List of Seventh-day Adventists
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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.
Academia
- Heather Knight - President of Pacific Union College.
- Fritz Guy - theologian and former president of La Sierra University
- Gary Chartier - legal philosopher and anarchist theorist
- Larry Geraty - Academic and former president of La Sierra University
Actors, TV and radio
- Darwood "Waldo" Kaye – Former Our Gang actor who spent his adult life as a pastor.
- Heather Kuzmich – fashion model and reality show contestant on America's Next Top Model (2007 series)[citation needed]
- Nǃxau – starred as a Kalahari Bushman in The Gods Must Be Crazy, who converted in later life[1]
- DeVon Franklin, vice president for production in Columbia Pictures[2]
Art and music
- Harry Anderson – Prolific American illustrator whose early works were popular paintings illustrating short stories in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Redbook. Later became well known for his religious paintings commissioned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Mormons. He is a member of the Illustrators Hall of Fame.
- 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[citation needed]
- Herbert Blomstedt – Conductor who does not rehearse on Saturdays due to his Adventist faith.[3][citation needed]
- Patty Cabrera – recording artist[4]
- Bill Chambers – (former) - Australian Country and Western singer. Left church back in early 80's after accepting Desmond Ford's view on the Heavenly Sanctuary[citation needed]
- Kasey Chambers – (former) - Australian Country Singer. Left church in 80s because her family did not support the Investigative Judgment doctrine[citation needed]
- Charmaine – Singer/songwriter, and former member of Australian vocal group Endless Praise. Signed to Elevate Records, she has toured with Rebecca St. James, Casting Crowns, Jeremy Camp and others.[citation needed]
- Alejandro R. Cuadra – Costa Rican outside artist. [citation needed]
- Jerome Fontamillas – Filipino American musician[5]
- Nathan Greene – Artist. His painting "Family of God" hangs prominently at the Loma Linda University Medical Center and the painting "Chief of the Medical Staff" hangs in Florida Hospital Orlando.[6]
- The Isley Brothers – Grammy Award Wining American musical group consisting of brothers Ron and Ernie Isley.[7]
- IYAZ – R&B Singer, Rapper and song writer - Born Keidran Jones of the Virgin Islands. Grew up in church and still goes from time to time.[citation needed]
- Brian McKnight – Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, radio host and 2009 Celebrity Apprentice contestant[citation needed]
- Brandon October – A South African pop singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after being runner-up in the first season of the reality television show Idols. October grew up in the Adventist church and regularly sang in church services in Johannesburg and Cape Town. He was also a member of a number of Christian music groups within the Adventist community in South Africa, including No Compromise where he featured on their 2001 album Strange[citation needed]
- Wintley Phipps – Singer and songwriter. He is also an ordained pastor.[8]
- Prince – (former) - raised in the church, later converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses[9]
- Busta Rhymes – (former) - American rapper, producer and actor, raised in Brooklyn by Seventh-Day Adventist Jamaican-immigrant parents, he later converted to Islam.[10]
- Little Richard – (former) - raised in the church, later became a preacher, attends the Ephesus Adventist church in Los Angeles and others. He considers himself an active Adventist still. He has been reported as an ordained Adventist minister,[11] although the denomination has denied this, suggesting he may be ordained in another denomination, hence ordained and Adventist; rather than ordained as an Adventist minister[12][13]
- Robert Edwin Seamount – Member of The King's Heralds quartet, Second Tenor 1941-1947, 1949-1961. Pastor 1961–1964 for churches in the San Juan Islands. Public Relations for Texas Conference 1969-1974.
Business
- Will Keith Kellogg – promoted breakfast cereals (particularly corn flakes), and started the Kellogg Company.[citation needed]
- O. D. and Ruth McKee – founders of McKee Foods which produces the "Little Debbie" snacks.[citation needed]
- Garwin McNeilus – founder of McNeilus companies and the McNeilus concrete trucks, and the One-Day Church and One-Day Schools.[14][15]
- Dale Twomley - Former president of Worthington Foods, Inc.[citation needed]
- Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Australia][1].[citation needed]
Language, linguistics and novelists
- Ray Garton – horror novelist raised Adventist, who credits his interest in horror to a reaction to the beasts in Bible prophecy (see: Seventh-day Adventist eschatology)[16]
- Andrew Nelson – Missionary and linguist.
- Steven Spruill – novelist[17]
Law
- Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko – International Criminal Court judge.[18]
- Mary Ang'awa – High Court of Kenya judge[19]
- Justice Samuel Bosire. – Most powerful Appeal Judge of the High Court of kenya,famous for heading The Goldenberg Inquiry.[20]
Pioneers
This section includes Millerites (followers of William Miller) who did not necessarily become Seventh-day Adventist:
- 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 Millerite movement from which Seventh-day Adventism and other groups emerged
- T. M. Preble – Millerite pastor, early Sabbath supporter
- Jonas Wendell – Millerite evangelist
- J. N. Andrews – Early missionary for the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Often considered first Adventist scholar
- Uriah Smith – Editor and author of Daniel and the Revelation and other works
- Ellen G. White – A founder of the church who is considered by the denomination to have had the biblical gift of prophecy.
