ACTORS / WRITERS
Autry, Gene - Actor
Borgnine, Ernest - Actor
Burns, Robert - The National Poet of Scotland
Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain - writer
Cohan, George M. - Broadway star
Collodi, Carlo - Writer of Pinocchio
Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Writer - Sherlock Holmes
Fairbanks, Douglas - Silent film actor
Fields, W.C. - Actor
Gable, Clark - Actor
Gibbon, Edward - Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Godfrey, Arthur - Actor
Gray, Harold Lincoln - Creator of "Little Orphan Annie
Hardy, Oliver - Actor - Comedian
Hope, Bob - Comedian
Kipling, Rudyard - Writer
Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western
films
Murphy, Audie - Most decorated American Soldier of WWII
Pushkin, Aleksander - Russian Poet
Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Rogers, Will - Actor
Scott, Sir Walter - Writer
Sellers, Peter - Actor
Shakespeare, William - Writer
Swift, Jonathan - Wrote Gulliver's Travels
Voltaire - French writer and philosopher
Wallace, Lewis - Wrote "Ben Hur"
Wayne, John - Actor
MUSICIANS/ENTERTAINERS
Bassie, William
"Count" - Orchestra leader/composer
Ludwig von Beethoven
Berlin, Irving - Entertainer
Clark, Roy - Country Western
Star
Cohen, George M.
Cole, Nat King
Ellington, Duke - Composer,
Arranger and Stylist
Gershwin, George
Haydn, Josef
Jolson, Al - Fame as the first 'talking picture' the Jazz Singer
Key, Francis Scott - Wrote U.S.
National Anthem
Listz, Franz
Lloyd, Harold C. - Entertainer
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -
Composer
Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented
the Saxophone (1846)
Sibelius, Jean - Composer
(Finland)
Skelton, Red - Entertainer
Smith, John Stafford - Wrote
the music that became the US National Anthem
Sousa, John Philip - Led the
U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892
Stratton, Charles "Tom
Thumb" - Entertainer
Tillis, Mel - Country Singer
Whiteman, Paul - "King of
Jazz"
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL
LEADERS
Abbott, Sir John J.C. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1891-92
Bennett, Viscount R.B. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1930-35
Borden, Sir Robert L. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1911-1920
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie - Prime
Minister of Canada 1894-96
Bolivar, Simon
Bryant, William Jennings
Churchill, Winston - British
Leader
Dewey, Thomas E.
Diefenbaker, John G. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1957-63
Edward VII - King of England
Edward VIII - King of England
who abdicated the throne in less than 1 year
George VI - King of England
during W.W. II
Goldwater, Barry
Humphrey, Hubert
Juarez, Benito
MacDonald, Sir John A. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
Marti, José
McGovern, George
Nunn, Sam - U.S. Senator
Wallace, Governor George C. -
Presidential Candidate who was nearly assasinated
Wilke, Wendell
OTHER FAMOUS MASONSBalfour, Lloyd - Jewelry
Bartholdi, Frederic A. -
Designed the Statue of Liberty
Baylor, Robert E. B. - Founder
Baylor University
Beard, Daniel Carter - Founder
Boy Scouts
Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft
Corp.
Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln -
Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
BuBois, W.E.B. -
Educator/Scholar
Calvo, Father Francisco -
Catholic Priest who started Freemasonry in Costa Rica 1865
Chrysler, Walter P. -
Automotive fame
Citroen, Andre - French
Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Desaguliers, John Theophilus -
Inventor of the planetarium
Dow, William H. - Dow Chemical
Co.
Drake, Edwin L - American
Pioneer of the Oil industry
Dunant, Jean Henri - Founder of
the Red Cross
Ervin Jr, Samual J. - Headed
"Watergate" committee
Faber, Eberhard - Head of the
famous Eberhard Fabor Pencil Company
Fisher, Geoffrey - Archbishop
of Canterbury 1945 - 1961
Fitch, John - Inventor of the
Steamboat
Fleming, Sir Alexander -
Invented Penicillin
Ford, Henry - Pioneer
Automobile Manufacturer
Gatling, Richard J. - Built the
"Gatling Gun"
Gilbert, Sir William S. - Was
the librettis for "Pirates of Penzance"
Gillette, King C. - Gillette
Razor Co.
"Grock - Swiss Circus
Clown
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace -
Inventor of the "Guillotin"
Hedges, Cornelius -
"Father" of Yellowstone National Park
Henson, Josiah - Inspired the
novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Hilton, Charles C. - American
Hotelier
Hoban, James - Architect for
the U.S. Captiol
Hoe, Richard M. - Invented the rotary press, revolutionizing newspaper printing
Hoover, J. Edgar - Director of
FBI
Houdini, Harry - Magician
Jenner, Edward - Inventor -
Vaccination
Jones, Melvin - One of the
founders of the Lions International
Lake, Simon - Built first
submarine successful in open sea
Land, Frank S. - Founder Order
of DeMolay
Lipton, Sir Thomas - Tea
Marshall, James W. - Discovered
Gold at Sutter's Mill California 1848
Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer
who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Mayo, Dr. William and Charles -
Began Mayo Clinic
Maytag, Fredrick - Maytag
Menninger, Karl A. -
Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
Michelson, Albert Abraham -
Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne -
Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon
New, Harry S. - Postmaster
General who established Airmail
Newton, Joseph Fort - Christian
Minister
Olds, Ransom E. - American
automobile pioneer
Otis, James - Famous for
"Taxations without Representation is Tyranny"
Papst, Charles F. - Coined the
term "Athletes Foot"
Peale, Norman Vincent - Founder
of "Guidepost"
Penny, James C. - Retailer
Poinsett, Joel R. - U.S.
Minister to Mexico who developed the flower: Poinsettia
Pullman, George - Built first
sleeping car on train
Ringling Brothers - All 7
brothers and their father were Masons
Salten, Felix - Creator of
Bambi
Sarnoff, David - Father of T.V.
Schoonover, George - Founder of
"The Builder"
Stanford, Leland - Drove the
gold spike linking the intercontinental railroad
Stanford, Leland - Railroads
& Stanford University
Still, Andrew T. - American
Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Teets, John W. - Chairman and
President of Dial Corporation
Thomas, Dave - Founder of Wendy's Restaurant
Thomas, Lowell - Brought
Lawrence of Arabia to public notice
Wadlow, Robert Pershing -
Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers
Fame
Webb, Matthew - First man to
swim the English Channel (1875)
Wyler, William - Director of
"Ben Hur"
Zanuck, Darryl F. - Co-founder
of 20th Century Productions in 1933
Ziegfeld, Florenz - His
Ziegfeld's Follies began in 1907
