Some Famous Masons

Arts & Entertainment

Armstrong, Louis - Jazz Musician

Autry, Gene – Actor

Bassie, William "Count" - Orchestra leader/composer

Berlin, Irving – Entertainer

Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore

Borgnine, Ernest – Actor

Bartholdi, Frederic A. - Designed the Statue of Liberty
Burns, Robert - The National Poet of Scotland

Clark, Roy - Country Western Star

Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain – writer

Cohan, George M. - Broadway star
Cole, Nat 'King' - Great ballad singer

Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Writer - Sherlock Holmes

Ellington, Duke - Composer, Arranger and Stylist

Fairbanks, Douglas - Silent film actor

Fields, W.C. – Actor

Gable, Clark – Actor

Gibbon, Edward - Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilbert, Sir William S. - Was the librettist for "Pirates of Penzance"

Godfrey, Arthur – Actor

Hardy, Oliver - Actor – Comedian

Hope, Bob – Comedian

Houdini, Harry – Magician

Jolson, Al - Fame as the first 'talking picture' the Jazz Singer

Key, Francis Scott - Wrote U.S. National Anthem

Kipling, Rudyard – Writer

Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

Lloyd, Harold C. – Entertainer

Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus – Composer

Ringling Brothers - All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.

Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Rogers, Will – Actor

Sarnoff, David - Father of TV.
Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented the Saxophone (1846)

Scott, Sir Walter - Writer
Sellers, Peter - Actor
Sibelius, Jean - Composer (Finland)
Skelton, Red - Entertainer
Sousa, John Philip - Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 – 1892

Swift, Jonathan - Wrote Gulliver's Travels
Wallace, Lewis - Wrote "Ben Hur"
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers Fame

Wayne, John – Actor

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  

Justices of the United States Supreme Court

Baldwin, Henry - Supreme Court Justice

Black, Hugo L. - Supreme Court Justice
Blair, Jr., John - Supreme Court Justice
Blatchford, Samuel - Supreme Court Justice

Burton, Harold H. - Supreme Court Justice

Byrnes, James F. - Supreme Court Justice

Catton, John - Supreme Court Justice

Clark, Thomas C. - Supreme Court Justice

Clarke, John H. - Supreme Court Justice

Cushing, William - Supreme Court Justice

Devanter, Willis Van - Supreme Court Justice

Douglas, William O. - Supreme Court Justice

Ellsworth, Oliver - Supreme Court Justice

Field, Stephen J. - Supreme Court Justice

Harlan, John M. - Supreme Court Justice

Jackson, Robert H. - Supreme Court Justice

Lamar, Joseph E. - Supreme Court Justice

Marshall, John - Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1801 – 1835

Marshall, Thurgood - Supreme Court Justice
Mathews, Stanley - Supreme Court Justice

Minton, Sherman - Supreme Court Justice

Moody, William H. - Supreme Court Justice

Nelson, Samuel - Supreme Court Justice

Paterson, William - Supreme Court Justice

Pitney, Mahlon - Supreme Court Justice

Rutledge, Wiley B. - Supreme Court Justice

Stewart, Potter - Supreme Court Justice

Swayne, Noah H. - Supreme Court Justice

Todd, Thomas - Supreme Court Justice

Trimble, Robert - Supreme Court Justice

Vinson, Frederick M. - Supreme Court Justice

Warren, Earl – Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1953-1969

Woodbury, Levi - Supreme Court Justice

Woods, William B. - Supreme Court Justice

Science and Industry

Aldrin, Edwin E. – Astronaut

Balfour, Lloyd – Jewelry

Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft Corp.
Chrysler, Walter P. - Automotive fame

Citroen, Andre - French Engineer and motorcar manufacturer

Colt, Samuel - Firearms inventor

Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium

Dow, William H. - Dow Chemical Co.

Drake, Edwin L - American Pioneer of the Oil Industry

Fitch, John - Inventor of the Steamboat
Fleming, Sir Alexander - Invented Penicillin

Ford, Henry - Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer

Gillett, King C. - Gillett Razor Co.

Glenn, John H. - First American to orbit the earth in a spacecraft

Grissom, Virgil – Astronaut

Hilton, Charles C. - American Hotelier
Hoban, James - Architect for the U.S. Capital
Hoe, Richard M. - Invented the rotary press, revolutionizing printing

Jenner, Edward - Inventor – Vaccination

Lake, Simon - Built first submarine successful in open sea.

Lipton, Sir Thomas – Tea

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-aair balloon

Olds, Ransom E. - American automobile pioneer

Penny, James C. - Retailer

Pullman, George - Built first sleeping car on train.

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