:''See also History of Unitarianism'' A number of notable people have considered themselves

Unitarians Unitarian or Unitarianism may refer to: Christian and Christian-derived theologies A Unitarian is a follower of, or a member of an organisation that follows, any of several theologies referred to as Unitarianism: * Unitarianism (1565–present) ...

, Universalists, and following the merger of these denominations in the United States and Canada in 1961,

Unitarian Universalists Unitarian Universalism (UU) is a liberal religion characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning". Unitarian Universalists assert no creed, but instead are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth, guided by a ...

. Additionally, there are persons who, because of their writings or reputation, are considered to have held Unitarian or Universalist beliefs. Individuals who held unitarian ( nontrinitarian) beliefs but were not affiliated with Unitarian organizations are often referred to as "small 'u unitarians. The same principle can be applied to those who believed in

universal salvation In Christian theology, universal reconciliation (also called universal salvation, Christian universalism, or in context simply universalism) is the doctrine that all sinful and alienated human souls—because of divine love and mercy—will ulti ...

but were not members of Universalist organizations. This article, therefore, makes the distinction between capitalized "Unitarians" and "Universalists" and lowercase "unitarians" and "universalists". The Unitarians and Universalists are groups that existed long before the creation of Unitarian Universalism. Early Unitarians did not hold Universalist beliefs, and early Universalists did not hold Unitarian beliefs. But beginning in the nineteenth century the theologies of the two groups started becoming more similar. Additionally, their eventual merger as the

Unitarian Universalist Association Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations. It was formed in 1961 by the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America, both P ...

(UUA) did not eliminate divergent Unitarian and Universalist congregations, especially outside the US. Even within the US, some congregations still keep only one of the two names, "Unitarian" or "Universalist". However, with only a few exceptions, all belong to the UUA—even those that maintain dual affiliation (e.g., Unitarian and

Quaker Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...

). Transcendentalism was a movement that diverged from contemporary American Unitarianism but has been embraced by later Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists. In Northern Ireland, Unitarian churches are officially called " Non-Subscribing Presbyterian", but are informally known as "Unitarian" and are affiliated with the Unitarian churches of the rest of the world.

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* Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1836–1903) – Unitarian minister who led a group that attempted to liberalize the Unitarian constitution and preamble. He later helped found the Free Religious Association. *

Abigail Adams Abigail Adams ( ''née'' Smith; November 22, [ O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She was a founder of the United States, an ...

(1744–1818) – women's rights advocate and first Second Lady and the second First Lady of the United States *

James Luther Adams James Luther Adams (1901–1994), an American professor at Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a Unitarianism, Unitarian Parish#Ecclesiastical parish, parish minister, was the ...

(1901–1994) – Unitarian theologian.Notable American Unitarians, 1936–1961
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Project advisors: Gloria Korsman, Andover-Harvard Theological Library; Conrad Edick Wright, Massachusetts Historical Society; and Conrad Wright, Harvard Divinity School. (Archived July 3, 2007) *

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...

(1735–1826)"Some famous Unitarians include presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Revere, President William Howard Taft, and Frank Lloyd Wright... Important figures from this period in Unitarian history include John Biddle, Francis David, Michael Servetus, King John Sigismund and Faustus Socinus... The influential Unitarians from this era included William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Joseph Priestly ic and Thomas Starr King, who was also a Universalist.

, uduuf.org. Retrieved August 1, 2011. – second President of the United States. * John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) – sixth President of the United States. Co-founder,

All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.) All Souls Church, Unitarian is a Unitarian Universalist church located at 1500 Harvard Street NW at the intersection of 16th Street, Washington, D.C., roughly where the Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Adams Morgan neighborhoods of the ...

Sarah Fuller Adams Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (or Sally Adams) (22 February 1805 – 14 August 1848) was an English poet and hymnwriter. A selection of hymns she wrote, published by William Johnson Fox, included her best-known one, "Nearer, My God, to Thee", report ...

(1805–1848) – English poet and hymn writer * Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) – poet *

Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...

(1832–1888) – author of

Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...

. *

Ethan Allen Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for ...

(1738–1789) – author of ''Reason the Only Oracle of Man'', and the chief source of Hosea Ballou's universalist ideasRecent Scholarship in American Universalism: A Bibliographical Essay
Alan Seaburg, ''Church History'', Vol. 41, No. 4. (Dec., 1972), pp. 513–523. . Retrieved August 28, 2007. *

Joseph Henry Allen Joseph Henry Allen (August 21, 1820 – March 20, 1898) was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar. Biography He was born in Northborough, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph Allen and Lucy Clark. He prepared for college at a school run by hi ...

(1820–1898) – American Unitarian scholar and minister *

Arthur J. Altmeyer Arthur Joseph Altmeyer (May 8, 1891October 16, 1972) was the United States Commissioner for Social Security from 1946 to 1953, and chairman of the Social Security Board from 1937 to 1946. He was a key figure in the design and implementation of the ...

(1891–1972) – father of Social Security *

Oliver Ames, Jr. Oliver Ames Jr. (November 5, 1807 – March 9, 1877) was president of Union Pacific Railroad when the railroad met the Central Pacific Railroad in Utah for the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in North America. Biography Born i ...

(1807–1877) – Massachusetts businessman and industrialist who commissioned the building of the Unity Church of North Easton *

J. M. Andrews John Miller Andrews, (17 July 1871 – 5 August 1956) was the second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1940 to 1943. Family life Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, Ireland in 1871, the eldest child in the family of four sons and o ...

(1871–1956) – Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (a Non-subscribing Presbyterian member) * Thomas Andrews (1873-1912) – Master-shipbuilder of the

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, "Big Four", and

Olympic-class ocean liner The ''Olympic''-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century. They were (1911), ''Titanic'' (1912) and (1915). All three were designed to be ...

s (a Non-subscribing Presbyterian member) * Tom Andrews (born 1953) – U.S. Representative from Maine * Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – Quaker *

Robert Aspland Robert Aspland (13 January 1782 – 30 December 1845) was an English Unitarian minister, editor and activist. To be distinguished from his son Robert Brook Aspland (1805-1869). Life Aspland was the son of Robert Aspland and his second wife, Ha ...

(1782–1845) – English Unitarian minister, editor and activist, founder of the

British and Foreign Unitarian Association The British and Foreign Unitarian Association was the major Unitarian body in Britain from 1825. The BFUA was founded as an amalgamation of three older societies: the Unitarian Book Society for literature (1791), The Unitarian Fund for mission wo ...

* Francis (Frank) X. Arvan (1955-) – Architect, Writer, Musician *

Robert Brook Aspland Robert Brook Aspland (19 January 1805 – 21 June 1869) was an English Unitarian minister and editor. To be distinguished from his father Robert Aspland (1782-1845). Life The son of Robert Aspland, he was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, 19 Januar ...

