Activists, politicians, and military figures
Activists
- Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882-1985) – Native American singer and activist
- Bonnie Carroll – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
- Henry Hyde Champion (1859-1928) –Socialist activist and journalist
- Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) – Australian suffragette and social reformer.
- Sallie Holley (1818-1893) – Abolitionist and educator
- Muriel Matters (1877-1969) – Australian suffragist and educator
- Roy Olmstead (1886-1966) – Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist
- Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862-1939) – American suffragist and author
- Marietta T. Webb (1864-1951) – Civil rights activist
Elected officials
- Nancy Witcher Astor (1879-1964) – second female Member of Parliament to be elected but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945
- Fred B. Balzar (1880-1934) – 15th Governor of Nevada
- Owen Brewster (1888-1961) – 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate
- Jocelyn Burdick (1922-2019), United States Senator
- Clarence A. Buskirk (1842-1926) – 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries
- Ralph Lawrence Carr (1887-1950) – 29th Governor of Colorado
- Thelma Cazalet-Keir (1899-1989) – British Conservative Member of Parliament
- Thomas M. Davis – Member of the United States House of Representatives
- David Dreier – Member of the United States House of Representatives
- Bob Goodlatte – Member of the United States House of Representatives
- William Higgs (politician) (1862-1951) – Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia
- Gustav A. Hoff (1852-1930), American businessman and Mayor of Tucson.
- Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
- Charles H. Percy (1919-2011) – United States Senator from Illinois
- Lamar S. Smith – Member of the United States House of Representatives
- Victor Cazalet (1896-1943) – British Conservative Member of Parliament
- Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955) – Second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
- John D. Works (1847-1928) – United States Senator from California, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Other political and military figures
- Mary Bartelme (1866-1954) – pioneering American judge and lawyer, referred to as "America's only woman judge"
- John Ehrlichman (1925-1999) – Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
- Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth (1909-1984) – British diplomat and politician: 59–79
- Thomas P. Griesa (1930-2017) – United States district judge
- H.R. Haldeman (1926-1993) – White House Chief of Staff
- Cecil Harcourt (1892-1959) - British naval officer, de facto governor of Hong Kong
- Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940) – British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor
- Egil Krogh (1939-2020) – American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation
- Maurice Mansergh (1896-1966) - British admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
- Ursula Mueller – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in OCHA
- Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841-1907) – Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science
- Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore (1871-1962) – British soldier and politician
- David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie (1893-1968) - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier
- Henry Paulson – 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Stansfield Turner (1923-2018) – Admiral and former CIA Director
- William Hedgcock Webster – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991
Business
- J. Robert Atkinson (1887-1964) – founder of the Braille Institute of America
- D. G. M. Bernard (1888-1975) - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.
- B. F. Brisac (1858-1940) – American business executive and humanitarian
- Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886-1946) – founder of The Seeing Eye
- Antony Fisher (1915-1988) – British businessman and think tank founder
- Lionel Fraser (1895-1965) – British banker
- Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-1980) – inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith
- Martha Matilda Harper (1857-1950) – American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising
- Ben Weingart (1888-1980) – American real estate investor and developer
- Charles Wyly (1933-2011), American businessman
- Sam Wyly, American businessman
Arts and entertainment
Artists
- Hilda Carline (1889-1950) – British post-impressionist painter
- Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) – American artist and film maker
- Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II
- Fougasse (1887-1965) – British cartoonist
- Mina Loy (1882-1996) – British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian
- Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) – British painter
- Violet Oakley (1874-1961) – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass
- Marcellus E. Wright Sr. (1881-1962) – American architect who designed the Altria Theater
Authors
- Richard Bach – author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Andrew Clements (1949-2019) – American author of children's books, including Frindle
- Willis Vernon Cole (1882-1939) – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine
- Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866-1939) — American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science
