List of Seventh-day Adventists

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This is a list of people who have been associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They are listed here, at least in part, for their faith or for their role in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist church. It also includes members who left the church.

Contents 1 Members 1.1 Actors, TV and radio 1.2 Art and music 1.3 Law 1.4 Language, linguistics and novelists 1.5 Politics and government 1.6 Science, health and engineering 1.7 Sports 1.8 Theologians, ministers and personalities 1.9 War and peace 1.10 Other 2 Former members 3 Pioneers & Millerites 4 To be classified... 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Members

[edit] Actors, TV and radio

• Clifton Davis – From That's My Mama and theater work. Also an ordained minister in the church.
• Darwood "Waldo" Kaye – Former Our Gang actor who spent his adult life as a pastor.
• Nǃxau – Kalahari Bushman star of The Gods Must Be Crazy, who converted in later life^[1]
• Heather Kuzmich – fashion model and reality show contestant on America's Next Top Model (2007 series)

[edit] Art and music

• Herbert Blomstedt – Conductor who does not rehearse on Saturdays due to his Adventist faith.^[2]
• Charmaine (musician) – Singer/songwriter, and former member of Australian vocal group Endless Praise. Signed to Elevate Records, she has toured with Rebecca St. James, Casting Crowns, Jeremy Camp and others.
• Jerome Fontamillas – Filipino American musician^[3]
• Wintley Phipps – who is also a pastor
• Robert Edwin Seamount – Member of The King's Heralds quartet, Second Tenor 1941-1947, 1949-1961. Pastor 1961–1964 for churches in the San Juan Islands. Public Relations for Texas Conference 1969-1974.
• Terry Benedict – assistant director in Hollywood - producer of The Conscientious Objector, a film about fellow Adventist and World War II U.S. medic Desmond Doss
• Little Richard - raised in the church, later became a preacher, attends the Ephesus SDA church in Los Angeles
• Prince - raised in the church, later converted to Jehovah's Witness

[edit] Law

• Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko – International Criminal Court judge.^[4]
• Mary Ang'awa – High Court of Kenya judge^[5]

[edit] Language, linguistics and novelists

• Andrew Nelson – Missionary and linguist.
• Steven Spruill – novelist^[6]

[edit] Politics and government

• Patrick Allen – Governor-General of Jamaica (2009—)^[7]
• Roscoe Bartlett – 6th district representative from Maryland^[8]
• Percival Austin Bramble Former – Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies (1970–1978)
• William Henry Bramble First – Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies
• Sir James Carlisle – Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda (1993–2007)
• Floyd Morris – Jamaican senator and minister of state^[9]
• Sheila Jackson-Lee - U.S. Representative, 18th congressional district of Texas (Houston)
• Sam Ongeri – Kenyan Minister for Education and a Committee member of the Power Sharing between ODM and PNU after post election violence. Also a professor
• Desley Scott – Australian politician^[10]
• Tony Zirkle – attorney and repeated candidate for the Indiana, United States
• John F. Street – Mayor of the City of Philadelphia (2000–2008)
• Sherman McNichols - Chief Magistrate, Trinidad and Tobago.

For more United States Adventist politicians see Seventh-day Adventist politicians at "The Political Graveyard" website.

[edit] Science, health and engineering

• Leonard L. Bailey – World-renowned heart surgeon who transplanted a baboon's heart into premature-born baby with underdeveloped heart^[11]
• Ben Carson – Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins hospital
• George McCready Price – Missionary and leading early creationist.
• Sean D. Pitman – Pathologist/hematologist who maintains the creationist website DetectingDesign.com
• Frank Lewis Marsh – Creationist and the first Adventist to earn a doctoral degree in biology
• Walter Veith – author and speaker known for his work in nutrition, creationism and other Christian topics
• Garret Collins – Organic chemist and ardent supporter of the literal 6 day creation.

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

[edit] Sports

• Carlos Roa – Argentine football goalkeeper who does not play on Friday nights or Saturdays due to his religion.

