Some Famous Unitarian Universalists
Some Famous Unitarian Universalists
- Horatio Alger (1832-1899), writer of rags-to-riches books
for boys.
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), author of Little Women
and other books.
- Tom Andrews, U.S. Representative from Maine.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), organizer of the women's
sufferage movement.
- George Bancroft (1800-1891), founder of the U.S. Naval
Academy.
- Adin Ballou (1803-1890), critic of the injustices of
capitalism.
- P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), well-known showman, owner of the
Barnum and Bailey Circus, and a founder of Tufts University.
- Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian composer.
- Clara Barton (1821-1912), founder of the American Red Cross.
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the
telephone; founder of Bell Telephone Company.
- Henry Bergh (1811-1888), a founder of the American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
- Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), mathematician, navigator,
astronomer.
- Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer.
- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), author and newspaper
editor.
- Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), architect of the United
States Capitol building.
- Luther Burbank (1849-1926), American botanist of the
early 20th century.
- Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet and song writer.
- William Ellerly Channing (1780-1842), abolitionist,
founder of Unitarianism in America.
- William Cohen, U.S. Senator from Maine.
- Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888), lithographer, partner of
James Merritt Ives.
- e.e. Cummings (1894-1962), 20th century American poet,
noted for his unorthodox style and technique.
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882), scientist and evolutionist,
author of Origin of the Species.
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English novelist.
- Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), crusader for the reform of
institutions for the mentally ill.
- Don Edwards, U.S. Representative from California since
1965.
- Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), president of Harvard,
editor of the Harvard Classics.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Unitarian minister,
philosopher, essayist.
- Edward Everett (1794-1865), president of Harvard,
governor of Massachusetts, UU minister.
- Fannie Farmer (1857-1915), cooking expert.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), scientist, writer,
statesman, printer.
- Maragert Fuller (1810-1850), a feminist before her time.
Leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement and an editor of
The Dial, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), abolitionist, editor
of The Liberator.
- Horace Greeley (1811-1872), journalist, politician,
editor and owner of the New York Tribune, champion of labor
unions and cooperatives.
- Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), Unitarian minister and
author of The Man Without a Country.
- Andrew Hallidie (1836-1900), inventor of the cable car.
- Bret Harte (1836-1902), writer, author of The Luck
of Roaring Camp.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), 19th century American
novelist, author of The Scarlet Letter.
- James Haynes Holmes (1879-1964), co-founder of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), lawyer and
member of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1902-32.
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), composer of Battle
Hymn of the Republic.
- Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), pioneer in working with the deaf
and blind.
- Abner Kneeland (1774-1844), advocate of land reform,
public education and birth control.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), poet, author
of Paul Revere's Ride.
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), noted 19th century
poet, anit-slaverly leader, and Unitarian minister.
- Horace Mann (1796-1859), leader in the public school
movement, founder of the first public school in America in
Lexington, Mass., President of Antioch College, U.S. Congressman.
- John Marshall (1755-1835), Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court.
- Thomas Masaryk (1850-1937), the first president of
Czechoslovakia (1920), proponent of democracy and social justice.
- Herman Melville (1819-1891), writer, author of Moby
Dick.
- Samuel Morse (1791-1872), inventor of the telegraph and
Morse Code.
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse and
hospital reformer.
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809), editor and publisher of
Common Sense.
- Theodore Parker (1810-1860), a renegade Unitarian
minister of the mid-19th century and a leading figure of the
Abolitionist movement in the Boston area.
- Linus Pauling, chemist, won Nobel Peace Prize, 1962.
- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), author of Peter Rabbit
and other children's stories.
- Joseph Priestly (1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen,
Unitarian minister.
- Elliot Richardson, former Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare, and Attorney General (1973).
- Paul Revere (1735-1818), silversmith and patriot.
- Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), signer of the Declaration
of Independence; physician, considered to be the "Father of
American Psychiatry".
- Carl Sandberg (1878-1967), American poet, won Pulitzer
Prize for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
- Ted Sorenson, speechwriter and aide to John F. Kennedy.
- Charles Steinmetz (1865-1923), electrical engineer,
holder of 200 patents, known for his theoretical studies of
alternating current.
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), Governor of Illinois,
candidate for President, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
- George Stephenson (1781-1848), English engineer, invented
the first locomotive.
- Gilbert Charles Stuart (1755-1828), artist, best known
for his portrait of George Washington.
- Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872), engineer, founded U.S.
Military Academy.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), essayist and naturalist,
author of Waldon Pond.
- Hendrik Wilhem Van Loon (1882-1944), historian and
author.
- Kurt Vonnegut, writer, author of Slaugherhouse
Five.
- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), orator, U.S. Senator,
Secretary of State, presidential candidate.
- Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), English potter, founder
of Wedgwood Pottery.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959), architect.
- Owen D. Young (1874-1962), Chairman of General
Electric Company.
- Whitney Young (1921-1971), head of the Urban League.
Taken from 100 Questions That Non-Members Ask About
Unitarian Universalism - by John Sias
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