List of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists explained

See also History of UnitarianismA number of notable people have considered themselves Unitarians, Universalists, and following the merger of these denominations in the United States and Canada in 1961, Unitarian Universalists. 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 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 (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). 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.

A

• 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.^[1]
• Abigail Adams (1744–1818) – women's rights advocate and first Second Lady and the second First Lady of the United States^[2]
• James Luther Adams (1901–1994) – Unitarian theologian.^[3]
• John Adams (1735–1826)^[4] – second President of the United States.
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)^[4] – sixth President of the United States. Co-founder, All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.)
• Sarah Fuller Adams (1805–1848) – English poet and hymn writer
• Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) – poet^[3]
• Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)^[4] – author of Little Women.
• Horatio Alger Sr. (1806–1881)^[4] – Unitarian Minister father of Horatio Alger.
• Ethan Allen (1738–1789) – author of Reason the Only Oracle of Man, and the chief source of Hosea Ballou's universalist ideas^[5]
• Joseph Henry Allen (1820–1898) – American Unitarian scholar and minister
• Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891–1972) – father of Social Security^[3]
• Oliver Ames Jr. (1807–1877) – Massachusetts businessman and industrialist who commissioned the building of the Unity Church of North Easton^[6]
• J. M. Andrews (1871–1956) – Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (a Non-subscribing Presbyterian member)
• Thomas Andrews (1873–1912) – Master-shipbuilder of the RMS Oceanic (1899), "Big Four", and Olympic-class ocean liners (a Non-subscribing Presbyterian member)
• Tom Andrews (born 1953) – U.S. Representative from Maine^[7]
• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – Quaker^[8]
• Robert Aspland (1782–1845) – English Unitarian minister, editor and activist, founder of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association
• Robert Brook Aspland (1805–1869) – English Unitarian minister and editor, son of Robert Aspland

B

• Samuel Bache (1804–1876) – English Unitarian minister
• E. Burdette Backus (1888–1955) – Unitarian Humanist minister (originally a Universalist)^[3]
• Blanche Pentecost Bagley (1858–1928) – British-born American Unitarian minister
• Bill Baird (born 1932) – abortion rights pioneer, Unitarian.^{[9] [10]}
• Sara Josephine Baker (1873–1945) – physician and public health worker.^[3]
• Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) – Nobel Peace Laureate^[3]
• Roger Nash Baldwin (1884–1981) – founder of American Civil Liberties Union^[3]
• Adin Ballou (1803–1890) – abolitionist and former Baptist who became a Universalist minister, then a Unitarian minister.^[5]
• Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) – American Universalist leader. (Universalist minister and a unitarian in theology)^{[5] [11] [12]}
• Aaron Bancroft (1755–1839) – Congregationalist Unitarian minister
• John Bardeen (1908–1991) – physicist, Nobel Laureate 1956 (inventing the transistor) and in 1972 (superconductivity)^[3]
• Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–1891) – American showman and Circus Owner^[13]
• Ysaye Maria Barnwell (born 1946) – member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, founded the Jubilee Singers, a choir at All Souls Church in Washington, D.C.^[14]
• Béla Bartók (1881–1945) – composer.^[3]
• Clara Barton (1821–1912) – organizer of American Red Cross, Universalist^{[12] [15]}
• Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858–1923) – educator, lecturer, author
• Christopher C. Bell (born 1933) – author
• Ami Bera (born 1965) – U.S. Representative for California
• Henry Bergh (1811–1888) – founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.^{[16] [17]}
• Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) – inventor of the World Wide Web.^{[18] [19]}
• Paul Blanshard (1892–1980) – activist.^[3]
• Joani Blank (1937–2016) – sexuality educator and co-housing activist.^{[3] [20]}
• Chester Bliss Bowles (1901–1986) – Connecticut Governor and diplomat.^[3]
• Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) – author.^[3]
• Andre Braugher (1962–2023) – American actor
• T. Berry Brazelton (1918–2018) – pediatrician, author, TV show host.^[21]
• Alice Williams Brotherton (1848–1930), poet and magazine writer
• Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – suffragist, Universalist minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent Ohio^[12]
• Percival Brundage (1892–1979) – technocrat^[22]
• John A. Buehrens (born 1947) – president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1993–2001^[23]
• Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844) – most notable for being Architect of the Capitol. Co-founder, All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.)
• Ralph Wendell Burhoe (1911–1997) – scholar^[3]
• Harold Hitz Burton (1888–1964) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1945–1958^[3]
• Edmund Butcher (1757–1822) – English minister

