List Of Baháʼís

The following list sets down the name of each member of the Baháʼí Faith 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 - 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 - 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 - American jazz and rock drummer
* Jeff and Maya Kaathryn BohnhoffOfficial Website statement of faith
- folk music performers
* 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.
* Huening Kai - member of Tomorrow X Together
* Huening Bahiyyih - member of Kep1er

Broadcasters

* Susan Audé - news anchor at WIS, Columbia, South Carolina

Filmmakers

* Mark Bamford - writer, director (''Cape of Good Hope'')
* 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 - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
* Inder Manocha - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
* Julie Mitchum - American Actress
* Pardis Parker - Canadian comedian
* Alex Rocco - Emmy Award winning actor (''The Famous Teddy Z'', ''The Godfather'', ''The Wedding Planner'')
* Rehana Sultan - Indian Actress
* Valeska Surratt - 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)
* William Sutherland Maxwell (Central Tower of the Château Frontenac; he was also a Hand of the Cause)
* 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
* Alain LeRoy Locke - author of books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
* 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 - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts
* Sverre Holmsen - Swedish writer, environmentalist, traveller to Tahiti

Other artists

* Alice Pike Barney - portrait artist
* Laura Clifford Barney - philanthropist
* Hussein Bikar - Egyptian painter
* Amelia Collins - philanthropist
* Sky Glabush"Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture"
''Canadian Art Magazine'', April 1, 2014. by David Balzer - Painter
* Bernard Leach - potter
* 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

Educators

* 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 - a leading Islamic studies scholar in Italy, professor Naples, Rome
* 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.
* 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
* ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan - Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys. Hand of the Cause.
* Jagdish Gandhi - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
* Firuz Kazemzadeh - historian, member of the National Spiritual Assembly
* Patricia Locke - Lakota Native American educator
* Dr. 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.

Journalists

* Robert Sengstacke AbbottRobert 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. - 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
* Sara Vander Stelt - shook the hand of a president ; former NGO worker
* 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 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.

Scientists

* Dr. Ron McNair - physicist and astronaut who died in the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986
* Peter J. Olver - Mathematician

Others

* Leonora Armstrong - Baháʼí pioneer and international traveler
* Richard St. Barbe Baker - English environmentalist
* 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 Baha'i activist
* Hilda YenBaha'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, inventor of Esperanto

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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