Edward VIII
King George VI
King William IV
Francis II - Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick The Great - King of Prussia
King George I Greece
King George II Greece
King Gustavus VI Adolphus Sweden
King Charles XIII - Sweden
King Leopold I
Emperor Peter the Great Russia
Rhodes, Cecil - Prime Minister - formed Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
King William I - Prussia
King William II -Netherlands
WRITERS
Burns, Robert
Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Sherlock Holmes
Goethe, Wolgang von
Kipling, Rudyard
Pushkin, Alexander - Russian poet
Schiller, Friedrich German poet
Scott, Sir Walter
Swift, Johnathan - "Gulliver's Travels"
Twain, Mark
Voltaire - French writer and philosopher