- James 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
See also Category:Adventism.
Politics and government
- Sir Patrick Allen – Governor-General of Jamaica (2009—)[21]
- Roscoe Bartlett – 6th district representative from Maryland[22]
- Percival Austin Bramble Former – Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies (1970–1978)
- William Henry Bramble First – Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies
- Sir James Carlisle – Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda (1993–2007)[23]
- Nelson Castro - New York State Assemblyman, 86th District, 2008-Present[24][25].
- Sheila Jackson Lee - U.S. Representative, 18th congressional district of Texas (Houston) [citation needed]
- Sherman McNichols - Chief Magistrate, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Floyd Morris – Jamaican senator and minister of state[26]
- Sam Ongeri – Kenyan Minister for Education and a Committee member of the Power Sharing between ODM and PNU after post election violence. Also a professor
- Desley Scott – Australian politician[27]
- John F. Street – Mayor of the City of Philadelphia (2000–2008)
- Marianne Thieme - founder and parliamentary leader of the Dutch animal rights party Animal Party
- Jorge Talbot Zavala - Ecuatorian Representative and Secreaty of the Camara de Diputados, Quito, Ecuador, 1950-1955.
- Tony Zirkle – attorney and repeated candidate for the Indiana, United States
There are two Adventist members in the 2011–2012 United States Congress[28] (apparently, Lee and Bartlett). For former United States Adventist politicians see "The Political Graveyard" website.[29]
Science, health and engineering
- Dr. John F Ashton – respected food scientist, researcher, editor of In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Believe in Creationism, and author of other works.
- Leonard L. Bailey – World-renowned heart surgeon who transplanted a baboon's heart into premature-born baby with underdeveloped heart[30].
- Leonard R. Brand – Loma Linda University paleobiologist and authority on the relationship between science and faith.
- Ben Carson – Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins hospital, recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008, and subject of the film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story starring Cuba Gooding, Jr..
- John Harvey Kellogg – prominent medical doctor, who later left the church.
- George McCready Price – Missionary and leading early creationist.
- Frank Lewis Marsh – Creationist and the first Adventist to earn a doctoral degree in biology.
- David Pennington – Australian plastic surgeon who led the team operating on Kenyan burns victim Safari.
- Walter Veith – PhD Zoology; South African 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
- Robert Gentry - A nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist, known for his claims that radiohalos provide evidence for a young age of the Earth.
See also Category:Seventh-day Adventists in health science.
Sports
- David Alaba - Austrian soccer player
- Edwin Correa - former Major League Baseball pitcher.
- Carlos Roa – Argentine football goalkeeper who does not play on Friday nights or Saturdays due to his religion.
- Magic Johnson - NBA Player
- Quisto Oucharek – Semi-Pro Hockey player
- Andrea Silenzi - Italian soccer player
- Carlos Edwards - Trinidadian football player (not sure if he still goes to church)
Theologians, ministers and personalities
- M. L. Andreasen – theologian, protested against the book Questions on Doctrine, and was influential in "historic Adventism"
- Samuele Bacchiocchi – authored From Sabbath to Sunday, based on his study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, at which he is the only non-Catholic to have enrolled
- Doug Batchelor – evangelist and director of the "Amazing Facts" television and radio ministry
- Admiral Barry Black, Phd, DMin, DD – First African American and current chaplain to the United States Senate
- Richard M. Davidson – Old Testament scholar, and author of Flame of Yahweh
- Herbert E. Douglass – American theologian
- Jon Dybdahl – theologian and college administrator
- Mark Finley – evangelist
- Le Roy Edwin Froom – scholar and historian, one of the leading Adventist apologists [defenders] of his time
- Roy Gane – Old Testament theologian, author of The NIV Application Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers
- Gerhard Hasel – Old Testament theologian whose theology textbook(s) have been widely used at Christian seminaries
- Siegfried Horn – prominent archaeologist
- George R. Knight – historian
- "Uncle Arthur" Maxwell – children's author and Adventist spokesman for church-state affairs in Britain
- F. D. Nichol – Adventist apologist, authored a classic defense of Ellen White
- Jon Paulien – leading expert on Revelation
- H. M. S. Richards – founded the Voice of Prophecy radio ministry
- Dunbar W. Smith – Administrator, Author, Missionary, Pastor and Physician
- Richard Rice – developed the "open theism" understanding of God, and authored the theology textbook Reign of God
- Ángel Manuel Rodríguez – director of the Biblical Research Institute
- Samir Selmanovic – author of It's All About God
- Danny and Linda Shelton – co-founders of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN)
- Bernard A. Taylor – Septuagint expert and member of the New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS)[31]
- Alfred Vaucher – French theologian
- George Vandeman – popular evangelist who founded the It Is Written television ministry
- Benjamin G. Wilkinson – theologian whose writings influenced the American fundamentalist King-James-Only Movement
- Norman Young – New Testament scholar
- Sam Neves (Samuel Neves) - Pastor of Wimbledon International Seventh-Day Adventist Church (WISDAC) in London, UK. Influential in UK Adventist Media: Presenter of "The Dark Room", help found UK Adventist Music and TV companies EdgeMusic and Edge TV.
