Talk:List of Freemasons/test

Verification & citation, or lack thereof, of Persons
New additions to the main article should be properly referenced with sources.

Please add discussion about these people to the main Talk page

add any existing or agreed-upon policy here?

i.e. this is an example of a start

Masonic membership can sometimes be difficult to verify, particularly for historical figures. Membership records are most often kept at the individual Lodge level, and may be lost due to fire, flood, deterioration, or simple carelessness. Grand Lodge governance may have shifted or reorganized, resulting in further loss of records on the member or the name, number, location or even existence of the Lodge in question. In areas of the world where Masonry has been suppressed by governments, records of entire Grand Lodges have been destroyed.

Standards of "proof" for those on this list vary widely; some figures with no verified Lodge affiliation are claimed as Masons if anecdotal evidence suggests they were familiar with the "secret" signs and passes, but other figures are rejected over technical questions of irregularity in the Lodge that initiated them. Where available, specific Lodge membership information should be provided; where serious questions of verification have been noted by other sources, this should be indicated as well. Careful thought should be given by the editor of wether or not the source is creditable, as some others might think otherwise.

For guidelines to sources & citations, see Wiki policy here: ---
 * WP:Cite
 * WP:Verifiability
 * thanks MSJ, I just grabbed those off of yer comments on my userpage

A

 * Robert S. Abbott
 * Sherman Adams
 * Aga Khan III, Sultan Mohammed Shah
 * Emilio Aguinaldo
 * Nelson W. Aldrich
 * Vasile Alecsandri, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris [1]
 * Alexander I of Yugoslavia
 * Grigore Alexandrescu, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris [2]
 * Harold Alfond
 * Charles Herbert Allen
 * Richard Allen
 * Antonio de Castro Alves
 * Roald Amundsen
 * Major Robert Anderson
 * John André
 * Ivo Andric
 * George Antheil
 * Pedro N. Arata, Argentine chemist
 * Dennis Archer
 * Constantin Argetoianu [2]
 * François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Added: Lodge & raised Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 19:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Elias Ashmole Source: Gerry Rose ,"The Venetian Takeover of England and Its Creation of Freemasonry" Grye 06:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * John James Audubon (unverified)
 * Red Auerbach
 * Gene Autry Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

B

 * Victor Babiuc
 * Francis Bacon
 * Mikhail Bakunin
 * Nicolae Bălcescu, "Frăţia" Secret Society [1]
 * Tony Baldry
 * Henry Baldwin, Associate Justice (1830-1844)
 * Sir Joseph Banks
 * Benjamin Banneker
 * Roy Barnes
 * Sir Edmund Barton
 * Frederick Bates
 * Birch Bayh
 * Daniel Carter Beard Added: Lodge Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:29, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ludwig van Beethoven (Unverified. Suggestive information presented in detail in 2003 biography by Maynard Solomon; also early Beethoven biographer Karl Holz claimed Beethoven was a Freemason, but not active in his later years.)
 * General P.G.T. Beauregard
 * Manuel Belgrano
 * Thomas Hart Benton
 * Lloyd M. Bentsen
 * Silvio Berlusconi, As a member of P2Source: freemasonrywatch.org/stpeters_squared.html Lucio Gelli, As a Past Grand Master of P2 (not G-Rye's citation)
 * Jöns Jakob Berzelius
 * Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto
 * Nicholas Biwott
 * Hugo Black
 * James Herbert "Eubie" Blake
 * Mel Blanc
 * Samuel Blatchford, Associate Justice (1882-1893)
 * Dimitrie Bolintineanu [2]
 * Cezar Bolliac, Philharmonic Society [3]
 * Napoléon Bonaparte
 * There is no Dispute whatsoever. He tried & was denied several times. Grye 05:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Jules Bordet
 * General Omar N. Bradley Added: Source Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 02:09, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thomas Bradley State House of Representatives 1959-1960), Freemason; Shriner
 * Sir Donald Bradman AO (1908-2001)
 * Dumitru Brătianu
 * John C. Breckinridge
 * Alfred Brehm
 * John William Bricker Freemason, Knight Templar, Shriner
 * John William Brown, (Governor of Ohio Jan 3-14, 1957), (Lt. Gov of OH 1953-57, 1963-75), (Ohio
 * John E. Brownlee
 * James Bruce
 * William Jennings Bryan
 * John Buchanan
 * Bob Bullock
 * Luther Burbank
 * Arleigh Burke Added: 33° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * David G. Burnet
 * Conrad Burns
 * Robert Burns
 * Aaron Burr, 3rd US Vice President Source 1:Against 2 "the builder, 1924" on phoenixmasonry.org Source 2: appears on a list w/o Lodge or source: freemason.compagrandlodge.org
 * The only Google references to his alleged lodge mention the Illuminati. Keep him off.--SarekOfVulcan 15:32, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Harold Hitz Burton, Associate Justice (1945-1958)
 * Ron Burton
 * Jerry "Ice Man" Butler
 * Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield
 * Richard E. Byrd
 * Robert Byrd
 * James F. Byrnes, Associate Justice (1941-1942)

C

 * Hiram D. Cabassa
 * Brigadeer General L. Campbel Chief of Ordinance, Mason and a Nobel of the mystic Shrine.
 * Dimitrie Cantemir, Scottish Rosicrucian [1]
 * Ioannis Kapodistrias, 1st Governor
 * Harry Caray
 * Petre P. Carp
 * Kit Carson Added: Lodge Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Giacomo Casanova
 * Lewis Cass
 * Júlio de Castilhos, governor of Rio Grande do Sul
 * John Catron
 * Miguel Juárez Celman
 * Marc Chagall, Vitebsk, Belarus
 * Major General Joshua Chamberlain
 * Nicolas Chamfort, Loge des Neuf Soeurs, Paris Added.Lodge Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Salmon P. Chase, (Chief Justice 1864-1873), Associate Justice (1796-1811)
 * Walter P. Chrysler
 * Vasfi Çınar, Minister of Education
 * William Clark
 * Roy Clark
 * Thomas C. Clark, Associate Justice (1949-1967)
 * John Hessin Clarke Associate Justice (1916-1922)
 * George Clinton
 * Ty Cobb
 * Mickey Cochrane (Hall of Famer)
 * Buffalo Bill Cody
 * Frank Coleman, co-founder of Omega Psi Phi fraternity
 * Carlo Collodi
 * Samuel Colt
 * Earle Combs
 * Sir Joseph Cook
 * General Charles Cornwallis (unverified)
 * Palmer Cox
 * Davy Crockett
 * Norm Crosby
 * Admiral William J. Crowe
 * Aleister Crowley NOT a Freemason Source: Link is here
 * William Cushing
 * Alexandru Ioan Cuza [1]

D

 * George M. Dallas
 * Jim Davidson
 * William Davis
 * William Crosby Dawson
 * Major General Henry Dearborn
 * Antoine Depage, pioneered wound care during World War I
 * Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice (1911-1937)
 * Thomas E. Dewey
 * Porfirio Díaz (Shriner)
 * Everett Dirksen
 * Bob Dole Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Jimmy Doolittle Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Henry Dodge
 * Jim Douglas
 * William O. Douglas, Associate Justice (1939-1975)
 * Herbert Henry Dow
 * Ion Dragoumis, politician
 * Henry Dunant NOTE: A listing w/o Lodge cite: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

E

 * Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton
 * Carroll A. Edson, co-founder of the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow
 * Victor Eftimiu [2]
 * Gustave Eiffel
 * Governor-General Earl Minto
 * Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice (1796-1800)
 * Mike Enzi
 * Sam Ervin Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Medgar Evers
 * Miltiades Evert, politician

F

 * Admiral David Farragut
 * Bob Feller
 * Stephen J. Field, Associate Justice (1863-1897)
 * Geoffrey Fisher
 * Nicolae Filimon [2]
 * Nicolae Filipescu
 * Geoffrey FisherNOTE: A listing w/o Lodge cite:''' freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sir Alexander Fleming Added: Masonic career info Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 05:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Loge des Neuf Soeurs, Paris Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 20:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Glenn Ford
 * Henry Ford
 * James Forten
 * Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist and civil-rights activist
 * Jimmie Foxx
 * Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser CH (born 1930)
 * King Frederick II
 * Henry Frye Added: person, PH, Shrine Sources: grandlodge-nc.org, freemasonry.org Grye 02:38, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Robert Fulton (unverified)
 * Jonas Furrer

G

 * Clark Gable
 * Gerald Gardner
 * Elbridge Gerry
 * George Gershwin
 * King George II
 * Bob "Hoot" Gibson
 * Ion Ghica, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris; "Frăţia" Secret Society [2]
 * John Gilbert
 * King C. Gillette Note he is sited as a mason in an old Scottish Rite Journal, w/o Lodge. Grye 03:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * John H. Glenn, Jr. Added: 33° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Dan Glickman
 * Arthur Godfrey
 * Octavian Goga [2]
 * Bento Gonçalves, leader of Farroupilha Revolution
 * E. Urner Goodman, co-founder of the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow
 * but sources disagree as to whether he was  or wasn't:  a member


