List of Baptists

Athletes

• Charles Barkley, former professional basketball player
• Jim Brown, former fullback for the Cleveland Browns
• Roberto Clemente
• Mike Conley Jr., guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team
• Zach Johnson, professional golfer, winner of 2007 Masters Tournament
• Magic Johnson, professional basketball player
• Iris Kyle, 10-time overall Ms. Olympia professional bodybuilder
• Ryan Langerhans, outfielder for Seattle Mariners
• William Lockhart, cricketer and preacher
• Joe Louis, professional boxer. Holds the record for longest single reign as champion of any boxer in history.
• Dikembe Mutombo center for the Houston Rockets
• Bradbury Robinson, pioneering American football player, physician and conservationist
• Tim Tebow, professional football quarterback, then baseball player
• Mike Tyson, former boxer and heavyweight champion of the world, who later converted to Islam
• Reggie White, professional football defensive end; member of Pro Football Hall of Fame

  Authors and journalists

• Nathan Bailey, philologist and lexicographer
• Clara Lucas Balfour, writer and temperance campaigner
• Ray Bradbury, science fiction author, later described himself as Buddhist
• Samuel Bagster the Younger writer on religion and beekeeping
• Henlee Hulix Barnette, writer on Christian ethics
• Thomas Spencer Baynes, philosopher
• Henry Blackaby, writer on knowing God
• Frank W. Boreham, daily press contributions on religion
• Robbie Branscum, writer for children and young adults
• Edith Bryan, educationalist for children with special needs
• Tony Campolo, sociologist and spiritual adviser
• Muriel Spurgeon Carder, writer on New Testament studies and pastoral care
• Ross Clifford, theologian and political commentator
• Thomas Cooper, poet and Chartist
• Esther Copley, tractarian and writer for children
• Thomas Crosby, author of History of the English Baptists
• W. E. Cule, children's author and editor of Baptist Missionary Society publications
• Elizabeth Dawbarn, religious writer, preacher and pamphleteer
• Maria De Fleury, poet, hymnist and polemicist
• James T. Draper Jr., writer on Christian life
• Petru Dugulescu, writer on persecution
• Daniel C. Eddy, hymn writer and advocate of women's education
• Gene Edwards, writer on church history and affairs
• Robert Ellis, theologian
• William Roscoe Estep, historian
• Jerry Falwell Sr., writer on social and political affairs
• Paul Fiddes, theologian and novelist
• Sallie Rochester Ford, writer and newspaper editor
• Harry Emerson Fosdick, Modernist theologian
• Hans Frei, Bible scholar and theologian
• Gilberto Freyre, sociologist and anthropologist
• Michael Frost, missional and theologian
• Edwin Gaustad, scholar and historian of religion
• Billy Graham, worldwide evangelist
• Jack Graham, writer on Christian life
• John Grisham, novelist
• Ken Ham, fundamentalist and creationist
• Roger E. Hedlund, missionary and researcher
• Kent Hovind, fundamentalist and creationist
• George Howells, writer and academic
• Mike Huckabee, politician and writer on social and political affairs
• Donald Foster Hudson, missionary and educationalist
• Robert Don Hughes, minister, educator and science fiction author
• Johnny Hunt, writer on Christian life and biblical studies
• William Jones, writer and bookseller
• Adoniram Judson, missionary and producer of a Burmese Bible and a dictionary
• Tim LaHaye, co-author of the bestselling Left Behind series
• Doris Lester, religious writer and social worker
• Charles Lloyd, preacher and schoolmaster
• Bill Moyers, television journalist and former White House Press Secretary
• David Owen , Welsh-language poet
• Hazel Brannon Smith, journalist and editor; first female recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

  Criminals

• Edgar Ray Killen, sawmill operator, part-time Baptist minister, American Ku Klux Klan kleagle, directed murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
• Jesse James, outlaw, son of a Baptist minister, Confederate soldier
• Harry Longabaugh, "The Sundance Kid", train robber and outlaw