- Godfrey John (d. about 2003) – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher
- William D. McCrackan (1864-1923) – writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic
- J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)– American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
- Danielle Steel – American author
Entertainment figures
- Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) – Singer
- Kenny L. Baker (1912-1985) – singer and actor
- Valerie Bergere (1867-1938)– French-born actress of stage and screen
- Carol Channing (1921-2019) – American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian
- Juanin Clay (1949-1995) – American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger
- Joan Crawford (190?-1977)– American film and television actress
- Doris Day (1922-2019) – American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
- Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) – Canadian-American actress
- Robert Duvall – American actor
- Georgia Engel (1948-2019) – American film, television, and stage actress
- Edith Evans (1888-1976) - actress
- Horton Foote (1916-2009) – playwright and screenwriter
- Kelsey Grammer – actor
- Charlotte Greenwood (1890-1977) – actress and dancer
- Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) – English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer
- Corinne Griffith (1894-1979) – American actress, producer, author and businesswoman
- David Liebe Hart – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter
- Howard Hawks (1896-1977) – film director
- Peter Horton – actor
- Bud Jamison (1894-1944) – actor active from 1915 to 1944
- Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) – silent film star
- Val Kilmer (1959-2025) – American actor
- Eve McVeagh (1919-1997) – American actress
- Martin Melcher (1915-1968) – producer, third husband of Doris Day
- Conrad Nagel (1897-1970) – actor
- Antoinette Perry (1888-1946) – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards
- Mary Pickford (1892-1979) – Canadian-American actress; co-founder of the film studio United Artists; one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) – American actress, dancer, and singer
- Lilia Skala (1896-1994) – Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field
- Jean Stapleton (1923-2013) – actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker
- W. S. Van Dyke (1889-1943) – director of films, including The Thin Man
- King Vidor (1889-1982) – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award
- Anna May Wong (1905-1961) – American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star
- Alfre Woodard – actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat
- Alan Young (1919-2016) – English–American actor
Musicians
- Cornelius Bumpus (1945-2004) – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan
- Blanche Calloway (1902-1978) – bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister
- Alberta Neiswanger Hall (1870-1956) – composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for The Songs of Father Goose
- Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) – jazz musician
- Bruce Hornsby – rock musician
- Kay Kyser (1905-1985) – American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter
- Everett Lee (1916-2022) – Conductor
- Michael Nesmith (1942-2021) – member of The Monkees,
- Ruth Barret Phelps (1899-1980) – theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor
Sports
Athletes/sportspeople
- Harold Bradley Jr. (1929-2021), Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist
- Adin Brown – U.S. association football player
- Rowland George (1905–1997), Olympic rower; oldest surviving British Olympic gold medalist upon his death.
- Nile Kinnick (1918-1943) – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner
- Shannon Miller – American gymnast
- Harry Porter (1882-1965) – Olympic gold medalist high jumper
- George Sisler (1893-1973) – baseball player
- Tommy Vardell – American football player
- Aaron Goldsmith - Sports Commentator for the Seattle Mariners and Fox College Hoops
Intellectual life
Education and academia
- Iris Mack (1956-2022) – mathematician, first black female professor in applied mathematics at M.I.T.
- Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948) – American educator and the founder of Principia College, a Christian Science college
- Robert Peel (historian) (1909-1992) – historian and church worker, best known for his three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy
- David E. Sweet (1933–1984) – founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
- George B. Thomas (1914–2006) - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT.
Journalism
- Richard Bergenheim (1948-2008) – American journalist and editor
- Erwin Canham (1904-1982) – editor of the Christian Science Monitor, also the last Resident Commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Kay Fanning (1927-2000) – editor of the Anchorage Daily News and Christian Science Monitor, first woman to edit an American national newspaper.
- Harold Frederic (1856-1898) – journalist and novelist
- Virginia Graham (1910–1993) – English humourist
- John Hughes (editor) – American journalist, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor and The Deseret News
- Edward J. Meeman (1889-1966) – American journalist
- Cora Rigby (1865-1930) – first woman at a major paper to head a Washington news bureau, co-founder of the Women's National Press Club.
- Marjorie Shuler (1888-1977) – suffragist, author, adventurer, publicist, journalist, longtime writer for the Christian Science Monitor. Daughter of famous suffragist Nettie Rogers Shuler.
- "Aunt Susan" born Edna Vance (1893-1972), American journalist and radio personality
Exploration, invention, and science
- Neil Kensington Adam (1891-1973) – British chemist
- Edmund F. Burton (1862-1921) – physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science
- Laurance Doyle – researcher at SETI
- Claribel Kendall (1889-1965) – American mathematician
- Charles Lightoller (1874-1952) – surviving Second Officer of the Titanic
- Jer Master (unknown-2010) – Indian pediatrician who abandoned medicine for the faith
- Homer E. Newell Jr. (1915-1983) – NASA administrator, mathematics professor, and author: 239–255
- Alan Shepard (1923-1998) – first American to travel into space, one of the first to walk on the Moon
- Doris Huestis Speirs (1894-1989) – Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet
- John M. Tutt (1879-1966) – American medical doctor who became a teacher of Christian Science
Other
- John V. Dittemore (1876-1937) – trustee of Eddy estate, director of The Mother Church, then critic and co-author of Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition
- Calvin Frye (1845-1917) – personal assistant of Mary Baker Eddy
- Mary W. Adams (1834-1908) – in 1905 hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build house in Highland Park, Illinois
- Septimus J. Hanna (1845-1921) – Judge and Civil War veteran, later Christian Science practitioner and teacher
- Violet Spiller Hay (1873–1969) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and hymnist
- Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) – Christian Science practitioner, Journal editor, later started her own college and association
- Bliss Knapp (1877-1958) – Christian Science lecturer, practitioner, teacher and author
- Annie M. Knott (1850-1941) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and church leader
- Laura Lathrop (1845-1922) – Christian Science teacher in New York
- Augusta E. Stetson (1842-1928) – Christian Science teacher in New York, excommunicated in 1909
- Irving C. Tomlinson (1860-1944) – Universalist minister who converted to Christian Science
Notable people raised in Christian Science
- E. Power Biggs (1906-1977) – Concert organist and recording artist, his mother was a Christian Scientist.
- Jonathan Carroll – American fiction writer
- Hart Crane (1899-1932) – American poet
- Christina Crawford – American author and actress
- Ellen DeGeneres – American comedian
- Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023) – American economist who released the Pentagon Papers
- William Everson (1912-1994) – American poet
- Stewart Farrar (1916-2000) – English writer
- Paul Feig – American filmmaker
- Henry Fonda (1905-1982) – American actor
- Ralph Giordano (1923-2014) – German writer
- Spalding Gray (1941-2004) – American actor and writer
- Keith Green (1953-1982) – American musician
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) – American writer
- Jim Henson (1936-1990)– American puppeteer
- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) – British actress
- James Hetfield – of Metallica
- Jack Kemp (1935-2009) – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, member of the United States House of Representatives
- Myles Kennedy – musician in the band Alter Bridge
- William Luce (1931-2019)– American playwright and screenwriter
- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907-1945) – German jurist, executed in 1945 for anti-Nazi activity
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) – American actress, model, and singer
- V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) – British writer and literary critic
- Chris Shays – member of United States House of Representatives
- John Simpson – BBC journalist
- Julian Steward (1902-1972) – American anthropologist
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) – English-American actress
- William Thetford (1923-1988) – American professor
- Denton Welch (1915-1948) – English writer and artist
- Robin Williams (1951-2014) – American actor and comedian
- Bobby Franks (1909–1924), American murder victim of Leopold and Loeb
See also
- Church of Christ, Scientist
- Manual of The Mother Church
- Demographics of the United States Congress
Footnotes
References
External links
- Adherents.com "Famous Christian Scientists"
- Political Graveyard section of "Christian Scientists"
- Trivia Library on the topic
- The Handbook of Texas (For uncertain reasons, many names here can be found on that site.)
