List of Freemasons
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Freemasons say they are not a secret society but rather a society with secrets, and throughout history some prominent members of the fraternity have made no secret of their involvement. As a result, some famous (and infamous) Freemasons are well-known. 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.
New additions to the list should be properly referenced with sources.
Famous Freemasons
Political and civil rights leaders
Argentina
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
- José de San Martín
- Carlos Pellegrini (source: ?)
- José Hernández
- Leandro Nicéforo Alem, Grand Master.
- Manuel Belgrano
- Bartolomé Mitre
- Justo José de Urquiza
- Miguel Juárez Celman
- Hipólito Yrigoyen
- Roque Saénz Peña
- Agustín Pedro Justo
Australia
- Sir Edmund Barton
- Sir Donald Bradman AO (1908-2001)
- Sir Joseph Cook
- Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies AO (1894-1978)
- Prime Minister Sir John Gorton GCMG CH AC (1911-2002)
- Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser CH (born 1930)
- Governor-General and Former CO of SAS Regiment Major-General (retired) Michael Jeffery
Belgium
Bahamas
- Prime Minister Lynden Pindling
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
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
Chile
- President Salvador Allende, Lodge Progresso No. 4, Valparaíso
- Bernardo O'Higgins
Colombia
Cuba
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
Estonia
France
- Frédéric Bartholdi sculptor responsible for the Statue of Liberty, Grand Orient de France, "Alsace-LOrraine" oct 14 1875
- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
Gabon
- Omar Bongo, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Gabon, 1983
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
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, Prime Minister 1802-1894
Iceland
- President Sveinn Björnsson, Past Grand Master of Iceland
India
- Governor-General Earl Minto
- Motilal Nehru, Lodge Harmony, Kanpur
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, writer and politician
- Silvio Berlusconi, As a member of P2
- Lucio Gelli, As a Past Grand Master of P2
Japan
- Hatoyama Ichiro, Prime Minister of Japan (1883-1959). Hatoyama was made a Mason in March 1955 in Tokyo
Jordan
- King Hussein of Jordan, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Jordan
Kenya
- Nicholas Biwott
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.
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
Puerto Rico
- Manuel Fernández Juncos
- Hiram D. Cabassa
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]
- Victor Babiuc
- 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]
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
Singapore
- Thomas Stamford Raffles, Raised July 5, 1813, Lodge De Vriendschap, Sourabaya
South Africa
- Cecil Rhodes
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Switzerland
UK: England & Wales, and Scotland
(the two Masonic jurisdictions have never been united)
- Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Past Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
- Robert Burns
- Tony Baldry
- Sir Winston Churchill, Studholme Alliance Lodge No. 1591, Rosemary Lodge No. 2851. It is claimed by the "Churchill Society" that he publicly resigned from Freemasonry in 1912.
- Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
- Prince Michael of Kent, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons
- Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, 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
- King Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor), Household Brigade Lodge No. 2614; Past Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England
- Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin, Past Grand Master Mason of Scotland
- Gerald Gardner
- King George IV, 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 and Strathearn, 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 Robinson, 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 (contentious)
U.S.
- Sherman Adams
- Nelson W. Aldrich
- Charles Herbert Allen
- Dennis Archer
- John Jacob Astor, 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 Freemason, Knight Templar, Shriner
- 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 3 April 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, Film Director. Prince Orange Lodge No. 16 NYC
- Thomas E. Dewey
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Widow's Son Lodge No. 1, New Haven, CT
- Everett Dirksen
- Henry Dodge
- Bob Dole 33°, Grand Cross. Russell Lodge No. 177, KS
- Jimmy Doolittle 33°, Grand Cross
- Jim Douglas
- Herbert Henry Dow
- Mike Enzi
- Sam Ervin 33°, Grand Cross.
- Medgar Evers
- Glenn Ford
- Henry Ford
- James Forten
- Benjamin Franklin, February 1731, St. John's Lodge of Philadelphia
- Clark Gable
- John H. Glenn, Jr. 33°. Concord Lodge No. 688, Concord, Ohio.
- Dan Glickman
- Arthur Godfrey
- Barry Goldwater, Arizona Lodge No. 2, Phoenix, AZ
- Gus Grissom Mitchell Lodge No. 228, Indiana
- John Hancock
- Augustus F. Hawkins
- Jesse Helms, Past Grand Orator of North Carolina
- Patrick Henry
- Christian Herter
- Benjamin Hooks
- Hubert H. Humphrey
- Burl Ives 33°, Grand Cross
- 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 33°
- George C. Marshall Made mason on site at GL of Washington, DC
- Thomas R. Marshall
- Charles Mayo
- Abner V. McCall 33°, Grand Cross
- George McGovern
- Kweisi Mfume, Mt. Olive Lodge No. 25, Baltimore, MD
- Edgar D. Mitchell
- Wilbur Mills
- William M. Morgan
- Audie Murphy 33°
- Sam Nunn 33°, Grand Cross. Honored as Supreme Temple Architect 1995
- Arnold Palmer 33°
- Norman Vincent Peale 33°, Grand Cross
- 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.
- 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 32°
- Edmund G. Ross
- Richard Russell, Jr.
- Leverett Saltonstall
- Harland Sanders
- Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
- Charles Schumer
- Sir Walter Scott
- Red Skelton
- John Philip Sousa 33°
- 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
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
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, 33° 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
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, Associate Justice (1789-96), 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)
- 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 18 February 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)
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
Turkey
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder and First President of the Republic of Turkey, "the Father of Turks". Macedonia Risorta Lodge, Thessaloniki.
- Murad V, 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Prodos Lodge, Istanbul.
- Hasan Saka, Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey.
- Suat Hayri Urguplu, Prime Minister of Turkey.
- Koca Mustafa Resit Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Ali Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Kececizade Fuat Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Tunuslu Ethem Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Hayrettin Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Mithat Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Ahmet Vefik Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Ibrahim Hakki Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
- Talat Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier.
Venezuela
- Simón Bolívar, founder of Lodge Order and Liberty No. 2, Peru. South American revolutionary hero.
- Antonio Jose de Sucre. South American revolutionary hero.
Yugoslavia (former)
Military leaders
- Major Robert Anderson
- General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, 32° Cassia Mt. Horeb Lodge No. 273, PA. Raised in the Union Loge, No. 7, Junction City, Kansas, and recieved the higher degrees in the Army Scottish Rite bodies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
- General P.G.T. Beauregard
- General Omar N. Bradley, West Point Lodge No. 877, NY
- Admiral Arleigh Burke 33°
- Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield
- Brigadeer General L. Campbel Chief of Ordinance, Mason and a Nobel of the mystic Shrine.
- Major General Joshua Chamberlain
- Major General Claire Chennault 32° K.C.C.H. League City Lodge No. 1053, League City, Texas. Noble of Islam Shrine Temple
- General Mark W. Clark, Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, Indianapolis, IN
- Admiral William J. Crowe
- Major General Henry Dearborn
- Brigadier General James Doolittle, 32° Mason and a Nobel of the Mystic Shrine.
- 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 J. King, Made Master Mason in 1935, George C. Whiting Loge, No. 22, D.C.
- 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, 33° Manila Lodge No. 1, Philippines. Elected a Knight Commander of the Court of honour in 1937. Also a Noble of the mystic Shrine.
- General George C. Marshall, Made a Mason in an Occasional Lodge with all three degrees being conferred upon him by the Grand Master of Masons in the District of Columbia, Ara L. Daniels
- Admiral Horatio Nelson, York Lodge No. 256
- Major Samuel Nicholas
- Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon
- General John J. Pershing, 33° Lincoln Lodge No. 19, Lincoln, NE. Fifty year Mason, Noble of the mystic Shrine.
- 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
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
- Sir 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, 33°, Grand Cross. 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 Initiated Aug 21, 1923, St. Cecile Lodge No. 568, NYC
- 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
- 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
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
- Charles Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotel chain
- 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 Initiated Oct. 24, 1802: Emulation Lodge No. 12, London
- 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
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
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
- Duke Kahanamoku, Surfer. Hawaiian Lodge No. 21, F.& A.M.
- 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
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
- Lord William Byron, poet. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England (Moderns)
- 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
- 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
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, 33°, Grand Cross. 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, London Scottish Rifles Lodge No. 2310; Past Master (later, Secretary) of Sancta Maria Lodge No. 2682; Past Master (later, Treasurer) of Misericordia Lodge No. 3286, 1935; Past Junior Grand Warden, Senior Grand Deacon 1942; Grand Warden, 1948 UGLE; Received the Distinguished Service Citation of the Grand Lodge of New York, USA.
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
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.
References
- Masonic forum, no. 10 (in Romanian)
- Masonic forum, no. 3 (in English)
- [3], no.89 (in Romanian)
- answers.com's List of Freemasons
- Freemasons for Dummies