List of Seventh-day Adventists

This is a list of people who are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This list also includes Millerites, [William Miller was a reformed Baptist], former Seventh-day Adventists and people raised in the church.

Academia

• Niels-Erik Andreasen - former president at Andrews University and Walla Walla College; also former teacher at Pacific Union College and former dean of Loma Linda University School of Religion
• Delbert Baker - President of Adventist University of Africa
• Gordon Bietz - former President of Southern Adventist University, former pastor and president of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
• Sidney Brownsberger (1845-1930) - educator and first president of Healdsburg College (1882-1886)
• Bruce N. Cameron, J.D. - Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law at Regent University School of Law
• Gary Chartier - American legal scholar; philosopher and author who is Associate Dean and Professor of Law and Business ethics at La Sierra University
• Eva Beatrice Dykes (1893-1986) - taught Dunbar High School; Walden University; Howard University, and was chair of the English department and the Division of Humanities at Oakwood University
• Larry Geraty - archaeologist; 7th president of Atlantic Union College (1985-1993), and 2nd president of La Sierra University (1993-2007)
• Milton E. Kern - President of Foreign Mission Seminary (1910-1914); Dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary (1934-1943), and Chairperson of the Ellen G. White Estate (1944-1951)
• Heather Knight - 21st president of Pacific Union College (2009-2016)
• Dr. Norman Maphosa - Zimbabwean who is the former Vice Chancellor of Solusi University (1992-2011); former Zimsec board chairman and current Director General of Zimbabwe Institute of Public Management
• Malcolm Maxwell (1934-2007) - 19th president of Pacific Union College (1983-2001) and son of Arthur S. Maxwell
• Mahlon E. Olson - founder of Home Study Institute; former teacher at Union College, former teacher at Lancaster Junior College and former teacher at Washington Missionary College
• Richard Osborn - 20th president of Pacific Union College (2001-2009); founder of the Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities; former principal of Takoma Academy; former Education director of Columbia Union Conference; former Vice-President for Education for the North American Division; former president of the Council for American Private Education; chairman of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities & Vice-President of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
• W. W. Prescott - President of Battle Creek College (1885-1894); founded Union College and became the first president in 1891; became president of Walla Walla College in 1891; founded Avondale School for Christian Workers; editor of the Review and Herald, and vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
• Denton E. Rebok (1897-1983) - taught at Washington Missionary College, La Sierra College,; president of Southern Missionary College; Dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary; Chairperson of the Ellen G. White Estate (1952) and missionary to China
• Dr. Leona G. Running (1916-2014) - first female linguist and Bible scholar at Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary (1955-2002) and first female president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research (1981-1982)
• Homer Russell Salisbury (1870-1915) - American professor, minister and missionary who founded Duncombe Hall College, taught at Claremont Union College; also former president of the South England Conference and Indian Union Mission. Killed when the SS Persia was sunk by a German submarine, during World War I.
• John Luis Shaw - educator; missionary and treasurer
• Randal Wisbey - third president of La Sierra University

Literature

• Ray Garton - horror novelist raised Adventist; credits his interest in horror to a reaction to the beasts in Bible prophecy (see: Seventh-day Adventist eschatology)
• Stephen L. Arrington - drug smuggler; former CIA agent; former United States Secret Service agent; former scuba diver for
• Jacques Cousteau - author and founder of drugbite
• Hesba Fay Brinsmead - children's author
• Nathan Brown - author and editor of Signs Publishing Company
• Candy Carson - African American author; philanthropist and married to Ben Carson
• Diran Chrakian - Armenian poet, writer, painter, teacher, and victim of the Armenian Genocide
• Roswell F. Cottrell - American writer; hymnist; poet; counselor, and preacher
• Bill Diehl, Jr - editor of evangelical Adventist magazine Present Truth
• Clifford Goldstein - Jewish-American author and editor
• Bill Knott - Executive Editor/Director of Adventist Review
• Arthur S. Maxwell (1896-1970) - known as Uncle Arthur, author of the Bedtime Stories series, and The Bible Story set of books, among 112 books
• Roger Morneau (1925-1998) - author on faith and prayer
• Titus Müller - German historical novelist
• Christopher Mwashinga - author and poet, writes in English and Kiswahili
• Andrew Nelson - missionary and linguist
• Rob Ridder
• Joseph Ancion
• Cameron Slater - controversial blogger and editor of New Zealand Truth
• Annie R. Smith - wrote 12 hymns and four poems
• Steven Spruill - novelist
• Standish brothers - twin brothers who write books
• Jerry D. Thomas ( -2019)- Children's and adult book author
• Mario Veloso - Chilean poet and founded Latin American Adventist Theological Seminary
• Joe L. Wheeler - anthologist; retired professor of English formerly taught at Oakwood University, Southwestern Adventist University, Washington Adventist University and founder of Zane Grey's West Society

Movies, television, and radio

• Fretzie Bercede - Filipino/Chinese actress, television personality, and former reality show contestant; 3rd placer of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010
• Jay Christian - Leader of 3ABN Radio; his life is written about in the book Falling for a Lie
• Grigoriy Dobrygin - Russian film and theatre actor; director, and producer
• DeVon Franklin - former Senior Vice President of Columbia TriStar Pictures; moonlights as a preacher; author and married to Meagan Good
• Antoinette Hertsenberg - Dutch actress and TV presenter and married to Niko Koffeman, a politician who belongs to Party for the Animals
• Patrick Irakiza Esdras - Indie filmmaker; directed two gospel music videos, and a graduate of Babcock University
• Angus T. Jones - former child actor; played Jake Harper in Two and a Half Men (2003-2013)
• Darwood Kaye - former Our Gang actor who spent his adult life as a pastor
• Phil McDonald, M.D. - medical analyst for National Basketball Association Television (NBA TV); physician, specializing in sports medicine radiology (2010-)
• Cesar Montano - multi-awarded Filipino actor, film producer/director; game show host & singer
• Cid Moreira - Brazilian journalist and TV presenter
• Kid Lopez - Filipino actor and model married to Mystica (entertainer)
• Mystica - Filipino actress; singer; television show host, and married to actor and model Kid Lopez
• Anna Samusionek - Polish theater and movie actress
• Nǃxau ǂToma - starred as a Kalahari Bushman in the films The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Gods Must Be Crazy 2, Crazy Safari, Crazy in Hong Kong, and The Gods Must Be Funny in China; converted in later life
• André Ramiro - Brazilian actor; played Mathias in the films Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
• Brenda Wood - retired African-American anchorwoman and has won many journalist awards
• Jeff Wood - American songwriter who had his songs sung by the Heritage Singers; screenwriter, producer and director who worked with Hal Holbrook on The Seventh Day series

