Some members of the fraternity have have made no secret of their involvement throughout history, while others have opted not to make their membership so public. Here are a few notable freemasons.
- George Washington
- James Madison (not verified)
- James Monroe
- Andrew Jackson
- James Polk
- James Buchanan
- Andrew Johnson
- James Garfield
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Taft
- Warren G. Harding
- Franklin D.Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Lyndon Johnson (EA)
- Gerald R. Ford
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Hancock
- John Paul Jones
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Davy Crockett
- Sam Houston
- Hubert H. Humphrey
- Thurgood Marshall
- DeWitt Clinton
- Jack Kemp
- Bob Dole
- John Diefenbaker
- Simon Bolivar
- Barry Goldwater
- Fiorello LaGuardia
- Benjamin Gilman
- Preston M. Jones
- Omar Bradley
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Douglas MacArthur
- George C.Marshall
- John Pershing
- Eddie Rickenbacker
- Eddy Arnold
- Roy Acuff
- Gene Autry
- L. Van Beethoven
- Irving Berlin
- Gutzon Borglum
- Ernest Borgnine
- Ty Cobb
- George M. Cohan
- Norm Crosby
- Cecil B. deMille
- Jack Dempsey
- Duke Ellington
- Homer H. Rawson
- Clark Gable
- Arthur Godfrey
- Harry Hershfield
- Harry Houdini
- Burl Ives
- Al Jolson
- Rudyard Kipling
- Lauritz Melchior
- Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Arnold Palmer
- Branch Rickey
- Roy Rogers
- Will Rogers
- David Sarnoff
- Jean Sibelius
- Red Skelton
- John Philip Sousa
- Danny Thomas
- Lowell Thomas
- John Wayne
- Charles W. Mayo
- J.C. Penny
- Dave Thomas
- Thomas J. Watson
- David B. Slayton
- Sir Alexander Fleming
- Henry Ford
- Dr. Norman V. Peale
- Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
- Richard E. Byrd
- John Glenn
- Charles Lindberg
- Sir Ernest Shackleton