List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)
Activists, politicians, and military figures
Activists
- Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone β Native American singer and activist
- Bonnie Carroll β President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
- Henry Hyde Champion βSocialist activist and journalist
- Vida Goldstein β Australian suffragette and social reformer.
- Sallie Holley β Abolitionist and educator
- Olive Moorman Leader β temperance reformer, suffragist, educator, and human rights activist
- Muriel Matters β Australian suffragist and educator
- Roy Olmstead β Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist
- Nettie Rogers Shuler β American suffragist and author
- Marietta T. Webb β Civil rights activist
Elected officials
- Nancy Witcher Astor β second female Member of Parliament to be elected but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945
- Fred B. Balzar β 15th Governor of Nevada
- Owen Brewster β 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate
- Jocelyn Burdick, United States Senator
- Clarence A. Buskirk β 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries
- Ralph Lawrence Carr β 29th Governor of Colorado
- Thelma Cazalet-Keir β British Conservative Member of Parliament
- Thomas M. Davis β Member of the United States House of Representatives
- David Dreier β Member of the United States House of Representatives
- Bob Goodlatte β Member of the United States House of Representatives
- William Higgs β Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia
- Gustav A. Hoff, American businessman and Mayor of Tucson.
- Scott McCallum β 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
- Charles H. Percy β United States Senator from Illinois
- Lamar S. Smith β Member of the United States House of Representatives
- Victor Cazalet β British Conservative Member of Parliament
- Margaret Wintringham β Second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
- John D. Works β United States Senator from California, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Other political and military figures
- Mary Bartelme β pioneering American judge and lawyer, referred to as "America's only woman judge"
- John Ehrlichman β Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
- Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth β British diplomat and politician
- Thomas P. Griesa β United States district judge
- H.R. Haldeman β White House Chief of Staff
- Septimus J. Hanna β Judge and Civil War veteran, later Christian Science practitioner and teacher
- Cecil Harcourt - British naval officer, de facto governor of Hong Kong
- Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian β British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor
- Egil Krogh β American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation
- Maurice Mansergh - British admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
- Ursula Mueller β UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in OCHA
- Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore β Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science
- Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore β British soldier and politician
- David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier
- Henry Paulson β 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Oliver P. Smith, American Marine four star general who served in WWII and the Korean War
- Stansfield Turner β Admiral and former CIA Director
- William Hedgcock Webster β Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1987 to 1991
Business
- J. Robert Atkinson β founder of the Braille Institute of America
- D. G. M. Bernard - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.
- B. F. Brisac β American business executive and humanitarian
- Dorothy Harrison Eustis β founder of The Seeing Eye
- Antony Fisher β British businessman and think tank founder
- Lionel Fraser β British banker
- Bette Nesmith Graham β inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith
- Martha Matilda Harper β American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising
- Robert Hotung, Businessman and philanthropist from British Hong Kong
- Ben Weingart β American real estate investor and developer
- Charles Wyly, American businessman
- Sam Wyly, American businessman
Arts and entertainment
Artists
- Hilda Carline β British post-impressionist painter
- Joseph Cornell β American artist and film maker
- Evelyn Dunbar β English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II
- Fougasse β British cartoonist
- Mina Loy β British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian
- Winifred Nicholson β British painter
- Violet Oakley β American artist known for murals and work in stained glass
- Marcellus E. Wright Sr. β American architect who designed the Altria Theater
Authors
- Richard Bach β author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Andrew Clements β American author of children's books, including Frindle
- Willis Vernon Cole β American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine
- Heather Vogel Frederick β former journalist & editor, American historical fiction, fantasy, & contemporary fiction author of at least 20 books for young readers
- Sibyl Marvin Huse β American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science
- Godfrey John β Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher
- William D. McCrackan β writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic
- J. D. Salinger β American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
- Danielle Steel β American author
Entertainment figures
- Pearl Bailey β Singer
- Kenny L. Baker β singer and actor
- Valerie Bergere β French-born actress of stage and screen
- Elisabeth Bergner - Austrian/British actress
- Carol Channing β American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian
- Juanin Clay β American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger
- Joan Crawford β American film and television actress
- Doris Day β American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
- Colleen Dewhurst β Canadian-American actress
- Robert Duvall β American actor
- Georgia Engel β American film, television, and stage actress
- Edith Evans - actress
- Horton Foote β playwright and screenwriter
- Kelsey Grammer β actor
- Charlotte Greenwood β actress and dancer
- Joyce Grenfell β English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer
- Corinne Griffith β American actress, producer, author and businesswoman
- David Liebe Hart β puppeteer, actor, singer and painter
- Howard Hawks β film director
- Peter Horton β actor
- Bud Jamison β actor active from 1915 to 1944
- Leatrice Joy β silent film star
- Val Kilmer β American actor
- Matt Lauria -- American actor
- Eve McVeagh β American actress
- Martin Melcher β producer, third husband of Doris Day
- Conrad Nagel β actor
- Antoinette Perry β Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards
- Mary Pickford β Canadian-American actress; co-founder of the film studio United Artists; one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Ginger Rogers β American actress, dancer, and singer
- Lilia Skala β Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field
- Jean Stapleton β actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker
- W. S. Van Dyke β director of films, including The Thin Man
- King Vidor β director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award
- Anna May Wong β American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star
- Alfre Woodard β actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat
- Alan Young β EnglishβAmerican actor
Musicians
- Cornelius Bumpus β jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan
- Blanche Calloway β bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister
- Alberta Neiswanger Hall β composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for The Songs of Father Goose
- Lionel Hampton β jazz musician
- Bruce Hornsby β rock musician
- Kay Kyser β American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter
- Everett Lee β Conductor
- Michael Nesmith β member of The Monkees,
- Ruth Barret Phelps β theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church
- Sergei Prokofiev β Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor
Sports
Athletes/sportspeople
- Harold Bradley Jr., Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist
- Adin Brown β U.S. association football player
- Rowland George, Olympic rower; oldest surviving British Olympic gold medalist upon his death.
- Haley Henderson, American Ballet Dancer - worked for Royal Danish Ballet, Ballet San Jose, Ballet West
- Nile Kinnick β American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner
- Lauren McFall Gardner -- Synchronized Swimming/Artistic Swimming
- Shannon Miller β American gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
- Harry Porter β Olympic gold medalist high jumper
- George Sisler β baseball player
- Tommy Vardell β American football player
- Aaron Goldsmith - Sports Commentator for the Seattle Mariners and Fox College Hoops
Intellectual life
Education and academia
- Iris Mack β mathematician, first black female professor in applied mathematics at M.I.T.
- Mary Kimball Morgan β American educator and the founder of Principia College, a Christian Science college
- Robert Peel β historian and church worker, best known for his three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy
- David E. Sweet β founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
- George B. Thomas - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT.