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 publicly spoken about their faith.
| Name | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Wahls | b. 1991 | Activist, author of My Two Moms | Learn more |
| Greta Gerwig | b. 1983 | Actor and filmmaker, Lady Bird, Barbie | Learn more |
| Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) | b. 1982 | Musician | Learn more |
| Dawud Wharnsby | b. 1972 | Canadian musician | Learn more |
| Alyson Schafer | b. 1960's | Canadian parenting expert, TV host, Author of Ain’t Misbehavin, Honey, I Wrecked The Kids, and Breaking the Good Mom Myth | Learn more |
| Keith Olbermann | b. 1959 | Political commentator and writer | Learn more |
| Sir Tim Berners-Lee | b. 1955 | Physicist, inventor of the World Wide Web | Learn more |
| Bruce Hyer | b. 1946 | MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North (2008-2015) | Learn more |
| Robert Munsch | b. 1945 | Canadian author of Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess | Learn more |
| Robert Fulghum | b. 1937 | Unitarian Minister, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | Learn more |
| Joanne Woodward | b. 1930 | Actress, Philanthropist | |
| Andre Braugher | 1962-2023 | Actor, Brooklyn Nine Nine, The Good Fight | Lean more |
| Randy Pausch | 1960-2008 | Computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, author of The Last Lecture | Learn more |
| Christopher Reeve | 1952-2004 | Actor, Superman | Learn more |
| Gary Gygax | 1938-2008 | Creator of Dungeons and Dragons | Learn more |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963 | Poet, author, The Bell Jar | Learn more |
| Margaret Laurence | 1926-1987 | Canadian author of The Stone Angel and The Diviners | Learn more |
| Paul Newman | 1925-2008 | Actor, Philanthropist | Learn more |
| Rod Serling | 1924-1975 | Screenwriter, TV producer | Learn more |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922-2007 | Author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions | Learn more |
| Steve Allen | 1921-2000 | Actor, Comedian, TV host | |
| Lloyd Francis | 1920-2007 | MP for Ottawa area ridings (1962-1984), parliamentary speaker (1980-1984) | Learn more |
| Peter Brock | 1920-2006 | Historian, pacifist scholar, member of this congregation | Learn more |
| Pete Seeger | 1919-2014 | Musician, social activist | Learn more |
| May Sarton | 1912-1995 | Poet, author of Coming Into Eighty and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing | 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. Hosted a radio program on CHUM in the 1950’s called Let’s Think Together | Learn more |
| James Coyne | 1910-2012 | Governor of the Bank of Canada (1955-1961), member of this congregation in the 1960’s | Learn more |
| Dorothy Livesay | 1909-1996 | Canadian poet | Learn more |
| Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova | 1909-1990 | Canadian humanitarian, founder of Unitarian Service Committee of Canada | Learn more |
| William Dennison | 1905-1981 | Mayor of Toronto (1966-1972), member of this congregation | Learn more |
| Margaret Sutton (aka Rachel Beebe) | 1903-2001 | Author of children’s books, including the Judy Bolton series | Learn more |
| Linus Pauling | 1901-1994 | Nobel Laureate for Peace and for Chemistry | Learn more |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | Engineer, designer, inventor, futurist | Learn more |
| e. e. Cummings | 1894-1962 | poet, painter | Learn more |
| Arthur Lismer | 1885-1969 | Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven, member of this congregation | Learn more |
| William Carlos Williams | 1883–1963 | Physician and author | |
| N.C. Wyeth | 1882-1945 | Illustrator | Learn more |
| 1881-1945 | Hungarian composer | Learn more | |
| Vilhjalmur Stefansson | 1879-1962 | Arctic explorer, champion of Native American rights, Canadian | Learn more |
| Luigi Von Kunits | 1870-1931 | Founder and conductor of the Toronto Symphony, violinist, member of this congregation | Learn more |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | 1867-1959 | Architect | Learn more |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | Conservationist, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Learn more |
| Edvard Grieg | 1843-1907 | Norwegian composer | Learn more |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | Abolitionist, author of Little Women | Learn more |
| Clara Barton | 1821-1912 | Organizer of the American Red Cross | Learn more |
| Florence Nightingale | 1820-1910 | Nurse, humanitarian, statistician, Inventor of the Pie Chart | Learn more |
| Susan B. Anthony | 1820-1906 | Activist, publisher | Learn more |
| Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | Poet, humanist | Learn more |
| Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | Author of Moby Dick | Learn more |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | Author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist | Learn more |
| Emily Stowe | 1813-1903 | Toronto physician, suffragette, first woman doctor in Canada | Learn more |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | Novelist, author of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist | |
| P. T. Barnum | 1810-1891 | Showman | Learn more |
| Charles Darwin | 1809–1882 | Naturalist | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | Poet, educator | Learn more |
| Dr. Joseph Workman | 1805-1894 | Toronto psychiatrist, educator, mental health advocate, co-founder of this congregation | Learn more |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | Author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables | Learn more |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882 | Unitarian minister, essayist, poet | Learn more |
| Hossea Ballou | 1771-1852 | Universalist minister | Learn more |
| John Molson | 1763-1836 | Canadian brewer, Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada | Learn more |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | National Poet of Scotland | Learn more |
| Joseph Priestley | 1733-1804 | Scientist, natural philosopher, political theorist | Learn more |
| Edmond Halley | 1656-1742 | Astronomer, discoverer of Halley’s comet | Learn more |
| Sir Isaac Newton | 1642-1726 | Physicist and mathematician | Learn more |
| John II Sigismund Zápolya | 1540-1570 | King of Hungary | Learn more |
| Michael Servetus | 1511-1553 | Theologian, Unitarian martyr | Learn more |