List of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists

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A 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.

Contents :

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• 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

• 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.
• 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)
• Tom Andrews - US 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]
• Bill Baird (born 1932) – reproductive rights pioneer, Unitarian.^[9][10]
• Dr. 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]
• 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]
• Chester Bliss Bowles (1901–1986) – Connecticut Governor and diplomat.^[3]
• Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) – author.^[3]
• T. Berry Brazelton (born 1918) – pediatrician, author, TV show host.^[20]
• Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – suffragist, Universalist minister^[12]
• Percival Brundage (1892–1979) – technocrat^[21]
• Rev. John A. Buehrens (born 1947) – president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1993–2001^[22]
• 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. Senator^[23] Co-founder, All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.)
• Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) – British Prime Minister^[24]
• 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
• William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) – Unitarian who later identified himself as an "independent Christian"^[4][27]
• Charles Chauncy (1592–1672) – Unitarian Congregationalist minister.^[28]
• 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
• Annie Clark (born 1982) – musician and singer-songwriter, better known by her stage name, St. Vincent (musician).^[29]
• Andrew Inglis Clark (1848–1907) – Tasmanian politician. Responsible for the adoption of the Hare-Clark system of proportional representation by the Parliament of Tasmania^[30]
• 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^[31]
• 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)
• 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)^[32]
• William David Coolidge (1873–1975) – inventor, physician, research director^[3]
• 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).^[33]

D

• Cyrus Dallin (1861–1944) – American sculptor^[3]
• Ferenc Dávid (often rendered Francis David) (1510–1579) – Hungarian-Transylvanian priest, minister and bishop, first to use the word "Unitarian" to describe his faith^[4]
• George de Benneville (1703–1793) – Universalist^[5]
• Morris Dees (born 1936) – attorney, cofounder, chief legal counsel of Southern Poverty Law Center^[34]
• 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.^[35]
• 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][36]
• Madelyn Dunham (1922–2008) – grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama^[37]
• Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992) – grandfather of Barack Obama^[37]
• Stanley Ann Dunham (1942–1995) – mother of Barack Obama^[38]

E

• Richard Eddy (1828–1906) – minister and author of 1886 book Universalism in America.^[5]
• 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
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) – Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist^[4]
• William Emerson – MIT dean of architecture^[3]
• Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935) – historian and educator^[39]
• Marc Estrin (born 1939) – American novelist and political activist
• Charles Carroll Everett (1829–1900) – Unitarian minister and Harvard Divinity professor from Maine

F

• Sophia Lyon Fahs (1876–1978) – liberal religious educator^[3]
• Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) – thirteenth President of the United States^[40]
• Joseph L. Fisher (1914–1992)^[3] – U.S. congressman
• Benjamin Flower (1755–1829) – English radical writer
• James Freeman (1759–1835) – first American preacher to call himself a Unitarian
• James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) – Unitarian minister, theologian and author
• Caleb Fleming (1698–1779) – English anti-Trinitarian dissenting minister
• Robert Fulghum (born 1937) – UU minister and writer^[41]
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) – inventor, engineer^[3]
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) – journalist^[42]

G

• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) – British novelist and social reformer^[43]
• Frank Gannett (1876–1957) – newspaper publisher^[3]
• Greta Gerwig (born 1983) – actor^[44]
• 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.^[45]
• Mike Gravel (born 1930) – U.S. Senator; 2008 Democratic presidential candidate^[46]
• 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^[47]
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937) – inventor^[48]
• Gary Gygax (1938–2008) – game designer and creator of Dungeons and Dragons, called himself a Christian, "albeit one that is of the Arian (Unitarian) persuasion."^[49]

H

• Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) – American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman.
• Ellen L. Hamilton (1921–1996) – artist, author, advocate for homeless teens, and member of UUA Board of Trustees (1973–1977).^[50]
• Phebe Ann Coffin Hannaford (1829–1921) – first lesbian minister, biographer
• Donald S. Harrington (1914–2005)^[3]
• Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) – theologian^[3][51]
• 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^[52]
• 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.^[53]
• Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".^[15]
• Roman Hruska (1904–1999) – conservative Republican Senator from Nebraska^[54]
• David Hubel (born 1926) – Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine 1981
• Charles Hudson (1795–1881) – Universalist minister and politician
• Blake Hutchison (1980– ) filmmaker – Finding a Dream

