Unitarian Universalism has a rich heritage of leaders in arts and letters, politics, science, and humanitarianism. To drop a few names from our "family tree":

John Adams
(1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801)

John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848) 6th President of the United States (1825-1829)

Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888) author of "Little Women"

Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906) famous suffragist

Clara Barton
(1821-1912) founder of the American Red Cross Society

P.T. Barnum
(1810-1891) famous showman and circus founder

Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922) inventor of the telephone

Olympia Brown
(1847-1922) first American woman to become a full time ordained minister

ee. cummings
(1894-1962) poet

Charles Dickens
(1812-1870) novelist, author of "A Christmas Carol"

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) essayist and poet, author of "Self Reliance"

Fannie Farmer
(1857-1915) famous cookbook author

Millard Fillmore
(1800-1874) 13th president of the United States

Buckminster Fuller
(1895-1983) architect, futurist and visionary who named complex carbon structures

Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864) writer and essayist, author of "The Scarlet Letter"

Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894). US Supreme Court justice

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882) poet

Herman Melville
(1819-1891) author of "Moby Dick"

Samuel Morse
(1791-1872) inventor of the single wired telegraph system

Paul Newman
(1925-2008) Academy Award winning actor and film director

Sylvia Plath
(1932-1963) poet and novelist, author of "The Bell Jar"

Beatrix Potter
(1866-1943) children's writer and illustrator, author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"

Joseph Priestley
(1733-1804) English chemist and clergyman, discovered oxygen

Christopher Reeve
(1952-2004) actor and spinal research activist, best known for role as "Superman"

Paul Revere
(1735-1818) American patriot and silversmith

May Sarton
(1912 1995) lesbian poet and novelist

Pete Seeger
(born 1919) folk singer and co-author of "Turn Turn Turn"

Rod Serling
(1924-1975) television screenwriter and creator of "The Twilight Zone"

Mary Shelley
(1797-1851) British novelist, best known as author of "Frankenstein"

Adlai Stevenson
(1835-1914) Vice-President of the United States (1893-1897)

Adlai Stevenson II
(1900-1965) Illinois governor and Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956

Lucy Stone
(1818-1893) American suffragist

William Howard Taft
(1857-1930) 27th President of the United States (1909-1913)

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862) writer and nautralist

Kurt Vonnegut
(1922-2007). prolific novelist, author of "Slaughterhouse Five"

Daniel Webster
(1782-1852) statesman and orator

Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867-1959) architect

Read more about these and other famous Unitarian Universalists at the online Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography.