List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)

Activists, politicians, and military figures

Activists

• Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone – Native American singer and activist
• Bonnie Carroll – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
• Henry Hyde Champion –Socialist activist and journalist
• Vida Goldstein – Australian suffragette and social reformer.
• Sallie Holley – Abolitionist and educator
• Olive Moorman Leader – temperance reformer, suffragist, educator, and human rights activist
• Muriel Matters – Australian suffragist and educator
• Roy Olmstead – Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist
• Nettie Rogers Shuler – American suffragist and author
• Marietta T. Webb – Civil rights activist

Elected officials

• Nancy Witcher Astor – second female Member of Parliament to be elected but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945
• Fred B. Balzar – 15th Governor of Nevada
• Owen Brewster – 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate
• Jocelyn Burdick, United States Senator
• Clarence A. Buskirk – 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries
• Ralph Lawrence Carr – 29th Governor of Colorado
• Thelma Cazalet-Keir – British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Thomas M. Davis – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• David Dreier – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Bob Goodlatte – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• William Higgs (politician) – Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia
• Gustav A. Hoff, American businessman and Mayor of Tucson.
• Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
• Charles H. Percy – United States Senator from Illinois
• Lamar S. Smith – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Victor Cazalet – British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Margaret Wintringham – Second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
• John D. Works – United States Senator from California, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

Other political and military figures

• Mary Bartelme – pioneering American judge and lawyer, referred to as "America's only woman judge"
• John Ehrlichman – Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
• Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth – British diplomat and politician
• Thomas P. Griesa – United States district judge
• H.R. Haldeman – White House Chief of Staff
• Septimus J. Hanna – Judge and Civil War veteran, later Christian Science practitioner and teacher
• Cecil Harcourt - British naval officer, de facto governor of Hong Kong
• Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian – British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor
• Egil Krogh – American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation
• Maurice Mansergh - British admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
• Ursula Mueller – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in OCHA
• Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore – Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science
• Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore – British soldier and politician
• David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier
• Henry Paulson – 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Oliver P. Smith, American Marine four star general who served in WWII and the Korean War
• Stansfield Turner – Admiral and former CIA Director
• William Hedgcock Webster – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1987 to 1991

Business

• J. Robert Atkinson – founder of the Braille Institute of America
• D. G. M. Bernard - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.
• B. F. Brisac – American business executive and humanitarian
• Dorothy Harrison Eustis – founder of The Seeing Eye
• Antony Fisher – British businessman and think tank founder
• Lionel Fraser – British banker
• Bette Nesmith Graham – inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith
• Martha Matilda Harper – American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising
• Robert Hotung, Businessman and philanthropist from British Hong Kong
• Ben Weingart – American real estate investor and developer
• Charles Wyly, American businessman
• Sam Wyly, American businessman

Arts and entertainment

Artists

• Hilda Carline – British post-impressionist painter
• Joseph Cornell – American artist and film maker
• Evelyn Dunbar – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II
• Fougasse – British cartoonist
• Mina Loy – British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian
• Winifred Nicholson – British painter
• Violet Oakley – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass
• Marcellus E. Wright Sr. – American architect who designed the Altria Theater

Authors

• Richard Bach – author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Andrew Clements – American author of children's books, including Frindle
• Willis Vernon Cole – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine
• Heather Vogel Frederick – former journalist & editor, American historical fiction, fantasy, & contemporary fiction author of at least 20 books for young readers
• Sibyl Marvin Huse — American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science
• Godfrey John – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher
• William D. McCrackan – writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic
• J. D. Salinger – American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
• Danielle Steel – American author

Entertainment figures

• Pearl Bailey – Singer
• Kenny L. Baker – singer and actor
• Valerie Bergere – French-born actress of stage and screen
• Elisabeth Bergner - Austrian/British actress
• Carol Channing – American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian
• Juanin Clay – American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger
• Joan Crawford – American film and television actress
• Doris Day – American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
• Colleen Dewhurst – Canadian-American actress
• Robert Duvall – American actor
• Georgia Engel – American film, television, and stage actress
• Edith Evans - actress
• Horton Foote – playwright and screenwriter
• Kelsey Grammer – actor
• Charlotte Greenwood – actress and dancer
• Joyce Grenfell – English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer
• Corinne Griffith – American actress, producer, author and businesswoman
• David Liebe Hart – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter
• Howard Hawks – film director
• Peter Horton – actor
• Bud Jamison – actor active from 1915 to 1944
• Leatrice Joy – silent film star
• Val Kilmer – American actor
• Matt Lauria -- American actor
• Eve McVeagh – American actress
• Martin Melcher – producer, third husband of Doris Day
• Conrad Nagel – actor
• Antoinette Perry – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards
• Mary Pickford – Canadian-American actress; co-founder of the film studio United Artists; one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Ginger Rogers – American actress, dancer, and singer
• Lilia Skala – Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field
• Jean Stapleton – actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker
• W. S. Van Dyke – director of films, including The Thin Man
• King Vidor – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award
• Anna May Wong – American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star
• Alfre Woodard – actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat
• Alan Young – English–American actor

