This is a listing of notable persons who were members of a church in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury, known as an Anglican Communion church. Members of schismatic churches may also be included. Only former Anglicans who left the church in adulthood may be included, with accompanying notice.
Joseph Abbott (clergyman)
Dean Acheson, American statesman
Daniel Dulany Addison
Robert Addison
Spiro Agnew, American statesman
Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
Madeleine Albright, American stateswoman
John Allin
Charles P. Anderson
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), saintly English bishop and scholar, who oversaw the translation of the Authorized Version (or King James Version) of the Bible.
Anne, Princess Royal
Thomas Arnold, schoolmaster
Chester Arthur (1829–1886), 21st President of the United States (1881–85)
Fred Astaire, great American dancer
Jane Austen
W. V. Awdry, clergyman and writer
Anne Ayres
Charles Babbage, mathematician
Ed Bacon, priest of the Episcopal Church
Francis Bacon, lawyer and philosopher
Jacob Bailey, Congregational church preacher who converted
Douglas M. Baker, Jr
Fred Barnes
Isaac Barrow
Diana Butler Bass, author, independent scholar, and church historian
Evan Bayh
Princess Beatrice of York
Canon Gareth Bennett (1929–1987), Anglican priest and academic and critic of the Church of England
Richard Meux Benson
R. J. Berry
James Blair (Virginia)
James Blish, (atheist as an adult, then rejoined the church)
Robert Boyle, natural philosopher
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Thomas Church Brownell
Edmond Browning
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Charles Sumner Burch
Gilbert Burnet
George H. W. Bush, American statesman
Prescott Bush
Joseph Butler
Samuel Butler (1613–1680), author of the religious and political satire Hudibras
Harry F. Byrd
James F. Byrnes (1882–1972), South Carolina politician and U. S. Supreme Court Justice (convert from the Roman Catholic Church)
Cab Calloway, American musician
David Cameron, British politician
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Robert Farrar Capon
George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Owen Chadwick (b. 1916), British academic and historian of Christianity
Saxby Chambliss
Charles, Prince of Wales
Philander Chase
Salmon P. Chase
Don Cherry, hockey player
Christy Clark, Premier Of British Columbia
Thomas M. Clark
Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell
Henry John Cody
Richard Coles
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wallace E. Conkling
James Cook
Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the English Reformation, and martyr
Ander Crenshaw
Alexander Cruden
T. Pelham Dale
George Dallas
Jonathan Myrick Daniels,
Charles Darwin, scientist (later agnostic)
Ann B. Davis
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), President of the Confederate States of America
Cecil B. DeMille, film director
Philip Dick
Benjamin Disraeli (born into a Jewish family, baptized as Anglican at age 12)
Gregory Dix
John Donne (1572–1631), (convert from Catholicism, was ordained as an Anglican; Dean of St Paul's & metaphysical poet)
Marie Dressler, actress
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
T. S. Eliot (1885-1965), poet
Elizabeth I of England, Queen of England and Wales
Elizabeth II (born 1926), Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms since 1952
Duke Ellington, American musician
Madeleine L'Engle
Werner Erhard
Princess Eugenie of York
George Every
Jim Exon
Nigel Farage
Austin Farrer (1904–1968), English theologian, philosopher, and friend of C. S. Lewis
Nicholas Ferrar (1592–1637), Church of England Deacon and leader of the Little Gidding community, Ferrar published the poetry of George Herbert
John Neville Figgis
Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop
Betty Ford
Gerald Ford, American politician
Dave Freudenthal
Accepted Frewen
Alexander Frey
Thomas Gage (clergyman)
Judy Garland (1922–1969), American actress
Alexander Charles Garrett
David Garrick, actor
Lillian Gish
William Gladstone
Barry Goldwater
Hannibal Goodwin
Charles Gore
James Grahame
John Galbraith Graham
Alexander Viets Griswold
Frank Griswold
Chuck Hagel
Jonathan Hagey
Edmond Halley
Diana Reader Harris
William Henry Harrison
Prince Harry
William Dodd Hathaway
Olivia de Havilland
Thomas A. Hendricks
George Herbert (1593–1633), Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Paul Hewson
Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1599–1662), English clergyman and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts
John Hines
Ian Hislop
Peter Hitchens
John Henry Hobart
Canon Percy Holbrook
Robert Hooke
Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican priest and theologian of major importance
Dave Hope (Anglican Mission in America)
John Henry Hopkins
Reverend Robert Alfred Humble
James Otis Sargent Huntington
Carolyn Tanner Irish
Simon Islip
Molly Ivins
Andrea Jaeger
Alphonso Jackson
Katharine Jefferts Schori
Charles Edward Jenkins III
Edward Jenner
Jeffrey John
Lady Bird Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Absalom Jones
Trevor Jones (priest)
Benjamin Jowett
Bernard Judd
Jan Karon
John Keats (1795–1821)
John Keble (1792–1866), poet and churchman
Garrison Keillor
Jackson Kemper
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)
Jack Kingston
Dave Kopay