Painters, illustrators and sculptors

• Harry Anderson (1906-1996) - American painter and illustrator who's clients were American Airlines, The American Magazine, Buster Brown Shoes, Coca-Cola, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Cream of Wheat, Esso, Ford, Good Housekeeping, Humble Oil, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Ladies' Home Journal, Massachusetts Mutual, Ovaltine, Redbook, Review and Herald Publishing Association, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Saturday Evening Post, Woman's Home Companion, and Wyeth; won many award's and also was elected to the Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1994
• Jordi Baget - Spanish painter
• Luis Germán Cajiga - Puerto Rican painter; linocutter, and silk-screen printer
• Alan Collins (1928-2016) - American sculptor and art professor at Atlantic Union College (1968-1971), Andrews University (1971-1978) and La Sierra University (1978-1989)
• Steve Creitz - American painter and illustrator who has done prolific work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its affiliated organizations including the It Is Written ministry. Steve's work has been in church publications including evangelic series, magazines and textbooks. His work is mainly "loose realism" with a nod to Harry Anderson and Winslow Homer. Steve is the Senior Illustrator at Justinen Creative Group and Director of Licensing for GoodSalt.com ministry. Steve also runs his own ministry specializing on prophetic illustration referencing stories found in the Biblical books of Daniel and Revelation at ProphecyArt.com
• Greg Constantine - Canadian-American painter and illustrator and retired art professor at Andrews University
• Nery Cruz - Guatemalan painter and illustrator from Puerto Rico who has done work for secular companies and Pacific Press Publishing Association
• Nathan Greene - American painter and illustrator whose clients are Billy Graham Association, Campus Life, Children's Press, Christianity Today, Christian Reader, Focus on the Family, NASA, Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine, The Salvation Army, Tyndale House, Scott Foresman Publishing, Versacare Corporation, World Book Encyclopedia and others
• Victor Issa - sculptor
• Kim Justinen - American painter and illustrator who is married to Lars Justinen and founder of American Pet Portraits and co-founder of Justinen Creative Group; GoodSalt & Dodge Portraits
• Lars Justinen - American painter and illustrator whose work appears on the Sabbath School Quarterly and founder of Justinen Creative Group; founder of GoodSalt and founder of Dodge Portraits
• Elfred Lee - American painter and illustrator
• Phil MacKay - Australian painter
• Shirley Ardell Mason - painter and art teacher who was known as Sybil and had Dissociative identity disorder
• James D. McClelland - American painter, illustrator, and art professor at Union College
• Heber Pintos - Uruguayan illustrator and painter
• Bertha Saveniers - Belgian sculptor
• Vernon Nye (1915-2013) - American painter; illustrator for Review and Herald Publishing Association; chairman of the art department at Pacific Union College; taught at Atlantic Union College, and Walla Walla College and lived at Loma Linda University

Singers, songwriters, musicians, and conductors

• Anna German - famous Polish singer
• Herbert Blomstedt - Swedish conductor for the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor for the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (1954-1962), conductor for the Oslo Philharmonic (1962-1968), conductor for the Staatskapelle Dresden (1975-1985), conductor for the Danish Radio Orchestra (1967-1977), music director for the San Francisco Symphony (1985-1995), music director for the NDR Symphony Orchestra (1996-1998), and music director for the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (1998-2005)
• Committed - winner of the second season of NBC's The Sing-Off
• Del Delker (1924-2018) - American contralto sacred music female vocalist who sang on the Voice of Prophecy
• Manuel Escórcio - South African tenor who sang for the Cape Town City Opera
• Jerome Fontamillas - Filipino American musician
• Leonardo Gonçalves - Brazilian singer
• Muma Gee - Nigerian pop singer-songwriter, actress, fashion designer residing in Port Harcourt
• Emma Hamel - American singer/songwriter and YouTube star who wrote the song Standing by My Side for the class of 2020
• Heritage Singers - American gospel group founded by Max and Lucy Mace
• Wayne Hooper - Musical Director for Voice of Prophecy radio program; composer; baritone
• The Isley Brothers - Grammy Award-winning American musical group consisting of brothers Ron and Ernie Isley
• Iyaz - R&B singer, rapper and songwriter; born Keidran Jones of the Virgin Islands; grew up in the church and still attends from time to time
• King's Heralds - American male gospel music quartet
• Jaime Jorge - Cuban American violinist
• Fernanda Lara - Brazilian musician
• Little Richard (1932-2020) - former singer/songwriter and musician of Rock and roll; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986), NAACP Image Awards' Hall of Fame (2002) and the Songwriters Hall of Fame (2003).
• Sunny Liu (1924-1987) - minister and singing evangelist
• Joe Lutcher (1919-2006) - American R&B saxophonist and bandleader who abandoned his musical career and witnessed to Little Richard
• Hugh Martin (1914-2011) - American theater and film composer; also accompanist for Del Delker
• Rudy Micelli - Brazilian Christian singer
• Ivor Myers - former rap singer who became a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and hosts a show on 3ABN
• NOTA - winner of the first season of NBC's The Sing-Off
• Brandon October - South African pop singer-songwriter; rose to fame after being runner-up in the first season of the reality television show Idols; grew up in the Adventist church and regularly sang in church services in Johannesburg and Cape Town; member of a number of Christian music groups within the South African Adventist community, including No Compromise; he featured on their 2001 album Strange
• Kevin Olusola - cellist and beatboxer, member of Grammy Award-winning a cappella group Pentatonix, winners of third season of NBC's The Sing-Of
• Wintley Phipps - singer, songwriter, ordained pastor
• Salt - American rapper & songwriter who baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church on a mission trip in Ethiopia with Oakwood College.
• Alessandra Samadello - Brazilian Christian singer
• Take 6 - American a cappella gospel music sextet
• Rozonda Thomas - singer-songwriter; dancer; actress; television personality and model
• Sverre Valen - retired Norwegian choir conductor
• Virtue - Dove Award-winning gospel recording artists
• Davido - Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer; his father Adedeji Adeleke, Nigerian billionaire, business magnate, founder and president of Adeleke University is a devout Seventh-Day Adventist

