The following list sets down the name of each member of the

Baháʼí Faith The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion, essential worth of all religions and Baháʼí Faith and the unity of humanity, the unity of all people. Established by ...

who is the subject of a Wikipedia article. For another index of individual Baháʼís with Wikipedia articles, see :Bahá'ís by nationality.

Family of Baháʼu'lláh

Ásíyih Khánum Ásíyih K͟hánum ( fa, ‎ 18201886) was the wife of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. She is also known by her titles of Navváb, the Most Exalted Leaf, Búyúk K͟hánum or Hadrat-i-K͟hánum. K͟hánum is a title usually ...

- known by her title Navváb *

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (; Persian language, Persian: ‎, 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921), born ʻAbbás ( fa, عباس), was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh and served as head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was later C ...

Bahíyyih Khánum Bahíyyih Khánum (1846 – July 15, 1932) was the only daughter of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, and Ásíyih Khánum. She was born in 1846 with the given name Fatimih Sultan, and was entitled "Varaqiy-i-'Ulyá" or "Great ...

Mírzá Mihdí Mírzá Mihdí ( fa, ‎ 1848 – June 23, 1870) was the youngest child of Baháʼí Faith founder Baháʼu'lláh and his wife Ásíyih Khánum. He was given the title ''G͟husn-i-Athar'' ("Purest Branch" or "Purer Branch").The elative is a ...

Shoghi Effendi Shoghí Effendi (; 1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957) was the grandson and successor of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, appointed to the role of Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. He created a series of teaching plans that over ...

Royalty

Malietoa Tanumafili II Malietoa Tanumafili II (4 January 1913 – 11 May 2007), addressed Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II, was the Malietoa, the title of one of Samoa's four paramount chiefs, and the head of state, or ''O le Ao o le Malo'', a position that he held for ...

(r. 1962-2007) - chieftain of the government of Samoa. *

Marie of Romania Marie (born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was the last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I. Marie was born into the British royal family. Her parents were Prince Alfred, D ...

(r. 1914-1927) - queen of Romania.

Artists

Bands

Common Market The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisbo ...

- hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest. *

Seals and Crofts Seals and Crofts was an American soft rock duo made up of James Eugene Seals (October 17, 1942 – June 6, 2022) and Darrell George "Dash" Crofts (born August 14, 1938) They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze (song), Summer Breeze" (1 ...

- American soft rock duo in the early 1970s.

Musicians

Mirza Abdollah Mirza Abdollah, also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani ( fa, میرزا عبدالله فراهانی) (1843–1918), was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history. Born in Shiraz, he and his young ...

- also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history * Randy Armstrong - American musician and composer *

Cindy Blackman Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter ...

- American jazz and rock drummer * Jeff and

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (born 1954) is an American sci-fi and fantasy author. Personal life Bohnhoff, mother of three, has been married since 1981 to Jeff Bohnhoff. The couple and their children are members of the Baháʼí Faith. She began her ...

Official Website statement of faith
- folk music performers *

Celeste Buckingham Celeste Rizvana Buckingham (born 3 May 1995) is a Slovak singer and songwriter. Buckingham began her career in 2011, after finishing as a finalist on the second season of ''Česko Slovenská SuperStar'', the joint Czech-Slovak version of ''Idol' ...

- singer/songwriter * Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer *

Vic Damone Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer and actor. He was best known for his performances of songs such as the number one hit " You're Breaking My Heart", an ...

- American singer and entertainer *

Khalil Fong Khalil Fong (Chinese: 方大同; born 14 July 1983) is a Hong Kong-based American singer-songwriter and producer. The biographical film La Bamba, about the life and career of Ritchie Valens, greatly influenced Fong's decision to become a mu ...

- American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter *

Hazel Scott Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a Trinidad-born American jazz and classical pianist and singer. She was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. She used her influence to improve the representat ...

- American pianist and activist * Russell Garcia - motion picture composer *

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but addi ...

