Odd Fellows, unlike many other organizations, makes no special effort to attract “name” members. It is a warm, personal type of affiliation that doesn’t rely on “rubbing elbows” with the famous to give them satisfaction. Take note that these names are placed below only for educational purposes and not for publicity:

Red Skelton, famous American Comedian

Otto Kerner, 33rd Governor of Illinois

George W.P. Hunt, 1st Governor of Arizona

John Powers “The Kentucky Giant”. One of PT Barnum’s Famous Side Show performers

John Nance Garner 32nd U.S. Vice President From Texas

Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Chancellor of U.K. (1830-1834)

Grenville M Dodge, Union General, chief engineer for Union Pacific Transcontinental Railroad

John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada

Robert C. Byrd, U.S. Senator (1989-2010)

Charles Lindbergh U.S. Aviator, First to fly solo across the Atlantic

Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first U.S. female dentist (Rebekah)

Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of U.K. (1951-1955)

Thomas Hendricks, 21st U.S. Vice President

Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California

William Jennings Bryan, 41st U.S. Secretary of State

Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the United States (1933-1945) and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. (Rebekah)

Gustaf V. King of Sweden

Rutherford Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877–1881)

William Henry McMaster, 10th Governor of South Dakota

Thomas Bennett, 5th Governor of Idaho

Oscar Stanton De Priest, past member of U.S. House of Representatives

Thomas Sterling, Past U.S. Senator

Ernest McFarland, Past U.S. Senator

Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Vice President (1869–1873)

Earl Warren, U.S. Chief Justice (1953–1969)

William Mckinley, 25th U.S. President

Charlie Chaplin, famous actor and comedian

George W. Wright, Past U.S. Senator

Thomas Wildey, founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in North America

Olav V. King of Norway

Jermaine “JJ” Soto, Muay Thai World Champion

Williman Bankhead, 47th speaker of U.S. House of Representatives

Henry S. Rosenthal, Film and Documentary Producer, actor, and drummer from influential punk band “Crime”

Frances Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, confidante of Queen Elizabeth, maternal grandmother of Princess Diana.

Frank Steunenberg, 4th Governor of Idaho

Marion Kane Elston, noted synchronized swimming coach

Edwin Carl Johnson, 26th Governor of Colorado

Levi Stanley & Matilda Joles Stanley, King and Queen of the Gypsies

William Borah, Past U.S. Senator

Harry G. Leslie, past speaker of Indiana House of Representatives, 33rd Governor of Indiana

William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University

Alfred S. Pinkerton of Worcester MA, lawyer, State Senator, and President of the Massachusetts Senate and Grand Sire of the IOOF in 1898.

Nathan Kelley, famous U.S. architect, designed the Ohio statehouse

William Mulholland, civil engineer and designer of Los Angeles Aquaduct

Sir Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1923-1937)

Henry Rathbone, past member of U.S. House of Representatives

Paul Mariner, English International Football Player

Burl Ives, famous singer actor and writer

Homer Stille Cummings, 55th U.S. Attorney General

Solomon Meredith, Union Brevet Major General

Robert Melville Bailey, notable Bahamian Educator (GUOOF)

Samuel Pasco, Past U.S. Senator from Florida

Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President (1933–1945)

Jacob De Cardova Grand Master of Louisiana Instituted the First Lodge in Texas in Houston Lone Star No. 1 ….. July 25, 1838

Hugo Black Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1937-1971)

Francis M. Drake, Past Governor of Iowa

Warren Harding, 29th U.S. President (1921–1923)

Samuel Brenton, past member of U.S. House of Representatives in Congress

Anson Jones, 4th and last President of the Republic of Texas (1844-1846)

Wyatt Earp, iconic American Lawman

Chase Orborn, 27th Governor of Michigan

Joseph McLeskey, prominent Reverend

John Raker, past member of U.S. House of Representatives

Charles M. Russell, famous Western landscape artist.

George IV,  King of Hanover  and the Unites Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1820-1830)

Everett McKinley Driksen, Past U.S. Senator

Oliver Peck, Tattooer, Celebrity Judge on “Ink Master”, Texas Entrepreneur.

Louis Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois

Tom Bevill, past member of U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet and English politician.

P.T. Barnum, American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus

Bruce Lee Webb, Artist, Fraternal Art Historian/Collector/Writer

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President (1869–1877)

Luke Wessman, Tattooer, Designer and Social Media Influencer.

Georgia Dwelle, first female African-American Physician(GUOOF)

Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Universalist minister, author, lecturer, and social reformer, was one of the most popular speakers in America from the 1840s until his death.

Albert Pike, notable Confederate Army soldier, lawyer and Masonic writer

Richard Russell Jr, Past U.S. Senator

Harry S Truman 33rd U.S. President

Oliver Morton, 14th Governor of Indiana

Alexander Stephens Clas, Past U.S.Senator

John Wilkes, English Radical and Journalist