Business

• Gary Rayner - American serial entrepreneur who was the founder of OpalTech, DriveCam, LifeProof and co-founder of Interpreta
• Walter Arties - American who was the founder of Breath of Life (television)
• John Freeman - American who was the founder and president of Maranatha Volunteers International
• Jacqueline Joseph - CEO and co-founder of Equal Playing Field who was awarded the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Award by Patricia Scotland
• Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951) - American who was the co-inventor of cornflakes with brother John Harvey Kellogg; philanthropist who founded the Fellowship Corporation, The Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Child Welfare Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center, and Ann J. Kellogg School
• Charlotte Mhlongo - South African Businesswoman and founder of Life Destiny TV and former medical doctor
• Don Noble - American who is the president of Maranatha Volunteers International
• Jeff Reich - American who is the founder and director of Laymen Ministries
• Herber C. Rhodes (1896-1980) - Englishman who founded Rhodes Bake N Serve in the United States
• Dale E. Twomley - American who used to be president of Worthington Foods

Law

• Mary Atieno Ang'awa - High Court of Kenya judge
• Justice Samuel Bosire - former appeal Judge of the High Court of Kenya appointed the chairman of the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry by President Mwai Kibaki
• James Alexander Chiles (1860-1930) - African American lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court against Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for desegregation of railroad coaches
• Graciela Fuentes - Judge at the United Nations; consultant to European Parliament and university professor
• James E. Graves Jr. - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since February 2011 was appointed by President Barack Obama and former Supreme court judge in Mississippi
• David Maraga - Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya since Oct 19, 2016 was appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta
• Greg Mathis - retired Michigan 36th District Court judge and reality courtroom show judge
• Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko - International Criminal Court judge
• The Honourable Sir Gibuna Gibbs Salika KBE - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea and became Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II

Pioneers

This section includes Millerites (followers of William Miller) who did not necessarily become Seventh-day Adventist:

• J. N. Andrews (1829-1883) - first Seventh-day Adventist missionary; minister; writer; editor of the Adventist Review and 3rd President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
• Nelson H. Barbour (1824-1905) - Millerite pastor
• Joseph Bates (1792-1872) - seaman; founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; wrote a tract on the seventh-day Sabbath which convinced James and Ellen White to start observing it, and minister
• Goodloe Harper Bell (1832-1899) - teacher at first Seventh-day Adventist school
• Sylvester Bliss (1814-1863) - Millerite pastor, author and editor of The Signs of the Times
• O. R. L. Crosier (1820-1912) - Millerite preacher
• Hiram Edson (1806-1882) - evangelist who introduced sanctuary doctrine and started first Seventh-day Adventist press
• Charles Fitch (1805-1844) - Millerite evangelist
• Elon Galusha (1790-1856) - Millerite; minister and lawyer
• Apollos Hale (1807-1898) - Millerite and minister
• Stephen N. Haskell (1833-1922) - evangelist; missionary; author; editor; president of the New England Conference (1870-1887), president of the California Conference (1879-1887 and 1891-1894) and president of the Maine Conference (1884-1886)
• Joshua V. Himes (1805-1895) - Millerite evangelist and promoter
• J. N. Loughborough (1832-1924) - early Seventh-day Adventist pastor
• William Miller (1782-1849) - founder of the Millerite movement from which Seventh-day Adventism and other groups emerged
• George Washington Morse (1816-1909) - Millerite Adventist; evangelist and missionary
• T. M. Preble (1810-1907) - Millerite pastor, early Sabbath supporter
• Uriah Smith (1832-1903) - author; poet; hymn writer; teacher; inventor; engraver, and editor of the Review and Herald
• Samuel S. Snow (1806-1890) - Millerite preacher
• George Storrs (1796-1879) - Millerite preacher and writer
• John T. Walsh (1816-1886) - Millerite and minister
• Henry Dana Ward (1797-1884) - Millerite and abolitionist
• Jonas Wendell (1815-1873) - Millerite evangelist
• Ellen G. White (1827-1915) - a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; had 2,000 visions and dreams from God; wrote articles; pamphlets and books including the Conflict of the Ages series
• James Springer White (1821-1881) - a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; founder of The Present Truth, and 2nd, 4th, and 6th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1865-1867, 1869–1871, and 1874-1880); husband of Ellen White

See also Category: Adventism

Church administration leaders

• William Henry Branson (1887-1961) - 14th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1950-1954)
• Stennett H. Brooks (1932-2008) - pastor and President of the Northeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
• George Ide Butler (1834-1918) - 5th and 7th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1871-1874 and 1880-1888); Florida Conference president (1901-1904)
• John Byington (1798-1887) - minister and first President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1863-1865)
• A. G. Daniells (1858-1935) - 10th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1901-1922)
• Reuben Richard Figuhr (1896-1983) - 15th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1954-1966)
• Robert S. Folkenberg (1941-2015) - Puerto Rican, 18th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1990-1999)
• George A. Irwin (1844-1913) - 9th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1897-1901)
• Leonard Johnson - President of Atlantic Caribbean Union receives the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth II
• Mikhail P. Kulakov (1927-2010) - pastor; social and religious activist; Bible scholar/translator; founder of the International Association of Religious Freedom; founder of the Institute for Bible Translation; founder of the Russian Bible Society and head of the church in the former Soviet Union
• James Lamar McElhany (1880-1959) - 13th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1936-1950)
• Ole Andres Olsen (1845-1915) - minister; missionary to South Africa and 8th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1888-1897)
• Jan Paulsen (1935-) - Norwegian who was the 19th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1999-2010); Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1995-1999), and President of the Trans-European Division of Seventh-day Adventists (1983-1995)
• Robert H. Pierson (1911-1989) - 16th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1966-1979)
• Ella Simmons - only woman to be a Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; chair of the Department of Education at Kentucky State University (1988-1990); Assistant professor and associate dean of the School of Education at the University of Louisville (1990-1997); Vice President for academic affairs at Oakwood University (1997); Provost and Vice President for Academic Administration at La Sierra University (2000-2004)
• William A. Spicer (1865-1952) - 11th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1922-1930)
• James D. Standish - Australian who used to be the communications director, Religious Liberty and Public Affairs for the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists; also former head of news and editorial for Adventist Record (2011-2016)
• Hendrik Sumendap - Indonesian pastor and former Executive Secretary of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists (2007-2008)
• Charles H. Watson (1877-1962) - 12th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1930-1936)
• Neal C. Wilson (1920-2010) - 17th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1979-1990)
• Ted N. C. Wilson (1950-) - 20th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (2010–present); former Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (2000-2010); former president of the Euro-Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists (1992-1996); former president of Review and Herald Publishing Association; former director of Metropolitan Ministries; pastor and son of Neal C. Wilson

Government

Ben Carson was a Republican candidate for president in 2016 and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2017-present).