- American jazz trumpeter *

Andy Grammer Andrew Charles Grammer (born December 3, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is signed to S-Curve Records. His debut album, ''Andy Grammer'', was released in 2011 and spawned the singles " Keep Your Head Up" and " Fi ...

- American singer-songwriter *

Red Grammer Robert Crane "Red" Grammer (born November 28, 1952) is an American singer and songwriter. Life and career The East Orange, New Jersey native started college as a pre-med student at Rutgers, but he transferred to Beloit College in Wisconsin, whe ...

- American singer-songwriter best known for children's music *

Anousheh Khalili Anousheh Khalili (born 1983) is an Iranian-American singer-songwriter. She is known for providing vocals and also appearing in the videos for Deep Dish's "Flashdance" and "Say Hello", the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 in th ...

- Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter *

Jack Lenz John Frederick "Jack" Lenz is a Canadian composer. He has written, performed, and produced music for film, television, and theatre, along with working on non-soundtrack album ventures. He is also the founder of Live Unity Enterprises, an organiza ...

- Canadian composer *

Kevin Locke Kevin Locke may refer to: *Kevin Locke (musician) (born 1954 - passed October 1, 2022), Native American musician *Kevin Locke (rugby league) (born 1989), New Zealand rugby league footballer See also *Kevin Lock (born 1953), English former football ...

- Lakota musician and dancer *

Mike Longo Michael Josef Longo (March 19, 1937 – March 22, 2020) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and author. Early life Longo was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to parents who had a musical background. His father played bass, his mother played organ at c ...

- American jazz pianist * James Moody - American jazz saxophone and flute player *

KC Porter Karl Cameron Porter, known as ''K.C'' (born June 27, 1962), is an American record producer, singer-songwriter, arranger and composer, winner of six Grammy Awards and two Latin Grammy Awards. Porter has worked on more than 40 albums with sales in ...

- American multi-Grammy winning producer *

Rachael Price Rachael Price (born August 30, 1985) is an American jazz and blues singer, known for her work as the lead singer for the band Lake Street Dive. She was born in Sydney, Australia and grew up in Tennessee, graduating from the New England Conservato ...

- jazz vocalist * Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer *

Flora Purim Flora Purim (born March 6, 1942) is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. She has recorded and performed with nu ...

- Brazilian American jazz singer *

Dan Seals Danny Wayland Seals (February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009) was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals and Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, who charted ...

- American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley *

Tierney Sutton Tierney Sutton (born June 28, 1963) is an American jazz singer. Career Sutton was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and attended ...

- American jazz singer *

Louie Shelton William Louis Shelton (born April 6, 1941) is an American guitarist and music producer. Biography During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s Shelton was a session musician working in recording studios around Hollywood. Among his more notable session wo ...

- American jazz guitarist and producer *

Charles Wolcott Charles Frederick Wolcott (September 29, 1906 in Flint, United States – January 26, 1987 in Haifa, Israel) was a music composer who served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Baháʼí Faith, between 19 ...

- pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies *

J. B. Eckl J. B. Eckl is a Canadian songwriter, producer, and recording artist. Eckl lives in Topanga Canyon, near Los Angeles, California. After doing some guitar session work with Latin pop producer K. C. Porter, Eckl signed as a staff songwriter for Por ...

- songwriter, producer, recording artist * Ryan Abeo - American singer/songwriter from Kentucky who performs under the moniker RA Scion. *

Huening Kai Tomorrow X Together (, ; Tomorrow by Together, stylized TOMORROW X TOGETHER), commonly known as TXT ( ), is a South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Entertainment, now known as Big Hit Music. The group consists of five members: Yeonjun, Soobin ...

- member of

Tomorrow X Together Tomorrow X Together (, ; Tomorrow by Together, stylized TOMORROW X TOGETHER), commonly known as TXT ( ), is a South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Entertainment, now known as Big Hit Music. The group consists of five members: Yeonjun, Soobin ...

Broadcasters

* Susan Aude Fisher News Anchor WIS Columbia SC

Filmmakers

* Mark Bamford - writer, director (''

Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( af, Kaap die Goeie Hoop ) ;''Kaap'' in isolation: pt, Cabo da Boa Esperança is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...