(1805–1869) – English Unitarian minister and editor, son of

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Samuel Bache Samuel Bache (24 December 1804 – 7 January 1876) was an English Unitarian minister. Life He was born at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, where his father, Joshua Tilt Bache (d. 28 October 1837, aged 63), was a grocer. His mother was Margaret Silves ...

(1804-1876) - English Unitarian minister *

E. Burdette Backus Edwin Burdette Backus (1888–1955) was an American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals ...

(1888–1955) – Unitarian Humanist minister (originally a Universalist) * Bill Baird (born 1932) – abortion rights pioneer, Unitarian. *

Sara Josephine Baker Sara Josephine Baker (November 15, 1873 – February 22, 1945) was an American physician notable for making contributions to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of New York City. Her fight against the damage that widespread ur ...

(1873–1945) – physician and public health worker. *

Emily Greene Balch Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, a ...

(1867–1961) – Nobel Peace Laureate * Roger Nash Baldwin (1884–1981) – founder of

American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". T ...

Adin Ballou Adin Ballou (1803–1890) was an American proponent of Christian nonresistance, Christian anarchism and socialism, abolitionism and the founder of the Hopedale Community. Through his long career as a Universalist and Unitarian minister, he ...

(1803–1890) – abolitionist and former Baptist who became a Universalist minister, then a Unitarian minister. * Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) – American Universalist leader. (Universalist minister and a unitarian in theology)"Some famous Universalists include Clara Barton, Olympia Brown, Thomas Starr King, Horace Greeley, George Pullman, Mary Livermore, and Benjamin Rush. ...Universalist beliefs have been proclaimed for thousands of years, starting with Origen in 200 CE and continuing through to James Relly in the sixteen hundreds... Universalists including Hosea Ballou, John Murray, and Benjamin Rush helped to spread and develop their faith's teachings throughout the denomination's early years.
Universalism
UUA.org, August 1, 2007. . Retrieved August 27, 2007. * Aaron Bancroft (1755–1839) – Congregationalist Unitarian minister *

John Bardeen John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the tran ...

(1908–1991) – physicist, Nobel Laureate 1956 (inventing the transistor) and in 1972 (superconductivity) * Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–1891) – American showman and Circus Owner *

Ysaye Maria Barnwell Ysaye Maria Barnwell (born February 28, 1946) is an American singer and composer. Barnwell was a member of the African American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock from 1979 to 2013. In addition to writing many of the group's songs, Bar ...

(born 1946) – member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, founded the Jubilee Singers, a choir at All Souls Church in Washington, D.C. *

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

(1881–1945) – composer. *

Clara Barton Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very ...

(1821–1912) – organizer of American Red Cross, Universalist"The Struggle for Racial Justice describes the key roles played by Unitarian and Universalist women... These women included Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, and Julia Ward Howe, who wrote 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.'
Exhibit "Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform" On Display at Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women's Rights National Historical Park news release, Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Contact: Vivien Rose. . Retrieved August 28, 2007. *

Clara Bancroft Beatley Clara Bancroft Beatley (, Bancroft; January 12, 1858 – October 20, 1923) was an American educator, lecturer, and author, as well as a clubwoman and suffragist. A a descendant of staunch Unitarians, for many years, she served as the principal of ...

(1858-1923) – educator, lecturer, author *

Christopher C. Bell Christopher C. Bell Jr. (born May 7, 1933) is an American writer, African American author, poet, and lecturer. Bell is best known for his controversial writings on racial issues in the Black church that cause the "White Superiority Syndrome" whi ...

(born 1933) – author *

Ami Bera Amerish Babulal "Ami" Bera (; born March 2, 1965) is an American physician and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, his district encompasses most of Sacramento's eastern and southern sub ...

(born 1965) – U.S. Representative for California *

Henry Bergh Henry Bergh (August 29, 1813 – March 12, 1888) founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the United States was passed ...

(1811–1888) – founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. *

Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profess ...

(born 1955) – inventor of the World Wide Web."Some Unitarian Universalists of whom you may already have heard include Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Newman, Christopher Reeve, May Sarton, Pete Seeger, and Kurt Vonnegut... Unitarian Universalists James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo were killed because of their participation in this protest...
Unitarian Universalism
UUA.org, March 1, 2007. . Retrieved August 28, 2007. * Paul Blanshard (1892–1980) – activist. *

Joani Blank Joani Blank (July 4, 1937 – August 6, 2016) was an American sex educator, entrepreneur, author, videographer, cohousing enthusiast, philanthropist, and inventor in the field of sexuality. She used publishing, her sex store, and other endeavo ...

(1937–2016) – sexuality educator and co-housing activist. * Chester Bliss Bowles (1901–1986) – Connecticut Governor and diplomat. *

Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and r ...

(1920–2012) – author. * Andre Braugher (born 1962) - American actor *

T. Berry Brazelton Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, 1918 – March 13, 2018) was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Brazelton hosted the cable television program ''What Every Baby Knows'', and wr ...

(1918-2018) – pediatrician, author, TV show host. *

Alice Williams Brotherton Alice Williams Brotherton (, Williams; April 4, 1848 – February 9, 1930) was an American author of poetry, essays, reviews, children's stories, and lyrics. Though she hailed from Indiana, she lived most of her life in Cincinnati, Ohio, serving ...

(1848-1930), poet and magazine writer *

Olympia Brown Olympia Brown (January 5, 1835 – October 23, 1926) was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an articulate advocate for women's rights and one ...

(1835–1926) – suffragist, Universalist minister of the

Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent Ohio Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, Ohio is a Unitarian Universalist ("UU") church in Kent, Ohio. Founded in 1866, the current building was completed by builder Joseph Gridley (1820-1902) in 1868 on land donated by philanthropist Marvin Kent ...

Percival Brundage Percival Flack Brundage (April 2, 1892 – July 16, 1979) was an American accountant who served as the director of the United States Office of Management and Budget from April 2, 1956, until March 17, 1958. Early years Brundage was born on 2 ...

(1892–1979) – technocrat *

John A. Buehrens John A. Buehrens (born 1947) is an American Unitarian Universalist minister and author. Biography Buehrens is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School. He was ordained in 1973 and served his first congregation in Knoxville, T ...

(born 1947) – president of the

from 1993–2001 *

Charles Bulfinch Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 – April 15, 1844) was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first American-born professional architect to practice.Baltzell, Edward Digby. ''Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia''. Tra ...

