List of Seventh-day Adventists

This is a list of notable people who are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In addition to living and deceased members, the list also includes notable former Seventh-day Adventists and those who were raised in the church, but did not become members.

Academia

Niels-Erik Andreasen – former president at Andrews University and Walla Walla College; also former teacher at Pacific Union College and former dean of Loma Linda University School of Religion
Delbert Baker – President of Adventist University of Africa
Sidney Brownsberger – educator and first president of Healdsburg College
Gary Chartier – American legal scholar; philosopher and author who is Associate Dean and Professor of Law and Business ethics at La Sierra University
Eva Beatrice Dykes – taught at Dunbar High School; Walden University; Howard University, and was chair of the English department and the Division of Humanities at Oakwood University
Larry Geraty – archaeologist; 7th president of Atlantic Union College, and 2nd president of La Sierra University
Lilia Wahinemaikaʻi Hale - Kanaka Maoli educator, musician and author
Siegfried Horn – German archaeologist; Bible scholar; author, and Professor of History of Antiquity and Dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary
Milton E. Kern – President of Foreign Mission Seminary ; Dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, and Chairperson of the Ellen G. White Estate
Heather Knight – 21st president of Pacific Union College
Dr. Norman Maphosa – Zimbabwean scholar, who is the former Vice Chancellor of Solusi University ; former Zimsec board chairman and current Director General of Zimbabwe Institute of Public Management
Malcolm Maxwell – 19th president of Pacific Union College and son of Arthur S. Maxwell
Richard Osborn – 20th president of Pacific Union College ; founder of the Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities; former principal of Takoma Academy; former Education director of Columbia Union Conference; former Vice-President for Education for the North American Division; former president of the Council for American Private Education; chairman of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities & Vice-President of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Leslie Pollard - African-american who is the 11th president of Oakwood University
W. W. Prescott – President of Battle Creek College ; founded Union College and became the first president in 1891; became president of Walla Walla College in 1891; founded Avondale School for Christian Workers; editor of the Review and Herald, and vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Denton E. Rebok – taught at Washington Missionary College, La Sierra College; president of Southern Missionary College; Dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary; Chairperson of the Ellen G. White Estate and missionary to China
Dr. Leona G. Running – first female linguist and Bible scholar at Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary and first female president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research
Homer Russell Salisbury – American professor, minister and missionary who founded Duncombe Hall College, taught at Claremont Union College; also former president of the South England Conference and Indian Union Mission. Killed when the SS Persia was sunk by a German submarine, during World War I.
John Luis Shaw – educator; missionary and treasurer

Literature

Anna L. Colcord – American writer and editor
Ray Garton – horror novelist raised Adventist; credits his interest in horror to a reaction to the beasts in Bible prophecy
Hesba Fay Brinsmead – children's author
Nathan Brown – author and editor of Signs Publishing Company
Candy Carson – African American author; philanthropist and wife of Ben Carson
Diran Chrakian – Armenian poet, writer, painter, teacher, and victim of the Armenian genocide
Roswell F. Cottrell – American writer; hymnist; poet; counselor, and preacher
Clifford Goldstein – Jewish-American author and editor
Arthur S. Maxwell – known as Uncle Arthur, author of the Bedtime Stories series, and The Bible Story set of books, among 112 books
Roger Morneau – author on faith and prayer
Christopher Mwashinga – author and poet, writes in English and Kiswahili
Andrew Nelson – missionary and linguist
Cameron Slater – controversial blogger and editor of New Zealand Truth
Annie R. Smith – wrote 12 hymns and four poems
Steven Spruill – novelist
Standish brothers, Colin D. and Russell R. – identical twin authors

Movies, television, and radio

Terry Benedict - American film producer who created The Conscientious Objector and co-produced Hacksaw Ridge about Desmond Doss
Fretzie Bercede – Filipino/Chinese actress, television personality, and former reality show contestant; 3rd placer of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010
Grigoriy Dobrygin – Russian film and theatre actor; director, and producer
DeVon Franklin – American producer, author and motivational speaker
Antoinette Hertsenberg – Dutch actress and TV presenter, wife of Niko Koffeman, a politician who belongs to Party for the Animals
Darwood Kaye – former Our Gang actor who spent his adult life as a pastor
Cesar Montano – multi-awarded Filipino actor, film producer/director; game show host & singer; Chief Operating Officer of the Tourism Promotions Board
Cid Moreira – Brazilian journalist and TV presenter
Nǃxau ǂToma – starred as a Kalahari Bushman in the films The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Gods Must Be Crazy 2, Crazy Safari, Crazy in Hong Kong, and The Gods Must Be Funny in China; converted in later life
Utica Queen – American drag queen and contestant on Rupaul's Drag Race

