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 UniversityDelbert Baker - President of Adventist University of AfricaGordon Bietz - President of Southern Adventist University, former pastor and president of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day AdventistsBruce N. Cameron, J.D. - Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law at Regent University School of LawGary Chartier - legal philosopher and anarchist theoristLarry Geraty - academic and former president of La Sierra UniversityFritz Guy - theologian and former president of La Sierra UniversityHeather Knight - President of Pacific Union CollegeWriters, 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 booksRoger Morneau - author on faith and prayerChristopher Mwashinga - author; has published ten books in the area of theology, Adventist history, and practical ChristianityAndrew Nelson - missionary and linguistCherie Priest - former Seventh-day Adventist, American novelist and blogger living in Seattle, WashingtonSteven Spruill - novelistEllen G. White, one of the founders of the Adventist church, prolific author, considered a prophet by the churchBill Diehl Jr. editor of evangelical Adventist magazine Present TruthMovies, actors, television, and radio
Fretzie Bercede - Filipino actress, television personality, and former reality show contestant; 3rd placer of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010Clifton Davis - former actor of That's My Mama and AmenDeVon Franklin - Vice President for production at Columbia PicturesAngus 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 pastorHeather 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-0Phil 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 lifeAndré Ramiro - Brazilian actor; played Mathias in the films Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy WithinChristopher Mwashinga - published two books of poetry in English and one in KiswahiliRob RidderAnnie R. SmithArt 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 FameHerbert Blomstedt - conductor who does not rehearse on Saturdays due to his Adventist faithJoyce Bryant - actress and singerBusta Rhymes (former) - American rapper, producer and actor, raised in Brooklyn by Seventh-day Adventist Jamaican-immigrant parents; later converted to IslamKasey Chambers (former) - Australian country singer; left the church in the 1980s because her family did not support the Investigative Judgment doctrineFred Cline - film and television animation artistCommitted - 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" ThomasJerome Fontamillas - Filipino American musicianMuma Gee - Nigerian pop singer-songwriter and actress residing in Port HarcourtNathan 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 OrlandoWayne Hooper - Musical Director for "Voice of Prophecy" radio program; composer; baritoneThe Isley Brothers - Grammy Award-winning American musical group consisting of brothers Ron and Ernie IsleyIYAZ - R&B singer, rapper and songwriter; born Keidran Jones of the Virgin Islands; grew up in the church and still attends from time to timeLittle 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 ministerHugh Martin - American theater and film composerBrian McKnight - Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, radio host and 2009 Celebrity Apprentice contestantNOTA - winner of the first season of NBC's The Sing-OffVernon Nye (b. 1915) - artist, art professorBrandon 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 StrangeKevin Olusola - cellist and beatboxer, member of Grammy Award-winning a cappella group PentatonixWintley Phipps - singer, songwriter, ordained pastorPrince (former) - raised in the church, later converted to the Jehovah's WitnessesRobert 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 1969-1974Virtue - Dove Award-winning gospel recording artists; consists of sisters Ebony Holland, Karima Kibble, and Heather MartinWill Keith Kellogg - promoted breakfast cereals (particularly corn flakes), and started the Kellogg CompanyDale Twomley - former president of Worthington Foods, Inc.Mary Ang'awa - High Court of Kenya judgeJustice Samuel Bosire - Appeal Judge of the High Court of Kenya appointed the chairman of the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry by President Mwai KibakiJames E. Graves, Jr. - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since February 2011David Maraga - Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya since Oct 19, 2016Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko - International Criminal Court judgeThe Honourable Sir Gibuna Gibbs Salika KBE - Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua New GuineaMathew 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 2006This 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 scholarNelson H. Barbour - Millerite pastorJoseph Bates - a founder of the church; wrote a tract on the seventh-day Sabbath which convinced James and Ellen White to start observing itSylvester Bliss - Millerite pastor, editor of The Signs of the TimesCharles Fitch - Millerite evangelistJoshua (Josiah) Himes - Millerite evangelist and promoterWilliam Miller - founder of the Millerite movement from which Seventh-day Adventism and other groups emergedT. M. Preble - Millerite pastor, early Sabbath supporterUriah Smith - editor and author of Daniel and the Revelation and other worksJonas Wendell - Millerite evangelistEllen G. White - a founder of the church who is considered by the denomination to have had the biblical gift of prophecyJames White - a founder of the church and former President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; husband of Ellen WhiteSee 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, 1997-2003Roscoe Bartlett - 6th district representative from MarylandSimeon Bouro - Solomon Islands Ambassador to Cuba since March 2013; member of Solomon Islands National Parliament, 2001-2006Percival Austin Bramble - former Chief Minister of Montserrat British West Indies (1970-1978)William Henry Bramble - first Chief Minister of Montserrat British West IndiesSir 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-presentPhetsile 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, 1991-1994Jioji 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 forcesSheila Jackson Lee - U.S. Representative, 18th congressional district of Texas (Houston)Sherman McNichols - Chief Magistrate, Trinidad and TobagoFloyd Morris - Jamaican senator and minister of state; president of senateDr. George Nga Ntafu - Malawian statesman, former Cabinet Minister, and Malawi Parliament Chief WhipSam Ongeri - Kenyan Minister for Education and a Committee member of the Power Sharing between ODM and PNU after post election violence; professorJohn Pundari CMG - Papua New Guinean Member of the National Parliament, former Speaker and Deputy Prime Minister, currently Environment MinisterRaul Ruiz - U.S. Congressman from CaliforniaDesley Scott - Australian politician; member for Electoral district of Woodridge in the Parliament of Queensland, 2001-presentManasseh Sogavare - Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, 2000-2001, 2006-2007, and 2014-present; Leader of the Opposition in Solomon Islands, 2007-2010John 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, 1998-2005Marianne Thieme - founder and parliamentary leader of the Dutch animal rights party Animal PartyRonald Sapa Tlau - member for Mizoram in the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the parliament of India) since June 2014Sojourner Truth - African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist of the 19th centuryJames Ronald Webster - led Anguilla Revolution of 1967; later twice Chief Minister of AnguillaJorge Talbot Zavala - Ecuadorian Representative and Secretary of the Camara de Diputados, Quito, Ecuador; Nomina de Legisladores Nacionales 1950-1955, Archivo Nacional del Ecuador, 1950-1955Tony Zirkle - attorney and repeated candidate for Congress in Indiana, United StatesFor 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 heartLeonard R. Brand - Loma Linda University paleobiologistBen 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 EarthFrank Jobe - orthopedist and sports medicine pioneerJohn Harvey Kellogg - prominent medical doctor; later left the churchWill Keith Kellogg - inventor of cornflakes and founder of KelloggsFrank Lewis Marsh - creationist and the first Adventist to earn a doctoral degree in biologyGeorge McCready Price - missionary and leading early creationistWalter Veith - South African zoologist, creationist and end times lecturerSee also Category:Seventh-day Adventists in health science.
