List of Baháʼís
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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 :Category: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.{{cite news |title=Funeral and memorial service planned for Samoan head of state |url=http://news.bahai.org/story/543 |work=Baháʼí World News Service |author=Baháʼí International Community |date=14 May 2007 |access-date=14 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521090746/http://news.bahai.org/story/543 |archive-date=21 May 2007 |url-status=live}}
- Marie of Romania (r. 1914–1927) - queen of Romania.{{cite journal |last=Hassall |first=Graham |author2=Fazel, Seena |title=100 Years of the Baha'i Faith in Europe |journal=Baháʼí Studies Review |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=35–44 |url=http://bahai-library.com/hassall_fazel_100-years_europe#N_26_ |access-date=26 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006001312/http://bahai-library.com/hassall_fazel_100-years_europe#N_26_ |archive-date=6 October 2010 |url-status=live}}
Artists
= Bands =
- Common Market - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest.{{Cite web |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/bands/band.asp?bandID=521 |title=Details published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=2011-02-13 |archive-date=2019-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217233243/https://www.seattlepi.com/bands/band.asp?bandID=521 |url-status=dead }}
- Seals and Crofts - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s.[http://thompsonian.info/sc-landau-SR-1-71.html Introducing Seals and Crofts -Interview/Article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218153334/http://thompsonian.info/sc-landau-SR-1-71.html |date=2007-12-18 }} by Deborah Landau, from Stereo Review magazine (January 1971)
= 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{{Cite web|title=9 Star Media - The Best In Baha'i Inspired Media|url=https://9starmedia.com/doa|access-date=2020-12-06|website=9 Star Media|language=en}} - American musician and composer
- Cindy Blackman{{cite news |title=Cindy Blackman's got the beat |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=7 June 2008 |access-date=7 June 2008 |first=Ashante |last=Infantry |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Music/article/438047 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608115545/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Music/article/438047 |archive-date=8 June 2008 |url-status=live}} - American jazz and rock drummer
- Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff[http://www.mysticfig.com/faith.htm Official Website statement of faith] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714144537/http://www.mysticfig.com/faith.htm |date=2011-07-14 }} - folk music performers
- Celeste Buckingham - singer/songwriter
- Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer
- Vic Damone{{cite web |url=http://bahai-library.com/newspapers/2000/062900.html |title=Bahai News - Music, faith can guide us, a singer believes |work=bahai-library.com |access-date=2010-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408102208/http://bahai-library.com/newspapers/2000/062900.html |archive-date=2013-04-08 |url-status=dead }} - American singer and entertainer
- Khalil Fong{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com.hk/music/features/44115/the-changing-face-of-cantopop-khalil-fong.html |title=The Changing Face of Cantopop: Khalil Fong |work=Time Out Hong Kong |access-date=2015-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010640/http://www.timeout.com.hk/music/features/44115/the-changing-face-of-cantopop-khalil-fong.html |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead}} - American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
- Hazel Scott{{cite web|url=https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Hazel-Scott-A-Woman-a-Piano-and-a-Commitment-to-Justice-P10175.aspx|title=Hazel Scott: A Woman, a Piano, and a Commitment to Social Justice}}- American pianist and activist
- Russell Garcia{{cite web |url=http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/r_garcia.htm |title=The Time Machine Project- Russel and Gina Garcia |work=colemanzone.com |access-date=2007-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226191022/http://colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/r_garcia.htm |archive-date=2007-12-26 |url-status=dead }} - motion picture composer
- Dizzy Gillespie[http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/final_chorus/index.cfm?id=46 Remembering Dizzy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228140924/http://www.jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/final_chorus/index.cfm?id=46 |date=2008-12-28 }}, by Nat Hentoff, This article can be found in the September 2004 issue of JazzTimes - American jazz trumpeter
- Andy Grammer - American singer-songwriter
- Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music{{cite web |url=http://www.redgrammer.com/ |title=Red Grammer |work=redgrammer.com |access-date=2008-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220145304/http://www.redgrammer.com/ |archive-date=2008-12-20 |url-status=dead }}
- Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
- Jack Lenz[http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=81 Baháʼí Community of Canada, Canadian Baháʼís > In the News > Jack Lenz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041107154010/http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=81 |date=2004-11-07 }} - Canadian composer
- Kevin Locke - Lakota musician and dancer
- Mike Longo[http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3591&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Interviews: JazzTrenzz: Between Sets with Mike Longo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021154847/http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3591&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 |date=2006-10-21 }}JazzTrenzz By Karl Stober - American jazz pianist
- James Moody{{cite web |url=http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/moody.html |title=James Moody |work=melmartin.com |access-date=2007-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107024113/http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/moody.html |archive-date=2007-01-07 |url-status=dead}} - American jazz saxophone and flute player
- KC Porter[http://www.kcporter.com/kcbio.htm Biography on Official Webpage] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216053315/http://www.kcporter.com/kcbio.htm |date=2007-12-16 }} - American multi-Grammy winning producer
- Rachael Price - jazz vocalist{{Dead link|date=February 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.rachaelprice.net/%7ctitle=rachaelprice.net%7cwork=rachaelprice.net |title=rachaelprice.net}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer{{cite web |url=http://news.bahai.org/story/235 |title=Spirited choir wins encores |work=bahai.org |date=2 July 2003 |access-date=2008-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526195044/http://news.bahai.org/story/235 |archive-date=2007-05-26 |url-status=live}}
- Flora Purim[http://www.melt2000.com/page.html?chapter=0&id=28 Melt2000: Flora Purim (bio)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928142714/http://www.melt2000.com/page.html?chapter=0&id=28 |date=2007-09-28 }} - Brazilian American jazz singer
- Dan Seals[http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940817/08180765.htm Dan Seals has found a sense of hope since embracing Faith] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231082919/http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940817/08180765.htm |date=2007-12-31 }} by Frank Roberts, August 17, 1994, The Virginian-Pilot, Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc. - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
- Tierney Sutton{{cite web |url=http://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/musicians_in_performance/index.html |title=Belltown Bent |work=typepad.com |access-date=2007-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220092338/http://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/musicians_in_performance/index.html |archive-date=2008-02-20 |url-status=dead }} - American jazz singer
- Louie Shelton{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6458 |title=Louie Shelton (1941–) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas |encyclopedia=encyclopediaofarkansas.net |access-date=2014-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715121906/http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6458 |archive-date=2015-07-15 |url-status=live}} - American jazz guitarist and producer
- Charles Wolcott{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/30/obituaries/charles-f-wolcott-80-disney-film-composer.html |work=The New York Times |title=Charles F. Wolcott, 80, Disney Film Composer |date=30 January 1987 |access-date=10 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108081440/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/30/obituaries/charles-f-wolcott-80-disney-film-composer.html |archive-date=8 November 2017 |url-status=live}} - pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies
- J. B. Eckl{{cite web|url=https://bahaiteachings.org/author/jb-eckl/|title=J.B. Eckl}}- songwriter, producer, recording artist
- Ryan Abeo{{Cite web|title=7 Jul 2007, 20 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/443872873/?terms=Ryan%20abeo%20baha%27i&match=1|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}} - 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{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/penn-badgley-you-season-4-blake-lively-surviving-gossip-girl-1235521142/ | title='You' Don't Know Penn Badgley: Surviving 'Gossip Girl,' Staying Sober with Blake Lively and Finding Himself in a Sexy Serial Killer | date=15 February 2023 }} - American movie and television actor (Gossip Girl, You)
- Justin Baldoni[http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0905/life/stories/03life.htm Mail Tribune The 'Daze' of his life] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061011185927/http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0905/life/stories/03life.htm |date=2006-10-11 }} - American movie actor and director (Everwood, Jane the Virgin)
