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Here are some famous Unitarian Universalists
Among the list of these famous Unitarian Universalists are people that fall into the categories of Politics, Arts and Humanities, Education, Humanitarians, Philosophy, Science, Medicine, and Social Reform. All of the names are hyperlinked to a page that describes who they were in history. Enjoy!
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
- James Luther Adams (1901-1994)
- John Adams (1735-1826)
- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899)
- Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891-1972)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) (also a Quaker)
- Arius (256-336) (the original 'small-u' Unitarian)
B
- E. Burdette Backus (1888-1955) (originally a Universalist)
- Roger Nash Baldwin (1884-1981), founder of ACLU
- Adin Ballou (1803-1890) (Universalist)
- Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) (Universalist and Unitarian)
- P. T. Barnum (1810-1891) (Universalist)
- Clara Barton (1821-1912) (Universalist)
- Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
- Henry Bergh (1811-1888), founder of the ASPCA
- Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955)
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913 or 1914) (unconfirmed)
- James Blanchard (b. 1942)
- John Bowring (1792-1872)
- Ray Bradbury (b. 1920)
- Andre Braugher (b. 1962)
- Antoinette Brown (1825-1921)
- Olympia Brown (1835-1926) (Universalist)
- Orestes Brownson (1803-1876) (Universalist)
- Percival Brundage (1892-1979)
- Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
- Celia Burr Burleigh (1826-1875)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796) (Unitarian)
C
- John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)
- Alice Cary (1820-1871) (Universalist)
- Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) (Universalist)
- Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914)
- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
- Lydia Child (1802-1880)
- Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904)
- William Cohen (b.1940)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907)
- e e cummings (1894-1962)
- Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888)
D
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- George de Benneville (1703-1793) (Universalist)
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)
- Paul Douglas (1892-1976) (also a Quaker)
E
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- Sophia Fahs (1876-1978)
- Fannie Farmer (1857-1915)
- Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)
- Eliza Follen
- John Murray Forbes (1813-1898)
- Robert Fulghum (b. 1937)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) (Transcendentalist and Unitarian)
G
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
- William Godwin (1756-1836) (Sandemanian)
- Horace Greeley (1811-1872) (Universalist)
- Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- Nina Grieg (1845-1935)
H
- Frances Harper (1825-1911)
- Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) (Universalist)
- Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) (Transcendentalist)
- Samuel Hoar (1778-1856)
- Edith Holden (1871-1920)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
- Mark Hopkins (1813-1878)
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
J
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (Unitarian, once wrote that if there were a Unitarian church near him, he would become a member, but attended an Episcopalian church.)
- Julian of Norwich (c.1342-c.1413) (proto-universalist)
K
- Thomas Starr King (1824–1864)
- Chuck Knipp (also a Quaker)
- Ray Kurzweil (b. 1948)
L
- Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928)
- Margaret Laurence (1926-1987)
- Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965)
- Mary Livermore (1820-1905) (Universalist)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
M
- Horace Mann (1796-1859)
- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
- James Martineau (1805-1900)
- Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Transcendentalist)
- Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
- Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872)
- John Murray (1741-1815) (Universalist)
N
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (Unitarian)
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
O
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- Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
- Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
- Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
- Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974)
- George Pullman (1831-1897) (Universalist)
Q
- Josiah Quincy (1744-1777) (Universalist)
R
- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
- James Relly (c.1722-1778)
- Paul Revere (1735-1818)
- Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978)
- George Ripley (1802-1880)
- Rammohun Roy (1772-1833) (also a Hindu)
- Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) (universalist)
S
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) (he was a honorary member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, though)
- Charles E. Scripps (b. 1920)
- Pete Seeger (b. 1919)
- Rod Serling (1924-1975)
- Michael Servetus (1511-1553)
- Adlai Stevenson (1835-1914)
- Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
- Robert Stout (1844-1930)
- Emily Stowe (1813-1903)
- Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
T
- William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) (Transcendentalist)
- Amos G. Throop (1811-1894) (Universalist)
- Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997)
W
- Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920)
- Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
- Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1759)
- Paul Dudley White (1886-1973)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (Transcendentalist)
- Earl Morse Wilbur (1886-1956)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
- N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
Y
- Owen D. Young (1874-1962) (Universalist)
- Whitney Young (1921-1971)