'') * Mary Darling - producer, ''

Little Mosque on the Prairie ''Little Mosque on the Prairie'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian television sitcom created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures, originally broadcast from 2007 to 2012 on CBC Television, CBC. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, and Indian ...

'' *

Clark Donnelly Clark Donnelly co-founded WestWind Pictures in 1989, leaving a post as vice-president of Regina's CKCK Television where he had worked for fifteen years. The company began by producing high-end, 16mm and 35mm commercial work, but quickly moved in ...

- producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie *

Phil Lucas Phil Lucas (1942 – February 4, 2007) was an American filmmaker of mostly Native American themes. He was an actor, writer, producer, director and editor for more than 100 films/documentaries or television programs starting as early as 1979 whe ...

- Native American filmmaker *

Harold Lee Tichenor Harold Tichenor (born January 17, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Canadian multi-award winning film producer and writer and an adherent of the Baháʼí Faith. Biography In the early 1960s, Harold Tichenor along with his brother Jim, dev ...

- film producer

Actors

Penn Badgley Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, 1986) is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series ''Gossip Girl'' (2007–2012) and as Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series ''You'' (2018� ...

(''Gossip Girl'', ''You'') *

Justin Baldoni Justin Louis Baldoni (born January 24, 1984) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for portraying Rafael Solano on The CW satirical romantic dramedy ''Jane the Virgin'' (2014–2019) as well as directing the films ''Five Feet Ap ...

(''Everwood'', ''Jane the Virgin'') *

Earl Cameron Earlston Jewitt Cameron, CBE (8 August 19173 July 2020), known as Earl Cameron, was a Bermudian actor who lived and worked in the United Kingdom. After appearing on London's West End stage, he became one of the first black stars in the Britis ...

(''Thunderball'', ''The Interpreter'') *

Omid Djalili Omid Djalili ( fa, امید جلیلی; born 30 September 1965) is a British actor, comedian and writer. Early life and education Djalili was born on 30 September 1965 in Chelsea, London, to Iranian Baháʼí parents. He attended Holland Park ...

- comedian and actor *

Barbara Hale Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television series ''Perry Mason (1957 TV series), Perry Mason'' (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award f ...

- Emmy Award winner (''Perry Mason'') *

Lois Hall Lois Grace Hall (August 22, 1926 – December 21, 2006) was an American actress. Early years Hall was born on August 22, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, the daughter of Lois Grace (née Lambert), a teacher, and Ralph Stewart Hall, a businessm ...

- American movie and television actress *

Lloyd Haynes Samuel Lloyd Haynes (September 19, 1934 – January 1, 1987) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the Emmy Award-winning series ''Room 222''. Biography A native of South Bend, Indiana, Haynes served in the U.S. Marines from ...

- actor and television writer * Jeremy Iversen - actor and writer *

Eva LaRue Eva Maria LaRue (; born December 27, 1966) is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles as Maria Santos on '' All My Children'' and Det. Natalia Boa Vista on ''CSI: Miami''. Early life LaRue was born in Long Beach, California ...

(''All My Children'', ''CSI: Miami'') *

Carole Lombard Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 2 ...

- ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame *

Inder Manocha Inder Manocha (born 1968) is a British Asian stand-up comedian and actor. Early life Born in London to Indian parents,Julie Mitchum Julie Mitchum (born Annette Mitchum, July 23, 1914 – February 21, 2003) was an American actress. Biography Mitchum was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to James Thomas Mitchum and Ann Harriet Gunderson. Unlike her younger brothers ...

- American Actress *

Pardis Parker Pardis Parker is a Canadian director, writer, actor, and comedian. He's the creator and star of Comedy Central's Mideast Minute, the co-creator of Uncivil, a new sitcom in development at NBC, and the creator of Free, a new comedic drama in develop ...