- Earl Cameron{{cite news |url=http://www.onecountry.org/e171/e17104as_Earl_Cameron_story.htm |title=Veteran actor Earl Cameron brings a sense of world citizenship to UN role |first=Robert |last=Weinberg |work=One Country |volume=17 |issue=1 |date=April–June 2005 |access-date=2007-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126084034/http://www.onecountry.org/e171/e17104as_Earl_Cameron_story.htm |archive-date=2007-11-26 |url-status=live}} (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
- Omid Djalili[http://payvand.com/news/07/mar/1171.html In The Arena With Omid Djalili] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214133451/http://payvand.com/news/07/mar/1171.html |date=2008-02-14 }} By Darius Kadivar, Payvand's Iran News, 3/12/07 - English comedian and actor
- Stu Gilliam - American movie actor and stand-up and TV comedian
- Barbara Hale{{cite news |title=Bahai faith teaches universal acceptance of God |work=Oregon Live |agency=Associated Press |via=uga.edu |date=30 December 2000 |url=http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/123000-1.html |access-date=27 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821123223/http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/123000-1.html |archive-date=21 August 2007 }} - American Emmy Award winning actress (Perry Mason)
- Lois Hall - American movie and television actress
- Lloyd Haynes - American actor and television writer
- Jeremy Iversenhttps://www.facebook.com/jeremyiversen/about?section=contact-info {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}} - American actor and writer
- Eva LaRue{{cite web |url=http://www.csiguide.com/cast.asp?csi%3D1888 |title=CSI:guide.com - Eva La Rue |access-date=2007-12-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211050421/http://www.csiguide.com/cast.asp?csi=1888 |archive-date=2007-12-11}} - American movie and television actress (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
- Carole LombardThe Baháʼí World 1940-1944 pp.635. Baháʼí Publishing Trust, Wilmette. - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Inder Manocha[http://news.bahai.org/story/300 Comedian wins major award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526074602/http://news.bahai.org/story/300 |date=2011-05-26 }} London, United Kingdom, 25 May 2004 (BWNS) - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
- Julie Mitchum{{cite news |title=Faith Overwhelms Former Agnostic |work=The Arizona Republic |date=June 9, 1966 |page=34 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17862517/profile_of_bahai_julie_mitchum_sater/ |via=Newspapers.com}} - American Actress
- Pardis Parker{{cite web |url=http://www.pardisparker.com/?p=448 |title=Pardis Parker |work=pardisparker.com |access-date=2009-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715114436/http://www.pardisparker.com/?p=448 |archive-date=2015-07-15 |url-status=dead }} - Canadian comedian
- Alex Rocco[http://www.uga.edu/bahai/2002/020704-1.html Obituary Sandie Rocco] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605235245/http://www.uga.edu/bahai/2002/020704-1.html |date=2011-06-05 }} Copyright Coastal View (Carpinteria Valley, CA, USA) 2002 - Emmy Award winning actor (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
- Rehana Sultan - Indian Actress
- Valeska Surratt{{cite book |url=http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/A-E/C/Chanler/FGTD.htm |title=From Gaslight to Dawn, an autobiography |first=Julie |last=Chanler |location=New York |publisher=New History Foundation |year=1956 |pages=152–153 |access-date=2008-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123025926/http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/A-E/C/Chanler/FGTD.htm |archive-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=live}} - Silent Film Actress
- Travis Van Winkle{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2qOSHAgvF-M9DH1u1r7jg |title=Travis Van Winkle |work=YouTube |access-date=2014-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311030140/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2qOSHAgvF-M9DH1u1r7jg |archive-date=2016-03-11 |url-status=live}} - American actor (The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie)
- O. Z. WhiteheadWeinberg, Robert (1998). "Obituary O. Z. Whitehead Actor and writer". Baháʼí Studies Review. Vol. 8. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. - American character actor (The Grapes of Wrath, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Lion In Winter)
- Rainn Wilson{{cite magazine |title=Rainn Wilson |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1597537,00.html |quote=Did being of the Baha'i faith help you understand the spirituality? As a Baha'i, I believe in all the spiritual beliefs: Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity. |magazine=Time |date=March 8, 2007 |access-date=24 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103044327/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1597537,00.html |archive-date=3 January 2009 |url-status=dead}} - American movie and television actor (The Office, Six Feet Under)
= Architects =