[edit] Theologians, ministers and personalities

• John Nevins Andrews – Early missionary for the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
• David Asscherick – evangelist and author
• Doug Batchelor – Evangelist for the church; director of Amazing Facts ministry.
• Joseph Bates – Elder in the church. Wrote a tract on the seventh-day Sabbath which convinced James and Ellen White to start observing it.
• Admiral Barry Black, Phd, DMin, DD – First African American and current chaplain to the United States Senate.
• Michał Belina Czechowski – First overseas missionary for the church^{[citation needed]} (unofficial; J. N. Andrews was the first official missionary)
• Herbert E. Douglass – American theologian.
• Jon Dybdahl – Theologian and college administrator.
• Mark Finley – evangelist
• Robert S. Folkenberg – President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 1990 to 1999.
• Gerhard F. Hasel – theologian.
• "Uncle Arthur" Maxwell – Children's author and Adventist spokesman for church-state affairs in Britain.
• Jan Paulsen – Current President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
• Rachel Oakes Preston – Early religious figure to the church who introduced the seventh-day Sabbath to Adventists. She attended the Washington, New Hampshire Adventist church.
• Ángel Manuel Rodríguez – director of the Biblical Research Institute (BRI)
• Danny Shelton – Co-founder of Three Angels Broadcasting Network
• Linda Shelton – Co-founder of Three Angels Broadcasting Network
• Uriah Smith – Editor and author of Daniel and the Revelation and other works
• Bernard A. Taylor – Septuagint expert and member of the New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS)^[12]
• Alfred Vaucher – French theologian.
• Ellen G. White – A founder of the church who is considered to have had the biblical gift of prophecy.
• James Springer White – A founder of the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Husband of Ellen White
• Benjamin G. Wilkinson – Theologian whose writings influenced the American fundamentalist King-James-Only Movement.

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

[edit] War and peace

• Zoltán Kubinyi – World War II personality^[13]
• Desmond Doss – first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor
• Laurent Nkunda – Congo warlord who claims to be an Adventist pastor, but the church denies this saying he is not even an active member.^[14]

[edit] Other

• Many Pitcairn Islands residents became Seventh-day Adventists, although they were apparently already keeping the seventh-day Sabbath^[15]
• Jack Staddon^[16] and David Biehl^[17] – winners of the U.S. National Geographic Bee, winning in 1989 and 1999, respectively

[edit] Former members

• Wayne Bent – former pastor who founded Lord Our Righteousness Church
• D. M. Canright – Pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen White
• Desmond Ford – Australian preacher dismissed for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the church
• Ray Garton – horror novelist raised Adventist, who states his interest in horror began in reaction to the beasts in Bible prophecy (see: Seventh-day Adventist eschatology)^[18]
• Victor Houteff – founder of the Shepherd's Rod offshoot
• Moses Hull – Former pastor who converted to spiritualism.
• J. Mark Martin – former Adventist pastor fired over doctrinal issues. Senior pastor of Calvary Community Church.
• Jesse Martin – parents were Adventists^[19]
• Elizaphan Ntakirutimana – ex-pastor and Rwandan Genocide participant
• 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
• "Prince" – musician raised Adventist^[20]
• Dale Ratzlaff – Former Adventist pastor dismissed over doctrinal issues. Directs Life Assurance Ministries and is the editor of a website critical of Ellen White
• Paul Rusesabagina – internationally honored for saving 1,268 civilians during the Rwandan Genocide; the subject of 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. Describes himself as a lapsed Adventist in his autobiography
• Richard Wright – author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist family.
• Malcolm X – Raised Adventist by his mother

See also Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists.

[edit] Pioneers & Millerites

• 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 Adventist movement
• T. M. Preble – Millerite pastor, early Sabbath supporter
• Jonas Wendell – Millerite evangelist

See also Category:Adventist.

[edit] To be classified...

(Unsure if these are present or former Adventists)

• Phife Dawg – rap artist.^{[citation needed][21]}
• T. R. M. Howard – African American civil rights advocate
• Jerry Yang – poker player
• Members of the Take 6 vocal group
• Shirley Ardell Mason, known as "Sybil" – famous dissociative identity disorder patient. Her parents were apparently Adventists^[22]

[edit] See also

• Alumni of any of the universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• List of former Roman Catholics#Seventh-day Adventism
• Seventh-day Adventism in popular culture

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Famous Seventh-day Adventists at the Famous Adherents website. (Don't add any from this site to the current list without a citation!)