J

• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) – third president of the US, Unitarian^[55]
• Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) – English publisher
• Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1843–1918) – Unitarian missionary and minister in the United States^[56]
• 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.^[53]

K

• György Kepes (1906–2001) – visual artist^[3]
• Naomi King (born 1970) – Unitarian minister, daughter of author Stephen King^[57]
• Thomas Starr King (1824–1864) – minister who during his career served both in Universalist and in Unitarian churches^[4][12]
• James R. Killian (1904–1988) – president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology^[3]
• W.M. Kiplinger (1891–1967) – publisher of the Kiplinger Letters^[3]
• 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.^[58]

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]
• Arthur Lovejoy (1873–1962) – founder of the History of Ideas movement^[3]

M

• George MacDonald (1824–1905) – Scottish author, poet, and Universalist
• Tor Edvard Markussen (unknown date of birth) – Norwegian teacher and Knausgård-enthusiast.^[3]
• John P. Marquand (1893–1960) – author^[3]
• 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^[59]
• 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^[60]
• Théodore Monod (1902–2000) – French activist. Founding president of the Francophone Unitarian Association
• Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) – anthropologist and social biologist^[3]
• 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 and current president of the Unitarian Universalist Association^[61]
• Arthur E. Morgan (1878–1975) – human engineer and college president^[3]
• John Murray (1741–1815) – Universalist minister and leader^[5][12]

N

• Isaac Newton (1642-1726) – English physicist and mathematician^[62]
• Maurine Neuberger (1907–2000) – U.S. Senator^[3]
• Paul Newman (1925–2008) – actor, film director^[18][63]

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.^[64]
• Theodore Parker (1810–1860) – Unitarian minister and transcendentalist^[4][5][65]
• 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"^[66]
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979) – astronomer and astrophysicist.^[3]
• Laura Pedersen (born 1965) – American author, journalist, playwright and humorist. Books and plays with humanist themes. Lifelong UU, Interfaith minister.
• Melissa Harris-Perry (born 1973) – professor, author, and political commentator on MSNBC hosting the Melissa Harris-Perry (TV program).^[67][68]
• William James Perry, (born 1927) – former United States Secretary of Defense
• William T. Pheiffer (1898–1986) – American lawyer/politician^[69]
• Utah Phillips, (1935–2008) – American singer, songwriter and homeless advocate
• William Pickering (1910–2004) – space explorer^[3]
• James Pierpont (1822–1893) – songwriter ("Jingle Bells")^[70]
• 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]

R

• 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][71]
• 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]
• Elliot Richardson (1920–1999) – often listed as "Anglican" but was a member of a UU church near Washington, D.C. for many years Lawyer and public servant^[3]
• Mark Ritchie (born 1951) – Minnesota Secretary of State (2007–)^[72]
• Francis Ronalds (1788-1873) - English inventor of the electric telegraph^[73]
• Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) – very active in the Universalist movement, although never technically joined a Universalist congregation^[12]

S

• Mary Safford (1851–1927) – Unitarian Minister and leader of the Iowa Sisterhood.^[74]
• 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.^[75]
• 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^[76]
• 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][77]
• 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.^[78]
• Ferdinand Schumacher (1822–1908) – one of the founders of companies which merged to become the Quaker Oats Company.^[79][80]
• 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^[81]
• Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910) – Australian suffragette and political reformer^[82]
• Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) – American abolitionist and anarchist.
• Pete Stark (born 1931) – U.S. Representative, D-California.^[83]
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962) – Arctic explorer and champion of Native American rights^[3]
• Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) – Illinois governor, and Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956^[3]
• Joseph Story (1779–1845) – United States Supreme Court Justice from 1811 to 1845.^[84]
• Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000) – mathematician^[85]
• 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^[86]

T

• William Howard Taft (1857–1930) – President of the United States (1909–1913)^[4][23]
• Clementia Taylor (1810–1908) – women's activist and radical^[87]
• Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997) – American astronomer^[88]

V

• William Vidler (1758–1816) – English Universalist and Unitarian minister
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – writer^[18][89]

W

• George Wald (1906–1997) – Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1967
• Zach Wahls (born 1991) – LGBT activist
• Caroline Farrar Ware (1899–1990) – historian and social activist^[3]
• William D. Washburn (1831–1912) – Universalist American politician and businessman^[90]
• Daniel Webster (1782–1852)^[23]
• Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) – poet, singer and songwriter (Unitarian Universalist and Muslim)^[91]
• Alfred Tredway White (1846–1921) – housing reformer and philanthropist^[92]
• 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
• Joanne Woodward (born 1930) – actress, wife of Paul Newman^[93]
• 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][94]
• 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.^[95]
• Whitney M. Young (1921–1971) – social work administrator^[3]