- Canadian comedian *

Alex Rocco Alex Rocco (born Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.; February 29, 1936 – July 18, 2015) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive, gravelly voice, he was often cast as villains, including Moe Greene in ''The Godfather'' (1972) and his Pr ...

- Emmy Award winner (''The Famous Teddy Z'', ''The Godfather'', ''The Wedding Planner'') *

Rehana Sultan Rehana Sultan (born 19 November 1950) is an Indian actress best known for her debut role in the acclaimed 1970 film '' Dastak'' which won her the National Film Award for Best Actress. A graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), ...

- Indian Actress *

Valeska Surratt Valeska Suratt (June 28, 1882 – July 2, 1962) was an American stage and silent film actress. Over the course of her career, Suratt appeared in 11 silent films, all of which are now lost, mainly due to the 1937 Fox vault fire. Early life and ...

- Silent Film Actress *

Travis Van Winkle Travis Scott Van Winkle (born November 4, 1982) is an American actor, best known for starring in the feature film ''Accepted'' (2006) and the 2021 third season of the Netflix streaming television series ''You'', portraying Trent Sutton-DeMarco i ...

- American actor, ''The Last Ship'', ''Hart of Dixie'' *

Rainn Wilson Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom ''The Office'', for which he earned three consecutive Emm ...

(''The Office'', ''Six Feet Under'')

Architects

Hossein Amanat Hossein Amanat ( fa, حسین امانت, born 1942) is an Iranian-Canadian architect. He is best known for being the architect of the Shahyad Tower (renamed as Azadi Tower after the 1979 revolution) in Tehran, Iran, the Baháʼí Arc building ...

(Azadi Tower, buildings of the Baháʼí Arc, House of Worship of Samoa) * Louis Bourgeois (House of Worship of Wilmette) *

Siamak Hariri Siamak Hariri, OAA, AAA, AIBC, FRAIC, RCA, Intl. Assoc. AIA (born 1958) is a Canadian architect and a founding partner of Hariri Pontarini Architects, a full-service architectural and interior design practice based in Toronto, Canada. Born in ...

(Baháʼí Temple of South America, House of Worship of South America) *

William Sutherland Maxwell William Sutherland Maxwell (November 14, 1874 – March 25, 1952) was a well-known Canadian architect and a Hand of the Cause in the Baháʼí Faith. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to parents Edward John Maxwell and Johan MacBean. Life ...

(Central Tower of the

Château Frontenac The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, commonly referred to as the Château Frontenac, is a historic hotel in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The hotel is situated in Old Quebec, within the historic district's Upper Town, on the southern side of Place d ...

; he was also a

Hand of the Cause Hand of the Cause was a title given to prominent early members of the Baháʼí Faith, appointed for life by the religion's founders. Of the fifty individuals given the title, the last living was ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá who died in 2007. Hands of ...

) *

Fariborz Sahba Fariborz Sahba ( fa, فريبرز صهبا, born 1948 Mashhad) is an Iranian-American architect, now living between Canada and the United States. Education Sahba has a master degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts from the University of Tehran ...

(Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)

Writers

Burl Barer Burl Barer (born 1947 in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author, literary historian and radio host. He is best known for his writings about the character Simon Templar. Career Fiction ''The Saint'' ''The Saint: A Complete History in ...

- true crime genre specializing, author of ''The Saint'', as well as Baháʼí oriented articles *

- fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats * André Brugiroux - traveller and author *

Barry Crump John Barrie Crump (15 May 1935 – 3 July 1996) was a New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man. Taken together his novels have sold more than a million copies domestically. Crump's 19 ...

- New Zealand comic author *

Rod Duncan Rod Duncan (born 1962, Wales) is a British writer. He grew up in Aberystwyth. He was identified as dyslexic at the age of eight and made his way through the education system by avoiding writing as far as possible. Duncan went on to study Mining ...

- author of the Gaslight series *

William S. Hatcher William S. Hatcher (1935–2005) was a mathematician, philosopher, educator and a member of the Baháʼí Faith. He held a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt U ...