• Sir Patrick Allen - eighth Governor-General of Jamaica (2009–present) became Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth II, and former president of the West Indies Union
• Sir Silas Atopare - seventh Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (1997-2003)
• Silvio Barros - Brazilian secretary
• Roscoe Bartlett - served in Maryland's 6th congressional district/U.S. House of Representatives (1993-2013)
• Simeon Bouro - Solomon Islands Ambassador to Cuba since March 2013; member of Solomon Islands National Parliament (2001-2006)
• Percival Austin Bramble - former Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies (1970-1978)
• William Henry Bramble - first Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies
• Ronald Brisé - Commissioner for the Florida Public Service Commission and former Florida's 108th congressional district/Florida House of Representatives
• Sir James Carlisle - second Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (1993-2007) and dentist
• Ben Carson - former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; author; 2016 Republican candidate for president; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2017–present)
• Nelson Castro - New York State Assemblyman, 86th District, 2008–present
• Ret Chol - former South Sudanese politician
• JV Delos Reyes - former mayor of Talisay City, Cebu, Philippines
• Phetsile Kholekile Dlamini - Swaziland Minister for Health and Social Welfare, 1996-2003
• Dr. Cari M. Dominguez - former senior of human resources at Bank of America; formerly worked at the United States Department of Labor as Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (1989-1993) and Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards (1991-1993); Director at Spencer Stuart (1993-1995); Partner at Heidrick & Struggles (1995-1998); Principal at Dominguez and Associates (1999-2001); 12th Chairman of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2001-2006); Board member of ManpowerGroup (2007-); Board of Director for International Women's Forum; Hispanic Business Roundtable; Founder of Olney Adventist Preparatory School in Olney, Maryland, and the current Senior vice president for human resources for Loma Linda University and Loma Linda University Medical Center
• Kim Gangte - former member of parliament in India (1998-1999); educator & human right activist
• Robert J. Gunder, Charter member and Chairman, Quincy Township Planning Commission - 1983–1998; first elected to public office as Township Supervisor, Township of Quincy, Pennsylvania - 2001–Present; Chairman of Board of Supervisors, Quincy Township - 13 years
• Hakainde Hichilema - Zambian businessman and politician leader of the United Party for National Development
• Andrew Holness - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 2011–2012, 2016–present; Leader of the Opposition (Jamaica) (2012-2016)
• Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu - 9th Governor of Abia State and the first Seventh-day adventist to be elected to a high position in Nigeria, and also married to Nkechi Ikpeazu
• Dr. Samson Kisekka (1912-1999) - former 5th Prime Minister of Uganda, 1986–1991; former 5th Vice President of Uganda (1991-1994); physician; agriculturalist; businessman; diplomat and writer
• Niko Koffeman - Dutch politician who belongs to Party for the Animals and animal rights activist, married to actress/TV presenter Antoinette Hertsenberg
• Jioji Konousi Konrote - President of Fiji, (2015–present); former Fiji High Commissioner to Australia (2001-2006); former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations; retired Major-General in Fiji armed forces; former Force Commander of the United Nations interim force in Lebanon; former Ambassador Pleniopotentiary to Singapore, and former Minister of Employment, Labour Relations and Productivity
• Sheila Jackson Lee - U.S. Representative, 18th congressional district of Texas (Houston)
• Gordon Darcy Lilo - former Prime Minister of Solomon Islands
• James Marape - 8th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea 2019–present
• Sherman McNichols - Chief Magistrate, Trinidad and Tobago
• Sientje Mewengkang - Indonesian congresswoman
• Eunice Michiles - Brazilian senator
• Floyd Morris - Jamaica's first blind senator (1998-2007), Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (2001-2007), 11 President of the Senate of Jamaica (2013-2016) and author
• Phelekezela Mphoko - Zimbabwe businessman, former diplomat, former military commander, and Vice President of Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe
• Rose Namayanja - Ugandan lawyer; columnist; author; security sector manager and politician
• Dr. John Nkomo (1934-2013) - Zimbabwe politician
• Samuel Sipepa Nkomo - Zimbabwe Minister of Water Resources Development and Management
• Manuel Noriega (1934-2017) - former dictator of Panama who joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Dr. George Nga Ntafu - Malawian statesman, former Cabinet Minister, and Malawi Parliament Chief Whip
• Ron Oden - African American former openly gay 19th Mayor of Palm Springs (2003-2007) and former ordained minister
• Sam Ongeri - Kenyan Minister for Education and a Committee member of the Power Sharing between ODM and PNU after post election violence; professor
• Bud Otis - former president of Review and Herald Publishing Association (1978-1988) and president of Frederick County, Maryland
• Job Pomat - Papua New Guinean Speaker of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea (2017–present)
• La Celia A. Prince - Vincentian lawyer; ambassador to the United States, and representative to the Organization of American States
• Henry Puna - Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
• Ngereteina Puna - former teacher; former MP for Arutanga-Reureu-Nikaupara (1989-1999); former Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament (1999-2001), and Minister of Education for Geoffrey Henry (2011-2012)
• John Pundari - Papua New Guinean former Speaker of the National Parliament (1997-1999); former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Women and Youth (1999); former Minister for Lands (2001); former Minister for Foreign Affairs (2001); former Minister for Mining (2010-2011), and Minister for Environment and Conservation (2012–present) was recognized as a Companion of the Order St Michael by Queen Elizabeth II
• Raul Ruiz - U.S. Congressman from California
• Oksana Sergiyenko (1974-2011) - promoted to Deputy Finance Minister and honored with the Medal of the Order for Service to the Fatherland by President Vladimir Putin
• Desley Scott - Australian politician; member for Electoral district of Woodridge in the Parliament of Queensland, 2001–present
• Derek Sloan - Canadian member of House of Commons of Canada
• Manasseh Sogavare - Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, (2000-2001), (2006-2007), (2014-2017) and (2019–present); Leader of the Opposition in Solomon Islands (2007-2010)
• John F. Street - former Mayor of the City of Philadelphia (2000-2008)
• Mana Strickland - Minister of Education of Cook Islands
• Sione Taione - Tongan politician
• Hannu Takkula - Finnish politician who is the former member of Parliament of Finland (1995-2004) and former member of European Parliament (2004-2018)
• B. Darlington Teah - Liberian pastor; former parliament member and founder of Adventist University of West Africa
• Bienvenido V. Tejano - Philippines Ambassador to New Zealand since August 2005; Philippines Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, 1998-2005
• Marianne Thieme - founder and parliamentary leader of the Dutch animal rights party Animal Party & author
• Ronald Sapa Tlau - Indian member for Mizoram in the Rajya Sabha since June 2014
• Roman Tmetuchl(1926-1999) - Palau governor of Airai; started Palau's first bank and also start a construction company.
• Carolyn Harding Votaw - public officeholder in Washington, D.C.; youngest sister of President Warren G. Harding, and missionary to Myanmar (1905-1914)
• James Ronald Webster - led Anguilla Revolution of 1967; former Chief Minister of Anguilla
• Jorge Talbot Zavala - Ecuadorian Representative and Secretary of the Camara de Diputados, Quito, Ecuador; Nomina de Legisladores Nacionales (1950-1955), Archivo Nacional del Ecuador (1950-1955)

For former United States Adventist politicians see "The Political Graveyard" website.

Scientists, doctors, nurses, and engineers

• Leonard Lee Bailey (1942-2019) - world-renowned heart surgeon who transplanted a baboon's heart into a premature-born baby with underdeveloped heart
• Lottie Isbell Blake (1876-1976) - first SDA Black Physian
• Leonard R. Brand - Loma Linda University paleobiologist
• Mary E. Britton (1855-1925) - physician; educator; journalist; civil rights activist and Suffragist
• Margaret Caro (1848-1938) - first women Dentist on the Register of New Zealand; lecturer; social reformer, and writer
• Zeno L. Charles-Marcel - board-certified internist and associate director of Adventist Health Ministries at the General Conference
• Alexander A. Clerk - Ghanaian-American teacher; psychiatrist; sleep medicine specialist and the director of the world's first sleep medical clinic at Stanford University Medical Center
• Allan Das - Indian engineer; inventor, and entrepreneur at Hummingtec
• Oyerinde Enoch - computer scientist and developer; developed ilongene.com
• Theodore R. Flaiz (-1977) - physician; evangelist, and missionary to India
• Robert Gentry - nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist, known for his claims that radiohalos provide evidence for a young age of the Earth
• Howard Gimbel - Canadian ophthalmologist; senior editor; international speaker; professor at Loma Linda University and associate professor at University of Calgary, has won many awards including the Alberta Order of Excellence and Order of Canada
• Allan R. Handysides - board-certified gynecologist and former director of the General Conference Health Ministries Department
• Siegfried Horn (1908-1993) - German archaeologist; Bible scholar; author, and former Professor of History of Antiquity at Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary
• James H. Howard (Adventist physician) (1861-1936) - Doctor and missionary to Ethiopia
• Frank Jobe (1925-2014) - orthopedist and sports medicine physician who worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1968-2008); 26 years as a consultant for the PGA and Senior PGA and named emeritus physician for the PGA Tour; army medic in World War II; clinical professor at Keck School of Medicine of USC; inducted into American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine Hall of Fame, Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame and Shrine of the Eternals and also received the Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award, Bronze Star Medal, Combat Medical Badge and Glider Badge
• Peter Martin Keller (-1931) - doctor; missionary to New Zealand and married to Nettie Florence Keller
• Nettie Florence Keller (1875-1974) - oldest practicing doctor in the world; feminist; prohibitionist; social reformer and missionary to New Zealand
• Anna Knight (1874-1972) - African American educator; nurse; president of National Colored Teachers Association, and the first black to be a missionary in India
• Peter N. Landless - board-certified nuclear cardiologist and director of the General Conference Health Ministries Department
• Frank Lewis Marsh (1899-1992) - creationist and the first Adventist to earn a doctoral degree in biology
• Jean Nussbaum - Swiss physician; religious liberty champion; emissary at the League of Nations; president of the French Anti-smoking Society; president of Institute Curie, and a speaker on Radio Monte Carlo
• George McCready Price (1870-1963) - missionary and leading early creationist
• John Ruffing, Jr. - American doctor and missionary to India
• Robert Shurney (1921-2007) - African American physicist and inventor who designed the tires for the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon; he also invented myriad instruments still used in space travel and won the Lunar Flight Award, Apollo Achievement Award and the Skylab Achievement Award
• James M. Slater (1929-2018) - American physician and advocate of proton therapy for treatment of cancer, who managed the development of the Loma Linda University Medical Center Proton Treatment Center
• Ruth Janetta Temple (1892-1984) - first African American doctor in California and opened first medical clinic in Los Angeles
• Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi (1911-1943) - Japanese surgeon in the Imperial Japanese Army
• Walter Veith - South African zoologist, author, creationist and end times lecturer

