List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)
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This list concerns the role that members of the denomination called Church of Christ, Scientist had in world history. For a list about Christians who are also scientists go to List of Christian thinkers in science.
Politics
Political figures
- Nancy Witcher Astor - 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)
- Fred B. Balzar[1]
- Owen Brewster[1][2]
- Ralph Lawrence Carr[3]
- Thelma Cazalet-Keir - British Conservative Member of Parliament
- Thomas M. Davis[4][5]
- David Dreier[6]
- John Ehrlichman - Watergate figure [7]
- Sir Lionel Fraser - British banker[8]
- Bob Goodlatte[9]
- H.R. Haldeman - Watergate figure described as, in those days, "a Christian Scientist who neither smokes nor drinks"[10]
- 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[11]
- Egil Krogh - Watergate figure[12]
- Scott McCallum - Milwaukee Sentinel mentioned how Wisconsin's Christian Scientists "finally got their prayers answered" by his election[13]
- Henry Paulson - 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury[14][15][16]
- Charles H. Percy[17]
- Chris Shays
- Lamar S. Smith[18]
- Stansfield Turner - Admiral and former CIA Director [19]
- 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][20]
Arts and entertainment
Artists
- Willis Vernon Cole - writer put on trial for practicing Christian Science healing without a medical license[21][22]
- Joseph Cornell - Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is said to have been very important to him and his art[23]
- Evelyn Dunbar - English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II[24]
- 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[25]
- Godfrey John - Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher[26][27]
- Mina Loy[28]
- William D. McCrackan - writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic[29]
- Winifred Nicholson[30][31]
- Violet Oakley - American artist known for murals and work in stained glass[32]
- Sergei Prokofiev [33]
Entertainment figures
- Kenny L. Baker - singer who also acted in musicals; wrote hymns for the faith and later became a Christian Science practitioner[34][35]
- Valerie Bergere - French-born actress of stage and screen[36][37]
- Cornelius Bumpus - jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan[38]
- Blanche Calloway - bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister[39][40]
- Carol Channing - although she did see a Dr. Bill Cayhand in cases of more severe medical problems[41]
- Juanin Clay - American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger[42]
- Joan Crawford - converted from Catholicism[43][44]
- Doris Day - there is some evidence that she currently sees it solely as a philosophy, not a religion[45][46]
- Colleen Dewhurst - discussed in pages 368-374 of her unfinished autobiography[47]
- Robert Duvall - raised Christian Scientist, identifies as such, but non-practicing[48][49]
- Georgia Engel - American film, television, and stage actress[50][51]
- Horton Foote - playwright and screenwriter[52][53]
- Charlotte Greenwood - actress and dancer[54][55][56][57]
- Joyce Grenfell - niece of Nancy Astor, also wrote music[58][59]
- Corinne Griffith[60][61]
- Lionel Hampton - jazz musician[62][63]
- David Liebe Hart - puppeteer, actor, singer and painter[64]
- Howard Hawks - film director[65]
- Peter Horton - actor[66]
- Bud Jamison - actor active from 1915 to 1944[67]
- Leatrice Joy - silent film star who retired to Greenwich, Connecticut, attending the church there for many years[68][69]
- Alexandra Kent - ballet dancer[70]
- Val Kilmer - reads scripture to a congregation in New Mexico[71][72]
- Kay Kyser - Christian Science practitioner and active promoter[73][74]
- Martin Melcher - producer, third husband of Doris Day[75]
- Conrad Nagel - actor[76][77]
- Michael Nesmith - member of The Monkees[78]
- Antoinette Perry - Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards[79][80]
- 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[81][82]
- J. D. Salinger - joined it as well as various other faiths[83][84]
- Lilia Skala - actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field; converted to the faith and mentioned it often[85]
- Jean Stapleton - actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker[86]
- W. S. Van Dyke - director of films, including The Thin Man[87][88]
- King Vidor - director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award[89]
- Anna May Wong - also believed in reincarnation; there are disputed claims she embraced some Taoist principles[90][91]
- Alfre Woodard - actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat[92][93]
- Alan Young - founded a film and broadcast division for the Christian Science church,[94] though he later was critical of the church as an organization[95]
Sports
Athletes/sportspeople
- Adin Brown - U.S. soccer player[96]
- Nile Kinnick - American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner[97]
- Shannon Miller - American gymnast[98]
- George Sisler - baseball player[99]
