List of Baháʼís
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The following list sets down the name of each member of the Bahá'í Faith who is the subject of a Wikipedia article. For another index of individual Bahá'ís with Wikipedia articles, see Category:Bahá'ís by nationality.
Central figures
- The Báb (also founded Bábism)
- `Abdu'l-Bahá
- Bahá'u'lláh
Other lists
- List of Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh
- List of the Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá
- List of the Hands of the Cause of God
- List of the Knights of Bahá'u'lláh
- List of former Bahá'ís
Family of Bahá'u'lláh
- Ásíyih Khánum - known by her title Navváb
- Bahiyyih Khánum
- Mírzá Mihdí
- Shoghi Effendi
Royalty
- Malietoa Tanumafili II (r. 1962-2007) - chieftain of the government of Samoa.[1]
- Marie of Romania (r. 1914-1927) - queen of Romania.[2]
Artists
Bands
- Common Market - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest.[3]
- Seals and Crofts - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s.[4]
Musicians
- Mirza Abdollah - also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history
- Cindy Blackman[5] - American jazz and rock drummer
- Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff[6] - folk music performers
- Celeste Buckingham - singer/songwriter
- Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer
- Vic Damone[7] - American singer and entertainer
- Khalil Fong[8] - American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
- Russell Garcia[9] - motion picture composer
- Dizzy Gillespie[10] - American jazz trumpeter
- Andy Grammer - American singer-songwriter
- Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music[11]
- Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
- Jack Lenz[12] - Canadian composer
- Kevin Locke - Lakota musician and dancer
- Mike Longo[13] - American jazz pianist
- James Moody[14] - American jazz saxophone and flute player
- KC Porter[15] - American multi-Grammy winning producer
- Rachael Price - jazz vocalist[dead link][16]
- Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer[17]
- Flora Purim[18] - Brazilian American jazz singer
- Dan Seals[19] - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
- Tierney Sutton[20] - American jazz singer
- Louie Shelton[21] - American jazz guitarist and producer
- Charles Wolcott[22] - pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies
Broadcasters
- Susan Aude Fisher News Anchor WIS Columbia SC
Filmmakers
- Mark Bamford - writer, director (Cape of Good Hope)
- Mary Darling - producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
- Clark Donnelly - producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
- Phil Lucas - Native American filmmaker
- Harold Lee Tichenor - film producer
Actors
- Anthony Azizi[23] (24)
- Justin Baldoni[24] (Everwood, Jane the Virgin)
- Earl Cameron[25] (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
- Omid Djalili[26] - comedian and actor
- Stu Gilliam - American actor and comedian
- Barbara Hale[27] - Emmy Award winner (Perry Mason)
- Lois Hall[28] - American movie and television actress
- Lloyd Haynes[29] - actor and television writer
- Eva LaRue[30] (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
- Carole Lombard[31] - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Inder Manocha[32] - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
- Pardis Parker[33] - Canadian comedian
- Alex Rocco[34] - Emmy Award winner (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
- Rehana Sultan - Indian actress
- Valeska Surratt[35] - silent film actress
- Travis Van Winkle[36] - American actor, The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie
- Rainn Wilson[37] (The Office, Six Feet Under)
Architects
- Hossein Amanat[38] (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Bahá'í Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
- Fariborz Sahba[39] (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)
- Louis Bourgeois[40] (House of Worship of Wilmette)
- William Sutherland Maxwell (Central Tower of the Château Frontenac; he was also a Hand of the Cause)
- Siamak Hariri (Bahá'í Temple of South America, House of Worship of South America )
Writers
- Burl Barer[41] - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Bahá'í oriented articles
- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff[6] - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
- André Brugiroux[42] - traveller and author
- Barry Crump[43] - New Zealand comic author
- William S. Hatcher[44] - mathematician, philosopher, educator
- Robert Hayden[45] - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976–1978
- Alain LeRoy Locke[46] - author or books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
- Nemat Mokhtarzada - writer and poet of Afghan origin
- Guy Murchie[47] - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