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

Sports

• Gretchen Abaniel - Filipino professional boxer who won the Women's International Boxing Association Minimumweight Title; Women's International Boxing Federation Minimumweight Title; Global Boxing Union Minimumweight Title; WIBA Intercontinental Minimumweight Title ; WBC International Minimumweight Title and a contestant on The Amazing Race Philippines Season 2
• Joël Abati - French handball player
• David Alaba - Austrian soccer player
• Luis Aponte - retired Venezuelan baseball player
• Gladys Burrill (1918-2019) - American who ran the Honolulu Marathon seven times, the last being a Guinness World Records in 2010, for being the oldest woman to finish a marathon
• Vinicius Chuim - Brazilian soccer player (Esporte Clube Vitória)
• Ed Correa - retired Puerto Rican Major League Baseball pitcher
• Grace Daley - retired African American WNBA basketball player
• Devaun DeGraff - retired Bermudian soccer player
• Carlos Edwards - Trinidadian football (soccer) player
• Dariusz Ginda - retired Polish soccer player
• Gagame Feni - Solomon Islands football (soccer) player
• Jimmy Haarhoff - retired British soccer player
• Priscah Jeptoo - Kenyan marathon runner, Olympic and world medalist; winner of the 2013 London Marathon and 2013 New York City Marathon, and founder of Better Living Marathon
• Abel Kirui - Kenyan marathon runner, two-time world champion, Olympic medalist, 2016 Chicago Marathon winner, and founder of Better Living Marathon
• Elijah Lagat - Kenyan marathon runner, winner of the Boston Marathon;Berlin Marathon, and Prague Marathon
• Ljiljana Ljubisic - Canadian who won gold medal in discus and bronze in shot at the 1992 Summer Paralympics & won bronze in the same events at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• Archie Moore (1916-1998) - American professional boxer (Light Heavyweight World Champion December 1952 - May 1962)
• Amos Tirop Matui - Kenyan marathon runner, winner of the 2005 Singapore Marathon, 2009 Country Music Marathon and Hamburg Half Marathon, and founder of Better Living Marathon.
• Vitor Ressurreição - Brazilian soccer goalkeeper
• Carlos Roa - retired Argentine football (soccer) goalkeeper
• Daren Sammy - St. Lucian, West Indies cricketer
• Andrea Silenzi - retired Italian soccer player

Theologians, ministers and evangelists

See also: Seventh-day Adventist ministers, administrators, and theologians

• M. L. Andreasen (1876-1962) - theologian, protested against the book Questions on Doctrine, and was influential in "historic Adventism"
• Samuele Bacchiocchi (1938-2008) - theologian and author who wrote From Sabbath to Sunday, based on his study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, at which he is the only non-Catholic to have enrolled
• Bryan W. Ball - theologian; academic; author; teacher; former principal of Avondale College, and former president of South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
• Doug Batchelor - evangelist; author, and second Speaker/Director of Amazing Facts, son of millionaire George E. Batchelor who was founder of Arrow Air and Ruth Bactchelor who was an actress/ songwriter/ correspondent for the newspaper London Sunday Times and the magazine Punch, television anchor of Good Morning America and founder of Los Angeles Film Critics Association
• Stephen Bohr - Pastor; evangelist and founder of Secrets Unsealed
• Shawn Boonstra - former Speaker/Director of It Is Written Canada and 3rd Speaker/Director of It Is Written (2004-2011) and 5th Speaker/Director of Voice of Prophecy (2010–present)
• John Bradshaw - 4th Speaker/Director of It Is Written (2011–present)
• C. D. Brooks (1930-2016) - African American pastor who was the 1st Speaker/Director of Breath of Life (1974-1998)
• John Burden (1862-1942) - minister; administrator, and medical missionary to Australia
• Edwin Butz (1864-1956) - pastor and missionary to Australia and Tonga
• Carlton Byrd - pastor; 3rd Speaker/Director of Breath of Life
• Arthur Carscallen (1879-1964) - pastor; administrator; linguist; publisher, and missionary to Kenya
• John Carter - pastor; evangelist, and founder of The Carter Report
• E. E. Cleveland (1921-2009) - pastor; evangelist; civil rights leader; author, and teacher at Oakwood College
• Raymond Cottrell (1911-2003) - theologian; teacher; writer; editor; associate editor of the Adventist Review and the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, and missionary to China
• Kenneth Cox - evangelist and founder of The Kenneth Cox Ministries
• Joe Crews - author and founder of Amazing Facts
• Richard M. Davidson - Old Testament scholar, and author of Flame of Yahweh
• Herbert E. Douglass (1927-2014) - American theologian who was president of Atlantic Union College (1967-1970); associate editor of Adventist Review (1970-1976); associate book editor and vice-president for Editorial Development at Pacific Press Publishing Association (1979-1985); president of Weimar Institute (1985-1992); vice-president for philanthropy at Adventist Heritage Ministry (1997-2001), and consultant for Amazing Facts (2003-2005)
• Dick Duerksen - pastor and storyteller
• Jon Dybdahl - theologian and college administrator
• Henry Feyerabend - Canadian evangelist; singer, and author
• Mark Finley - pastor; evangelist and 2nd Speaker/Director of It Is Written 1991-2004
• Desmond Ford (19129-2019) - Australian pastor fired for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the church
• Le Roy Froom - pastor; scholar and historian, one of the leading Adventist apologists of his time
• John Edwin Fulton - pastor; author and missionary to Fiji
• Paul A. Gordon - former director of the Ellen G. White Estate
• Gerhard Hasel - theologian; Professor of Old Testament & Biblical Theology; Dean at Theological Seminary at Andrews University, his childhood experience in Nazi Germany are recounted in the book A Thousand Shall Fall
• Edward Heppenstall - theologian and Bible scholar
• Edward Hilliard - pastor and missionary to Australia and Tonga
• John F. Huenergardt - pastor; teacher; administrator, and missionary
• Merritt Kellogg - doctor; pastor and missionary to Australia; Niue; Pitcairn; Samoa, and Tonga
• Charles Kinny - first ordained Black preacher
• Fred Kinsey - 4th Speaker/Director of Voice of Prophecy
• George R. Knight - historian, author, educator, theologian
• Väinö Kohtanen - Finnish pioneer, evangelist, college president and conference president in Finland in the first half of the 20th century
• Samuel Koranteng-Pipim - Ghanaian theologian; author, and speaker
• Hans Karl LaRondelle - theologian and author
• J. H. Laurence - pioneer Black evangelist
• John G. Matteson (1835-1896) - Danish American; minister; evangelist; teacher; missionary to Denmark and Norway; musician; editor, and publisher
• E. Lonnie Melashenko - 3rd Speaker/Director of Voice of Prophecy (1993-2008) and host of the show Healing Hope by Kettering Health Network
• Andrew Nelson - scholar of East Asian languages and literature and missionary to Japan
• Dwight Nelson - pastor at Andrews University
• Francis D. Nichol - adventist apologist, authored a classic defense of Ellen White
• James R. Nix - Director of the Ellen G. White Estate
• Elizaphan Ntakirutimana (1924-2007) - pastor; administrator, and participant in Rwandan genocide
• Albert Victor Olson - minister and administrator
• Robert W. Olson - former director of the Ellen G. White Estate
• Arthur Patrick (1934-2013) - theologian; teacher; pastor; evangelist; administer, and historian at Avondale College
• Jon Paulien - leading expert on the Book of Revelation
• Walter L. Pearson, Jr. - pastor and 2nd Speaker/Director of Breath of Life
• Richard Rice - developed the "open theism" understanding of God
• H. M. S. Richards - founded Voice of Prophecy
• H. M. S. Richards, Jr. - 2nd Speaker/Director of Voice of Prophecy and son to H. M. S. Richards
• Randy Roberts - senior pastor of the Loma Linda University Church
• Ángel Manuel Rodríguez - pastor; professor; theologian, and former director of the Biblical Research Institute
• Samir Selmanovic - pastor and author
• Lewis C. Sheafe (1859-1938) - Adventism's leading black minister during the early years of the twentieth century
• Gabriele Stangl - German chaplain of Krankenhaus Waldfriede, who received Germany's Medal of Merit
• Ranko Stefanovic - PhD, professor and New Testament scholar at Andrews University and author of theological articles and books
• Bill Tucker - pastor; evangelist; third speaker/director of Quiet Hour and son of LaVerne Tucker
• J. L. Tucker - pastor; evangelist, author, and founder of Quiet Hour
• LaVerne Tucker - pastor; evangelist; second speaker/director of Quiet Hour and son of J. L. Tucker
• George Vandeman (1916-2000) - popular evangelist who founded It Is Written (1956-1991)
• Alfred Vaucher (1887-1993) - French theologian; church historian and bibliographer
• Morris Venden (1932-2013) - proponent of salvation and sanctification by faith alone, a strong supporter of the Pillars of Seventh-day Adventism including the investigative judgment, known for his parables and humor.
• Juan Carlos Viera - former director of the Ellen G. White Estate
• John West - minister and abolitionist
• Frederick Wheeler (1811-1910) - first Seventh-day Adventist minister
• Woodrow Whidden - theologian; teacher at Andrews University and missionary to Philippines
• Arthur L. White - former director of the Ellen G. White Estate and son of William C. White
• William C. White - former director of the Ellen G. White Estate and son of Ellen G. White
• Benjamin G. Wilkinson - theologian whose writings influenced the American fundamentalist King-James-Only Movement
• Steve Wohlberg - founder of White Horse Media
• Kenneth H. Wood (1917-2008) - pastor; author; editor of Adventist Review; missionary to China, and Chairman of the Ellen G. White Estate
• Norman Young - New Testament scholar
• James H. Zachary - pastor and former Director of International Evangelism for Quiet Hour