C

• John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) – U.S. Vice President and Senator^[24] Co-founder, All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.)
• Walter Bradford Cannon (1871–1945) – experimental physiologist^[3]
• Louise Whitfield Carnegie (1857–1946) – wife of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. After Carnegie died Louise made donations to charities.^{[25] [26]}
• Lant Carpenter (1780–1840) – English Unitarian minister, author and educator
• Russell Lant Carpenter (1816–1892) – Unitarian minister. Son and biographer of Dr. Lant Carpenter
• William Herbert Carruth (1859–1924) – educator, poet, President of Pacific Coast Conference of the Unitarian Church
• Samuel Carter (1805–1878) – British MP and early railway solicitor^[27]
• 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)^[28]
• Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) – Manufacturer, Unitarian, founder of local government in Britain.
• Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) – Unitarian, then an agnostic and, British Prime Minister.^[29]
• Augusta Jane Chapin (1836–1905) – American Universalist minister, educator and activist for women's rights
• William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) – Unitarian minister, whose 1819 sermon "Unitarian Christianity" laid the foundations for American Unitarianism.^[4]
• Charles Chauncy (1592–1672) – Unitarian Congregationalist minister.^[30]
• Jesse Chickering (1797–1855) – Unitarian minister and economist
• Brock Chisholm (1896–1971) – director, World Health Organization^[3]
• Parley P. Christensen (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).^[31]
• Andrew Inglis Clark (1848–1907) – Tasmanian politician. Responsible for the adoption of the Hare-Clark system of proportional representation by the Parliament of Tasmania^[32]
• Grenville Clark (1882–1931) – author^[3]
• Joseph S. Clark (1901–1990) – U.S. Senator and mayor of Philadelphia^[3]
• Laurel Clark (1961–2003) – U.S. Navy officer and NASA Astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster^[33]
• James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) – Unitarian minister, theologian and author
• Stanley Cobb (1887–1968) – neurologist and psychiatrist^[3]
• William Cohen (born 1940) – U.S. Secretary of Defense (1997–2001), U.S. Senator from Maine (1979–1997)
• Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) — American suffragist, activist, writer^[34]
• Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) – American historian and biographer of Theodore Parker^[3]
• Kent Conrad (born 1948) – U.S. Senator from North Dakota (1992–2013)^[35]
• Maria Cook (1779–1835) – first woman to be recognized as a Universalist preacher.^[36]
• Mary Leggett Cooke (1852–1938) – Unitarian minister; member of the Iowa Sisterhood
• William David Coolidge (1873–1975) – inventor, physician, research director^[3]
• Peter Cooper (1791–1883) – industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician; founder of The Cooper Union.^[37]
• Norman Cousins (1915–1990) – editor and writer, Unitarian friend^[3]

• E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) – poet and painter^[3]
• William Cushing (1732–1810) – one of the original US Supreme Court Justices, appointed by Geo. Washington and longest serving of the original justices (1789–1810).^[38]

D

• Cyrus Dallin (1861–1944) – American sculptor^[3]
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) – English naturalist and biologist^{[39] [40]}
• Ferenc Dávid (born as Franz David Hertel, often rendered as Francis David or Francis Davidis) (1510–1579) – Transylvanian priest, minister and bishop, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania, first to use the word "Unitarian" to describe his faith^[4]
• A. Powell Davies (1902–1957) Unitarian minister, author^[41]
• George de Benneville (1703–1793) – Universalist^[5]
• Morris Dees (born 1936) – attorney, cofounder, chief legal counsel of Southern Poverty Law Center^[42]
• Karl W. Deutsch (1912–1992) – international political scientist^[3]
• John Dewey (1859–1952) – author of A Common Faith, Unitarian friend^[3]
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – English novelist.^[43]
• Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) – prison reformer in New England.^[44]
• John H. Dietrich (1878–1957)^[3] – Unitarian minister
• James Drummond Dole (1877–1958) – entrepreneur^[3]
• Emily Taft Douglas (1899–1994) – U.S. Representative, Illinois^[3]
• Paul Douglas (1892–1976) – U.S. Senator, also a Quaker^{[3] [45]}
• Madelyn Dunham (1922–2008) – grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama
• Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992) – grandfather of Barack Obama
• Stanley Ann Dunham (1942–1995) – mother of Barack Obama^[46]

E

• Richard Eddy (1828–1906) – minister and author of 1886 book Universalism in America.^[5]
• James Chuter Ede (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^[3]
• Samuel Atkins Eliot (1862–1950) – first president of the Unitarians^[3]
• Thomas H. Eliot (1907–1991) – legislator and educator^[3]
• Thomas Lamb Eliot (1841–1936) – minister, founder of First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon, and Reed College
• Mary Elvira Elliott (1851–1942) – American writer and lecturer
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) – Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist^[4]
• William Emerson (1873–1957) – MIT dean of architecture^[3]
• Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935) – historian and educator^[47]
• Marc Estrin (born 1939) – American novelist and political activist
• Charles Carroll Everett (1829–1900) – Unitarian minister and Harvard Divinity professor from Maine
• Charles Wesley Emerson (1837–1908) – Unitarian minister and founder of Emerson College

F

• Sophia Lyon Fahs (1876–1978) – liberal religious educator^[3]
• Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) – thirteenth President of the United States^[48]
• Joseph L. Fisher (1914–1992)^[3] – 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^[49]
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) – inventor, engineer^[3]
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) – journalist^[50]
• János Füzi (1776–1833) – Unitarian minister, teacher

G

• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) – British novelist and social reformer
• Frank Gannett (1876–1957) – newspaper publisher^[3]
• Greta Gerwig (born 1983) – actor, screenwriter and director
• Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889) – English manufacturer who aided the welfare of the Spitalfields silk weavers
• Henry Giles (1809–1882) – British-American Unitarian minister and writer
• Hilary Goodridge – the lead plaintiff in the landmark case Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
• Eleanor Gordon (1852–1942) – minister and member of the Iowa Sisterhood.
• Mike Gravel (1930–2021) – U.S. Senator; 2008 Democratic presidential candidate
• Mary H. Graves (1839–1908) – minister, literary editor, writer^[51]
• Dana Greeley (1908–1986) – the first president of the Unitarian Universalist Association^[3]
• Horace Greeley (1811–1872) – newspaper editor, presidential candidate, Universalist^[12]
• Robert Joseph Greene (born 1973) – Canadian author and LGBT Activist
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937) – inventor^[52]
• Gary Gygax (1938–2008) – game designer and creator of Dungeons & Dragons, called himself a Christian, "albeit one that is of the Arian (Unitarian) persuasion."^[53]

H

• Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) – American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman
• George Ernest Hale (1884–1966), Unitarian minister in South Australia
• Ellen L. Hamilton (1921–1996) – artist, author, advocate for homeless teens, and member of UUA Board of Trustees (1973–1977).^[54]
• 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 (1914–2005)^[3]
• Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) – theologian, who developed Process Theology^{[3] [55]}
• John Hayward – philosopher of religion and the arts^[3]
• William Hazlitt (1737–1820) – influential Unitarian minister and father of the writer of the same name^[56]
• Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925) – self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist
• Iacob Heraclid (1527–1563) – Greek Maltese adventurer, missionary, Prince of Moldavia^[57]
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) – Unitarian Minister and member of the Secret Six who funded John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
• Lotta Hitschmanova (1909–1990) – founder, Unitarian Service Committee of Canada^[3]
• Jessica Holmes (born 1973) – cast member of Air Farce.
• John Holmes (1904–1962) – poet^[3]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) – American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Unitarian
• W. R. Holway (1893–1981) – engineer in Tulsa, co-founded All Souls Unitarian Church in 1921.^[58]
• Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".^[15]
• Roman Hruska (1904–1999) – conservative Republican Senator from Nebraska^[59]
• David Hubel (1926–2013) – Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine 1981
• Charles Hudson (1795–1881) – Universalist minister and politician
• Harm Jan Huidekoper (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) – American novelist and journalist. She attends Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, California.

J

• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) – third president of the U.S., unitarian but not affiliated with any sect^[60]
• Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) – English publisher
• Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1843–1918) – Unitarian missionary and minister in the United States^[61]
• Richard Lloyd Jones (1873–1963) – son of Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor and publisher of the Tulsa Tribune, also co-founder of All Souls Unitarian Church in 1921.^[58]
• Annie Bizzell Jordan Willis (1893–1977) – daughter of Rev. Joseph Fletcher Jordan, a religious educator and integrationist

K

• György Kepes (1906–2001) – visual artist^[3]
• Naomi King (born 1970) – Unitarian minister, daughter of author Stephen King^[62]
• Thomas Starr King (1824–1864) – minister who during his career served both in Universalist and in Unitarian churches.^{[4] [12]} Namesake of Starr King School.
• James R. Killian (1904–1988) – president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology^[3]
• W.M. Kiplinger (1891–1967) – publisher of the Kiplinger Letters^[3]
• Webster Kitchell (1931–2009) – theologian
• Abner Kneeland (1774–1844) – Universalist minister and denominational leader who, after leaving the denomination to become a leader in the freethought movement, was convicted and jailed for blasphemy.^[5]
• 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.^[63]
• Penney Kome (born 1948) – Canadian author and journalist^[64]

L

• William L. Langer (1896–1977) – historian of diplomacy^[3]
• Margaret Laurence (1926–1987) – author^[3]
• Alfred McClung Lee (1906–1992) – sociologist^[3]
• John Lewis (philosopher) (1889–1976) – British Unitarian minister and Marxist philosopher and author of many works on philosophy, anthropology, and religion.
• Arthur Lismer (1885–1969) – Canadian painter, educator^[3]
• Viola Liuzzo (1925–1965) – civil rights activist^[18]
• Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – Universalist^[12]
• James W. Loewen (born 1942) – sociologist^[3]
• Arthur Lovejoy (1873–1962) – founder of the History of Ideas movement^[3]

M

• Carrie Mac (born 1975) – Canadian author
• John P. Marquand (1893–1960) – author^[3]
• Peter Finch Martineau (1755–1847) – English businessman and community benefactor^[65]
• Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk(ová) (1850–1923) – wife of first President of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
• Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937) – first President of Czechoslovakia
• Bernard Maybeck (1862–1957) – architect, Unitarian^[3]
• Scotty McLennan (born 1948) – dean for Religious Life at Stanford University, Minister of Stanford Memorial Church, and inspiration for the Reverend Scot Sloan character in the comic strip Doonesbury^[3]
• Adrian Melott (born 1947) – physicist and cosmologist
• Herman Melville (1819–1891) – American writer best known for Moby-Dick.
• Samuel Freeman Miller (1816–1890) – United States Supreme Court Justice from 1862 to 1890^[66]
• Robert Millikan (1868–1953) – Nobel Laureate in Physics 1923 for determining the charge of the electron, taught at Caltech in Pasadena CA^[3]
• Walt Minnick (born 1942) – Politician and representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district, United States House of Representatives^[67]
• Théodore Monod (1902–2000) – French activist. Founding president of the Francophone Unitarian Association
• Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) – anthropologist and social biologist^[3]
• Slim Moon (born 1967) – American music producer^[68]
• Christopher Moore – founder of the Chicago Children's Choir^[3]
• Mary Carr Moore (1873–1957) – composer, teacher, Far Western activist for American Music^[3]
• Peter Morales – eighth president of the Unitarian Universalist Association^[69]
• Arthur E. Morgan (1878–1975) – human engineer and college president^[3]
• John Murray (1741–1815) – Universalist minister and leader^{[5] [12]}
• Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) – American writer, held a local Universalist preacher's license in the 1790s, an advocate of Universalism and women's rights^[70]

N

• Isaac Newton (1642–1726) – English physicist and mathematician
• Maurine Neuberger (1907–2000) – U.S. Senator^[3]
• Paul Newman (1925–2008) – actor, film director^{[18] [71]}
• 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

