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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.

Many historical Unitarians did not hold Universalist beliefs, and many historical Universalists did not hold Unitarian beliefs. But beginning in the Nineteenth century, and even earlier, the theologies of the two groups started becoming more similar.

Additionally, the merger did not eliminate divergent Unitarian and Universalist congregations, especially outside the US. Even in the US there are congregations which still keep only one of the two names "Unitarian" or "Universalist" (though with only a few exceptions, are all part of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)); 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.

Also note that in Ireland and in Northern Ireland, Unitarian churches are officially called "Non-Subscribing Presbyterian", but are informally known as "Unitarian" and are affiliated with the Unitarian churches of the rest of the world.

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• Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
• Charles Francis Adams (1807–1886)
• James Luther Adams (1901–1994) (theologian [1])
• John Adams (1735–1826)
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
• Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888)
• Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
• Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899)
• Ethan Allen (1738–1789) (Universalist)
• Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891–1972)
• Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder) (1873–1912) (Irish Non-Subscribing Presbyterian)
• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) (also a Quaker)

• E. Burdette Backus (1888–1955) (originally a Universalist)
• Dr. Sara Josephine Baker
• 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)
• Ysaye Maria Barnwell (b. 1959) ("Sweet Honey in the Rock" founder and gospel singer)
• 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)
• John Biddle (1615–1662) (minister, called the Father of English Unitarianism)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913 or 1914) (unconfirmed)
• James Blanchard (b. 1942)
• Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910)
• John Bowring (1792–1872)
• Ray Bradbury (b. 1920)
• Andre Braugher (b. 1962)
• Antoinette Brown (1825–1921)
• Olympia Brown (1835–1926) (Universalist)
• Robert Browning (1812–1889)
• Orestes Brownson (1803–1876) (originally a Universalist)
• Percival Brundage (1892–1979) (technocrat [2])
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
• John A. Buehrens, UUA president 1993-2001
• Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844) (architect)
• Luther Burbank (1849–1926)
• Celia Burr Burleigh (1826–1875) (first woman Unitarian minister ([3])

• John C. Calhoun (1782–1850)
• Norbert Capek (1870–1942) (founder of Czechoslovak Unitaria)
• Alice Cary (1820–1871) (Universalist)
• Phoebe Cary (1824–1871) (Universalist)
• Michael Cassidy (b.1937) (Canadian politician)
• Sebastian Castellio (1515–1563) (proto-unitarian universalist)
• Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914)
• Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)^[1]
• William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) (noted preacher and theologian)
• Augusta Jane Chapin (1836–1905) (Universalist and first American woman to receive Doctor of Divinity)
• Julia Child (1912–2004)
• Lydia Child (1802–1880)
• Forrester Church (b.1948) (Unitarian Universalist minister, author, & theologian)
• Eleanor Clymer (1906–2001) writer
• Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)
• William Cohen (b.1940) (Senator from Maine, Secretary of Defense)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) (originally a Unitarian)
• Senator Kent Conrad, D-ND (b.1948)
• Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907)
• Chris Crass (b.1973)
• E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
• Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888)

• Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
• Ferenc Dávid (1510–1579) (Hungarian-Transylvanian priest, minister and bishop, first to use the word "Unitarian" to describe his faith)
• Frederic Lansing Day (1886–1982) (An American playwright and Unitarian)
• George de Benneville (1703–1793) (Universalist)
• Morris Dees (b. 1936)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
• Dorothea Dix (1802–1887)
• Paul Douglas (1892–1976) (also a Quaker)^[2]

• Don Edwards (b. 1915)
• Loren Eiseley (1907–1977)
• William Greenleaf Eliot (1811–1887) (Unitarian minister)
• Charles William Eliot (1834–1926)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) (Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist)

• Sophia Lyon Fahs (1876–1978) (educator [4])
• Fannie Farmer (1857–1915)
• Noel Haviland Field (?–1970)
• Millard Fillmore (1800–1874)
• Charles Follen (1796–1840) (Unitarian minister, Harvard professor, abolitionist)
• Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (?–1860) (abolitionist [5])
• Arthur Foote (1853–1913)
• John Murray Forbes (1813–1898)
• James Ishmael Ford (b. 1948) UU minister & Zen teacher
• Robert Fulghum (b. 1937)"UU minister and writer"
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) (Transcendentalist and Unitarian)

• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
• William Godwin (1756–1836) (Sandemanian)
• Horace Greeley (1811–1872) (Universalist)
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937) (inventory [6])
• Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
• Nina Grieg (1845–1935)
• Matt Groening (1954–) (UU, see [7] or [8])

• Frances Harper (1825–1911)
• Thomas Lake Harris (1823–1906) (Universalist)
• Bret Harte (1836–1902)
• Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) (theologian [9])
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) (Transcendentalist)
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson(1823-1911)
• 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)
• Herman Haugerud (d.1937)

• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) (unitarian, wrote to John Adams that if there were a Unitarian church near him, he would become a member, but attended an Episcopalian church.)
• Nancy Johnson (b. 1935)
• William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
• Kristofer Janson (1841–1917)

• Thomas Starr King (1824–1864) (A minister who during his career served both in Universalist and in Unitarian churches)
• Chuck Knipp (also a Quaker)
• Ray Kurzweil (b. 1948)

