{"id":490,"date":"2015-07-09T19:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T19:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/23.235.208.12\/~beacon38\/?page_id=490"},"modified":"2015-09-18T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:39:35","slug":"famous-unitarians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/famous-unitarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Unitarians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notable Unitarians<\/h3>\n

The following list shows a sample of notable Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists. Note that for privacy reasons, we have listed people who are alive only if they have publically spoken about their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
John Adams<\/td>\n1735-1826<\/td>\nPresident of the United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Quincy Adams<\/td>\n1767-1848<\/td>\nPresident of the United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Louisa May Alcott<\/td>\n1832-1888<\/td>\nAbolitionist, Author of Little Women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Horatio Alger<\/td>\n1832-1899<\/td>\nUnitarian Minister, Author of Juvenile Fiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan B. Anthony<\/td>\n1820-1906<\/td>\nActivist, Publisher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P. T. Barnum<\/td>\n1810-1891<\/td>\nShowman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k<\/td>\n1881-1945<\/td>\nHungarian Composer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clara Barton<\/td>\n1821-1912<\/td>\nFounder of the American Red Cross<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sir Tim Berners-Lee<\/td>\nb. 1955<\/td>\nPhysicist, Inventor of the World Wide Web<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Burns<\/td>\n1759-1796<\/td>\nNational Poet of Scotland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/td>\n1772-1834<\/td>\nPoet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Coyne<\/td>\n1910-2012<\/td>\nGovernor of the Bank of Canada (1955-1961)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
e. e. cummings<\/td>\n1894-1962<\/td>\npoet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Dennison<\/td>\n1905-1981<\/td>\nMayor of Toronto (1966-1972)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charles Dickens<\/td>\n1812-1870<\/td>\nAuthor of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dorothea Dix<\/td>\n1802-1887<\/td>\nTeacher, Children\u2019s Author, Mental Health Care Advocate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/td>\n1803-1882<\/td>\nUnitarian Minister, Lecturer, Essayist, Poet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lloyd Francis<\/td>\n1920-2007<\/td>\nMP for Ottawa Area Ridings, Parliamentary Speaker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Fulghum<\/td>\nb. 1937<\/td>\nUnitarian Minister, Author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Buckminster Fuller<\/td>\n1895-1983<\/td>\nEngineer, Designer, Inventor, Futurist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edvard Grieg<\/td>\n1843-1907<\/td>\nNorwegian Composer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edmund Halley<\/td>\n1656-1742<\/td>\nAstronomer, Discoverer of Halley\u2019s comet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/td>\n1804-1864<\/td>\nAuthor of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova<\/td>\n1909-1990<\/td>\nCanadian Humanitarian, Founder of USC Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bruce Hyer<\/td>\nb. 1946<\/td>\nMP for Thunder Bay-Superior North (since 2008)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Jefferson<\/td>\n1743-1826<\/td>\nPresident of the United States, Author of U.S. Declaration of Independence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Margaret Laurence<\/td>\n1926-1987<\/td>\nCanadian Author of The Stone Angel and The Diviners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arthur Lismer<\/td>\n1885-1969<\/td>\nToronto Painter, Member of the Group of Seven<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dorothy Livesay<\/td>\n1909-1996<\/td>\nCanadian Poet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/td>\n1807-1882<\/td>\nPoet, Educator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Herman Melville<\/td>\n1819-1891<\/td>\nAuthor of Moby Dick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Molson<\/td>\n1763-1836<\/td>\nBrewer, Member of Legislative Council of Lower Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Munsch<\/td>\nb. 1945<\/td>\nCanadian Author of Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Newman<\/td>\n1925-2008<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Florence Nightingale<\/td>\n1820-1910<\/td>\nNurse, Humanitarian, Statistician, Inventor of the Pie Chart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Linus Pauling<\/td>\n1901-1994<\/td>\nChemist, Peace Activist, Double Nobel Laureate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Randy Pausch<\/td>\n1960-2008<\/td>\nComputer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Author of The Last Lecture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sylvia Plath<\/td>\n1932-1963<\/td>\nPoet, Author of The Bell Jar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beatrix Potter<\/td>\n1866-1943<\/td>\nConservationist, Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph Priestley<\/td>\n1733-1804<\/td>\nNatural Philosopher, Political Theorist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christopher Reeve<\/td>\n1952-2004<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May Sarton<\/td>\n1912-1995<\/td>\nPoet, Author of Coming Into Eighty and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alyson Schafer<\/td>\n<\/td>\nToronto Parenting Expert, TV Host, Author of Ain\u2019t Misbehavin, Honey, I Wrecked The Kids, and Breaking the Good Mom Myth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pete Seeger<\/td>\n1919-2014<\/td>\nMusician, Humanitarian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rod Serling<\/td>\n1924-1975<\/td>\nScreenwriter, TV Producer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Servetus<\/td>\n1511-1553<\/td>\nTheologian, Unitarian Martyr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adlai Stevenson<\/td>\n1900-1965<\/td>\nPolitician, Diplomat, U.S. Presidential Candidate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emily Stowe<\/td>\n1813-1903<\/td>\nToronto Physician, Suffragette, First Woman Doctor in Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Howard Taft<\/td>\n1857-1930<\/td>\nPresident of the United States, President of the National Conference of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian Churches<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Henry David Thoreau<\/td>\n1817-1862<\/td>\nAuthor, Poet, Abolitionist, Naturalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luigi Von Kunits<\/td>\n1870-1931<\/td>\nFounder and Conductor of the Toronto Symphony, Violinist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kurt Vonnegut<\/td>\n1922-2007<\/td>\nAuthor of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Josiah Wedgwood<\/td>\n1730-1795<\/td>\nPotter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walt Whitman<\/td>\n1819-1892<\/td>\nPoet, Humanist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Wollstonecraft<\/td>\n1759-1797<\/td>\nWoman\u2019s Rights Advocate, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Joseph Workman<\/td>\n1805-1894<\/td>\nToronto Psychiatrist, Educator, Mental Health Advocate, Co-Founder of Unitarian Congregation in Toronto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frank Lloyd Wright<\/td>\n1867-1959<\/td>\nArchitect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N.C. Wyeth<\/td>\n1882-1945<\/td>\nIllustrator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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