List of Seventh-day Adventists
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This is a list of people who have been associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They are listed here, at least in part, for their faith or for their role in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist church. It also includes members who left the church.
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[edit] Members
[edit] Academics
- Eva Beatrice Dykes – Educator
[edit] Actors, TV and radio
- Clifton Davis – From That's My Mama and theater work. Also an ordained minister in the church.
- Darwood "Waldo" Kaye – Former Our Gang actor who spent his adult life as a pastor.
- Paul Harvey – American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks.
- Darwood Kaye – was an American former child actor
- Nǃxau – Kalahari Bushman star of The Gods Must Be Crazy, who converted in later life[1]
- Carlos Pardeiro – founder of SafeTV
- Danny Shelton – founder of 3ABN religious broadcasting network
[edit] Art and Music
- Herbert Blomstedt – Conductor who does not rehearse on Saturdays due to his Adventist faith.
- Anna German – Poland's greatest singer.
- Hugh Martin – American theater and film composer
- Jim Pinkoski – Illustrator
- Robert Edwin Seamount – Gospel singer and pastor
- Annie R. Smith – American hymnist
- Shirley Verrett – Mezzo-soprano opera singer
- Jerome Fontamillas – Filipino American musician[2]
- Shi-Yeon Sung – Assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Take 6 – Award-winning gospel singing group
- Paul Antunes – recording artist, and chaplain at Canadian University College
- Wintley Phipps – who is also a pastor
- Brian McKnight – awarding winning R&B singer
- Faith Esham – opera singer
- Terry Benedict – assistant director in Hollywood - producer of The Conscientious Objector, a film about fellow Adventist and World War II U.S. medic Desmond Doss
- O.D. McKee – founder of McKee Foods which produces the Little Debbie snacks
- Ivor Myers – former rap singer
- Mitch Myers – guitarist for funk/R&B group Is You Is
- Cheryl James – former American rap/hip-hop artist going by the name of "Salt", and was a member of the rap trio Salt-n-Pepa
- Jaci Velasquez – contemporary Christian music singer.
- Virtue – female Gospel music group who attended Oakwood College
- Harry Anderson – artist
[edit] Civil Rights
- T.R.M. Howard – black surgeon, entrepreneur, civil rights, fraternal leader.
- Terrence Roberts – gained national prominence as one of the Little Rock Nine.
[edit] Law
- Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko, International Criminal Court judge.[3]
- Greg Mathis – retired Michigan 36th District Court judge and syndicated television show judge
[edit] Language, linguistics and novelists
- Edwin de Kock – Esperantist and poet.
- Andrew Nelson – Missionary and linguist.
- Steven Spruill – novelist[4]
[edit] Politicians
- Silas Atopare – Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
- Roscoe Bartlett – Member of the United States House of Representatives.
- James Carlisle – Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
- Cari M. Dominguez – 12th chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
- Kim Gangte – former Indian parliament member
- Sheila Jackson-Lee – Member of the United States House of Representatives
- Samson Kisekka – Ugandan Prime Minister
- Jerry Lewis – Member of the United States House of Representatives
- Floyd Morris – Jamaican senator and minister of state[5]
- Benjamin Paiva – deputy speaker of Angola's Parliament
- Jerry Lyle Pettis – former Congressman from California
- Desley Scott – Australian politician.
- Philip T. Sica – Queens politician.
- Manasseh Sogavare – Prime minister of the Solomon Islands
- John F. Street – Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Bob Stump – Former Congressman from Arizona.
- Marianne Thieme – Dutch politician and leader of the Party for the Animals political party.
For United States Adventist politicians see The Political Graveyard.
[edit] Science, health and engineering
- Leonard L. Bailey – World-renowned heart surgeon who transplanted a baboon's heart into Baby Fae[6]
- Ben Carson – Physician and author who became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 32 years of age
- Siegfried Horn – archaeologist
- Donovan Courville – Biochemist and archaeologist
- George McCready Price – Missionary and leading early creationist.
- Robert V. Gentry – Nuclear physics(creationist)
- Sean D. Pitman – Pathologist/hematologist who maintains the creationist website DetectingDesign.com
- Frank Lewis Marsh – Creationist and the first Adventist to earn a doctoral degree in biology
- Walter Veith – author and speaker known for his work in nutrition, creationism and other Christian topics
See also Category:Seventh-day Adventists in health science.
[edit] Sports
- Carlos Roa – Argentine football goalkeeper who does not play on Friday nights or Saturdays due to his religion.
- Joël Abati – Famous handballplayer currently playing for Montpellier HB (France).
- Elijah Lagat – Kenyan athlete
[edit] Theologians, ministers and personalities
- John Nevins Andrews – Early missionary for the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
- Mark Finley – evangelist
- James Springer White – A founder of the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Husband of Ellen White
- Joseph Bates – Elder in the church. Wrote a tract on the seventh-day Sabbath which convinced James and Ellen White to start observing it.
- Uriah Smith – Author and editor
- Ellen G. White – A founder of the church who is considered to have had the biblical gift of prophecy.
- Rachel Oakes Preston – Early religious figure to the church who introduced the seventh-day Sabbath to Adventists. She attended the Washington, New Hampshire Adventist church.
- Herbert E. Douglass – American theologian.
- Gerhard F. Hasel – theologian.
- "Uncle Arthur" Maxwell – Children's author and Adventist spokesman for church-state affairs in Britain.
- Doug Batchelor – Evangelist for the church; director of Amazing Facts ministry.
- Admiral Barry Black, Phd, DMin, DD – First African American and current chaplain to the United States Senate.
- Jon Dybdahl – Theologian and college administrator.
- Robert S. Folkenberg – President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 1990 to 1999.
- Jan Paulsen – Current President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
- Ángel Manuel Rodríguez – director of the Biblical Research Institute (BRI)
- Bernard A. Taylor – Septuagint expert and member of the New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS}[7]
- Alfred Vaucher – French theologian.
- Benjamin G. Wilkinson – Theologian whose writings influenced the American fundamentalist King-James-Only Movement.
- Danny Shelton – Pastor and co-founder of Three Angels Broadcasting Network
- Albert Handal – Youth Pastor at the Calhoun Seventh-day Adventist Church
See also the Seventh-day Adventist leaders, administrators and theologians categories.
[edit] World War II personalities
- Desmond Doss – First conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor.
- Gabrielle Weidner – Helped people escape from the Nazis and contributed to the French Resistance.
[edit] Fictional
- Lane Kim – Character on Gilmore Girls.
- Arnold Rimmer's family – from the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf
See Seventh-day Adventism in popular culture.
[edit] Other
- Lindy Chamberlain, Michael Chamberlain – parents of Azaria, the subject of Australia's most famous court case.
- Shirley Ardell Mason – famous psychiatric patient known to the public as Sybil after the book.
- Jack Staddon and David Beihl were both winners of the U.S. National Geographic Bee, winning in 1989 and 1999, respectively.[citation needed]
- Terry Lyndon Johnson – Former Presidential Honor Guard
- Louise Helen Little – Mother of Malcolm X
[edit] Former members
- D. M. Canright – Pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen White
- Desmond Ford – Australian preacher dismissed for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the church
- Ray Garton – horror novelist who was raised Adventist[8]
- Victor Houteff – founder of the Shepherd's Rod offshoot
- Moses Hull – Former pastor who converted to spiritualism.
- Magic Johnson – basketball player and member of the Hall of Fame
- John Harvey Kellogg – well known physician and founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium
- David Koresh – born Vernon Wayne Howell, leader of the Branch Davidian cult.
- J. Mark Martin – former Adventist pastor fired over doctrinal issues. Senior pastor of Calvary Community Church.
- Chi McBride – Actor, raised Adventist.
- Craig T. Nelson – Actor, star of the TV series Coach and other movies.
- Elizaphan Ntakirutimana – ex-pastor and Rwandan Genocide participant
- Ronald Numbers – science historian and author of The Creationists, and former Adventist lecturer
- Dale Ratzlaff – Former Adventist pastor dismissed over doctrinal issues. Directs Life Assurance Ministries and is the editor of a website critical of Ellen White
- Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read – Australian criminal, from an Adventist family
- William S. Sadler – Linked to The Urantia Book
- Roch Thériault – Criminal cult leader and subject of the film Savage Messiah
- Paul Wei – Became a founding figure in the primarily-Chinese True Jesus Church.
- Richard Wright – author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist family.
See also Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists.
[edit] Pioneers & Millerites
- Nelson H. Barbour – Millerite pastor
- Sylvester Bliss – Millerite pastor, editor of The Signs of the Times
- Charles Fitch – Millerite evangelist
- Joshua (Josiah) Himes – Millerite evangelist and promoter
- William Miller – Founder of the Adventist movement
- T. M. Preble – Millerite pastor, early Sabbath supporter
- Jonas Wendell – Millerite evangelist
See also Category:Adventist.
[edit] To be classified...
(Unsure if these are present or former Adventists)
- Phife Dawg – rap artist.[citation needed][9]
- Will Keith Kellogg – founder of the Kellogg Company cereals
- Little Richard – American singer, songwriter and pianist (born Richard Wayne Penniman)
- George Speight – leader of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état
[edit] See also
- Alumni of any of the universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
[edit] References
- ^ "God Isn’t Crazy" by Tania Calais. Signs of the Times
- ^ cqbiblestudy.org. "“We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.”". Press release.
- ^ Adventist News Network. "Adventist elected judge of international criminal court". Press release.
- ^ Spectrum magazine, a 2007/8 issue
- ^ Jamaica Gleaner - Senator Floyd Morris 21st century man - Sunday | September 21, 2003
- ^ "Leonard Bailey, world-renowned heart surgeon, remembers with fondness a tiny baby named Fae", Loma Linda University Medical Center News. "Baby Fae: The Unlearned Lesson" by Kenneth P. Stoller
- ^ "Adventist helps modernise ancient Bible". Record March 29, 2008; p5
- ^ Spectrum magazine, a 2007/8 issue
- ^ "No big strife for Phife"
[edit] External links
- Famous Seventh-day Adventists at the Famous Adherents website. (Don't add any from this site to the current list without a citation!)