O

• Keith Olbermann (born 1959) – news anchor, political commentator, and sports journalist
• Mary White Ovington (1865–1951) – NAACP founder^[3]

P

• Bob Packwood (born 1932) – U.S. Senator from Oregon (1969–1995)
• John Palmer (1742–1786) – English Unitarian minister
• David Park (1911–1960) – West coast painter.^[3]
• Isaac Parker (1768–1830) – Massachusetts Congressman and jurist, including Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1814 to his death.^[72]
• Theodore Parker (1810–1860) – Unitarian minister and transcendentalist^{[4] [5] [73]}
• Linus Pauling (1901–1994) – Nobel Laureate for Peace and for Chemistry^[3]
• Randy Pausch (1960–2008) – computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Author of The Last Lecture^[74]
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979) – astronomer and astrophysicist.^[3]
• Richard Peacock (1820–1889) – British locomotive engineer and philanthropist
• Laura Pedersen (born 1965) – American author, journalist, playwright and humorist. Books and plays with humanist themes. Lifelong UU, Interfaith minister.
• Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins (1824–1905) – American Universalist minister, social reformer, lecturer, editor, author
• Melissa Harris-Perry (born 1973) – professor, author, and political commentator on MSNBC hosting the Melissa Harris-Perry TV program.^{[75] [76]}
• William James Perry, (born 1927) – former United States Secretary of Defense
• William T. Pheiffer (1898–1986) – American lawyer/politician^[77]
• Utah Phillips, (1935–2008) – American singer, songwriter and homeless advocate
• William Pickering (1910–2004) – space explorer^[3]
• James Pierpont (1822–1893) – songwriter ("Jingle Bells")^[78]
• Daniel Pinkham (1923–2006) – composer^[3]
• John Platts (1775–1837) – English Unitarian minister and author
• Van Rensselaer Potter (1911–2001) – global bioethicist^[3]
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) – discoverer of oxygen and Unitarian minister^[4]
• George Pullman (1831–1897) – Universalist^[12]
• Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) – American writer, poet
• Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) – British children's writer of the famous "Peter Rabbit" stories

R

• Bonnie Raitt, singer and guitarist
• Mary Jane Rathbun (1860–1943) – marine zoologist^[3]
• James Reeb (1927–1965) – civil-rights martyr^[18]
• Curtis W. Reese (1887–1961) – religious humanist^[3]
• Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) – actor and Unitarian Universalist^{[18] [79]}
• James Relly (c. 1722–1778) – Universalist^{[5] [12]}
• Paul Revere (1735–1818)^[4] – 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^[3]
• Mark Ritchie (born 1951) – Minnesota Secretary of State (2007–)^[80]
• Amber E. Robinson (1867–1961), educator, postmaster, poet, reporter, and social reformer^[81]
• Hugh Ronalds (1760–1833) – British horticulturalist and nurseryman
• Francis Ronalds (1788–1873) – English inventor of the electric telegraph^[82]
• Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) – very active in the Universalist movement, although never technically joined a Universalist congregation^[12]

S

• Mary Augusta Safford (1851–1927) – Unitarian Minister and leader of the Iowa Sisterhood.^[83]
• Leverett Saltonstall (1892–1979) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts^[3]
• 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^{[3] [18]}
• 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.^[84]
• Arthur Schlesinger (1917–2007) – American historian^[3]
• Richard Schultes (1915–2001) – explorer of the Amazon jungle^[3]
• William F. Schulz (born 1949) – former executive director of Amnesty International USA, former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association^[85]
• Ferdinand Schumacher (1822–1908) – one of the founders of companies which merged to become the Quaker Oats Company.^{[86] [87]}
• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) – Nobel Peace Laureate 1953, late in life unitarian; honorary member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (Unitarian Friend)^[3]
• Pete Seeger (1919–2014) – folk singer and song writer^{[3] [18]}
• Roy Wood Sellars (1880–1973) – philosopher of religious humanism^[3]
• Rod Serling (1924–1975) – writer; creator of The Twilight Zone television series.^{[3] [88]}
• Martha Sharp (1905–1999) – an American Unitarian who was named by the Yad Vashem organization as "Righteous Among the Nations."^[89]
• Waitstill Sharp (1902–1983) – a Unitarian minister who along with his wife Martha were named by Yad Vashem as "Righteous Among the Nations."^[90]
• Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861) – Unitarian and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Under his leadership, the court convicted Abner Kneeland, a former Universalist, of blasphemy.^[5]
• Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) – colonel of the 54th Massachusetts, first regiment of free blacks in the Union Army.^[91]
• Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) – Nobel Laureate in Economics 1978, artificial intelligence pioneer^[3]
• Rev. William G. Sinkford (born 1946) – seventh president of the Unitarian Universalist Association^[92]
• 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^[70]
• Vanessa Southern, minister of the Unitarian Church in Summit^[93]
• 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.^[94]
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962) – Arctic explorer and champion of Native American rights^[3]
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923) – Prussian-American electrical engineer and mathematician^[3]
• Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) – Illinois governor, and Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956^[3]
• George D. Stoddard (1897–1981) – president of University of Illinois and the University of the State of New York.^[95]
• Lucy Stone (1818—1893) American orator, abolitionist, and suffragist
• Joseph Story (1779–1845) – United States Supreme Court Justice from 1811 to 1845.^[96]
• Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000) – mathematician^[97]
• 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^[98]
• Jude Sylvan (b. 1982) American poet, author, performer, producer, and performing artist and UU minister.

