There were many famous men in history who were freemasons (significantly more than appear on this list). We offer this as “a starter list” of some of the best known Masons, and will continue to build the list as time goes on. We will also be building biographies of selected masons on this list. By clicking on the term [biography] after a name , you will be able to access an account of the individual’s life. Names followed by an asterisk (*) indicate the mason was either a member of St. John’s Lodge or at some point had some involvement or association with St. John’s Lodge No. 1. Again, this list represents a long term “work in progress”, so check back often to see who we have added to the list and find out more information about selected masons in the biography sections .
Sherman Adams
Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold
Gene Autry
“Count” William Basie
Daniel Carter Beard
Irving Berlin
Adm. Arleigh Burke
Adm. Richard E. Byrd
Col. Joshua Chamberlain
Gen. Claire Lee Chennault
Walter P. Chrysler
Gen. Mark Clark
William Clark
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Ty Cobb
Nat King Cole
Gen. Henry Dearborn*
Jack (William Harrison) Dempsey
Gen. James “Jimmy” Doolittle
Adm. David Farragut
Gerald Ford
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Clark Gable
John Hancock
Andrew Jackson
Capt. John Paul Jones* [biography]
Meriwether Lewis
Charles Lindbergh
Arthur MacArthur
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
John Marshall
Gen. George C. Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
William McKinley
James Monroe
Audie Murphy
Gen. John J. (“Black Jack”) Pershing
James K. Polk
Paul Revere
Eddie Rickenbacker
Franklin D. Roosevelt [biography]
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
“Red” Skelton
John Philip Sousa
Gen. John Stark
Gen. John Sullivan*
William Howard Taft
Lowell Thomas
Harry S. Truman
George Washington [biography]
John Wayne
Gen. Johnathan M. Wainwright
Sir John Wentworth*
Capt. Hopley Yeaton*