Famous Masons
On this page you will find a list of some of the most famous Freemasons.
Monarchs
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)
Statesmen
Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
George Canning (1770–1827)
Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895)
Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
Leopold S Amery (1873–1955)
Religion
Geoffrey Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury (1887–1972)
Sir Israel Brodie (1895–1979)
Scientists
Sir Joseph Banks (1744–1820)
Dr Edward Jenner (1749–1823)
Sir Alexander Flemming (1881–1955)
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947)
Explorers
Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890)
Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN (1868–1912)
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922)
Charity
Dr TJ Barnardo (1717–1779)
1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925)
Sir William ‘Billy’ Butlin (1899–1980)
Actors
David Garrick (1717–1779)
Edmund Kean (1787–1833)
Sir Henry Irving (1838–1905)
Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902–1968)
Peter Sellers (1925–1980)
Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012)
Writers
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 Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
Artists
Sir James Thornhill (1676–1734)
William Hogarth (1697–1764)
John Zoffany (1733–1810)
Sir John Soane (1753–1837)
Music
Thomas Arne (1710–1778)
Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)
Sir Henry Bishop (1786–1855)
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
Rick Wakeman
Entertainers
Sir Harry Launder
David Nixon
Cyril Fletcher
Nat Jackley
Bob Monkhouse
Alfred Marks
Edmundo Ross
Cyril Stapleton
Tommy Trinder
Jimmy Wheeler
Charlie Cairoli
Roger de Courcey
Sportsmen
Harold Abrahams
Jackie Milburn
Sir Donald Campbell
Malcolm Campbell
Sir Leonard Hutton
Jock Stein
Sir Alec Rose
Sir Clive Lloyd
Colin Cowdrey
Jim Peters
Sir Arthur Gold
Trevor Simpson
Len Shackleton
Joe Wade
Leslie Compton
Herbert Sutcliffe
Bill Bowes
Sir Thomas Lipton
Jack Dempsey
Arnold Palmer
Tony Allcock
Peter Ebdon
Mark Wildman
‘Smokin Joe’ Frazier
Royal Navy
Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764–1840)
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1841–1919)
Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Jellicoe (1895–1935)
Army
General Sir John Moore (1761–1809)
Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
Field Marshall The Earl Roberts of Kandahar VC (1832–1914)
Field Marshall The Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850–1916)
Field Marshall Sir John French 1st Earl of Ypres (1852–1925)
Field Marshall The Earl Haigh (1861–1928)
General Reginald Wingate (1861–1953)
Field Marshall The Viscount Wolseley (1883–1913)
Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981)
Field Marshall The Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891–1969) Click the link to watch a video about The Earl Alexander of Tunis
Lieutenant Colonel ‘Paddy’ Maine DSO (1915–1955)
Royal Air Force
Marshall of the Royal Air Force The Lord Newall (1886–1963)
Squadron Leader Henry Melvin ‘Dinghy’ Young DFC and Bar (1915–1943)