Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn - Known or Alleged Members

Known or Alleged Members

• Sara Allgood (1879–1950), Irish stage actress and later film actress in America
• Charles Henry Allan Bennett (1872–1923), best known for introducing Buddhism to the West
• Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), British novelist
• Edward W. Berridge (ca. 1843–1923), British homeopathic physician
• Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), English writer and radio broadcaster of supernatural stories
• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), occultist, writer and mountaineer
• Florence Farr (1860–1917), London stage actress and musician
• Robert Felkin (1853–1925), medical missionary, explorer and anthropologist in Central Africa, author
• Frederick Leigh Gardner (1857–1930), British stock broker and occultist; published three-volume bibliography Catalogue Raisonné of Works on the Occult Sciences (1912)
• Maud Gonne (1866–1953), Irish revolutionary, actress.
• Annie Horniman (1860–1937), British repertory theatre producer and pioneer; member of the wealthy Horniman family of tea-traders
• Arthur Machen (1863–1947), leading London writer of the 1890s, author of acclaimed works of imaginative and occult fiction, such as "The Great God Pan", "The White People" and "The Hill of Dreams". Welsh by birth and upbringing.
• Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker, and Buddhist
• E. Nesbit (1858–1924), real name Edith Bland; English author and political activist
• Sax Rohmer, novelist, creator of the Fu Manchu character
• Charles Rosher (1885–1974), British cinematographer
• Pamela Colman Smith (1878–1951), British-American artist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck
• William Sharp (1855–1905), poet and author; alias Fiona MacLeod
• Bram Stoker (1847–1912), Irish writer best-known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula
• John Todhunter (1839–1916), Aktis Heliou Irish poet and playwright who wrote seven volumes of poetry, and several plays
• Violet Tweedale (1862–1936), author.
• Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), British Christian mystic, author of Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
• Charles Williams (1886–1945), British poet, novelist, theologian, and literary critic
• A. E. Waite (1857–1942), British-American author, Freemason and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck
• W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, dramatist, and writer.