List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)

==Activists, politicians, and military figures== ===Activists=== *[[Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone]] (1882-1985) – Native American singer and activist<ref>{{cite web |title=Have any Native Americans been Christian Scientists? |url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/have-any-native-americans-been-christian-scientists/ |website=Mary Baker Eddy Library |date=22 August 2022}}</ref> *[[Bonnie Carroll]] – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS){{refn|group=n|name=AM2020|Recorded a video for the Mother Church's online-only Annual Meeting in 2020 about how Christian Science supported her in her work.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://journal.christianscience.com/blogs/church-news/replay-of-annual-meeting-2020 |title=Replay of Annual Meeting 2020 |date=8 June 2020 |access-date=2020-06-28 |archive-date=2020-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701031758/https://journal.christianscience.com/blogs/church-news/replay-of-annual-meeting-2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Henry Hyde Champion]] (1859-1928) –Socialist activist and journalist<ref>Geoffrey Serle. [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/champion-henry-hyde-5548 "Champion, Henry Hyde (1859–1928)"]. ''Australian Dictionary of Biography''</ref> *[[Vida Goldstein]] (1869-1949) – Australian suffragette and social reformer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/podcast/36-reclaiming-vida-goldstein-superstar-of-womens-suffrage/ |title=Reclaiming Vida Goldstein Superstar of Women's Suffrage |access-date=2019-12-18 |archive-date=2019-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218003233/https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/podcast/36-reclaiming-vida-goldstein-superstar-of-womens-suffrage/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Sallie Holley]] (1818-1893) – Abolitionist and educator<ref>{{cite book |last1=James |first1=Edward |last2=James |first2=Janet |last3=Boyer |first3=Paul |title=Notable American women, 1607-1950 |date=1971 |publisher=Belknap Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-674-62731-4 |page=205 |url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame/}}</ref> *[[Olive Moorman Leader]] (1852-1930) – temperance reformer, suffragist, educator, and human rights activist<ref>{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary |title=A Woman of the Century |date=1893 |publisher=Moulton |location=Buffalo, NY |page=455 |url=https://archive.org/details/womanofcenturyfo00will}}</ref> *[[Muriel Matters]] (1877-1969) – Australian suffragist and educator<ref>Wright, Clare (2018) ''You Daughters of Freedom''. Text Publishing co. p. 479</ref> *[[Roy Olmstead]] (1886-1966) – Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist<ref>{{cite web |first=Daryl C.|last=McClary |date=November 13, 2002 |publisher=HistoryLink |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/4015 |title=Olmstead, Roy (1886–1966) — King of King County Bootleggers}}</ref> *[[Nettie Rogers Shuler]] (1862-1939) – American suffragist and author *[[Marietta T. Webb]] (1864-1951) – Civil rights activist<ref name="MBE Library">{{cite news |title=Women of History: Marietta Webb|url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-marietta-webb/|publisher=Mary Baker Eddy Library|date=3 February 2020}}</ref>

===Elected officials=== *[[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|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{{refn|group=n|In Sykes's ''Nancy the life of Lady Astor'' (1984), and her own letters, ''Nancy Astor’s Canadian Correspondence, 1912–1962'', it is mentioned how much she promoted the religion; the effect it had on her election campaigns and her political views is mentioned in Karen J Musolf's ''From Plymouth to Parliament'' (1999)}} *[[Fred B. Balzar]] (1880-1934) – 15th Governor of Nevada<ref name=autogenerated3>{{Cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian-scientist.html |title=Political Graveyard |access-date=2005-11-21 |archive-date=2005-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051224103247/http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian-scientist.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Owen Brewster]] (1888-1961) – 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate<ref name=autogenerated3 /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.abbott-library.com/readobit.php?obitid=1240 |title=Abbott Library |access-date=2005-12-20 |archive-date=2005-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050119194839/http://www.abbott-library.com/readobit.php?obitid=1240 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Jocelyn Burdick]] (1922-2019), United States Senator<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stotts |first=Ryan |date=2019-12-27 |title=Jocelyn Burdick, North Dakota's first female US Senator, dies at 97 |url=https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/jocelyn-burdick-north-dakotas-first-female-us-senator-dies-at-97 |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=Grand Forks Herald |language=en}}</ref> *[[Clarence A. Buskirk]] (1842-1926) – 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries<ref>{{cite web |last1=Byquist |first1=Kelly |title=Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk: To speak for the right and defend our Cause and our dear Leader |url=https://www.longyear.org/learn/research-archive/clarence-buskirk-lawyer-and-poet/ |website=Longyear Museum|date=August 2018 }}</ref> *[[Ralph Lawrence Carr]] (1887-1950) – 29th Governor of Colorado<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030829214612/http://www.nga.org/governors/1%2C1169%2CC_GOVERNOR_INFO%5ED_680%2C00.html NGA]</ref> *[[Thelma Cazalet-Keir]] (1899-1989) – British Conservative Member of Parliament<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-thelma-cazalet-keir/ |title=Women of History: Thelma Cazalet-Keir |date=22 October 2015 |access-date=2020-06-28 |archive-date=2020-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630053135/https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-thelma-cazalet-keir/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Thomas M. Davis]] – Member of the United States House of Representatives<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400098 |title=Govtrack |access-date=2006-06-08 |archive-date=2006-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220121645/http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400098 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101961104–134972,00.html Time Magazine]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> *[[David Dreier]] – Member of the United States House of Representatives<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H0511103|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603051350/http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H0511103|url-status=dead|title=The Voter's Self Defense System|archive-date=3 June 2006|website=Vote Smart|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Bob Goodlatte]] – Member of the United States House of Representatives<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22276/ |title=The Washington Post |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2017-09-03 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100132/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22276/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[William Higgs (politician)]] (1862-1951) – Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia{{refn|group=n|Became a Christian Science practitioner after retiring from politics.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/249995143|title=William Guy Higgs|newspaper=Labor Call|date=3 November 1932}}</ref>}} *[[Gustav A. Hoff]] (1852-1930), American businessman and Mayor of Tucson.{{refn|group=n|His wife Alice A. Ford (1856–1963) was the first Christian Science practitioner in Tucson, and both were involved with the early movement there, using their own home to hold the first Christian Science services in the city.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gustav Anton Hoff, 1852-1930 (MS 1243) |url=https://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/upLoads/library_Hoff-Family.pdf |publisher=Arizona Historical Society}}</ref>}} *[[Scott McCallum]] – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin{{refn|group=n|''[[Milwaukee Sentinel]]'' mentioned how Wisconsin's Christian Scientists "finally got their prayers answered" by his election<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/feb/16/christian_sciences_democratic/ |title=Milwaukee Sentinel |access-date=2005-11-19 |archive-date=2007-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930035007/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/feb/16/christian_sciences_democratic/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Charles H. Percy]] (1919-2011) – United States Senator from Illinois<ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/features/fea_printPage.asp?sect=7&curPage=&thisFile=/notorious_murders/famous/valerie_percy/8.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000255/http://www.crimelibrary.com/features/fea_printPage.asp?sect=7&curPage=&thisFile=%2Fnotorious_murders%2Ffamous%2Fvalerie_percy%2F8.html|date=October 1, 2007}}</ref> *[[Lamar S. Smith]] – Member of the United States House of Representatives<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22708/ |title=The Washington Post |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2017-09-03 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111334/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22708/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[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{{refn|group=n|an early, possibly the earliest, example of a Christian Scientist in the US Senate<ref name=autogenerated3 /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_chrsci.html |title=Famous Christian Scientists |website=www.adherents.com |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818090501/http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_chrsci.html |archive-date=18 August 2000 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>}}