(1763–1844) – most notable for being Architect of the Capitol. Co-founder,

Ralph Wendell Burhoe Ralph Wendell Burhoe (May 21Social Security Death Index or June 21, 1911 – May 8, 1997) was an important twentieth-century pioneer interpreter of the importance of religion for a scientific and technological world. He was awarded the Templeton ...

(1911–1997) – scholar * Harold Hitz Burton (1888–1964) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1945–1958 * Edmund Butcher (1757–1822) – English minister

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John C. Calhoun John Caldwell Calhoun (; March 18, 1782March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who held many important positions including being the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He ...

(1782–1850) – U.S. Vice President and SenatorVision & Values in a Post-9/11 World: A curriculum on Civil Liberties, Patriotism, and the U.S. Role Abroad for Unitarian Universalist Congregations
Developed by Pamela Sparr on behalf of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, Spring 2002. . Retrieved August 28, 2007. Co-founder,

* Walter Bradford Cannon (1871–1945) – experimental physiologist *

Louise Whitfield Carnegie Louise Whitfield Carnegie (March 7, 1857 – June 24, 1946) was the wife of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Biography Early life Louise Whitfield was born on March 7, 1857 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Her parents—Joh ...

(1857–1946) – wife of philanthropist

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...

. After Carnegie died Louise made donations to charities. *

Lant Carpenter Lant Carpenter, Dr. (2 September 1780 – 5 or 6 April 1840) was an English educator and Christian Unitarianism, Unitarian Minister (Christianity), minister. Early life Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster, the third son of George Carpenter ...

(1780–1840) – English Unitarian minister, author and educator *

Russell Lant Carpenter Russell Lant Carpenter (December 17, 1816 – 1892), a Unitarian minister who carried on the works of his father, Dr. Lant Carpenter and wrote his biography. He was a brother of the social reformer Mary Carpenter. Carpenter was born in 1816 in ...

(1816–1892) – Unitarian minister. Son and biographer of Dr.

William Herbert Carruth William Herbert Carruth (April 5, 1859 – December 15, 1924) was an American educator and poet. He taught at the University of Kansas and Stanford University. Life William Herbert Carruth was born in Osawatomie, Kansas Osawatomie is a city in ...

(1859-1924) – educator, poet, President of Pacific Coast Conference of the Unitarian Church * Samuel Carter (1805–1878) – British MP and early railway solicitor * Lee Carter (born 1987) — delegate for Virginia's 50th House of Delegates district (according to his campaign website, he and his family attend their local Unitarian Universalist Church) * Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) – Manufacturer, Unitarian, founder of local government in Britain. *

Neville Chamberlain Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasemen ...

(1869–1940) – Unitarian, then an

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and, British Prime Minister. *

Augusta Jane Chapin Augusta Jane Chapin (July 16, 1836 – June 30, 1905) was an American Universalist minister, educator and activist for women's rights. She was born in Lakeville, New York, the eldest of eleven children, to Almon Morris Chapin and Jane Pease. ...

(1836–1905) – American Universalist minister, educator and activist for women's rights *

William Ellery Channing William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Channi ...

(1780–1842) – Unitarian minister, whose 1819 sermon "Unitarian Christianity" laid the foundations for American Unitarianism. *

Charles Chauncy Charles Chauncy (baptised 5 November 1592 – 19 February 1672) was an Anglo-American Congregational clergyman, educator, and secondarily, a physician. He is also known as the 2nd President of Harvard. Life Charles Chauncy was born at Arde ...

(1592–1672) – Unitarian Congregationalist minister. *

Jesse Chickering Jesse Chickering (born Dover, New Hampshire, 31 August 1797; died West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 29 May 1855) was a political economist. He was graduated at Harvard University, Harvard in 1818, studied theology, and became a Unitarianism, Unitarian ...

(1797–1855) – Unitarian minister and economist *

Brock Chisholm George Brock Chisholm (18 May 1896 – 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, World War I veteran, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). He was the 13th Canadian Surgeon General and t ...

(1896–1971) – director, World Health Organization *

Parley P. Christensen Parley Parker Christensen (July 19, 1869 – February 10, 1954) was an American attorney and politician who was a Utah House of Representatives, Utah state representative, a Los Angeles City Council member, and the Farmer–Labor Party's presiden ...

(1869–1954) – Utah and California politician, Esperantist * Judy Chu (born 1953) - Congressperson representing California's 27th Congressional District. First Chinese-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress * Annie Clark (born 1982) – musician and singer-songwriter, better known by her stage name,

St. Vincent (musician) Anne Erin Clark (born September 28, 1982), known professionally as St. Vincent, is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. Her music is noted for its complex arrangements utilizing a wide array of instruments. St. Vincent is the recipient ...

. * Andrew Inglis Clark (1848–1907) – Tasmanian politician. Responsible for the adoption of the Hare-Clark system of

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by the

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Grenville Clark Grenville Clark (November 5, 1882 – January 13, 1967) was a 20th-century American Wall Street lawyer, co-founder of Root Clark & Bird (later Dewey Ballantine, then Dewey & LeBoeuf), member of the Harvard Corporation, co-author of the book '' Wo ...

(1882–1931) – author *

Joseph S. Clark Joseph Sill Clark Jr. (October 21, 1901January 12, 1990) was an American writer, lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 90th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1956 and as a United States Senator from Pennsylvani ...

(1901–1990) – U.S. Senator and mayor of Philadelphia *

Laurel Clark Laurel Blair Clark (née Salton; March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was a NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist. Clark died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle ...

(1961–2003) – U.S. Navy officer and NASA Astronaut who died in the

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster The Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster was a fatal accident in the United States space program that occurred on February 1, 2003. During the STS-107 mission, Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texa ...

James Freeman Clarke James Freeman Clarke (April 4, 1810 – June 8, 1888) was an American minister, theologian and author. Biography Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on April 4, 1810, James Freeman Clarke was the son of Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull, though h ...

(1810–1888) – Unitarian minister, theologian and author *

Stanley Cobb Stanley Cobb (December 10, 1887 – February 25, 1968) was a neurologist and could be considered "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States". Early life Cobb was born on December 10, 1887, in Brookline, Massachusetts, to John Can ...

(1887–1968) – neurologist and psychiatrist *

William Cohen William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American lawyer, author, and politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–1979) and Senate (1979� ...

(born 1940) –

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(1997–2001),

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(1979–1997) *

Emily Parmely Collins Emily Parmely Collins (, Parmely; after first marriage, Peltier; after second marriage, Collins; pen name, Justitia; August 11, 1814 – April 14, 1909) was an American woman suffragist, women's rights activist, and writer of the long nineteenth c ...

(1814–1909) — American suffragist, activist, writer *

Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States. In the 19 ...

(1902–1998) – American historian and biographer of Theodore Parker * Kent Conrad (born 1948) –

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North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...