- Arvid Nelson[48] - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
- Wellesley Tudor Pole[49] - British writer
- Jeffrey Reddick - creator of the Final Destination series
- Holiday Reinhorn - writer[50]
- Gholamreza Rouhani - poet and satirist[51]
- William Sears[52] - author of multiple books
- Adib Taherzadeh[53] - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts
Other artists
- Alice Pike Barney - portrait artist
- Hussein Bikar[54] - Egyptian painter
- Amelia Collins - philanthropist
- Bernard Leach[55] - potter
- Mishkín-Qalam[56] - calligrapher
- Anis Mojgani[57] - spoken-word poet
- Tom Morey[58] - musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
- Fayard Nicholas[59] - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
- Rae Perlin (1910-2006) - artist
- Juliet Thompson - portrait artist
- Mark Tobey[60] - painter
- Gwen Wakeling[61] - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer
Athletes
- Nelson Évora[62] - Portuguese Olympic gold medal (Beijing, 2008) and gold medal recipient for the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump
- Cathy Freeman - Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner
- Khalil Greene[63] - shortstop for the Texas Rangers
- David Krummenacker[64] - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
- Luke McPharlin[65] - Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers
- Ramak Safi - Iranian footballer (soccer) who plays for the Jacksonville Armada in the NASL
Business
- Thornton Chase - first Bahá'í of the West, was a businessman when he joined the religion in 1894/5.[66]
- Mildred Mottahedeh - founder of Mottahedeh & Company
- Musa Naghiyev - Azerbaijani industrial oil magnate
- Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi[67] - famous Chinese business couple
Scholarly
Educators
- Dwight W. Allen - professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group
- Ali Murad Davudi[68] - Tehran University professor who disappeared in 1979
- Donna Denizé[69] - American poet and award-winning teacher
- Auguste-Henri Forel[70] - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- `Alí-Akbar Furútan - Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys. Hand of the Cause.
- Jagdish Gandhi[71] - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
- Phoebe Hearst[72] - first woman Regent of the University of California
- Patricia Locke - Lakota Native American educator
- Joseph Watson[73] - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin
Public service
- David Kelly[74] - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
- Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
- Jacqueline Left Hand Bull[75] - Indian Health care policy administrator
- Layli Miller-Muro[76] - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
- Payam Akhavan - prosecutor for United Nations tribunals and law professor
- Robert B. Powers - prominent police officer in the history of California during which he co-established one of the earliest training programs for police in matters of race relations.
Scientist
- Dr. Ron McNair - physicist and astronaut; died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986[77]
Journalism
- Robert Sengstacke Abbott[78] - lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States
Others
- Leonora Armstrong - international traveler[79]
- Richard St. Barbe Baker[80] - English environmentalist
- Lady Blomfield[81] - early Irish-British Bahá'í, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
- Dr Frederick D'Evelyn[82] - first Irish born Bahá'í
- Nelson Évora[83]
- Dhabihu'llah Mahrami[84] - wrongfully accused Iranian Bahá'i, found dead in his cell in 2005
- Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan[85] - British hereditary peer
- Nossrat Peseschkian[86] - psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
- Hilda Yen[87] - internationalist, diplomat, aviator
- Lidia Zamenhof[88] - daughter of Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
References
- ^ Bahá'í International Community (14 May 2007). "Funeral and memorial service planned for Samoan head of state". Bahá'í World News Service. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
- ^ Hassall, Graham; Fazel, Seena. "100 Years of the Baha'i Faith in Europe". Baha'i Studies Review. 8 (3): 35–44. Retrieved 26 April 2007.
- ^ Details published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- ^ Introducing Seals and Crofts -Interview/Article by Deborah Landau, from Stereo Review magazine (January 1971)
- ^ Infantry, Ashante (7 June 2008). "Cindy Blackman's got the beat". Toronto Star. Retrieved 7 June 2008.
- ^ a b Official Website statement of faith Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Bahai News - Music, faith can guide us, a singer believes". bahai-library.com.
- ^ "The Changing Face of Cantopop: Khalil Fong". Time Out Hong Kong.
- ^ "The Time Machine Project- Russel and Gina Garcia". colemanzone.com.
