# List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)
## Activists, politicians, and military figures
### Activists

* Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882-1985) – Native American singer and activist
* Bonnie Carroll – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
* Henry Hyde Champion (1859-1928) –Socialist activist and journalist
* Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) – Australian suffragette and social reformer.
* Sallie Holley (1818-1893) – Abolitionist and educator
* Muriel Matters (1877-1969) – Australian suffragist and educator
* Roy Olmstead (1886-1966) – Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist
* Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862-1939) – American suffragist and author
* Marietta T. Webb (1864-1951) – Civil rights activist

### Elected officials

* Nancy Witcher Astor (1879-1964) – second female Member of Parliament to be elected but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945
* Fred B. Balzar (1880-1934) – 15th Governor of Nevada
* Owen Brewster (1888-1961) – 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate
* Jocelyn Burdick (1922-2019), United States Senator
* Clarence A. Buskirk (1842-1926) – 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries
* Ralph Lawrence Carr (1887-1950) – 29th Governor of Colorado
* Thelma Cazalet-Keir (1899-1989) – 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) (1862-1951) – Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia
* Gustav A. Hoff (1852-1930), American businessman and Mayor of Tucson.
* Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
* Charles H. Percy (1919-2011) – United States Senator from Illinois
* Lamar S. Smith – Member of the United States House of Representatives
* Victor Cazalet (1896-1943) – British Conservative Member of Parliament
* Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955) – Second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
* John D. Works (1847-1928) – United States Senator from California, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

### Other political and military figures

* Mary Bartelme (1866-1954) – pioneering American judge and lawyer, referred to as "America's only woman judge"
* John Ehrlichman (1925-1999) – Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
* Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth (1909-1984) – British diplomat and politician$^{:59–79}$
* Thomas P. Griesa (1930-2017) – United States district judge
* H.R. Haldeman (1926-1993) – White House Chief of Staff
* Cecil Harcourt (1892-1959) - British naval officer, de facto governor of Hong Kong
* Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940) – British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor
* Egil Krogh (1939-2020) – American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation
* Maurice Mansergh (1896-1966) - 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 (1841-1907) – Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science
* Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore (1871-1962) – British soldier and politician
* David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie (1893-1968) - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier
* Henry Paulson – 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
* Stansfield Turner (1923-2018) – Admiral and former CIA Director
* William Hedgcock Webster – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991

## Business

* J. Robert Atkinson (1887-1964) – founder of the Braille Institute of America
* D. G. M. Bernard (1888-1975) - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.
* B. F. Brisac (1858-1940) – American business executive and humanitarian
* Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886-1946) – founder of The Seeing Eye
* Antony Fisher (1915-1988) – British businessman and think tank founder
* Lionel Fraser (1895-1965) – British banker
* Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-1980) – inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith
* Martha Matilda Harper (1857-1950) – American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising
* Ben Weingart (1888-1980) – American real estate investor and developer
* Charles Wyly (1933-2011), American businessman
* Sam Wyly, American businessman

## Arts and entertainment
### Artists

* Hilda Carline (1889-1950) – British post-impressionist painter
* Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) – American artist and film maker
* Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II
* Fougasse (1887-1965) – British cartoonist
* Mina Loy (1882-1966) – British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian
* Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) – British painter
* Violet Oakley (1874-1961) – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass
* Marcellus E. Wright Sr. (1881-1962) – American architect who designed the Altria Theater

### Authors

* Richard Bach – author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
* Andrew Clements (1949-2019) – American author of children's books, including Frindle
* Willis Vernon Cole (1882-1939) – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine
* Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866-1939) — American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science
* Godfrey John (d. about 2003) – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher
* William D. McCrackan (1864-1923) – 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 (1867-1938) – French-born actress of stage and screen
* Carol Channing (1921-2019) – American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian
* Juanin Clay (1949-1995) – American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger
* Joan Crawford (190?-1977) – American film and television actress
* Doris Day (1922-2019) – American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
* Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) – Canadian-American actress
* Robert Duvall – American actor
* Georgia Engel (1948-2019) – American film, television, and stage actress
* Horton Foote (1916-2009) – playwright and screenwriter
* Kelsey Grammer – actor
* Charlotte Greenwood (1890-1977) – actress and dancer
* Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) – English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer
* Corinne Griffith (1894-1979) – American actress, producer, author and businesswoman
* Lionel Hampton – Jazz percussionist
* David Liebe Hart – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter
* Howard Hawks (1896-1977) – film director
* Peter Horton – actor
* Bud Jamison (1894-1944) – actor active from 1915 to 1944
* Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) – silent film star
* Val Kilmer – American actor
* Everett Lee – Conductor
* Eve McVeagh (1919-1997) – American actress
* Martin Melcher (1915-1968) – producer, third husband of Doris Day
* Conrad Nagel (1897-1970) – actor
* Antoinette Perry (1888-1946) – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards
* Mary Pickford (1892-1979) – 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 (1911-1995) – American actress, dancer, and singer
* Lilia Skala (1896-1994) – Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field
* Jean Stapleton (1923-2013) – actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker
* W. S. Van Dyke (1889-1943) – director of films, including The Thin Man
* King Vidor (1889-1982) – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award
* Anna May Wong (1905-1961) – 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 (1919-2016) – English–American actor

