While we all remember Dan Brown's book and movie, as I wandered around I came across a wall with faces I recognized. I was shocked to discover they were all Masons.
Here are some famous Masons
FAMOUS MASONS
Benjamin Franklin
1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S.
John Hancock
1 of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independence
Gene Autry, Actor
Ernest Borgnine, Actor
W.C. Fields, Actor
Clark Gable, Actor
Arthur Godfrey, Actor
Will Rogers, Actor
Peter Sellers, Actor
John Wayne, Actor
Oliver Hardy, Actor - Comedian
James Bowie, Alamo
Colonel William B. Travis, Alamo
Roy Rogers, American cowboy and screen star
David Crockett, American Frontiersman and Alamo fame
Edwin E. Aldrin, Astronaut
Virgil Grissom, Astronaut
Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Dr. William and Charles Mayo, Began Mayo Clinic
George M. Cohan, Broadway star
Joseph Brant, Chief of the Mohawks
Joseph Fort Newton, Christian Minister
Robert Livingston, Co-Negotiator for purchase of Louisiana Territory
Charles F. Papst, Coined the term 'Athletes Foot'
Bob Hope, Comedian
General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of Armed Forces in Philippines
General Henry 'Hap' Arnold, Commander of the Army Air Force
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Duke Ellington, Composer Arranger and Stylist
Roy Clark, Country Western Star
John Joseph Pershing, Decorated American Soldier
Frederic A. Bartholdi, Designed the Statue of Liberty
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI
Booker T Washington, Educator and author
Irving Berlin, Entertainer
Harold C. Lloyd, Entertainer
Red Skelton, Entertainer
Charles 'Tom Thumb' Stratton, Entertainer
William Clark, Explorer
Meriwether Lewis, Explorer
Al Jolson, Fame as the first 'talking picture' the Jazz Singer
General James Doolittle, Famous Air Force Pilot
Paul Revere, Famous American
Samuel Colt,, Firearms inventor
Elmo Lincoln, First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
John H. Glenn, First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendys Restaurant
Arnold Palmer, Golf Pro
Eddie Rickenbacker, Great American Air Force Ace
Nat 'King' Cole, Great ballad singer
Florenz Ziegfeld, Ziegfeld's Follies
Buffalo Bill' William Cody, Indian fighter Wild West Show
Louis Armstrong, Jazz Musician
John Philip Sousa, Led the U.S. Marine Band from 188 -1892
Harry Houdini, Magician
Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain - writer
Omar N. Bradley, Military leader
Audie Murphy, Most decorated American Soldier of WWII.
John Paul Jones, Naval Commander
William 'Count' Bassie, Orchestra leader/composer
Patrick Henry, Patriot
James Buchanan
President of the U.S.
Gerald R. Ford
President of the U.S.
James A. Garfield
President of the U.S.
Warren G. Harding
President of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson
President of the U.S.
Andrew Johnson
President of the U.S.
William McKinley
President of the U.S.
James Monroe
President of the U.S.
James Knox Polk
President of the U.S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the U.S.
Theodore Roosevelt
President of the U.S.
William Howard Taft
President of the U.S.
Harry S. Truman
President of the U.S.
George Washington
President of US 1st