War and peace

• Admiral Barry Black - 2nd African American Seventh-day Adventist to become chaplain in U.S. Navy Reserve; Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy (2000-2003) and first African American Chaplain of the United States Senate (2003–present)
• Harlon Block (1924-1945) - one of the six U.S. Marines captured in the famous photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima; appears on the right of the photo, holding the base of the flagpole; won a Purple Heart and other military awards
• Desmond Doss (1919-2006) - conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor from President Harry S. Truman and subject of the Hollywood biopic Hacksaw Ridge
• Jovie Espenido - Police Chief Inspector of Philippine National Police is the most requested chief of police in the Philippines under President Dutertes war against drugs program
• Captain Washington Johnson, II - 3rd African American Seventh-day Adventist to become chaplain in U.S. Navy Reserve (Ceremony to take place in October)
• Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana - Solomon Islanders who rescued the surviving crew of the sunken United States boat PT-109, including its commander, future U.S. president John F. Kennedy, during the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II; were educated at Adventist missionary schools
• Captain Herman Kibble - first African American Seventh-day Adventist to become chaplain in U.S. Navy Reserve
• Dan Maukar - ace pilot in the Indonesian air force
• Lázló Michnay - Hungarian minister who helped 50 jews escape the Holocaust and was the president of the church in Hungary during World War II
• Bo Mya (1927-2006) - Karen rebel leader from Myanmar
• Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton - American who served in the United States Army and politician
• Lieutenant Junior Grade Adrienne Townsend - First Adventist woman to serve as Navy chaplain
• Alois Vocásek (1896-2003) - last surviving Czechoslovakian veteran of World War I and was the oldest member in the church in the Czech Republic
• Gabrielle Weidner (1914-1945) - Dutch resistance fighter who died of malnutrition at a Nazi concentration camp & sister of Johan Hendrik Weidner
• Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912-1994) - organized the Dutch-Paris underground network to coordinate the escapes of more than 1,000 people from Nazi-occupied France; later emigrated to the United States and operated a chain of health-food stores

Other

• Johnny Barnes - A Bermuda institution mentioned him in guidebooks and profiled him in two documentary films
• Lindy Chamberlain - Australian Adventist famous for being wrongfully convicted of the murder of her daughter Azaria at Uluru; it was later shown that a dingo took Lindy's baby.
• Michael Chamberlain - Pastor from Australia falsely accused of murdering his daughter Azaria
• Michał Belina Czechowski - Missionary to Italy, Romania, and Switzerland
• Queen Mantfombi Dlamini - Married to Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
• S. M. I. Henry (1839-1900) - Evangelist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; wrote tracts, pamphlets and books
• Albert Horsley - Miner who murdered former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg
• Nkechi Ikpeazu - Nigerian charities worker; founder of Vicar Hope Foundation and wife of the Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu
• Jon Johanson - Australian aviator who flew around the world three times, in 1995, 1996, and 2000 which he flew over the North Pole and he flew to the South Pole in 2003
• Heather Kuzmich - American fashion model and contestant on America's Next Top Model (season 9)
• Louise Little (1897-1991) - Grenadian-American activist and mother of Malcolm X
• Irene Morgan (1917-2007) - African-American who refused to surrender her bus seat and was taken to court, preceding the famous Rosa Parks case
• James E. Patterson (1857-?) - First black Seventh-day Adventist missionary
• Barbara O'Neill - Australian naturopath who, in 2019, was banned indefinitely from providing any health service or education for her role in providing dangerous health advice.
• Sandra Seifert - Filipino/German fashion model who won Miss Earth-Air at the Miss Earth 2009 pageant
• John Tay - Missionary to Fiji and Pitcairn
• Lynne Waihee - Former First Lady of Hawaii and married to the former Governor John D. Waihe'e III
• Jack Staddon and David Beihl - winners of the U.S. National Geographic Bee, winning in 1989 and 1999, respectively
• Many Pitcairn Islands residents became Seventh-day Adventists (they were apparently already keeping the seventh-day Sabbath)

