Just to add an English theme to the post, this is a list of some famous English Freemasons from the United Grand Lodge of England's website :-
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Monarchs[/FONT]
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)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Statesmen[/FONT]
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)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Religion[/FONT]
Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 - 1972)
Sir Israel Brodie (1895 - 1979)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Scientists[/FONT]
Sir Joseph Banks (1744 - 1820)
Dr Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823)
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955)
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877 - 1947)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Explorers[/FONT]
Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890)
Capt Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868 - 1912)
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Charity[/FONT]
Dr T. J. Barnardo (1845 - 1905)
1st Viscount Leverhulme
Sir William "Billy" Butlin (1899 - 1980)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Actors[/FONT]
David Garrick (1717 - 1779)
Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833)
Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905)
Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968)
Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Writers[/FONT]
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
Robbie 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)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Artists[/FONT]
Sir James Thornhill (1676 - 1734)
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
John Zoffany (1733 - 1810)
Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Music[/FONT]
Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778) (Rule Britannia)
Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837)
Sir Henry Bishop (1786 - 1855) (Home sweet home)
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Entertainers[/FONT]
Sir Harry Lauder
David Nixon
Cyril Fletcher
Geraldo
Nat Jackley
Alfred Marks
Jim Davidson
Edmundo Ross
Cyril Stapleton
Tommy Trinder
Jimmy Wheeler
Roger de Courcey
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sportsmen[/FONT]
Harold Abrahams
Jackie Milburn
Sir Donald Campbell
Malcolm Campbell
Sir Leonard Hutton
Jock Stein
Sir Alec Rose
Sir Clive Lloyd
Jim Peters
Sir Arthur Gold
Trevor Simpson
Len Shackleton
Joe Wade
Leslie Compton
Herbert Sutcliffe
Bill Bowes
Sir Thomas Lipton
William 'Jack' Dempsey
Tony Allcock
Peter Ebdon
Mark Wildman
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Army[/FONT]
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)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Navy[/FONT]
Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840)
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1841 - 1919)
Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1859 - 1935)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Royal Air Force[/FONT]
Marshal of the RAF Lord Newall (1886 - 1963)