- ^ Remembering Dizzy Archived 2008-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, by Nat Hentoff, This article can be found in the September 2004 issue of JazzTimes
- ^ "Red Grammer". redgrammer.com.
- ^ Bahá'í Community of Canada, Canadian Bahá'ís > In the News > Jack Lenz Archived 2004-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Interviews: JazzTrenzz: Between Sets with Mike Longo Archived 2006-10-21 at the Wayback MachineJazzTrenzz By Karl Stober
- ^ "James Moody". melmartin.com.
- ^ Biography on Official Webpage Archived 2007-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "rachaelprice.net". rachaelprice.net.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Spirited choir wins encores". bahai.org.
- ^ Melt2000: Flora Purim (bio) Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dan Seals has found a sense of hope since embracing Faith Archived 2007-12-31 at the Wayback Machine by Frank Roberts, August 17, 1994, The Virginian-Pilot, Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
- ^ "Belltown Bent". typepad.com.
- ^ "Louie Shelton (1941–) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas". encyclopediaofarkansas.net.
- ^ "Charles F. Wolcott, 80, Disney Film Composer". The New York Times. 30 January 1987.
- ^ Anthony Azizi. "Anthony Azizi: Bio". Retrieved 2009-11-14.
- ^ Mail Tribune The ‘Daze’ of his life Archived 2006-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Weinberg, Robert. Veteran actor Earl Cameron brings a sense of world citizenship to UN role. Vol. 17, Issue 1 / April–June 2005. ONE COUNTRY.
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(help) - ^ In The Arena With Omid Djalili By Darius Kadivar, Payvand's Iran News, 3/12/07
- ^ The Associated Press (30 December 2000). "Bahai faith teaches universal acceptance of God".
- ^ Biography for Lois Hall IMDb.com IMDb biography
- ^ IMDB Biography
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
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- ^ Comedian wins major award London, United Kingdom, 25 May 2004 (BWNS)
- ^ "Pardis Parker". pardisparker.com.
- ^ Obituary Sandie Rocco Copyright Coastal View (Carpinteria Valley, CA, USA) 2002
- ^ Chanler, Julie (1956). From Gaslight to Dawn, an autobiography. New York: New History Foundation. pp. 152–153.
- ^ Travis Van Winkle. YouTube.
- ^ "Rainn Wilson". Time Magazine. March 8, 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2008.
Did being of the Baha'i faith help you understand the spirituality? As a Baha'i, I believe in all the spiritual beliefs: Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity.
- ^ Bahá'í community of Canada. "Hossein Amanat". Archived from the original on 2004-10-27. Retrieved 29 April 2007.
- ^ Bahá'í community of Canada. "Fariborz Sahba". Archived from the original on 2004-10-27. Retrieved 24 October 2007.
- ^ Canadian Baha'i Community: Louis Bourgeois Archived 2004-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Burl Barer, Brilliant Author author's blog
- ^ André Brugiroux author's website
- ^ " ‘Crump Flags It Away’—Profile of Barry Crump, a New Zealand Baha’i" by Tony Reid, New Zealand Listener (Wellington, N. Z.) (Nov. 20, 1982): 21-22, 25, 26
- ^ reprint of open letter to fellow students on conversion Archived 2007-04-06 at the Wayback Machine Pamphlet copyright 1965, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of America, Baha'i Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois
- ^ Robert Hayden by Christopher Buck, Published in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature 2:4 pages 177-181, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004-01
- ^ Alain Lock - Faith and Philosophy, by Dr. Christopher Buck, Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, Vol 18, Anthony E. Lee General Editor, p.64 - ISBN 978-1-890688-38-7
- ^ I am a Bahá'í by Guy Murchie, Chicago Sunday Tribune, magazine section, July 13, 1958
- ^ "Arvid Nelson on "Rex Mundi's" Final Arc". Comic Book Resources. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
I converted to Baha'i in college, so religion is interesting to me. I think it's an important part of the human experience, and will always be a important part of my writing.
- ^ Lady Blomfield (1 October 2006). "The Chosen Highway". Baha'i Publishing Trust Wilmette, Illinois. Retrieved 1 October 2006.