Intellectual life
Academia
- David E. Sweet - founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College[100]
Journalism
- Edward J. Meeman - American journalist[101]
Exploration, invention, and science
- Neil Kensington Adam - British chemist who wrote the article "A Christian Scientist's Approach to the Study of Natural Science"[102][103]
- J. Robert Atkinson - founder of the Braille Institute of America[104]
- Edmund F. Burton - physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science[105]
- Laurance Doyle - researcher at SETI[106]
- Dorothy Harrison Eustis - founder of The Seeing Eye[107]
- Bette Nesmith Graham - inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith[78]
- Charles Lightoller - surviving Second Officer of the Titanic[108]
- Jer Master - Indian pediatrician who abandoned medicine for the faith[109][110][111]
- Alan Shepard - first American in space[112][113]
- Doris Huestis Speirs - Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet[114]
Notable people raised in Christian Science
- Jean Arthur - raised in the faith
- Richard Bach - bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull; was a reader in the Christian Science Church until the early 1970s[115]
- 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[116]
- Hart Crane - raised in the faith, but never very observant[117]
- Christina Crawford - mentioned in Mommie Dearest
- Ellen DeGeneres - was not vaccinated as a child and says she felt "left out"[118]
- Daniel Ellsberg - his parents were Jewish converts to Christian Science[119]
- Hugh Jaynas - A biologist and all around famous proctaligist.
- William Everson - had Christian Scientist parents; became a member of the Dominican Order for 18 years[120]
- Stewart Farrar - abandoned the faith in favor of agnosticism and then Neopaganism[121]
- Paul Feig - creator of Freaks and Geeks; his Christian Science upbringing is mentioned in Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin[122]
- Henry Fonda - raised Christian Scientist, but drifted later in life[123]
- 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[124][125]
- Spalding Gray - used his Christian Science upbringing for humor[126][127]
- Keith Green - his Jewish mother was a practicing Christian Scientist[128]
- Howard Hawks - registered as Christian Science and his mother was of that faith; he may have stayed active[65]
- Ernest Hemingway - his mother was a practicing Christian Scientist
- Jim Henson - in his twenties he was a Sunday School teacher in the faith, but fifteen years before he died he wrote to a Christian Science church to inform them he was no longer a practicing member[129][130]
- Audrey Hepburn - her mother was a devout Christian Scientist, but she chose not be attached to any particular religion[131]
- James Hetfield - of Metallica, his "The God that Failed" is one of many songs that are a response to it[132]
- Bruce Hornsby - rock musician[133]
- Jack Kemp - raised Christian Scientist, he later became a Presbyterian[134]
- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke - his parents were Christian Scientists[135]
- Marilyn Monroe - her mother was obsessed with the faith, but was only minimally involved in her life due to mental illness
- V. S. Pritchett - his father was a Christian Scientist and he was raised in the faith, but later was disparaging of it[136]
- Chris Shays - active member for most of his life,[137][138] but no longer a practicing member[139]
- John Simpson - BBC journalist[140]
- Danielle Steel - mentioned in interviews[141]
- 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"[142]
- 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[143]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Political Graveyard
- ↑ Abbott Library
- ↑ NGA
- ↑ Govtrack
- ↑ Time Magazine
- ↑ Vote Smart
- ↑ GWU
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- ↑ PBS
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- ↑ The Washington Post
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- ↑ The New York Times, January 27, 1911: “Science Healers to Fight Test Case”
- ↑ The New York Times, New York NY, October 4, 1916: "Annuls Conviction of W.V. Cole, Healer"
- ↑ Guggenheim Collection
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- ↑ "The Songs of Father Goose" Open Library. Retrieved May 6, 2013
- ↑ Christian Science Association of the Pupils of Godfrey John, C.S.B
- ↑ Poetry of Godfrey John
- ↑ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Modern Poetry bios
- ↑ Flower, B. O., "Reckless and Irresponsible Attacks on Christian Science" The Arena, Vol. XXXVII, January to June (1907). The Brandt Press, Trenton, N.J., U.S.A., p. 59. Retrieved June 22, 2013
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- ↑ Art Gallery
- ↑ Prayers in stone: Christian Science architecture in the United States, 1894-1930 by Paul Eli Ivey, pg 79
- ↑ Prokofiev, Sergei (2012). Anthony Phillips (translator), ed. Diaries 1924–1933: Prodigal Son. London/ Ithaca: Faber and Faber/Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-571-23405-9. p. 65.
- ↑ IMDB
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- ↑ CNN
- ↑ Brady, David E. (15 March 1995). "Obituaries : * Juanin Clay; Actress, Director". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
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- ↑ BBC
- ↑ The Telegraph-Herald of February 27, 1976: "I guess the soda fountain became such a big thing because at the time, I was a Christian Scientist, and when you are a member of the church, you don't smoke or drink"
- ↑ Doris Day: "the cutest blonde of them all" - The Films of Doris Day
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- ↑ NPR
- ↑ IGN
- ↑ Funny Ladies by Michael Karol, pg 104
- ↑ Hartford Courant
- ↑ The Eagle
- ↑ U of Texas
- ↑ AP via The Tuscaloosa News of February 20, 1949
- ↑ Charlotte Greenwood by Grant Hayter-Menzies
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville by Anthony Slide, pg 214
- ↑ Daily Mail of 16 June 2008: "Greenwood and her composer husband Martin Broones were particularly obsessive practitioners of Christian Science."
- ↑ Search Results
- ↑ The joy of Joyce by Chris Patterson in the Watford Observer
- ↑ Handbook of Texas
- ↑ Trivia on Religions and Their Famous Members Christian Science | Trivia Library
- ↑ [Deathwatch] Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, 94
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- ↑ Metzger, Richard (August 20, 2009). "David Liebe Hart: Christian Scientist; Puppet Guy on Tim and Eric Awesome Show; Famous Los Angeleano". Dangerous Minds. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- 1 2 Adherents.com
- ↑ The Milwaukee Sentinel of March 9, 1984
- ↑ Bud Jamison entry at threestooges.net Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Schenectady Gazette Obituary - May 15, 1985
- ↑ Sunday Herald - Mar 17, 1963
- ↑ The Washington Post
- ↑ Spirituality.com
- ↑ Jewish Journal
- ↑ The Palm Beach Post of March 1, 1980
- ↑ Kay Kyser.net
- ↑ TCM
- ↑ The Des Moines Register's "Famous Iowans"
- ↑ Hollywood Time Machine
- 1 2 Wired
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- ↑ Adherents.com: "As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me -- it was Christian Science."
- ↑ The Miami News of July 23, 1976
- ↑ LA Times on Alan Young's memoir: Although he remains a devotee of writings by Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, he is no longer a churchgoer.
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- ↑ SETI Archived December 22, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Ascarelli, Miriam, Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the Story of the Seeing Eye, Purdue U. Press, 2010, p.106
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- ↑ Time Magazine
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- ↑ Time Magazine
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- ↑ New York Times Archived October 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ HRC
- ↑ Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Farrar, Janet and Stewart
- ↑ Superstud
- ↑ Adherents.com
- ↑ Times Online
- ↑ MSNBC
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Contemporary Lit
- ↑ No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green
- ↑ Phoenix New Times Archived March 13, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Toledo Blade
- ↑ Adherents.com
- ↑ Song Facts
- ↑ Adherents.com
- ↑ The New York Times
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- ↑ New Criterion Archived July 13, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ CNN
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- ↑ Connecticut Post Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ The Observer
- ↑ Adherents.com
- ↑
- ↑ The religion of Robin Williams, actor, comedian
External links
- Adherents.com "Famous Christian Scientists"
- Political Graveyard section of "Christian Scientists"
- Trivia Library on the topic
- The Handbook of Texas (For uncertain reasons, many names here can be found on that site.)
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