• Richard Lamm (b.1935)
• Lewis Howard Latimer (1848–1928)
• Margaret Laurence (1926–1987)
• Viola Liuzzo (1925–1965)
• Mary Livermore (1820–1905) (Universalist)
• John Locke (1632–1704) (British liberal political philosopher)^{[citation needed]}
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
• Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
• Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898)

• Horace Mann (1796–1859)
• John P. Marquand (1893–1960)
• John Marshall (1755–1835) (Chief Justice)
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)
• James Martineau (1805–1900)
• Ric Masten (b. 1929) (poet, singer, social justice worker with migrant laborers [10])
• Samuel Joseph May (1838–1914) (well-known Abolitionist and reformer)
• Scotty McLennan (b. 1948) (Dean for Religious Life, Stanford University; the inspiration for the Reverend Scott Sloan character in Doonesbury and college roommate of Gary Trudeau; grandfather founded Marsh & McLennan)
• Herman Melville (1819–1891) (Transcendentalist)
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
• John Milton (1608–1674) (poet, essayist, revolutionary; deathbed testament revealed he was both a unitarian and a universalist)
• Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)
• Iolo Morgannwg ne Edward Williams (1747–1826) (founder of modern Welsh nationalism)
• Samuel Eliot Morrison (1887–1976)
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872)
• Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) (also a Quaker)
• John Muir (1838–1914) (founder of American environmentalism)
• John Murray (1741–1815) (Universalist minister)

• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
• Sumner Henry Needham (?–1861) Universalist, first Union casualty in Civil War

• Keith Olbermann (b. 1959)
• Mary White Ovington (1865–1951)

• Robert Packwood (b. 1932)
• Theodore Parker (1810–1860)
• Linus Pauling (1901–1994)
• Carlton Pearson (Pentecostal/Charismatic preacher of universal reconciliation)
• William J. Perry (b.1927) (Secretary of Defense)
• James Pierpont (musician)
• Charles Alfred Pillsbury (Univeralist)
• Lydia Pinkham (1819–1893) (first noted U.S. woman entrepreneur)
• Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
• Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) (discoverer of oxygen and Unitarian minister)
• Olive Higgins Prouty (1882–1974)
• George Pullman (1831–1897) (Universalist)

• Josiah Quincy II (1744–1777) (Universalist)

• James Reeb (died 1965)
• Christopher Reeve (1952–2004)
• James Relly (c.1722–1778) (Universalist)
• Paul Revere (1735–1818)
• Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978)
• Elliot Richardson (1920–1999) (often listed as "Anglican" but was a member of a UU church near Washington DC for many years)
• David Riesman (1909–2002)
• George Ripley (1802–1880)
• Rammohun Roy (1772–1833) (also a Hindu)
• Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) (Very active in the Universalist movement, although never technically joined a Universalist congregation)

• Margaret Higgins Sanger (1883–1966) (a "small u" unitarian, attended, never affiliated with any church as an adult)
• Arthur Schlesinger (b. 1917)
• William F. Schulz (UUA president, 1985-1993; Executive Director, Amnesty International USA, 1994-2225)
• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) (late in life unitarian; honorary member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship)
• Charles E. Scripps (b. 1920) (publisher [11])
• Pete Seeger (b. 1919)
• Rod Serling (1924–1975) (Writer; Creator of The Twilight Zone television series.)
• Michael Servetus (1511–1553) (proto-unitarian)
• Robert Shaw (conductor) (1916–1999)
• Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) (dramatized in the movie Glory)
• William G. Sinkford (b. 1946) (current UUA president)
• Pete Stark (b. 1931)
• W. Lane Startin (b. 1973) (author and politician [12])
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962) (Arctic explorer and champion of Native American rights)
• Charles Steinmetz (1865–1923)
• Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) (Illinois governor, and Democratic Presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956)
• Lucy Stone (1818–1893)
• Robert Stout (1844–1930)
• Emily Stowe (1813–1903)
• Dirk Struik (1894–2000) (mathematician [13])
• Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828)

• William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
• James Napper Tandy (1740–1803) (Irish Non-Subscribing Presbyterian)
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) (Transcendentalist)
• Amos G. Throop (1811–1894) (Universalist)
• Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997)
• Theobald Wolfe Tone (1764–1798) (Irish Non-Subscribing Presbyterian, Non-Trinitarian)
• Toulmin, Joshua (1740-1815), English radical Dissenting minister

• Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872–1958) (great Anglo-Welsh composer; reared Unitarian, later called himself a Christian Agnostic)
• Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964)
• Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694–1794) (unitarian)
• Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922)

• Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920)
• Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) (writer, critic, educator)
• Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
• Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1759)
• John Archibald Wheeler (b. 1911)
• Paul Dudley White (1886–1973)
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892) (Transcendentalist)
• Earl Morse Wilbur (1886–1956) (historian of Universalism [14])
• George Huntston Williams (1914–2000) (historian [15])
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
• Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676) (English social justice radical and universalist)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
• J. S. Woodsworth (1874–1942) (Unitarian)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)
• N.C. Wyeth (1882–1945)

• Owen D. Young (1874–1962) (Universalist)
• Whitney M. Young (1921–1971)

1. ^ Ruston, Alan. Neville Chamberlain. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved on February 23, 2007.
2. ^ Keohane, John. Paul Douglas. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved on February 23, 2007.

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• International Council of Unitarians and Universalists
• List of people by belief

• Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• Famous UUs
• The Quick Guide to the History of Nordic Unitarianism