T

• William Howard Taft (1857–1930) – President of the United States (1909–1913) and Chief Justice of the United States^{[4] [24]}
• Robin Tanner – American Unitarian Universalist Minister and advocate for LBGT rights and voting rights.
• Clementia Taylor (1810–1908) – women's activist and radical^[99]
• Joyce Tischler – Founder of Animal Legal Defense Fund, referred to as the "Mother of Animal Law."^[100]
• Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997) – American astronomer who discovered Pluto^[101]
• 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.

V

• William Vidler (1758–1816) – English Universalist and Unitarian minister
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – writer^{[18] [102]}

W

• 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^[3]
• William D. Washburn (1831–1912) – Universalist American politician and businessman^[103]
• Daniel Webster (1782–1852) – lawyer and statesman^[24]
• Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) – poet, singer and songwriter (Unitarian Universalist and Muslim)^[104]
• Alfred Tredway White (1846–1921) – housing reformer and philanthropist^[105]
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – philosopher (Unitarian Friend)^[3]
• Willis Rodney Whitney (1868–1958) – the "Father of Basic Research in Industry"^[3]
• Thomas Whittemore (1800–1861) – Universalist Minister, author and publisher
• David Rhys Williams^[3] (1890–1970) – American Unitarian minister
• Edward Williams (bardic name Iolo Morganwg) (1747–1826) – Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, forger
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) – physician and author^[3]
• Samuel Williston (1861–1963) – dean of America's legal profession.^[3]
• Edwin H. Wilson (1898–1993) – Unitarian Humanist leader^[3]
• Ross Winans (1796–1877) – inventor and railroad pioneer
• John Crawford Woods (1824–1906), Unitarian minister of Adelaide, South Australia
• Joanne Woodward (born 1930) – actress, wife of Paul Newman^[106]
• Theodore Paul Wright (1895–1970) – aeronautical engineer^[3]
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) – among Wright's architectural works were Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, and First Unitarian Society in Madison, Wisconsin.^{[3] [4] [107]}
• Quincy Wright (1890–1970) – author of A Study of War^[3]
• Richard Wright (1764–1836) – English Unitarian minister and missionary
• Sewall Wright (1889–1988) – evolutionary theorist.^[3]
• N. C. Wyeth (1882–1945) – illustrator and painter^[3]

Y

• 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.^[108]
• Whitney M. Young (1921–1971) – social work administrator

Z

• John II Sigismund Zápolya (1540–1570) – king of Hungary, then prince of Transylvania.^[4]

See also

• List of Christian Universalists
• List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches
• Lists of people by belief