See also the Seventh-day Adventist leaders, administrators and theologians categories.
War and peace
- Harlon Block – one of the six U.S. Marines captured in the famous photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. Block appears on the right of the photo, holding the base of the flag pole. He won a Purple Heart and other military awards
- Desmond Doss – first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor
- Zoltán Kubinyi – World War II personality[32]
- Laurent Nkunda – Congo warlord who claims to be an Adventist pastor, but the church denies this saying he is not even an active member[33]
- Johan Hendrik Weidner – Organized the Dutch-Paris underground network to coordinate the escapes of more than 1,000 persons from Nazi-occupied France. Later emigrated to the United States and operated a chain of health-food stores.
Other
- Many Pitcairn Islands residents became Seventh-day Adventists, (they were apparently already keeping the seventh-day Sabbath)[34]
- Jack Staddon[35] and David Biehl[36] – winners of the U.S. National Geographic Bee, winning in 1989 and 1999, respectively
- Irene Morgan – African-American who refused to surrender her bus seat and was taken to court, analogous to yet preceding the famous Rosa Parks case[37]
Former members
- Individuals should be listed in this section only if they are prominent as ex-Adventists
- Wayne Bent – former pastor who founded Lord Our Righteousness Church
- Robert Brinsmead – edited Present Truth Magazine
- D. M. Canright – Pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen White
- Daniel Cooper (New Zealand murderer) (1881-1923)- child murderer and illegal abortionist; expelled from church in January 1918, although previously member for over a decade.
- Desmond Ford – Australian preacher dismissed for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the church
- Victor Houteff – founder of the Shepherd's Rod offshoot
- Moses Hull – Former pastor who converted to spiritualism
- J. Mark Martin – former Adventist pastor fired over doctrinal issues. Senior pastor of Calvary Community Church.
- Steve Durkac - Former pastor in Southern Union who is now pastor of West Mobile Bible Fellowship in Mobile, Alabama.
- Jesse Martin – boy sailor; his parents were Adventists[38]
- Judge Greg Mathis - Born and raised Seventh Day Adventist. Membership lapsed.
- Elizaphan Ntakirutimana – ex-pastor and Rwandan Genocide participant[39]
- Ronald Numbers – science historian and author of The Creationists, and former Adventist lecturer
- David Pendleton – former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and 2002 candidate for lieutenant governor, now a Catholic
- Dale Ratzlaff – Former Adventist pastor dismissed over doctrinal issues. Directs Life Assurance Ministries and is the editor of a website critical of Ellen White
- Paul Rusesabagina – internationally honored for saving 1,268 civilians during the Rwandan Genocide; the subject of 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. Describes himself as a "lapsed Adventist" in his autobiography
- Paul Schubert – Christian academic and professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School[40]
- Richard Wright – author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist family.
- Malcolm X – Raised Adventist by his mother
- Augusto César Sandino – Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician, cooperativist, member of Adventist church in his youth, adopted vegetarianism due to church teachings[citation needed]
- Sirhan Sirhan – Palestinian convicted of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
- Mark "Chopper" Read - Notorious Australian ex-criminal and author of real and fictional crime books. In his books Chopper claims to have been raised Adventist by a strictly devout mother.
See also Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists.
To be classified
(Unsure if these are present or former Adventists)
- Phife Dawg – rap artist.[citation needed][41]
- T. R. M. Howard – African American civil rights advocate
- David Neff, editor (as of 2012) of ``Christianity Today´´ magazine, grew up Adventist[42]
- Jerry Yang – poker player
- Members of the Take 6 vocal group
- Shirley Ardell Mason, known as "Sybil" – famous dissociative identity disorder patient. Her parents were apparently Adventists[43]
See also
- Alumni of any of the universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- List of former Roman Catholics#Seventh-day Adventism
- Seventh-day Adventism in popular culture
References
- ^ "God Isn’t Crazy" by Tania Calais. Signs of the Times
- ^ Mark Moring, "DeVon Franklin Keeps the Faith in Hollywood". Christianity Today September 2011
- ^ See also Spectrum Summer 2001 for an interview
- ^ Patty Cabrera, "Why Am I Still Adventist?". Spectrum blog, 6 December 2007
- ^ "We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest" (Press release). cqbiblestudy.org.