===Other political and military figures=== *[[Mary Bartelme]] (1866-1954) – pioneering American judge and lawyer, referred to as "America's only woman judge"<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Schultz |editor1-first=Rima Lunin |editor2-last=Hast |editor2-first=Adele |title=Women building Chicago 1790-1990 |date=2001 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-33852-5 |page=69 |url=https://archive.org/details/womenbuildingchi0000unse/}}</ref> *[[John Ehrlichman]] (1925-1999) – Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode%E2%80%9316/ehrlichman1.html |title=GWU |access-date=2021-10-28 |archive-date=2021-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005714/https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/nsarchive_square_thumbnail/public/thumbnails/image/congress-student-loan-debt.jpg?itok=hBnDsaJ6 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth]] (1909-1984) – British diplomat and politician<ref name=Babbitt/>{{rp|59–79}} *[[Thomas P. Griesa]] (1930-2017) – United States district judge<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kurtz |first1=Howard |title=Mission or Mistake? TV Splits Church |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/04/04/mission-or-mistake-tv-splits-church/50f8f574-e328-4bc7-996f-7e430c261a25/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=4 April 1991}}</ref> *[[H.R. Haldeman]] (1926-1993) – White House Chief of Staff{{refn|group=n|Described as "a Christian Scientist who neither smokes nor drinks"<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/050173-3.htm |title=The Washington Post |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2017-09-03 |archive-date=2017-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616222402/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/050173-3.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>}} * [[Septimus J. Hanna]] (1845-1921) – Judge and Civil War veteran, later Christian Science practitioner and teacher *[[Cecil Harcourt]] (1892-1959) - British naval officer, ''de facto'' governor of [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Library |first=The Mary Baker Eddy |date=2023-01-30 |title=The 1953–1958 Archbishops' Commission on Divine Healing and the Christian Science response |url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/the-1953-1958-archbishops-commission-on-divine-healing-and-the-christian-science-response/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=Mary Baker Eddy Library |language=en-US}}</ref> *[[Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian]] (1882-1940) – British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor<ref>[http://time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,765060,00.html Time Magazine obituary]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> *[[Egil Krogh]] (1939-2020) – American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82may/hershwh3.htm |title=The Atlantic Online |website=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=2017-03-08 |archive-date=2010-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104002142/http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82may/hershwh3.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Maurice Mansergh]] (1896-1966) - British admiral, [[Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth]]<ref name=":0" /> *[[Ursula Mueller]] – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in OCHA{{refn|group=n|name=AM2020}} *[[Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore]] (1841-1907) – Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science<ref>[https://www.longyear.org/learn/pioneer-index/dunmore-earl-of/ The Earl of Dunmore, C.S.B.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001183953/https://www.longyear.org/learn/pioneer-index/dunmore-earl-of/ |date=2020-10-01 }} ''Longyear.org''</ref> *[[Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore]] (1871-1962) – British soldier and politician{{refn|group=n|The 7th Earl and Countess of Dunmore were both early teachers of Christian Science, as were two of their daughters. Their son Alexander Murray, also known as Lord Fincastle or the 8th Earl of Dunmore, was actively involved in the church.<ref>[https://www.longyear.org/learn/pioneer-index/dunmore-countess-of/ The Countess of Dunmore, C.S.B.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001231236/https://www.longyear.org/learn/pioneer-index/dunmore-countess-of/ |date=2020-10-01 }} ''Longyear.org''</ref>}} *[[David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie]] (1893-1968) - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier<ref name=":0" /> *[[Henry Paulson]] – 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mpt.org/home/ |title=PBS |website=[[PBS]] |access-date=2017-09-03 |archive-date=2021-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005657/https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ppub_config?ippd=www.mpt.org |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=McLean|first=Bethany|date=2004-09-06|title=Inside The Money Machine|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/09/06/380330/index.htm|url-status=dead|journal=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]|volume=150|issue=5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112133854/http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/09/06/380330/index.htm|archive-date=2018-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/home/business/2006/05/30/wall-street-treasury-paulson-cx_lm_0531paulson.html |title=Forbes |website=[[Forbes]] |access-date=2017-09-03 |archive-date=2007-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812030749/http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2006/05/30/wall-street-treasury-paulson-cx_lm_0531paulson.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[Oliver P. Smith]] (1893-1977), American Marine four star general who served in WWII and the Korean War<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ricks |first1=Thomas E. |title=The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today |date=2013 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-312409-2 |page=151 |url=https://archive.org/details/generalsamerican0000rick_f4b3/page/150/mode/2up}}</ref> *[[Stansfield Turner]] (1923-2018) – Admiral and former CIA Director<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://archives.cjr.org/year/92/5/godssake.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061002223816/http://archives.cjr.org/year/92/5/godssake.asp|url-status=dead|title=The News for God's Sake|magazine=Columbia Journalism Review|date=September–October 1992|first1=Hart|last1=John|archive-date=2 October 2006|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[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{{refn|group=n|mentioned in a ''Salon'' article}}

==Business== *[[J. Robert Atkinson]] (1887-1964) – founder of the [[Braille Institute of America]]<ref>[http://www.longyear.org/news_events/news/234-j_robert_atkinson J. Robert Atkinson] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130624184109/http://www.longyear.org/news_events/news/234-j_robert_atkinson |date=2013-06-24 }} Longyear Museum (June 10, 2013). Retrieved June 18, 2013</ref> *[[D. G. M. Bernard]] (1888-1975) - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.<ref name=":0" /> *[[B. F. Brisac]] (1858-1940) – American business executive and humanitarian{{refn|group=n|Served as [[Reader (Christian Science Church)|First Reader]] at First Church of Christ, Scientist, San Francisco.<ref>{{cite news |title=Christian Scientists Form New Church |publisher=The San Francisco Call |date=November 15, 1913|volume=114|issue=158 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19131115.2.40&srpos=20&dliv=none&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Brisac-------1}}</ref>}} *[[Dorothy Harrison Eustis]] (1886-1946) – founder of [[The Seeing Eye]]<ref>Ascarelli, Miriam, ''Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the Story of the Seeing Eye'', Purdue University Press, 2010, p.106</ref> * [[Antony Fisher]] (1915-1988) – British businessman and think tank founder<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chafuen.com/antony-fisher|title=Antony Fisher|website=Chafuen.com|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Lionel Fraser]] (1895-1965) – British banker<ref name=Spectator>{{cite magazine|title=Rise and fall of a wheeler-dealer|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/23rd-october-1999/54/rise-and-fall-of-a-wheeler-dealer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817091807/http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/23rd-october-1999/54/rise-and-fall-of-a-wheeler-dealer|url-status=live|archive-date=August 17, 2014|magazine=The Spectator|access-date=28 July 2014}}</ref> *[[Bette Nesmith Graham]] (1924-1980) – inventor of [[Liquid Paper]] and mother of [[Mike Nesmith]]<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite magazine |title=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/nesmith_pr.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819023642/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/nesmith_pr.html |archive-date=2012-08-19 |access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref> * [[Martha Matilda Harper]] (1857-1950) – American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising<ref>[https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-martha-matilda-harper/ Women of History: Martha Matilda Harper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126153300/https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-martha-matilda-harper/ |date=2020-11-26 }} June 1, 2020</ref> * [[Robert Hotung]] (1862-1956), Businessman and philanthropist from British Hong Kong<ref>Houpt, Charles Theodore (1976). ''Bliss Knapp: Christian Scientist''. Clark-Sprague. p. 193.</ref> *[[Ben Weingart]] (1888-1980) – American real estate investor and developer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Preven |first1=Eric |title=Hopelessness...Watching the Zeros |url=https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/21874-watching-the-zeros |website=CityWatch Los Angeles |language=en-gb}}</ref> *[[Charles Wyly]] (1933-2011), American businessman<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Duhigg |first=Charles |date=2011-08-09 |title=Charles Wyly Dies at 77; Amassed Fortune With Brother |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/business/charles-wyly-dies-at-77-amassed-a-fortune-with-brother.html |access-date=2023-02-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *[[Sam Wyly]], American businessman<ref>{{Cite web |title=Samuel Wyly |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/samuel-wyly/ |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