- Hossein Amanat{{cite web |url=http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=78 |title=Hossein Amanat |author=Baháʼí community of Canada |access-date=29 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041027082645/http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?SID=78 |archive-date=2004-10-27}} (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Baháʼí Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
- Louis Bourgeois[http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=68 Canadian Baha'i Community: Louis Bourgeois] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041027084810/http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?SID=68 |date=2004-10-27 }} (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{{cite web |url=http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=79 |title=Fariborz Sahba |author=Baháʼí community of Canada |access-date=24 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041027083902/http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?SID=79 |archive-date=2004-10-27}} (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)
= Writers =
- Burl Barer[http://adoraburl.typepad.com/burl_barer/2005/12/electric_menora.html Burl Barer, Brilliant Author] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061218165747/http://adoraburl.typepad.com/burl_barer/2005/12/electric_menora.html |date=2006-12-18 }} author's blog - 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[http://andre.brugiroux.free.fr/ André Brugiroux] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010417004834/http://andre.brugiroux.free.fr/ |date=2001-04-17 }} author's website - traveller and author
- Barry Crump{{Cite web |url=http://bahai-library.com/books/biblio/biography.autobio.html |title=" 'Crump Flags It Away'—Profile of Barry Crump, a New Zealand Baha'i" by Tony Reid, New Zealand Listener (Wellington, N. Z.) (Nov. 20, 1982): 21-22, 25, 26 |access-date=2010-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041521/http://www.bahai-library.com/books/biblio/biography.autobio.html |archive-date=2008-05-16 |url-status=dead }} - New Zealand comic author
- Margaret Danner - African-American poet
- Rod Duncan - author of the Gaslight series
- William S. Hatcher[http://www.bci.org/prophecy-fulfilled/challeng.htm reprint of open letter to fellow students on conversion] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070406230127/http://bci.org/prophecy-fulfilled/challeng.htm |date=2007-04-06 }} Pamphlet copyright 1965, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of America, Baha'i Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois - mathematician, philosopher, educator
- Robert Hayden[http://bahai-library.com/buck_robert_hayden Robert Hayden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918170700/http://bahai-library.com/buck_robert_hayden |date=2010-09-18 }} by Christopher Buck, Published in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature 2:4 pages 177-181, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004-01 - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978
- Alain LeRoy Locke[https://books.google.com/books?id=JR_DF2MRlsIC&pg=PA64 Alain Lock - Faith and Philosophy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704230258/http://books.google.com/books?id=JR_DF2MRlsIC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=&source=web&ots=L6IFfArY73&sig=wcv1_h0nNIeHUhi1A79qjTavf9k#PPA64,M1 |date=2014-07-04 }}, by Dr. Christopher Buck, Studies in Bábí and Baháʼí Religions, Vol 18, Anthony E. Lee General Editor, p.64 - {{ISBN|978-1-890688-38-7}} - author of books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
- Guy Murchie[http://bahai-library.com/murchie_pamphlet_reprint_article I am a Baháʼí] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006224526/http://bahai-library.com/murchie_pamphlet_reprint_article |date=2010-10-06 }} by Guy Murchie, Chicago Sunday Tribune, magazine section, July 13, 1958 - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani - Iranian writer
- Arvid Nelson{{cite web |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19223 |title=Arvid Nelson on "Rex Mundi's" Final Arc |quote=I converted to Baha'i in college, so religion is interesting to me. I think it's an important part of the human experience, and will always be a important part of my writing. |work=Comic Book Resources |date=18 December 2008 |access-date=18 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415225012/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19223 |archive-date=15 April 2009 |url-status=dead }} - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
- Margaret Bloodgood Peeke{{cite book|last1=Leonard|first1=John William|last2=Marquis|first2=Albert Nelson|title=Who's who in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eX0QOpl7iBQC&pg=PA1465|edition=Public domain|volume=5|year=1908|publisher=A.N. Marquis}} - traveler, lecturer, author
- Wellesley Tudor Pole{{cite web |url=http://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway |title=The Chosen Highway |publisher=Baha'i Publishing Trust Wilmette, Illinois |author=Lady Blomfield |access-date=1 October 2006 |date=1 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918222002/http://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway |archive-date=18 September 2010 |url-status=live}} - British writer
- Jeffrey Reddick - creator of the Final Destination series
