| 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) Cecil Rhodes (1852 - 1903) 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 Fleming (1881 - 1955) Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877 - 1947) |
| Explorers |
| Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890) Capt Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868 - 1912) Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) |
| Charity |
| Dr T. J. Barnardo (1845 - 1905) 1st Viscount Leverhulme Sir William "Billy" Butlin (1899 - 1980) |
| Actors |
| William Abbott (1789 – 1843) David Garrick (1717 - 1779)Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905)Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833)Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968) |
| Writers |
| Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) Sir William S. 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) (Rule Britannia) Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837) Sir Henry Bishop (1786 - 1855) (Home sweet home) Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900) |
| Entertainers |
| Jim Davidson Cyril Fletcher (1913 - 2005) Geraldo Nat Jackley Sir Harry Lauder (1870 - 1950) Alfred Marks David Nixon (1919 - 1978) Edmundo Ross Cyril Stapleton Tommy Trinder (1909 - 1989) Jimmy Wheeler Roger de Courcey |
| Sportsmen |
| Harold Abrahams (1899 - 1978) Jackie Milburn (1924 - 1988) Sir Donald Campbell (1921 - 1967) Malcolm Campbell (1885 - 1948) Sir Leonard Hutton (1916 - 1990) Jock Stein (1922 - 1985) Sir Alec Rose (1908 - 1991) Sir Clive Lloyd (1944 - ) Jim Peters Sir Arthur Gold Trevor Simpson Len Shackleton Joe Wade Leslie Compton Herbert Sutcliffe Bill Bowes Sir Thomas Lipton (1850 - 1931) William 'Jack' Dempsey (1895 - 1983) Tony Allcock Peter Ebdon Mark Wildman |
| Army |
| General Sir John Moore (1761 - 1809) Field Marshal 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852) Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832 - 1914) Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850 - 1916) Field Marshal Sir John French, Earl of Ypres (1852 - 1925) Field Marshal Earl Haig (1861 - 1928) General Sir Francis Wingate (1861 -1953) Field Marshal Garnett, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1883 - 1913) Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884 - 1981) Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891 - 1969) |
| Navy |
| Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840) Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1841 - 1919) Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1859 - 1935) |
| Royal Air Force |
| Marshal of the RAF Lord Newall (1886 - 1963) |
Above are listed Freemasons who are known to the Grand Lodge of Scotland to have been Freemasons. There are, inevitably, some who have 'slipped through the net and are not recorded here. Famous women who have been Freemasons are generally unknown to the Grand Lodge of Scotland. The visitor may like to know that there are organisations which admit women - see, for example: The British Federation of the International Order of C0-Freemasonry which has a web site at: www.droit-humain.org/uk
The organisation for women is: the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons and it to has a web site at: www.hfaf.org