This is a list of people who have been associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They are listed here, at least in part, for their faith or for their role in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It also includes members who left the church.
Niels-Erik Andreasen - President of Andrews University
Delbert Baker - President of Adventist University of Africa
Gordon Bietz - President of Southern Adventist University, former pastor and president of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Bruce N. Cameron, J.D. - Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law at Regent University School of Law
Gary Chartier - legal philosopher and anarchist theorist
Larry Geraty - academic and former president of La Sierra University
Fritz Guy - theologian and former president of La Sierra University
Heather Knight - President of Pacific Union College
Writers, literature, linguists and authors
Ray Garton - horror novelist raised Adventist; credits his interest in horror to a reaction to the beasts in Bible prophecy (see: Seventh-day Adventist eschatology)
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; has published ten books in the area of theology, Adventist history, and practical Christianity
Andrew Nelson - missionary and linguist
Cherie Priest - former Seventh-day Adventist, American novelist and blogger living in Seattle, Washington
Steven Spruill - novelist
Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Adventist church, prolific author, considered a prophet by the church
Bill Diehl Jr. editor of evangelical Adventist magazine Present Truth
Movies, actors, television, and radio
Fretzie Bercede - Filipino actress, television personality, and former reality show contestant; 3rd placer of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010
Clifton Davis - former actor of That's My Mama and Amen
DeVon Franklin - Vice President for production at Columbia Pictures
Angus T. Jones - former child actor; played Jake Harper in Two and a Half Men (2003-2013)
Cesar Montano - a multi-awarded Filipino actor, film producer and film director.
Darwood "Waldo" Kaye - former Our Gang actor who spent his adult life as a pastor
Heather Kuzmich - fashion model and reality show contestant on America's Next Top Model (2007 series)
Kenneth "Chi" McBride - actor and singer-songwriter; known for roles in Boston Public, Pushing Daisies, Hawaii Five-0
Phil McDonald, M.D. - medical analyst for National Basketball Association Television (NBA TV); physician, specializing in sports medicine radiology (2010-)
Nǃxau - starred as a Kalahari Bushman in The Gods Must Be Crazy; converted in later life
André Ramiro - Brazilian actor; played Mathias in the films Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Christopher Mwashinga - published two books of poetry in English and one in Kiswahili
Rob Ridder
Annie R. Smith
Art and music
Harry Anderson - prolific American illustrator whose early works were popular paintings illustrating short stories in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Redbook; later became known for his religious paintings commissioned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Mormons; member of the Illustrators Hall of Fame
Herbert Blomstedt - conductor who does not rehearse on Saturdays due to his Adventist faith
Joyce Bryant - actress and singer
Busta Rhymes (former) - American rapper, producer and actor, raised in Brooklyn by Seventh-day Adventist Jamaican-immigrant parents; later converted to Islam
Kasey Chambers (former) - Australian country singer; left the church in the 1980s because her family did not support the Investigative Judgment doctrine
Fred Cline - film and television animation artist
Committed - winner of the second season of NBC's The Sing-Off, with members Dennis "DJ" Baptiste, Jr., Alain "Tommy" Gervais, Geston Pierre, Robert "Robbie" Pressley Jr., Maurice Staple and Theron "Therry" Thomas
Jerome Fontamillas - Filipino American musician
Muma Gee - Nigerian pop singer-songwriter and actress residing in Port Harcourt
Nathan Greene - artist; his painting "Family of God" hangs prominently at the Loma Linda University Medical Center; "Chief of the Medical Staff" hangs in Florida Hospital Orlando
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
Little Richard (former) - raised in the church; later became a preacher; attends the Ephesus Adventist church in Los Angeles and others; still considers himself an active Adventist still; has been reported as an ordained Adventist minister, although the denomination has denied this, suggesting he may be ordained in another denomination, hence ordained and Adventist; rather than ordained as an Adventist minister
Hugh Martin - American theater and film composer
Brian McKnight - Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, radio host and 2009 Celebrity Apprentice contestant
NOTA - winner of the first season of NBC's The Sing-Off
Vernon Nye (b. 1915) - artist, art professor
Brandon October - South African pop singer-songwriter; rose to fame after being runner-up in the first season of the reality television show Idols; grew up in the Adventist church and regularly sang in church services in Johannesburg and Cape Town; member of a number of Christian music groups within the South African Adventist community, including No Compromise; he featured on their 2001 album Strange
Kevin Olusola - cellist and beatboxer, member of Grammy Award-winning a cappella group Pentatonix
Wintley Phipps - singer, songwriter, ordained pastor
Prince (former) - raised in the church, later converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses
Robert Edwin Seamount - member of The King's Heralds quartet, Second Tenor 1941-1947, 1949-1961; pastor 1961-1964 for churches in the San Juan Islands; public relations for Texas Conference 1969-1974
Virtue - Dove Award-winning gospel recording artists; consists of sisters Ebony Holland, Karima Kibble, and Heather Martin
Will Keith Kellogg - promoted breakfast cereals (particularly corn flakes), and started the Kellogg Company
Dale Twomley - former president of Worthington Foods, Inc.
Mary Ang'awa - High Court of Kenya judge
Justice Samuel Bosire - Appeal Judge of the High Court of Kenya appointed the chairman of the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry by President Mwai Kibaki
James E. Graves, Jr. - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since February 2011
David Maraga - Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya since Oct 19, 2016
Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko - International Criminal Court judge
The Honourable Sir Gibuna Gibbs Salika KBE - Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea
Mathew Staver - former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, American lawyer, academic professor, founding member and Chairman of Liberty Counsel since 1989, and dean of Liberty University School of Law since 2006
This section includes Millerites (followers of William Miller) who did not necessarily become Seventh-day Adventist:
J. N. Andrews - early missionary for the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; often considered first Adventist scholar
Nelson H. Barbour - Millerite pastor
Joseph Bates - a founder of the church; wrote a tract on the seventh-day Sabbath which convinced James and Ellen White to start observing it
Sylvester Bliss - Millerite pastor, editor of The Signs of the Times
Charles Fitch - Millerite evangelist
Joshua (Josiah) Himes - Millerite evangelist and promoter
William Miller - founder of the Millerite movement from which Seventh-day Adventism and other groups emerged
T. M. Preble - Millerite pastor, early Sabbath supporter
Uriah Smith - editor and author of Daniel and the Revelation and other works
Jonas Wendell - Millerite evangelist
Ellen G. White - a founder of the church who is considered by the denomination to have had the biblical gift of prophecy
James White - a founder of the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; husband of Ellen White
See also Category: Adventism
Politics and government
Sir Patrick Allen - Governor-General of Jamaica (2009-present)
Sir Silas Atopare - seventh Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, 1997-2003
Roscoe Bartlett - 6th district representative from Maryland
Simeon Bouro - Solomon Islands Ambassador to Cuba since March 2013; member of Solomon Islands National Parliament, 2001-2006
Percival Austin Bramble - former Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies (1970-1978)
William Henry Bramble - first Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies
Sir James Carlisle - second Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (1993-2007)
Ben Carson - political commentator, 2016 Republican candidate for president, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2017-present) (See also: Science, health and engineering)
Nelson Castro - New York State Assemblyman, 86th District, 2008-present
Phetsile Kholekile Dlamini - Swaziland Minister for Health and Social Welfare, 1996-
Andrew Holness - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 2011-2012, 2016-present; Leader of the Opposition (Jamaica), 2012-
Samson Kisekka - Prime Minister of Uganda, 1986-1991; Vice President of Uganda, 1991-1994
Jioji Konousi Konrote - President of Fiji, 2015- ; Fiji High Commissioner to Australia, 2001-2006; former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations; retired Major-General in Fiji armed forces
Sheila Jackson Lee - U.S. Representative, 18th congressional district of Texas (Houston)
Sherman McNichols - Chief Magistrate, Trinidad and Tobago
Floyd Morris - Jamaican senator and minister of state; president of senate
Dr. George Nga Ntafu - Malawian statesman, former Cabinet Minister, and Malawi Parliament Chief Whip
Sam Ongeri - Kenyan Minister for Education and a Committee member of the Power Sharing between ODM and PNU after post election violence; professor
John Pundari CMG - Papua New Guinean Member of the National Parliament, former Speaker and Deputy Prime Minister, currently Environment Minister
Raul Ruiz - U.S. Congressman from California
Desley Scott - Australian politician; member for Electoral district of Woodridge in the Parliament of Queensland, 2001-present
Manasseh Sogavare - Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, 2000-2001, 2006-2007, and 2014-present; Leader of the Opposition in Solomon Islands, 2007-2010
John F. Street - Mayor of the City of Philadelphia (2000-2008)
Bienvenido V. Tejano - Philippines Ambassador to New Zealand since August 2005; Philippines Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, 1998-2005
Marianne Thieme - founder and parliamentary leader of the Dutch animal rights party Animal Party
Ronald Sapa Tlau - member for Mizoram in the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the parliament of India) since June 2014
Sojourner Truth - African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist of the 19th century
James Ronald Webster - led Anguilla Revolution of 1967; later twice Chief Minister of Anguilla
Jorge Talbot Zavala - Ecuadorian Representative and Secretary of the Camara de Diputados, Quito, Ecuador; Nomina de Legisladores Nacionales 1950-1955, Archivo Nacional del Ecuador, 1950-1955
Tony Zirkle - attorney and repeated candidate for Congress in Indiana, United States
For former United States Adventist politicians see "The Political Graveyard" website.
Science, health and engineering
Leonard L. Bailey - world-renowned heart surgeon who transplanted a baboon's heart into a premature-born baby with underdeveloped heart
Leonard R. Brand - Loma Linda University paleobiologist
Ben Carson - former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, author, 2016 Republican candidate for president, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2017-present)
Robert Gentry - nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist, known for his claims that radiohalos provide evidence for a young age of the Earth
Frank Jobe - orthopedist and sports medicine pioneer
John Harvey Kellogg - prominent medical doctor; later left the church
Will Keith Kellogg - inventor of cornflakes and founder of Kelloggs
Frank Lewis Marsh - creationist and the first Adventist to earn a doctoral degree in biology
George McCready Price - missionary and leading early creationist
Walter Veith - South African zoologist, creationist and end times lecturer
See also Category:Seventh-day Adventists in health science.