Musicians

• Cornelius Bumpus – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan
• Blanche Calloway – bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister
• Alberta Neiswanger Hall – composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for The Songs of Father Goose
• Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) – jazz musician
• Bruce Hornsby – rock musician
• Kay Kyser – American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter
• Everett Lee – Conductor
• Michael Nesmith – member of The Monkees,
• Ruth Barret Phelps – theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church
• Sergei Prokofiev – Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor

Sports

Athletes/sportspeople

• Harold Bradley Jr., Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist
• Adin Brown – U.S. association football player
• Rowland George, Olympic rower; oldest surviving British Olympic gold medalist upon his death.
• Haley Henderson, American Ballet Dancer - worked for Royal Danish Ballet, Ballet San Jose, Ballet West
• Nile Kinnick – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner
• Lauren McFall Gardner -- Synchronized Swimming/Artistic Swimming
• Shannon Miller – American gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
• Harry Porter – Olympic gold medalist high jumper
• George Sisler – baseball player
• Tommy Vardell – American football player
• Aaron Goldsmith - Sports Commentator for the Seattle Mariners and Fox College Hoops

Intellectual life

Education and academia

• Iris Mack – mathematician, first black female professor in applied mathematics at M.I.T.
• Mary Kimball Morgan – American educator and the founder of Principia College, a Christian Science college
• Robert Peel (historian) – historian and church worker, best known for his three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy
• David E. Sweet – founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
• George B. Thomas - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT.

Journalism

• Richard Bergenheim – American journalist and editor
• Erwin Canham – editor of the Christian Science Monitor, also the last Resident Commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands
• Kay Fanning – editor of the Anchorage Daily News and Christian Science Monitor, first woman to edit an American national newspaper.
• Harold Frederic – journalist and novelist
• Virginia Graham – English humourist
• John Hughes (editor) – American journalist, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor and The Deseret News
• Edward J. Meeman – American journalist
• Cora Rigby – first woman at a major paper to head a Washington news bureau, co-founder of the Women's National Press Club.
• Marjorie Shuler – suffragist, author, adventurer, publicist, journalist, longtime writer for the Christian Science Monitor. Daughter of famous suffragist Nettie Rogers Shuler.
• "Aunt Susan" born Edna Vance, American journalist and radio personality

Exploration, invention, and science

• Neil Kensington Adam – British chemist
• Edmund F. Burton – physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science
• Laurance Doyle – researcher at SETI
• Claribel Kendall – American mathematician
• Charles Lightoller – surviving Second Officer of the Titanic
• Jer Master – Indian pediatrician who abandoned medicine for the faith
• Homer E. Newell Jr. – NASA administrator, mathematics professor, and author
• Alan Shepard – first American to travel into space, one of the first to walk on the Moon
• Doris Huestis Speirs – Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet
• John M. Tutt – American medical doctor who became a teacher of Christian Science

Other

• John V. Dittemore – trustee of Eddy estate, director of The Mother Church, then critic and co-author of Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition
• Calvin Frye – personal assistant of Mary Baker Eddy
• Mary W. Adams – in 1905 hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build house in Highland Park, Illinois
• Violet Spiller Hay – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and hymnist
• Emma Curtis Hopkins – Christian Science practitioner, Journal editor, later started her own college and association
• Bliss Knapp – Christian Science lecturer, practitioner, teacher and author
• Annie M. Knott – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and church leader
• Laura Lathrop – Christian Science teacher in New York
• Augusta E. Stetson – Christian Science teacher in New York, excommunicated in 1909
• Irving C. Tomlinson – Universalist minister who converted to Christian Science

Notable people raised in Christian Science

• E. Power Biggs – Concert organist and recording artist, his mother was a Christian Scientist.
• Jonathan Carroll – American fiction writer
• Hart Crane – American poet
• Christina Crawford – American author and actress
• Ellen DeGeneres – American comedian
• Daniel Ellsberg – American economist who released the Pentagon Papers
• William Everson – American poet
• Stewart Farrar – English writer
• Paul Feig – American filmmaker
• Henry Fonda – American actor
• Ralph Giordano – German writer
• Spalding Gray – American actor and writer
• Keith Green – American musician
• Ernest Hemingway – American writer
• Jim Henson – American puppeteer
• Audrey Hepburn – British actress
• James Hetfield – of Metallica
• Jack Kemp (1935-2009) – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, member of the United States House of Representatives
• Myles Kennedy – musician in the band Alter Bridge
• William Luce – American playwright and screenwriter
• Helmuth James Graf von Moltke – German jurist, executed in 1945 for anti-Nazi activity
• Marilyn Monroe – American actress, model, and singer
• V. S. Pritchett – British writer and literary critic
• Chris Shays – member of United States House of Representatives
• John Simpson – BBC journalist
• Julian Steward – American anthropologist
• Elizabeth Taylor – English-American actress
• William Thetford – American professor
• Denton Welch – English writer and artist
• Robin Williams – American actor and comedian
• Bobby Franks, American murder victim of Leopold and Loeb