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.
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[edit] Politics
[edit] Political figures
- Nancy Witcher Astor In Sykes's Nancy the life of Lady Astor (Academy Chicago, 1984), and her own letters Nancy Astor’s Canadian Correspondence, 1912-1962 it mentions 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 (St. Martin's Press, 1999)
- Fred B. Balzar-[1]
- Owen Brewster-[2][3]
- Ralph Lawrence Carr-[4]
- Thomas M. Davis-[5][6]
- David Dreier-[7]
- John Ehrlichman - Watergate Figure [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]
- Lamar S. Smith-[18]
- Stansfield Turner - Admiral and former CIA Director [19]
- William Hedgcock Webster-In the Salon article.
- John D. Works-An early, possibly the earliest, example of a Christian Scientist in the US Senate.[20][21]
[edit] Arts and Entertainment
[edit] Artists
- Joseph Cornell - Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is said to have been very important to him and his art.[22]
- "Fougasse" the noted cartoonist taught at the Christian Science Sunday School in Sloane Square, London, UK, for a number of years.
- Mina Loy [23]
- Winifred Nicholson[24][25]
- Violet Oakley - An American artist known for her murals and her work in stained glass.[26]
- Sergei Prokofiev - Regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.[27][28]
[edit] Entertainment figures
- Kenny L. Baker - A singer who also acted in musicals. He wrote hymns for the faith and later became a Christian Science practitioner.[29][30]
- Blanche Calloway - Cab Calloway's sister and a bandleader.[31][32]
- Carol Channing - Although she did see a Dr. Bill Cayhand in cases of more severe medical problems.[33]
- Joan Crawford - convert from Catholicism.[34][35]
- Doris Day - There is some evidence that she currently sees it solely as a philosophy, not a religion.[36][37]
- Colleen Dewhurst-Discussed in pages 368-374 of her unfinished autobiography.[38]
- Robert Duvall - Raised Christian Scientist, identifies as such, but non-practicing.[39][40]
- Georgia Engel - American film, television, and stage actress.[41][42]
- Horton Foote - Playwright and screenwriter.[43][44]
- Joyce Grenfell - Niece of Nancy Astor, also wrote music.[45]
- Corinne Griffith[46][47]
- Lionel Hampton - Jazz Musician [48][49]
- David Liebe Hart - Puppeteer, actor, singer and painter[50]
- Howard Hawks - Film Director[51]
- Peter Horton - Actor
- Leatrice Joy - Silent film star who retired to Greenwich, Connecticut, attending the church there for many years.[52][53]
- Alexandra Kent - Ballet Dancer[54]
- Val Kilmer- Reads scripture to a congregation in New Mexico.[55][56]
- Kay Kyser - A Christian Science practitioner and active promoter.[57](The link has more detail, in the 1950-1985 section)
- Martin Melcher - Producer, third husband of Doris Day.[58]
- Conrad Nagel - Actor[59]
- Michael Nesmith-The Monkees[60]
- Antoinette Perry - Noted female Broadway director, mentor and actress. Namesake of the Tony Awards.[61][62]
- Ginger Rogers - Christian Science beliefs and upbringing.[63][64]
- Lilia Skala - Actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field, convert to the faith and mentioned it often.[65]
- Jean Stapleton - Actress.[66]
- King Vidor[67]
- Anna May Wong - However she also believed in reincarnation and there are disputed claims she embraced some Taoist principles.,[68][69]
- Alfre Woodard[70]
- Alan Young-He founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church.[71]
- J D Salinger- Joined it as well as various other faiths[72]
[edit] Sports
[edit] Athletes/Sportspeople
- Adin Brown - US Soccer player[73]
- Nile Kinnick-American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner.[74]
- Shannon Miller - American gymnast [75])
- George Sisler - Baseball Player[76]
[edit] Intellectual life
[edit] Academia
- David E. Sweet, founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College[77]
[edit] Exploration, Invention, and Science
- Laurance Doyle-Researcher at SETI[78]
- Bette Nesmith Graham-[79]
- Charles Lightoller-Surviving Second Officer of the Titanic.[80]
- Alan Shepard-First American in space.[81][82]
[edit] Notable people raised in Christian Science
- Jean Arthur (raised in it)
- Richard Bach bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull was a reader in the Christian Science Church until the early 1970s [83]
- Jonathan Carroll - Raised in it by Jewish converts to it, but no longer practicing.[84]
- Hart Crane - Raised in the faith, but never very observant.[85]
- Christina Crawford - Mentioned in Mommie Dearest.
- Ellen DeGeneres - She was not vaccinated as a child and says she felt "Left out."[86]
- Daniel Ellsberg - His parents were Jewish converts to Christian Science.[87]
- Henry Fonda - Raised Christian Scientist, but drifted later in life.[88]
- William Everson - Christian Scientist parents who became a member of the Dominican Order for 18 years.[89]
- Stewart Farrar-Abandoned it in favor of agnosticism and then Neopaganism[90]
- Paul Feig - The creator of Freaks and Geeks, his Christian Science upbringing is mentioned in Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin.[91]
- Ralph Giordano - German writer. His parents were members of the Christian Science Church. This fact is mentioned in Giordano's autobiographical novel The Bertinis.
- Kelsey Grammer - Informally raised in it, but left it after his sister's murder.[92][93]
- Spalding Gray - Christian Science upbringing which he used for humor.[94][95]
- Keith Green - His Jewish mother was a practicing Christian Scientist. Source: No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green
- Howard Hawks - registered as Christian Science and his mother was of that faith. He may have stayed active.[96]
- 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.[97][98]
- Audrey Hepburn-Her mother was a devout Christian Scientist, but she chose not be attached to any particular religion.[99]
- James Hetfield - Of Metallica, his The God that Failed is one of many songs that are a response to it.[100]
- Bruce Hornsby - Rock Musician[101]
- Jack Kemp - Raised Christian Scientist he later became a Presbyterian.[102]
- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke - His parents were Christian Scientists.[103]
- 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 it, but later disparaging of it.[104]
- Chris Shays - An active member for most of his life,[105][106] but no longer a practicing member.[107]
- John Simpson - BBC Journalist[108]
- Danielle Steel - Mentioned in interviews.[109]
- Julian Steward - His mother was a devout convert.
- Elizabeth Taylor - Raised in it, but converted to Judaism on marrying Eddie Fisher. She remained Jewish until her death and joked of herself as "a nice little Jewish girl."[110]
- William Thetford - His parents were of it, but left when he was seven due to the death of their daughter.
- John Paul Morrison - (raised in it)[111]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ Abbott Library
- ^ NGA
- ^ Govtrack
- ^ Time Magazine
- ^ Vote Smart
- ^ GWU
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ Time Magazine obituary
- ^ The Atlantic Online
- ^ Milwaukee Sentinel
- ^ PBS
- ^ [1]
- ^ Forbes
- ^ [2]
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ Columbia Journalism Review
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ Guggenheim Collection
- ^ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Modern Poetry bios
- ^ The Scotsman
- ^ Art Gallery
- ^ ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22violet%20oakley%22%20%22christian%20science%22&f=false Prayers in stone: Christian Science architecture in the United States, 1894-1930 by Paul Eli Ivey, pg 79
- ^ Sprkv.net
- ^ The Independent
- ^ IMDB
- ^ Music Stack
- ^ NFO
- ^ Boston Globe
- ^ CNN
- ^ IMDB
- ^ BBC
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ NPR
- ^ IGN
- ^ Funny Ladies by Michael Karol, pg 104
- ^ Hartford Courant
- ^ The Eagle
- ^ U of Texas
- ^ [6]
- ^ Handbook of Texas
- ^ [7]
- ^ [8]
- ^ The Independent
- ^ Metzger, Richard (August 20, 2009). "David Liebe Hart: Christian Scientist; Puppet Guy on Tim and Eric Awesome Show; Famous Los Angeleano". Dangerous Minds. http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/david_liebe_hart_the_puppet_guy_on_tim_and_eric_awesome_show_famous_los_ang/. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ Schenectady Gazette Obituary - May 15, 1985
- ^ Sunday Herald - Mar 17, 1963
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ Spirituality.com
- ^ Jewish Journal
- ^ Kay Kyser.net
- ^ TCM
- ^ Hollywood Time Machine
- ^ Wired
- ^ http://antoinetteperry.com/]
- ^ [9]
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ IMDB
- ^ [10]
- ^ Sarasota Journal: June 20, 1975
- ^ Handbook of Texas
- ^ UCLA
- ^ Classic Images
- ^ [11]
- ^ [12]
- ^ [13]
- ^ Boston Sports Media
- ^ ESPN
- ^ [14]
- ^ [15]
- ^ "Dr. David E. Sweet, 51, Dies; Head of Rhode Island College". The New York Times. 18 September 1984. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E3D6163BF93BA2575AC0A962948260.
- ^ SETI
- ^ Wired
- ^ Lieut. C.H. Lightoller, RNR (October 1912), "Testimonies From the Field", Christian Science Journal XXX (7): 414–5, http://books.google.com/books?id=LshLAAAAMAAJ&pg=414
- ^ Obit Eagle Tribune obit
- ^ Time Magazine
- ^ Time Magazine
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ New York Times
- ^ HRC
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ [16]
- ^ Superstud
- ^ Times Online
- ^ MSNBC
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ Contemporary Lit
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ Phoenix New Times
- ^ Toledo Blade
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ Song Facts
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ [17]
- ^ New Criterion
- ^ CNN
- ^ Principia Alumni
- ^ Connecticut Post
- ^ The Observer
- ^ Adherents.com
- ^ [18]
- ^ [19]
