page_title: List of children of clergy
section_title: Protestant and Anglican
hierarchical_section_title: List of children of clergy / Western religions / Christian / Protestant and Anglican
caption_attribution_description: Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America.
context_page_description: List of noted children of clergy is a list concerned with individuals whose status as a child of a cleric is important, preferably critical, to their fame or significance.
context_section_description: Roy Acuff – American country music singer, fiddler and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music."
  Stacey Abrams – American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. Both her parents are Methodist ministers.
  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook – Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer.
  John Abernethy (minister)
  Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair – taught by his minister father and taught for the SPCK for a time.
  Tori Amos, Crucify (song) and "Icicle" deal overtly with the background as do others.
  Garner Ted Armstrong – son of Herbert W. Armstrong who was disfellowed by him.
  Matthew Arnold - poet and educationist, son of Revd. Thomas Arnold
  Chester A. Arthur - President of the United States, son of a Baptist minister.
  John Ashcroft – father was an Assemblies of God congregation minister.
  Jane Austen – English novelist; daughter of an Anglican clergyman.
  Christopher Awdry – English author who continued The Railway Series of books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine first created by his father Rev. Wilbert Awdry
  Joan Bridge Baez and Albert Baez – parents of peace activist and folksinger Joan Baez were both children of clergy who themselves became Quakers.
  Robert Baden-Powell – founder of international Scouting movement.
  John Baillie, and brother Donald Macpherson Baillie – prominent Scottish theologians, a third brother Peter Baillie, was a missionary in India. All were sons of Free Church of Scotland Minister John Baillie.
  John Logie Baird - was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, was the youngest of four children of the Reverend John Baird, the Church of Scotland's minister for the local St Bride's Church and Jessie Morrison Inglis, the orphaned niece of a wealthy family of shipbuilders from Glasgow.
  Jay Bakker – founder of LGBT-friendly Revolution Church, son of televangelist Jim Bakker and evangelist and TV personality Tammy Faye Messner.
  James Baldwin – raised by his stepfather who was a preacher and his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain relates to this.
  John Barron (journalist) – son of a Methodist minister who investigated Communists.
  Karl Barth – Swiss Reformed theologian whom critics hold to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century.
  Pierre Bayle – French writer and philosopher. Son of a pastor in the French Reformed Church.
  Robert Hugh Benson – son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, convert to Catholicism.
  Barney Bentall – Canadian pop/rock singer-songwriter.
  J. D. Beresford – agnostic, The Hampdenshire Wonder contains an unflattering minister character.
  Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet – British Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay.
  Measha Brueggergosman – Canadian soprano, opera singer and concert artist; her father is a Baptist pastor.
  Walter Brueggemann – influential Old Testament scholar and writer during the early 21st century. He often speaks of the influence of his father, a German Evangelical pastor. Published over 100 books.
  Ingmar Bergman – noted atheist, son of a Lutheran minister.
  Crystal Bernard – actress and singer. Daughter of a Baptist televangelist who traveled across the United States preaching and singing.
  William Henry Bliss – convert to Catholicism who worked at the Vatican.
  John Bost – French Protestant minister. Father was a minister.
  Alex Briley – got his start singing in church.
  Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë – sister novelists, daughters of an Anglican vicar.
  Branwell Brontë – brother of the Brontë sisters.
  Cleanth Brooks – literary critic who wrote Community, Religion, and Literature: Essays (1995).
  Gordon Brown – former prime minister of Great Britain, son of a Church of Scotland minister.
  Pearl S. Buck – child of missionaries with her father being a minister.
  Aaron Burr – Vice President of the United States who studied theology at Princeton University and whose father was Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr.
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir – Scottish writer, served as Governor General of Canada.
  Jamal Harrison Bryant – founder/Pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church Baltimore MD, autho
caption: Woodrow Wilson, Son of a Presbyterian theologian
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