Former baptized members and people raised

See also: Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists

• Anthony B - Jamaican deejay and member of the Rastafari movement
• Les Balsiger - belonged to a Seventh-day Adventist Church that was disfellowshipped for firing their minister
• Joseph R. Bartlett - former member of the Maryland House of Delegates who was raised Seventh-day Adventist, and son of Roscoe Bartlett
• Ryan J. Bell - former pastor who became an atheist
• Wayne Bent - former pastor who founded Lord Our Righteousness Church
• Usain Bolt - Jamaican Olympic sprinter who competed in three Summer Olympics (2008, 2012, and 2016), winning eight gold medals; raised Seventh-day Adventist by his mother
• Nana Kwaku Bonsam - Ghanaian witch doctor and fetish priest
• Robert Brinsmead - edited Present Truth Magazine
• Joyce Bryant - African-American singer/dancer, and former Seventh-day Adventist
• D. M. Canright - pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen White
• Bill Chambers - Australian country singer
• Kasey Chambers - Australian country singer/songwriter and daughter of Bill Chambers
• Nash Chambers - Australian country singer and son of Bill Chambers
• Ludwig R. Conradi - missionary and evangelist
• Daniel Cooper (1881-1923) - New Zealand child murderer and illegal abortionist who was disfellowshipped
• Heidi Cruz - wife of Ted Cruz; former employee for President George W. Bush; bank employee, and raised Seventh-day Adventist by her parents
• Kat Von D - tattoo artist; model; musician; author; entrepreneur; and television personality
• Clifton Davis - former Seventh-day Adventist pastor; songwriter; singer, and actor on That's My Mama and Amen.
• Luke Ford - Australian/American writer; blogger; and former pornography gossip columnist
• Vincent Harding (1931-2014) - former African American Seventh-day Adventist pastor who became a Mennonite pastor; civil rights author, and associate of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Victor Houteff - founder of the Shepherd's Rod offshoot
• Moses Hull - former pastor who became a Spiritualist lecturer and author
• John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) - medical doctor who was disfellowshipped and co-founder of cornflakes with brother Will Keith Kellogg
• Hamaas Abdul Khaalis - Islamic leader who led the 1977 Hanafi Siege
• David Koresh (1959-1993) - American leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet
• Zhang Lingsheng - helped start the True Jesus Church
• Luciano - Jamaican roots reggae singer
• Lee Boyd Malvo - former Seventh-day Adventist and convicted murderer who was connected to the D.C. sniper attacks in the Washington metropolitan area and converted to Islam
• Jesse Martin - boy sailor; his parents were Adventists
• Kenneth Chi McBride - raised Seventh-day Adventist by his parents; singer/songwriter & actor
• Brian McKnight - raised Seventh-day Adventist by his parents; Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter;producer; radio host, and 2009 The Celebrity Apprentice contestant
• 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
• T. M. Preble - wrote articles against the Seventh-day Sabbath in The World's Crisis and a book First-Day Sabbath
• Forrest Preston - American billionaire who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the founder of Life Care Centers of America
• Cherie Priest - former Seventh-day Adventist, American novelist and blogger
• Prince (1958-2016) - raised in the church, later converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses
• Mark "Chopper" Read - notorious Australian ex-criminal and author of real and fictional crime books; claims in his books to have been raised Adventist by a strictly devout mother
• Walter T. Rea - former pastor for his criticisms of the inspiration of Ellen G. White
• Busta Rhymes - American rapper, producer and actor, raised in Brooklyn by Seventh-day Adventist Jamaican-immigrant parents; later converted to Islam
• Dr. Terrence Roberts - former African American member who was a psychologist; civil rights activist; speaker; taught at Pacific Union College (1975-1977); Director of mental health services at St. Helena Hospital and Health Center (1977-1985); Assistant Dean in the UCLA School of Social Welfare (1985-1993); taught psychology at Antioch University Los Angeles; founder of Terrence Roberts Consulting, and one of the nine African American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School
• Benjamin Roden - religious leader and organizer of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church, who was disfellowshipped
• Lois Roden - wife of Benjamin Roden and president of the Branch Davidians after her husband's death
• G. G. Rupert (1847-1922) - former American Seventh-day Adventist minister who founded Independent Church of God
• 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
• Lena Sadler - American surgeon and obstetrician who was the wife of William S. Sadler
• William S. Sadler - American surgeon; self trained psychiatrist and author who helped publish The Urantia Book
• Ahn Sahng-hong - Korean pastor and founder of Witnesses of Jesus Church of God
• Dumelang Saleshando - Botswanan politician raised Seventh-day Adventist by his mother, now is member of an unspecified church
• Augusto César Sandino - Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician, cooperativist, member of Adventist church in his youth, adopted vegetarianism due to church teachings
• Vladimir Shelkov (1895-1980) - former Ukrainian Seventh-day Adventist minister and leader of the True and Free Seventh-day Adventists
• Sirhan Sirhan - Palestinian convicted of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Heinz Spanknöbel (1893-1947) - former German Seventh-day Adventist minister and led the pro Nazi Friends of New Germany
• Mathew Staver - former American Seventh-day Adventist pastor who became a Southern Baptist; professor and lawyer; also founding member and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and dean at Liberty University
• Sean Taylor (1983-2007) - former African American member who played for the Washington Redskins and was murdered
• Iya Villania - Filipina host, actress and performer, married to Drew Arellano, a Catholic. She was already excommunicated by the church before her marriage.
• Paul Wei - Chinese evangelist of the True Jesus Church
• Richard Wright (1908-1960) - author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist family
• Malcolm X (1925-1965) - American Muslim minister and human rights activist, raised Adventist by his mother

See also

• Seventh-day Adventism in popular culture

External links

Media related to Seventh-day Adventists at Wikimedia Commons