  Entertainers, movie and television personalities

• Clay Aiken pop music singer
• Roy Acuff, country musician
• Warren Beatty, actor
• David Bellamy, television presenter, botanist, and environmentalist
• Lead Belly, folk and blues musician
• Chuck Berry, singer, songwriter and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music
• Spencer Bohren, American roots musician, raised a Baptist
• Glen Campbell, country music singer
• Mark Carman, singer, composer, writer and producer
• Aaron Carter, singer
• Nick Carter, lead vocalist of the Backstreet Boys
• Johnny Cash, country music singer
• Ray Charles, musician, singer, and composer
• Jerry Clower, rural humorist, member of the Grand Ole Opry, lay minister
• Kevin Costner, actor
• Jill Dando television presenter
• Bette Davis, actress and erstwhile Baptist
• Jamie Foxx, actor, singer and stand-up comedian
• Aretha Franklin, singer and daughter of Baptist minister Rev. C.L. Franklin
• Ava Gardner, actress
• Al Green, singer, songwriter and record producer
• Buddy Holly, rock 'n' roll singer
• Whitney Houston, R&B/pop singer and actress
• John Hughes, composer and marketing manager
• John Hughes, composer of hymns
• Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer
• B.B. King, blues singer
• Gladys Knight, singer, converted to Mormonism
• Avril Lavigne, singer-songwriter and actress
• Brian Littrell, pop singer, member of the Backstreet Boys
• Loretta Lynn, country music artist
• Reba McEntire, country music artist and actress
• Brittany Murphy, actress, singer and voice artist; raised Baptist and later became non-denominational Christian
• Eddie Murphy, actor
• Chuck Norris, actor
• Grady Nutt, Hee Haw regular, Baptist minister
• Brad Pitt, actor, raised Baptist
• Dennis Quaid, actor
• Corinne Bailey Rae, singer and songwriter
• Diana Ross, singer
• Willard Scott, television weatherman
• Ron Shelton, movie director
• Ashlee Simpson, pop singer
• Jessica Simpson, pop singer and actress
• Sinbad, actor and comedian
• Will Smith actor, raised baptist
• Snoop Dogg, rapper, raised Baptist
• Britney Spears, pop singer
• Irma Thomas, soul singer
• Justin Timberlake, pop singer
• Tina Turner, singer, converted to Buddhism
• Carrie Underwood, country music singer
• Billy Vaughn, Big Band orchestra leader, songwriter, and saxophonist
• Stevie Wonder, musician, singer, songwriter, and producer
• Oprah Winfrey, raised Baptist, now a spiritualist
• Dan Whitney , son of a Baptist preacher, attended Baptist University of America

  Industrialists and business leaders

• George Fife Angas, businessman and banker prominent in the development of South Australia
• Thomas Burberry, founder of the Burberry chain of clothing stores
• S. Truett Cathy, billionaire founder of Chick-fil-A restaurants
• John Chapman, engineer and writer
• Eleanor Coade, businesswoman manufacturing statuary
• Jeremiah Colman, founder of the Colman's Mustard company
• Thomas Cook, founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son
• Carl Lindner, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
• James Cash Penney, J. C. Penney department store magnate, son of a Primitive Baptist lay minister
• Thomas Ramsay, footwear manufacturer and lay preacher
• John D. Rockefeller, 20th-century oil tycoon

  Jurists

• Clement Bailhache, commercial lawyer and judge
• Hugo Black, Supreme Court associate justice
• Charles Evans Hughes, Supreme Court chief justice
• Howell Edmunds Jackson, Supreme Court associate justice
• Robert Lush, judge and Privy Councillor
• Roy Moore, Alabama State Supreme Court chief justice and Republican politician
• Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court associate justice

  Politicians

• Daniel Axtell, officer in the New Model Army, later executed as a regicide
• Richard M. Johnson, 9th Vice President of the United States
• George Goodman, Liberal Mayor of Leeds and MP
• Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, raised a Baptist.
• Reuben Barrow, Liberal politician and member of Parliament
• Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States
• Ernest Bevin, Labour politician and trade union leader
• Ichirō Hatoyama 35th Prime Minister of Japan
• Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States
• A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough Labour-Conservative politician and Minister of Defence
• Cyril Black, Conservative politician, member of Parliament, and businessman
• Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States
• James Callaghan, British Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party
• Audrey Callaghan, Labour Party councilor and wife of Prime Minister James Callaghan
• Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
• Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
• Chuck Colson, senior aide to President Richard Nixon
• Steven D. Foster, Maine state representative
• Yukio Hatoyama, 60th Prime Minister of Japan
• Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States
• Kamala Harris, 49th Vice President of the United States
• Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and 2008 Presidential candidate
• Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist and Baptist minister; candidate for Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988; shadow senator for District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997
• Norman Kember, biophysics professor and pacifist
• Muriel Lester, social activist and pacifist
• Elizabeth Lilburne, Leveller
• Edmund Ludlow, parliamentarian and regicide
• John McCain, Senator Arizona, presidential candidate
• George Hay Morgan, Liberal UK politician
• Ron Paul, Congressman and former Libertarian Party presidential candidate; known for his libertarian leanings
• Wynne Samuel, politician
• Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd, Welsh Liberal politician
• Oleksandr Turchynov, interim President of Ukraine since 23 February 2014