Discover the Legacy of Freemasonry

Famous Masons

This page highlights notable figures who were members of Freemasonry, one of the world’s oldest and most influential fraternal organizations. From founding fathers and world leaders to artists, inventors, and visionaries, these individuals helped shape history while sharing a commitment to the principles of brotherhood, integrity, and personal growth.

Entertainment

  1. Bud Abbot
  2. Amos & Andy
  3. Louis Armstrong
  4. Gene Autry
  5. William James (Count) Basie
  6. Irving Berlin
  7. Mel Blanc – man of a thousand voices Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
  8. Earnest Borgnine
  9. Joe Evans Brown
  10. Eddie Cantor
  11. Nat (King) Cole
  12. Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
  13. Douglas Fairbanks
  14. William Claude Field
  15. Gwylly Newton Ford (Glen)
  16. Clark Gable – B-17 Rear Gunner WWII
  17. Oliver Hardy
  18. Bob Hope
  19. Harry Houdini
  20. Burl Ives
  21. Al Jolson
  22. Arthur Adolph Marx Harpo
  23. Louis Mayer MGM
  24. Tom Mix
  25. Fess Parker
  26. Roy Rogers
  27. Aristoteles Savalas – “Telly”
  28. Richard Henry Sellers – “Peter”
  29. John Wayne
  30. Oscar Wilde
  31. Ed Wynn
  32. Florenz Ziegfeld
  33. William Wilder

Military Leaders

  1. General (Hap) Arnold – Medal of Honor recipient
  2. Omar Nelson Bradley
  3. Arleigh Burke – Admiral WWII
  4. Chair Lee Chennault – “Flying tigers”
  5. Mark Wayne Clark – General WWII
  6. James Doolittle – General WWII -30 Seconds Over Tokyo
  7. Franz Joseph Hayden – great composer, developed the military drum roll
  8. Major General Henry Knox
  9. General Robert Edward Lee
  10. General Douglas MacArthur
  11. George Cabot Marshall – WWII
  12. Audie Murphy 33rd
  13. John Joseph Pershing (Blackjack) – WWI
  14. Gen. George Edward Pickett – Pickett’s Charge
  15. Albert Pike Civil War – author of Scottish Rite “Morals & Dogma”
  16. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker – WWI Medal of Honor
  17. Donald Eugene Rudolph – WWII Medal of Honor
  18. Sylvanus Thayer – “The Father of West Point”
  19. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright – WWII
  20.  

The West

  1. Christopher (Kit) Carson
  2. William Frederick Cody
  3. Samuel Colt – “made all men equal”
  4. Richard Jordan Gatling

Space Exploration

  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Donn Fulton Eisele – Apollo 7/lived in El Lago
  3. John Glenn
  4. Virgil Ivan (Gus) Grissom
  5. Fred Wallace Haise Jr. – Apollo 13
  6. Col. James Benson Irwin – Apollo 15
  7. Edgar Dean Mitchell – astronaut
  8. Walter Marty (Wally) Schirra – Apollo 7
  9. Thomas Stafford – lived in El Lago
  10. James Edwin Webb – 1st head at NASA
  11. Paul Joseph Weitz
  12.  

Political Leaders

  1. Robert Joseph Dole
  2. Barry Morris Goldwater
  3. George Wallace

Scientists

  1. Vannerar Bush – “God Father of the Internet”
  2. Sir Isaac Newton – maybe
  3. James Watt – Steam Engine

Medicine

  1. Sir Alexander Fleming – Founder of Penicillin

Tycoons

  1. John Jacob Astor
  2. James Mayer de Rothschild

Explorers

  1. Daniel Boone
  2. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (Expedition)
  3. David Crockett
  4. Mathew Alexander Hendson – went with Admiral Perry
  5. Robert Edward Perry – explorer
  6. William Charles Wentworth
  7.  