- Holiday Reinhorn - writer{{Cite web |title=Holiday Reinhorn |work=Why Baha'i |publisher=National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States |date=October 1, 2009 |url=http://www.bahai.us/Holiday_Reinhorn |access-date=2010-07-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325224727/http://www.bahai.us/Holiday_Reinhorn |archive-date=March 25, 2010}}
- Gholamreza Rouhani - poet and satirist{{Cite news |last=Moghbelin |first=Farahmand |title=جایگاه شعر در جامعه بهائی |newspaper=pazhuheshnameh |url=http://www.pazhuheshnameh.org/content/view/218/151/ |access-date=2010-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727165549/http://www.pazhuheshnameh.org/content/view/218/151/ |archive-date=2011-07-27 |url-status=dead}}{{better source needed|date=November 2020}}
- William Sears{{Cite news |last=Plagenz |first=George |title=Saints and Sinners, Awaiting the Third Coming of Christ? |newspaper=Newspaper Enterprise Assn. |date=3 March 2006 |url=http://www.emeraldcoastbahais.org/docs/SaintsSinners.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091104225127/http://www.emeraldcoastbahais.org/docs/SaintsSinners.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2009}} - 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[http://www.onecountry.org/e114/e11413as_Taherzadeh.htm Adib Taherzadeh, member of the Universal House of Justice, passes away] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050429034611/http://www.onecountry.org/e114/e11413as_Taherzadeh.htm |date=2005-04-29 }} ONE COUNTRY, Volume 11, Issue 4 / January–March 2000 - 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[http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/794/eg6.htm The others- A court ruling providing official recognition to Bahais has done little to ease the debate on this Israeli-based cult] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105020558/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/794/eg6.htm |date=2008-01-05 }} by Gihan Shahine, Al-Ahram Weekly - Egyptian painter
- Amelia Collins - philanthropist
- Sky Glabush[https://canadianart.ca/reviews/sky-glabush-mkg-127/ "Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture"]. Canadian Art Magazine, April 1, 2014. by David Balzer - Painter
- Bernard LeachWeinberg, Robert (ed.) (1999). Spinning the Clay into Stars: Bernard Leach and the Baháʼí Faith, pp. 21 & 29. George Ronald, Oxford. {{ISBN|0-85398-440-9}} - potter
- Anis Mojgani[http://web.mac.com/zorky/notpoet/Anis_Mojgani_Bio.html Anis Mojgani Bio]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - spoken-word poet
- Tom Morey[http://www.theheyday.com/featured_article.php?page_get=335 Sultan of surf, baron of boogie (Apr 06)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214231003/http://www.theheyday.com/featured_article.php?page_get=335 |date=2008-02-14 }} - musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
- Fayard Nicholas[http://www.bahaistudy.net/node/77 Selected profiles of African-American Baháʼís] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009201254/http://www.bahaistudy.net/node/77 |date=2007-10-09 }} - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
- Rae Perlin (1910–2006) - artist
- Mishkín-Qalam{{cite book |author=Balyuzi, H.M. |year=1985 |title=Eminent Baháʼís in the time of Baháʼu'lláh |publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |isbn=0-85398-152-3 |pages=270–271}} - calligrapher
- Otto Rogers{{cite book |last=Ivanochko |first=Bob |year=2014 |title=The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |chapter-url=http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/rogers_otto_donald_1935-.html |chapter=ROGERS, OTTO DONALD (1935–) |publisher=University of Regina |access-date=2014-08-11}} - Painter
- Juliet Thompson - portrait artist
- Mark Tobey{{cite web |url=http://www.mark-tobey.com/ |title=Mark Tobey |access-date=8 July 2007 |publisher=Namen der Kunst |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929090353/http://www.mark-tobey.com/ |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead }} - painter
- Gwen Wakeling{{cite book |last=Boyles |first=Ann |title=The Baháʼí World, 1994-5 (Baháʼís and the Arts: Part II) |publisher=Baháʼí International Community |url=http://info.bahai.org/article-1-9-2-2.html |year=1995 |pages=243–272 |access-date=2012-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026122949/http://info.bahai.org/article-1-9-2-2.html |archive-date=2012-10-26 |url-status=dead}} - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer
Athletes
- Nelson Évora{{cite web |url=http://news.bahai.org/story/316 |title=Top sportsmen find support in faith |work=bahai.org |date=11 August 2004 |access-date=2007-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526074557/http://news.bahai.org/story/316 |archive-date=2011-05-26 |url-status=live}} - Portuguese Olympic gold medalist (Beijing, 2008) and gold medalist at the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump{{cite web |url=http://bahai-library.com/stamps/BahaiPersonalities.htm |title=Baha'i Philately |work=bahai-library.com |access-date=2013-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014247/http://bahai-library.com/stamps/BahaiPersonalities.htm |archive-date=2013-12-03 |url-status=dead }}