- mathematician, philosopher, educator *

Robert Hayden Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-Americ ...

- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976–1978 *

Alain LeRoy Locke Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect ...

- author or books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts *

Guy Murchie Guy Murchie (Jr.) (25 January 1907 – 8 July 1997) was an American writer about science and philosophy: aviation, astronomy, biology, and the meaning of life. He was, successively, a world traveler; a war correspondent; a photographer, staff a ...

- philosopher, scientific writer, aviator *

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani __NOTOC__ Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is an Iranian writer who grew up in Uganda in the 1960s. She was educated at Dr Williams School, Dolgellau, United Kingdom and the United States. She taught European and American literature in Belgium, and later mov ...

- Iranian writer *

Arvid Nelson Arvid Nelson is an American comic book writer, best known for '' Rex Mundi''. Life and career Nelson started writing comics while at Dartmouth College, where he also converted to the Baháʼí Faith. After graduating in 1999 he became a productio ...

- comic book writer, creator of ''Rex Mundi'' *

Margaret Bloodgood Peeke Margaret B. Peeke (, Peck; April 8, 1838 – November 2, 1908) was an American traveler, lecturer, and author of the long nineteenth centurys. In her early life, Peeke taught at a public school and her own private school. Later, she taught Hermetic ...

- traveler, lecturer, author *

Wellesley Tudor Pole Wellesley Tudor Pole OBE (23 April 1884 – 13 September 1968) was a spiritualist and early British Baháʼí. He authored many pamphlets and books and was a lifelong pursuer of religious and mystical questions and visions, being particular ...

- British writer *

Jeffrey Reddick Jeffrey Reddick (born 12 July 1969) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known for creating the ''Final Destination'' franchise. Life and career Reddick was born in Jackson, Kentucky and attended Breathitt County High School. He ...

- creator of the ''

Final Destination ''Final Destination'' is an American horror franchise that includes five films, two comic books, and nine novels. It is based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for ''The X-Files'' television series, and was d ...

'' series * Holiday Reinhorn - writer *

Gholamreza Rouhani Sayyed Gholamreza Rouhani alias Ajjeneh ( fa, غلامرضا روحانی, 17 May 1897 – 29 August 1985) was an Iranian humorous poet. Mohamad Ali Jamalzadeh called him "the chief of humorous poets". Early life Gholamreza Rouhani was born on 2 ...

- 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." *

Adib Taherzadeh Adib Taherzadeh (29 April 1921 in Yazd, Iran – January 26, 2000) was a Baháʼí author who also served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Baháʼís, between 1988 and 2000. Biography Taherzadeh was ...

- literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts *

Sverre Holmsen Sverre Holmsen (1906–1992) was a Swedish writer born in Transvaal Colony, Transvaal, South Africa and brought up in Norway and Sweden. He became a Swedish nationality law, Swedish citizen 1912. In 1945 he married the artist and writer Agd ...

, a Swedish writer, environmentalist, traveller to

Tahiti Tahiti (; Tahitian ; ; previously also known as Otaheite) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is Austr ...

Other artists

Alice Pike Barney Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American Painting, painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Her two daughters were the writer and salon (gathering), salon hostess ...

- portrait artist * Laura Clifford Barney - philanthropist * Hussein Bikar - Egyptian painter *

Amelia Collins Amelia Engelder Collins (June 7, 1873 – January 1, 1962) was a prominent American Baháʼí from a Lutheran family. She became Baháʼí in 1919. She made large donations to several Baháʼí projects in Haifa, Israel, such as to the building ...

- philanthropist *

Sky Glabush Sky Glabush (born 1970)"Brai ...

"Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture"
''Canadian Art Magazine'', April 1, 2014. by David Balzer - Painter *

Bernard Leach Bernard Howell Leach (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Biography Early years (Japan) Leach was born in Hong Kong. His mother Eleanor (née ...

- potter *

Anis Mojgani Anis Mojgani (Persian: انیس مژگانی) (born June 13, 1977) is an American spoken word poet, visual artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. Mojgani has been characterized as a "geek genius" with "fiercely hopeful word arias." Ear ...

- spoken-word poet *

Tom Morey Tom Hugh Morey (15 August 1935 – 14 October 2021), also known by the moniker "Y", was a musician, engineer, surfboard shaper, and surfer responsible for several technological innovations that have heavily influenced modern developments in surfi ...

- musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company *

Fayard Nicholas Fayard Antonio Nicholas (October 20, 1914 – January 24, 2006) was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger brother Harold Nicholas made up the Nicholas Brothers tap dance Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by u ...

- American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers *

Rae Perlin Rae Perlin (September 11, 1910 – March 5, 2006) nurse and artist born in St. John's, Newfoundland, best known for her sketches and her work as an impressionist style painter. Biography Perlin, was born on September 11, 1910, the younges ...

(1910-2006) - artist *

Mishkín-Qalam Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Isfahání (surnamed Mis͟hkín-Qalam () meaning "jet-black pen"; 18261912) was a prominent Baháʼí and one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th-century Persia. He is the autho ...

- calligrapher *

Otto Rogers Otto Donald Rogers (19 November 1935 – 28 April 2019) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from rural Saskatchewan whose abstract works reflects his belief as a member of the Baháʼí Faith in unity in diversity. His work has been widely ex ...

- Painter *

Juliet Thompson Juliet Thompson (1873–1956) was an American painter, and disciple of Baháʼí Faith leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. She is perhaps best remembered for her book ''The Diary of Juliet Thompson'' though she also painted a life-sized portrait of ʻAbdu'l-Ba ...

- portrait artist *

Mark Tobey Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophi ...

- painter * Gwen Wakeling - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer

Athletes

Nelson Évora Nelson Évora GCIH (born 20 April 1984) is an Ivory Coast-born Portuguese track and field athlete who specializes in the triple jump. Évora is a former outdoor Olympic, World, and European triple jump champion. He has also won a European i ...

– Portuguese Olympic gold medal (Beijing, 2008) and gold medal recipient for the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump *

Cathy Freeman Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman (born 16 February 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the ninth-fastest woman of all time, set ...

– Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner * Matthew W. Bullock – American soccer player *

Khalil Greene Khalil Thabit Greene (born October 21, 1979) is an American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals. Baseball career High school and college Greene playe ...

– American professional baseball player *

David Krummenacker David Krummenacker (born May 24, 1975) is a professional track athlete. Background Krummenacker was born in El Paso, Texas. He graduated from Las Cruces High School in New Mexico in 1993 where he won several state track titles and also played ...

– Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998 *

Pellom McDaniels Pellom McDaniels III (February 21, 1968 – April 19, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). After his playing career, he became a professor and curator at Emory Univ ...

– American professional gridiron football player *

Luke McPharlin Luke McPharlin (born 1 December 1981) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the Fremantle Football Club between 2002 and 2015, after two seasons with the Hawthorn Football Cl ...

– Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers

Business

Thornton Chase Thornton Chase (February 22, 1847 – September 30, 1912) was a distinguished officer of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War, and the first western convert to the Baháʼí Faith. Chase was born in Springfield, Massach ...

- 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 Zhang Xin (, also known as Xin Zhang and Xin "Shynn" Zhang, born 1965) is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman, having primarily earned her fortune in the real estate industry. With her husband Pan Shiyi, she is the co-founder and former CEO of ...

and

Pan Shiyi Pan Shiyi (; born 14 November 1963) is a Chinese businessman and he is Co-Founder and former Chairman of SOHO China. He co-founded SOHO China with his wife Zhang Xin in 1995. Alongside his wife, Pan's net worth is estimated at $3.5 billion. He ...

- famous Chinese business couple * Zia Mody - Indian

corporate lawyer A corporate lawyer or corporate counsel is a type of lawyer who specializes in corporate law. Corporate lawyers working inside and for corporations are called in-house counsel. Roles and responsibilities The role of a corporate lawyer is to ...

and businesswoman.

