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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

Actors, TV and radio

Art and music

Business

Language, linguistics and novelists, and bloggers

Law

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


There are two Adventist members in the 2011–2012 United States Congress[31] (apparently, Lee and Bartlett). For former United States Adventist politicians see "The Political Graveyard" website.[32]

Science, health and engineering

See also Category:Seventh-day Adventists in health science.

Sports

Theologians, ministers and personalities



See also the Seventh-day Adventist leaders, administrators and theologians categories.

War and peace

Other

Former members

Individuals should be listed in this section only if they are prominent as ex-Adventists

See also Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists.

See also

References

  1. ^ Mark Moring, "DeVon Franklin Keeps the Faith in Hollywood". Christianity Today September 2011
  2. ^ "God Isn’t Crazy" by Tania Calais. Signs of the Times
  3. ^ See also Spectrum Summer 2001 for an interview
  4. ^ Patty Cabrera, "Why Am I Still Adventist?". Spectrum blog, 6 December 2007
  5. ^ "We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest" (Press release). cqbiblestudy.org.
  6. ^ "Adventist Review: Sermons on the Wall". adventistreview.org. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  7. ^ "The Religious Affiliation of the 100 Greatest Rock Musicians" from Adherents.com. Accessed 2009-09-14
  8. ^ Quoted in Rogers, Wendi (20011). "Culture: 'Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas,' Composer Hugh Martin and Singer Del Delker Recollect". Adventist News Network. Adventist News Network. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ http://www.adventistreview.org/2001-1536/story5.html
  10. ^ "The Religious Affiliation of Pop Singer Prince" from Adherents.com, accessed 2009-09-14. Sean O'Hagan, "Royal Blush". The Observer, 4th April 2004
  11. ^ "HOT GALLERY: These Musicians Found Religion—Some of Them Will Surprise You!" from snakkle.com. Accessed 2012-08-19
  12. ^ "Little Richard", in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee description
  13. ^ "Little Richard: Rock and Roll Star, Adventist Minister?" by Jared Wright. Spectrum blog 9 September 2009
  14. ^ "The Religious Affiliation of Rock and Roll Star Little Richard" from Adherents.com. Accessed 2009-09-14
  15. ^ "One-Day Church, About Us" from onedaychurch.org/. Accessed 2012-08-19
  16. ^ "'One-day' church project to help Adventists keep pace with housing members" from Adventist News Network, http://news.adventist.org. Accessed 2012-08-19
  17. ^ 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
  18. ^ Davis, Brangien. "2010 Spotlight Award: Cherie Priest". Seattle Magazine. Retrieved February 23, 2012. "Born in Florida, Priest grew up with a penchant for horror and fantasy stories—perhaps because her mother, a Seventh-day Adventist, promised that the Second Coming could happen any minute.
  19. ^ "http://www.cheriepriest.com/2005/09/27/damn/". September 27, 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2012. Since those halcyon days of yore, I've more or less left the church and gone my own way+last=Priest,first=Cherie {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  20. ^ Spectrum 35:4 (Fall 2007). See his article "My Brothers and My Sisters" in that issue
  21. ^ 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
  22. ^ "Judicial Profiles".
  23. ^ "Adventist elected judge of international criminal court" (Press release). Adventist News Network.
  24. ^ http://news.adventist.org/data/2009/1231888393/index.html.en
  25. ^ http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Roscoe_Bartlett.html
  26. ^ http://www.adventistreview.org/2004-1550/story1.html
  27. ^ http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Nelson-L-Castro/bio/
  28. ^ http://spectrummagazine.org/blog/2011/07/01/new-york-adventist-key-marriage-equality-victory
  29. ^ Jamaica Gleaner - Senator Floyd Morris 21st century man - Sunday | September 21, 2003
  30. ^ "Desley Scott: a pollie for good" by Faith Williams. Signs of the Times (Australian version) 120:8 (August 2005), p7–9
  31. ^ Pew Research Centre, "Faith on the Hill: The Religious Composition of the 112th Congress", January 5, 2011
  32. ^ "Seventh-Day Adventist Politicians" at The Political Graveyard
  33. ^ "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
  34. ^ "Adventist helps modernise ancient Bible". Record March 29, 2008; p5
  35. ^ 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)
  36. ^ http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2247. He is mentioned in the documentary Blood Coltan
  37. ^ http://www.adventistworld.org/issue.php?issue=2009-1001&page=16. See also Pitcairn Islands Study Centre at Pacific Union College
  38. ^ "Biofeedback: Jack Staddon Pursues MD/PHD", Andrews University, Autumn 2004
  39. ^ "Adventist news: Won National Geography Award", Adventist News (scroll down)
  40. ^ "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
  41. ^ In particular, Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit, p6 mentions they were married in the Adventist Church
  42. ^ "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
  43. ^ Dennis Hokama, "Former Rwandan Seventh-day Adventist Minister to be Extradited for War Crimes Trial". Adventist Today 8:2 (March–April 2000)
  44. ^ Graham Maxwell, interview with David Larson, Loma Linda Broadcasting Network, 1997