Ini Kopuria
Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947)
Arthur Lake
William Laud (1573–1645), Archbishop of Canterbury executed during the English Civil War
Timothy Laurence
Alfred Lee
Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III (1756–1818), Revolutionary War officer, Governor of Virginia, eulogist of George Washington, and father of Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), Confederate general
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), atheist as an adult, then rejoined the church
Arthur Lichtenberger
Rod Liddle
Henry Parry Liddon
Blanche Lincoln
Bob Livingston
John Locke (1632–1704)
Adam Loftus
Charles Fuge Lowder
George Lukins
Henry Francis Lyte
John A. Macdonald, convert from Presbyterianism
John Macquarrie
James Madison (1751–1836), fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), the “Father of the Constitution” and the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights
Guglielmo Marconi
Charles Mathias
John Mbiti
John McCain (former, now a practicing Baptist)
Alister McGrath (b. 1953), Northern Irish native theologian, priest, intellectual historian and Christian apologist
Victor McLaglen
John Milbank
Reverend Joseph Miller Congregational Minister who became an Anglican priest
Bernard Mizeki
James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth President of the United States (1817–1825)
Elizabeth Moon
Benjamin Moore (1748–1816)
Edward Morrow
Francis Joseph Mullin, seventh president of Shimer College
John Gardner Murray
John Mason Neale (1818–1866)
Bill Nelson
Ursula Niebuhr
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
Albert Jay Nock
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Sabelo Stanley Ntwasa
Henry Oldenburg
Ashley Olsen
Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk
Harry Oppenheimer, convert from Judaism
George Orwell (1903–1950)
John Ostrander
George Owen
Horatio Parker
Charles William Pearson
Percy Pennybacker
James De Wolf Perry
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921), husband of Elizabeth II (convert from Greek Orthodox)
Autumn Phillips
Mark Phillips
Peter Phillips
Zara Phillips
Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th President of the United States of America
Reverend Jonas Pilling
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), South Carolina Revolutionary War veteran, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and Federalist Party presidential candidate
Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), third Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement
James Ramsay, abolitionist
Michael Ramsey (1904–1988), 100th Archbishop of Canterbury
John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), Virginian Congressman and U. S. Minister to Russia
George Read (1733–1788), signer of the Declaration of Independence from Delaware and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787
Tatum Reed
Martin Rees
George F. Regas
Gene Robinson
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), wife of Franklin Roosevelt and "First Lady of the World"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945), 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, artist
Maria Francesca Rossetti
Sarah, Duchess of York
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist
Samuel Seabury
William Shakespeare
Henry Sherrill
Charles Simeon, leading evangelical
C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet and critic of the Church of England
Christopher Smart
Benjamin B. Smith
Cordwainer Smith
Sophie, Countess of Wessex
David Souter
Diana, Princess of Wales, royal princess
William Archibald Spooner, Oxford academic
Russell Stannard
John Steinbeck (1902–1968), American novelist
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), Anglican clergyman and Anglo-Irish novelist whose best remembered novel is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Ted Stevens
E. W. Swanton, journalist and cricket commentator
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish clergyman, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer known for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub
Stuart Symington
Robert A. Taft
Ethelbert Talbot
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), Anglican bishop in Ireland and devotional writer
Michael Taylor, of Ossett
Zachary Taylor
Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet
R. S. Thomas, Welsh clergyman and poet
Martin Thornton (1915–1986), British priest and spiritual director known for his writings on ascetical theology
Arthur Tooth, Anglican priest noted for Ritualism
Richard Chenevix Trench
Henry St. George Tucker
Daniel S. Tuttle
Desmond Tutu, South African bishop; Archbishop of Cape Town
Millard E. Tydings
John Tyler
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941)
Henry A. Wallace
Keith Ward
George Washington
Sam Waterston
Francis Wharton
William White
George Whitefield
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish dramatist and poet (converted on his deathbed to Roman Catholicism)
John Williams
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1982)
Robin Williams
Rowan Williams
Selina Win Pe
Colin Winter
Rev. Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), diarist and missionary to colonial South Carolina
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats
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