External links

• Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• Famous UUs

Notes and References

1. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:div00550 Biographical Information
2. http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/abigailadams.html Abigail Adams
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20070703043557/http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/indexl.html Notable American Unitarians, 1936–1961
4. "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 [sic], and Thomas Starr King, who was also a Universalist." http://www.uduuf.org/unitarian-universalist-history, uduuf.org. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3163881 Recent Scholarship in American Universalism: A Bibliographical Essay
6. Web site: John Ames Mitchell. Evelin Ames. 21 February 2016.
7. Web site: Famous UUs. 2 February 2018. 3 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064422/http://uucch.org/famous-uus. dead.
8. "Delineated in detail are formative influences such as her... religious environment (Quaker and Unitarian)..." Suffrage for All, Review of Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz. Review author: Hazel Browne Williams, The Phylon Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2. (2nd Qtr., 1959), p. 205. . Retrieved August 25, 2007.
9. News: Kohn. Alfie. Crusader still leads way on abortion rights. USA Today. March 20, 1987.
10. News: Marteka. Peter. An 'Unfinished Crusade'. The Hartford Courant. October 31, 2005.
11. "Ballou, the son of a poor Calvinist Baptist preacher, was converted to Universalism and began preaching the new "heresy" on a Calvinistic basis in 1791… His first sermon on a Unitarian and Arian base was preached in 1795. Within ten years, through the power of his argumentation, and against the opposition of the prominent Universalist John Murray, Ballou had converted the Universalist ministry to Unitarianism."Hosea Ballou, Preacher of Universal Salvation, Ernest Cassara, Church History, Vol. 26, No. 4. (Dec., 1957), p. 382. . Retrieved August 25, 2007.
12. "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.
13. Seaburg, Alan. P. T. Barnum . Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved February 20, 2008.
14. Web site: The Jubilee Singers. 2 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20120204202809/http://www.all-souls.org/spirituality/music/jubilee.htm. 4 February 2012. dead.
15. "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.
16. Web site: 2011-08-01 . Henry Bergh: 'The great meddler' UU World Magazine . 2024-07-24 . www.uuworld.org . en.
17. "Bergh used his wealth and prestige to raise public awareness of the suffering of animals and to enlist support from powerful New York businessmen, politicians, and religious leaders in the founding of the ASPCA. Among these was his minister, Henry Whitney Bellows of the First Congregational Church of New York City (now the Unitarian Church of All Souls)" http://www25-temp.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/henrybergh.html
18. "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.
19. Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web and the "Web of Life"
20. Joani Blank, Cohousing: What's so UU about it?
21. Book: Gwen Foss. A Who's who of U.U.s: A Concise Biographical Compendium of Prominent, Famous and Noteworthy Unitarians, Universalists and UUs. 2003. Gwen Foss .
22. "...he was director of the American Unitarian Association (1942–48) and in 1949 began the first of five years as a director of the Unitarian Service Committee (1949–54). Chairman, Unitarian Development Fund Campaign (1959–62)." Hall of Fame: Percival Flack Brundage, Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, 1994–2004. (Archived.) Retrieved August 26, 2007.
23. Web site: The John A. Buehrens Ministerial Scholarships (2 Scholarships). 23 December 2013. 2 February 2018.
24. http://www25.uua.org/uuawo/issues/civil_liberties/curriculum/curriculum.pdf Vision & Values in a Post-9/11 World: A curriculum on Civil Liberties, Patriotism, and the U.S. Role Abroad for Unitarian Universalist Congregations
25. "Andrew Carnegie and Lousie Whitfield were married in her home by the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Eaton, minister of the bride's family Universalist Church of the Divine Paternity in New York City." Biography of Louise Carnegie http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/Louise_Carnegie/Louise_Carnegie_Free_Library_Advocate.html
26. David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie, (Penguin, 2007) pg. 296 books.google.com/books?id=ni0EsmebjYwC&source=gbs_navlinks_s,
27. Web site: Samuel Carter. Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. 20 March 2018. 20 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180320171112/http://uudb.org/articles/samuelcarter.html. dead.
28. Web site: Lee Carter - Contact. www.carterforvirginia.com. 2 February 2018. 1 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190201151838/http://www.carterforvirginia.com/about/. dead.
29. Web site: Ruston. Alan. Neville Chamberlain. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. 2007-02-23. 2007-02-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20070221213453/http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/nevillechamberlain.html. dead.
30. http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9022707 Chauncy, Charles
31. Web site: St. Vincent, UU hipster?. 24 February 2014. 2 February 2018.
32. Book: Reynolds, H.. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Clark, Andrew Inglis (1848–1907). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 2 February 2018. Australian Dictionary of Biography.
33. http://archive.uua.org/news/2003/030214.html Unitarian Universalist Astronaut Laurel Clark Remembered with Flowers, Bagpipes, and Warm Recollections
34. Web site: Emily P. Collins . Rochester Regional Library Council . 3 January 2019 . 4 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190104022935/https://rrlc.org/winningthevote/biographies/emily-p-collins/ . dead .
35. Web site: Kent Conrad on the Issues. OnTheIssues.org. www.ontheissues.org. 2 February 2018.
36. Web site: Notable Women C - UUHHS . uuhhs.org . 6 December 2021.
37. Web site: Timeline 1838 – 1860: The Bellows Era, Part 1: Gaining Prominence . All Souls-NYC . All Souls Historical Society . 4 May 2022 . 26 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626192418/https://www.allsoulsnychistory.org/timeline-1838-1860 . dead .
38. Book: Jordan, John Woolf. Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Volume 1. 1912. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Fayette County, PA.
39. Book: Desmond. Adrian. Adrian Desmond. Moore. James. James Moore (biographer). Darwin. Penguin Group. London. 0-7181-3430-3. 1991. 12–15.
40. Book: Darwin, Charles. Charles Darwin. Barlow. Nora. Nora Barlow. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. 1958. Collins. London. 21–25.
41. Book: George N. Marshall . A. Powell Davies and His Times . 1990 . Unitarian Universalist Association . 1558961720 .
42. Book: Morris Dees. A season for justice: the life and times of civil rights lawyer Morris Dees. 1991. Scribner. 978-0-684-19189-8. 94.
