List of Baháʼís
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The following list sets down the name of each member of the Baháʼí Faith who is the subject of a Wikipedia article. For another index of individual Baháʼís with Wikipedia articles, see Category:Bahá'ís by nationality.
Family of Baháʼu'lláh
- Ásíyih Khánum - known by her title Navváb
Royalty
- Malietoa Tanumafili II (r. 1962–2007) - chieftain of the government of Samoa.[1]
- Marie of Romania (r. 1914–1927) - queen of Romania.[2]
Artists
Bands
- Common Market - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest.[3]
- Seals and Crofts - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s.[4]
Musicians
- Mirza Abdollah - also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history
- Randy Armstrong[5] - American musician and composer
- Cindy Blackman[6] - American jazz and rock drummer
- Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff[7] - folk music performers
- Celeste Buckingham - singer/songwriter
- Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer
- Vic Damone[8] - American singer and entertainer
- Khalil Fong[9] - American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
- Hazel Scott[10]- American pianist and activist
- Russell Garcia[11] - motion picture composer
- Dizzy Gillespie[12] - American jazz trumpeter
- Andy Grammer - American singer-songwriter
- Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music[13]
- Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
- Jack Lenz[14] - Canadian composer
- Kevin Locke - Lakota musician and dancer
- Mike Longo[15] - American jazz pianist
- James Moody[16] - American jazz saxophone and flute player
- KC Porter[17] - American multi-Grammy winning producer
- Rachael Price - jazz vocalist[dead link][18]
- Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer[19]
- Flora Purim[20] - Brazilian American jazz singer
- Dan Seals[21] - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
- Tierney Sutton[22] - American jazz singer
- Louie Shelton[23] - American jazz guitarist and producer
- Charles Wolcott[24] - pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies
- J. B. Eckl[25]- songwriter, producer, recording artist
- Ryan Abeo[26] - American singer/songwriter from Kentucky who performs under the moniker RA Scion.
- Huening Kai - member of Tomorrow X Together
- Huening Bahiyyih - member of Kep1er
Broadcasters
- Susan Audé - news anchor at WIS, Columbia, South Carolina
Filmmakers
- Mark Bamford - writer, director (Cape of Good Hope)
- Mary Darling - producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
- Clark Donnelly - producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
- Phil Lucas - Native American filmmaker
- Harold Lee Tichenor - film producer
Actors
- Penn Badgley[27] - American movie and television actor (Gossip Girl, You)
- Justin Baldoni[28] - American movie actor and director (Everwood, Jane the Virgin)
- Earl Cameron[29] (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
- Omid Djalili[30] - English comedian and actor
- Stu Gilliam - American movie actor and stand-up and TV comedian
- Barbara Hale[31] - American Emmy Award winning actress (Perry Mason)
- Lois Hall - American movie and television actress
- Lloyd Haynes - American actor and television writer
- Jeremy Iversen[32] - American actor and writer
- Eva LaRue[33] - American movie and television actress (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
- Carole Lombard[34] - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Inder Manocha[35] - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
- Julie Mitchum[36] - American Actress
- Pardis Parker[37] - Canadian comedian
- Alex Rocco[38] - Emmy Award winning actor (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
- Rehana Sultan - Indian Actress
- Valeska Surratt[39] - Silent Film Actress
- Travis Van Winkle[40] - American actor (The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie)
- O. Z. Whitehead[41] - American character actor (The Grapes of Wrath, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Lion In Winter)
- Rainn Wilson[42] - American movie and television actor (The Office, Six Feet Under)
Architects
- Hossein Amanat[43] (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Baháʼí Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
- Louis Bourgeois[44] (House of Worship of Wilmette)
- Siamak Hariri (Baháʼí Temple of South America, House of Worship of South America)
- William Sutherland Maxwell (Central Tower of the Château Frontenac; he was also a Hand of the Cause)
- Fariborz Sahba[45] (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)
Writers
- Burl Barer[46] - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Baháʼí oriented articles
- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff[7] - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
- André Brugiroux[47] - traveller and author
- Barry Crump[48] - New Zealand comic author
- Margaret Danner - African-American poet
- Rod Duncan - author of the Gaslight series
- William S. Hatcher[49] - mathematician, philosopher, educator
- Robert Hayden[50] - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978
- Alain LeRoy Locke[51] - author of books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
- Guy Murchie[52] - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani - Iranian writer
- Arvid Nelson[53] - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
- Margaret Bloodgood Peeke[54] - traveler, lecturer, author
- Wellesley Tudor Pole[55] - British writer
- Jeffrey Reddick - creator of the Final Destination series
- Holiday Reinhorn - writer[56]
- Gholamreza Rouhani - poet and satirist[57][better source needed]
- William Sears[58] - author of multiple books, an Emmy award-winning sportscaster, and host of a children's television program "In the Park."
