Abrahams, Harold - British Olympic Gold medal winning athlete (Chariots of fire film)

Aldrin, Edwin E ("Buzz") - Astronaut - 2nd Man to set foot on the Moon

Allcock, Tony - World Indoor Bowls Singles Champion 2002
Amery, Leopold - British Politician (1873-1955)
Amundsen, Roald - Norwegian explorer - first to South Pole

Armstrong, Louis - Musician

Arne, Thomas Augustine - Composed 'Rule Britannia'

Arnold, Benedict - American General and later traitor

Astor, John Jacob - German-American merchant and financier

Austin, Stephen F - Father of Texas

Autry, Gene - Actor

 

Bach, Johann - Composer

Barnardo, Dr T J - British philanthropist and social reformer

Basie, William "Count" - Composer

Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft Corp.

Berlin, Irving - Entertainer

Bishop, Sir Henry - writer of "Home Sweet Home"
Blanc, Mel - voice of thousands of cartoon characters
Bolivar, Simon - Fought for South American independence from Spain

Bonaparte, Jerome, Joseph, Louis & Lucien. All 4 brothers of Napoleon
                 were Masons but not the Emperor himself

Boomer, Walter - Commander of Marine forces during Desert Storm
Borglum, Gutzon - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Borglum, Lincoln - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Borgnine, Ernest - US Actor

Boswell, James - Scottish writer, biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson

Bowie, James - Alamo
Bradley, Omar N - US Military leader
Bradman, Sir Donald - Australian Cricketer

Bresslaw, Bernard - British comedy actor

Buchanan, James - President of the U.S.
Burke, Edmund - Irish-born British politician and writer
Burns, Robert - The National Poet of Scotland
Burton, Sir Richard - English Explorer
Butlin, Sir William (Billy) - British Holiday Camp magnate
Byrd, Admiral Richard E - US Polar explorer

Byron, Lord William - British poet

 

Campbell, Donald - Land & water speed record holder (son of Sir Malcolm)

Campbell, Sir Malcolm - Land & water speed record holder

Canning, George - British Prime Minister 1827
Cantor, Eddie - American entertainer

Carnegie, Andrew - Philanthropist and steel industry industrialist
Carson, Christopher "Kit" - Frontiersman

Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
Chagal, Marc - Russian artist, domiciled in France

Chaplin, Charlie - Silent film comic actor, film producer and songwriter
Charles, John - Leeds Utd, Juventus, Roma, Cardiff City & Wales striker
              (known as "Il Buon Gigante" - "The Gentle Giant") 

Chrysler, Walter P - Automotive fame
Churchill, Lord Randolph - British politician who led the so-called Fourth Party
Churchill, Sir Winston - British Prime Minister & WWII leader

Citroen, Andre - French Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Clark, William - Explorer (Lewis and Clark Fame)
Clement, William (Bill) - Welsh Rugby Union secretary
Cody, William ("Buffalo Bill") 

Cole, Nat 'King' - Great ballad singer
Collodi, Carlo - Writer of Pinocchio
Colt, Samuel - Firearms inventor

Compton, Leslie - English international footballer

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur - Writer

Cooper - Gordon - Early US Astronaut

Cooper, Tommy - TV Comic & (supposedly) inept conjurer - born in Caerphilly! 

Crocket, David - Frontiersman and Alamo fame
Courtenay, George - Refereed 1980 FA Cup Final

 

Dainty, Billy - British stage comic actor

Davidson, Jim - British Comedian

Davies, Ryan - Welsh TV comic actor and writer (of Ryan & Ronnie fame)
DeCourcey, Roger - British ventriloquist (partner to "Nookie the Bear"!)
DeMille, Cecil B - US Film director

Dempsey, Jack - US Boxer, later ran New York restaurant
Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium
Diefenbaker, John G. - Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63

Dole, Robert - US Senator, Vice Pres Candidate 1976, Pres. Candidate 1996
Doolittle, General James - US Air Force Pilot, led early WWII raids on Tokyo
Dow, William H - Dow Chemical Co.

