List of Baptists

This list of Baptists covers those who were members of Baptist churches or raised in Baptist churches. It does not imply that all who appear on the list were practicing Baptists or remained Baptists all their lives. As an article of faith, Baptists do not baptize infants. They carry out baptism of believers after conversion.

Preachers, theologians, and missionaries

Billy Graham
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
C. H. Spurgeon, "The Prince of Preachers"

Politicians

President Warren G. Harding
President Andrew Johnson
President Harry S. Truman

Jurists

Industrialists and leaders of business

Truett Cathy

Military personnel

Entertainers, movie and television personalities

Johnny Cash
Kevin Costner

Authors, writers, and journalists

Athletes

Miscellaneous

Criminals

Fictional Baptists

Literature

  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
    • Idgie Threadgood
    • Rev. Scroggins
  • The Mitford series by Jan Karon
    • Sophia Burton, single mother raising two daughters
    • Absalom Greer, elderly minister and friend of the series'protagonist, Father Tim Kavanagh (Episcopalian rector).
    • Madelaine Kavanagh, Father Tim's mother
    • Emma Newland, Father Tim's secretary, raised Baptist, converted to Episcopal, returned to Baptist church on marriage.
    • Harold Newland, Emma's husband and local postal worker
    • Rodney Underwood, town's chief of police
    • Lew Boyd, owner-operator of local Exxon gas station
    • Mule Skinner, semi-retired realtor
    • Fancy Skinner, Mule's wife and unisex hairdresser
    • Bill Sprouse, jovial minister of Mitford's First Baptist Church
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    • Miss Maudie Atkins, neighbor of Scout Finch, protagonist; more moderate than "Footwashing Baptists" who make a brief appearance
    • Mr. Radley's father, another of Scout's neighbors
  • Superman comic book series

Television

  • Designing Women, Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), presumably Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) and Charlene Frazier (Jean Smart). Specifically Charlene reveals that she is a "First Baptist" in the episode "Oh Suzanna". In the episode "How Great Thou Art" Charlene quits her church when she discovers her pastor is opposed to the ordination of women, which was her dream at one time. Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts) briefly dates Julia's minister.
  • Sanford And Son, Fred Sanford's (Redd Foxx) former sister-in-law, Aunt Esther (LaWanda Page) is a devout Baptist who often annoys Fred with her constant bible-thumping.
  • The Jeffersons, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) is revealed to be a Baptist during the third season in "The Christmas Wedding"[118] episode where his son Lionel (Damon Evans) weds Jenny Willis (Berlinda Thomas). The wedding is held up because George wants a Baptist minister to conduct the service while the Willis' want a minister of their denomination. Jenny and Lionel quickly marry when a minister (Robert Sampson) (who happens to be Baptist, though white to George's chagrin), is going door-to-door with a group of carolers.
  • Gimme a Break!, Nell Harper (Nell Carter) is the daughter of a Baptist minister.
  • Golden Girls, Blanche Deveraux (Rue McClanahan) is a Southern Baptist[119]
  • The Grady Nutt Show, Rev. Grady Williams (Grady Nutt), a minister in a short-lived sitcom on NBC who balances family and ministry as he does in the pilot episode where he must preach the funeral of a disliked man while coming to terms with teenage daughter's dating.[120]
  • LA Law, Jane Halliday (Alexandra Powers), fundamentalist Baptist and attorney, alumna of Bob Jones University. Introduced to the series in the eighth season premiere, when she revealed she intended to remain a virgin until her wedding night.[121]
  • The Waltons, almost all principal characters were Baptists or attended the Baptist church. In the fourth-season episode "The Sermon", Rev. Matthew Fordwick (John Ritter) asks John Boy (Richard Thomas) to deliver a sermon while he goes on honeymoon. In fifth-season episode "The Baptism", John Walton, Sr. (Ralph Waite) refuses to attend a tent revival or be baptized.

Film

Music

  • "Preachin Blues" (Son House) contains the lines
Yes, I'm gonna get me religion, I'm gonna join the Baptist Church.
You know I wanna be a Baptist preacher, just so I won't have to work.
I was third alto on the second row of the First Baptist church choir
I was keeper of the minutes for the Tri Delts, in charge of the homecoming bonfire
I was a straight 'A', straight laced, level-headed as they come
And parked at the Sonic, isn't that ironic, when my whole world came undone
One slot over was a calf roper giving me his George Strait smile
And before I knew Miss Good-Two-Shoes was two-steppin', runnin' wild.
If she seems bitter of other ways,
Seems to have lost her Baptist ways,
If the truth comes harder than a lie,
If she's guilty, so am I
  • "Lonely Lubbock Lights" (Aaron Watson), a singer in a Broken Spoke (a honkeytonk) reveals that a love interest is the daughter of a Baptist minister who is keeping them apart (because he sings in bars).
  • "Southern Baptist Heartbreak" (The Warren Brothers) contains the lines
Somewhere in the middle of "Have Thy Own Way,"
She left an empty pew;
She said 'I think that's what I'll do.'"
  • "Uneasy Rider" (Charlie Daniels), a hippie is stranded in a bar in the deep South and the locals start making trouble when the fast-thinking hippie accuses one of the locals of being a spy sent to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. The local replies that he's a "faithful follower of Brother John Birch and a member of Antioch Baptist Church."

See also

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