Painters, illustrators and sculptors

Harry Anderson – American painter and illustrator whose clients were American Airlines, The American Magazine, Buster Brown Shoes, Coca-Cola, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Cream of Wheat, Esso, Ford, Good Housekeeping, Humble Oil, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Ladies' Home Journal, Massachusetts Mutual, Ovaltine, Redbook, Review and Herald Publishing Association, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Saturday Evening Post, Woman's Home Companion, and Wyeth; won many award's and also was elected to the Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1994
Luis Germán Cajiga – Puerto Rican painter, linocutter, and silk-screen printer
Alan Collins – American sculptor and art professor at Atlantic Union College, Andrews University and La Sierra University
Greg Constantine – Canadian-American painter and illustrator and retired art professor at Andrews University
Shirley Ardell Mason – painter and art teacher who was known as Sybil and had Dissociative identity disorder

Singers, songwriters, musicians, and conductors

Rose May Alaba - Austrian singer, songwriter, recording artist and sister of David Alaba
Herbert Blomstedt – Swedish conductor for the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor for the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, conductor for the Oslo Philharmonic, conductor for the Staatskapelle Dresden, conductor for the Danish Radio Orchestra, music director for the San Francisco Symphony, music director for the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and music director for the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Charmaine Carrasco - American Christian pop musician
Committed – winner of the second season of NBC's The Sing-Off
Del Delker – American contralto sacred music female vocalist who sang on the Voice of Prophecy
Roy Drusky - American Country music singer, songwriter producer, actor and disc jockey
Manuel Escórcio – South African tenor who sang for the Cape Town City Opera
Anna German – famous Polish singer
Heritage Singers – American gospel group founded by Max and Lucy Mace
Wayne Hooper – Musical Director for Voice of Prophecy radio program; composer; baritone
The Isley Brothers – Grammy Award-winning American musical group consisting of brothers Ron and Ernie Isley
Iyaz – R&B singer, rapper and songwriter; born Keidran Jones of the Virgin Islands; grew up in the church and still attends from time to time
King's Heralds – American male gospel music quartet
Little Richard – former singer-songwriter and musician of Rock and roll
Sunny Liu – minister and singing evangelist
Joe Lutcher – American R&B saxophonist and bandleader who abandoned his musical career and witnessed to Little Richard
Hugh Martin – American theater and film composer; also accompanist for Del Delker
NOTA – winner of the first season of NBC's The Sing-Off
Kevin Olusola – cellist and beatboxer, member of Grammy Award-winning a cappella group Pentatonix, winners of third season of NBC's The Sing-Of
Wintley Phipps – singer, songwriter, ordained pastor
Tyler Rand - American arts executive
Salt – American rapper & songwriter who was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church on a mission trip in Ethiopia with Oakwood College.
Take 6 – American a cappella gospel music sextet
Rozonda Thomas – singer-songwriter; dancer; actress; television personality and model
Sverre Valen – Norwegian choir conductor
Davido – Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer; his father Adedeji Adeleke, Nigerian Billionaire, business magnate, founder and president of Adeleke University is a devout Seventh-Day Adventist

Business

E. G. Fulton – Canadian-American businessperson and writer
Will Keith Kellogg – American industrialist who was the co-inventor of cornflakes with brother John Harvey Kellogg; philanthropist who founded the Fellowship Corporation, The Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Child Welfare Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center, and Ann J. Kellogg School
Almeda Lambert – American cookbook writer and businessperson
Eric Rajah - Co-founder of A Better World
Dale E. Twomley – American businessman, former president of Worthington Foods, educator and author

Law

James Alexander Chiles – African American lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court against Chesapeake and Ohio Railway for desegregation of railroad coaches
Daniel Nsereko – International Criminal Court judge

Pioneers

J. N. Andrews – first Seventh-day Adventist missionary; minister; writer; editor of the Adventist Review and 3rd President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Joseph Bates – seaman; founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; wrote a tract on the seventh-day Sabbath which convinced James and Ellen White to start observing it, and minister
Goodloe Harper Bell – teacher at first Seventh-day Adventist school
Hiram Edson – evangelist who introduced sanctuary doctrine and started first Seventh-day Adventist press
Stephen N. Haskell – evangelist; missionary; author; editor; president of the New England Conference, president of the California Conference and president of the Maine Conference
J. N. Loughborough – early Seventh-day Adventist pastor
Uriah Smith – author; poet; hymn writer; teacher; inventor; engraver, and editor of the Review and Herald
Ellen G. White – a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; had 2,000 visions and dreams from God; wrote articles; pamphlets and books including the Conflict of the Ages series
James Springer White – a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; founder of The Present Truth, and 2nd, 4th, and 6th President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists ; husband of Ellen White

Church administration leaders

Stennett H. Brooks – pastor and President of the Northeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Mikhail P. Kulakov – pastor; social and religious activist; Bible scholar/translator; founder of the International Association of Religious Freedom; founder of the Institute for Bible Translation; founder of the Russian Bible Society and head of the church in the former Soviet Union
Adolf Minck – a prominent leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany during the Nazi era. From 1937 to 1950, he served as president of the Central European Division of the Church. Earlier, he led the Hungarian Union.
Ella Simmons – first woman to be a Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; chair of the Department of Education at Kentucky State University ; Assistant professor and associate dean of the School of Education at the University of Louisville ; Vice President for academic affairs at Oakwood University ; Provost and Vice President for Academic Administration at La Sierra University
James D. Standish – Australian who used to be the communications director, Religious Liberty and Public Affairs for the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists; also former head of news and editorial for Adventist Record
Hendrik Sumendap – Indonesian pastor and former Executive Secretary of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists

Government

Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie – Ghanaian who was Chief Executive Officer of Forestry Commission of Ghana, general secretary of the New Patriotic Party ; and lawyer who died of COVID-19
Sir Patrick Allen ON GCMG CD – eighth Governor-General of Jamaica and former president of the West Indies Union
Sir Silas Atopare - GCL GCMG – seventh Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
Farley Chavez Augustine - Chief Secretary of Tobago
Milly Babalanda - Minister for Presidency of Cabinet of Uganda
Edmund Bartlett - MP of Saint Andrew Eastern ; MP of Saint James East Central ; Minister of Tourism & 2016; Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and Culture ; Parliament of Jamaica and Board of Affiliate Members of the United Nations World Tourism Organization
Roscoe Bartlett – served in Maryland's 6th congressional district/U.S. House of Representatives
Samuel Bosire - High Court of Kenya and Court of Appeal of Kenya judge who was appointed the chairman of the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry
Simeon Bouro – Solomon Islands Ambassador to Cuba since March 2013; member of Solomon Islands National Parliament
Percival Austin Bramble – Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies
William Henry Bramble – first Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies
Ronald Brisé – Commissioner for the Florida Public Service Commission and former representative in the Florida House of Representatives from the 108th district
Sir James Carlisle GCMG – second Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda ; dentist; member of the Royal Air Force; chairman of the National park authority;
Ben Carson – former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; author; 2016 Republican candidate for president; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Nelson Castro – New York State Assemblyman, from the 86th district,
Ret Chol – former South Sudanese politician
Cari M. Dominguez – senior of human resources at Bank of America; formerly worked at the United States Department of Labor as Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards ; Director at Spencer Stuart ; Partner at Heidrick & Struggles ; Principal at Dominguez and Associates ; 12th Chairman of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ; Board member of ManpowerGroup ; Board of Director for International Women's Forum; Hispanic Business Roundtable; Founder of Olney Adventist Preparatory School in Olney, Maryland, and the current Senior vice president for human resources for Loma Linda University and Loma Linda University Medical Center
Kim Gangte – member of parliament in India ; educator & human right activist
James E. Graves Jr. - Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court ; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Philip Greaves - 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados ; Acting Governor-General of Barbados
Joachim Henry - Senate of Saint Lucia ; MP for Castries South East ; Minister for Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment
Hakainde Hichilema – Seventh President of Zambia, businessman and husband of Mutinta Hichilema
Lawrence Hislop - Senator of Trinidad and Tobago
Andrew Holness – tenth and twelfth Prime Minister of Jamaica, ; Leader of the Opposition (Jamaica)
Okezie Ikpeazu – Nigerian politician, ninth Governor of Abia State, husband of Nkechi Ikpeazu
Judith Jones-Morgan - former Attorney general of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Guy Joseph - MP for Castries South East ; Minister for Communications, Works, Transport and Public Utilities ; Minister for Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation
Samson Kisekka – fifth Prime Minister of Uganda, ; fifth Vice President of Uganda ; physician; agriculturalist; businessman; diplomat and writer
Niko Koffeman – Dutch politician who belongs to Party for the Animals and animal rights activist, husband of actress/TV presenter Antoinette Hertsenberg
Jioji Konrote – President of Fiji, ; Fiji High Commissioner to Australia ; former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations; retired Major-General in Fiji armed forces; former Force Commander of the United Nations interim force in Lebanon; former Ambassador Pleniopotentiary to Singapore, and former Minister of Employment, Labour Relations and Productivity
