Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz"
Armstrong, Neil
Cooper, Gordon
Glenn, John H. - First American to orbit the earth/U.S. Senator
Grissom, Virgil
Irwin, Jim
Schirra, Wally
AUTHORS/WRITERS/POETS/PUBLISHERS
Bellamy, Rev. Francis - Authored U.S. Pledge of Allegiance
Burns, Robert - The National Poet of Scotland
Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain - writer
Collodi, Carlo - Writer of Pinocchio
Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Writer - Sherlock Holmes
Fortune, Timothy Thomas - Journalist
Gibbon, Edward - Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gray, Harold Lincoln - Creator of "Little Orphan Annie"
Haley, Alex - Author of "Roots"
Henson, Josiah - Inspired the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Johnson, John H. - Publisher EBONY and Jet magazines
Kipling, Rudyard - Writer
Pushkin, Aleksander - Russian Poet
Salten, Felix - Creator of Bambi
Scott, Sir Walter - Writer
Sexson, W. Mark - Founder of Rainbow Girls, Masonic historian/author/researcher
Shakespeare, William - Writer
Swift, Johathan - Wrote Gulliver's Travels
Tolstoi, Leo - Author
Voltaire - French writer and philosopher
Wallace, Lewis - Wrote "Ben Hur"
Washington, Booker T. - Educator and author
Wells, H. G. - Author
Williamson, Harry A. - Author/Masonic historian
Chrysler, Walter P. - Automotive fame
Citroen, Andre - French Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Ford, Henry - Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer
Nash, Charles - Automobile industry
Olds, Ransom E. - American automobile pioneer
Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft Corp.
Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator
New, Harry S. - Postmaster General who established Airmail
Churchill, Sir Winston - British Leader
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
Grock - Swiss Circus Clown
Ringling Brothers - All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.
Wallenda, Enrico - Circus legend
Armstrong, Louis - Jazz Musician
Atkins, Chet - Musician
Basie, William "Count" - Orchestra leader/composer
Blake, James Herbert "Eubie" - Composer/pianist
Ellington, Duke - Composer, Arranger and Stylist
Hampton, Lionel - Orchestra leader/composer
Handel, George Fredrick - Composer
Handy, William C. - Composer "Father of the Blues"
Haydn, Franz Joseph F. - Composer and Musician
Ives, Burle - Musician
Key, Francis Scott - Wrote U.S. National Anthem
Miller, Glenn - Musician
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Composer
Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Sibelius, Jean - Composer (Finland)
Smith, John Stafford - Wrote the music that became the U.S. National
Anthem.
Tillis, Mel - Musician
Whiteman, Paul - "King of Jazz"
Hawkins, Augustus F. - California
Rangel, Charles B. - New York
Stokes, Louis - Ohio
Bartholdi, Frederic A. - Designed the Statue of Liberty
Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Colt, Samuel - Firearms inventor
Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium
Fitch, John - Inventor of the Steamboat
Gatling, Richard J. - Built the "Gatling Gun"
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace - Inventor of the "Guillotin"
Hoban, James - Architect for the U.S. White House
Hoe, Richard M. - Invented the rotary press, revolutionizing newspaper
printing
Lake, Simon - Built first submarine successful in open sea
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne - Co-developer of the first practical
hot-air balloon
Baylor, Robert E. B. - Founder Baylor University
DuBois, W.E.B. - Educator/scholar
Mays, Benjamin - Educator/former president Atlanta University
Pound, Roscoe - Former Dean, Harvard Law School
Rhodes, Cecil - "Rhodes Scholarship"
Stanford, Leland - Railroads & Stanford University
Washington, Booker T. - Educator and author
Autry, Gene - Actor
Berlin, Irving - Entertainer
Borgnine, Ernest - Actor
Cain, Michael - Actor
Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
Clark, Roy - Country Western Star
Cohan, George M. - Broadway star
Cole, Nat 'King' - Great ballad singer
DeMille, Cecil B. - Movie director
Disney, Walt - Cartoonist/movies
Fairbanks, Douglas - Silent film actor
Fields, W.C. - Actor
Gable, Clark - Actor
Gilbert, Sir William S. - Was the libretis for "Pirates of Penzance"
Godfrey, Arthur - Radio and early televison personality
Hardy, Oliver - Actor - Comedian
Harvey, Paul - Radio personality
Hope, Bob - Comedian
Houdini, Harry - Magician
Jolson, Al - Acted in the first 'talking picture,' The Jazz Singer
Keaton, Buster - Movie pioneer
Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Lloyd, Harold C. - Entertainer
Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer - formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor - Starred in over 400 western
films
Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Rogers, Will - Actor
Sarnoff, David - Father of T.V.