Dunant, Jean Henri - Founder of the Red Cross

 

Ebdon, Peter - Professional Snooker player

Edinburgh, Duke of (Prince Philip of Greece) - Consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Edward VII - King 1901-10

Edward VIII - King for 325 days in 1936 (later Duke of Windsor)

Ellington, Duke - Composer, bandleader, pianist

English, Arthur - British comic actor

 

Fairbanks, Douglas - Actor

Fields, W C - Actor
Finney, Jim - Refereed 1962 FA Cup Final
Fisher, Geoffrey - Archbishop of Canterbury 1945-61
Flanagan, Bud - British comic - member of the "Crazy Gang"

Fleming, Sir Alexander - Discovered Penicillin
Fletcher, Cyril - British Radio & TV comic personality
Ford, Gerald R - President of the US
Ford, Henry - Pioneer automobile manufacturer
Franklin, Benjamin - 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the US
Frederick II ("the Great"), King of Prussia 1712-86
 

Gable, Clark - US Actor
Garfield, James A - President of the US
Garibaldi, Guiseppe - Italian patriot and hero

Gatling, Richard J - Built the Gatling Gun
George IV - King 1820-30

George VI - King 1936-52
Gershwin, George - American composer

Gibbon, Edward - Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilbert, Sir William S - half of Gilbert and Sullivan
Gillette, King C - Gillette Razor Co.
Glenn, John - First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Goethe (von), Johan Wolfgang - German poet

Grissom, Virgil "Gus" - Astronaut
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace - Inventor of the Guillotine
 

Haig, Earl Douglas - British Field Marshal during World War I

Haley, Alex - Author of 'Roots'

Hancock, John - 1 of 9 Masons to sign the US Declaration of Independence.

Harding, Warren G - President of the U.S.
Hardy, Oliver - Actor, Comedian

Hay, Will - Star of British Comedy Films of the 1930s & 1940s

Haydn, Franz Joseph - Austrian Composer

Henderson, Dickie - British TV personality of the 1950s & 1960s
Herbert, Bishop Percy - Bishop of Norwich
Hilton, Charles C - American Hotelier

Hogarth, William - Artist
Hoover, J Edgar - Director of FBI
Hope, Bob - Comedian

Houdini, Harry - Magician & Illusionist

Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas

Hussein,  King of Jordan

Hutton, Sir Len - English cricketer

 

Irving, Sir Henry - Actor

Irwin, James B. - American astronaut

Ives, Burl - Singer
 

Jackley, Nat - British Comedian & Comic Actor 
Jackson, Andrew - President of the US

Jackson, Rev. Jesse - Minister and Politician

Jellicoe, Lord - WW1 Royal Navy Admiral
Jenner, Edward - Inventor - Vaccination
Johns, Hugh - UK sports Journalist & Commentator - covered 1966 World Cup Final

Johnson, Andrew - President of the US

Johnson, Lyndon B - President of the US

Johnson, Dr Samuel - Lexicographer
Jolson, Al - Jazz Singer

Jones, John Paul - Scottish born "Father of the US Navy"
Jones, Melvin - American Co-Founder of Lions International
 

Khan, Aga - Statesman

Kipling, Rudyard - Writer

Kitchener, Field Marshal, Earl - British Secretary of State for War (WWI)

 

Lauder, Sir Harry - "Laird of the Music Hall" (1870-1950)

Lewis, Meriwether - Explorer (Lewis and Clark Fame)
Lever, William Hesketh - British industrialist and philanthropist

Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator
Lipton, Sir Thomas - Grocery and tea magnate; philanthropist

Liszt (von), Franz - Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist
Lloyd, Sir Clive - West Indies cricketer

Lloyd, Harold - Entertainer

Loss, Joe - British big band leader

 

Macadam, John - Scottish engineer. Developed the macadamising process

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas - Commander of US Armed Forces
MacDonald, Sir John A - Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
McKinley, William - President of the U.S.
McManus, Mick - British professional wrestler

Marks, Alfred - British comic actor

Marshall, Gen. George C - US soldier, diplomat, politician won Nobel Peace Prize

Marx, Harpo - one of the Marx Brothers

Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) fame
Menninger, Karl A - Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
Mesmer, Franz Anton - practiced Mesmerism, a precursor to Hypnotism
Michelson, Albert Abraham - Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Milburn, Jackie - English international footballer

Miller, Glenn - US Bandleader and composer

Mitchell, Edgar D - US Astronaut who flew on the Apollo 14 mission

Mitchell, Reginald J. - Designer of the legendary WW2 Spitfire fighter aircraft
Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films
Monkhouse, Bob - UK Comedian, game show host & actor
Monroe, James - President of the U.S.
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne - Co-developer of first practical hot-air balloon
Morgannwg, Iolo (= Edward Williams) creator of the Gorsedd

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Composer
Murphy, Audie - Most decorated American Soldier of WWII.

 

Nixon, David - Magician and presenter on early British television 
 

Palmer, Arnold - Professional Golfer

Parry, Joseph - 19th Century Welsh musician and composer
Partridge, Pat - Refereed 1975 FA Cup Final
Peary, Robert E - First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
Penny, James C - US Retailer (J C Penny)
Pershing, John Joseph - Decorated American Soldier
Poinsett, Joel R - US Minister to Mexico who developed the flower "Poinsettia"
Polk, James Knox - President of the U.S.
Pope, Alexander - Writer
Price, Richard - Welsh mathematician, philosopher - invented actuarial tables

Pryor, Richard - US Actor & comedian

Pushkin, Aleksander - Russian Poet

 

Raffles, Sir Thomas Stanford - Founded Singapore & Zoological Society

Reece, Gil(bert) - Sheff Utd, Cardiff City & Wales midfield soccer player

Rees, W Linford - (1914-2004)  President, Royal College of Psychiatrists
         (1975-78); President, British Medical Association (1978-79) 

Revere, Paul - Famous Revolutionary American
Rhodes, Cecil - Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890
Rickenbacker, Eddie - American Air Force Ace
Ridley, Arnold - Private Godfrey in "Dad's Army" (and a real life war hero in WW1 & 2)
Ringling Brothers - All 7 circus brothers and their father were Masons
Roberts, Field Marshal, Earl (of Kandahar), (1832 - 1914)

Robey, George - British Music hall comic, self styled "Prime Minister of Mirth"

Robinson, Sugar Ray - American Boxer
Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Roosevelt, Franklin D - President of the US
Roosevelt, Theodore - President of the US

Ros, Edmundo OBE - Post WW2 Trinidad born Latin-American music bandleader 
Rose, Sir Alec - Round the world solo yachtsman

 

Sanders, Harland ("Colonel") - Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant
Sarnoff, David - Father of US TV
Savalas, Telly - Actor who played 'Kojak'

Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon - British Polar Explorer died in the Antarctic 1912
Scott, Sir Walter - Writer
Scoular, Jimmy - Newcastle United, Portsmouth & Scotland Soccer Player 
                        and Cardiff City Manager 1964-1973

Sellers, Peter - Comic Actor
Shackleton, Sir Ernest - British Polar Explorer
Shackleton, Len - English international footballer

Sibelius, Jean - Composer (Finland)
Sloane, Sir John - Artist
Smith, Carl - Member of Madness (the 1980s UK Pop Group).
Smith, John Stafford - Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem.
Smith, Joseph - Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Sousa, John Philip - Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard - English Scientist
Stanford, Leland - Founded Stanford University
Stapleton, Cyril - British bandleader

Stein, Jock - Scottish international footballer and manager - died at the end of  
         a 1985 Wales v Scotland World Cup qualifier match at Ninian Park, Cardiff

Still, Andrew T - American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Stratton, Charles "Tom Thumb" - Entertainer
Sullivan, Sir Arthur - Half of Gilbert & Sullivan
Sutcliffe, Herbert - English cricketer

Swift, Johathan - Wrote Gulliver's Travels 

 

Taft, William Howard - President of the U.S.
Thomas, Dave - Founder of Wendy's Restaurant
Thornhill, Sir James - English Artist
Tirpitz, Alfred Von - German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
Tonypandy, Viscount - as George Thomas was a Labour Member of Parliament, 
           Secretary of State for Wales, and Speaker of the House of Commons 

Travis, Colonel William B - Alamo

Trinder, Tommy - Cockney comedian and comic actor
Trollope, Anthony - English novelist
Truman, Harry S - President of the U.S.
  
Vearncombe, Graham - Cardiff City & Wales goalkeeper

Voltaire - French writer and philosopher
 

Wadlow, Robert Pershing - Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall
Wallace, Governor George C - Presidential Candidate - nearly assassinated
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers Fame
Warren, Earl - US Supreme Court Justice
Washington, George - 1st President of US
Wayne, John - Actor
Webb, Capt. Matthew - First man to swim the English Channel (1875)
Wellington, Duke of - Soldier and statesman. Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.

Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) - Organist and Composer, son of John Wesley

William IV - King (1830-37)

Wilde, Oscar - Anglo-Irish wit and dramatist
Wildman, Mark - Professional Snooker & Billiards (World Champion 1984) player

Williams, Edward ("Iolo Morgannwg") creator of the Gorsedd

Willis, Peter - Refereed 1985 FA Cup Final
Winter, Jeff - Refereed 2004 FA Cup Final
Wolfitt, Sir Donald - Actor

Wolstenholme, Kenneth - BBC commentator - covered 1966 World Cup Final

Wozniak, Steve. Co-founder of Apple Computers
Wyler, William - Director of "Ben Hur"

Young, Brigham - 2nd President of the Mormon Church
 

Zanuck, Darryl F - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions in 1933
Ziegfeld, Florenz - His Ziegfeld's Follies began in 1907