Are there famous celebrate who are Freemason

Numerous prominent historical, political, and cultural figures appear in Masonic membership records. In public life and military history, statesmen who joined include the Duke of Wellington 1, South American liberators Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín 1, and American orator William Jennings Bryan 1. Lord Chesterfield served as Governor General of Ireland while holding membership 1, and Francis, Duke of Lorraine—later Holy Roman Emperor—was initiated at The Hague in 1731 1. Frontiersman Davy Crockett was likewise affiliated, as shown by his surviving Royal Arch apron 1.

In literature and scholarship, historian Edward Gibbon belonged to the Lodge of Friendship No. 3 in London 1, novelist Lord Bulwer-Lytton was a member 1, and Sir Walter Besant was initiated in Mauritius before conceiving the research-focused Quatuor Coronati Lodge 1. Legal scholar and Harvard Law School Dean Roscoe Pound served as a Past Deputy Grand Master in Massachusetts and was crowned a Thirty-third Degree Mason in the Scottish Rite 1.

The arts and entertainment produced many members: actor Edwin Booth belonged to New York Lodge No. 330 1, magician Harry Houdini was initiated in St. Cecile Lodge No. 568 1, songwriter Irving Berlin was an active member 1, and composer Jean Sibelius composed musical accompaniments specifically for lodge degrees 1. In science and exploration, polar explorer Rear Admiral Byrd belonged to Kane Lodge No. 454 in New York 1, and horticulturalist Luther Burbank was made a Mason in California 1.