- Cathy Freeman - Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner
- Matthew W. Bullock - American football player
- Khalil GreeneDolbee, Sandi,[http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040820/news_1n20greene.html "Passion for game, faith drives Padres' Greene"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060108012217/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040820/news_1n20greene.html |date=2006-01-08 }}, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 September 2004. Accessed 10 August 2007. - American professional baseball player
- David Krummenacker{{cite web |url=http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/236 |title=Running the race of his life |work=bahaiworldnews.org |access-date=2008-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108151131/http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/236 |archive-date=2008-01-08 |url-status=dead }} - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
- Pellom McDaniels - American professional gridiron football player
- Luke McPharlin[http://www.australianrules.com.au/2004stories/mcpharlin.html A player and more] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050129171556/http://www.australianrules.com.au/2004stories/mcpharlin.html |date=2005-01-29 }} by Les Everett, Australian Rules, from the Fremantle Herald - 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.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Stockman |first=Robert H. |encyclopedia=Baháʼí Encyclopedia Project |title=Chase, Thornton (1847 – 1912) |year=2009 |publisher=National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States |location=Evanston, IL |url=http://www.bahai-encyclopedia-project.org/index.php?view=article&catid=37%3Abiography&id=46%3Achase-thornton-18471912&option=com_content&Itemid=74 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012014654/http://www.bahai-encyclopedia-project.org/index.php?view=article&catid=37%3Abiography&id=46%3Achase-thornton-18471912&option=com_content&Itemid=74 |archive-date=2016-10-12}}
- Mildred Mottahedeh - founder of Mottahedeh & Company
- Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966), American billionaire, founder of Paylocity{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/citys-newest-billionaire-doesnt-plan-die-one |title=The city's newest billionaire doesn't plan to die one |date=26 April 2019 |website=Crain's Chicago Business |access-date=3 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503114745/https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/citys-newest-billionaire-doesnt-plan-die-one |archive-date=3 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}
- Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-chinese-billionaire-developer-embraces-religion-2011-03-06 MarketWatch: Chinese Billionaire Embraces Religion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310044920/http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-chinese-billionaire-developer-embraces-religion-2011-03-06 |date=2011-03-10 }} (06-03-2011) - 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{{Cite web |last=Rasmussen |first=Frederick N. |date=May 26, 2001 |title=Julie O. Badiee, 54, professor of art at Western Md. College |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-julie-o-badiee-54-p/159333163/ |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=The Baltimore Sun |language=en-US |via=Newspapers.com}}
- 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.{{cite journal |journal=Baháʼí Studies Review |volume=9 |orig-year=1999 |year=2000 |issue=1 |first=Novin |last=Doostdar |url=http://bahai-library.com/bsr/bsr09/9G1_obituaries.htm |title=Obituaries |access-date=2010-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605084731/http://bahai-library.com/bsr/bsr09/9G1_obituaries.htm |archive-date=2011-06-05 |url-status=live}}
- Donna Denizé{{Cite web |url=http://www.american.edu/ocl/kay/staff.html |title=Staff of the Kay Spiritual Life Center of American University |access-date=2007-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222150640/http://www1.american.edu/ocl/kay/staff.html |archive-date=2009-12-22 |url-status=live}} - American poet and award-winning teacher
- Mae C. Hawes{{Cite web|last=Ruhe-Schoen|first=Janet|date=2020-10-23|title=The Ride: Black and White Unity in the Jim Crow South|url=https://bahaiteachings.org/ride-black-white-unity-jim-crow-south/|access-date=2022-02-07|website=Bahá'i Teachings|language=en-US}} - African-American professor, settlement worker, literacy educator
- Phoebe Hearst{{cite book |author=Effendi, Shoghi |title=God Passes By |location=Wilmette |publisher=Baháʼí Pub. Trust |year=1974 |isbn=0-87743-020-9}} - first woman Regent of the University of California
- Auguste-Henri Forel[http://www.bahai.ch/english/centenary_interlaken.html Swiss Baha'is Celebrate 100 Years of Contributing to World Civilization] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514081654/http://www.bahai.ch/english/centenary_interlaken.html |date=2008-05-14 }} Baha'i Switzerland, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Switzerland - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan - Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys. Hand of the Cause.
