List of Mennonites
This page includes a list of notable Mennonites.
General list
- Harold S. Bender, professor of theology at Goshen College
- David Bergen, Giller Prize winning author
- Travis Bergen, baseball player
- Lapiso Gedelebo, Ethiopian historian
- JC Chasez, solo artist and singer for NSYNC
- Christopher Dock, educator
- Abraham Esau, German physicist
- Howard Dyck, Canadian conductor and broadcaster
- Dietrich Enns, baseball player
- Brendan Fehr, actor linked to TV show Roswell
- Eric Fehr, hockey player
- Henry Wheeler, State Level Cross Country Runner
- Henry Friesen, endocrinologist who discovered Prolactin
- Jeff Friesen, former hockey player
- Byron Froese, hockey player
- Johann Funk, early Canadian Mennonite bishop
- Joseph Funk, U.S. music teacher and publisher
- Michael Funk, former hockey player
- Owen Gingerich, Smithsonian astronomer
- Girl Named Tom, winners of season 21 of The Voice
- Steven Goertzen, former hockey player
- Herman op den Graeff, Mennonite community leader of Krefeld, delegate and signer of the Dordrecht Confession of Faith in 1632
- Joseph B. Hagey, bishop
- Vincent Harding, African-American historian, theologian and civil-rights activist
- Hans Herr, bishop
- Jeff Hostetler, NFL quarterback
- Julia Kasdorf, poet
- Graham Kerr, "The Galloping Gourmet"
- Cindy Klassen, five time Olympic medalist
- Eduard Klassen, harpist
- Clayton Kratz, relief worker
- Erik Kratz, American professional baseball catcher currently in the Milwaukee Brewers organization.
- Alan Kreider, author and employee of the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
- Floyd Landis, professional road bicycle racer
- John Paul Lederach, professor of International Peacebuilding
- Lê Thị Hồng Liên, teacher and former political prisoner
- María Gloria Penayo De Duarte, Paraguayan first lady, her husband Nicanor Duarte, is a nominal Catholic who attends her church
- Dustin Penner, former hockey player
- Casey Plett, writer
- Nguyen Hong Quang, Vice President of the Mennonite Church in Vietnam
- Richie Regehr, former hockey player
- Robyn Regehr, former hockey player
- A. James Reimer, Canadian Mennonite theologian
- James Reimer, hockey player
- John D. Roth, Mennonite scholar
- Menno Simons, theologian; Mennonitism named for him
- Jerome Monroe Smucker, founder of The J.M. Smucker Company
- Dan Snyder, hockey player
- Gene Stoltzfus, American peace activist, founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Brad Thiessen, hockey player
- David Toews, hockey player
- Jonathan Toews, hockey player
- Miriam Toews, best-selling author, winner of the
- Andrew Unger, novelist and author of The Daily Bonnet
- Garry Unger, former hockey player
- Pierre Widmer, French Mennonite pastor and editor
- Armin Wiebe, author
- Rudy Wiebe, Canadian author and professor who was raised Mennonite so knew no English until age 6
- Harvey L. Wollman, former Governor of South Dakota
- John Howard Yoder, theologian and pacifist
Canadian politicians connected to the Mennonites
- Albert Driedger, cabinet minister under Gary Filmon and also a director of the Elim Mennonite Church.
- Jacob Froese, only Manitoba Social Credit Party MLA between 1959 and 1973, and was the party's leader for most if not all of the period from 1959 to 1977
- Kelvin Goertzen, 23rd Premier of Manitoba
- Harold Neufeld, cabinet minister under Gary Filmon and currently Chair of the Menno Simons College Foundation
- Vic Toews, Conservative Party of Canada member and a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba
- Brad Wall, former Premier of Saskatchewan
- Cornelius Wiebe, first Mennonite to serve in the Manitoba legislature
People of Mennonite ancestry or background
These are people of Mennonite ancestry, but who are/were not members of the Mennonite religion. In some cases names listed here include people whose current status as Mennonites is undetermined.- Sandra Birdsell, Canadian poet
- Di Brandt, Canadian poet
- Greg Brenneman, former CEO of Burger King
- Dyan Cannon, American actress, father Ben Friesen was of Mennonite ancestry
- Arthur Compton, physicist, 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Compton Effect.
- Karl Taylor Compton, physicist, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1930-1948.
- Wilson Martindale Compton, trade association executive.
- John Denver, folk singer-songwriter
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth President of the United States. Eisenhower's direct ancestor, Hans Nicol Eisenhauer, was a Mennonite who settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1741.
- Ashley Graham, plus-size American supermodel.
- Jonathan Groff, American actor and singer who originated the role of King George in the Broadway musical Hamilton.
- Katherine Esau, American botanist
- Patrick Friesen, Canadian poet
- Anna German, Polish singer
- Philip D. Gingerich, paleontologist
- Malcolm Gladwell, English-Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker who has made a return to religion though not of a specific church at the moment.
- Jon Gnagy, American art instructor on television
- Matt Groening, American cartoonist, creator of The Simpsons. His father, Homer Groening, was born and raised in a Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonite family from Saskatchewan.
- Joey Kelly, former member of The Kelly Family
- James L. Kraft, founder of Kraft Foods
- Milton Hershey, founder of The Hershey Company
- Robyn Regehr, hockey player
- Adolph Rupp, college basketball coach
- Marlin Stutzman, politician who was raised Mennonitem but is now Baptist.
- Hermann Sudermann, German dramatist and novelist
- Dick Winters, U.S. Army Major and World War II commander of Band of Brothers' Easy Company
People incorrectly identified as Mennonite
- George Armstrong Custer, erroneously identified as coming from Mennonite background by biographer Milo Milton Quaife.