 * Prime Minister Sir John Gorton GCMG CH AC (1911-2002)
 * Curt Gowdy
 * Adolphus W. Greeley, polar explorer
 * Johann Ernst Gunnerus
 * Governor-General Earl Albert Grey

H

 * John Hancock
 * John M. Harlan, Associate Justice
 * William S. Hart
 * Penny Hardaway
 * Alex Haley, "Mason at sight", Prince Hall Grand Lodge of California (unverified)
 * John Marshall Harlan
 * C.F.S. Hahnemann
 * Augustus F. Hawkins
 * Joseph Haydn Added: person Source: Wikipedia article
 * Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Prime Minister
 * Heinrich Heine
 * Jean Hersholt
 * Patrick Henry
 * Christian Herter
 * Patrick Henry
 * Joseph Hewes
 * José Hernández
 * Charles Hilton, Added Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 04:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Richard M. Hoe
 * William Hogarth
 * Benjamin Hooks
 * J. Edgar Hoover Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Horea [1]
 * Frederick Humphries, former president of Florida A&M University
 * Hubert H. Humphrey
 * Ferlin Husky

I

 * Mohammad Iqbal
 * Take Ionescu
 * Burl Ives Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

J

 * Robert H. Jackson Rv'd back to page, Source: bessel.org Grye 05:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., one of the Tuskegee Airmen
 * Jean Michel Jarre, see the 1990 concert in La Défense
 * Pandit Jawaharlal
 * Does NOT appear to be a Mason. His father, Motilal Nehru was though, good call on that edit, Anon. Grye


 * John Jay, Chief Justice (1789-1795)
 * Governor-General and Former CO of SAS Regiment Major-General (retired) Michael Jeffery
 * Mohammad Ali Jinnah
 * John H. Johnson, publisher of EBONY and Jet magazines
 * Richard Mentor Johnson
 * Anson Jones
 * John Paul Jones Added: Source Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Melvin Jones, Garden City Lodge No. 141, Illinois Added: person, Lodge. Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Agustín Pedro Justo
 * Justo José de Urquiza
 * Antonio Jose de Sucre. South American revolutionary hero.
 * Benito Juárez
 * Manuel Fernández Juncos
 * Ernest Everett Just

K
Unverified. mikka (t) 23:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Gus Kahn
 * Siim Kallas, politician
 * King Kamehameha III
 * Elisha Kent Kane
 * Constantine Karamanlis, Prime Minister, President of the Republic
 * Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author, was initiated as Freemason in 1907
 * Estes Kefauver
 * Tunne Kelam, politician
 * Harry Kellar
 * Oliver Hudson Kelley
 * Alexander Kerensky, La Petite Ourse(Ursa Minor)), "Rose" lodge
 * Jerome Kern
 * Aga Khan III, Sultan Mohammed Shah
 * Emir Habibullah Khan, Lodge Concordia No. 3102, Calcutta, India
 * Mohammad Adil "MAK" Khan 32°,Banker - Lodge 1057 Franklin Park Illinois USA
 * Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
 * Liaqat Ali Khan
 * Karl King
 * William Rufus King
 * Major General Henry Knox
 * Mihail Kogălniceanu [1]
 * Theodoros Kolokotronis, general in the War of Independence, national hero (disputed)
 * Steven J. Komar
 * Arno Köörna
 * Lajos Kossuth, Prime Minister 1802-1894
 * Maxim Maximovich Kovalevsky, L"Avangard Masonnique, Les Vrais Amis Fideles
 * Miroslav Krleza
 * Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov

L

 * Mart Laar, politician and historian, Prime Minister 1992–1994 and 1999–2002
 * Marquis de Lafayette, made a Mason in France; received honorary memberships in Lodges across North America
 * where? Grye


 * Johan Laidoner
 * Simon Lake
 * Joseph Rucker Lamar
 * Mirabeau B. Lamar
 * Alf Landon
 * Captain James Lawrence
 * J.R.E. Lee, former president of Florida A&M University
 * Joseph Leidy
 * Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune
 * General Curtis LeMay
 * John L. Lewis
 * Meriwether Lewis
 * Charles Lindbergh
 * Carl Lindner, Jr.
 * Robert R. Livingston
 * General Antonio López de Santa Anna
 * Trent Lott
 * Peter Lougheed
 * Oliver Loving
 * Leopoldo Lugones
 * Jimmie Lunceford
 * Ted Lyons