- Farah Sprague - Qajar Iranian-born American lecturer, and writer
- Adib Taherzadeh[59] - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts
- Sverre Holmsen - Swedish writer, environmentalist, traveller to Tahiti
Other artists
- Alice Pike Barney - portrait artist
- Laura Clifford Barney - philanthropist
- Hussein Bikar[60] - Egyptian painter
- Amelia Collins - philanthropist
- Sky Glabush[61] - Painter
- Bernard Leach[62] - potter
- Anis Mojgani[63] - spoken-word poet
- Tom Morey[64] - musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
- Fayard Nicholas[65] - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
- Rae Perlin (1910–2006) - artist
- Mishkín-Qalam[66] - calligrapher
- Otto Rogers[67] - Painter
- Juliet Thompson - portrait artist
- Mark Tobey[68] - painter
- Gwen Wakeling[69] - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer
Athletes
- Nelson Évora[70] - Portuguese Olympic gold medalist (Beijing, 2008) and gold medalist at the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump[71]
- Cathy Freeman - Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner
- Matthew W. Bullock - American football player
- Khalil Greene[72] - American professional baseball player
- David Krummenacker[73] - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
- Pellom McDaniels - American professional gridiron football player
- Luke McPharlin[74] - Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers
Business
- Thornton Chase - first Baháʼí of the West, was a businessman when he joined the religion in 1894/5.[75]
- Mildred Mottahedeh - founder of Mottahedeh & Company
- Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966), American billionaire, founder of Paylocity[76]
- Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi[77] - famous Chinese business couple
- Zia Mody - Indian corporate lawyer and businesswoman
Scholarly
Educators
- Dwight W. Allen - American professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group
- Julie Oeming Badiee - American professor, Islamic art historian, educator[78]
- Alessandro Bausani - a leading Islamic studies scholar in Italy, professor Naples, Rome
- Ali Murad Davudi (1922–1979?) - Iranian Baháʼí who was a member of the national governing body of the Baháʼís in Iran. He was a professor at Tehran University in the philosophy department. In 1979, during a wave of persecution toward Baháʼís, he was kidnapped and has been presumed a victim of state execution.[79]
- Donna Denizé[80] - American poet and award-winning teacher
- Mae C. Hawes[81] - African-American professor, settlement worker, literacy educator
- Phoebe Hearst[82] - first woman Regent of the University of California
- Auguste-Henri Forel[83] - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan - Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys. Hand of the Cause.
- Jagdish Gandhi[84] - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
- Firuz Kazemzadeh[85] - historian, member of the National Spiritual Assembly
- Patricia Locke - Lakota Native American educator
- Dr. Pellom McDaniels - professor, researcher, inventor, author, historian, curator at Emory University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Founder of Arts For Smarts Foundation.
- Joseph Watson[86] - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin
- Todd Lawson - Emeritus Professor of Islamic thought at the University of Toronto.
Journalists
- Robert Sengstacke Abbott[87] - lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States.
Public service
- David Kelly[88] - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
- Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
- Jacqueline Left Hand Bull[89] - American Sicangu Lakota Health care policy administrator
- Sara Vander Stelt - shook the hand of a president ; former NGO worker
- Layli Miller-Muro[90] - former Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
- Mahmud Jamal[91] - Judge on the Supreme Court of Canada
- Payam Akhavan - prosecutor for United Nations tribunals and law professor
- Robert B. Powers - a prominent police officer in the history of California, during which he co-established one of the earliest training programs for police in matters of race relations.
Scholars (of Baháʼí history, Baháʼí theology, apologetics, etc.)
- Udo Schaefer - A German lawyer and prolific author, specialising in Baháʼí apologetics and theology, notably ethics.
- Moojan Momen - historian specializing in Baháʼí history and theology
- Peter Smith - historian and sociologist, author of a much-cited academic study of Baháʼí history, The Babi and Bahaʼi Religions: From Messianic Shiʻism to a World Religion.[92]
- Franklin Lewis - author and translator in Iranian studies, who has also published literary analyses of the works of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh.
- Robert Stockman - historian, theologian, apologist and biographer, noted especially for works on the Baháʼí community in North America.
- Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl (Persian language: ميرزا أبوالفضل), or Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání (1844–1914) - foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States.
- ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari (1902 - 1972) - prominent Iranian Baháʼí scholar. He became a Baháʼí in 1927. He was a teacher in one of the Baháʼí schools in Iran, until the schools were closed in 1934. He prepared many compilations of Bahá'í writings, commentaries, apologetic works, and historic studies.
Scientists
- Dr. Ron McNair - physicist and astronaut who died in the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986[93]
- Peter J. Olver - Mathematician[94]
Others
- Leonora Armstrong - Baháʼí pioneer and international traveler[95]
- Richard St. Barbe Baker[96] - English environmentalist
- Lady Blomfield[97] - early Irish-British Baháʼí, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
- Dr Frederick D'Evelyn[98] - first Irish-born Baháʼí
- Helen Clevenger - murdered college student[99]
- Constance Langdon-Davies - among the early British converts to Baháʼí Faith
- Dhabihu'llah Mahrami[100] - wrongfully accused Iranian Baháʼí, found dead in his cell in 2005
- Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan[101] - British hereditary peer
- Nossrat Peseschkian[102] - psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
- Parivash Rohani - Iranian-American Baha'i activist[103]
- Hilda Yen[104] - internationalist, diplomat, aviator
- Lidia Zamenhof[105] - daughter of L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
Other lists
References
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