Some Famous Masons
American Revolutionary Figures: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Paul Jones, Rufus King, Marquis de Lafayette, James Otis, Paul Revere, Baron Von Steuben, Joseph Warren and George Washington. Nine Masons signed the Declaration of Independence, and thirteen signed the Constitution of the United States.
US Presidents
James Buchanan, Gerald R. Ford, James A. Garfield, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, William McKinley, James Monroe, James Knox Polk, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt , William Howard Taft, Harry S. Truman, and George Washington.
British and Scottish Nobility
King James IV of Scotland, King Edward VII of England, King Edward VIII of England, King George VI of England, Winston Churchill. In Great Britain, Masonry has had a strong connection with both the nobility and the working man since the early 1700s.
Other World Leaders
John A. Macdonald, John J. C. Abbott, MacKenzie Bowell, Robert Laird Borden, R.B. Bennett, John George Diefenbaker, Simon Bolivar, Benito Juarez, and Jose Marti.
Well known Actors
Eddy Arnold, Gene Autry, Ernest Borgnine, George M. Cohan, Douglas Fairbanks, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Arthur Godfrey, Oliver Hardy, Bob Hope, Harry Houdini, Tom Mix, Audie Murphy, Roy Rogers, Will Rogers, Peter Sellers, Red Skelton, and Danny Thomas. Other important figures in the entertainment industry who were Masons include Cecil B. deMille, Louis B. Mayer, all seven of the Ringling Brothers, Jack Warner, John Wayne, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Florenz Ziegfeld
Authors and Poets
Robert Burns, W.E.B. DuBois, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edward Gibbon, Rudyard Kipling, Alexsandr Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Jonathan Swift, and Voltaire.
Composers and Musicians
Roy Acuff, "Count" Basie, Irving Berlin, Ludwig von Beethoven, Roy Clark, Little Jimmy Dickens, Duke Ellington, Burl Ives, Al Jolson, Francis Scott Key, Wolfgana Amadeus Mozart, Jean Sibelius, John Philip, Sousa, and Mel Tillis.
Early American Pioneers
Stephen F. Austin, James Bowie, Kit Carson , William Clark, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Meriwether Lewis, and William B. Travis.
American Industrialists
Lawrence Bell (Bell Aircraft), Walter P. Chrysler, William H. Dow (Dow Chemical), Henry Ford, King C. Gillette (Gillette Razor Co.), Charles C. Hilton, Frederick Maytag , Ransom E. Olds, J.C. Penney, George Pullman, and Dave Thomas (Wendys).
And of course, this is only a partial list. Many more people, some you wouldn't expect, are Masons.