M

 * Antonio Maceo
 * R.H. Macy, founder of Macy's
 * Gheorghe Magheru [1]
 * Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
 * James W. Marshall
 * Thomas R. Marshall
 * Thurgood Marshall, Added: Lodge Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * José Martí
 * Tony Martin
 * Harpo Marx edited rem'd "unver'd" Source: mastermason.com Grye 04:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hart Massey, head of Massey-Ferguson
 * Thomas Stanley Matthews
 * Stanley Mathews, Associate Justice (1881-1889)
 * Alexandros Mavrokoradatos, 1st Prime Minister
 * Constantin Mavrocordat
 * David S. "Doc" Maynard
 * Charles Mayo
 * Benjamin Mays, educator and former president of Morehouse College
 * Willie Mays
 * John Loudon McAdam (or Macadam)
 * Abner V. McCall Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * General Douglas MacArthur Added: 33° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Added: Lodge Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 02:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Winsor McCay
 * George McGovern
 * James McHenry
 * Parker Paul McKenzie, created alphabet and system of writing for the Kiowa language
 * John McLean, Associate Justice (1829-1861)
 * George J. Mecherle, founder of State Farm Insurance
 * Borges de Medeiros, governor of Rio Grande do Sul
 * Lauritz Melchior
 * Andrew W. Mellon
 * Karl Menninger and Will Menninger, founders of the Menninger Clinic
 * Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies AO (1894-1978)
 * President Lennart Meri
 * Ivan Mestrovic
 * Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister
 * Ralph Metcalfe
 * Antonio Meucci (unverified)
 * Giacomo Meyerbeer
 * Nicolae Milescu
 * Wilbur Mills
 * Sherman Minton, Associate Justice (1949-1956)
 * Ion Minulescu [2]
 * Edgar D. Mitchell
 * Bartolomé Mitre
 * Andrzej Mokronowski, (1713-1784), first Polish mason.
 * Gaspard Monge
 * Brigadier General Richard Montgomery
 * William H. Moody, Associate Justice (1906-1910)
 * Dr. Robert Moray, Edinburgh [Lodge] 1641. Source: Gerry Rose ,"The Venetian Takeover of England and Its Creation of Freemasonry" Grye 06:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * William M. Morgan
 * Leopold Mozart
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Source: Mozart on wikipedia
 * Alphonse Mucha, Paris; founder of Czech FreemasonryArt Nouveau stylist, graduate of the Academie Julian
 * Murad V, Ottoman Emperor
 * Eftimie Murgu, "Frăţia" Secret Society
 * Audie Murphy Added: 33° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

N
Grye 09:20, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * James Naismith
 * Mustafa Necati, Minister of Education*Sam Nunn added: 33°, Grand Cross. Honored as Supreme Temple Architect 1995 Source: at SRMason-SJ.org
 * Costache Negruzzi [1]
 * Samuel Nelson, Associate Justice (1845-1872)
 * Major Samuel Nicholas

O

 * Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon
 * Bernardo O'Higgins
 * Hans Christian Ørsted
 * James Otis

P

 * Arnold Palmer Added: 33° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Cecil Parkinson, Member of Parliament 1970-1992
 * Talat Pasha
 * William Paterson, Associate Justice (1793-1806)
 * President Konstantin Päts
 * Francisco de Paula Santander
 * Charles Willson Peale
 * Norman Vincent Peale Added: 33°, Grand Cross Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Robert E. Peary
 * Carlos Pellegrini (source: ?)
 * Roque Saénz Peña
 * Claude Pepper
 * John Joseph Pershing
 * Fernando Pessoa
 * Oscar Peterson
 * Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu [2]
 * General George Pickett
 * Charles Picqué, minister-president of the Brussels-Capital Region.
 * Albert Pike Source: PA GL (not originally Grye's edit) Grye 05:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Bronson Pinchot
 * Prime Minister Lynden Pindling
 * Scottie Pippen
 * Mahlon Pitney, Associate Justice (1912-1922)
 * Roscoe Pound
 * Commodore Edward Preble
 * Tiit Pruuli
 * Aleksandr Pushkin, Lodge Ovid, Kischinev
 * General Israel Putnam

