List of Freemasons - B

B

  • Frederick H. Babbitt (1859–1931), American politician, president Vermont State Senate 1912-13
  • Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782), European composer. Lodge of Nine Muses No. 235, London.
  • Michael Baigent (1948 - ), British author and former editor of Freemasonry Today
  • John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven (1874–1941), British Politician, Member of Parliament (1910–1925), Governor-General of Australia (1925–1931). Grand Master of New South Wales (1928–1930)
  • Simmons Jones Baker (1775–1853), US physician, planter, and legislator. Grand Master of Masons of North Carolina in 1832 and again in 1840. Laid the cornerstone of the state capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina on July 4, 1833.
  • Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian revolutionary. Lodge Il Progresso Sociale, Florence 1864,
  • Teodor Balş (1805-1857), Romanian nobleman, briefly ruler of Moldavia.
  • Nicolae Bălcescu (1819–1852), Romanian historian, journalist and 1848 revolutionary.
  • Henry Baldwin (1780–1844) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Master of Lodge No. 45 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1805
  • Harold Ballard (1903–1990), National Hockey League team owner (Toronto Maple Leafs). Corinthian No. 481, GRC, Toronto, ON.
  • Joseph Banks (1743–1820), English botanist Inverness Lodge, No. 4367
  • Malcolm Barclay-Harvey (1890–1969), British politician and colonial administrator, Member of Parliament(1923–1929, 1931–1939), Grand Master of Scotland (1949–1953)
  • Francis Stillman Barnard (1856–1936), Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Raised: Victoria Columbia No. 1. April 17, 1887
  • Thomas John Barnardo (1845–1905), British philanthropist
  • Simion Bărnuţiu (1808–1864), Romanian philosopher and politician.
  • Diego Martínez Barrio (1883–1962), Prime minister of Spain and founder of the Republican Union Party
  • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), Sculptor of New York's Statue of Liberty. Lodge Alsace-Lorraine, Paris.
  • Edmund Barton (1849–1920), first Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, Speaker of the legislative assembly. Initiated: Australian Lodge of Harmony No. 556 English Constitution in Sydney on 13 March 1878
  • William "Count" Basie (1904–1984), Jazz orchestra leader and composer. Wisdom Lodge No. 102 (Prince Hall), Chicago.
  • Frederick Bates (1777–1825), Governor of Missouri.
  • Thomas Bath (1875–1956), Australian politician, former Western Australian Leader of the Opposition, involved in founding of Lodge Bonnie Doon, 839, S.C.
  • Charles Bathurst (1867–1958), Governor-General of New Zealand, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand
  • Birch Bayh (1928 – ), US Senator from Indiana from 1962–1981.
  • Daniel Carter Beard (1850–1941), Founder of the Boy Scouts. Initiated in Mariner's Lodge No. 67, New York City, New York, and later affiliated with Cornucopia Lodge 563, Flushing, New York.
  • Honoré Beaugrand (1848–1906), Politician, journalist, Fall River, MA Lodge 1873; assisted in founding Montreal Emancipation Lodge in 1897.
  • Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728–1810), French soldier, diplomat and spy. Raised: January, 1769, Lodge of Immortality No. 376, London
  • Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1747–1812), Signer of the US Constitution, first Grand Master of Masons in Delaware.
  • Andrew Bell (1726–1809), Scottish printer, founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Francis Bell (1851–1936), Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Edvard Beneš (1884–1948), President of Czechoslovakia (1935–1939, 1945–1948). Ian Amos Komensky Lodge No. 1, Prague.
  • R. B. Bennett (1870–1947), Prime Minister of Canada 1930–1935.
  • Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861), Italian politician.
  • Lloyd Bentsen {1921–2006}, US Senator from Texas, Nominee (Democratic Party) for Vice President - 1988
  • Irving Berlin (1888–1989), Composer. Munn Lodge No.190, New York.
  • Silvio Berlusconi (1936 – ), Italian media tycoon and politician, Prime Minister of Italy. Initiated in Lodge Propaganda Due - Expelled in 1981 (some say 1976) by the Grand Orient of Italy
  • Ted Berry (1905–2000), American politician, first African American mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–1898), Puerto Rican politician and statesman. Logia Unión Germana, San Germán, Puerto Rico.
  • George Valentin Bibescu (1880–1941), Romanian aviation pioneer, Grand Master of Romanian Grand Lodge from 1911 to 1916.
  • Henry Harrison Bingham (1841–1912), Union Army officer during the American Civil War, US Congressman from Pennsylvania. Chartiers Lodge #297, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
  • Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956), American explorer, discovered the ruins of Machu Picchu. Hiram Lodge No. 1, Connecticut
  • Stanislav Binički (1872–1942), Serbian musician
  • Francis Bischof (1904–1979), Queensland Australia Police Commissioner from 1958–1969.
  • Henry Bishop, English composer of Home! Sweet Home!
  • Hugo Black (1886–1971), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937–1971). Birmingham Temple Lodge No. 836, Birmingham, Alabama
  • Ken Blackwell (1948 - ) American politician and activist, mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1979 to 1980 and Ohio Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007.
  • John Blair, Jr. (1732–1800), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1789–96), and Grand Master of Virginia from 1778 to 1784.
  • Mel Blanc (1908–1989), American voice actor. Mid Day Lodge No. 188, Oregon
  • Samuel Blatchford (1820–1893), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1882–1893)
  • Moses Bloom (1833–1893), Iowa politician.
  • Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819–1872), Romanian poet, politician, 1848 revolutionary.
  • Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), Leader of South American independence. (Initiated: Cádiz, Spain) Founding brother of Lodge Order and Liberty No. 2, Peru, 1824
  • Cezar Bolliac (1813–1881), Romanian politician, amateur archaeologist, journalist and Romantic poet.
  • Shadrach Bond (1773–1832), American politician, first Governor of Illinois.
  • Andrés Bonifacio (1863–1897), Leader during Philippine Revolution from Spain. Taliba Lodge No. 165 under Gran Oriente Español (Spanish Grand Lodge).
  • Omar Bongo (1935–2009), President of Gabon.
  • Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom (1837–1898), British politician
  • Robert Borden (1854–1937), Prime Minister of Canada. St. Andrew's Lodge No. 1, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), American sculptor, planned and started sculpture on Mount Rushmore. Raised in Howard Lodge No. 35.
  • Lincoln Borglum (1912–1986), Son of Gutzon Borglum, completed the Mount Rushmore project; raised in Battle River Lodge No. 92.
  • Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012), American Actor. Abingdon Lodge No. 48; however another source indicates Melrose Lodge No. 63, California
  • James Boswell, (1740–1795) British Biographer, raised in Canongate Kilwinning Lodge at Edinburgh, 1759
  • Pik Botha (1932 - ), South African politician
  • Mackenzie Bowell (1823–1917), Prime Minister of Canada from 1894–1896
  • James Bowie (1796–1836), Frontiersman, Inventor of the Bowie knife. L'Humble Chaumiere Lodge No. 19 Opelousas, Louisiana.
  • William D. Boyce (1858–1929), founder of the Boy Scouts of America
  • William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1704–1746), Jacobite politician, Grand Master of Scotland (1742–1743)
  • Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), 19th century Atheist and Republican MP, Grand Lodge des Philadelphes, London (resigned his affiliation with English Freemasonry in 1874, but maintained an affiliation with a French Lodge)
  • Omar Bradley (1893–1981), US General. West Point Lodge No. 877, New York
  • Tom Bradley (1917–1998) American politician, Mayor of Los Angeles, California, 1973 to 1993.
  • Donald Bradman, (1908–2001) Australian Cricketer. Initiated Lodge Arcadia No 177 UGLNSW on 11 June 1920
  • Johannes Brahms, (1833–1897) German Composer.
