List of Seventh-day Adventists

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.

Members

Academics

* Eva Beatrice Dykes – Educator

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.
* Nǃxau – Kalahari Bushman star of "The Gods Must Be Crazy", who converted in later life [" [http://www.signsofthetimes.org.au/archives/2005/january_february/article10.shtm God Isn’t Crazy] " by Tania Calais. "Signs of the Times"]
* Carlos Pardeiro – founder of SafeTV
* Danny Shelton – founder of Three Angels Broadcasting Network
* Benjamin Yee - radio personality - host of Jazz 'til Noon

Art and Music

* Herbert Blomstedt – Conductor who does not rehearse on Saturdays due to his Adventist faith. [See also "Spectrum" Summer 2001 for an interview]
* 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 musiciancite press release |title=“We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.” |publisher= cqbiblestudy.org |url=http://cqbiblestudy.org/article.php?id=29]
* 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

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.

Law

* Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko, International Criminal Court judge.cite press release |title=Adventist elected judge of international criminal court |publisher= Adventist News Network |url=http://news.adventist.org/data/2008/1201126389/index.html.en]
* Greg Mathis – retired Michigan 36th District Court judge and syndicated television show judge

Language, linguistics and novelists

* Edwin de Kock – Esperantist and poet.
* Andrew Nelson – Missionary and linguist.
* Steven Spruill – novelist ["Spectrum" magazine, a 2007/8 issue]

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 [ [http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030921/out/out1.html Jamaica Gleaner - Senator Floyd Morris 21st century man - Sunday | September 21, 2003 ] ]
* 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 [http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/seventh-day-adventist.html The Political Graveyard] .

cience, health and engineering

* Leonard L. Bailey – World-renowned heart surgeon who transplanted a baboon's heart into Baby Fae [" [http://www.llu.edu/news/today/dec299/mc.htm Leonard Bailey, world-renowned heart surgeon, remembers with fondness a tiny baby named Fae] ", Loma Linda University Medical Center News. " [http://www.curedisease.com/Perspectives/vol_2_1990/BabyFae.html Baby Fae: The Unlearned Lesson] " by Kenneth P. Stoller]
* 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 [http://www.detectingdesign.com/ 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
* Garret Collins - Organic chemist and ardent supporter of the literal 6 day creation.

See also .

ports

* 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

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} ["Adventist helps modernise ancient Bible". "Record" March 29, 2008; p5]
* 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
* Christopher W. Bullock - theologian, church planter, pastor & social justice advocate

See also the , and categories.

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.
* Johan Hendrik Weidner
* Zoltán Kubinyi ["Fragments of a Family: A Multigenerational Memoir" by Marta Fuchs Winik and Henry Fuchs. Excerpt " [http://spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive26-30/26-1winik.pdf SDA Hero Saves Jews From Nazis] " by Winik. "Spectrum" 26:1 (January 1997), p3–9; which also appeared earlier in a shortened form in "Christian Century" 13 November 1996. "The Case of Zofia and Jakub Gargasz" reprinted from "Sheltering the Jews" by Mordecai Paldiel (Augsburg Fortress, 1996)]

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.

Other

* Lindy Chamberlain, Michael Chamberlain – parents of Azaria, whose disappearance was the subject of Australia's most famous court case
* Shirley Ardell Mason – famous psychiatric patient known to the public as "Sybil" after the book by that name
* Jack Staddon and David Beihl were both winners of the U.S. National Geographic Bee, winning in 1989 and 1999, respectively [" [http://www.biol.andrews.edu/bf/bf04.htm Biofeedback: Jack Staddon Pursues MD/PHD] ", Andrews University, Autumn 2004] [" [http://www.tagnet.org/adventist.fm/news1a.htm Adventist news: Won National Geography Award] ", Adventist News (scroll down)]
* Terry Lyndon Johnson – Former Presidential Honor Guard
* Louise Helen Little – Mother of Malcolm X

Former members

* Wayne Bent - former pastor who founded Lord Our Righteousness Church
* 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 ["Spectrum" magazine, a 2007/8 issue]
* 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.
* Jesse Martin's parents were Adventists [In particular, "Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit", p6 mentions they were married in the Adventist 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
* "Prince" – raised Adventist [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/apr/04/popandrock.shopping http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Prince.html]
* 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
* Benjamin Roden
* 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 .

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 .

To be classified...

(Unsure if these are present or former Adventists)
* Phife Dawg – rap artist.fact|date=December 2007 [" [http://starbulletin.com/2001/09/14/features/story6.html No big strife for Phife] "]
* Will Keith Kellogg – founder of the Kellogg Company cereals
* Little Richard – American singer, songwriter and pianist (born Richard Wayne Penniman)
* Paul Rusesabagina – internationally honoured for sheltering people during the Rwandan Genocide. His story is told in the film "Hotel Rwanda"
* George Speight – leader of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état

ee also

* Alumni of any of the

References

External links

* [http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_sda.html Famous Seventh-day Adventists] at the "Famous Adherents" website. (Don't add any from this site to the current list without a citation!)