R

 * Ion Heliade Rădulescu, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris; Philharmonic Society; Marea Lojă; "Steaua Dunării" [2]
 * Sir Stamford Raffles, Added: some Masonic history Source: mastermason.com Grye 05:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * A. Philip Randolph, Joppa Lodge No. 55, NYC USA Added: Lodge Source: freemasonry.org Grye 01:01, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles B. Rangel
 * Alois Rašín, Minister of Finance, anti-Communist resistance leader
 * Ronald Reagan Removed. Sources: see talk pages below. Grye 03:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Stanley F. Reed, Associate Justice (1938-1957)
 * Paul Revere, Added: GM years Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 01:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Cecil Rhodes
 * Elliot Richardson
 * Eddie Rickenbacker
 * General Matthew Ridgway
 * Paul Robeson, "Mason at sight"
 * Dufferin Roblin
 * Will Rogers Added: 32° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Abelardo L. Rodríguez (Shriner)
 * Buddy Roemer
 * Roy Rogers Added: Sources Sources: freemasonry.bcy.ca, Scottish Rite Journal Grye 03:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sigmund Romberg
 * C.A. Rosetti, L';athénée des Etrangers, Paris [1]
 * Edmund G. Ross
 * James Mayer Rothschild Added. freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 04:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Pascual Ortiz Rubio (Shriner)
 * Richard Russell, Jr.
 * Alecu Russo, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris
 * John Rutledge, Chief Justice (1795), Associate Justice (1789-1791)
 * Wiley Blount Rutledge
 * Raido Rüütel

S

 * Hasan Saka, Prime Minister
 * Horace Saks, founder of Saks Fifth Avenue
 * Felix Salten
 * Leverett Saltonstall
 * Colonel Harland Sanders
 * José de San Martín
 * Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
 * Telly Savalas
 * Ray Schalk
 * Joseph T. Schenck of Van and Schenck
 * Friedrich Schiller, Added: source, to labeled "unverified" Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 02:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
 * Charles Schumer
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * General Winfield Scott
 * Charles Sherwood Stratton, "General Tom Thumb"
 * Red Skelton Added: Source Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 02:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Joseph Smith, Raised March 16, 1842, Nauvoo Lodge. Source: lds-mormon.com
 * James Smithson (unverified)
 * John Philip Sousa Added: 33° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Tris Speaker
 * John Stafford Smith
 * Leland Stanford
 * Governor-General Lord Frederick Stanley
 * Harold Stassen
 * John C. Stennis
 * William Stephens
 * Adlai E. Stevenson (I)
 * Potter Stewart, Associate Justice (1958-1981)
 * Carl B. Stokes
 * Louis Stokes
 * Joseph Story, Associate Justice (1811=1845)
 * Carl E. Stotz, co-founder of Little League
 * William Stukeley, Salutation Tavern Lodge, London
 * Noah Haynes Swayne, Associate Justice (1862-1881)
 * Johnathan Swift
 * Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
 * Stuart Symington

T

 * Hannes Tamjärv
 * Chief Tecumseh (unverified)
 * Christian Tell, L'athénée des Etrangers, Paris
 * Danny Thomas
 * Dave Thomas
 * Lowell Thomas
 * Hank Thompson
 * Bertel Thorvaldsen
 * Strom Thurmond
 * Harri Tiido
 * Mel Tillis
 * Joe Tinker (of "Tinker to Evers to Chance")
 * Josip Broz Tito
 * Nicolae Titulescu [2]
 * Thomas Todd, Associate Justice (1807-1826)
 * Daniel D. Tompkins
 * William B. Travis
 * Robert Trimble
 * Harry S. Truman Added: 33° Source: srmason-sj.org (Scottish Rite S.J. [USA] Grye 07:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sir Richard Ernest Turner
 * Archbishop Desmond Tutu

V

 * Miguel Alemán Valdés (Shriner)
 * Willis Van Devanter
 * Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister (disputed)
 * Frederick M. Vinson, Chief Justice (1946-1953)
 * Tudor Vladimirescu [1]
 * Voltaire see François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
 * Traian Vuia [2]
 * Grigoriy Nikolayevich Vyrubov, Rose of the perfect silence (Worshipful Master)