### Musicians

* Cornelius Bumpus (1945-2004) – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan
* Blanche Calloway (1902-1978) – bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister
* Alberta Neiswanger Hall (1870-1956) – 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 (1905-1985) – American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter
* Michael Nesmith (1942-2021) – member of The Monkees,
* Ruth Barret Phelps (1899-1980) – theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church
* Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor

## Sports
### Athletes/sportspeople

* Harold Bradley Jr. (1929-2021), Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist
* Adin Brown – U.S. association football player
* Rowland George (1905–1997), Olympic rower; oldest surviving British Olympic gold medalist upon his death.
* Nile Kinnick (1918-1943) – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner
* Shannon Miller – American gymnast
* Harry Porter (1882-1965) – Olympic gold medalist high jumper
* George Sisler (1893-1973) – 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 (1861–1948) – American educator and the founder of Principia College, a Christian Science college
* Robert Peel (historian) (1909-1992) – historian and church worker, best known for his three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy
* David E. Sweet (1933–1984) – founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
* George B. Thomas (1914–2006) - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT.

### Journalism

* Richard Bergenheim (1948-2008) – American journalist and editor
* Erwin Canham (1904-1982) – editor of the Christian Science Monitor, also the last Resident Commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands
* Kay Fanning (1927-2000) – editor of the Anchorage Daily News and Christian Science Monitor, first woman to edit an American national newspaper.
* Harold Frederic (1856-1898) – journalist and novelist
* Virginia Graham (1910–1993) – English humourist
* John Hughes (editor) – American journalist, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor and The Deseret News
* Edward J. Meeman (1889-1966) – American journalist
* Cora Rigby (1865-1930) – first woman at a major paper to head a Washington news bureau, co-founder of the Women's National Press Club.
* Marjorie Shuler (1888-1977) – suffragist, author, adventurer, publicist, journalist, longtime writer for the Christian Science Monitor. Daughter of famous suffragist Nettie Rogers Shuler.
* "Aunt Susan" born Edna Vance (1893-1972), American journalist and radio personality

### Exploration, invention, and science

* Neil Kensington Adam (1891-1973) – British chemist
* Edmund F. Burton (1862-1921) – physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science
* Laurance Doyle – researcher at SETI
* Claribel Kendall (1889-1965) – American mathematician
* Charles Lightoller (1874-1952) – surviving Second Officer of the Titanic
* Jer Master (unknown-2010) – Indian pediatrician who abandoned medicine for the faith
* Homer E. Newell Jr. (1915-1983) – NASA administrator, mathematics professor, and author$^{:239–255}$
* Alan Shepard (1923-1998) – first American to travel into space, one of the first to walk on the Moon
* Doris Huestis Speirs (1894-1989) – Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet
* John M. Tutt (1879-1966) – American medical doctor who became a teacher of Christian Science

## Other

* John V. Dittemore (1876-1937) – 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 (1845-1917) – personal assistant of Mary Baker Eddy
* Mary W. Adams (1834-1908) – in 1905 hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build house in Highland Park, Illinois
* Septimus J. Hanna (1845-1921) – Judge and Civil War veteran, later Christian Science practitioner and teacher
* Violet Spiller Hay (1873–1969) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and hymnist
* Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) – Christian Science practitioner, Journal editor, later started her own college and association
* Bliss Knapp (1877-1958) – Christian Science lecturer, practitioner, teacher and author
* Annie M. Knott (1850-1941) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and church leader
* Laura Lathrop (1845-1922) – Christian Science teacher in New York
* Augusta E. Stetson (1842-1928) – Christian Science teacher in New York, excommunicated in 1909
* Irving C. Tomlinson (1860-1944) – Universalist minister who converted to Christian Science

## Notable people raised in Christian Science

* E. Power Biggs (1906-1977) – 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 (1912-1994) – American poet
* Stewart Farrar (1916-2000) – English writer
* Paul Feig – American filmmaker
* Henry Fonda (1905-1982) – American actor
* Ralph Giordano (1923-2014) – German writer
* Spalding Gray (1941-2004) – American actor and writer
* Keith Green (1953-1982) – American musician
* Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) – American writer
* Jim Henson (1936-1990)– American puppeteer
* Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) – 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 – of Alter Bridge
* William Luce (1931-2019)– American playwright and screenwriter
* Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907-1945) – German jurist, executed in 1945 for anti-Nazi activity
* Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) – American actress, model, and singer
* V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) – British writer and literary critic
* Chris Shays – member of United States House of Representatives
* John Simpson – BBC journalist
* Julian Steward (1902-1972) – American anthropologist
* Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) – English-American actress
* William Thetford (1923-1988) – American professor
* Denton Welch (1915-1948) – English writer and artist
* Robin Williams (1951-2014) – American actor and comedian
* Bobby Franks (1909–1924), American murder victim of Leopold and Loeb