43. Web site: Charles Dickens. Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. Unitarian Universalist History & Heritage Society (UUHHS). Wesley. Hromatko. December 23, 2001. December 30, 2016. April 15, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170415140005/http://uudb.org/articles/charlesdickens.html. dead.
44. http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/approaches/dorothea-dix-unitarian-reform "Dorothea Dix: Unitarian Reform"
45. Web site: Keohane . John . Paul Douglas . Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography . Unitarian Universalist History & Heritage Society (UUHHS) . September 3, 2003 . February 23, 2007 . April 14, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080414164208/http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/pauldouglas.html . dead .
46. News: Obama's mother known here as 'uncommon'. The Seattle Times . Jonathan . Martin . April 8, 2008. December 30, 2016.
47. Book: Emerton, Ephraim. Unitarian Thought. 28 July 2011. 1911. Macmillan Co.. New York. 1403642 .
48. Web site: The Religious Affiliations of U.S. Presidents . The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life . January 15, 2009 . 2013-05-23 . 2013-06-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130629135439/http://www.pewforum.org/The-Religious-Affiliations-of-US-Presidents.aspx . dead .
49. "For 22 years he served as a parish minister of Unitarian churches in the Pacific Northwest." About the Author, from the official website of Robert Fulghum, 2006. . Retrieved August 28, 2007.
50. French, Kimberly. Radiant Genius & Fiery Heart, UU World, Summer 2010 issue, pp. 36–41
51. Book: Eaton. Chester Williams. Eaton. Warren E.. Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary of the Ancient Town of Redding, Once Including the Territory Now Comprising the Towns of Reading, Wakefield, and North Reading: With Historical Chapters. 1896. Loring & Twombly. 199–.
52. Web site: Post Script . https://web.archive.org/web/20060506033711/http://www.mindspring.com/~uumedford/highlights/0602.pdf . May 6, 2006 . February 2006 . Highlights . Hank . Peirce . Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford . Newsletter . dead .
53. The Historical Contribution of Unitarians and Universalists. From a presentation to Jemaat Allah Global Indonesia, the Unitarian Christian Church of Indonesia, Semarang. 10 August 2009. Lev Lafayette.
54. UUA Directory 1973. Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
55. Web site: Heaven Can't Wait. www.allsoulskc.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20060212015544/http://www.allsoulskc.org/sermons/020728.html . February 12, 2006.
56. Wu, Duncan (2007). "Hazlitt, William (1737–1820)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press accessed 25 Nov 2011.
57. Book: Crăciun, Maria. Protestantism și ortodoxie în Moldova secolului al XVI-lea 1950. Presa Universitară Clujană. Cluj. 1996. 105–118, 124–126, 133. 973-9261-15-9.
58. Book: Davis D. Joyce. Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State. 2007-05-30. University of Oklahoma Press. 978-0-8061-3819-0. 213 .
59. Book: Nick Kotz. Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America. 2005. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 978-0-618-08825-6. 132.
60. "More than one Republican apologist fairly pointed out that the unitarian Jefferson was no greater an infidel than the unitarian Adams... Although [Jefferson] was elected to an Anglican parish vestry, no record exists of his having served in that capacity. He was famous for not attending church and did so semiregularly only during his presidency and near the end of his life. To friends, he referred to himself variously as a 'Theist,' 'Deist,' 'Unitarian,' 'Rational Christian,' and 'Epicurean'; 'I am a sect unto myself, as far as I know,' he wrote." America's Founding Faiths, by Forrest Church, UU World magazine, Vol. XXI, Nol 4, Winter 2007.
61. Web site: Jenkin Lloyd Jones . 2010-10-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110519203306/http://harvardsquarelibrary.org/UIA%20Online/47jones.html . 2011-05-19 .
62. [Stephen King#Personal life]
63. Richard Knight and the Production of Malleable Platinum the story of a forgotten Chemist . Platinum Metals Review . February 1985 . L.B. . Hunt . 29 . 1 . 48 . 2011-01-27 . pgs 29–35 . 2012-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120304225815/http://www.platinummetalsreview.com/pdf/pmr-v29-i1-002-048.pdf . dead .
64. Web site: Unpacking the backpack of Christian privilege. 13 November 2015. 2 February 2018. 3 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180203011510/http://www.factsandopinions.com/galleries/opinion-columns/penney-kome/unpacking-the-backpack-of-christian-privilege/. dead.
65. Ronalds. B.F.. February 2018. Peter Finch Martineau and his Son. The Martineau Society Newsletter. 41. 10–19.
66. Book: Fairman, Charles. Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, 1862–1890. 1939. Harvard University Press. 1-58477-267-0. 14.
67. Web site: Unitarian Universalist elected to U.S. House. 24 November 2008. 2 February 2018.
68. Web site: Slim Moon's Leap Of Faith. April. Baer. www.opb.org. 2 February 2018. 3 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064505/https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/state-of-wonder/article/slim-moons-leap-of-faith/. dead.
69. Web site: UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray. 13 January 2015. 2 February 2018.
70. Book: Lindley, Susan Hill. You Have Stept Out of Your Place: A History of Women and Religion in America. 1 January 1996. Westminster John Knox Press. 978-0-664-25799-6. 125.
71. Web site: 2009-06-28 . New and Newer Religions: Unitarianism and Eckankar . 2024-07-24 . ABC listen . en-AU.
72. Web site: The Dedham Case Faith like a River Faith Like a River Faith CoLab,Tapestry of Faith UUA.org . 2024-07-24 . www.uua.org . en.
73. "On February 24, 1860, the Boston Unitarian minister and transcendentalist, Theodore Parker, wrote Professor Desor from Rome..." Darwin and the Transcendentalists, John B. Wilson, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 26, No. 2. (Apr. – June, 1965), p. 286. . Retrieved August 25, 2007.
74. "Randy Pausch, Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, died on July 25 after a two-year struggle with pancreatic cancer. A Unitarian Universalist who first came to this faith as a member of the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Pausch was 47 years old. Celebrated in his field for co-founding the pioneering Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center and for creating the innovative educational software tool known as "Alice", Pausch earned his greatest worldwide fame for his The Last Lecture, which was subsequently published by Hyperion Books.In Memoriam: Randy Pausch, UUA.org
75. "Unitarian Universalist Melissa Harris-Perry is a distinguished academic and a commentator on MSNBC. She has written the book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, and delivered the Ware Lecture at the 2009 General Assembly of the UUA." October 31, 2012 Web site: Unitarian Universalist History - UUA . 2016-02-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140702144833/http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6186.shtml . 2014-07-02 . Retrieved August 11, 2013
