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). American diplomat.

John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848). 6th President of the United States (1825-1829). Son of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States.

Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888). American author.

Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906). American suffragist.

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

Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) inventor of the telephone.

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

ee. cummings
(1894-1962). American poet.

Charles Dickens
(1812-1870). English novelist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882). American essayist and poet.

Fannie Farmer
(1857-1915) famous cookbook author

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

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864). American author

Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894). American physician and author

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826). 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882). American poet.

Samuel Morse
(1791-1872). American artist and inventor.

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

Theodore Parker
(1810-1860). American Unitarian clergyman

Beatrix Potter
(1866-1943). British writer and illustrator

Joseph Priestley
(1733-1804). English clergyman and chemist

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

Paul Revere
(1735-1818). American patriot and silversmith

May Sarton
(1912 1995). American lesbian poet and novelist

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

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

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

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

Lucy Stone
(1818-1893). American suffragist

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

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862). American writer

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

Daniel Webster
(1782-1852). American statesman and orator

Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867-1959). American architect

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