- Jagdish Gandhi{{cite web |title=Mr Jagdish Gandhi was inspired by following 10 persons in his life |publisher=jagdishgandhi.org |url=http://www.jagdishgandhi.org/inspiration.html |access-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226053515/http://www.jagdishgandhi.org/inspiration.html |archive-date=February 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}} - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
- Firuz Kazemzadeh{{cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/blog-post/firuz-kazemzadeh-life-well-lived|title=Firuz Kazemzadeh: A Life Well Lived|website=cfr.org|access-date=19 May 2017}} - 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[http://www.ucd.ie/press/newpre17.htm Instonian to be UCD's Professor of Irish] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221615/http://www.ucd.ie/press/newpre17.htm |date=2009-01-13 }}, UCD Press Releases - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin
- Todd Lawson - Emeritus Professor of Islamic thought at the University of Toronto.
= Journalists =
- Robert Sengstacke Abbott[http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/101095.html Robert S. Abbott and the Chicago Defender: A Door to the Masses] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512224401/http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/101095.html |date=2008-05-12 }} 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{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076869.stm |title=BBC NEWS - UK - Politics - Profile: Dr David Kelly |work=BBC |date=27 January 2004 |access-date=2007-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307111108/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076869.stm |archive-date=2008-03-07 |url-status=live}} - 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{{cite news |last=Garriganm |first=Mary |title=Left Hand Bull to lead nation's Baha'is |newspaper=Rapid City Journal |date=May 28, 2007 |url=http://rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/religion/left-hand-bull-to-lead-nation-s-baha-is/article_35fb8959-05d1-5b7b-a9ba-987f11dc9bce.html |access-date=November 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216084549/http://rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/religion/left-hand-bull-to-lead-nation-s-baha-is/article_35fb8959-05d1-5b7b-a9ba-987f11dc9bce.html |archive-date=February 16, 2018 |url-status=live}} - American Sicangu Lakota Health care policy administrator
- Sara Vander Stelt - shook the hand of a president ; former NGO worker
- Layli Miller-Muro{{cite web |url=http://www.tahirih.org |title=Tahirih Justice Center |work=tahirih.org |access-date=2019-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823184405/https://www.tahirih.org/ |archive-date=2019-08-23 |url-status=dead }} - former Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
- Mahmud Jamal{{Cite web |title=Canada's newest Supreme Court justice embraces an 'abiding belief in pluralism' {{!}} Globalnews.ca |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8334400/mahmud-jamal-supreme-court-canada-ceremony/ |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=Global News |language=en-US}} - 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.{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Peter |title=The Bábí and Baháʼí Religions: From Messianic Shiʻism to a World Religion |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1987 |isbn=0-521-30128-9}}
- 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{{Cite thesis |last=Venters |first=Louis E., the III |title=Most great reconstruction: The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 |publisher=Colleges of Arts and Sciences University of South Carolina |year=2010 |url=http://bahai-library.com/venters_bahai_south_carolina |isbn=978-1-243-74175-2 |id=UMI Number: 3402846 |access-date=2014-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203162508/http://bahai-library.com/venters_bahai_south_carolina |archive-date=2014-02-03 |url-status=live}}
- Peter J. Olver - Mathematician{Cite |title=The American Baha'i 1982|url={https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:The_American_Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD_Vol13_No5.pdf&page=20}}