Texans

  1. Steven F. Austin – The Father of Texas
  2. James Bowie
  3. Sam Houston
  4. William Barret Travis
  5. David G. Burnet
  6. Mirabeau B. Lamar
  7. Lorenzo de Zavala
  8. Juan Seguin
  9. Jose’ A. Navarro
  10. Ben Milam
  11. Robert Kleberg (King Ranch)
  12. Jesse B. Jones (Houston Oil Magnate & Benefactor)
  13. Anson Jones
  14. Ezekiel Cullen (Co-Founder of University of Houston)
  15.  R. E. B. Baylor (Co-Founder of Baylor University)

Founders of the United States of America

  1. Benedict Arnold
  2. David Brealy – Supreme Court/Constitutional Convention
  3. Oliver Ellsworth – coined words “United States”
  4. Benjamin Franklin
  5. John Hancock
  6. John Paul Jones
  7. Francis Scott Key
  8. Marquis de Lafayette
  9. John Penn – signer of Declaration of Independence
  10. Israel Putnam – Bunker Hill “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”
  11. Paul Revere
  12. Joseph Warren
  13. Francis Bellamy – wrote the Pledge of Allegiance

Philosphers

  1. Francois Maple Arouet – Voltaire

Fine Arts

  1. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi – Sculptor/Statue of Liberty
  2. Arthur Conan Doyle – Writer of Sherlock Holmes
  3. Gustave Eiffel
  4. Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  5. Samuel Clemens– Mark Twain/Huckleberry Finn
  6. Johnathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
  7. Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

Automotive

  1. Walter Percy Chrysler
  2. Andre Citroen
  3. Henry Ford
  4. Ransom Eli Olds
  5. Harry Clayton Stutz

Sports

  1. William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey
  2. James A Naismith – invented basketball
  3. Arnold Palmer
  4. Sugar Ray Robinson
  5. Roger Hornsby
  6. Bob Feller
  7. Ty Cobb
  8. Cy Young
  9. John Elway

Music

  1. Johannes Brahms
  2. Johann S. Bach
  3. Wolfgang A. Mozart
  4. John Phillip Sousa

Builders

  1. James Hoban – 1793-1801 designed and built White House

Presidents

  1. James Buchanan 15th
  2. Gerald Rudolph Ford 38th
  3. James Garfield 20th
  4. Warren Gamaliel Harding 29th
  5. Andrew Johnson 17th
  6. William McKinley 25th
  7. James Monroe 5th
  8. James Polk 11th
  9.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd
  10. Theodore Roosevelt 26th
  11. William Howard Taft 27th
  12. Harry S. Truman 33rd and 33 Degree Mason
  13. George Washington 1st

Founders of Corporations

  1. Lawrence Bell – Bell Aircraft
  2. Henri Dunant – founder of Red Cross/Nobel Prize recipient
  3. John Eberhard Faber – Faber pencil co.
  4. John Gates – founder Texas Oil co. (Texaco)
  5. Frank Hoover – Hoover Vacuum
  6. Sebastian Sperry Kresge – Dime Stores
  7. King C. Gillette
  8. Conrad Hilton
  9. Thomas Johnstone Lipton
  10. Rowland Hussey Macy
  11. Charles C. Mayo
  12. Charles Maytag
  13. Hart Almerrim Massy
  14. James Cash Penny
  15. George Mortimer Pullman – RR Cars
  16. Harland David Sanders – KFC
  17. Julius Earl Schaefer – found the company that became Boeing
  18. Amasa Leland Stanford – Central Pacific RR/Drove the Golden spike
  19. David Thomas – Wendy’s (the burgers are square due to his motto “never cut corners”
  20. Harry Morris Warner – Warner Brothers
  21. Jack Warner
  22. Samuel Louis Warner
  23. Thomas John Watson – IBM
  24. Steven Gary Wozniak – Apple

Law Men

  1. John Edgar Hoover

Miscellaneous

  1. Jesse Jackson
  2. Melvin Jones – Red Cross
  3. Frank Sherman Land – DeMolay
  4. Charles Lindbergh
  5. Alexander Majors – Pony Express (Riders had to take an “Oath to clean Living” Majors told them “you will raise your arm in the form of a square and repeat after me.”
  6. Thurgood Marshall – Supreme Court
  7. Ringling Brothers – 7
  8. William Penn Adair Rogers “Will”
  9. John W. Rusk – portrayed Uncle Sam in Washington parades
  10. Lopez de Perez – Santa Anna
  11. Joseph Smith – founder of “Church of the Latter-Day Saints”
  12. Mathew Webb – first to swim English Channel without artificial aid
  13. Samuel Wesley – son of founder of Methodist Church
  14. Gutzon Borglum – Mount Rushmore
  15. Daniel Carter Beard – founded Boy Scouts
  16. Billy Graham

Phone

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Email

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Address

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El Lago, TX 77586

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