  • Christoffel Brand (1797–1875), first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cape Colony
  • Joseph Brant (1743–1807), Principal Chief of the Six Nations Indians. Initiated in Lodge No. 417, 1776. First Master of Lodge No. 11, Mohawk Village (near Brantford) in 1798.
  • Dimitrie Brătianu ((1818–1892), Prime Minister of Romania (1881).
  • Ion C. Brătianu (1821–1891), Romanian politician, three-time Prime Minister of Romania.
  • David Brearley (1745–1790), Signer of the U.S. Constitution on behalf of New Jersey, the first Grand Master of Masons for the State of New Jersey.
  • Anders Behring Breivik, arrested for 2011 Norway attacks. Was a member of Lodge St. Olaus T.D. Tre Søiler No. 8 in Oslo. Formally excluded (expelled) from Freemasonry in 2011.
  • Walter Breuning. World's oldest man at the time of his death of natural causes on April 14, 2011, aged 114 years, six months, twenty-five days. Member of Great Falls Lodge No. 118, Great Falls Montana for over 85 years.
  • Geraldo Bright, English bandleader known as "Geraldo"
  • Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth 1948–1965.
  • William A. Brodie, laid the foundation stone of the Statue of Liberty on August 5, 1884 as Grand Master of New York.
  • Henry P. H. Bromwell (1823–1903) U.S. Congressman (1865–1869), Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois in 1865. Author of Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry.
  • Henry Brougham, Scottish abolitionist and founder of Edinburgh Review. Raised in Fortrose Lodge, Stornway, Scotland
  • James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, British politician and colonial administrator, Governor-General of India (1848–1956), Grand Master of Scotland (1836–1838)
  • Clarence J. Brown, newspaper publisher, Ohio politician, U.S. Representative,
  • John Brown Abolitionist, Hudson Lodge No. 68, Hudson, Ohio
  • Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin, Scottish nobleman, Grand Master of Scotland (1761–1763)
  • James Bruce, (1730–1794) British explorer. Canongate Kilwinning Lodge
  • Samuel von Brukenthal, Baron of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • William Jennings Bryan, American politician, United States Congressman, U. S. Secretary of State and presidential candidate. Lincoln Lodge No. 19, Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • James Buchanan, U.S. President, Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  • Frank Buckles, last living American veteran of World War I.
  • Charles Buls, mayor of Brussels
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, politician and writer
  • Luther Burbank, US horticulturist, botanist, agricultural science pioneer. Santa Rosa Lodge No. 57,
  • Arleigh Burke, US Admiral Supreme Temple Architect (Honored in 1997)
  • Edmund Burke, Irish politician and philosopher
  • Robert Burnaby, English explorer and businessman. First Past Master of Victoria Lodge No. 1085, District Grand Master (English) of British Columbia.
  • David G. Burnet, statesman, first President of the Republic of Texas (interim), Holland Lodge No.1
  • Frederick Russell Burnham, the American-born Victorian adventurer known as the father of Scouting. Chief Commissioner, Excelsior Lodge No. 195.
  • Conrad Burns, US Senator from Montana
  • Robert Burns, National poet of Scotland. St. David's Lodge No. 174, Tarbolton.
  • Harold Hitz Burton, US Associate Justice (1945–1958)
  • Richard Francis Burton, English explorer
  • Billy Butlin, British philanthropist
  • Daniel Butterfield General of the Federal Army during the U.S. Civil War, Medal of Honor recipient and composer of the bugal song taps. Metropolitan Lodge No. 273, New York City.
  • Cyriel Buysse, Flemish nationalist writer
  • Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia, United States Senator from Virginia. Hiram Lodge No. 21, Winchester, Virginia.
  • Richard E. Byrd, US Admiral. Initiated in Federal Lodge No. 1 and founded First Antarctic Lodge No. 777 in 1935
  • James F. Byrnes, US Associate Justice (1941–1942)

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