Scholarly

Educators

Dwight W. Allen Dwight W. Allen (August 1, 1931 – October 16, 2021) was a professor of education, eminent scholar, and lifelong education reformist. He served as a professor and Director of Teacher Education at his ''alma mater'', the Stanford Graduate School ...

- professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group *

Alessandro Bausani Alessandro Bausani (Rome, May 29, 1921 – Rome, March 12, 1988) was a scholar of Islam, Arab and Persian studies, interlinguistics and the History of Religion, translating many works into Italian. He was one of the greatest Italian scholars of ...

- a leading Islamic studies scholar in Italy, professor Naples, Rome *

Ali Murad Davudi Dr Ali Murad Davudi (1922–1979?) was an 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 persecuti ...

- Tehran University professor who disappeared in 1979 * Donna Denizé - American poet and award-winning teacher * Mae C. Hawes - African-American professor, settlement worker, literacy educator *

Phoebe Hearst Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 – April 13, 1919) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist. Hearst was the founder of the University of California Museum of Anthropology, now called the Phoebe A. Hearst Mus ...

- first woman Regent of the University of California *

Auguste-Henri Forel Auguste-Henri Forel (1 September 1848 – 27 July 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants. For example, he is considered ...

- Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist *

ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan (29 April 1905 – 26 November 2003) was a prominent Iranian Baháʼí educator and author who was given the rank of Hand of the Cause in 1951. A native of Sabzivár in what was, at the time, Iran's Khurásán, ʻAl� ...

- Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys.

. *

Jagdish Gandhi Dr. Jagdish Gandhi (born 10 November 1936) is an Indian politician and Educationist who founded the City Montessori School with his wife Bharti Gandhi. He had served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Sikandra Rao c ...

- founder of

City Montessori School City Montessori School (CMS) is a co-educational English medium private school that offers education from Pre-school up to K-12 (Grade 12) level in Lucknow, India. The school was founded in 1959 by Dr. Bharti Gandhi and Dr. Jagdish Gandhi. It i ...

, Lucknow, India *

Firuz Kazemzadeh Firuz Kazemzadeh ( fa, فیروز کاظم‌زاده; October 27, 1924 – May 17, 2017) was a Russian-born American historian who was professor emeritus of history at Yale University. Biography Firuz Kazemzadeh was born in Moscow to an Iranian f ...

- historian, member of the

National Spiritual Assembly Spiritual Assembly is a term given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Baháʼí Faith. Because the Baháʼí Faith has no clergy, they carry out the affairs of the community. In addition to existing at the local level ...

* Patricia Locke - Lakota Native American educator * Dr.

- 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.

Journalism

Robert Sengstacke Abbott Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, 1870 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded ''The Chicago Defender'' in 1905, which grew to have the highest circulation of any black-owned newspaper i ...

Robert S. Abbott and the Chicago Defender: A Door to the Masses
by Mark Perry, printed in the October 10th, 1995 issue of the

Michigan Chronicle ''The Chronicle'' is a weekly African-American newspaper based in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in 1936 by John H. Sengstacke, editor of the ''Chicago Defender''. Together with the ''Defender'' and a handful of other African-American newspap ...

. - 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 Dorothy Wright Nelson (born September 30, 1928) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Education and career Born in San Pedro, California, Wright received an Artium Baccalaureus degre ...

- 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 - Indian Health care policy administrator *

Layli Miller-Muro Layli Miller-Muro ( ''née'' Bashir; born March 24, 1972) is an American attorney and activist. She is the founder and executive director of Tahirih Justice Center, a national non-profit dedicated to protecting women from human rights abuses suc ...

- Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center *

Mahmud Jamal Mahmud Jamal (born 1967) is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021. Jamal worked as a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt and taught law at McGill University and Osgoode Hall Law School before he w ...

- Judge on the Supreme Court of Canada *

Payam Akhavan Payam Akhavan (Persian: پیام اخوان) is an Iranian-born lawyer. He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. He is a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto and is a visiting adjunct at the ...

