List of Baháʼís

Baháʼís are followers of the Baháʼí Faith, a religion that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.

Family of Baháʼu'lláh

Ásíyih Khánum – known by her title Navváb
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
Bahíyyih Khánum
Shoghi Effendi
Mírzá Mihdí

Royalty

Malietoa Tanumafili II (r. 1962–2007) – chieftain of the government of Samoa
Marie of Romania (r. 1914–1927) – queen of Romania

Artists

Bands

Common Market – hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest
Seals and Crofts – American soft rock duo in the early 1970s

Musicians

Mirza Abdollah – Iranian musician
Randy Armstrong – American musician and composer
Cindy Blackman – American jazz and rock drummer
Celeste Buckingham – singer/songwriter
Doug Cameron – Canadian musician/composer
Vic Damone – American singer and entertainer
Khalil Fong – American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
Hazel Scott- American pianist and activist
Russell Garcia – motion picture composer
Dizzy Gillespie – American jazz trumpeter
Andy Grammer – American singer-songwriter
Red Grammer – American singer-songwriter best known for children's music
Anousheh Khalili – Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
Jack Lenz – Canadian composer
Kevin Locke – Lakota musician and dancer
Mike Longo – American jazz pianist
James Moody – American jazz saxophone and flute player
KC Porter – American multi-Grammy winning producer
Rachael Price – jazz vocalist
Tom Price – conductor, composer and producer
Flora Purim – Brazilian American jazz singer
Dan Seals – American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
Tierney Sutton – American jazz singer
Louie Shelton – American jazz guitarist and producer
Charles Wolcott – pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies
J. B. Eckl- songwriter, producer, recording artist
Ryan Abeo – American singer/songwriter from Kentucky who performs under the moniker RA Scion

Broadcasters

Susan Audé – news anchor at WIS, Columbia, South Carolina

Filmmakers

Mark Bamford – writer, director (Cape of Good Hope)
Sabour Bradley – Australian filmmaker
Mary Darling – producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
Clark Donnelly – producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
Phil Lucas – Native American filmmaker
Harold Lee Tichenor – film producer

Actors

Penn Badgley – American movie and television actor (Gossip Girl, You)
Justin Baldoni – American movie actor and director (Everwood, Jane the Virgin)
Earl Cameron (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
Omid Djalili – English comedian and actor
Stu Gilliam – American movie actor and stand-up and TV comedian
Barbara Hale – American Emmy Award winning actress (Perry Mason)
Lois Hall – American movie and television actress
Lloyd Haynes – American actor and television writer
Jeremy Iversen – American actor and writer
Eva LaRue – American movie and television actress (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
Carole Lombard – American actress
Inder Manocha – British stand-up comedian and actor
Julie Mitchum – American actress
Pardis Parker – Canadian comedian
Alex Rocco – American actor (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
Rehana Sultan – Indian actress
Valeska Surratt – American silent film actress
Travis Van Winkle – American actor (The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie)
O. Z. Whitehead – American character actor (The Grapes of Wrath, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Lion In Winter)
Rainn Wilson – American movie and television actor (The Office, Six Feet Under)

Architects

Hossein Amanat (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Baháʼí Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
Louis Bourgeois (House of Worship of Wilmette)
Siamak Hariri (Baháʼí Temple of South America, House of Worship of South America)
Fariborz Sahba (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)

Writers

Burl Barer – true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Baháʼí oriented articles
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff – fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
André Brugiroux – traveller and author
Barry Crump – New Zealand comic author
Margaret Danner – African-American poet
Rod Duncan – author of the Gaslight series
William S. Hatcher – mathematician, philosopher, educator
Robert Hayden – Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978
Louise Profeit-LeBlanc - an Aboriginal Canadian storyteller, cultural educator, artist, writer, choreographer, and film script writer from the Northern Tutchone Nation
Guy Murchie – philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani – Iranian writer
Arvid Nelson – comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
Margaret Bloodgood Peeke – traveler, lecturer, author
Wellesley Tudor Pole – British writer
Jeffrey Reddick – creator of the Final Destination series
Holiday Reinhorn – writer
Gholamreza Rouhani – poet and satirist
William Sears – author of multiple books, an Emmy award-winning sportscaster, and host of a children's television program "In the Park."
Farah Sprague – Qajar Iranian-born American lecturer, and writer
Adib Taherzadeh – member of the Universal House of Justice and author of 'The Revelation of Baha'u'llah', a four-volume series on the writings of Baha'u'llah
Sverre Holmsen – Swedish writer, environmentalist, traveller to Tahiti

Other artists

Alice Pike Barney – portrait artist
Laura Clifford Barney – humanitarian, philanthropist, and representative of the International Council of Women to the League of Nations
Hussein Bikar – Egyptian painter
Amelia Collins – philanthropist
Sky Glabush – Painter
Bernard Leach – potter, regarded as 'the Father of British Studio pottery'
Anis Mojgani – spoken-word poet
Tom Morey – musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
Fayard Nicholas – American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
Rae Perlin (1910–2006) – artist
Mishkín-Qalam – calligrapher
Otto Rogers – Painter
Juliet Thompson – portrait artist
Mark Tobey – painter
Gwen Wakeling – Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer

Athletes

Nelson Évora – Portuguese Olympic gold medalist (Beijing, 2008) and gold medalist at the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump
Cathy Freeman – Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner
Matthew W. Bullock – American football player
Khalil Greene – American professional baseball player
David Krummenacker – Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
Pellom McDaniels – American professional gridiron football player
Luke McPharlin – Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers

Business

Thornton Chase – first Baháʼí of the West, was a businessman when he joined the religion in 1894/5.
Mildred Mottahedeh – founder of Mottahedeh & Company
Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966), American billionaire, founder of Paylocity
Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi – famous Chinese business couple
Zia Mody – Indian corporate lawyer and businesswoman

Scholarly

Academics and Educators

Alain LeRoy Locke – philosopher and writer, known as the 'Dean of the Harlem Renaissance'
Roland Faber – Theologian and Philosopher, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University.
Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Theologian, Professor of scriptural interpretation at Oxford University
Stanwood Cobb – Writer, as well as Founder and then president of the Association for the Advancement of Progressive Education
Dwight W. Allen – American professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group
Julie Oeming Badiee – American professor, Islamic art historian, educator
Alessandro Bausani – linguist, translator and leading scholar of Iranian literature and religion
Ali Murad Davudi (1922–1979?) – Iranian Baháʼí who was a member of the national governing body of the Baháʼís in Iran. He was a professor at Tehran University in the philosophy department. In 1979, during a wave of persecution toward Baháʼís, he was kidnapped and has been presumed a victim of state execution.
Nava Ashraf - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, whose research focuses on development economics, behavioral economics, and family economics
Donna Denizé – American poet and award-winning teacher
Mae C. Hawes – African-American professor, settlement worker, literacy educator
Phoebe Hearst – first woman Regent of the University of California
Auguste-Henri Forel – Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
Jagdish Gandhi – founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
Firuz Kazemzadeh – Professor of History at Yale University, member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States
Patricia Locke – Lakota Native American educator
Pellom McDaniels – professor, researcher, inventor, author, historian, curator at Emory University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Founder of Arts For Smarts Foundation.
Joseph Watson – Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin
Todd Lawson – Emeritus Professor of Islamic thought at the University of Toronto and authority on the early writings of the Bab

Journalists

Robert Sengstacke Abbott – lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States.

Public service

David Kelly – former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Dorothy Wright Nelson – Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Jacqueline Left Hand Bull – American Sicangu Lakota Health care policy administrator
Layli Miller-Muro – former executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center
Mahmud Jamal – Judge on the Supreme Court of Canada
Payam Akhavan – prosecutor for United Nations tribunals and law professor
Robert B. Powers – a prominent police officer in the history of California, during which he co-established one of the earliest training programs for police in matters of race relations.

Scholars (of Baháʼí history, Baháʼí theology, apologetics, etc.)

Udo Schaefer – A German lawyer and prolific author, specialising in Baháʼí apologetics and theology, notably ethics.
Moojan Momen – historian specializing in Baháʼí history and theology
Peter Smith – historian and sociologist, author of a much-cited academic study of Baháʼí history, The Babi and Bahaʼi Religions: From Messianic Shiʻism to a World Religion.
Franklin Lewis – author and translator in Iranian studies, who has also published literary analyses of the works of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh
Robert Stockman – historian, theologian, apologist and biographer, noted especially for works on the history of the Baháʼí community in North America
Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl (Persian language: ميرزا أبوالفضل‎), or Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání (1844–1914) – foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States
ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari (1902 – 1972) – prominent Iranian Baháʼí scholar. He became a Baháʼí in 1927. He was a teacher in one of the Baháʼí schools in Iran, until the schools were closed in 1934. He prepared many compilations of Bahá'í writings, commentaries, apologetic works, and historic studies.
Hooshmand Dehghan – Iranian scholar and translator

Scientists

Niky Kamran – Mathematician
Peter J. Olver – Mathematician

Others

Leonora Armstrong – Baháʼí pioneer and international traveler
Richard St. Barbe Baker – English environmentalist and founder of the International Tree Foundation
Lady Blomfield – early Irish-British Baháʼí, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
Dr Frederick D'Evelyn – first Irish-born Baháʼí
Helen Clevenger – murdered college student
Constance Langdon-Davies – among the early British converts to Baháʼí Faith
Dhabihu'llah Mahrami – wrongfully accused Iranian Baháʼí, found dead in his cell in 2005
Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan – British hereditary peer
Nossrat Peseschkian – psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
Parivash Rohani – Iranian-American Baháʼí activist
Hilda Yen – internationalist, diplomat, aviator
Lidia Zamenhof – daughter of L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto