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THE question must be asked, what purpose is served by compiling lists of famous men who also happen to have been freemasons? Is it to demonstrate Freemasonry’s beneficial and inspiring effect on men who have gone on to make a positive impact on their world, or is it a need on the part of contemporary freemasons to "ride on the coat-tails" of others? Without a careful review of lodge records, there is no way of knowing if these men ever attended a meeting after their initiation, much less if the teachings of Freemasonry played any role in their lives. Harry S Truman left a record of active masonic service, while the Duke of Wellington in his later years could not even remember having joined. There have been those, such as Léo Taxil and Éliphas Lévi, who were initiated and then expelled. They are, in some fashion, famous, and at one time they were, in some fashion, freemasons. A definitive list should therefore include their names, although few freemasons would wish to draw attention to them. And then there are those such as Henry Ford who made a profound impact on our world but whose personal beliefs may not have reflected the best of human nature. Honesty dictates that we record their names, celebrate their contributions and recognize their failings. A list of famous freemasons is not a list of perfect men but simply of men who have tried to make this a better world. The purpose for such a list should be the remembrance of those members of the Craft who in some fashion embodied the ideals of Freemasonry. That is the purpose of this list. Antiquarians Elias Ashmole William Stukeley Archaeology Giovanni Belzoni Augustus Le Plongeon Sir Charles Warren Architecture George Pigrum Bowie Pierre Charles L’Enfant Francis M. Rattenbury Sir Christopher Wren Artists Frédéric Bartholdi Mel Blanc "Billy" De Beck Palmer Cox H.J. DeForest Harold Gray William Hogarth Winsor McCay George McManus Alphonse Mucha Athletics Harold Ballard Avery Brundage Alexander Cartwright Tim Horton Arnold Palmer Lord Stanley Fred "Cyclone" Taylor British Columbia Robert Pim Butchart Dr. Frederick Dally Arthur Delamont David G. Dick Leonard Frank Luthor Watts Doney Henry Holbrook Frederick W. Howay Josias Hughes John T. Marshall Major Matthews "JJ" Miller Sewell P. Moody Jonathan Nutt William Ogilvie H.A.D. Oliver Israel W. Powell Rev. Acton Sillitoe Civics Dan Beard William Jennings Bryan Melvin Jones Oliver Kelley Gus Loehr Justus H. Rathbone Uriah S. Stevens John Jordan Upchurch Craftsmen William Dudley Commerce Nat Bailey Sir George Bury E. B. Eddy Henry Ford King C. Gillette James Welton Horne Alexander Keith Thomas Lipton Rowland Macy Hart Massey John J. McLaughlin John Molson, Sr. Dr. John Stith Pemberton J. C. Penney Colonel Sanders Joseph E. Seagram George Shillibeer Dave Thomas John Wanamaker Charles Woodward Diplomacy D'Eon De Beaumont Giovanni Casanova Education Francis Bellamy Dr. James Naismith Joseph-François Perrault Booker T. Washington Charles H. Wesley Entertainment Bud Abbott Gene Autry Clyde Beatty Wallace Beery Billy Bevan Ernest Borgnine Buffalo Bill Cody Cantinflas Cecil B. DeMille W.C. Fields Glenn Ford Arthur Godfrey D. W. Griffith Oliver Hardy Harry Houdini Sir Henry Irving Burl Ives Emmett Kelly Harold C. Lloyd Harpo Marx Tom Mix Audie Murphy Dick Powell Tyrone Power Sr. Richard Pryor Don Rickles Ringling Brothers Will Rogers “Chic” Sale Peter Sellers Red Skelton C. Aubrey Smith Danny Thomas John Wayne Ed Wynn Esoterica Cagliostro Paul Foster Case Manly P. Hall Fringe Freemasons Explorers Sir Joseph Banks Sir Richard Burton George Carmack Henry Larsen Frederick Schwatka Sir Ernest Shackleton Freemasonry Dr. James Anderson John Barney Rev. Erastus Burr William Byron Duke of Connaught Harry Carr Carl H. Claudy Delmar D. Darrah Dr. Chetwode Crawley Rev. John Desaguliers William Dodd John Coustos Hippolyto Da Costa Jeremy L. Cross Laurence Dermott Thomas Dunckerley Robert Freke Gould Prince Hall William James Hughan Karl Gotthelf Hund William Hutchinson Otto Klotz Albert Gallatin Mackey Wallace McLeod Rob Morris Joseph Fort Newton George Oliver Albert Pike William Saint Clair Richard Parsons William Preston Chevalier Ramsay Anthony Sayer Joseph Richard Seymour Joseph A. Walkes Jr. George William Speth Matthew Thomson Thomas Smith Webb Philip, Duke of Wharton Henry Whymper Human Rights John Brown Jean-Henri Dunant Rev. Josiah Henson Law Roscoe Pound Law enforcement Izzy & Moe J. Edgar Hoover Robert McBeath VC Malcolm MacLennan Literature James Boswell Robert Burns George Gordon Byron Lord Chesterfield Samuel Clemens Palmer Cox Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Edward Gibbon Johann W. Goethe Edgar A. Guest Rudyard Kipling G.E. Lessing Charles Mair Douglas Malloch Edwin Markham Alexander Pope Aleksander Pushkin Walter Scott Robert W. Service Gordon Sinclair John Steinbeck Jonathan Swift Anthony Trollope Voltaire Lew Wallace Oscar Wilde P. G. Wodehouse Medicine Sir Alexander Fleming Joseph Guillotine Edward Jenner Military Roy Brown Charles Cornwallis Edward Cornwallis Arthur Currie Simon Fraser of Lovat Basil Deacon Hobbs John Jellicoe Berek Joselewicz Lord Kitchener Gilbert Lafayette Douglas MacArthur "Wop" May Sam Steele Aleksandr Suvorov Alfred von Tirpitz Duke of Wellington Victoria Cross recipients Music Johann Christian Bach Ludwig van Beethoven Irving Berlin Charles Burnett ("Howlin' Wolf") William S. Gilbert Franz Joseph Haydn Rouget de Lisles Franz Liszt Wolfgang Mozart Oscar Peterson Jean Sibelius Friedrich Von Schiller Arthur Sullivan Rick Wakeman Publishing Andrew Bell Douglas W. Higgins Mark Lemon John Maclean Roy Thomson of Fleet Photography Harry T. Devine Religion Robert E. B. Baylor William Miller Norman Vincent Peale Swami Vivekananda Science and invention Vannevar Bush Erasmus Darwin Sir Sandford Fleming Dr. Richard J. Gatling Antonio Meucci Montgolfier Brothers Joel R. Poinsett Royal Society Space exploration Steve Wozniak Statecraft Salvador Allende Simon Bolivar Charles Bradlaugh Chief Joseph Brant Edmund Burke Chief Tecumseh B.C. Premiers B.C. Lieutenant Governors Canadian Prime Ministers Winston Churchill DeWitt Clinton Francesco Crispi Georges-Jacques Danton Amor de Cosmos Tommy Douglas Earl de Grey and Ripon Edward VII, of England Benjamin Franklin Frederick the Great Giuseppe Garibaldi James VI, of Scotland LaGuardia Charles Montesquieu Daniel O'Connell Napoleon Bonaparte Sir Stamford Raffles José Rizal Cecil J. Rhodes Joey Smallwood Harold Stassen Harry S Truman Vancouver City Mayors George Washington John Wilkes Ernest Winch Anti-masons Bernard Faÿ Millard Fillmore Sergei A. Nilus Pope Pius IX Edmond Ronayne Non-masons Aga Khan III Louis Armstrong Francis Bacon Lord Baden-Powell Ambrose Bierce Josip Broz "Tito" Sir Guy Carleton Butch Cassidy Jean Champollion Captain James Cook Dante Robert Fludd Sir John Franklin "Friz" Freleng Napoleon Hill H.P. Lovecraft Abraham Lincoln Horatio Nelson Barack Obama Carroll O'Conner Dom Pernety Charles Taze Russell Augusto Pinochet Ugarte Antoine-Joseph Sax William Shakespeare James Smithson Sir Richard Steele Bram Stoker Charles-Maurice de Tallyrand Sun Yat-sen Emanuel Swedenborg Tito (Josip Broz) Theobald Wolfe Tone Richard Wagner John Wesley H. G. Wells Lejzer Ludvig Zamenhof

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