List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)


Activists, politicians, and military figures

Activists

  • Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone – Native American singer and activist
  • Bonnie Carroll – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
  • Henry Hyde Champion –Socialist activist and journalist
  • Vida Goldstein – Australian suffragette and social reformer.
  • Sallie Holley – Abolitionist and educator
  • Olive Moorman Leader – temperance reformer, suffragist, educator, and human rights activist
  • Muriel Matters – Australian suffragist and educator
  • Roy Olmstead – Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist
  • Nettie Rogers Shuler – American suffragist and author
  • Marietta T. Webb – Civil rights activist

    Elected officials

  • Nancy Witcher Astor – second female Member of Parliament to be elected but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945
  • Fred B. Balzar – 15th Governor of Nevada
  • Owen Brewster – 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate
  • Jocelyn Burdick, United States Senator
  • Clarence A. Buskirk – 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries
  • Ralph Lawrence Carr – 29th Governor of Colorado
  • Thelma Cazalet-Keir – British Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Thomas M. Davis – Member of the United States House of Representatives
  • David Dreier – Member of the United States House of Representatives
  • Bob Goodlatte – Member of the United States House of Representatives
  • William Higgs – Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia
  • Gustav A. Hoff, American businessman and Mayor of Tucson.
  • Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
  • Charles H. Percy – United States Senator from Illinois
  • Lamar S. Smith – Member of the United States House of Representatives
  • Victor Cazalet – British Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Margaret Wintringham – Second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
  • John D. Works – United States Senator from California, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

    Other political and military figures

  • Mary Bartelme – pioneering American judge and lawyer, referred to as "America's only woman judge"
  • John Ehrlichman – Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
  • Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth – British diplomat and politician
  • Thomas P. Griesa – United States district judge
  • H.R. Haldeman – White House Chief of Staff
  • Septimus J. Hanna – 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 – British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor
  • Egil Krogh – American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation
  • Maurice Mansergh - British admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
  • Ursula Mueller – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in OCHA
  • Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore – Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science
  • Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore – British soldier and politician
  • David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier
  • Henry Paulson – 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 – Admiral and former CIA Director
  • William Hedgcock Webster – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1987 to 1991

    Business

  • J. Robert Atkinson – founder of the Braille Institute of America
  • D. G. M. Bernard - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.
  • B. F. Brisac – American business executive and humanitarian
  • Dorothy Harrison Eustis – founder of The Seeing Eye
  • Antony Fisher – British businessman and think tank founder
  • Lionel Fraser – British banker
  • Bette Nesmith Graham – inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith
  • Martha Matilda Harper – American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising
  • Robert Hotung, Businessman and philanthropist from British Hong Kong
  • Ben Weingart – American real estate investor and developer
  • Charles Wyly, American businessman
  • Sam Wyly, American businessman

    Arts and entertainment

Artists

  • Hilda Carline – British post-impressionist painter
  • Joseph Cornell – American artist and film maker
  • Evelyn Dunbar – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II
  • Fougasse – British cartoonist
  • Mina Loy – British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian
  • Winifred Nicholson – British painter
  • Violet Oakley – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass
  • Marcellus E. Wright Sr. – American architect who designed the Altria Theater

    Authors

  • Richard Bach – author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • Andrew Clements – American author of children's books, including Frindle
  • Willis Vernon Cole – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine
  • Heather Vogel Frederick – 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 – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher
  • William D. McCrackan – writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic
  • J. D. Salinger – American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
  • Danielle Steel – American author

    Entertainment figures

  • Pearl Bailey – Singer
  • Kenny L. Baker – singer and actor
  • Valerie Bergere – French-born actress of stage and screen
  • Elisabeth Bergner - Austrian/British actress
  • Carol Channing – American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian
  • Juanin Clay – American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger
  • Joan Crawford – American film and television actress
  • Doris Day – American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
  • Colleen Dewhurst – Canadian-American actress
  • Robert Duvall – American actor
  • Georgia Engel – American film, television, and stage actress
  • Edith Evans - actress
  • Horton Foote – playwright and screenwriter
  • Kelsey Grammer – actor
  • Charlotte Greenwood – actress and dancer
  • Joyce Grenfell – English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer
  • Corinne Griffith – American actress, producer, author and businesswoman
  • David Liebe Hart – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter
  • Howard Hawks – film director
  • Peter Horton – actor
  • Bud Jamison – actor active from 1915 to 1944
  • Leatrice Joy – silent film star
  • Val Kilmer – American actor
  • Matt Lauria -- American actor
  • Eve McVeagh – American actress
  • Martin Melcher – producer, third husband of Doris Day
  • Conrad Nagel – actor
  • Antoinette Perry – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards
  • Mary Pickford – 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 – American actress, dancer, and singer
  • Lilia Skala – Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field
  • Jean Stapleton – actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker
  • W. S. Van Dyke – director of films, including The Thin Man
  • King Vidor – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award
  • Anna May Wong – American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star
  • Alfre Woodard – actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat
  • Alan Young – English–American actor

    Musicians

  • Cornelius Bumpus – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan
  • Blanche Calloway – bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister
  • Alberta Neiswanger Hall – composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for The Songs of Father Goose
  • Lionel Hampton – jazz musician
  • Bruce Hornsby – rock musician
  • Kay Kyser – American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter
  • Everett Lee – Conductor
  • Michael Nesmith – member of The Monkees,
  • Ruth Barret Phelps – theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church
  • Sergei Prokofiev – Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor

    Sports

Athletes/sportspeople

  • Harold Bradley Jr., Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist
  • Adin Brown – 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 – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner
  • Lauren McFall Gardner -- Synchronized Swimming/Artistic Swimming
  • Shannon Miller – American gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
  • Harry Porter – Olympic gold medalist high jumper
  • George Sisler – baseball player
  • Tommy Vardell – American football player
  • Aaron Goldsmith - Sports Commentator for the Seattle Mariners and Fox College Hoops

    Intellectual life

Education and academia

  • Iris Mack – mathematician, first black female professor in applied mathematics at M.I.T.
  • Mary Kimball Morgan – American educator and the founder of Principia College, a Christian Science college
  • Robert Peel – historian and church worker, best known for his three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy
  • David E. Sweet – founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
  • George B. Thomas - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT.