List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)
This list consists of notable members of the denomination called Church of Christ, Scientist. For a list of Christians who are also scientists go to List of Christian thinkers in science.
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Politics
Political figures
- Nancy Witcher Astor – Second female Member of Parliament but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945[lower-alpha 1]
- Fred B. Balzar – 15th Governor of Nevada[1]
- Owen Brewster – 54th Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941, and U.S. Senate from 1941 to 1952[1][2]
- Ralph Lawrence Carr – 29th Governor of Colorado[3]
- Bonnie Carroll – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)[lower-alpha 2]
- Thelma Cazalet-Keir – British Conservative Member of Parliament[5]
- Thomas M. Davis[6][7]
- David Dreier[8]
- John Ehrlichman – Watergate figure [9]
- Sir Lionel Fraser – British banker[10]
- Vida Goldstein – Australian suffragette and social reformer.[11]
- Bob Goodlatte[12]
- H.R. Haldeman – Watergate figure described as, in those days, "a Christian Scientist who neither smokes nor drinks"[13]
- Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian – his death in 1940, which was when he was the British Ambassador to the United States of America, gained some attention due to his faith[14]
- Egil Krogh – Watergate figure[15]
- Scott McCallum – Milwaukee Sentinel mentioned how Wisconsin's Christian Scientists "finally got their prayers answered" by his election[16]
- Ursula Mueller – United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs[lower-alpha 2]
- Henry Paulson – 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury[17][18][19]
- Charles H. Percy[20]
- Chris Shays
- Lamar S. Smith[21]
- Stansfield Turner – Admiral and former CIA Director [22]
- William Hedgcock Webster – mentioned in a Salon article
- Margaret Wintringham – second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
- John D. Works – an early, possibly the earliest, example of a Christian Scientist in the US Senate[1][23]
Arts and entertainment
Artists
- Andrew Clements - American author of children's books, including Frindle[24]
- Willis Vernon Cole – writer put on trial for practicing Christian Science healing without a medical license[25][26]
- Joseph Cornell – Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is said to have been very important to him and his art[27]
- Evelyn Dunbar – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II[28]
- Fougasse – noted cartoonist; taught at the Christian Science Sunday School in Sloane Square, London, UK, for a number of years (the church there is now called Cadogan Hall)
- Alberta Neiswanger Hall – composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for The Songs of Father Goose[29]
- Godfrey John – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher[30][31]
- Mina Loy[32]
- William D. McCrackan – writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic[33]
- Winifred Nicholson[34][35]
- Violet Oakley – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass[36]
- Sergei Prokofiev [37]
- Marcellus E. Wright Sr. – American architect who designed the Altria Theater; was an adherent of Christian Science[38][39]
Entertainment figures
- Kenny L. Baker – singer who also acted in musicals; wrote hymns for the faith and later became a Christian Science practitioner[40][41]
- Valerie Bergere – French-born actress of stage and screen[42][43]
- Cornelius Bumpus – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan[44]
- Blanche Calloway – bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister[45][46]
- Carol Channing – although she did see a Dr. Bill Cayhand in cases of more severe medical problems[47]
- Juanin Clay – American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger[48]
- Joan Crawford – converted from Catholicism[49][50]
- Doris Day – there is some evidence that she currently sees it solely as a philosophy, not a religion[51][52]
- Colleen Dewhurst – discussed in pages 368–74 of her unfinished autobiography[53]
- Robert Duvall – raised Christian Scientist, identifies as such, but non-practicing[54][55]
- Georgia Engel – American film, television, and stage actress[56][57]
- Horton Foote – playwright and screenwriter[58][59]
- Charlotte Greenwood – actress and dancer[60][61][62]
- Joyce Grenfell – niece of Nancy Astor, also wrote music[63][64]
- Corinne Griffith[65][66] - movie star
- Lionel Hampton – jazz musician[67][68]
- David Liebe Hart – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter[69]
- Howard Hawks – film director[70]
- Peter Horton – actor[71]
- Bud Jamison – actor active from 1915 to 1944[72]
- Leatrice Joy – silent film star who retired to Greenwich, Connecticut, attending the church there for many years[73][74]
- Val Kilmer – reads scripture to a congregation in New Mexico[75][76]
- Kay Kyser – Christian Science practitioner and active promoter[77][78]
- Martin Melcher – producer, third husband of Doris Day[79]
- Conrad Nagel – actor[80][81]
- Antoinette Perry – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards[82][83]
- Mary Pickford – Canadian-American motion picture actress; co-founder of the film studio United Artists; one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; in 1934, she published Why Not Try God?, a booklet touting Christian Science
- Ginger Rogers – had Christian Science beliefs and upbringing[84][85]
- J. D. Salinger – joined it as well as various other faiths[86][87]
- Lilia Skala – actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field; converted to the faith and mentioned it often[88]
- Jean Stapleton – actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker[89]
- W. S. Van Dyke – director of films, including The Thin Man[90][91]
- King Vidor – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award[92]
- Anna May Wong – also believed in reincarnation; there are disputed claims she embraced some Taoist principles[93][94]