Sellers, Peter - Actor
Skelton, Red - Entertainer
Stratton, Charles "Tom Thumb" - Entertainer
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers Fame
Wayne, John - Actor
Williams, Egbert Austin "Bert" - Actor/ comedian
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
Carson, Christopher "Kit"
Clark, William
Henson, Matthew
Lewis, Meriwether
Peary, Robert E. - First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
Abbott, Robert Sengstacke - "Chicago Defender"
Beard, Daniel Carter - Boy Scouts
Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft Corp.
Dow, William H. - Dow Chemical Co.
Dunant, Jean Henri - Red Cross
Faber, Eberhard - Eberhard Faber Pencil Company
Gillette, King C. - Gillette Razor Co.
Hedges, Cornelius - "Father" of Yellowstone National Park
Hilton, Charles C. - American Hotelier
Hoover, Frank - Vacuum cleaner fame
Jones, Melvin - One of the founders of the Lions International
Land, Frank S. - Order of DeMolay
Lipton, Sir Thomas - Tea
Maytag, Fredrick - Maytag
Peale, Norman Vincent - "Guidepost"
Penney, James C. - Retailer
Retief, Piet - Afrikaans leader and and one of the founders of the
South African nation
Sanders, Harland "Colonel" - Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants
Schoonover, George - "The Builder"
Teets, John W. - Chairman and President of Dial Corporation
Thomas, Dave - Wendy's Restaurants
Carnahan, Melvin - Missouri
Freeman, Orville - Minnesota and secretary of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Thompson, Tommy - Wisconsin
Wallace, George C. - Alabama
Bradley, Thomas - Los Angeles, California
Stokes, Carl B. - Cleveland, OH
Young, Andrew - Atlanta, GA
Fleming, Sir Alexander - Discovered Penicillin
Jenner, Edward - Inventor - Vaccination for Small Pox
Mayo, Dr. William and Charles - Began Mayo Clinic
Menninger, Karl A. - Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
Papst, Charles F. - Coined the term "Athletes Foot"
Still, Andrew T. - American Physician who devised Osteopathy treatment
Arnold, General Henry "Hap" - Commander of the Army Air Force
Byrd, Admiral Richard E. - Flew over North Pole
Bradley, Omar N. - Military leader
Doolittle, General James - Famous Army Air Corps Pilot
James, Daniel "Chappie" - General U.S. Air Force
Jones, John Paul - Naval Commander
Knox, Henry - Revolutionary War General
MacArthur, General Douglas - Commander of Armed Forces in Philipines
Murphy, Audie - Most decorated American Soldier of WWII.
Pershing, John Joseph - Decorated American Soldier
Rickenbacker, Eddie - Great American Army Air Corps "Ace"
Sousa, John Philip - Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892
Tirpitz, Alfred Von - German Naval officer responsible for submarine
warfare
Travis, Colonel William B. - Alamo
Warren, Joseph - Revolutionary War General - "Martyr of Bunker Hill"
Abbott, Sir John J.C. - 1891-92
Bennett, Viscount R.B. - 1930-35
Borden, Sir Robert L. - 1911-1920
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie - 1894-96
Diefenbaker, John G. - 1957-63
MacDonald, Sir John A. - 1867-73 & 1878-91
Allen, Richard - Founder/first bishop AME Church
Bellamy, Rev. Francis - Authored U.S. Pledge of Allegiance
Booth, Rev. William - Founder of the Salvation Army
Calvo, Father Francisco - Catholic Priest who started Freemasonry in
Costa Rica 1865
Fisher, Geoffrey - Archbishop of Canterbury 1945 - 1961
Jackson, Rev. Jesse - Minister/politician
Newton, Joseph Fort - Christian Minister
Poinsett, Joel R. - U.S. Minister to Mexico who developed the flower:
Poinsettia
Bryan, Richard
Burns, Conrad
Byrd, Robert
Dole, Robert
Ervin Jr, Samual J. - Headed "Watergate" committee
Glenn, John H. - Also First American to orbit the earth
Goldwater, Barry
Grassley, Charles
Hatfield, Mark
Helms, Jesse
Hollings, Ernest
Johnston, Jr. , J. Bennett
Kemp, Jack - Also a sports hero
Lott, Trent
Nunn, Sam
Simpson, Alan
Thomas, Craig
Thurmond, Strom
SIGNER OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
Franklin, Benjamin - 1 of 13 Masonic signers
SIGNERS OF THE U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Ellery, William - 1 of 9 Masonic signers
Hancock, John - 1 of 9 Masonic signers
Rush, Benjamin - 1 of 9 Masonic signers
Brundridge, Avery - Olympic Committee
Cobb, Ty - Baseball Player
Combs, Earle Bryan - Baseball Hall of Fame
Dempsey, Jack - Sports
Hornsby, Rogers - An original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Metcalfe, Ralph H. - Olympic champion
Naismith, James - Inventor of Basketball
Palmer, Arnold - Golf Pro
Rickey, Branch - Baseball legend
Robinson, Sugar Ray - American Boxer
Starr, Bart - Football legend
Wagner, Honus - Baseball legend
Waner, Lloyd - Baseball Hall of Fame member from Pittsburg
Waner, Paul - "Big Paul" Baseball Hall of Fame member from Pittsburg
Baldwin, Henry
Black, Hugo L.