(1992–2013) *

Maria Cook Maria Cook (1779 – December 21, 1835) was the first woman to be recognized as a Christian universalism, Universalist preacher. Biography Maria Cook likely grew up around the Geneva, New York area, although details of her early life are hard to ...

(1779–1835) – first woman to be recognized as a Universalist preacher. *

William David Coolidge William David Coolidge (; October 23, 1873 – February 3, 1975) was an American physicist and engineer, who made major contributions to X-ray machines. He was the director of the General Electric Research Laboratory and a vice-president of t ...

(1873–1975) – inventor, physician, research director * Peter Cooper (1791-1883) - industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician; founder of

The Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

. *

Norman Cousins Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. Early life Cousins was born to Jewish immigrant parents Samuel Cousins and Sarah Babushkin Cousins, in West ...

(1915–1990) – editor and writer, Unitarian friend *

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

(1894–1962) – poet and painter *

William Cushing William Cushing (March 1, 1732 – September 13, 1810) was one of the original five associate justices of the United States Supreme Court; confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1789, he served until his death. His Supreme Court ...

(1732–1810) – one of the original US Supreme Court Justices, appointed by Geo. Washington and longest serving of the original justices (1789–1810).

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Cyrus Dallin Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of Native Americans. He created more than 260 works, including the ''Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere'' in Boston, Massac ...

(1861–1944) – American sculptor *

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

(1809–1882) – English naturalist and biologist * Ferenc Dávid (born as ''Franz David Hertel'', often rendered as ''Francis David'' or ''Francis Davidis'') (1510–1579) –

Transylvanian Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the A ...

priest, minister and bishop, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania, first to use the word "Unitarian" to describe his faith *

George de Benneville George de Benneville (London, 25 July 1703 – Pennsylvania, 19 March 1793) was a physician and Christian Universalist preacher. Biography He was born in London in 1703 to aristocratic Huguenot French parents in the court of Queen Anne. While ser ...

(1703–1793) – Universalist * Morris Dees (born 1936) – attorney, cofounder, chief legal counsel of

Southern Poverty Law Center The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white su ...

Karl W. Deutsch Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (21 July 1912 – 1 November 1992) was a social and political scientist from Prague. He was a professor at MIT, Yale University and Harvard University, as well as Director of Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (International Insti ...

(1912–1992) – international political scientist *

John Dewey John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the f ...

(1859–1952) – author of ''A Common Faith'', Unitarian friend *

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

(1812–1870) – English novelist. * Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) – prison reformer in New England. *

John H. Dietrich John Hassler Dietrich (1878–1957) was a Unitarian minister, born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, is called the "Father of Religious Humanism".Mason Olds, ''American Religious Humanism'' (Fellowship of Religious Humanists 1996) Chapter 4: Jo ...

(1878–1957) – Unitarian minister * James Drummond Dole (1877–1958) – entrepreneur *

Emily Taft Douglas Emily Taft Douglas (April 10, 1899 – January 28, 1994) was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Illinois. She served as a U.S. Representative at-large from 1945 until 1947 and was married to U.S. Senator Paul Douglas from ...

(1899–1994) – U.S. Representative, Illinois * Paul Douglas (1892–1976) – U.S. Senator, also a

Madelyn Dunham Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham ( ; October 26, 1922 – November 2, 2008) was the American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their H ...

(1922–2008) – grandmother of U.S. President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...

Stanley Armour Dunham Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Early life ...

(1918–1992) – grandfather of Barack Obama *

Stanley Ann Dunham Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropology, anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. She is the mother of Barack Obama, the Presidency of ...

(1942–1995) – mother of Barack Obama

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* Richard Eddy (1828–1906) – minister and author of 1886 book ''Universalism in America''. *

James Chuter Ede James Chuter Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede of Epsom, (11 September 1882 – 11 November 1965), was a British teacher, trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He served as Home Secretary under Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951, becomi ...

(1882-1965) - British teacher, trade unionist and politician, Home Secretary (1945-1951) and President of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches * Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) – landscape architect * Samuel Atkins Eliot (1862–1950) – first president of the Unitarians *

Thomas H. Eliot Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (June 14, 1907 – October 14, 1991) was an American lawyer, politician, and academic who served as chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and as a congressman in the United States House of Representatives from ...

(1907–1991) – legislator and educator *

Thomas Lamb Eliot Thomas Lamb Eliot ( – ) was an Oregon pioneer, minister of one of the first churches on the west coast of the U.S., president of the Portland Children's Home, president of the Oregon Humane Society, a director of the Art Association, director o ...

(1841–1936) – minister, founder of First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon, and Reed College *

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champ ...

(1803–1882) – Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist * William Emerson (1873 – 1957) – MIT dean of architecture *

Ephraim Emerton Ephraim Emerton (February 18, 1851 – March 3, 1935) was an American educator, author, translator, and historian prominent in his field of European medieval history. Early life and education Ephraim Emerton was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to ...

(1851–1935) – historian and educator * Marc Estrin (born 1939) – American novelist and political activist *

Charles Carroll Everett Charles Carroll Everett (June 19, 1829 – October 16, 1900) was an American divine and philosopher. Early life and education Charles was born on June 19, 1829, in Brunswick, Maine, to Ebenezer Everett and Joanna Batchedler Prince. His father was ...

(1829–1900) – Unitarian minister and Harvard Divinity professor from Maine * Charles Wesley Emerson (1837-1908) – Unitarian minister and founder of

Emerson College Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...

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* Sophia Lyon Fahs (1876–1978) – liberal religious educator *

Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853; he was the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. A former member of the U.S. House of Represen ...

(1800–1874) – thirteenth President of the United States *

Joseph L. Fisher Joseph Lyman (Joe) Fisher (January 11, 1914 – February 19, 1992) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from 1975 to 1981 and a founder of Resources for the Future. A Democrat and lifelong Unitarian, Fish ...

(1914–1992) – U.S. congressman * Hermann van Flekwyk (d. 1569) - Dutch anabaptist * Benjamin Flower (1755–1829) – English radical writer * James Freeman (1759–1835) – first American preacher to call himself a Unitarian * Caleb Fleming (1698–1779) – English anti-Trinitarian dissenting minister * Robert Fulghum (born 1937) – UU minister and writer *

Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more t ...

(1895–1983) – inventor, engineer *

Margaret Fuller Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movemen ...

(1810–1850) – journalist * János Füzi (1776-1833) - unitarian minister, teacher

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Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (''née'' Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many st ...