== Arts and entertainment == ===Artists=== *[[Hilda Carline]] (1889-1950) – British post-impressionist painter *[[Joseph Cornell]] (1903-1972) – American artist and film maker{{refn|group=n|''[[Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures]]'' is said to have been very important to him and his art<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_32_4.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051102034359/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_32_4.html|url-status=dead|title=Guggenheim Collection|archive-date=2 November 2005|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>}} *[[Evelyn Dunbar]] (1906-1960) – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://evelyn-dunbar.blogspot.fr/ |title=Evelyn Dunbar |access-date=2014-03-25 |archive-date=2014-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326103024/http://evelyn-dunbar.blogspot.fr/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Fougasse (cartoonist)|Fougasse]] (1887-1965) – British cartoonist{{refn|group=n|taught at the Christian Science Sunday School in [[Sloane Square]], London, UK, for a number of years (the church there is now called [[Cadogan Hall]])}} *[[Mina Loy]] (1882-1996) – British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/bio.htm |title=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Modern Poetry bios |access-date=2005-11-19 |archive-date=2006-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060321141336/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/bio.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Winifred Nicholson]] (1893-1981) – British painter<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502164046/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/s2.cfm?id=712072003-|url-status=dead|title=Home | The Scotsman|archive-date=2 May 2006|website=Scotsman.com|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artgallery.co.uk/marketplace/|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120718040220/http://www.artgallery.co.uk/artist/1544/Winifred_Nicholson.aspx|url-status=dead|title=Join Art Gallery|archive-date=18 July 2012|website=Artgallery.co.uk|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Violet Oakley]] (1874-1961) – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1Xh8MIz-FIC&pg=PA79E |title=Prayers in stone: Christian Science architecture in the United States, 1894–1930 by Paul Eli Ivey, pg 79 |isbn=9780252024450 |access-date=2016-09-21 |archive-date=2020-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105005031/https://books.google.com/books?id=G1Xh8MIz-FIC&pg=PA79e |url-status=live |last1=Ivey |first1=Paul Eli |year=1999 |publisher=University of Illinois Press }}</ref> *[[Marcellus E. Wright Sr.]] (1881-1962) – American architect who designed the [[Altria Theater]]<ref name="VirginiaEncyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Tyler |editor-first=Lyon Gardiner |editor-link=Lyon Gardiner Tyler |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography |title=Marcellus Eugene Wright|date=1915 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |volume=4 |location=New York |page=517}}</ref><ref name="Edwards1992">{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=Kathy |last2=Howard |first2=Esme |last3=Prawl |first3=Toni |date=1992 |title=Monument Avenue: History and Architecture |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |page=129 |quote=Church member and architect Marcellus Wright designed the First Church of Christ Scientist at 2201 Monument Ave. in the 1930s.}}</ref>

=== Authors === *[[Richard Bach]] – author of ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull {{refn|group=n|Was a reader in the Christian Science Church in the early 1970s<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/02/08/richard-bachs-new-spiritual-memoir-illusions-ii/ |title=Washington Post |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2020-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101085559/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/02/08/richard-bachs-new-spiritual-memoir-illusions-ii/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}'' *[[Andrew Clements]] (1949-2019) – American author of children's books, including [[Frindle]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2005 |title=Get to Know ... Author Andrew Clements |url=https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/axgppswewk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218212221/https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/axgppswewk |archive-date=2019-12-18 |access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> *[[Willis Vernon Cole]] (1882-1939) – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine{{refn|group=n|put on trial for practicing Christian Science healing without a medical license<ref>The New York Times, January 27, 1911: “Science Healers to Fight Test Case”</ref><ref>The New York Times, New York NY, October 4, 1916: "Annuls Conviction of W.V. Cole, Healer"</ref>}} *Heather Vogel Frederick – former journalist & editor, American historical fiction, fantasy, & contemporary fiction author of at least 20 books for young readers *[[Sibyl Marvin Huse]] (1866-1939) — American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science<ref name="TheBiographical-1925">{{cite book |title=The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ... |date=1925 |publisher=Halvord Publishing Company |pages=91–95 |volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalcycl0002unse/page/91 |access-date=30 October 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="Appleton-1926">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=James Grant |last2=Fiske |first2=John |title=Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography |date=1926 |publisher=D. Appleton |pages=299–304 |volume=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3mYziFnC1KwC&pg=PA299 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> *[[Godfrey John]] (d. about 2003) – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christian Science Association of the Pupils of Godfrey John, C.S.B |url=http://csagodfreyjohn.org/index.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906045446/http://csagodfreyjohn.org/index.php |archive-date=2013-09-06 |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Poetry of Godfrey John |url=http://www.moodesigns.com/john.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619195043/http://www.moodesigns.com/john.htm |archive-date=2015-06-19 |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref> *[[William D. McCrackan]] (1864-1923) – writer, author of ''The Rise of the Swiss Republic''<ref>[[B. O. Flower|Flower, B. O.]], [https://archive.org/stream/arena08conggoog#page/n72/mode/2up "Reckless and Irresponsible Attacks on Christian Science"] ''The Arena'', Vol. XXXVII, January to June (1907). The Brandt Press, Trenton, N.J., U.S.A., p. 59. Retrieved June 22, 2013</ref> *[[J. D. Salinger]] (1919-2010)– American writer best known for his novel ''The Catcher in the Rye''{{refn|group=n|joined it as well as various other faiths<ref>{{Cite book |last=Salinger |first=Margaret |title=Dream Catcher: A Memoir |year=2000 |publisher=Washington Square Press |location=New York |isbn=0-671-04281-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dreamcatchermemo00sali }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/authors/salinger |title=J. D. Salinger – Information, Facts, and Links |access-date=2008-02-21 |archive-date=2008-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420180338/http://www.enotes.com/authors/salinger |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Danielle Steel]] – American author<ref>{{cite web |title=The religion of Danielle Steele, best-selling author |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Danielle_Steele.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119141559/http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Danielle_Steele.html |archive-date=19 November 2005 |access-date=25 January 2022 |website=www.adherents.com}}</ref>

=== Entertainment figures === *[[Pearl Bailey]] (1918-1990) – Singer<ref name="Notable African Americans">{{cite news |title=Christian Science and Race in America|url=https://uncpressblog.com/2021/03/11/marietta-webb-christian-science-and-race-in-america/|publisher=UNC Press|date=11 March 2021}}</ref> *[[Kenny Baker (singer/actor)|Kenny L. Baker]] (1912-1985) – singer and actor{{refn|group=n|wrote hymns for the faith and later became a [[Christian Science practitioner]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048653/bio |title=IMDB |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=2018-06-28 |archive-date=2016-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313090607/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048653/bio |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.musicstack.com/search/kenny+baker |title=Music Stack |access-date=2006-05-09 |archive-date=2005-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050516234052/http://www.musicstack.com/search/kenny+baker |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Valerie Bergere]] (1867-1938)– French-born actress of stage and screen<ref>Weds Old Leading Man. ''Trenton Evening Times,'' September 26, 1917, p. 5</ref><ref>Memory Lane by I. C. Brenner. '' Salt Lake Tribune,'' November 4, 1936, p. 22</ref> * Elisabeth Bergner (1949- 1986) - Austrian/British actress *[[Carol Channing]] (1921-2019) – American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian{{refn|group=n|did see a Dr. Bill Cayhand in cases of more severe medical problems<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/27/lkl.00.html |title=CNN |access-date=2005-11-19 |archive-date=2005-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124092808/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/27/lkl.00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Juanin Clay]] (1949-1995) – American actress with roles in ''[[WarGames]]'' and ''[[The Legend of the Lone Ranger]]''<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-16-me-43262-story.html]</ref> *[[Joan Crawford]] (190?-1977)– American film and television actress{{refn|group=n|converted from Catholicism<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001076/bio |title=IMDB |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=2018-06-28 |archive-date=2018-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116204359/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001076/bio |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/04/04/back_row_2_article.shtml |title=BBC |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2016-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112172033/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/04/04/back_row_2_article.