Listed here are 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)

 

Entertainers

Sir Harry Launder

David Nixon

Cyril Fletcher

Nat Jackley

Alfred Marks

Jim Davidson

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

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 Kitcher 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)

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)