Below is a short list of a few famous Masons. Please note that this list is not inclusive and that these are not the ONLY famous Masons, but a sampling of some of the better known.

Aldrin, Edwin E. - Astronaut
Allende, Salvador - President of Chile
Andrade, Edward Neville da Costa - Publisher of "The Structure of the Atom" 1923
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor - Nobel Prize Winner for physics in 1947
Armstrong, Louis - Jazz Musician
Armstrong, Neil - Astronaut
Ataturk, Mustapha Kemal - President of Turkey
Austin, Stephen F. - Father of Texas
Bartholdi, Frederic A. - Designed the Statue of Liberty
Benes, Eduard - President of Czechoslovakia
Berlin, Irving - Entertainer
Bertil - Prince of Sweden
Bolivar, Simon - Liberator of South America
Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Borgnine, Ernest - Actor
Bradley, Gen. Omar N. - Military leader
Bruce, James - Discovered the source of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia 1770
Buchanan, James - President of the U.S.
Burns, Robert - The National Poet of Scotland
Byrd, Admiral Richard E. - Flew over North Pole
Carl XIV Johan - king of Sweden
Carson, Christopher "Kit" - Frontiersman, scout and explorer
Christian X - king of Denmark
Chrysler, Walter P. - Automotive fame
Churchill, Winston - British Leader
Citroen, Andre - French Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Clark, Roy - Country Western Star
Clark, William - Explorer
Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain - writer
Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William - Indian fighter, Wild West Show
Collodi, Carlo - Writer of Pinocchio
Colt, Samuel - Firearms inventor
Cooper, Leroy Gordon - Astronaut
Crockett, David - American Frontiersman of Alamo fame
De Mille, Cecil B - Film producer-director
Dempsey, Jack - Boxer
Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium
Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Writer - Sherlock Holmes
Dunant, Jean Henri - Founder of the Red Cross
Edward VII - King of England
Edward VIII - King of England
Faber, Eberhard - Head of the famous Eberhard Fabor Pencil Company
Fairbanks, Douglas - Silent film actor
Fields, W.C. - Actor
Fleming, Sir Alexander - Invented Penicillin
Ford, Gerald R. - President of the U.S.
Ford, Henry - Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer
Franklin, Benjamin - 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S.
Fredrik VIII - king of Denmark
Friedrich the Great - Germany
Gable, Clark - Actor
Garfield, James A. - President of the U.S.
George VI - King of England during W.W. II
Gibbon, Edward - Author of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Gillett, King C. - Gillett Razor Co.
Glenn, John H. - First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Godfrey, Arthur - Actor
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - German poet
Gray, Harold Lincoln - Creator of "Little Orphan Annie"
Grissom, Virgil - Astronaut
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace - Inventor of the "Guillotin"
Gustaf III - king of Sweden
Gustaf IV Adolf- king of Sweden
Gustaf V - king of Sweden
Hancock, John - 1of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independance
Harding, Warren G. - President of the U.S.
Hardy, Oliver - Actor - Comedian
Haydn, Franz Josef - Austrian composer
Hilton, Charles C. - American Hotelier
Hoban, James - Architect for the U.S. Captial
Hoe, Richard M. - Invented the rotory press
Hope, Bob - Comedian
Houdini, Harry - Magician
Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas
Irwin, James Benson - Astronaut
Jackson, Andrew - President of the U.S.
Jenner, Edward - Inventor - Vaccination
Johnson, Andrew - President of the U.S.
Jolson, Al - Fame as the first 'talkinf picture' the Jazz Singer
Jones, Melvin - One of the founders of the Lions International
Kane, Elisha Kent - Arctic explorer
Karl XIII - King of Sweden
Key, Francis Scott - Wrote U.S. National Anthem
Khan III, Aga - Statesman
King, Charles Glen - Isolated vitamin C
Kipling, Rudyard - Writer
Lafayette, Marquis de - Supporter of Amerian Freedom
Lake, Simon - Built first submarine successfull in open sea.
Land, Frank S. - Founder Order of DeMolay
Lewis, Meriwether - Explorer
Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator
Lipton, Sir Thomas - Founder Lipton Tea Company
Liszt, Franz von - Hungarian composer
Lloyd, Harold C. - Entertainer
MacArthur, General Douglas - Commander of Armed Forces in Philillines
Masaryk, Jan - First President of Czechoslovakia
Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Mayo, Dr. William and Charles - Founded the Mayo Clinic
Maytag, Fredrick - Maytag
McKinley, William - President of the U.S.
Michelson, Albert Abraham - Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films
Monroe, James - President of the U.S.
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne - Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon
Morris, Dr. Robert - Poet and Founder of the Order of Eastern Star
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Composer
Naismith, James - Inventor of Basketball
New, Harry S. - Postmaster General who established Airmail
Newton, Joseph Fort - Christian Minister
O'Connell, Daniel - Irish patriot
Olds, Ransom E. - American automobile pioneer
Oscar I - king of Sweden
Ostwald, Wilhelm - Nobel prize-winner in chemistry 1909
Palmer, Arnold - Golf Pro
Peary, Robert E. - First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
Pershing, John Joseph - Decorated American Soldier
Pike, Zebulon - Pike's Peak named after him
Polk, James Knox - President of the U.S.
Pope, Alexander - English poet and satirist
Pullman, George - Built first sleeping car on train.
Pushkin, Aleksander - Russian Poet
Richet, Charles Robert - Nobel prize-winner in medicine and physiology 1913
Ringling Brothers - All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.
Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Rogers, Will - Actor
Roosevelt, Franklin D. - President of the U.S.
Roosevelt, Theodore - President of the U.S.
Ryti, Risto - President of Finland
Sabatini, Raphael - English novelist "The Sea Hawk" "Captain Blood"
Salten, Felix - Creator of Bambi
Sarnoff, David - Father of T.V.
Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Scott, Robert Falcon - English polar explorer
Scott, Sir Walter - Writer
Sellers, Peter - Actor
Sexson, Mark - Minister & Founder: Intl. Order of Rainbow for Girls
Shackelton, Sir Ernest H - English explorer
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
Stanford, Leland - Founded Stanford University
Still, Andrew T. - American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Streseman, Gustav - Nobel Peace prize-winner 1926
Swift, Johathan - Wrote Gulliver's Travels
Taft, William Howard - President of the U.S.
Thomas, Lowell - Brought Lawrence of Arabia to public notice
Tirpitz, Alfred Von - German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
Travis, Colonel William B. - Alamo
Truman, Harry S. - President of the U.S.
Voltaire - French writer and philosopher
Wallace, Lewis - Wrote "Ben Hur"
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers Fame
Washington, George - President of US, 1st
Wayne, John - Actor
Webb, Matthew - First man to swim the English Channel (1875)
Wellington, Arthur, Duke of - Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
Whiteman, Paul - "King of Jazz"
Wilde, Oscar - Writer
Wyler, William - Director of "Ben Hur"
Zanuck, Darryl F. - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions in 1933

In addition to the above list, here is a listing of. Famous British Freemasons   Monarchs Statesmen King George IV (1762 - 1830) King William IV (1765 - 1837) King Edward VII (1841 - 1910) King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972) King George VI (1895 - 1952 Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) George Canning (1770 - 1827) Lord Randolph Churchill (1849 - 1895) Cecil Rhodes (1852 - 1903) Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Leopold S. Amery (1873 - 1955)   Religion Scientists Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 - 1972) Sir Israel Brodie (1895 - 1979) Sir Joseph Banks (1744 - 1820) Dr Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823) Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877 - 1947)   Explorers Charity Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890) Capt Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868 - 1912) Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) Dr T. J. Barnardo (1845 - 1905) 1st Viscount Leverhulme Sir William "Billy" Butlin (1899 - 1980)   Actors Writers David Garrick (1717 - 1779) Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833) Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905) Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968) Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) Robbie Burns (1759 - 1796) Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) Sir William S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)   Artists Music Sir James Thornhill (1676 - 1734) William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) John Zoffany (1733 - 1810) Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837) Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778) (Rule Britannia) Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837) Sir Henry Bishop (1786 - 1855) (Home sweet home) Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)   Entertainers Sportsmen Jim Davidson Cyril Fletcher Geraldo Nat Jackley Sir Harry Lauder Alfred Marks David Nixon Edmundo Ross Cyril Stapleton Tommy Trinder Jimmy Wheeler Roger de Courcey Harold Abrahams Jackie Milburn Sir Donald Campbell Malcolm Campbell Sir Leonard Hutton Jock Stein Sir Alec Rose Sir Clive Lloyd Jim Peters Sir Arthur Gold Trevor Simpson Len Shackleton Joe Wade Leslie Compton Herbert Sutcliffe Bill Bowes Sir Thomas Lipton William 'Jack' Dempsey Tony Allcock Peter Ebdon Mark Wildman   Army Navy General Sir John Moore (1761 - 1809) Field Marshal 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852) Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832 - 1914) Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850 - 1916) Field Marshal Sir John French, Earl of Ypres (1852 - 1925) Field Marshal Earl Haig (1861 - 1928) General Sir Francis Wingate (1861 -1953) Field Marshal Garnett, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1883 - 1913) Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884 - 1981) Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891 - 1969) Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840) Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1841 - 1919) Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1859 - 1935) Royal Air Force Marshal of the RAF Lord Newall (1886 - 1963)

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