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Doris Day]] (1922-2019) – American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist{{refn|group=n|there is some evidence that she saw it solely as a philosophy later in her life, not as a religion<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TvZQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HL8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6836,4074303&dq= The Telegraph-Herald of February 27, 1976] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005653/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TvZQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HL8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6836%2C4074303&dq= |date=October 28, 2021 }}: "I guess the soda fountain became such a big thing because at the time, I was a Christian Scientist, and when you are a member of the church, you don't smoke or drink"</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dorisday.net/Film_List/Cutest_Blonde/cutest_blonde.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051118044841/http://dorisday.net/Film_List/Cutest_Blonde/cutest_blonde.html|url-status=dead|title=Doris Day: "the cutest blonde of them all"|website=The Films of Doris Day|archive-date=18 November 2005|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>}} *[[Colleen Dewhurst]] (1924-1991) – Canadian-American actress{{refn|group=n|discussed in pages 368–74 of her unfinished autobiography<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/074324270X?p=S0BQ |title=Colleen Dewhurst: Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Viola: 9780743242707: Amazon.com: Books |website=Amazon |access-date=2017-09-03 |archive-date=2021-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005724/https://www.amazon.com/rd/uedata?at&v=0.219733.0&id=WBWNVSV7XHSBPETM2CKF&m=1&sc=csa:lcp&lcp=2652&pc=6345&at=6345&t=1635382644015&pty=Detail&spty=Glance&pti=074324270X&tid=WBWNVSV7XHSBPETM2CKF&aftb=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Robert Duvall]] (1931-2026) – American actor{{refn|group=n|raised Christian Scientist, identifies as such, but non-practicing<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128729785 |title=NPR |website=[[NPR]] |access-date=2018-04-02 |archive-date=2016-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811165331/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128729785 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120710081005/http://movies.ign.com/articles/433/433352p1.html IGN]</ref>}} *[[Georgia Engel]] (1948-2019) – American film, television, and stage actress<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=758mUmQxV6gC&dq=%22georgia+engel%22+christian+scientist&pg=PA104|title=Funny Ladies|isbn=9780595312993|first1=Michael|last1=Karol|date=March 2004|publisher=iUniverse |via=Google Books|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1430335931.html?dids=1430335931:1430335931&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+17%2C+2008&author=FRANK+RIZZO&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=LAUGHS+FROM+A+GOOD+PLACE&pqatl=google |title=Hartford Courant |access-date=2017-07-06 |archive-date=2012-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104165602/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1430335931.html?dids=1430335931:1430335931&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+17,+2008&author=FRANK+RIZZO&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=LAUGHS+FROM+A+GOOD+PLACE&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[Edith Evans]] (1888-1976) - actress *[[Horton Foote]] (1916-2009) – playwright and screenwriter<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theeagle.com/spotlight/books/texasreads/070603texasreads.htm|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20070930181651/http://www.theeagle.com/spotlight/books/texasreads/070603texasreads.htm|url-status=dead|title=Three lives of Texas-grown creativity examined|date=July 6, 2003|first1=Glen|last1=Dromgoole|newspaper=[[The Bryan-College Station Eagle]]|archive-date=30 September 2007|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exwathor.html |title=U of Texas |access-date=2005-11-21 |archive-date=2005-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130133649/http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exwathor.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Kelsey Grammer]] – actor{{refn|group=n|Raised in the faith, still considers himself a Christian Scientist even though he doesn’t subscribe to all of their beliefs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C14931%E2%80%932195324%2C00.html |title=Times Online |access-date=2021-10-28 |archive-date=2021-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005704/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/11/cropped-favicon.png?w=32 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://thejuice.msnbc.com/id/4954351/ MSNBC]{{dead link|date=January 2022|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hollowverse.com/kelsey-grammar/|title=Kelsey Grammar's Religion and Political Views|access-date=2020-09-23|archive-date=2017-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824215151/http://hollowverse.com/kelsey-grammar|url-status=live}}</ref>}} *[[Charlotte Greenwood]] (1890-1977) – actress and dancer<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PPQ-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Vk0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6452,3610254&dq= |title=AP via The Tuscaloosa News of February 20, 1949 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005655/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PPQ-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Vk0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6452%2C3610254&dq= |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnWze2oYMfwC&q=%22christian+science%22 |title=Charlotte Greenwood by Grant Hayter-Menzies |isbn=9780786429950 |access-date=2016-09-21 |archive-date=2020-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101031449/https://books.google.com/books?id=EnWze2oYMfwC&q=%22christian+science%22#v=snippet&q=%22christian%20science%22&f=false |url-status=live |last1=Hayter-Menzies |first1=Grant |date=18 April 2007 |publisher=McFarland }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hu3nNSmRjZ0C&pg=PA214 |title=The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville by Anthony Slide, pg 214 |isbn=9781617032509 |access-date=2016-09-21 |archive-date=2020-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030165121/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hu3nNSmRjZ0C&pg=PA214&dq= |url-status=live |last1=Slide |first1=Anthony |date=12 March 2012 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi }}</ref> *[[Joyce Grenfell]] (1910-1979) – English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/search/$-search-results.cfm?CCODE=2016 |title=Search Results |access-date=2007-04-14 |archive-date=2007-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930060810/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/search/$-search-results.cfm?CCODE=2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/260482.0/ |title=The joy of Joyce by Chris Patterson in the Watford Observer |access-date=2013-07-07 |archive-date=2016-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112172033/http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/260482.0/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Corinne Griffith]] (1894-1979) – American actress, producer, author and businesswoman<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgrac |title=Handbook of Texas |access-date=2016-01-03 |archive-date=2016-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112172034/https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgrac |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trivia-library.com/b/religions-and-their-famous-members-christian-science.htm |title=Trivia on Religions and Their Famous Members Christian Science {{!}} Trivia Library |access-date=2005-11-21 |archive-date=2006-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512102201/http://www.trivia-library.com/b/religions-and-their-famous-members-christian-science.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[David Liebe Hart]] – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/david_liebe_hart_the_puppet_guy_on_tim_and_eric_awesome_show_famous_los_ang/|title=David Liebe Hart: Christian Scientist; Puppet Guy on Tim and Eric Awesome Show; Famous Los Angeleano|date=August 20, 2009|last=Metzger|first=Richard|publisher=Dangerous Minds|access-date=September 24, 2011|archive-date=September 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901061709/http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/david_liebe_hart_the_puppet_guy_on_tim_and_eric_awesome_show_famous_los_ang/|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[Howard Hawks]] (1896-1977) – film director<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/ph/Howard_Hawks.html |title=The religion of director Howard Hawks |website=www.adherents.com |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119130811/http://www.adherents.com/people/ph/Howard_Hawks.html |archive-date=19 November 2005 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> *[[Peter Horton]] – actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2nobAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6k4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5713,1732540&dq=|title=The Milwaukee Sentinel |date=March 9, 1984|via=[[Google News Archive]]|access-date=19 January 2022}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022}}</ref> *[[Bud Jamison]] (1894-1944) – actor active from 1915 to 1944<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://threestooges.net/cast/actor/27|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527213047/http://threestooges.net/cast.php?id=27|url-status=dead|title=Cast Member : Bud Jamison|archive-date=27 May 2010|website=Threestooges.net|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Leatrice Joy]] (1893-1985) – silent film star<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WwshAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gXIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1249,3458508&dq=leatrice-joy+christian+scientist+-monitor&hl=en |title=Schenectady Gazette Obituary – May 15, 1985 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=January 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112172034/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WwshAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gXIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1249,3458508&dq=leatrice-joy+christian+scientist+-monitor&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8uQyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_wAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2056,3125640&dq=leatrice-joy+christian+scientist+-monitor&hl=en |title=Sunday Herald – Mar 17, 1963 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=January 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112172034/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8uQyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_wAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2056,3125640&dq=leatrice-joy+christian+scientist+-monitor&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Val Kilmer]] (1959-2025) – American actor{{refn|group=n|read scripture to a congregation in New Mexico<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spirituality.com/com/online_events_announce.jhtml?p_event_id=9142|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041208114510/http://www.spirituality.com/com/online_events_announce.jhtml?p_event_id=9142|url-status=dead|title=Video Discussion: Spirituality in the Arts|archive-date=8 December 2004|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12854 |title=Jewish Journal |access-date=2005-11-21 |archive-date=2005-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051129093817/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12854 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *Matt Lauria (1982- ) -- American actor *[[Eve McVeagh]] (1919-1997) – American actress *[[Martin Melcher]] (1915-1968) – producer, third husband of Doris Day<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/18539 |title=TCM |access-date=2008-06-02 |archive-date=2007-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826030051/http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=18539&mainArticleId=160793 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Conrad Nagel]] (1897-1970) – actor<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://data.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/famous-iowans/conrad-nagel |title=The Des Moines Register's "Famous Iowans" |access-date=2013-07-07 |archive-date=2013-07-07 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130707022457/http://data.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/famous-iowans/conrad-nagel |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodtimemachine.com/whatisholly.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061128141804/http://www.hollywoodtimemachine.com/whatisholly.htm|url-status=dead|title=What is Hollywood Really Like?|date=March 4, 1922|archive-date=28 November 2006|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Antoinette Perry]] (1888-1946) – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://antoinetteperry.com/ |title=antoinetteperry.com – Home |access-date=2012-01-10 |archive-date=2012-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319061203/http://www.antoinetteperry.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/perry.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510111737/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/perry.html|url-status=dead|title=How the Tonys Got Their Name|first1=Ellis|last1=Nassour|archive-date=10 May 2007|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[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{{refn|group=n|in 1934, she published ''Why Not Try God?'', a booklet touting Christian Science}} *[[Ginger Rogers]] (1911-1995) – American actress, dancer, and singer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Ginger_Rogers.html |title=The religion of Ginger Rogers, actress |website=www.adherents.com |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119133432/http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Ginger_Rogers.html |archive-date=19 November 2005 |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0716.html |title=Obituary at the New York Times |work=The New York Times |access-date=2017-02-10 |archive-date=2016-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810183718/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0716.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Lilia Skala]] (1896-1994) – Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in ''[[Lilies of the Field (1963 film)|Lilies of the Field]]''{{refn|group=n|converted to the faith and mentioned it often<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://liliashow.homestead.com/interviews.html#anchor_183 |title=Libby Skala Interviews & Press |access-date=2006-09-07 |archive-date=2016-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307080432/http://liliashow.homestead.com/Interviews.html#anchor_183 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Jean Stapleton]] (1923-2013) – actress, best known for playing [[Edith Bunker]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CA0fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VI0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7358,4587229&dq=jean-stapleton+christian+scientist+-monitor&hl=en |title=Sarasota Journal: June 20, 1975 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=January 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112172033/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CA0fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VI0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7358,4587229&dq=jean-stapleton+christian+scientist+-monitor&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[W. S. Van Dyke]] (1889-1943) – director of films, including ''[[The Thin Man (film)|The Thin Man]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=W. S. Van Dyke Dies, Film Director, 53 |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B13F83F5B167B93C4A91789D85F478485F9 |quote=Marine Corps Reserve Major. Recently Had Completed 'Journey for Margaret'. Axtor at Age of 7 Months. Produced 'Trader Horn', 'Thin Man' and 'Naughty Marietta'. Once With D. W. Griffith. Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke 2d, motion-picture director, died at his home in Brentwood shortly before noon today. His age was 53 Van Dyke, ... |work=[[New York Times]] |date=February 6, 1943 |access-date=2009-07-17 |archive-date=2012-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021192158/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B13F83F5B167B93C4A91789D85F478485F9 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.erbzine.com/dan/uv1.html|title=The Edgar Rice Burroughs Library – Shelf UV1|author=Bill & Sue-On Hillman|access-date=19 April 2009|archive-date=22 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222210359/http://www.erbzine.com/dan/uv1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[King Vidor]] (1889-1982) – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an [[Academy Honorary Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fvi15 |title=Handbook of Texas |access-date=2016-01-02 |archive-date=2016-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101063945/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fvi15 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Anna May Wong]] (1905-1961) – American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star{{refn|group=n|also believed in reincarnation; there are disputed claims she embraced some Taoist principles<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6638|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050329003645/http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6638|archive-date=2005-03-29|title=The One, The Only and The Perpetually Cool Anna May Wong}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.classicimages.com/1997/december97/wong.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207061347/http://www.classicimages.com/1997/december97/wong.html|url-status=dead|title=Anna May Wong|website=Classic Images|first1=Barrie|last1=Roberts|archive-date=7 February 2005|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>}} *[[Alfre Woodard]] – actress who won awards for roles in ''[[Miss Evers' Boys]]'', ''[[Radio (2003 film)|Radio]]'', ''[[Memphis Beat]]''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160112172033/http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/HOLIDAY-MOVIES-Acting-on-Faith-Down-in-the-2971655.php]: "These days Woodard goes to a Christian Science church."</ref><ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119133644/http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/Alfre_Woodard.html|quote="As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me -- it was Christian Science."|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/Alfre_Woodard.html|archivedate=19 November 2005|url-status=usurped|title=The Religious Affiliation of actress Alfre Woodard}}</ref> *[[Alan Young]] (1919-2016) – English–American actor{{refn|group=n|founded a film and broadcast division for the Christian Science church,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VWMzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aOoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2204,2045072&dq=|title=The Miami News|via=Google News Archive|date=July 23, 1976|access-date=19 January 2022}}{{dead link|date=January 2022}}</ref> though he later was critical of the church as an organization<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-13-me-59476-story.html LA Times on Alan Young's memoir] : Although he remains a devotee of writings by Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, he is no longer a churchgoer.</ref>}}