David Alaba - Austrian football (soccer) player
Luis Aponte - (former) Venezuelan baseball player
Vinicius Chuim - Brazilian soccer player (Esporte Clube Vitória)
Edwin Correa - former Major League Baseball pitcher
Carlos Vítor da Costa - Brazilian soccer player (Londrina Esporte Clube)
Grace Daley - former WNBA basketball player
Carlos Edwards - Trinidadian football player
Priscah Jeptoo - Kenyan marathon runner, won silver medals in the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Olympics
Magic Johnson (former) - NBA player
Abel Kirui - Kenyan marathon runner, twice winner of the World Championships, won silver in the 2012 Olympics
Archie Moore - professional boxer (Light Heavyweight World Champion December 1952 - May 1962)
Carlos Roa - Argentine football goalkeeper who does not play on Friday nights or Saturdays due to his religion
Darren Sammy - St Lucian, West Indies Cricketer
Andrea Silenzi - Italian soccer player
Theologians, ministers and personalities
M. L. Andreasen - theologian, protested against the book Questions on Doctrine, and was influential in "historic Adventism"
Samuele Bacchiocchi - 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
Admiral Barry Black, Phd, DMin, DD - first African American and current chaplain to the United States Senate
Richard M. Davidson - Old Testament scholar, and author of Flame of Yahweh
Herbert E. Douglass - American theologian
Jon Dybdahl - theologian and college administrator
Mark Finley - evangelist
Le Roy Edwin Froom - scholar and historian, one of the leading Adventist apologists [defenders] of his time
Gerhard Hasel - Old Testament theologian whose theology textbooks have been widely used at Christian seminaries
Siegfried Horn - prominent archaeologist
George R. Knight - historian, author, educator, theologian
Väinö Kohtanen - pioneer, evangelist, college president and conference president in Finland in the first half of the 20th century
"Uncle Arthur" Maxwell - children's author and Adventist spokesman for church-state affairs in Britain
F. D. Nichol - Adventist apologist, authored a classic defense of Ellen White
Jon Paulien - leading expert on Revelation
Richard Rice - developed the "open theism" understanding of God, and wrote the theology textbook Reign of God
H. M. S. Richards - founded the Voice of Prophecy radio ministry
Randy Roberts - senior pastor of the Loma Linda University Church
Ángel Manuel Rodríguez - director of the Biblical Research Institute (now retired)
Samir Selmanovic - author of It's All About God
George Vandeman - popular evangelist who founded the It Is Written television ministry
Alfred Vaucher - French theologian
Ellen G. White (1827-1915) - wrote more than 5,000 periodical articles and 40 books; the most translated woman writer in the history of literature, and the most translated American author of either gender; wrote on religion, education, social relationships, evangelism, prophecy, publishing, nutrition, and management
Benjamin G. Wilkinson - theologian whose writings influenced the American fundamentalist King-James-Only Movement
Norman Young - New Testament scholar
War and peace
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 - first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor
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
Laurent Nkunda - Congo warlord who claims to be an Adventist pastor, but the church denies this, saying he is not even an active member
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
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.
Irene Morgan - African-American who refused to surrender her bus seat and was taken to court, preceding the famous Rosa Parks case
Cameron Slater - controversial New Zealand blogger
Jack Staddon and David Biehl - winners of the U.S. National Geographic Bee, winning in 1989 and 1999, respectively
Many Pitcairn Islands residents became Seventh-day Adventists (they were apparently already keeping the seventh-day Sabbath)
Individuals should be listed in this section only if they are prominent as ex-Adventists.
Wayne Bent - former pastor who founded Lord Our Righteousness Church
Robert Brinsmead - edited Present Truth Magazine
D. M. Canright - pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen White
Daniel Cooper (1881-1923) - child murderer and illegal abortionist; expelled from the church in January 1918, although previously a member for over a decade
Steve Durkac - former pastor in Southern Union; now pastor of CrossHope Chapel in Mobile, Alabama
Desmond Ford - Australian preacher dismissed for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the church
Victor Houteff - founder of the Shepherd's Rod offshoot
Moses Hull - former pastor who converted to spiritualism
David Koresh - American leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet
Jesse Martin - boy sailor; his parents were Adventists
Shirley Ardell Mason, known as "Sybil" - famous dissociative identity disorder patient; her parents were apparently Adventists
Judge Greg Mathis - born and raised Seventh-day Adventist; membership lapsed
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana - ex-pastor and Rwandan genocide participant
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
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
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
Augusto César Sandino - Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician, cooperativist, member of Adventist church in his youth, adopted vegetarianism due to church teachings
Sirhan Sirhan - Palestinian convicted of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Richard Wright - author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist family
Malcolm X - raised Adventist by his mother
