Famous FreemasonsAmerican Revolution
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
Benjamin Franklin, February 1731, St. John's Lodge of Philadelphia; Lodge at Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, PA; WM, Loge
Les Neuf Sœurs, Paris; Past Grand Master of Pennsylvania
John Hancock, Massachusetts Lodge No. 277, QC; St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, MA
Brigadier General
Nicholas Herkimer, St. Patrick's Lodge, Johnstown, NY
William Hooper, Hanover Lodge, Masonborough, NC
John Paul Jones, St. Bernards Lodge No. 122, Kirkudbright, Scotland
Rufus King, St John's Lodge, Newburyport, MA
General
Rufus Putnam, Past Grand Master of Ohio
Paul Revere, St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, MA; Grand Master of Massachusetts 1794-97.
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
George Washington, Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4; Alexandria Lodge No. 22, VA
James Monroe, Williamsburgh Lodge No. 6, VA
Andrew Jackson, Harmony Lodge No. 1; Past Grand Master of Tennessee.
James K. Polk, Columbia Lodge No. 31, TN
James Buchanan, Past Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, PA; Past District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
Andrew Johnson, Greenville Lodge No. 119, TN
James A. Garfield, Magnolia Lodge No. 20, OH
William McKinley, Hiram Lodge No. 21, VA
Theodore Roosevelt, Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, NY
William Howard Taft, "Mason at sight"; affiliated Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, OH
Warren G. Harding, Marion Lodge No. 70, OH
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Holland Lodge No. 8, NY
Harry S Truman, 33° Belton Lodge No. 450, Belton, MO; Past Grand Master of Missouri
Gerald Ford Columbia Lodge No. 3, Washington, DC, courtesy to Malta Lodge No. 465, Grand Rapids, MI
Composers, fine artists, and popular musicians
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
Ludwig van BeethovenGeorge 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, Authors Lodge No. 3456, London
Franz Liszt, Lodge Zur Einigkeit, Frankfurt
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lodge Zur Woltatigkeit, Vienna; Lodge Zur Wahren Eintracht
Industrialists and labor leadersEdwin Drake, Oil Creek Lodge No. 3, Titusville, PA
Henry Ford, Palestine Lodge No. 357, Detroit, MI
Samuel Gompers, Dawson Lodge No. 16, Washington, DC
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
Steve Wozniak, Charity Jarman Lodge No. 362, Campbell, CA
Adventurers
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
William Clark, Saint Lewis Lodge No. 111, PA
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
Matthew Webb, Neptune Lodge No. 22
PhilosophersJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lodge Amalia, Weimar
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lodge Zu den Drei Goldenen Rosen
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), Raised 1778 Loge des Neuf Sœurs, Paris
Writers, journalists, and publishers
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, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England (Moderns)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Polar Star Lodge No. 79, St. Louis, MO
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, Phoenix Lodge No. 257, Southsea, Hampshire
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Loge des Neuf Sœurs, Paris
Edward Gibbon, Lodge of Friendship No. 3, London
Edgar Guest, Ashler Lodge No. 91, Detroit, MI
William Hagan, Euclid Lodge, Stoughton, MA
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
John B. MacLean, Ionic Lodge No. 25, Toronto, ON
Dr.
Robert Moray, Edinburgh [Lodge] 1641
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
Theodor Reuss, occultist and head of
O.T.O., Pilger Loge #238 (UGLE) 1878, and excluded 1880, also Grandmaster of
Rite of Memphis-Misraïm,
1913.
Rafael Sabatini, Jerusalem Lodge No. 197, London
Friedrich Schiller, Rudolstadt Lodge, Berlin
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