- prosecutor for United Nations tribunals and law professor * Robert B. Powers - 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 Udo Schaefer (October 19, 1926 – August 30, 2019) was a German lawyer and a theologian of the Baháʼí Faith The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion, essent ...

- A German lawyer and prolific author, specialising in Baháʼí apologetics and theology, notably ethics. *

Moojan Momen Moojan Momen is a retired physician and historian specializing in Baháʼí studies who has published numerous books and articles about the Baháʼí Faith and Islam, especially Shia Islam, including for Encyclopædia Iranica* * * the British Li ...

- 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 Robert Stockman (born October 6, 1953) is a scholar specializing in Baháʼí studies who has been called "the foremost historian of the Baháʼí Faith in America." He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University (B.A., 1975) and ...

- historian, theologian, apologist and biographer, noted especially for works on the Baháʼí community in North America. *

Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Mírzá Muḥammad ( fa, ميرزا أبوالفضل), or Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání (1844–1914), was the foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States. He is one of ...

- (Persian language: ميرزا أبوالفضل‎), or Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání (1844–1914) - was the foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States. * ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari - (1902 – 1972) was a 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. *

- (1922–1979?) was an 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.

Scientist

* Dr. Ron McNair - physicist and astronaut; died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986

Others

Leonora Armstrong Leonora Stirling Holsapple Armstrong (June 23, 1895 – October 17, 1980) was the first person of the Baháʼí faith to live in Brazil. She went as a Baháʼí pioneer to Brazil in 1921 when she was 25 years old. Later, in recognition of ...

- international traveler *

Richard St. Barbe Baker Richard St. Barbe Baker , Hon. LL.D. F.I.A.L., For.Dip.Cantab., ACF (9 October 1889 – 9 June 1982) was an English biologist and botanist, environmental activist and author, who contributed greatly to worldwide reforestation efforts. As a ...

- English environmentalist *

Lady Blomfield Sara Louisa Blomfield (née Ryan; 1859 – 1939) was a distinguished early member of the Baháʼí Faith in the British Isles, and a supporter of the rights of children and women.

- early Irish-British Baháʼí, and a supporter of the rights of children and women * Dr Frederick D'Evelyn - first Irish-born Baháʼí *

Constance Langdon-Davies Constance Rina Langdon-Davies (née Scott; 1898 – 1954) was one of the early Baháʼís in Britain. Born in 1898 as Constance Scott, she married author and journalist John Langdon-Davies in 1918. Because of this, he lost one of his scholarship ...

* Dhabihu'llah Mahrami - wrongfully accused Iranian Baháʼí, found dead in his cell in 2005 *

Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan Antony Patrick Andrew Cairne Berkeley Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan, 3rd Baronet of Carr Manor (2 February 1936 – 24 November 1991) was a British hereditary peer. He lived a playboy lifestyle and married five times. After multiple charges of fr ...

- British hereditary peer *

Nossrat Peseschkian Nossrat Peseschkian ( fa, نصرت پزشکیان; June 18, 1933 – April 27, 2010) lived in Germany since 1954. He was a specialist in neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. Peseschkian founded Positive Psychothera ...

- psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy * Parivash Rohani, Iranian-American Baha'i activist *

Hilda Yen Hilda Yank Sing Yen () or sometimes Yan, was one of the leading figures of Chinese American society for some decades. Coming from a high-profile family traditionally serving Chinese governments and society, she left the East while continuing to be ...

Baha'i World, XV, 1968-73, pp. 476-78."In Memoriam; Hilda Yank Sing Yen 1905 - 1970" by Mildred Mottahedeh. - internationalist, diplomat, aviator * Lidia Zamenhof - daughter of

L. L. Zamenhof L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 185914 April 1917) was an ophthalmologist who lived for most of his life in Warsaw. He is best known as the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. Zamenhof first dev ...

, inventor of

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

Other lists

* List of Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh * List of the Hands of the Cause of God * List of the Knights of Baháʼu'lláh * List of former Baháʼís

References

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