- ^ "Adventist Review: Sermons on the Wall". adventistreview.org. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
- ^ "The Religious Affiliation of the 100 Greatest Rock Musicians" from Adherents.com. Accessed 2009-09-14
- ^ http://www.adventistreview.org/2001-1536/story5.html
- ^ "The Religious Affiliation of Pop Singer Prince" from Adherents.com, accessed 2009-09-14. Sean O'Hagan, "Royal Blush". The Observer, 4th April 2004
- ^ "HOT GALLERY: These Musicians Found Religion—Some of Them Will Surprise You!" from snakkle.com. Accessed 2012-08-19
- ^ "Little Richard", in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee description
- ^ "Little Richard: Rock and Roll Star, Adventist Minister?" by Jared Wright. Spectrum blog 9 September 2009
- ^ "The Religious Affiliation of Rock and Roll Star Little Richard" from Adherents.com. Accessed 2009-09-14
- ^ "One-Day Church, About Us" from onedaychurch.org/. Accessed 2012-08-19
- ^ "'One-day' church project to help Adventists keep pace with housing members" from Adventist News Network, http://news.adventist.org. Accessed 2012-08-19
- ^ Quoted in Dwyer, Bonnie (Fall 2007). "Kathy Jones". Spectrum. 35 (4). Roseville, California: Adventist Forums: 2. ISSN 0890-0264. See his article "When Adventists Riot!" in the same issue
- ^ Spectrum 35:4 (Fall 2007). See his article "My Brothers and My Sisters" in that issue
- ^ "Adventist elected judge of international criminal court" (Press release). Adventist News Network.
- ^ http://dialogue.adventist.org/articles/08_1_ricketts_e.htm, http://www.spectrummagazine.org/articles/spectrum_interview/2008/11/03/taking_care_women_and_children
- ^ "Judicial Profiles".
- ^ http://news.adventist.org/data/2009/1231888393/index.html.en
- ^ http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Roscoe_Bartlett.html
- ^ http://www.adventistreview.org/2004-1550/story1.html
- ^ http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Nelson-L-Castro/bio/
- ^ http://spectrummagazine.org/blog/2011/07/01/new-york-adventist-key-marriage-equality-victory
- ^ Jamaica Gleaner - Senator Floyd Morris 21st century man - Sunday | September 21, 2003
- ^ "Desley Scott: a pollie for good" by Faith Williams. Signs of the Times (Australian version) 120:8 (August 2005), p7–9
- ^ Pew Research Centre, "Faith on the Hill: The Religious Composition of the 112th Congress", January 5, 2011
- ^ "Seventh-Day Adventist Politicians" at The Political Graveyard
- ^ "Leonard Bailey, world-renowned heart surgeon, remembers with fondness a tiny baby named Fae", Loma Linda University Medical Center News. "Baby Fae: The Unlearned Lesson" by Kenneth P. Stoller
- ^ "Adventist helps modernise ancient Bible". Record March 29, 2008; p5
- ^ Fragments of a Family: A Multigenerational Memoir by Marta Fuchs Winik and Henry Fuchs. Excerpt "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)
- ^ http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2247. He is mentioned in the documentary Blood Coltan
- ^ http://www.adventistworld.org/issue.php?issue=2009-1001&page=16. See also Pitcairn Islands Study Centre at Pacific Union College
- ^ "Biofeedback: Jack Staddon Pursues MD/PHD", Andrews University, Autumn 2004
- ^ "Adventist news: Won National Geography Award", Adventist News (scroll down)
- ^ "The Freedom Fighter a Nation Nearly Forgot" by Carol Morello. Adventist Review (February 1, 2001). Reprinted from The Washington Post, 2000. See also "Irene Morgan" blog by Jeff Crocombe, November 6, 2006
- ^ In particular, Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit, p6 mentions they were married in the Adventist Church
- ^ Dennis Hokama, "Former Rwandan Seventh-day Adventist Minister to be Extradited for War Crimes Trial". Adventist Today 8:2 (March–April 2000)
- ^ Graham Maxwell, interview with David Larson, Loma Linda Broadcasting Network, 1997
- ^ "No big strife for Phife"
- ^ Patrick Garrett York, "David Neff Speaks at the San Diego Adventist Forum", ´´Spectrum´´ website, 18 February 2012
- ^ "Psychotheraphy and Possession" by Harrison S. Evans, a review of Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1973). Spectrum 6:1–2 (Winter–Spring 1974), p100–102
External links
- Famous Seventh-day Adventists at the Famous Adherents website