// Welcome to the Education and Literature Page
- Robert E. B. Baylor, Founder Baylor University
- Robert Burns – The National Poet of Scotland
- Casanova, Italian adventurer, writer, and entertainer
- Carlo Collodi, author of Pinocchio
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Writer – Sherlock Holmes
- W.E.B. DuBois, educator & scholar
- Edward Gibbon, historian-wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Alex Haley, Author Roots
- Rudyard Kipling – British Author and Poet – Perseverance Lodge No. 782, Punjab India
- Norman Vincent Peale – Midwood Lodge No. 1062, Brooklyn, NY. May 31, 1898
- Alexander Pope
- Aleksander Pushkin, Russian poet
- Felix Salten, creator of Bambi
- Sir Walter Scott
- Leland Stanford, founded Stanford University and drove the gold spike linking the intercontinental railroad
- Jonathan Swift – Wrote Gulliver’s Travels
- Mark Twain (Clemens, Samuel L.) – writer – Polar Star Lodge No. 79, St. Louis Missouri
- Voltaire – French writer and philosopher
- Booker T. Washington, educator & author – Grand Master, Massachusetts, PHA
- Oscar Wilde – Writer