Princess Lawes - Jamaican MP of Saint Ann North Western.
Sheila Jackson Lee – U.S. Representative, 18th congressional district of Texas
Gordon Darcy Lilo – former Prime Minister of Solomon Islands
David Maraga - High Court of Kenya ; Court of Appeal of Kenya ; 14th Chief Justice of Kenya and Supreme Court of Kenya
James Marape – eight Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
Greg Mathis - retired Michigan 36th District Court judge and reality courtroom show judge
Eunice Michiles – Brazilian senator
Floyd Morris – Jamaica's first blind senator, Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, twelfth president of the Senate of Jamaica and author
Phelekezela Mphoko – Zimbabwean businessman, former diplomat, former military commander, and Vice President of Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe
Rose Namayanja – Ugandan lawyer; columnist; author; security sector manager and politician
John Nkomo – Zimbabwean politician
Samuel Sipepa Nkomo – Zimbabwe Minister of Water Resources Development and Management
Manuel Noriega – dictator of Panama who joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church
George Nga Ntafu – Malawian statesman, former Cabinet Minister, and Malawi Parliament Chief Whip
Ron Oden – African American former openly gay 19th Mayor of Palm Springs and former ordained minister
Sam Ongeri – Kenyan Member of Parliament for Nyaribari Masaba Constituency, Cabinet Minister for Technical and Vocational Education, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kisii County senator ; professor and physician
Harold Bud Otis – former president of Review and Herald Publishing Association and president of Frederick County, Maryland
Alex Otti - tenth Governor of Abia State
Jerry Pettis – member of the U.S. House of Representatives, who represented California's 33rd Congressional District and 37th Congressional District
Shirley Neil Pettis – member of the U.S. House of Representatives, who represented California's 37th Congressional District
Sir Lynden Pindling NH KCMG JP PC - 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas ; 2nd Premier of the Bahamas ; Parliament of The Bahamas and Minister of Finance of the Bahamas
Sir Job Pomat CMG – Papua New Guinean Speaker of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea
Henry Puna – Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
Ngereteina Puna – teacher; MP for Arutanga-Reureu-Nikaupara ; Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament, and Minister of Education for Geoffrey Henry
Sir John Pundari KBE CMG – Papua New Guinean former Speaker of the National Parliament ; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Women and Youth ; Minister for Lands ; Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Minister for Mining, and Minister for Environment and Conservation
Menissa Rambally - member of the Parliament of Saint Lucia ; Cabinet of Saint Lucia holding multiple positions such as: Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation; Acting Minister of Health, Gender Relations and Family Affairs; Acting Minister for Education, Human Resource Development, Youth and Sports; and Acting Minister for Commerce, Industry and Consumer Affairs. Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation ; Minister for Social Transformation, Culture and Local Government ; Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs
Keith Rowley - seventh Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Raul Ruiz – member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California's 36th congressional district
Gibbs Salika KBE- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea
Desley Scott – Australian politician; member for Electoral district of Woodridge in the Parliament of Queensland, 2001–2015
Derek Sloan – member of the Hastings—Lennox and Addington
Manasseh Sogavare – Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands,,, and ; Leader of the Opposition in Solomon Islands
Sir Louis Straker KCMG - Vice President of the Unity Labour Party; Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines & ; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Trade ; Minister of Transport, Works and Housing
John F. Street – Mayor of the City of Philadelphia
Mana Strickland – Minister of Education of Cook Islands
Robert Lee Stump – served in the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona State Senate ; member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arizona's 3rd Congressional District
Sione Taione – Tongan politician
Hannu Takkula – Finnish politician who was member of Parliament of Finland and member of European Parliament
Marianne Thieme – founder and parliamentary leader of the Dutch animal rights party Animal Party & author
Ronald Sapa Tlau – Indian member for Mizoram in the Rajya Sabha since June 2014
Roman Tmetuchl – Palau governor of Airai; started Palau's first bank and also start a construction company.
Carolyn Harding Votaw – public officeholder in Washington, D.C.; youngest sister of President Warren G. Harding, and missionary to Myanmar
James Ronald Webster – led Anguilla Revolution of 1967; former Chief Minister of Anguilla
Surangel S. Whipps - founder of Surangel and Sons Company; President of the Senate of Palau, ; Speaker of the House
Surangel Whipps Jr. – Senator of Palau ; President of Palau ; CEO and President of Surangel and Sons Company from 1992-2021 and lead it to becoming the largest Palauan owned company.
George A. Williams – served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
Jorge Talbot Zavala – Ecuadorian Representative and Secretary of the Camara de Diputados, Quito, Ecuador; Nomina de Legisladores Nacionales, Archivo Nacional del Ecuador