Blair, Jr., John
Blatchford, Samuel
Burton, Harold H.
Byrnes, James F.
Catton, John
Clark, Thomas C.
Clarke, John H.
Cushing, William
Devanter, Willis Van
Douglas, William O.
Ellsworth, Oliver
Field, Stephen J.
Harlan, John M.
Jackson, Robert H.
Lamar, Joseph E.
Marshall, John - Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1801 - 1835
Marshall, Thurgood
Mathews, Stanley
Minton, Sherman
Moody, William H.
Nelson, Samuel
Paterson, William
Pitney, Mahlon
Reed, Stanley F.
Rutledge, Wiley B.
Stewart, Potter
Swayne, Noah H.
Taft, William Howard - President of the U.S. & Chief Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court
(only man to ever head these two brnaches of U.S. govenrment)
Todd, Thomas
Trimble, Robert
Vinson, Frederick M.
Warren, Earl
Woodbury, Levi
Woods, William B.
Austin, Stephen F. - Father of Texas
Bowie, James - Alamo
Burnett, David G. - 1st President of the Republic of Texas
Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas
Jones, Anson - 5th President of the Republic of Texas
Lamar, Mirabeau B. - 3rd President of the Republic of Texas
Crockett, David - American Frontiersman and Alamo fame
Travis, Colonel William B. - Alamo
Pullman, George - Built first sleeping car for trains.
Randolph, A. Phillip - Founder - first president, International Brotherhood
Sleeping Car Porters
U.S. PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS
Buchanan, James
Ford, Gerald R.
Garfield, James A.
Harding, Warren G.
Humphrey, Hubert H. - Vice President of the U.S.
Jackson, Andrew
Johnson, Andrew
McKinley, William
Monroe, James
Polk, James Knox
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Taft, William Howard - Aslo Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
(only man to ever head these two brnaches of U.S. govenrment)
Truman, Harry S.
Washington, George - First President of U.S.
Balfour, Lloyd - Jewelry
Bolivar, Simon - South American freedom fighter
Botha, Pik - Former Foreign Minister of South Africa
Brant, Joseph - Chief of the Mohawks 1742 - 1807
Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William - Indian fighter, Wild West Show
Drake, Edwin L - American Pioneer of the Oil industry
Evers, Medger Wiley - Civil rights leader
Forten, James - Abolitionist/manufacturer
Garibaldi, Giuseppe - Italian freedom fighter
Henry, Patrick - Patriot
Hooks, Benjamin L. - Former Executive Director NAACP
Hoover, J. Edgar - Director of FBI
Lafayette, Marquis de - Supporter of American Freedom
Livingston, Robert - Co-Negotiator for purchase of Louisiana Territory
Marshall, James W. - Discovered Gold at Sutter's Mill California 1848
Mesmer, Franz Anton - Practiced Mesmerism which led to Hypnotism
Michelson, Albert Abraham - Successfully measured the speed of light
in 1882
Otis, James - Famous for "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny"
Revere, Paul - Famous American
Stassen, Harold - Statesman, sole surviving signer of the United Nations
Charter
Thomas, Lowell - Brought Lawrence of Arabia to public notice
Wadlow, Robert Pershing - Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet
tall
Webb, Matthew - First man to swim the English Channel (1875)