Famous Freemasons

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor ...

Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher and ...

James A. Garfield James Abram Garfield served as the 20th President of the United States (1881), after serving nine terms in the U.S. House of ...

Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and ...

William Hogarth William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has ...

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born to a Jewish family in the village ...

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for ...

Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a ...

Simón Bolívar Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan statesman and ...

Aleksandr Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian ...

Victor Hugo Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known ...

Chiang Wei-kuo Chiang Wei-kuo was an adopted son of President Chiang Kai-shek, adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, and an important ...

James Buchanan James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States (1857–1861), serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer, reformist statesman, and the first President of Turkey. He is ...

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau better known as simply Mirabeau, was a French nobleman and a leader of the French Revolution during its ...

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette often known as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in ...

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at ...

Gustav III of Sweden Gustav III was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death.He was the eldest son of King Adolph Frederick and ...

Edward VII Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his ...

Karl Marx Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in ...

Jean Victor Marie Moreau Jean Victor Marie Moreau was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte to power, but later became a rival and was banished ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian general and politician who played a large role in the history of Italy.[1] He is considered, ...

François Arago Dominique François Jean Arago, known simply as François Arago , was a ...

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional ...

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale was the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), and the ...

Pierre Brossolette Pierre Brossolette was a French journalist, left-wing politician, a top leader, and a major hero of the French Resistance.

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles was a French judge and politician who took part in the French Revolution.

Frederick II of Prussia Frederick II was the third Hohenzollern king, reigning over the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 until ...

Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and later a marshal of ...

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas are among the important ...

Nathan Mayer Rothschild Nathan Mayer, Freiherr von Rothschild ,known as Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a London-based Ashkenazi Jewish banker ...

Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (6 March 1767 – 25 June 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary ...

Alexander I of Russia Alexander I reigned as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825. He was the first Russian King of Poland, reigning from ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced ...

José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín , known simply as José de San Martín, was an Argentine general and the prime ...

Denis Diderot Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is ...

Bernardo O'Higgins Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, ...

John Aasen John Aasen was an American silent film actor who was one of the tallest actors in history.

Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh surviving child and youngest son of Johann Sebastian ...

Agustín de Iturbide Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu, also known as Augustine I of Mexico, was a Mexican army general and ...

Pieter Mauritz Retief (12 November 1780 – 6 February 1838) was a South African Boer leader (aged 57)

Eugène de Beauharnais Eugène Rose de Beauharnais was the first child and only son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la ...

Marc Chagall Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the ...

Giacomo Casanova Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma ...

Johannes van den Bosch Johannes, Count van den Bosch was a Dutch officer and politician. He was Governor-General of the Dutch East ...

James K. Polk James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849). Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North ...

Johann de Kalb Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb, born Johann Kalb, was a German-born French officer who served as a major general in ...

Carlos María de Alvear Carlos María de Alvear was an Argentine soldier and statesman, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la ...

Florentino Ameghino Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries ...

José Figueroa Alcorta José Maria Cornelio Figueroa Alcorta was President of Argentina from 12 March 1906 to 12 October 1910.Figueroa Alcorta was born in ...

José Ingenieros José Ingenieros was an Argentine physician, pharmaceutic, positivist philosopher and essayist.He was born Giuseppe ...

Santiago Derqui Santiago Rafael Luis Manuel José María Derqui Rodríguez was president of Argentina from March 5, 1860 to November 5, ...

Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He ...

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh President of Argentina. His ...

Leopoldo Lugones Leopoldo Lugones Argüello was an Argentine writer and journalist.

Bartolomé Mitre Bartolomé Mitre Martínez was an Argentine statesman, military figure, and author. He was the President of ...

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the ...

Carlos Pellegrini Carlos Enrique José Pellegrini was Vice President of Argentina and became President of Argentina from 6 August 1890 to 12 ...

Manuel Quintana Manuel Pedro Quintana y Sáenz de Gaona was the President of Argentina from 12 October 1904 to 12 March 1906. He died in ...

Claude Adrien Helvétius Claude Adrien Helvétius was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur

Edmond François Valentin About Edmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.

Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect. A graduate of the École Centrale des Arts et ...

Ettore Ferrari Ettore Ferrari was an Italian sculptor.Born in Rome to an artistic family (his father was also a painter), Ferrari was one of the members ...

Li Ka-shing Sir Ka-shing Li, GBM, KBE, JP is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. According to the ...

Richard Graves MacDonnell Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell KCMG CB was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, judge and colonial governor. His posts as governor ...

Francesco Mario Pagano Francesco Mario Pagano was an Italian jurist and author. He is regarded as one of the greatest ...

Ernesto Nathan Ernesto Nathan was an English-Italian Jewish politician, and mayor of Rome, Italy from November 1907 to December ...

Pyotr Chaadayev Pyotr or Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev was a Russian philosopher.Chaadayev wrote eight "Philosophical ...

Ivan Yelagin Ivan Perfilievich Yelagin was a Russian historian, an amateur poet and translator who acted as unofficial secretary to Catherine the ...

Sergey Muravyov-Apostol Sergey Ivanovich Muravyov-Apostol was a Russian Imperial Lieutenant Colonel and one of the organizers of the Decembrist revolt.He ...

Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña Díaz was the first Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933), and later served again ...

Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia was a Spanish anarchist.He was born in Alella (a small town near Barcelona) to Roman ...

Francisco Espoz y Mina Francisco Espoz Ilundáin , being better known as Francisco Espoz y Mina, was a Spanish guerrilla leader and general.He was ...

Rafael del Riego Rafael del Riego y Nuñez was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the outbreak of the Liberal ...

George VI George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his ...

Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla was a Spanish politician. He served as prime minister of Spain for a little over ten weeks in the summer of ...

Charles XIII of Sweden Charles XIII & II also Carl was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 until his death.

Axel von Fersen the Elder Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen was a Swedish statesman and soldier.A son of Lieutenant-General Hans Reinhold von Fersen, he ...

Charles XV of Sweden Charles XV & IV also Carl was King of Sweden and Norway from 1859 until his death.Though known as King ...

Oscar II of Sweden Oscar II , baptised Oscar Fredrik, was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until ...

Jean Sibelius Jean Sibeliuswas a Finnish composer of the late Romantic period. His music played an important role in the formation of the ...

Oscar I of Sweden Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste ...

Joseph Bonaparte Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of ...

Chevalier d'Eon Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont , usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was ...

Mikhail Bakunin Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, and founder ofcollectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most ...

Montesquieu Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was ...