=== Musicians === *[[Cornelius Bumpus]] (1945-2004) – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan<ref>{{cite web |title=The religion of Cornelius Bumpus, musician |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Cornelius_Bumpus.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211175748/http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Cornelius_Bumpus.html |archive-date=11 February 2006 |access-date=25 January 2022 |website=www.adherents.com}}</ref> *[[Blanche Calloway]] (1902-1978) – bandleader; [[Cab Calloway]]'s sister<ref>{{Cite web |title=NFO |url=http://nfo.net/usa/c1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616192133/http://nfo.net/usa/c1.html |archive-date=2012-06-16 |access-date=2006-10-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Boston Globe |url=https://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2003/11/09/in_cab_calloways_family_one_intrepid_woman_inspires_another/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193038/http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2003/11/09/in_cab_calloways_family_one_intrepid_woman_inspires_another/ |archive-date=2016-03-03 |access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref> *[[Alberta Neiswanger Hall]] (1870-1956) – composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for ''[[Father Goose: His Book|The Songs of Father Goose]]''<ref>[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13685593W/The_songs_of_Father_Goose "The Songs of Father Goose"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029203547/https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13685593W/The_songs_of_Father_Goose|date=2020-10-29}} Open Library. Retrieved May 6, 2013</ref> *[[Lionel Hampton]] (1908-2002) – jazz musician<ref>{{Cite web |title=[Deathwatch] Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, 94 |url=http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00840.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051110013737/http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00840.html |archive-date=10 November 2005 |access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lionel-hampton-641720.html The Independent]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> *[[Bruce Hornsby]] – rock musician{{refn|group=n|Although he doesn't study and rarely goes to church, said in interviews it "stays with me" and is "part of my thought process."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.puremusic.com/pdf/hornsby.pdf |title=A Conversation with Bruce Hornsby |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2013-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511141207/http://www.puremusic.com/pdf/hornsby.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/2000/12/102-49/a-quest-for-freedom-of-expression |title=A quest for freedom of expression: Bruce Hornsby talks with the Sentinel |date=4 December 2000 |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2020-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103054134/https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/2000/12/102-49/a-quest-for-freedom-of-expression |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Kay Kyser]] (1905-1985) – American bandleader and radio personality, later a [[Christian Science practitioner]] and active promoter<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1, 1980 |title=The Palm Beach Post |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yv4sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rswFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6340,7374&dq= |access-date=19 January 2022 |via=Google News Archive}}{{dead link|date=January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kay Kyser.net |url=http://www.kaykyser.net/kay.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050830001614/http://www.kaykyser.net/kay.html |archive-date=2005-08-30 |access-date=2005-10-23}}</ref> *[[Everett Lee]] (1916-2022) – Conductor<ref name="Notable African Americans" /> *[[Michael Nesmith]] (1942-2021) – member of [[The Monkees]],<ref name="autogenerated2" /> *[[Ruth Barrett Phelps|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<ref>Prokofiev, Sergei (2012). Anthony Phillips (translator), ed. Diaries 1924–1933: Prodigal Son. London/ Ithaca: Faber and Faber/Cornell University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-571-23405-9}}. p. 65.</ref>

== Sports == ===Athletes/sportspeople=== *[[Harold Bradley Jr.]] (1929-2021), Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist<ref>Tony Lobl (February 2022). [https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2pzdhs2ue2c "A spiritually guided Renaissance man"]. ''[[The Christian Science Journal]]''. vol. 140(2).</ref> *[[Adin Brown]] – U.S. association football player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/archives/000698.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041214215605/http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/archives/000698.php|url-status=dead|title=So what's the top story|date=18 October 2002|website=Boston Sports Media Watch|archive-date=14 December 2004|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Rowland George]] (1905–1997), Olympic rower; oldest surviving British Olympic gold medalist upon his death.<ref>"Rowland George; Obituary". Features. ''The Times''. London. 30 September 1997. pp. 21.</ref> *Haley Henderson (1984), American Ballet Dancer - worked for Royal Danish Ballet, Ballet San Jose, Ballet West (SLC) *[[Nile Kinnick]] (1918-1943) – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/classic/s/000803nilekinnickadd.html |title=ESPN |access-date=2006-08-24 |archive-date=2007-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311071039/http://espn.go.com/classic/s/000803nilekinnickadd.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *Lauren McFall Gardner—Synchronized Swimming/Artistic Swimming (2004 Summer Olympics in Athens - bronze medal winner) *[[Shannon Miller]] – American gymnast, Olympic gold medalist<ref>{{Cite book |title=Shannon Miller: My Child, My Hero: Claudia Miller: 9780806131108: Amazon.com: Books |isbn=0806131101 |last1=Miller |first1=Claudia Ann |last2=White |first2=Gayle |year=1999 }}</ref> *[[Harry Porter]] (1882-1965) – Olympic gold medalist high jumper<ref>Eder, Jonathon. “Manhood and Mary Baker Eddy: Muscular Christianity and Christian Science.” ''Church History'', vol. 89, no. 4, 2020, pp. 875–896. doi:10.1017/S0009640720001390.</ref> *[[George Sisler]] (1893-1973) – baseball player<ref>[http://urbanshocker.net/articles/george_sisler.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040322232238/http://urbanshocker.net/articles/george_sisler.htm|date=March 22, 2004}}</ref> *[[Tommy Vardell]] – American football player<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/1994–11-09/sports/sp-60457_1_tommy-vardell|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=19 January 2022|date=9 November 1994 |title=News from California, the nation and world }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> *[[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.{{refn|group=n|Interviewed in the ''Christian Science Sentinel'' shortly after being hired by M.I.T.<ref>[https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/1987/8/89-35/scientific-christianity-and-the-strength-to-go-the-distance?s=e Scientific Christianity and the strength to go the distance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005715/https://sentinel.christianscience.com/extension/sentinelnew/design/sentinelnew/javascript/templates/mailthis.html |date=2021-10-28 }} CS Sentinel. August 31, 1987</ref>}} *[[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]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E3D6163BF93BA2575AC0A962948260 | work=The New York Times | title=Dr. David E. Sweet, 51, Dies; Head of Rhode Island College | date=18 September 1984 | access-date=10 February 2017 | archive-date=28 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005730/https://www.nytimes.com/vi-assets/static-assets/global-2c70a72e6a867f256c6ccdf508c13728.css | url-status=live }}</ref> *[[George B. Thomas]] (1914–2006) - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT.<ref>{{cite web |title=George Thomas Obituary (2006) - State College, PA - Centre Daily Times |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/centredaily/name/george-thomas-obituary?id=15323271 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref>

===Journalism=== *[[Richard Bergenheim]] (1948-2008) – American journalist and editor{{refn|group=n|Also served as President of the Mother Church}} *[[Erwin Canham]] (1904-1982) – editor of the ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'', also the last Resident Commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands<ref>Canham, Erwin. ''A Christian Scientist's Life''. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.</ref> *[[Kay Fanning]] (1927-2000) – editor of the ''Anchorage Daily News'' and ''Christian Science Monitor'', first woman to edit an American national newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-katherine-fanning/ |title=Women of History: Katherine Fanning |date=22 May 2017 |access-date=2020-12-13 |archive-date=2021-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118195416/https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-katherine-fanning/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Harold Frederic]] (1856-1898) – journalist and novelist *[[Virginia Graham (English writer)|Virginia Graham]] (1910–1993) – English humourist *[[John Hughes (editor)]] – American journalist, former editor of ''The Christian Science Monitor'' and ''The Deseret News''<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://deseret.com/2014/7/14/20544802/about-utah-it-was-never-about-him#on-the-cover-of-his-autobiography-former-deseret-news-editor-john-hughes-interviews-sources-while-on-assignment-during-the-vietnam-war|title=About Utah: It was never about him|website=The Deseret News|date=July 13, 2014|access-date=September 4, 2020|archive-date=September 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911041907/https://www.deseret.com/2014/7/14/20544802/about-utah-it-was-never-about-him#on-the-cover-of-his-autobiography-former-deseret-news-editor-john-hughes-interviews-sources-while-on-assignment-during-the-vietnam-war|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[Edward J. Meeman]] (1889-1966) – American journalist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=883|title=Edward John Meeman|encyclopedia=The Tennessee Encyclopedia|date=January 1, 2010|access-date=May 24, 2015|archive-date=February 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204102615/http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=883|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-cora-rigby/ |title=Women of History: Cora Rigby |date=3 December 2015 |access-date=2020-12-13 |archive-date=2020-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130073730/https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-cora-rigby/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[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<ref name="EOHC">{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Linda D. |title=Aunt Susan (Edna Vance Adams Mueller) (1893–1972). |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=AU006 |website=okhistory.org |publisher=[[The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture]] |date=August 25, 2015}}</ref>