David Alaba - Austrian football (soccer) playerLuis Aponte - (former) Venezuelan baseball playerVinicius Chuim - Brazilian soccer player (Esporte Clube Vitória)Edwin Correa - former Major League Baseball pitcherCarlos Vítor da Costa - Brazilian soccer player (Londrina Esporte Clube)Grace Daley - former WNBA basketball playerCarlos Edwards - Trinidadian football playerPriscah Jeptoo - Kenyan marathon runner, won silver medals in the 2011 World Championships and 2012 OlympicsMagic Johnson (former) - NBA playerAbel Kirui - Kenyan marathon runner, twice winner of the World Championships, won silver in the 2012 OlympicsArchie 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 religionDarren Sammy - St Lucian, West Indies CricketerAndrea Silenzi - Italian soccer playerTheologians, 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 enrolledAdmiral Barry Black, Phd, DMin, DD - first African American and current chaplain to the United States SenateRichard M. Davidson - Old Testament scholar, and author of Flame of YahwehHerbert E. Douglass - American theologianJon Dybdahl - theologian and college administratorMark Finley - evangelistLe Roy Edwin Froom - scholar and historian, one of the leading Adventist apologists [defenders] of his timeGerhard Hasel - Old Testament theologian whose theology textbooks have been widely used at Christian seminariesSiegfried Horn - prominent archaeologistGeorge R. Knight - historian, author, educator, theologianVäinö 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 BritainF. D. Nichol - Adventist apologist, authored a classic defense of Ellen WhiteJon Paulien - leading expert on RevelationRichard Rice - developed the "open theism" understanding of God, and wrote the theology textbook Reign of GodH. M. S. Richards - founded the Voice of Prophecy radio ministryRandy Roberts - senior pastor of the Loma Linda University ChurchÁngel Manuel Rodríguez - director of the Biblical Research Institute (now retired)Samir Selmanovic - author of It's All About GodGeorge Vandeman - popular evangelist who founded the It Is Written television ministryAlfred Vaucher - French theologianEllen 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 managementBenjamin G. Wilkinson - theologian whose writings influenced the American fundamentalist King-James-Only MovementNorman Young - New Testament scholarWar 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 awardsDesmond Doss - first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of HonorBiuku 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 schoolsLaurent Nkunda - Congo warlord who claims to be an Adventist pastor, but the church denies this, saying he is not even an active memberJohan 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 storesLindy 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 caseCameron Slater - controversial New Zealand bloggerJack Staddon and David Biehl - winners of the U.S. National Geographic Bee, winning in 1989 and 1999, respectivelyMany 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 ChurchRobert Brinsmead - edited Present Truth MagazineD. M. Canright - pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen WhiteDaniel Cooper (1881-1923) - child murderer and illegal abortionist; expelled from the church in January 1918, although previously a member for over a decadeSteve Durkac - former pastor in Southern Union; now pastor of CrossHope Chapel in Mobile, AlabamaDesmond Ford - Australian preacher dismissed for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the churchVictor Houteff - founder of the Shepherd's Rod offshootMoses Hull - former pastor who converted to spiritualismDavid Koresh - American leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophetJesse Martin - boy sailor; his parents were AdventistsShirley Ardell Mason, known as "Sybil" - famous dissociative identity disorder patient; her parents were apparently AdventistsJudge Greg Mathis - born and raised Seventh-day Adventist; membership lapsedElizaphan Ntakirutimana - ex-pastor and Rwandan genocide participantRonald Numbers - science historian and author of The Creationists, and former Adventist lecturerDavid Pendleton - former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and 2002 candidate for lieutenant governor, now a CatholicMark "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 motherPaul 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 autobiographyAugusto César Sandino - Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician, cooperativist, member of Adventist church in his youth, adopted vegetarianism due to church teachingsSirhan Sirhan - Palestinian convicted of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. KennedyRichard Wright - author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist familyMalcolm X - raised Adventist by his mother 