Others
- Leonora Armstrong - Baháʼí pioneer and international traveler[http://bahai-library.com/mitchell_double_crusade Whatever happened to the Double Crusade?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008163009/http://bahai-library.com/mitchell_double_crusade |date=2010-10-08 }}, by Glenford Mitchell, Notable Talks., Bahai-Library.com, 10–05–1996
- Richard St. Barbe Baker[http://www.manofthetrees.org/HTMLS/inmemoriam.htm In Memoriam] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212112108/http://www.manofthetrees.org/HTMLS/inmemoriam.htm |date=2006-12-12 }}, Published in Baháʼí World, Vol. XVIII: 1979-1983, by Hugh C. Locke - English environmentalist
- Lady Blomfield{{cite web |url=http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/ispalin/heritage/blmem.htm |title=U.K. Baháʼí Heritage Site: A Memorial To Lady Blomfield |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907235216/http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/ispalin/heritage/blmem.htm |archive-date=2008-09-07}} - early Irish-British Baháʼí, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
- Dr Frederick D'Evelyn{{cite web |url=http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/ispalin/bc4ni/comm/65/fde.htm |title=Dr Frederick D'Evelyn's life |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228075047/http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/ispalin/bc4ni/comm/65/fde.htm |archive-date=2008-02-28}} - first Irish-born Baháʼí
- Helen Clevenger - murdered college student{{cite journal| last = Kolins| first = Steven| author-link =| title = The Life, Faith, and Death of Helen Clevenger (1917-1936)| journal = The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians| volume = 31| pages = 43–68| publisher =North Carolina Association of Historians| date = Sep 2023 |editor-first=Gael |editor-last=Graham| issn = 1078-4330| oclc = 52634307 }}
- Constance Langdon-Davies - among the early British converts to Baháʼí Faith
- Dhabihu'llah Mahrami{{cite web |date=23 December 2006 |access-date=31 October 2006 |url=http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Dec/27-622911.html |title=U.S. Condemns Iran's Persecution of Bahai Religious Prisoner |publisher=U.S. Department of State |author=Bureau of International Information Programs |author-link=Bureau of International Information Programs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031071328/http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Dec/27-622911.html |archive-date=31 October 2006}} - wrongfully accused Iranian Baháʼí, found dead in his cell in 2005
- Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6604750/Lord-Moynihan.html |title=Lord Moynihan |quote=In 1961 [Moynihan and his second wife] converted to the Persian faith of Baha'ism: 'It propagates Oneness of Mankind,' Moynihan explained. |access-date=2018-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614030427/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6604750/Lord-Moynihan.html |archive-date=2018-06-14 |url-status=dead}} - British hereditary peer
- Nossrat Peseschkian{{cite journal |title=Positive psychotherapy's theory of the capacity to know as explication of unconscious contents |journal=Journal of Religion and Health |date=Mar 2009 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=79–89 |first=TA |last=Cope |pmid=19229628 |doi=10.1007/s10943-008-9225-7|s2cid=40590260 }} - psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
- Parivash Rohani - Iranian-American Baha'i activist{{Cite web|title=Iranian Refugee Seeks Ways to Give Back to Her Adoptive Community - New American Economy|url=https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/feature/iranian-refugee-seeks-ways-to-give-back-to-her-adoptive-community/|access-date=2021-12-06|website=www.newamericaneconomy.org|date=27 August 2018}}
- 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{{cite web |url=http://bahai-library.com/dale_lidia_zamenhof |title=Lidia Zamenhof |work=bahai-library.com |access-date=2010-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223042557/http://bahai-library.com/dale_lidia_zamenhof |archive-date=2017-12-23 |url-status=live}} - daughter of L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto