The following list shows a sample of notable Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists. Click on Learn more to find out more.
Note that for privacy reasons, we have listed people who are alive only if they have publicly spoken about their faith.
| Name | Dates | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisa May Alcott | Abolitionist, author of Little Women | Learn more | |
| Susan B. Anthony | 1820-1906 | Activist, publisher | Learn more |
| Hossea Ballou | 1771-1852 | Universalist minister | Learn more |
| P. T. Barnum | 1810-1891 | Showman | Learn more |
| Clara Barton | 1821-1912 | Organizer of the American Red Cross | Learn more |
| 1881-1945 | Hungarian composer | Learn more | |
| Sir Tim Berners-Lee | b. 1955 | Physicist, inventor of the World Wide Web | Learn more |
| Peter Brock | 1920-2006 | Historian, pacifist scholar, member of this congregation | Learn more |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | National Poet of Scotland | Learn more |
| Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) | b. 1982 | Musician | Learn more |
| James Coyne | 1910-2012 | Governor of the Bank of Canada (1955-1961), member of this congregation in the 1960’s | Learn more |
| e. e. Cummings | 1894-1962 | poet, painter | Learn more |
| William Dennison | 1905-1981 | Mayor of Toronto (1966-1972), member of this congregation | Learn more |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | Novelist, author of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | Unitarian minister, essayist, poet | Learn more |
| Lloyd Francis | 1920-2007 | MP for Ottawa area ridings (1962-1984), parliamentary speaker (1980-1984) | Learn more |
| Robert Fulghum | b. 1937 | Unitarian Minister, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | Learn more |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | Engineer, designer, inventor, futurist | Learn more |
| Edvard Grieg | 1843-1907 | Norwegian composer | Learn more |
| Gary Gygax | Creator of Dungeons and Dragons | Learn more | |
| Edmond Halley | 1656-1742 | Astronomer, discoverer of Halley’s comet | Learn more |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | Author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables | Learn more |
| Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova | 1909-1990 | Canadian humanitarian, founder of USC Canada | Learn more |
| Bruce Hyer | b. 1946 | MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North (2008-2015) | Learn more |
| Rev. William P. Jenkins | 1911-1985 | Minister of First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, 1943-1959. Known as the Canadian Unitarian Moses. Spread Unitarianism across Canada. Had a radio program on CHUM in the 1950&rlsquo;s called Let’s Think Together | Learn more |
| Margaret Laurence | 1926-1987 | Canadian author of The Stone Angeland The Diviners | Learn more |
| Arthur Lismer | 1885-1969 | Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven, member of this congregation | Learn more |
| Dorothy Livesay | 1909-1996 | Canadian poet | Learn more |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | Poet, educator | Learn more |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | Author of Moby Dick | Learn more |
| John Molson | 1763-1836 | Canadian brewer, Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada | Learn more |
| Robert Munsch | b. 1945 | Canadian author of Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess | Learn more |
| Paul Newman | 1925-2008 | Actor | Learn more |
| Sir Isaac Newton | 1642-1726 | Physicist and mathematician | Learn more |
| Florence Nightingale | 1820-1910 | Nurse, humanitarian, statistician, Inventor of the Pie Chart | Learn more |
| Linus Pauling | 1901-1994 | Chemist, peace activist, double Nobel Laureate | Learn more |
| Randy Pausch | 1960-2008 | Computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, author of The Last Lecture | Learn more |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | Poet, author of The Bell Jar | Learn more |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | Conservationist, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Learn more |
| Joseph Priestley | 1733-1804 | Scientist, natural philosopher, political theorist | Learn more |
| Christopher Reeve | Actor | Learn more | |
| May Sarton | 1912-1995 | Poet, author of Coming Into Eighty and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing | Learn more |
| Alyson Schafer | Canadian parenting expert, TV host, Author of Ain’t Misbehavin, Honey, I Wrecked The Kids, and Breaking the Good Mom Myth | Learn more | |
| Pete Seeger | 1919-2014 | Musician, social activist | Learn more |
| Rod Serling | 1924-1975 | Screenwriter, TV producer | Learn more |
| Michael Servetus | 1511-1553 | Theologian, Unitarian martyr | Learn more |
| Vilhjalmur Stefansson | 1979-1962 | Arctic explorer, champion of Native American rights | Learn more |
| Emily Stowe | 1813-1903 | Toronto physician, suffragette, first woman doctor in Canada | Learn more |
| Margaret Sutton (aka Rachel Beebe) | 1903-2001 | Author of children’s books, including the Judy Bolton series | Learn more |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | Author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist | Learn more |
| Luigi Von Kunits | 1870-1931 | Founder and conductor of the Toronto Symphony, violinist, member of this congregation | Learn more |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | Author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions | Learn more |
| Zach Wahls | b. 1991 | Activist, author of My Two Moms | Learn more |
| Josiah Wedgwood | 1730-1795 | British potter | Learn more |
| Dawud Wharnsby | b. 1972 | Canadian musician | Learn more |
| Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | Poet, humanist | Learn more |
| Dr. Joseph Workman | 1805-1894 | Toronto psychiatrist, educator, mental health advocate, co-founder of this congregation | Learn more |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | 1867-1959 | Architect | Learn more |
| N.C. Wyeth | 1882-1945 | Illustrator | Learn more |
| John II Sigismund Zápolya | 1540-1570 | King of Hungary |