(1810–1865) – British novelist and social reformer * Frank Gannett (1876–1957) – newspaper publisher * Greta Gerwig (born 1983) – actor * Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889) – English manufacturer who aided the welfare of the

Spitalfields Spitalfields is a district in the East End of London and within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The area is formed around Commercial Street (on the A1202 London Inner Ring Road) and includes the locale around Brick Lane, Christ Church, ...

silk weavers *

Henry Giles Henry Giles (1 November 1809 – 10 July 1882) was a Unitarian minister and writer. Biography Born in County Wexford to a Roman Catholic family, Giles changed his religious belief several times, becoming a Protestant and a Dissenter,A. Judson ...

(1809–1882) – British-American Unitarian minister and writer * Hilary Goodridge – the lead plaintiff in the landmark case ''

Goodridge v. Department of Public Health ''Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health'', 798 N.E.2d 941 ( Mass. 2003), is a landmark Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in which the Court held that the Massachusetts Constitution requires the state to legally recognize same-sex marria ...

'' * Eleanor Gordon (1852–1942) – minister and member of the Iowa Sisterhood. *

Mike Gravel Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel ( ; May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) was an American politician and writer who served as a United States Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party, and who later in life twice ran for ...

(1930–2021) – U.S. Senator; 2008 Democratic presidential candidate *

Mary H. Graves Mary H. Graves (September 12, 1839 – December 5, 1908) was an American Unitarianism, Unitarian minister, literary editor, and writer of the long nineteenth century. After Julia Ward Howe, Graves was the second woman to be ordained within this Chr ...

(1839–1908) – minister, literary editor, writer * Dana Greeley (1908–1986) – the first president of the Unitarian Universalist Association *

Horace Greeley Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and newspaper editor, editor of the ''New-York Tribune''. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressm ...

(1811–1872) – newspaper editor, presidential candidate, Universalist *

Robert Joseph Greene Robert Joseph Greene (born January 11, 1973) is a Canadian author of gay romance fiction, best known for ''The Gay Icon Classics of the World'', a collection of gay-themed love stories from over 12 different countries. Each story represents a cul ...

(born 1973) – Canadian author and LGBT Activist *

Chester Greenwood Chester Greenwood (4 December 1858 – 5 July 1937) was an American engineer and inventor, known for inventing the earmuffs in 1873. He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating and he asked his grandmother to sew tufts of fur between lo ...

(1858–1937) – inventor * Gary Gygax (1938–2008) – game designer and creator of '' Dungeons and Dragons'', called himself a Christian, "albeit one that is of the

Arian Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God t ...

(Unitarian) persuasion."

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* Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) – American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. * Ellen L. Hamilton (1921–1996) – artist, author, advocate for homeless teens, and member of UUA Board of Trustees (1973–1977). * Phebe Ann Coffin Hannaford (1829–1921) – first lesbian minister, biographer * Frances Harper (1825–1911) – abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer; one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States. Unitarian. *

Donald S. Harrington Donald Szantho Harrington (July 11, 1914 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts – September 16, 2005 in Romania) was an American politician and religious leader. Education Harrington graduated from the University of Chicago in 1939, and ...

(1914–2005) * Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) – theologian, who developed

Process Theology Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000), John B. Cobb (b. 1925) and Eugene H. Peters (1929-1983). Process theology and pr ...

* John Hayward – philosopher of religion and the arts * William Hazlitt (1737–1820) – influential Unitarian minister and father of the writer of the same name *

Oliver Heaviside Oliver Heaviside FRS (; 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was an English self-taught mathematician and physicist who invented a new technique for solving differential equations (equivalent to the Laplace transform), independently developed vec ...

(1850–1925) – self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist *

Iacob Heraclid Iacob Heraclid (or Eraclid; el, Ἰάκωβος Ἡρακλείδης; 1527 – November 5, 1563), born Basilicò and also known as Iacobus Heraclides, Heraclid Despotul, or Despot Vodă ("Despot the Voivode"), was a Greek Maltese soldier, adv ...

(1527–1563) – Greek Maltese adventurer, missionary, Prince of Moldavia *

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...

(1823–1911) – Unitarian Minister and member of the Secret Six who funded John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. *

Lotta Hitschmanova Lotta Hitschmanova, (November 28, 1909 – August 1, 1990) was a Canadian humanitarian. In 1945, she helped to found the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada (now called SeedChange), an international development organization consisting of ...

(1909–1990) – founder, Unitarian Service Committee of Canada * Jessica Holmes (born 1973) – cast member of ''

Air Farce The Royal Canadian Air Farce was a comedy troupe that was active from 1973 to 2019. It is best known for their various Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, first on CBC Radio and later on CBC Television. Although their weekly radio series ...

''. * John Holmes (1904–1962) – poet * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) – American jurist who served as an

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is any member of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the chief justice of the United States. The number of associate justices is eight, as set by the Judiciary Act of 18 ...

from 1902 to 1932. Unitarian *

W. R. Holway William Rea Holway (April 29, 1893 – April 23, 1981), commonly known as W. R. Holway, was an American civil engineer who became prominent in Oklahoma. He is best known for his work on major water supply projects for the city of Tulsa, and on ...

(1893–1981) – engineer in Tulsa, co-founded

All Souls Unitarian Church All Souls Unitarian Church is a Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is one of the largest UU congregations in the world. All Souls Unitarian Church was founded in 1921 by two leading Tulsans from families with Unitarian roo ...

in 1921. * Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – author of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic". *

Roman Hruska Roman Lee Hruska () (August 16, 1904April 25, 1999) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Nebraska. Hruska was known as one of the most vocal conservatives in the Senate during the 1960 ...

(1904–1999) – conservative Republican Senator from Nebraska * David Hubel (1926-2013) – Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine 1981 *

Charles Hudson Charles Hudson may refer to: * Sir Charles Hudson, 1st Baronet (1730–1813), English baronet * Charles Hudson (American politician) (1795–1881), American historian and politician, Congressman in U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts * ...

(1795–1881) – Universalist minister and politician *

Harm Jan Huidekoper Harm Jan Huidekoper (April 3, 1776 – May 22, 1854) was a businessman, philanthropist, essayist and lay theologian, a vice president of the American Unitarian Association, and a founder of the Meadville Theological School. Early life Huidekope ...

(1776-1854) – businessman, essayist and lay theologian, a vice president of the American Unitarian Association, and co-founder of the Meadville Theological School * Michelle Huneven (born August 14, 1953) is an American novelist and journalist. She attends Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena CA.
Blake Hutchison
(born 1980) – filmmaker
Finding a Dream

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Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 18 ...

(1743–1826) – third president of the U.S., unitarian but not affiliated with any sect *

Joseph Johnson Joseph Johnson may refer to: Entertainment *Joseph McMillan Johnson (1912–1990), American film art director *Smokey Johnson (1936–2015), New Orleans jazz musician * N.O. Joe (Joseph Johnson, born 1975), American musician, producer and songwrit ...

(1738–1809) – English publisher *

Jenkin Lloyd Jones Jenkin Lloyd Jones (November 14, 1843 – September 12, 1918) was a Unitarian minister in the United States, and also the uncle of Frank Lloyd Wright. He founded All Souls Unitarian Church in Chicago, Illinois, as well as its community outr ...

(1843–1918) – Unitarian missionary and minister in the United States *

Richard Lloyd Jones Richard Lloyd Jones (April 14, 1873 – December 4, 1963) was an American journalist who was the long-time editor and publisher of the now defunct ''Tulsa Tribune''. He was noted for his controversial positions on political issues. The son of a n ...

(1873–1963) – son of Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor and publisher of the ''Tulsa Tribune'', also co-founder of

in 1921. * Rev. Joseph Fletcher Jordan (1842-1901) – first African American Universalist minister * Annie Bizzell Jordan Willis (1893 - 1977) – daughter of Rev. Joseph Fletcher Jordan, a religious educator and integrationist

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* György Kepes (1906–2001) – visual artist *

Naomi King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high st ...

(born 1970) – Unitarian minister, daughter of author Stephen King *

Thomas Starr King Thomas Starr King (December 17, 1824 – March 4, 1864), often known as Starr King, was an American Universalist and Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War, and Freemason. Starr King spoke z ...

(1824–1864) – minister who during his career served both in Universalist and in Unitarian churches. Namesake of

Starr King School Starr may refer to: People and fictional characters * Starr (surname), a list of people and fictional characters * Starr (given name), a list of people and fictional characters Places United States * Starr, Ohio, an unincorporated comm ...

. *

James R. Killian James Rhyne Killian Jr. (July 24, 1904 – January 29, 1988) was the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959. Early life Killian was born on July 24, 1904, in Blacksburg, South Carolina. His father ...

(1904–1988) – president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology *

W.M. Kiplinger Willard Monroe Kiplinger (January 8, 1891 – August 6, 1967) was best known as the founder of Kiplinger, a publishing company located in Washington, D.C. Kiplinger was born in the Bellefontaine, Ohio, to parents Clarence E. and Cora Miller Kipli ...

(1891–1967) – publisher of the ''Kiplinger Letters'' * Webster Kitchell (1931-2009) - theologian *

Abner Kneeland Abner Kneeland (April 7, 1774 – August 27, 1844) was an American evangelist and theologian who advocated views on women's rights, racial equality, and religious skepticism that were radical for his day. As a young man, Kneeland was a lay preach ...

(1774–1844) – Universalist minister and denominational leader who, after leaving the denomination to become a leader in the

freethought Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and that beliefs should instead be reached by other methods ...

movement, was convicted and jailed for blasphemy. * Richard Knight (1768–1844) – friend, colleague and follower of Joseph Priestley, developed the first method to make platinum malleable. Stored Priestley's library during his escape to America. *

Penney Kome Penney Kome is a Canadian author and journalist, and the former editor of '' Straight Goods'', a Canadian independent online newsmagazine. She posts articles to the journal ''Facts and Opinions'', an employee-owned journalist cooperative, and blog ...

(born 1948) - Canadian author and journalist

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William L. Langer William Leonard Langer (March 16, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American historian, intelligence analyst and policy advisor. He served as chairman of the history department at Harvard University. He was on leave during World War II as h ...

(1896–1977) – historian of diplomacy * Margaret Laurence (1926–1987) – author * Alfred McClung Lee (1906–1992) – sociologist *

John Lewis (philosopher) John Lewis (1 February 1889 – 12 February 1976) was a British Unitarian minister and Marxist philosopher and author of many works on philosophy, anthropology, and religion. Lewis's father, a successful builder and architect, came from a Wels ...

(1889–1976) – British Unitarian minister and

Marxist philosopher Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialectical ...

and author of many works on

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

, and

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

. *

Arthur Lismer Arthur Lismer, LL. D. (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and for his paintings of ships in dazzle camouflage. Early life ...

(1885–1969) – Canadian painter, educator *

Viola Liuzzo Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist. In March 1965, Liuzzo heeded the call of Martin Luther King Jr. and traveled from Detroit, Michigan, to Selma, Alabama, in the wake of the ...

(1925–1965) – civil rights activist *

Mary Livermore Mary Livermore (born Mary Ashton Rice; December 19, 1820May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. Her printed volumes included: ''Thirty Years Too Late,'' first published in 1847 as a prize temperance ...

(1820–1905) – Universalist *

James W. Loewen James William Loewen (February 6, 1942August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, '' Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong''. Early life Loewen ...

(born 1942) – sociologist * Arthur Lovejoy (1873–1962) – founder of the History of Ideas movement

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John P. Marquand John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for '' ...

(1893–1960) – author *

Peter Finch Martineau Peter Finch Martineau (12 June 1755 – 2 December 1847) was an English businessman and a philanthropist, with particular interest in improving the lives of disadvantaged people through education. Life and family A Unitarian, he was born into t ...

(1755–1847) – English businessman and community benefactor * Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk(ová) (1850–1923) – wife of first President of

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas. It may refer to: * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia * Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur * Tomáš Berdych ( ...

(1850–1937) – first President of

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

* Bernard Maybeck (1862–1957) – architect, Unitarian *

Scotty McLennan William L. McLennan, Jr. (born on November 21, 1948), better known as Scotty McLennan, is an American Unitarian Universalist minister, lawyer, professor, published author, public speaker and senior administrator at Stanford University in Stanf ...

(born 1948) – dean for Religious Life at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Minister Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric ** Minister (Catholic Church) * Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department) ** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...

of Stanford Memorial Church, and inspiration for the Reverend

Scot Sloan The comic strip ''Doonesbury'', by Garry Trudeau, features an extensive cast of characters with complex interpersonal relationships; as of 2018, the strip's official website lists twenty-four primary characters, with dozens more having been feat ...

character in the comic strip

Doonesbury ''Doonesbury'' is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States The president ...

Adrian Melott Adrian Lewis Melott (born January 7, 1947) is an American physicist. He is one of the pioneers of using large-scale computing to investigate the formation of large-scale structure in a Universe dominated by dark matter. He later turned his atten ...

(born 1947) – physicist and cosmologist *

Herman Melville Herman Melville (Name change, born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American people, American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance period. Among his bes ...

(1819–1891) – American writer best known for Moby-Dick. * Samuel Freeman Miller (1816–1890) – United States Supreme Court Justice from 1862 to 1890 *

Robert Millikan Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric e ...

(1868–1953) – Nobel Laureate in Physics 1923 for determining the charge of the electron, taught at Caltech in Pasadena CA *

Walt Minnick Walter Clifford Minnick (born September 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is in the western part of the state, and i ...

(born 1942) – Politician and representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district, United States House of Representatives *

Théodore Monod Théodore André Monod (9 April 1902 – 22 November 2000) was a French naturalist, humanist, scholar and explorer. Exploration Early in his career, Monod was made professor at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle'' and founded the '' Inst ...

(1902–2000) – French activist. Founding president of the Francophone Unitarian Association * Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) – anthropologist and social biologist *

Slim Moon Matthew "Slim" Moon (born October 15, 1967) is an American musician and the founder of the American independent music label Kill Rock Stars (KRS). He also started its sister label, 5 Rue Christine. Slim ran KRS from 1991 to 2006, during which ...

(born 1967) - American music producer * Christopher Moore – founder of the Chicago Children's Choir *

Mary Carr Moore Mary Carr Moore (6 August 1873 - 9 January 1957) was an American composer, conductor, vocalist, and music educator of the twentieth century. She is best remembered today for her association with the musical life of the West Coast. Early life ...

(1873–1957) – composer, teacher, Far Western activist for American Music *

Peter Morales Peter Morales is an American former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (2009 to 2017). Morales was the UUA's first Latino president. In the early 2000s, he was the senior minister of the Jefferson Unitarian Church in Jefferson Co ...

– eighth president of the

* Arthur E. Morgan (1878–1975) – human engineer and college president * John Murray (1741–1815) – Universalist minister and leader *

Judith Sargent Murray Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the ...

(1751–1820) – American writer, held a local Universalist preacher's license in the 1790s, an advocate of Universalism and women's rights

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Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the grea ...

(1642-1726) – English physicist and mathematician *

Maurine Neuberger Maurine Neuberger-Solomon, best known as Maurine Neuberger (née Brown; January 9, 1907February 22, 2000) was an American politician who served as a United States senator for the State of Oregon from November 1960 to January 1967. She was the fo ...

(1907–2000) – U.S. Senator *

Paul Newman Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three ...

(1925–2008) – actor, film director * Andrews Norton (1786-1853) – Once known as the “Unitarian Pope” * Joseph Nye (1937-Present) Rhodes Scholar, Former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and one of the most influential figures in American foreign policy history by Foreign Policy Magazine

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Keith Olbermann Keith Theodore Olbermann (; born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer. Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and r ...

(born 1959) – news anchor, political commentator, and sports journalist *

Mary White Ovington Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951) was an American suffragist, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Biography Mary White Ovington was born April 11, 1865, ...

(1865–1951) – NAACP founder

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Bob Packwood Robert William Packwood (born September 11, 1932) is an American retired lawyer and politician from Oregon and a member of the Republican Party. He resigned from the United States Senate, under threat of expulsion, in 1995 after allegations of s ...

(born 1932) –

from

Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...

(1969–1995) *

John Palmer John Palmer may refer to: People Politicians * John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician *Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician *John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York *John Palmer (1842–1905) ...

(1742–1786) – English Unitarian minister * David Park (1911–1960) – West coast painter. * Isaac Parker (1768–1830) – Massachusetts Congressman and

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

, including Chief Justice of the

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the court of last resort, highest court in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Although the claim is disputed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the SJC claims the di ...

from 1814 to his death. *

Theodore Parker Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincol ...

(1810–1860) – Unitarian minister and transcendentalist *

Linus Pauling Linus Carl Pauling (; February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific top ...

(1901–1994) – Nobel Laureate for Peace and for Chemistry *

Randy Pausch Randolph Frederick Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learn ...

(1960–2008) – computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Author of ''The Last Lecture'' * Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979) – astronomer and astrophysicist. *

Richard Peacock Richard Peacock (9 April 1820 – 3 March 1889) was an English engineer, one of the founders of locomotive manufacturer Beyer, Peacock and Company. Early life and education Born in Swaledale, Yorkshire, Richard Peacock was educated at Leeds G ...

(1820–1889) – British locomotive engineer and philanthropist *

Laura Pedersen Laura Pedersen is an American author and playwright. She worked at American Stock Exchange before writing her first book, ''Play Money''. Early life and education Pedersen is the only child of John and Ellen Pedersen. She grew up in Amherst, New ...

(born 1965) – American author, journalist, playwright and humorist. Books and plays with humanist themes. Lifelong UU, Interfaith minister. *

Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins ( Clinton; pen name S. M. Perkins and S. M. C. Perkins; April 23, 1824 – December 2, 1905) was an American Universalist minister, social reformer, lecturer, editor, and author of Sunday school books. Early in life ...

(1824-1905) – American Universalist minister, social reformer, lecturer, editor, author *

Melissa Harris-Perry Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry (born October 2, 1973), formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, is an American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. Harris-Perry hoste ...

(born 1973) – professor, author, and political commentator on MSNBC hosting the ''Melissa Harris-Perry'' TV program. *

William James Perry William Perry may refer to: Business * William Perry (Queensland businessman) (1835–1891), businessman and politician in Queensland, Australia * William H. Perry (businessman) (1832–1906), American businessman and entrepreneur Politics and ...

, (born 1927) – former United States Secretary of Defense *

William T. Pheiffer William Townsend Pheiffer (July 15, 1898 – August 16, 1986) was an American lawyer, Republican politician and diplomat. He was a Representative from New York in the 77th Congress and ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Biography He w ...

(1898–1986) – American lawyer/politician * Utah Phillips, (1935–2008) – American singer, songwriter and homeless advocate * William Pickering (1910–2004) – space explorer * James Pierpont (1822–1893) – songwriter ("Jingle Bells") *

Daniel Pinkham Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. Early life and education Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, into a prominent family engaged in the manufacture of patent medicines ( ...

(1923–2006) – composer * John Platts (1775–1837) – English Unitarian minister and author *

Van Rensselaer Potter Van Rensselaer Potter II (August 27, 1911 – September 6, 2001) was an American biochemist, oncologist, and bioethicist. Born in northeast South Dakota, Potter was professor of oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the ...

(1911–2001) – global bioethicist *

Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley (; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted exp ...

(1733–1804) – discoverer of oxygen and Unitarian minister * George Pullman (1831–1897) – Universalist * Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) – American writer, poet * Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) – British children's writer of the famous "Peter Rabbit" stories

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* Mary Jane Rathbun (1860–1943) – marine zoologist * James Reeb (1927–1965) – civil-rights martyr *

Curtis W. Reese Curtis Williford Reese (September 3, 1887 – June 5, 1961) was a Unitarian minister and humanist. He was the dean of the Abraham Lincoln Center in Chicago. Raised in a conservative Southern Baptist environment, his seminary studies of biblical cr ...

(1887–1961) – religious humanist * Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) – actor and Unitarian Universalist * James Relly (c. 1722–1778) – Universalist * Paul Revere (1735–1818) – American silversmith, industrialist and patriot * David Ricardo (1772–1823) – British classical economist noted for creating the concept of comparative advantage * Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978) – songwriter / singer / activist * Mark Ritchie (politician), Mark Ritchie (born 1951) – Minnesota Secretary of State (2007–) * Hugh Ronalds (1760-1833) – British horticulturalist and nurseryman * Francis Ronalds (1788-1873) – English inventor of the Electric telegraph#First working systems, electric telegraph * Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) – very active in the Universalist movement, although never technically joined a Universalist congregation

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* Mary Augusta Safford (1851–1927) – Unitarian Minister and leader of the Iowa Sisterhood. * Leverett Saltonstall (1892–1979) –

from Massachusetts * Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831–1917) – one of the Secret Six who funded John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry; social scientist and memorialist of transcendentalism. * May Sarton (1912–1995) – poet * Ellery Schempp (born 1940) – physicist who was the primary student involved in the landmark 1963 United States Supreme Court case of ''Abington School District v. Schempp'', which declared that public school-sanctioned Bible readings were unconstitutional. * Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur Schlesinger (1917–2007) – American historian * Richard Schultes (1915–2001) – explorer of the Amazon jungle * William F. Schulz (born 1949) – former executive director of Amnesty International USA, former president of the

* Ferdinand Schumacher (1822–1908) – one of the founders of companies which merged to become the Quaker Oats Company. * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) – Nobel Peace Laureate 1953, late in life unitarian; honorary member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (Unitarian Friend) * Pete Seeger (1919–2014) – folk singer and song writer * Roy Wood Sellars (1880–1973) – philosopher of religious humanism * Rod Serling (1924–1975) – writer; creator of ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'' television series. * Martha Sharp (1905-1999) – an American Unitarian who was named by the Yad Vashem organization as "Righteous Among the Nations." * Waitstill Sharp (1902-1983) – a Unitarian minister who along with his wife Martha were named by Yad Vashem as "Righteous Among the Nations." * Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861) – Unitarian and chief justice of the

. Under his leadership, the court convicted

, a former Universalist, of blasphemy. * Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) – colonel of the 54th Massachusetts, first regiment of free blacks in the Union Army. * Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) – Nobel Laureate in Economics 1978, artificial intelligence pioneer * Rev. William G. Sinkford (born 1946) – seventh president of the

"Biographical sketch: The Reverend William G. Sinkford" * Fred Small (singer-songwriter), Fred Small (born 1952) - Singer-songwriter and UU minister. * Caroline Soule (1824–1903) – American writer, ordained Universalist minister, first woman ordained as a minister in the UK in 1880 * Vanessa Southern, minister of the Unitarian Church in Summit * Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910) – Australian suffragette and political reformer *Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) – American abolitionist and anarchist. * Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – American suffragist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement * Pete Stark (1931–2020) – U.S. Representative, D-California. * Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962) – Arctic explorer and champion of Native American rights * Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923) – Prussian-American electrical engineer and mathematician * Adlai Stevenson II, Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) – Illinois governor, and Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956 * George D. Stoddard (1897 – 1981) - president of University of Illinois and the University of the State of New York. * Lucy Stone (1818—1893) American orator, abolitionist, and suffragist * Joseph Story (1779–1845) – United States Supreme Court Justice from 1811 to 1845. * Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000) – mathematician * Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797) – pioneer cotton spinner and philanthropic employer. * Margaret Sutton (1903–2001) – author of the Judy Bolton series and other children's books *Jade Sylvan, Jude Sylvan (b. 1982) American poet, author, performer, producer, and performing artist and UU minister.

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* William Howard Taft (1857–1930) – President of the United States (1909-1913) and Chief Justice of the United States * Robin Tanner (minister), Robin Tanner - American Unitarian Universalist Minister and advocate for LBGT rights and voting rights. * Clementia Taylor (1810–1908) – women's activist and radical * Joyce Tischler - Founder of Animal Legal Defense Fund, referred to as the "Mother of Animal Law." * Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997) – American astronomer who discovered Pluto * Amos G. Throop (1811–1894) – Founder of Throop University, which later became the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where he was also the city's third mayor. Throop Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, a Unitarian Universalist congregation founded in 1923, was named after him.

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* William Vidler (1758–1816) – English Universalist and Unitarian minister * Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – writer

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* George Wald (1906–1997) – Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1967 * Zach Wahls (born 1991) – LGBT activist, Iowa State Senator-elect * Caroline Farrar Ware (1899–1990) – historian and social activist * William D. Washburn (1831–1912) – Universalist American politician and businessman * Daniel Webster (1782–1852) * Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) – poet, singer and songwriter (Unitarian Universalist and Muslim) * Alfred Tredway White (1846–1921) – housing reformer and philanthropist * Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – philosopher (Unitarian Friend) * Willis Rodney Whitney (1868–1958) – the "Father of Basic Research in Industry" * Thomas Whittemore (Universalist), Thomas Whittemore (1800–1861) – Universalist Minister, author and publisher * David Rhys Williams (1890–1970) – American Unitarian minister * Iolo Morganwg, Edward Williams (bardic name Iolo Morganwg) (1747–1826) – Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, forger * William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) – physician and author * Samuel Williston (1861–1963) – dean of America's legal profession. * Edwin H. Wilson (1898–1993) – Unitarian Humanist leader * Ross Winans (1796–1877) – inventor and railroad pioneer * Joanne Woodward (born 1930) – actress, wife of

* Theodore Paul Wright (1895–1970) – aeronautical engineer * Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) – among Wright's architectural works were Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, and First Unitarian Society of Madison, First Unitarian Society in Madison, Wisconsin. * Quincy Wright (1890–1970) – author of ''A Study of War'' * Richard Wright (Unitarian), Richard Wright (1764–1836) – English Unitarian minister and missionary * Sewall Wright (1889–1988) – evolutionary theorist. * N. C. Wyeth (1882–1945) – illustrator and painter

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* Owen D. Young (1874–1962) – president and chairman of General Electric. Founder of Radio Corporation of America which helped found National Broadcasting Company. Drafted the Young Plan after World War I."A devoted lifelong Universalist, today the peace tower at the Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington D.C. is named in Young’s honor." Biographical information on Owen D. Young. http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/Young/Home.html * Whitney Young, Whitney M. Young (1921–1971) – social work administrator

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* John II Sigismund Zápolya (1540–1570) – king of Hungary, then prince of Transylvania.

Footnotes, citations and references

External links

Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography

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