- ^ "Holiday Reinhorn". Why Baha'i. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States. October 1, 2009. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
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- ^ Plagenz, George (3 March 2006). "Saints and Sinners, Awaiting the Third Coming of Christ?" (PDF). Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2009.
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- ^ The others- A court ruling providing official recognition to Bahais has done little to ease the debate on this Israeli-based cult Archived 2008-01-05 at the Wayback Machine by Gihan Shahine, Al-Ahram Weekly
- ^ Weinberg, Robert (ed.) (1999). Spinning the Clay into Stars: Bernard Leach and the Bahá'í Faith, pp. 21 & 29. George Ronald, Oxford. ISBN 0-85398-440-9
- ^ Balyuzi, H.M. (1985). Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh. The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton. pp. 270–271. ISBN 0-85398-152-3.
- ^ Anis Mojgani Bio[permanent dead link]
- ^ Sultan of surf, baron of boogie (Apr 06) Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Selected profiles of African-American Bahá'ís Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Mark Tobey". Namen der Kunst. Retrieved 8 July 2007.
- ^ Boyles, Ann (1995). The Bahá'í World, 1994-5 (Bahá'ís and the Arts: Part II). Bahá'í International Community. pp. 243–272. Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
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- ^ Dolbee, Sandi,"Passion for game, faith drives Padres' Greene", The San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 September 2004. Accessed 10 August 2007.
- ^ "Running the race of his life". bahaiworldnews.org.
- ^ A player and more Archived 2005-01-29 at the Wayback Machine by Les Everett, Australian Rules, from the Fremantle Herald
- ^ Stockman, Robert H. (2009). "Chase, Thornton (1847 – 1912)". Bahá’í Encyclopedia Project. Evanston, IL: National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Archived from the original on 2016-10-12.
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- ^ Doostdar, Novin (2000) [1999]. "Obituaries". Baha'i Studies Review. 9 (1).
- ^ Staff of the Kay Spiritual Life Center of American University
- ^ Swiss Baha'is Celebrate 100 Years of Contributing to World Civilization Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine Baha'i Switzerland, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Switzerland
- ^ "Mr Jagdish Gandhi was inspired by following 10 persons in his life". jagdishgandhi.org. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
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- ^ Instonian to be UCD's Professor of Irish, UCD Press Releases
- ^ "BBC NEWS - UK - Politics - Profile: Dr David Kelly". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Garriganm, Mary (May 28, 2007). "Left Hand Bull to lead nation's Baha'is". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
- ^ "Tahirih Justice Center". tahirih.org.
- ^ Venters, Louis E., the III (2010). Most great reconstruction: The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 (Thesis). Colleges of Arts and Sciences University of South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-243-74175-2. UMI Number: 3402846.
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- ^ Whatever happened to the Double Crusade?, by Glenford Mitchell, Notable Talks., Bahai-Library.com, 10–05–1996
- ^ In Memoriam Archived 2006-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, Published in Bahá'í World, Vol. XVIII: 1979-1983, by Hugh C. Locke
- ^ "U.K. Bahá'í Heritage Site: A Memorial To Lady Blomfield". Archived from the original on 2008-09-07.
- ^ "Dr Frederick D'Evelyn's life". Archived from the original on 2008-02-28.
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- ^ Bureau of International Information Programs (23 December 2006). "U.S. Condemns Iran's Persecution of Bahai Religious Prisoner". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 31 October 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2006.
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In 1961 [Moynihan and his second wife] converted to the Persian faith of Baha'ism: 'It propagates Oneness of Mankind,' Moynihan explained.
- ^ Cope, TA (Mar 2009). "Positive psychotherapy's theory of the capacity to know as explication of unconscious contents". Journal of Religious Health. 48 (1): 79–89. doi:10.1007/s10943-008-9225-7. PMID 19229628.
- ^ Baha'i World, XV, 1968-73, pp. 476-78."In Memoriam; Hilda Yank Sing Yen 1905 - 1970" by Mildred Mottahedeh.
- ^ "Lidia Zamenhof". bahai-library.com.
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