Famous Unitarian Universalists: Famous Unitarians in Arts and Literature Famous Unitarians in Science and Medicine Famous Unitarians in American Politics Famous Unitarians in Social Reform Famous Unitarians As Great Humanitarians Famous Unitarians by Themselves Famous Unitarians in Education Famous Unitarians as UU Movers and Shakers List Compilers Notes and Comments UUs in arts and literature: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)* Horatio Alger (1834-1899)* P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) Bela Bartok* Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Ray Bradbury William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Robert Burns* Alice Cary (1820-1871) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Norman Cousins e. e. cummings (1894-1962) Nathaniel Currier* (1813-1888) Charles Dickens* Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)* Fannie Farmer (1857-1915) Robert Fulghum Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Edvard Grieg* Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Bret Harte (1836-1902)* Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)* Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) Jordan Jones Luigi von Kunits Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Margaret Laurence (1926-) Michael Learned Dorothy Livesay (1909-) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henrick Van Loon Amy Lowell (1874-1925) James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)* Edwin Markham (1852-1940) John Milton (1608-1674) Herman Melville* Abraham Lincoln -- America's Founding Fathers -- Thomas Jefferson John Adams Benjamin Franklin Also... Robert Munsch Paul Newman (1925-) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)* Malvina Reynolds Carl Sandberg (1878-1967) May Sarton Pete Seeger (1919-) Rod Serling Robert Shaw (1927-1978) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) Lister Sinclair Jerry Sohl Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1896)* Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)* Kurt Vonnegut Dan Wakefield John Greenleaf Whittier Frank Lloyd Wright* --Back to top UUs in Science and Medicine: Alexander Graham Bell* Tim Berners-Lee Elizabeth Blackwell T. Berry Brazelton Luther Burbank* Also... Peter Cooper Charles Darwin Edmund Halley Lewis Latimer Samuel F.B. Morse* Isaac Newton Linus C. Pauling Joseph Priestley* Benjamin Rush Lyman Spitzer Vilhajalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923) Emily Stowe* Clyde Tombaugh --Back to top UUs in American politics: Abigail Adams* John Adams* John Quincy Adams* John C. Calhoun William S. Cohen Millard Fillmore* Benjamin Franklin* Horace Greeley* Hannibal Hamlin Thomas Jefferson* William J. Perry Also... James Madison Wendell Phillips Elliot L. Richardson Francis George Shaw Col. Robert Gould Shaw Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)* William Howard Taft* Daniel Webster* --Back to top UUs in social reform: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)* Adin Ballou (1803-1890) Samuel G. Howe Julia Ward Howe* Josephine Shaw Lowell Lucy Stone* --Back to top UUs as great humanitarians: Clara Barton (1821-1912)* Dorothea Dix* Florence Nightingale Albert Schweitzer* --Back to top UUs by themselves: Jane Addams (1860-1935) Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) Ethan Allen Clarence Darrow Harriet Martineau Thomas Paine Lydia Pinkham Paul Revere* Whitney Young* --Back to top UUs in education: Ezra Cornell Charles W. Eliot* Mark Hopkins* Horace Mann* Elizabeth Peabody Leland Stanford George W. Stoddard --Back to top UUs who were UU movers & shakers: William Ellery Channing Robert Collyer A. Powell Davies Samuel A. Eliot Sophia Lyon Fahs Dana Greeley Edward Everett Hale Lotta Hitschmanova Thomas Starr King Judith Sargent Murray John Murray Theodore Parker Clinton Lee Scott Edwin H. Wilson --Back to top List Compiler's Notes on this page: * People marked with an asterisk have appeared on postage stamps (in most cases, US stamps). Please see the UU stamps page It is impossible to compile a list without generating a certain amount of controversy about whether each individual is or was "really" a UU. Some of these people are or were official members of Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist congregations. Some whose private religious views are unknown may be listed here because of a strong personal or family connection to UUism. Others are on the list as explicit sympathizers with UU principles, even though they did not formally belong to any church. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, remained unchurched despite confiding in letters to friends his perfect agreement with the views of prominent Unitarian preachers of his day. "The Jefferson Bible" is included among the links from this page so readers can decide for themselves whether Jefferson's view of Jesus and his teachings is consistent with modern UU thought. UUs tend to be proprietary in claiming our friends as "UUs-at-heart," sometimes without sufficient regard for the religious affiliations those friends affirm for themselves. It is my intention that, while claiming some "unchurched" UU sympathizers, this page will not list people as UUs who actually identified themselves as belonging to another denomination. If I have failed to enforce this standard, please let me know. We apologize to anyone, living or dead, who is misrepresented on this page. Additions and corrections, please, to: Webmaster@uucg.org.