76. "Some famous modern-day Unitarian Universalists include Tim Berners-Lee, Melissa Harris-Perry, Christopher Reeve, May Sarton, Randy Pausch, Pete Seeger, Joanne Woodward, and Kurt Vonnegut." October 31, 2012 Web site: Unitarian Universalist History - UUA . 2016-02-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140702144833/http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6186.shtml . 2014-07-02 . Retrieved August 11, 2013
77. Web site: Famous Unitarian-Universalists, Famous Unitarians. https://web.archive.org/web/20060215021803/http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_unitarian.html. usurped. February 15, 2006. www.adherents.com. 2 February 2018.
78. "James Pierpont, author of 'Jingle-Bells' and the son of AUA co-founder, John Pierpont Sr." http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6903.shtml
79. "Unitarian Universalist... Christopher Reeve... was today remembered by UUA President William G. Sinkford... Sinkford said, '...Christopher bore witness in both word and deed to the healing power of his Unitarian Universalist faith. I am so thankful that he found a religious home with us and a faithful minister in the Rev. Frank Hall of the Westport (Connecticut) Unitarian Church.'" In Memoriam: Christopher Reeve, Unitarian Universalist, UUA.org, Oct. 12, 2004. . Retrieved August 27, 2007.
80. http://firstuniv150.org/files/CivicDuty.pdf Abraham, Martin, John and Dru
81. Book: Hodgkins . Theodore Roosevelt . Brief Biographies, Maine: A Biographical Dictionary of Who's who in Maine . 1926 . Lewiston journal Company . 221 . 30 April 2024 . en.
82. Book: Ronalds, B.F.. Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph. Imperial College Press. 2016. 978-1-78326-917-4. London.
83. http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/maryaugustasafford.html
84. http://archive.uua.org/news/2002/civil/eschempp.html Ellery Schempp's remarks at the Oct. 17 Arlington St. Church event: "Ahead of the Wave: UU Defense of Civil Liberties"
85. http://www.uuworld.org/life/articles/6571.shtml High-profile advocate for human rights
86. "Being liberal in his religious views, he was in reality a Universalist." http://www.genealogybug.net/oh_biographies/schumacher.shtml
87. "The Quaker Oats company, for example, should have been called the Universalist Oats, for it was started by Ferdinand Schumacher, an Akron, Ohio, Universalist who got rich selling oatmeal to the Union army during the Civil War." http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/2745.shtml
88. "The Serlings joined the UU Community Church of Santa Monica, California..." * Looking back: 'Twilight Zone' writer challenged prejudice, by Kimberly French, UU World magazine, Vol. XXI, Nol 4, Winter 2007.
89. https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/sharp.html "And so we must know these good people who helped Jews during the Holocaust. We must learn from them, and in gratitude and hope, we must remember them."(Elie Wiesel)
90. Web site: Waitstill and Martha Sharp.
91. "Shaw was the son of Sarah and Francis Shaw, two radical Unitarians who were among the first to embrace Transcendentalism, feminism, and abolitionism." http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/186477.shtml
92. Web site: William G. Sinkford, Biographical Sketch . 2012-04-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20010718061048/http://www.uua.org/administration/wsbio.html . 2001-07-18 . "Biographical sketch: The Reverend William G. Sinkford"
93. News: Staff reporters . N.J. plans Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations . Newark Star-Ledger . ... Program of Remembrance, sermon by the Rev. Vanessa Southern of the Unitarian Church of Summit and song by Continuo Arts Foundation commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s contributions to all people . January 17, 2011 . 2011-07-31 .
94. Stark called himself "a Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being" and has been identified as an atheist. Rep. Stark applauded for atheist outlook: Believed to be first congressman to declare nontheism, Associated Press, March 13, 2007 . Retrieved June 15, 2007.
95. McNutt. Steve. Winter 2013. 72. 1. The Annals of Iowa. A Dangerous Man: Lewis Terman and George Stoddard, their Debates on Intelligence Testing, and the Legacy of the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station. 1–30. https://web.archive.org/web/20151130214742/http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1671&context=annals-of-iowa . dead . November 30, 2015 .
96. Book: Newmyer, Kent. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic. 1986. Univ of North Carolina Press. 978-0807841648. 180.
97. Web site: Professor Dirk J. Struik, 1894 - 2000. www-math.mit.edu . https://web.archive.org/web/20060909190617/http://www-math.mit.edu/people/struik-obituary.html . September 9, 2006.
98. Web site: The Judy Bolton/Margaret Sutton Articles Archive . 2024-07-24 . www.judybolton.com.
99. Clementia Taylor. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/45468. 2012-12-22.
100. Web site: Boudreau. Mark. Spotlight on the Animal Legal Defense Fund – Because animals have rights too!. Progressive Lawyer. January 26, 2015. 2018-02-01.
101. Web site: French. Kimberly. He found a planet and founded a church. UU World. Fall 2005. 2016-01-10.
102. Vonnegut said "I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in churches quite a lot)."Book: Haught, James A.. 2,000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt. 1996. Prometheus Books. 978-1-57392-067-4 .
103. Web site: Bring O Past Your Honor: Congregation Histories : Minnesota. W. D. Washburn was a chief founder of the church [First Universalist Church of Minneapolis] when it was formally incorporated in 1859, and a faithful member for fifty years. (From the Washburn family also early members of the church) came the present day Pillsbury and General Mills companies. 2014-01-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924082738/http://www.psduua.org/heritage/bring/part2/2_mn_minneapolis2.html. 2015-09-24. dead.
104. "I am a Muslim and I worship in mosques when I am in Pakistan. I also worship in Unitarian Churches when I'm in the US..." * Global Citizen, by Dawud Wharnsby, Scout UK magazine, June/July 2010.
105. "uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/alfredwhite.html White, a lifelong member of the church [The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn]"
106. "Some famous modern-day Unitarian Universalists include Tim Berners-Lee, Melissa Harris-Perry, Christopher Reeve, May Sarton, Randy Pausch, Pete Seeger, Joanne Woodward, and Kurt Vonnegut." October 2012 Web site: Unitarian Universalist History - UUA . 2016-02-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140702144833/http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6186.shtml . 2014-07-02 . Accessed August 11, 2013
107. "Frank Lloyd Wright's contact with All Souls Church may have begun in December 1884 when his father had preached there. The All Souls Church Fourth Annual, dated January 6, 1887, was the first to list Wright as a member..." [All Souls is a Unitarian church in Chicago, Illinois] Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and Architecture for Liberal Religion in Chicago, 1885–1909, Joseph Siry, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 73, No. 2. (Jun., 1991), pp. 257–282. . Retrieved August 26, 2007.
108. "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