Notable Unitarians
The following list shows a sample of notable Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists. Note that for privacy reasons, we have listed people who are alive only if they have publically spoken about their faith.
| John Adams | 1735-1826 | President of the United States |
| John Quincy Adams | 1767-1848 | President of the United States |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | Abolitionist, Author of Little Women |
| Horatio Alger | 1832-1899 | Unitarian Minister, Author of Juvenile Fiction |
| Susan B. Anthony | 1820-1906 | Activist, Publisher |
| P. T. Barnum | 1810-1891 | Showman |
| Béla Bartók | 1881-1945 | Hungarian Composer |
| Clara Barton | 1821-1912 | Founder of the American Red Cross |
| Sir Tim Berners-Lee | b. 1955 | Physicist, Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | National Poet of Scotland |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | Poet |
| James Coyne | 1910-2012 | Governor of the Bank of Canada (1955-1961) |
| e. e. cummings | 1894-1962 | poet |
| William Dennison | 1905-1981 | Mayor of Toronto (1966-1972) |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | Author of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist |
| Dorothea Dix | 1802-1887 | Teacher, Children’s Author, Mental Health Care Advocate |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | Unitarian Minister, Lecturer, Essayist, Poet |
| Lloyd Francis | 1920-2007 | MP for Ottawa Area Ridings, Parliamentary Speaker |
| Robert Fulghum | b. 1937 | Unitarian Minister, Author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | Engineer, Designer, Inventor, Futurist |
| Edvard Grieg | 1843-1907 | Norwegian Composer |
| Edmund Halley | 1656-1742 | Astronomer, Discoverer of Halley’s comet |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | Author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables |
| Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova | 1909-1990 | Canadian Humanitarian, Founder of USC Canada |
| Bruce Hyer | b. 1946 | MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North (since 2008) |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826 | President of the United States, Author of U.S. Declaration of Independence |
| Margaret Laurence | 1926-1987 | Canadian Author of The Stone Angel and The Diviners |
| Arthur Lismer | 1885-1969 | Toronto Painter, Member of the Group of Seven |
| Dorothy Livesay | 1909-1996 | Canadian Poet |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | Poet, Educator |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | Author of Moby Dick |
| John Molson | 1763-1836 | Brewer, Member of Legislative Council of Lower Canada |
| Robert Munsch | b. 1945 | Canadian Author of Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess |
| Paul Newman | 1925-2008 | Actor |
| Florence Nightingale | 1820-1910 | Nurse, Humanitarian, Statistician, Inventor of the Pie Chart |
| Linus Pauling | 1901-1994 | Chemist, Peace Activist, Double Nobel Laureate |
| Randy Pausch | 1960-2008 | Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Author of The Last Lecture |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | Poet, Author of The Bell Jar |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | Conservationist, Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| Joseph Priestley | 1733-1804 | Natural Philosopher, Political Theorist |
| Christopher Reeve | 1952-2004 | Actor |
| May Sarton | 1912-1995 | Poet, Author of Coming Into Eighty and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing |
| Alyson Schafer | Toronto Parenting Expert, TV Host, Author of Ain’t Misbehavin, Honey, I Wrecked The Kids, and Breaking the Good Mom Myth | |
| Pete Seeger | 1919-2014 | Musician, Humanitarian |
| Rod Serling | 1924-1975 | Screenwriter, TV Producer |
| Michael Servetus | 1511-1553 | Theologian, Unitarian Martyr |
| Adlai Stevenson | 1900-1965 | Politician, Diplomat, U.S. Presidential Candidate |
| Emily Stowe | 1813-1903 | Toronto Physician, Suffragette, First Woman Doctor in Canada |
| William Howard Taft | 1857-1930 | President of the United States, President of the National Conference of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian Churches |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | Author, Poet, Abolitionist, Naturalist |
| Luigi Von Kunits | 1870-1931 | Founder and Conductor of the Toronto Symphony, Violinist |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | Author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions |
| Josiah Wedgwood | 1730-1795 | Potter |
| Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | Poet, Humanist |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | 1759-1797 | Woman’s Rights Advocate, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| Dr. Joseph Workman | 1805-1894 | Toronto Psychiatrist, Educator, Mental Health Advocate, Co-Founder of Unitarian Congregation in Toronto |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | 1867-1959 | Architect |
| N.C. Wyeth | 1882-1945 | Illustrator |