Scientists, doctors, nurses, and engineers

Phyllis B. Acosta – public health researcher who pioneered nutritional therapy for management of phenylketonuria
Leonard Lee Bailey – world-renowned heart surgeon who transplanted a baboon's heart into a premature-born baby with underdeveloped heart
Lottie Isbell Blake – first SDA Black Physician
Leonard R. Brand – Loma Linda University paleobiologist
Mary E. Britton – physician; educator; journalist; civil rights activist and Suffragist
Ferdinand Budicki II - Croatian engineer, adventurer and motorsports pioneer.
Margaret Caro – first women Dentist on the Register of New Zealand; lecturer; social reformer, and writer
Alexander A. Clerk – Ghanaian-American teacher; psychiatrist; Sleep medicine specialist and the director of the world's first sleep medical clinic at Stanford University Medical Center
Lenna F. Cooper – American dietitian and co-founder of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Winston J. Craig – American registered dietitian and nutrition writer.
Hulda Crooks – American mountaineer, dietitian and vegetarianism activist
Hans Diehl – physician and founder of the Complete Health Improvement Program.
Robert Gentry – nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist, known for his claims that radiohalos provide evidence for a young age of the Earth
Howard Gimbel – Canadian ophthalmologist; senior editor; international speaker; professor at Loma Linda University and associate professor at University of Calgary, has won many awards including the Alberta Order of Excellence and Order of Canada
Audrey Gregory - Jamaican American health care administrator at AdventHealth and former nurse
Frank Jobe – orthopedist and sports medicine physician who worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers ; 26 years as a consultant for the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and Senior PGA Championship and named emeritus physician for the PGA Tour; clinical professor at Keck School of Medicine of USC; inducted into the American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine Hall of Fame, Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame and Shrine of the Eternals; received the Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award; was a World War II veteran who won the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Medical Badge and Glider Badge
Nettie Florence Keller – oldest practicing doctor in the world; feminist; prohibitionist; social reformer and missionary to New Zealand
Daniel H. Kress – Canadian physician and missionary to Australia, England and New Zealand.
Lauretta E. Kress – American physician; wife of Daniel Kress; and missionary to Australia and England.
Jeffrey Kuhlman - White House physician to Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; Florida Hospital Chief Medical Officer and employee of Naval Aerospace Medical Institute.
Anita Mackey – African-american social worker and supercentenarian
Alice Garrett Marsh – dietitian and vegetarianism activist
Frank Lewis Marsh – creationist and the first Adventist to earn a doctoral degree in biology
Ora Kress Mason – American nurse and physician; and daughter of Daniel and Lauretta Kress.
George McCready Price – missionary and leading early creationist
Ruth Janetta Temple – first African American doctor in California and opened first medical clinic in Los Angeles
Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi – Japanese surgeon in the Imperial Japanese Army
Archibald W. Truman – physician and vegetarianism activist
Walter Veith – South African zoologist, author, creationist and end times lecturer
Kathleen Keen Zolber - American president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Sports

Gretchen Abaniel – Filipino professional boxer who won the Women's International Boxing Association Minimumweight Title; Women's International Boxing Federation Minimumweight Title; Global Boxing Union Minimumweight Title; WIBA Intercontinental Minimumweight Title; WBC International Minimumweight Title and a contestant on The Amazing Race Philippines 2
David Alaba – Austrian association football player and has a sister Rose May Alaba
Luis Aponte – retired Venezuelan baseball player
Ed Correa – retired Puerto Rican Major League Baseball pitcher
Grace Daley – retired African American Women's National Basketball Association basketball player
Devaun DeGraff – retired Bermudian association football player
Jimmy Haarhoff – retired British association football player
Priscah Jeptoo – Kenyan Marathon runner, Olympic and world medalist; winner of the 2013 London Marathon and 2013 New York City Marathon, and founder of Better Living Marathon
Abel Kirui – Kenyan marathon runner, two-time world champion, Olympic medalist, 2016 Chicago Marathon winner, and founder of Better Living Marathon
Elijah Lagat – Kenyan marathon runner, winner of the 1997 Berlin Marathon, 1998 Prague Marathon and 2000 Boston Marathon
Ljiljana Ljubisic – Canadian who won gold medal in discus and bronze in shot at the 1992 Summer Paralympics & won bronze in the same events at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Germaine Mason - Jamaican who was an Olympic medalist high jumper
Archie Moore – American professional boxer
Amos Tirop Matui – Kenyan marathon runner, winner of the 2005 Singapore Marathon, 2009 Country Music Marathon and Hamburg Half Marathon, and founder of Better Living Marathon.
Vitor Ressurreição – Brazilian association football goalkeeper
Carlos Roa – retired Argentine association football goalkeeper
Andrea Silenzi – retired Italian association football player
Davion Taylor - African American linebacker in the National Football League
Johan Vonlanthen - retired Colombian association football winger