===Exploration, invention, and science=== *[[Neil Kensington Adam]] (1891-1973) – British chemist{{refn|group=n|wrote the article "A Christian Scientist's Approach to the Study of Natural Science"<ref>[http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/biog.html Royal Society of Chemistry HISTORICAL GROUP biography page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708212507/http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/biog.html |date=2017-07-08 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jsh.christianscience.com/collections/1960s/christian-science-and-the-natural-sciences |title=The Christian Science Journal |access-date=2015-01-31 |archive-date=2015-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131152027/http://jsh.christianscience.com/collections/1960s/christian-science-and-the-natural-sciences |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Edmund F. Burton]] (1862-1921) – physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science<ref>Flower, B. O. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029453713#page/n101/mode/2up ''Christian Science As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent''] (1909) pp. 79-91. Twentieth Century Company, Boston. Retrieved May 6, 2013</ref> *[[Laurance Doyle]] – researcher at [[SETI]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=178883|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051222143745/http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=178883|url-status=dead|website=SETI|title=Voices featuring Laurance Doyle|archive-date=22 December 2005|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Claribel Kendall]] (1889-1965) – American mathematician<ref>Louise S. Grinstein (Ed.), Paul J. Campbell (Ed.) (1987). ''[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/92/mode/2up Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook]''. Greenwood Press, New York. pp. 92–94.</ref> *[[Charles Lightoller]] (1874-1952) – surviving Second Officer of the ''Titanic''<ref>{{citation|author=Lieut. C.H. Lightoller, RNR|journal=Christian Science Journal|date=October 1912|volume=XXX|issue=7|pages=414–5|title=Testimonies From the Field|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LshLAAAAMAAJ&pg=414|access-date=2016-09-21|archive-date=2014-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628132351/http://books.google.com/books?id=LshLAAAAMAAJ&pg=414|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[Jer Master]] (unknown-2010) – Indian pediatrician who abandoned medicine for the faith<ref>[http://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/irmcsls68a "An interview: Why I left the medical profession for Christian Science"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131172900/http://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/irmcsls68a |date=2015-01-31 }} ''Christian Science Journal'' (April 1980). Retrieved June 17.</ref><ref>Dr. Jer Master, [http://www.guidetochildcare.org/prayer-and-your-childs-health.htm Biographical intro to "Prayer and Your Child's Health"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131151927/http://www.guidetochildcare.org/prayer-and-your-childs-health.htm |date=2015-01-31 }} Guide to Child Care. Retrieved June 17, 2013</ref><ref>[http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar182004/metro13.asp "Dispelling illusion through spiritual truth"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131152046/http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar182004/metro13.asp |date=2015-01-31 }} ''Deccan Herald'' (March 18, 2004). Retrieved June 17, 2013</ref> *[[Homer E. Newell Jr.]] (1915-1983) – NASA administrator, mathematics professor, and author<ref name=Babbitt>ed. Babbitt, Marcy. ''[https://archive.org/details/livingchristians00babb/page/n9/mode/2up Living Christian Science: Fourteen Lives]'' Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1975</ref>{{rp|239–255}} *[[Alan Shepard]] (1923-1998) – first American to travel into space, one of the first to walk on the Moon{{refn|group=n|mother and wife were Christian Scientists as well, he attended the church, but did not talk publicly about his faith.<ref>[https://archive.today/20010707110001/http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/19980723/FP_001.htm Obit Eagle Tribune obit], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050912014528/http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,869905,00.html Time Magazine], [https://www.space.com/11597-alan-shepard-biographer-fan-questions.html SPACE.com Facebook Q&A: 10 Alan Shepard Questions for Biographer Neal Thompson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013225407/https://www.space.com/11597-alan-shepard-biographer-fan-questions.html |date=2017-10-13 }}</ref>}} *[[Doris Huestis Speirs]] (1894-1989) – Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet<ref>{{cite book|last=Mills|first=W. Gordon|title=Legends of the Mississaugas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAEVUT_bGfAC&pg=PA8|date=30 June 1992|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-0-9695729-0-9|pages=8–|access-date=21 September 2016|archive-date=7 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707031650/http://books.google.com/books?id=qAEVUT_bGfAC&pg=PA8|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[John M. Tutt]] (1879-1966) – American medical doctor who became a teacher of Christian Science<ref>[https://www.longyear.org/learn/pioneer-index/tutt-john-m/ Dr. John M. Tutt, C.S.B.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205112041/https://www.longyear.org/learn/pioneer-index/tutt-john-m/ |date=2020-12-05 }} ''Longyear.org''</ref>

==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 House|Mary W. Adams]] (1834-1908) – in 1905 hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build house in Highland Park, Illinois * [[Violet Spiller Hay]] (1873–1969) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and hymnist<ref name="Eddy">[https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-violet-hay/ Women of History: Violet Hay] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924010432/https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/women-of-history-violet-hay/|date=2020-09-24}}, The Mary Baker Eddy Library</ref> * [[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 Emma Stetson|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.<ref>Barbara Owen, ''E. Power Biggs: Concert Organist'', Indiana University Press (1987)</ref> *[[Jonathan Carroll]] – American fiction writer{{refn|group=n|Raised in the church by Jewish converts to it, no longer practicing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pc/Jonathan_Carroll.html |title=The religion of Jonathan Carroll, author |website=www.adherents.com |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119143608/http://www.adherents.com/people/pc/Jonathan_Carroll.html |archive-date=19 November 2005 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>}} *[[Hart Crane]] (1899-1932) – American poet<ref>{{Cite news|first1=Paul|last1=Mariana|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mariani-tower.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025052413/https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mariani-tower.html|url-status=live|title=The Broken Tower|archive-date=25 October 2015|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Christina Crawford]] – American author and actress{{refn|group=n|mentioned in ''[[Mommie Dearest]]''}} *[[Ellen DeGeneres]] – American comedian (father was a Christian Scientist){{refn|group=n|was not vaccinated as a child and says she felt "left out"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=10931&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061119034322/http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=10931&TEMPLATE=%2FContentManagement%2FContentDisplay.cfm|url-status=dead|title=Conversations with Betty|website=Human Rights Campaign|archive-date=19 November 2006|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>}} *[[Daniel Ellsberg]] (1931-2023) – American economist who released the Pentagon Papers{{refn|group=n|his parents were Jewish converts to Christian Science, it’s unclear if he remained in the religion<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/13/1055220763017.html |title=Sydney Morning Herald |date=14 June 2003 |access-date=2020-04-16 |archive-date=2016-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911135545/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/13/1055220763017.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[William Everson (poet)|William Everson]] (1912-1994) – American poet{{refn|group=n|had Christian Scientist parents; became a member of the [[Dominican Order]] for 18 years<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9104256|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118112755/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9104256|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 18, 2013|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>}} *[[Stewart Farrar]] (1916-2000) – English writer{{refn|group=n|abandoned the faith in favor of [[agnosticism]] and then [[Neopaganism]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/f/farrar_janet_and_stewart.html |title=Farrar, Janet and Stewart |access-date=2006-08-24 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194018/http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/f/farrar_janet_and_stewart.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Paul Feig]] – American filmmaker{{refn|group=n|Considers himself an atheist now, but says there are "good things" he took away from the religion.