W

 * Honus Wagner
 * General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV
 * Thomas "Fats" Waller
 * John Wanamaker
 * Earl Warren
 * Thomas J. Watson
 * James Watt
 * John Wayne
 * Wellington Webb
 * Benning Wentworth
 * William Wentworth
 * Paul Whiteman
 * Billy Wilder Added. Source: mastermason.com Grye 04:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Douglas Wilder
 * Bert Williams
 * Wendell Willkie
 * Jonathan Winters
 * King William IV, Plymouth, England
 * General James Wolfe
 * Grant Wood
 * Levi Woodbury, Associate Justice (1845-1851)
 * William Burnham Woods, Associate Justice (1881-1887)
 * Christopher Wren Added: ''person, plus: Past Master, Lodge Original, No. 1, now the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2. Raised May 18, 1691. Source: freemasonry.bcy.ca Grye 07:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * William Wyler

Y

 * Andrew Young
 * Cy Young
 * Whitney Young
 * Prince Alexander Ypsilanti, Military Commander, Leader of the Filiki Eteria
 * Hipólito Yrigoyen
 * Hasan Ali Yücel, Minister of Education

Z

 * Marvin Zindler

Famous entered apprentices
"Mason" generally refers to a Master Mason, or one who has received all three of the initiatory degrees of Freemasonry. Those who have received only the Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft degrees are initiated members, but without all the rights and privileges accorded to Master Masons.


 * General Nathan Bedford Forrest was initiated into the first degree of Freemasonry, but he never completed his second and third degrees and never returned to Lodge.
 * President Lyndon B. Johnson was initiated into the first degree of Freemasonry, but his congressional duties made it impossible for him to pursue the second and third degrees.


 * Which Lodges? Grye 05:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Note
We can see the catagories someone came from in the edit history that many of these people came from, here

Policy for some sort of format
(is there an existing one I'm ignorant of? Whatever, it should be at the top, & this page kept as clear of clutter as possible (i.e. at least for the body of the list, just their name, what added, & source for that info). That's my htought anyway... Grye 01:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 *  Idea: when verifying a person, add the source & your signature. If someone(s) else wants to, they can add their comment too, &/or signature. Any other ideas on how to verify are welcome. Downside is this page can become longer than the already long main article page! Grye 05:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

test
 * Person's name (Pineapple), what you added: (i.e. are vouching for as from this source), source: where you got it'' Signature

Dsicussions on this page

 * These persons may have been removed from the main article (or placed here directly), as no citation with their Lodge, nor citation of the  source  for that information has been provided. If you can help with this, i.e. state their Lodge affiliation (etc), & cite a source here, then please, do so & replace them in the main article. Grye 05:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * If they're verified, wouldn't it make sense to remove them and do a citation list in the article, like we have in [Freemasonry]? All the necessary info, and less clutter here. MSJapan 23:44, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * My thought on that was, how to tell if a person's been verified or not? I ran into that problem trying to track down people's Masonic & Shriner histories at Shriners & Cat:Shriners. It would/will be a lot easier to verify such things, esp with future edits/re-edits/reverts/vandalism, if there's some structure to verifying that they're who they're claimed to be.
 * A "for instance" would be what if, if the next day or next year, someone says "OH! [Napolion, Hitler, Burr, Crowley, etc (even Jefferson, to use one close to the hearts & discussions)] was a Mason, I know it!!! Or how about that Turkey issue... & they throw 'em in. Then someone else familiar rm's 'em. Then a bunch of people start screaming.... Because there's no real readibly accessible & concentrated history.
 * I agree, & have said, that this presents for a duplicate list, which inherantly will be longer than the main article, & that's not counting these discussions! But, it seems a nessecary weevil.
 * Another problem I experienced is placing Cat:Freemasons on peoples pages. I looked at a few that were suspect or just verified them, & I added a bunch but almost exclusively those with Sources on this page, as that was the only way I had of saying "yes, these guys, as far as I can tell, are/were Freemasons, as per their Lodge's being listed, their York/Scott/Shrine affiliation, and valid sources to such. At some point, we should go through the Cat: & see who's on it, & verify that they are indeed Freemasons. If no history, then do our homework et al but  this list will potentially be the benchmark & reference material for those Cat:s! Grye 00:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

What about a subpage, like "List of Freemasons/sources (or cite or verify or whatever)? I don't know about the policies about subpages like that, esp for an article, but I'll read up. That's perhaps a very solid format? Grye 00:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oop, nope: "Do not use subpages for permanent content that is meant to be part of the encyclopedia."
 * Ooh, but maybe:"Talk page archiving - both article Talk and User_talk pages are typically archived by moving discussion to numbered subpages. This allows the discussion to still be searchable, rather than requiring a hunt through the page history." Yeah, I think that'd work, since it's on the talk page, which is probably about due to be archived! All (any) in favor? & if so, what title? Grye 01:02, 25 January 2006 (UTC)