Theologians, ministers and evangelists

M. L. Andreasen – theologian, protested against the book Questions on Doctrine, and was influential in "historic Adventism"
Samuele Bacchiocchi – theologian and author who wrote From Sabbath to Sunday, based on his study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, at which he is the only non-Catholic to have enrolled
Bryan W. Ball – theologian; academic; author; teacher; former principal of Avondale College, and former president of South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
Doug Batchelor - pastor; evangelist and president of Amazing Facts
John Burden – minister; administrator, and medical missionary to Australia
Edwin Butz – pastor and missionary to Australia and Tonga
Arthur Carscallen – pastor; administrator; linguist; publisher, and missionary to Kenya
John Carter – pastor; evangelist, and founder of The Carter Report
E. E. Cleveland – pastor; evangelist; civil rights leader; author, and teacher at Oakwood College
Raymond Cottrell – theologian; teacher; writer; editor; associate editor of the Adventist Review and the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, and missionary to China
Richard M. Davidson – Old Testament scholar, and author of Flame of Yahweh
Herbert E. Douglass – American theologian who was president of Atlantic Union College ; associate editor of Adventist Review ; associate book editor and vice-president for Editorial Development at Pacific Press Publishing Association ; president of Weimar Institute ; vice-president for philanthropy at Adventist Heritage Ministry, and consultant for Amazing Facts
Jon Dybdahl – theologian and college administrator
Henry Feyerabend – Canadian evangelist; singer, and author
Mark Finley – pastor; evangelist and 2nd Speaker/Director of It Is Written 1991–2004
Desmond Ford – Australian pastor fired for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the church
Le Roy Froom – pastor; scholar and historian, one of the leading Adventist apologists of his time
Paul A. Gordon – former director of the Ellen G. White Estate
Gerhard Hasel – theologian; Professor of Old Testament & Biblical Theology; Dean at Theological Seminary at Andrews University, his childhood experience in Nazi Germany are recounted in the book A Thousand Shall Fall
Edward Heppenstall – theologian and Bible scholar
Edward Hilliard – pastor and missionary to Australia and Tonga
John F. Huenergardt – pastor; teacher; administrator, and missionary
Merritt Kellogg – doctor; pastor and missionary to Australia; Niue; Pitcairn; Samoa, and Tonga
George R. Knight – historian, author, educator, theologian
Väinö Kohtanen – Finnish pioneer, evangelist, college president and conference president in Finland in the first half of the 20th century
Hans Karl LaRondelle – theologian and author
John G. Matteson – Danish American; minister; evangelist; teacher; missionary to Denmark and Norway; musician; editor, and publisher
Andrew Nelson – scholar of East Asian languages and literature and missionary to Japan
Dwight Nelson – pastor at Andrews University, now retired.
Francis D. Nichol – apologist, authored a classic defense of Ellen White; editor of Review and Herald, now Adventist Review, ; supervising editor of the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary.
James R. Nix – Director of the Ellen G. White Estate
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana – pastor; administrator, and participant in Rwandan genocide
Robert W. Olson – former director of the Ellen G. White Estate
Arthur Patrick – theologian; teacher; pastor; evangelist; administer, and historian at Avondale College
Jon Paulien – leading expert on the Book of Revelation
Richard Rice – developed the "open theism" understanding of God
H. M. S. Richards – poet, evangelist; founder and 1st Speaker/Director of Voice of Prophecy; pioneer in religious radio broadcasting; the H. M. S. Richards Divinity School at La Sierra University is named in his honor
Ángel Manuel Rodríguez – pastor; professor; theologian, and former director of the Biblical Research Institute
Samir Selmanovic – pastor and author
George Vandeman – popular evangelist who founded It Is Written
Alfred Vaucher – French theologian; church historian and bibliographer
Morris Venden – proponent of salvation and sanctification by faith alone, a strong supporter of the Pillars of Seventh-day Adventism including the investigative judgment, known for his parables and humor.
Juan Carlos Viera – former director of the Ellen G. White Estate
Arthur L. White – former director of the Ellen G. White Estate; son of William C. White and grandson of Ellen G. White
William C. White – former director of the Ellen G. White Estate and son of Ellen G. White
Benjamin G. Wilkinson – theologian whose writings influenced the American fundamentalist King-James-Only Movement
Kenneth H. Wood – pastor; author; editor of Adventist Review; missionary to China, and Chairman of the Ellen G. White Estate
Norman Young – New Testament scholar

