Listed Below are Some of the World’s Famous Freemasons
This is a small list of over 100, as there are many more – and they all thought highly of the organisation that they desired to be amongst its membership.
WOLFGANG MOZART
PETER SELLERS
GIACOMO PUCCINI
RICHARD SEDDON
ROBBIE BURNS
JEAN SIBELIUS
SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
SIR ARTHUR PORRITT
SIR GEORGE GREY
SIR JOSEPH BANKS
SIR KEITH HOLYOAKE
SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL
SIR WALTER SCOTT
THE DUKE of WELLINGTON
FRANCOIS-MARIE VOLTAIRE
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
ARTHUR LYDIARD
MARK TWAIN
J EDGAR HOOVER
JOHN ELWAY
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
NAT KING COLE
HORACE M ALBRIGHT
4 DUKES of ATHOL
ERASMUS DARWIN
HRH THE DUKE of KENT
ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM HOWLEY
PRINCE MICHAEL of KENT
JACQUE-ETIENE MONTGOLFIER
JOSEPH-MICHEL MONTGOLFIER
SIR ANGUS LYALL PATON
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
ARCHBISHOP CHARLES RILEY
PRES. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
ROBERT FALCON SCOTT
SIR ERNEST SHACKELTON
HONUS WAGNER
KING WILLIAM IV
PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN
PRES WILLIAM McKINLEY
PRESIDENT JAMES MUNRO
PRESIDENT JAMES POLK
PRES JAMES BUCHANAN
EMPEROR NAPOLEON
JOHN KERRY
PRESIDENT GW BUSH
GENERAL DOUGLAS McARTHUR
CHARLES A LINDBERGH
Dr EDWARD JENNER
SIR HENRY WELLCOME
PRES. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
BUZZ ALDRIN
CECIL B DE MILLE
CLARK GABLE
KING EDWARD VII
KING EDWARD VIII
PRES. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
KING GEORGE III
KING GEORGE IV
KING GEORGE VI
PRES. GEORGE WASHINGTON
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
JOHANN WOLFGANG van GOETH
JOSEPH HAYDN
HENRY FORD
JOHN GLENN
JOHN WAYNE
KEL TREMAINE
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
SIMON BOLIVAR
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
EARL WARREN
JESSE JACKSON
OSCAR WILDE
DUKE ELLINGTON
ALEXANDER l of RUSSIA
RICHARD E BYRD
PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
SIR THOMAS LIPTON
ARCHBISHOP DERWYN OWEN
HRH THE DUKE of EDINBURGH
GOV GEN WILLIAM PLUNKET
ELLOTT ROOSEVELT
JAMES ROOSEVELT
NATHAN MAYER ROTHSCHILD
GEORGE SPENCER-CHURCHILL
THE DUKE of CONNAUGHT
JAMES WATT
CHRISTOPHER WREN
PRESIDENT GERALD FORD
PRESIDENT WARREN HARDING
PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON
PRESIDENT JAMES GARFIELD
PRESIDENT HOWARD TAFT
COLONEL SANDERS
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
BURL IVES
WALTER P CHRYSLER
JOSEPH RUDYARD KIPLING
NELSON MANDELA
REV DESMOND TUTU MIKHAIL GORBACHEV WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Rt Hon TONY BLAIR LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
FYI…Fifteen (15) U.S. Presidents were Freemasons : George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (EA only), Gerald Ford.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was not a Freemason. He did apply for membership in Tyrian Lodge, Springfield, Ill., shortly after his nomination for the Presidency in 1860, but withdrew the application because he felt that his applying for membership at that time might be construed as a political ruse to obtain votes. He advised the Lodge that he would resubmit his application again when he returned from the Presidency.
LINCOLN never returned due to his assassination. On the death of the President, Tyrian Lodge adopted, on 17 April, 1865, a resolution to say “that the decision of President Lincoln to postpone his application for the honours of Freemasonry, lest his motives be misconstrued, is the highest degree honorable to his memory.”