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://grantland.com/features/qa-bridesmaids-heat-director-paul-feig/ |title=The King of the Lady Gross-out |date=28 June 2013 |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2020-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919220630/https://grantland.com/features/qa-bridesmaids-heat-director-paul-feig/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Henry Fonda]] (1905-1982) – American actor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pf/Henry_Fonda.html |title=The religion of Henry Fonda, actor |website=www.adherents.com |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050719082340/http://www.adherents.com/people/pf/Henry_Fonda.html |archive-date=19 July 2005 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> *[[Ralph Giordano (writer)|Ralph Giordano]] (1923-2014) – German writer{{refn|group=n|his parents were members of the Christian Science Church; this is mentioned in his autobiographical novel ''The Bertinis''}} *[[Spalding Gray]] (1941-2004) – American actor and writer{{refn|group=n|used his Christian Science upbringing for humor<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/dec/26/1 |title=The Guardian |newspaper=The Observer |date=26 December 2004 |access-date=2006-05-07 |archive-date=2006-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904035535/http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1379764,00.html |url-status=live |last1=Wood |first1=Gaby }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/essay/fr/lifeInterrupted.htm |title=Contemporary Lit |access-date=2006-05-07 |archive-date=2005-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051223182224/http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/essay/fr/lifeInterrupted.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Keith Green]] (1953-1982) – American musician<ref>''No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green''</ref> *[[Ernest Hemingway]] (1899-1961) – American writer{{refn|group=n|his mother was a practicing Christian Scientist{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}}} *[[Jim Henson]] (1936-1990)– American puppeteer{{refn|group=n|in his 20s he was a Sunday School teacher in the faith, but 15 years before he died he wrote to a Christian Science church to inform them he was no longer a practicing member<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gilstrap1.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313224323/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gilstrap1.html|url-status=dead|title=Web Extra|website=Phoenix New Times|archive-date=13 March 2005|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7ElPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4502,372385&dq=jim-henson+christian-scientist&hl=en |title=Toledo Blade |access-date=2016-09-21 |archive-date=2016-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513015214/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7ElPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4502,372385&dq=jim-henson+christian-scientist&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Audrey Hepburn]] (1929-1993) – British actress{{refn|group=n|her mother was a devout Christian Scientist, but she chose not be attached to any particular religion<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/ph/Audrey_Hepburn.html |title=The religion of Audrey Hepburn, actress |website=www.adherents.com |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050729113136/http://www.adherents.com/people/ph/Audrey_Hepburn.html |archive-date=29 July 2005 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>}} *[[James Hetfield]] – of [[Metallica]]{{refn|group=n|his "[[The God That Failed (song)|The God That Failed]]" is one of many songs that are a response to it<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2164 |title=Song Facts |access-date=2006-05-07 |archive-date=2006-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301001618/http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2164 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Jack Kemp|Jack Kemp (1935-2009)]] – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, member of the United States House of Representatives{{refn|group=n|raised Christian Scientist, he later became a Presbyterian<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/28/magazine/is-jack-kemp-mr-right.html?pagewanted=5 |title=The New York Times |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 June 1987 |access-date=2017-02-10 |archive-date=2016-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810183619/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/28/magazine/is-jack-kemp-mr-right.html?pagewanted=5 |url-status=live |last1=Dowd |first1=Maureen }}</ref>}} *[[Myles Kennedy]] – musician in the band Alter Bridge<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2014-07-16/religion-myles-kennedy|title=Religion: Myles Kennedy|date=2014-07-16|work=Classic Rock|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-GB|archive-date=2017-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809090239/http://teamrock.com/feature/2014-07-16/religion-myles-kennedy|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[William Luce]] (1931-2019)– American playwright and screenwriter{{refn|group=n|raised a Christian Scientist and was an organist in the Church before ultimately leaving the faith<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/william-luce-playwright-of-the-belle-of-amherst-and-barrymore-dies-at-88/2019/12/11/331abb32-1b6d-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html |title=William Luce, playwright of 'The Belle of Amherst' and 'Barrymore,' dies at 88 - the Washington Post |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2019-12-18 |archive-date=2019-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220165521/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/william-luce-playwright-of-the-belle-of-amherst-and-barrymore-dies-at-88/2019/12/11/331abb32-1b6d-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}} *[[Helmuth James Graf von Moltke]] (1907-1945) – German jurist, executed in 1945 for anti-Nazi activity{{refn|group=n|his parents were active Christian Scientists who helped translate ''Science and Health'' into German, because of family tradition, Moltke decided to become confirmed in the Evangelical Church of Prussia when he was 14, but may have continued studying Christian Science<ref>[https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5908878834967] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627031758/https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5908878834967|date=June 27, 2007}}</ref>}} *[[Marilyn Monroe]] (1926-1962) – American actress, model, and singer{{refn|group=n|Ana Lower, who she lived with for some time, introduced her to the religion<ref>Spoto, Donald (2001). ''Marilyn Monroe: The Biography''. Cooper Square Press. 68–69.</ref>}} *[[V. S. Pritchett]] (1900-1997) – British writer and literary critic{{refn|group=n|his father was a Christian Scientist and he was raised in the faith, but later was disparaging of it<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/11/mar93/epstein.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713065056/http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/11/mar93/epstein.htm|archive-date=2006-07-13|title=The enduring V. S. Pritchett}}</ref>}} *[[Chris Shays]] – member of United States House of Representatives<ref>[http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4341909 Connecticut Post]{{dead link|date=January 2022|fix-attempted=yes}}{{cbignore}}</ref> *[[John Simpson (journalist)|John Simpson]] – BBC journalist<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/feb/24/features.magazine27 |title=The Observer |date=24 February 2002 |access-date=2006-10-05 |archive-date=2006-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614101116/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,,655985,00.html |url-status=live |last1=Barber |first1=Lynn }}</ref> *[[Julian Steward]] (1902-1972) – American anthropologist{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} *[[Elizabeth Taylor]] (1932-2011) – English-American actress{{refn|group=n|raised in the faith, but converted to [[Judaism]] on marrying [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]; remained Jewish until her death and joked of herself as "a nice little Jewish girl"<ref>[https://cgi.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/15/lkl.00.html]{{dead link|date=November 2016|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>}} *[[William Thetford]] (1923-1988) – American professor{{refn|group=n|his parents were of the faith, but left when he was seven due to the death of their daughter{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}}} *[[Denton Welch]] (1915-1948) – English writer and artist{{refn|group=n|his mother was a Christian Scientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dentonwelch.com/biography/|title=Biography|date=7 June 2020|access-date=1 January 2021|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028005713/https://dentonwelch.com/biography/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} *[[Robin Williams]] (1951-2014) – American actor and comedian{{refn|group=n|his mother was a Christian Scientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/Robin_Williams.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051128231947/http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/Robin_Williams.html|archive-date = 2005-11-28|url-status=usurped|title=The Religious Affiliation of Actor, Comedian Robin Williams}}</ref>}} *[[Bobby Franks]] (1909–1924), American murder victim of Leopold and Loeb<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bardsley |first1=Marilyn |title=Leopold & Loeb – Enter Clarence Darrow |url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/loeb/index_1.html |website=Crime Library |archive-date=February 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209235757/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/loeb/index_1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also== *[[Church of Christ, Scientist]] *[[Manual of The Mother Church]] *[[Demographics of the United States Congress]]

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==External links== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000818090501/http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_chrsci.html Adherents.com "Famous Christian Scientists"]}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian-scientist.html Political Graveyard section of "Christian Scientists"] *[http://www.trivia-library.com/b/religions-and-their-famous-members-christian-science.htm Trivia Library on the topic] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090406090916/http://www.tshaonline.org/index.html The Handbook of Texas (For uncertain reasons, many names here can be found on that site.)]

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