List of Jehovah's Witnesses

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[edit] List of famous Jehovah's Witnesses

A range of participation is represented by these individuals, from full activity to disaffiliation.

• George Benson - Jazz guitarist
• Maurizio Bianchi - Musician
• Ivana Brkic - Croatian Musician
• Richard Cameron- Dutch Musician
• Valerie Campbell - Mother of Naomi Campbell
• Tom Edur - Former NHL ice hockey player.
• Ida E. Eisenhower (Mother of President Eisenhower)
• Leopold Engleitner - Buchenwald concentration camp survivor and centenarian.
• Larry Graham - Sly & the Family Stone
• Teresa Graves - Reputedly the first black woman to play the lead in a police movie, also a singer.
• Gary Gygax - Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
• Katherine Jackson - Michael Jackson's mother.
• Rebbie Jackson - Singer, daughter of Katherine Jackson.
• Scott Johnson - Actor
• Phillip Landry - Musican

Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Japanese musician, name comes from the Book of Isaiah

• Margaret Keane - Artist who said converting "changed her life."[1]
• Peter Knowles - Famous soccer player in England who quit his football career in 1970 aged 24 to join the Jehovah's Witnesses.
• Brian Locking - Bass guitarist with The Shadows for eighteen months, but left to Jehovah's Witnesses activities.
• Hank Marvin - Lead guitarist for The Shadows
• Bohumil Müller - Czech survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and underground religious leader under Communism.
• Viv Nicholson - Major pools winner
• Evelyn Ntoko (first wife of [[Nelson Mandela]
• Prince - Musician
• Ken Richmond - The man who banged the gong in the Rank Organisation film logo from 1955 onward.
• Miu Sakamoto - Japanese Singer, a Daughter of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Akiko Yano
• Damo Suzuki (Converted in the 1970s, current membership status uncertain)
• Bobby Tambling - English footballer
• Phil Terry - member of the 60's R&B group The Intruders.
• David Thomas - Avant-garde rocker, "Jehovah's Kingdom come"[2][3]
• Jean Terrell - Replaced Diana Ross in the Supremes in 1970.
• Akira Toriyama - Japanese Mangaka(Cartoonist), Author of Dragon Ball(Manga)
• Yoshito Usui - Japanese Mangaka, Author of Crayon Shin-chan
• Reena Virk - Canadian child murder victim
• Lark Voorhies - actress, Saved By The Bell
• Lou Whitaker - Former MLB baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.
• Akiko Yano - Japanese Singer, Former wife of Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Solveig Romero - Mexico and Switzerland, Actress and wife of Martin Campbell, the director of James Bond Casino Royale

[edit] List of former Jehovah's Witnesses

• Gregg Alexander - The New Radicals' lead singer; raised by mother
• Peter Andre - Singer raised in Australia, presently living in London with wife pin up model *Jordan
• Naomi Campbell- Supermodel; Raised by mother
• Dwight David Eisenhower who became the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
• Raymond Franz
• Geri Halliwell - Singer (Spice Girls); Raised as a Jehovah's Witness^{[verification needed]}
• Anthony Henderson - Famous quick tongued rap artist from legendary group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony a.k.a "Krayzie Bone", Sawed-Off Gangsta, or Leathaface
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - American writer of Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses (converted to Catholicism)
• Michael Jackson - Michael was raised a Jehovah's Witness but disassociated himself shortly after his hit album, Thriller
• Olin R. Moyle
• Dave Mustaine - Guitarist (ex-Metallica; Megadeth; ex- MD .45)
• Miki Nakatani - Japanese Actress, Raised as a Jehovah's Witness
• Gloria Naylor - Novelist
• Michelle Rodriguez - actress
• Patti Smith - Singer and poet
• Mickey Spillane - Novelist
• Leo Volpe
• Wayans brothers - Actors/Comediens ; Raised Jehovah's Witnesses
• Jill Scott-Singer; rasied as a Jehovah's Witness
• Hinano Yoshikawa - Japanese Fashion model and actress, Raised as a Jehovah's Witness
• K-os - Canadian R&B artist ; Raised Jehovah's Witness
• Pat Robertson - Politician, Minister
• Venus Williams - tennis player ; Raised Jehovah's Witnesses
• Serena Williams - tennis player ; Raised Jehovah's Witnesses
• Selena Quintanilla Perez - Tejano singer ; raised Jehovah's Witnesses

Note: This list was originally drawn from [4] The information was edited by the creator of this list, a former Witness who can attest to each citation herein personally, but is skeptical of other entries on the source site. Further, some later edits that followed this note are not using Adherents.com as a source.