List of Unitarian Universalists
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A number of noted people have considered themselves Unitarians, Universalists, and following the merger of these denominations in the US 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".
It should be noted that the Unitarians and Universalists are groups that existed long before the creation of Unitarian Universalism. In particular it must be noted that the cohort of prominent Unitarians from the American colonial and early national eras would almost certainly not subscribe to Universalism; these people were essentially radical Protestant Christians. Additionally, the merger did not eliminate Unitarian and Universalist congregations, especially outside the US. And even in the US there are congregations which are strictly Unitarian or Universalist, and even those which 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.
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A
- Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
- James Luther Adams (1901-1994)
- John Adams (1735-1826)
- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899)
- Arthur Altmeyer (1891-1972)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) (also a Quaker)
- Arius (256-336) (the original 'small-u' unitarian)
B
- E. Burdette Backus (1888-1955) (originally a Universalist)
- Roger Nash Baldwin (1884-1981), founder of ACLU
- Adin Ballou (1803-1890) (Universalist)
- Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) (Universalist and unitarian)
- P. T. Barnum (1810-1891) (Universalist)
- Clara Barton (1821-1912) (Universalist)
- Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
- Henry Bergh (1811-1888), founder of the ASPCA
- Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955)
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913 or 1914) (unconfirmed)
- James Blanchard (b. 1942)
- John Bowring (1792-1872)
- Ray Bradbury (b. 1920)
- Andre Braugher (b. 1962)
- Antoinette Brown (1825-1921)
- Olympia Brown (1835-1926) (Universalist)
- Orestes Brownson (1803-1876) (Universalist)
- Percival Brundage (1892-1979)
- Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
- Celia Burr Burleigh (1826-1875)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796) (unitarian)
C
- John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)
- Alice Cary (1820-1871) (Universalist)
- Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) (Universalist)
- Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914)
- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
- Lydia Child (1802-1880)
- Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904)
- William Cohen (b.1940)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Moncure Conway (1832-1907)
- e e cummings (1894-1962)
- Nathaniel B. Currier (1813-1888)
D
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- George de Benneville (1703-1793) (Universalist)
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- Robert Dillman (b. 1967)
- Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)
- Paul Douglas (1892-1976) (also a Quaker)
E
F
- Sophia Fahs (1876-1978)
- Fannie Farmer (1857-1915)
- Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)
- Eliza Follen
- John Murray Forbes (1813-1898)
- Robert Fulghum (b. 1937)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) (Transcendentalist and Unitarian)
G
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
- William Godwin (1756-1836) (Sandemanian)
- Horace Greeley (1811-1872) (Universalist)
- Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- Nina Grieg (1845-1935)
H
- Frances Harper (1825-1911)
- Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) (Universalist)
- Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) (Transcendentalist)
- Samuel Hoar (1778-1856)
- Edith Holden (1871-1920)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
- Mark Hopkins (1813-1878)
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
J
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (unitarian, once wrote that if there were a Unitarian church near him, he would become a member, but attended an Episcopalian church.)
- Julian of Norwich (c.1342-c.1413) (proto-universalist)
K
- Thomas Starr King (1824–1864)
- Chuck Knipp (also a Quaker)
- Ray Kurzweil (b. 1948)
L
- Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928)
- Margaret Laurence (1926-1987)
- Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965)
- Mary Livermore (1820-1905) (Universalist)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
M
- Horace Mann (1796-1859)
- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
- James Martineau (1805-1900)
- Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Transcendentalist)
- Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
- Angela Moffett (b. 1968)
- Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872)
- John Murray (1741-1815) (Universalist)
N
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (unitarian)
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
O
P
- Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
- Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
- Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
- Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974)
- George Pullman (1831-1897) (Universalist)
Q
- Josiah Quincy (1744-1777) (Universalist)
R
- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
- James Relly (c.1722-1778)
- Paul Revere (1735-1818)
- Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978)
- George Ripley (1802-1880)
- Rammohun Roy (1772-1833) (also a Hindu)
- Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) (universalist)
S
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) (he was a honorary member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, though)
- Charles E. Scripps (b. 1920)
- Pete Seeger (b. 1919)
- Rod Serling (1924-1975)
- Michael Servetus (1511-1553)
- Adlai Stevenson (1835-1914)
- Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
- Robert Stout (1844-1930)
- Emily Stowe (1813-1903)
- Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
T
- William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) (Transcendentalist)
- Amos G. Throop (1811-1894) (Universalist)
- Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997)
W
- Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920)
- Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
- Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1759)
- Paul D. White (1886-1973)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (Transcendentalist)
- Earl Morse Wilbur (1886-1956)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
- N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
Y
- Owen D. Young (1874-1962) (Universalist)
- Whitney Young (1921-1971)
See also
- Unitarian Universalist Association
- International Council of Unitarians and Universalists
- List of people by belief
External links
- Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography (http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/)
- Famous UUs (http://www.famousuus.com/)