Z

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

See also

• Lists of people by belief

Footnotes, citations and references

1. Biographical Information for Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. Family Papers, 1815–1940, in the collections of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School. Retrieved August 28, 2007.
2. Abigail Adams
3. Notable American Unitarians, 1936–1961, a project of the First Parish and the First Church in Cambridge (Unitarian Universalist), hosted at the website of Harvard Square Library. Project advisors: Gloria Korsman, Andover-Harvard Theological Library; Conrad Edick Wright, Massachusetts Historical Society; and Conrad Wright, Harvard Divinity School. (Archived July 3, 2007)
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." , uduuf.org. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
5. Recent Scholarship in American Universalism: A Bibliographical Essay, Alan Seaburg, Church History, Vol. 41, No. 4. (Dec., 1972), pp. 513–523. . Retrieved August 28, 2007.
6. "John Ames Mitchell". Evelin Ames. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
7. http://uucch.org/famous-uus
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. Kohn, Alfie (March 20, 1987). "Crusader still leads way on abortion rights". USA Today.
10. Marteka, Peter (October 31, 2005). "An 'Unfinished Crusade'". The Hartford Courant.
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. Archived July 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
13. Seaburg, Alan. P. T. Barnum. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved February 20, 2008.
14. The Jubilee Singers
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. Millspaugh John. 5.15.11 uuworld http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/183480.shtml Accessed 8/10/13
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. Archived February 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
19. Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web and the "Web of Life"
20. Gwen Foss (2003). A Who's who of U.U.s: A Concise Biographical Compendium of Prominent, Famous and Noteworthy Unitarians, Universalists and UUs. Gwen Foss.
21. "...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.
22. UUA: The John A. Buehrens Ministerial Scholarships (2 Scholarships)
23. Vision & Values in a Post-9/11 World: A curriculum on Civil Liberties, Patriotism, and the U.S. Role Abroad for Unitarian Universalist Congregations, Developed by Pamela Sparr on behalf of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, Spring 2002. . Retrieved August 28, 2007. Archived April 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
24. Ruston, Alan. "Neville Chamberlain". Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
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 ISBN 0-14-311244-9, ISBN 978-0-14-311244-0
27. Channing favored organized Unitarianism early in his career, but later distanced himself from Unitarianism as a sect, which he believed had become too orthodox, and identified himself as an "independent Christian." Channing and Transcendentalism, Arthur I. Ladu, American Literature, Vol. 11, No. 2. (May, 1939), pp. 129–137. Retrieved August 25, 2007.
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31. Unitarian Universalist Astronaut Laurel Clark Remembered with Flowers, Bagpipes, and Warm Recollections
32. Kent Conrad on the issues
33. Jordan, John Woolf (1912). Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Volume 1. Fayette County, PA: Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
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42. French, Kimberly. Radiant Genius & Fiery Heart, UU World, Summer 2010 issue, pp. 36–41
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54. Nick Kotz (2005). Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-618-08825-6.
55. "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.
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64. "The presiding judge, Isaac Parker, was himself a Unitarian." http://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/adults/river/workshop9/workshopplan/stories/178594.shtml
65. "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.
66. "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
67. "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 http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6186.shtml Retrieved August 11, 2013
68. "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 http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6186.shtml Retrieved August 11, 2013
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70. "James Pierpont, author of 'Jingle-Bells' and the son of AUA co-founder, John Pierpont Sr." http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6903.shtml
71. "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.
72. Abraham, Martin, John and Dru by Mark Ritchie, excerpted from sermon delivered January 2008 at First Universalist Church of Minneapolis
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74. Mary Augusta Safford Article by Celeste DeRoche
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77. "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.
78. "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
79. "Being liberal in his religious views, he was in reality a Universalist." http://www.genealogybug.net/oh_biographies/schumacher.shtml
80. "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
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90. "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
91. "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.
92. "uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/alfredwhite.html White, a lifelong member of the church [The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn]"
93. "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 http://www.uua.org/beliefs/history/6186.shtml Accessed August 11, 2013
94. "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.
95. "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

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