Military

Admiral Barry Black – 2nd African American Seventh-day Adventist to become chaplain in U.S. Navy Reserve; Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy and first African American Chaplain of the United States Senate
Harlon Block – one of the six U.S. Marines captured in the famous photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima; appears on the right of the photo, holding the base of the flagpole; won a Purple Heart and other military awards
Desmond Doss – conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor from President Harry S. Truman and subject of the Hollywood biopic Hacksaw Ridge
Jovie Espenido – Police Chief Inspector of Philippine National Police in the Philippines under President Duterte's war against drugs program
Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana – Solomon Islanders who rescued the surviving crew of the sunken United States boat PT-109, including its commander, future U.S. president John F. Kennedy, during the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II; were educated at Adventist missionary schools
Bo Mya – Karen rebel leader from Myanmar
Brigadier General Loree Sutton – American who served in the United States Army and politician
Alois Vocásek – last surviving Czechoslovak veteran of World War I and was the oldest member in the church in the Czech Republic
Gabrielle Weidner – Dutch resistance fighter who died of malnutrition at a Nazi concentration camp & sister of Johan Hendrik Weidner
Johan Hendrik Weidner – organized the Dutch-Paris underground network to coordinate the escapes of more than 1,000 people from Nazi-occupied France; later emigrated to the United States and operated a chain of health-food stores
Ellsworth Wareham - was an American cardiothoracic surgeon, centenarian and a World War II navy veteran.

Other

Johnny Barnes – a Bermuda institution mentioned him in guidebooks and profiled him in two documentary films
Lindy Chamberlain – Australian Adventist famous for being wrongfully convicted of the murder of her daughter Azaria at Uluru; it was later shown that a dingo took Lindy's baby and was the subject of the film Evil Angels
Michael Chamberlain – pastor from Australia falsely accused of murdering his daughter Azaria and was the subject in the film Evil Angels
Michał Belina Czechowski – missionary to Italy, Romania, and Switzerland
Queen Mantfombi Dlamini – wife of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
Rosetta Douglass - African-american civil rights activist
S. M. I. Henry – evangelist for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; wrote tracts, pamphlets and books
Mutinta Hichilema - First Lady of Zambia as wife of Hakainde Hichilema
Albert Horsley – miner who murdered former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg
Nkechi Ikpeazu – Nigerian charities worker; founder of Vicar Hope Foundation and wife of Okezie Ikpeazu
Jon Johanson – Australian aviator who flew around the world three times, in 1995, 1996, and 2000 which he flew over the North Pole and he flew to the South Pole in 2003
Louise Little – Grenadian-American activist and mother of Malcolm X
Irene Morgan – African-American who refused to surrender her bus seat and was taken to court, preceding the famous Rosa Parks case
Barbara O'Neill – Australian naturopath who, in 2019, was banned indefinitely from providing any health service or education for her role in providing dangerous health advice.
Evora Bucknum Perkins – American educator, cookbook writer, and missionary
Gloria Salii of Palau
Sandra Seifert – Filipino/German fashion model who won Miss Earth-Air at the Miss Earth 2009 pageant
John Tay – Missionary to Fiji and Pitcairn
David Trim - Historian, archivist and educator
Lynne Waihee – former First Lady of Hawaii as wife of the former Governor John D. Waihe'e III

Former baptized members and people raised

Anthony B – Jamaican deejay and member of the Rastafari movement
Les Balsiger – belonged to a Seventh-day Adventist Church that was disfellowshipped for firing their minister
Joseph R. Bartlett – former member of the Maryland House of Delegates who was raised Seventh-day Adventist, and son of Roscoe Bartlett
Jungkook – idol, BTS member raised by an Adventist mother
Ryan J. Bell – former pastor who became an atheist
Wayne Bent – former pastor who founded Lord Our Righteousness Church
Usain Bolt – Jamaican Olympic sprinter who competed in three Summer Olympics, winning eight gold medals; raised Seventh-day Adventist by his mother
Nana Kwaku Bonsam – Ghanaian witch doctor and fetish priest
Robert Brinsmead – edited Present Truth Magazine
Joyce Bryant – African-American singer/dancer, and former Seventh-day Adventist
D. M. Canright – pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen White
Bill Chambers – Australian country singer
Kasey Chambers – Australian country singer/songwriter and daughter of Bill Chambers who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Nash Chambers – Australian country singer and son of Bill Chambers who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Ludwig R. Conradi – missionary and evangelist
Daniel Cooper – New Zealand child murderer and illegal abortionist who was disfellowshipped
Heidi Cruz – wife of Ted Cruz; former employee for President George W. Bush; bank employee, and raised Seventh-day Adventist by her parents
Kat Von D – tattoo artist; model; musician; author; entrepreneur; and television personality and raised Seventh-day Adventist by her parents
Clifton Davis – former Seventh-day Adventist pastor; songwriter; singer and actor
Clive Doyle - Branch Davidian who had been raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Livingstone Fagan - British african who left the Seventh-day Adventist Church and joined the Branch Davidians
Luke Ford – Australian/American writer; blogger; and former pornography gossip columnist
Muma Gee - Nigerian pop singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by her mother
Vincent Harding – former African American Seventh-day Adventist pastor who became a Mennonite pastor; civil rights author, and associate of Martin Luther King Jr. who wrote the main draft of King's 1967 speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence".
Earle Hilgert - American academic theologian, administrator and librarian
Victor Houteff – Bulgarian who founded the Shepherd's Rod who was disfellowshipped by the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Moses Hull – former pastor who became a Spiritualist lecturer and author
Magic Johnson - African American who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by his mother
Angus T. Jones - American child actor who played Jake Harper in Two and a Half Men
John Harvey Kellogg – medical doctor who was disfellowshipped, co-founder of cornflakes with brother Will Keith Kellogg and subject of the Hollywood film The Road to Wellville
Hamaas Abdul Khaalis – Islamic leader who led the 1977 Hanafi Siege
David Koresh – American leader of the Branch Davidians who was disfellowshiped by the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Bob Lanier - African American National Basketball Association player who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by his mother
Sandra Lee - American celebrity chef and author raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Zhang Lingsheng – helped start the True Jesus Church
Luciano – Jamaican roots reggae singer
Lee Boyd Malvo – former Seventh-day Adventist and convicted murderer who was connected to the D.C. sniper attacks in the Washington metropolitan area and converted to Islam
Jesse Martin – boy sailor; his parents were Adventists
Wayne Martin - American who left the Seventh-day Adventist Church and joined the Branch Davidians
Kenneth Chi McBride – raised Seventh-day Adventist by his parents; singer-songwriter & actor
Brian McKnight – raised Seventh-day Adventist by his parents; Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter;producer; radio host, and 2009 The Celebrity Apprentice contestant
Ronald Numbers – science historian and author of The Creationists, and former Adventist lecturer
David Pendleton – former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and 2002 candidate for lieutenant governor, now a Catholic
T. M. Preble – wrote articles against the Seventh-day Sabbath in The World's Crisis and a book First-Day Sabbath
Forrest Preston – American billionaire who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the founder of Life Care Centers of America
Cherie Priest – former Seventh-day Adventist, American novelist and blogger
Prince – raised in the church, later converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses
Mark "Chopper" Read – notorious Australian ex-criminal and author of real and fictional crime books; claims in his books to have been raised Adventist by a strictly devout mother
Walter T. Rea – former pastor for his criticisms of the inspiration of Ellen G. White; author of The White Lie
Busta Rhymes – American rapper, producer and actor, raised in Brooklyn by Seventh-day Adventist Jamaican-immigrant parents; later converted to Islam
Ruth Riddle - Canadian Branch Davidian who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Terrence Roberts – former member who was one of the nine African American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School
Benjamin Roden – religious leader and organizer of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church, who was disfellowshipped
Lois Roden – wife of Benjamin Roden and president of the Branch Davidians after her husband's death
G. G. Rupert – former American Seventh-day Adventist minister who founded Independent Church of God
Paul Rusesabagina – internationally honored for saving 1,268 civilians during the Rwandan genocide; the subject of 2004 film Hotel Rwanda; describes himself as a "lapsed Adventist" in his autobiography
Lena Sadler – American surgeon and obstetrician who was the wife of William S. Sadler
William S. Sadler – American surgeon; self trained psychiatrist and author who helped publish The Urantia Book
Ahn Sahng-hong – Korean pastor and founder of Witnesses of Jesus Church of God
Dumelang Saleshando – Botswanan politician raised Seventh-day Adventist by his mother, now is member of an unspecified church
Daren Sammy - St. Lucian cricketer who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by his parents
Augusto César Sandino – Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician, cooperativist, member of Adventist church in his youth, adopted vegetarianism due to church teachings
Steve Schneider - American Branch Davidian who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by his parents
Vladimir Shelkov – former Ukrainian Seventh-day Adventist minister and leader of the True and Free Seventh-day Adventists
Sirhan Sirhan – Palestinian convicted of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Bette Smith - African-american soul, rock and blues singer who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by her parents.
Heinz Spanknöbel – former German Seventh-day Adventist minister and led the pro Nazi Friends of New Germany
Mathew Staver – former American Seventh-day Adventist pastor who became a Southern Baptist; professor and lawyer; also founding member and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and dean at Liberty University
Sean Taylor – former African American member who played for the Washington Redskins and was murdered
Roch Thériault - Canadian who founded the Ant Hill Kids and was disfellowshipped by the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Iya Villania – Filipina host, actress and performer, wife of Drew Arellano
Paul Wei – Chinese evangelist of the True Jesus Church
Marcus Wesson - African American mass murderer and child rapist who was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by his mother
Richard Wright – author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist family
Malcolm X – American Muslim minister and human rights activist, raised Adventist by his mother