Harold S. Bender, professor of theology at Goshen College
David Bergen, Giller Prize winning author
JC Chasez, solo artist and singer for NSYNC
Christopher Dock, educator
Howard Dyck, Canadian conductor and broadcaster
Brendan Fehr, actor linked to TV show Roswell
Henry Friesen, endocrinologist who discovered Prolactin
Johann Funk, early Canadian Mennonite bishop
Joseph Funk, U.S. music teacher and publisher
Owen Gingerich, Smithsonian astronomer
John Goerzen, known in connection to Software in the Public Interest and member of the Board of Trustees of the Mennonite Bethesda Society
Joseph B. Hagey, bishop
Hans Herr, bishop
Jeff Hostetler, NFL quarterback
Julia Kasdorf, poet
Graham Kerr, "The Galloping Gourmet"
Cindy Klassen, five time Olympic medalist
Clayton Kratz, relief worker
Erik Kratz, American professional baseball catcher currently in the San Diego Padres 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
Le Thi Hong Lien, 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
Nguyen Hong Quang, Vice President of the Mennonite Church in Vietnam
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
Miriam Toews, best-selling author, winner of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award
Pierre Widmer, French Mennonite pastor and editor
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
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
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, current Premier of Saskatchewan
Cornelius Wiebe, first Mennonite to serve in the Manitoba legislature
Note: Several Canadian political figures have a Mennonite background. This might be more common in Canada than in most nations. This is perhaps most true in the case of Manitoba, though Saskatchewan and British Columbia also have significant Mennonites in politics. As this more concerns "connected to" this may include people who did not stay committed to the Mennonites.
This is mostly people whose Mennonite ancestry or upbringing is important to them, but who are not currently Mennonite. 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
John Denver, folk singer-songwriter
Dwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). Eisenhowers direct ancestor, Hans Nicol Eisenhauer, was a Mennonite who settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1741.
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's 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
George Armstrong Custer, erroneously identified as coming from Mennonite background by biographer Milo Milton Quaife.