- Alfre Woodard – actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat[95][96]
- Alan Young – founded a film and broadcast division for the Christian Science church,[97] though he later was critical of the church as an organization[98]
Sports
Athletes/sportspeople
- Adin Brown – U.S. association football player[99]
- Nile Kinnick – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner[100]
- Shannon Miller – American gymnast[101]
- George Sisler – baseball player[102]
- Tommy Vardell – American football player[103]
Intellectual life
Academia
- David E. Sweet – founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College[104]
Journalism
- Virginia Graham (1910–1993) – English humourist
- Edward J. Meeman – American journalist[105]
Exploration, invention, and science
- Neil Kensington Adam – British chemist who wrote the article "A Christian Scientist's Approach to the Study of Natural Science"[106][107]
- J. Robert Atkinson – founder of the Braille Institute of America[108]
- Edmund F. Burton – physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science[109]
- Laurance Doyle – researcher at SETI[110]
- Dorothy Harrison Eustis – founder of The Seeing Eye[111]
- Bette Nesmith Graham – inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith[112]
- Charles Lightoller – surviving Second Officer of the Titanic[113]
- Jer Master – Indian pediatrician who abandoned medicine for the faith[114][115][116]
- Alan Shepard – mother and wife were Christian Scientists. No evidence Alan Shepard was a member or practiced.[117][118][119]
- Doris Huestis Speirs – Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet[120]
Notable people raised in Christian Science
- Jean Arthur – movie star; raised in the faith
- Richard Bach – bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull; was a reader in the Christian Science Church until the early 1970s[121]
- Grace Mann Brown – author and lecturer related to Christian Science, Divine Science and New Thought Movement; founder of the Order of the Essenes; worked in the administration of Unity Churches and the New Thought Alliance; editor of Christian Science and New Thought magazines and journals
- Jonathan Carroll – raised in the church by Jewish converts to it, but no longer practicing[122]
- Hart Crane – raised in the faith, but never very observant[123]
- Christina Crawford – mentioned in Mommie Dearest
- Ellen DeGeneres – was not vaccinated as a child and says she felt "left out"[124]
- Daniel Ellsberg – his parents were Jewish converts to Christian Science[125]
- William Everson – had Christian Scientist parents; became a member of the Dominican Order for 18 years[126]
- Stewart Farrar – abandoned the faith in favor of agnosticism and then Neopaganism[127]
- Paul Feig – creator of Freaks and Geeks; his Christian Science upbringing is mentioned in Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin[128]
- Henry Fonda – raised Christian Scientist, but drifted later in life[129]
- Ralph Giordano – German writer; his parents were members of the Christian Science Church; this is mentioned in his autobiographical novel The Bertinis
- Kelsey Grammer – informally raised in the faith, but left it after his sister's murder[130][131]
- Spalding Gray – used his Christian Science upbringing for humor[132][133]
- Keith Green – his Jewish mother was a practicing Christian Scientist[134]
- Howard Hawks – registered as Christian Science and his mother was of that faith; he may have stayed active[70]
- Ernest Hemingway – his mother was a practicing Christian Scientist
- Jim Henson – in his 20s he was a Sunday School teacher in the faith, but 15 years before he died he wrote to a Christian Science church to inform them he was no longer a practicing member[135][136]
- Audrey Hepburn – her mother was a devout Christian Scientist, but she chose not be attached to any particular religion[137]
- James Hetfield – of Metallica, his "The God That Failed" is one of many songs that are a response to it[138]
- Bruce Hornsby – rock musician[139]
- Jack Kemp – raised Christian Scientist, he later became a Presbyterian[140]
- Myles Kennedy – of Alter Bridge, parents were Christian Scientists[141]
- William Luce – American playwright and screenwriter, raised a Christian Scientist and was an organist in the Church before ultimately leaving the faith[142]
- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke – his parents were Christian Scientists[143]
- Marilyn Monroe – her mother was obsessed with the faith, but was only minimally involved in her life due to mental illness
- Michael Nesmith – member of The Monkees,[112] son of Bette Nesmith Graham
- V. S. Pritchett – his father was a Christian Scientist and he was raised in the faith, but later was disparaging of it[144]
- Chris Shays – active member for most of his life,[145][146] but no longer a practicing member[147]
- John Simpson – BBC journalist[148]
- Danielle Steel – mentioned in interviews[149]
- Julian Steward – his mother was a devout convert
- Elizabeth Taylor – raised in the faith, but converted to Judaism on marrying Eddie Fisher; remained Jewish until her death and joked of herself as "a nice little Jewish girl"[150]
- William Thetford – his parents were of the faith, but left when he was seven due to the death of their daughter
- Robin Williams – his mother was a Christian Scientist[151]
See also
- Church of Christ, Scientist
- Manual of The Mother Church
- Demographics of the United States Congress
Footnotes
- In Sykes's Nancy the life of Lady Astor (1984), and her own letters, Nancy Astor’s Canadian Correspondence, 1912–1962, it is mentioned how much she promoted the religion; the effect it had on her election campaigns and her political views is mentioned in Karen J Musolf's From Plymouth to Parliament (1999)
- Recorded a video for the Mother Church's online-only Annual Meeting in 2020 about how Christian Science supported her in her work.[4]
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