Baháʼís are followers of the Baháʼí Faith, a religion that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Family of Baháʼu'lláh Ásíyih Khánum – known by her title Navváb ʻAbdu'l-Bahá Bahíyyih Khánum Shoghi Effendi Mírzá Mihdí
Royalty Malietoa Tanumafili II (r. 1962–2007) – chieftain of the government of Samoa Marie of Romania (r. 1914–1927) – queen of Romania
Artists
Bands
Common Market – hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest Seals and Crofts – American soft rock duo in the early 1970sIntroducing Seals and Crofts -Interview/Article by Deborah Landau, from Stereo Review magazine (January 1971)
Musicians Mirza Abdollah – Iranian musician Randy Armstrong – American musician and composer Cindy Blackman – American jazz and rock drummer Celeste Buckingham – singer/songwriter Doug Cameron – Canadian musician/composer Vic Damone – American singer and entertainer Khalil Fong – American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter Hazel Scott- American pianist and activist Russell Garcia – motion picture composer Dizzy GillespieRemembering Dizzy , by Nat Hentoff, This article can be found in the September 2004 issue of JazzTimes – American jazz trumpeter Oluyemi Thomas - jazz saxophonist and clarinetist 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 LenzBaháʼí Community of Canada, Canadian Baháʼís > In the News > Jack Lenz – Canadian composer Kevin Locke – Lakota musician and dancer Mike LongoInterviews: JazzTrenzz: Between Sets with Mike Longo JazzTrenzz By Karl Stober – American jazz pianist James Moody – American jazz saxophone and flute player KC PorterBiography on Official Webpage – American multi-Grammy winning producer Rachael Price – jazz vocalist Tom Price – conductor, composer and producer Flora PurimMelt2000: Flora Purim (bio) – Brazilian American jazz singer Dan SealsDan Seals has found a sense of hope since embracing Faith 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 – American jazz singer Louie Shelton – American jazz guitarist and producer Charles Wolcott – pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies J. B. Eckl- songwriter, producer, recording artist Ryan Abeo – American singer/songwriter from Kentucky who performs under the moniker RA Scion
Broadcasters Susan Audé – news anchor at WIS, Columbia, South Carolina
Filmmakers
Mark Bamford – writer, director (Cape of Good Hope) Sabour Bradley – Australian filmmaker Mary Darling – producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie Clark Donnelly – producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie Phil Lucas – Native American filmmaker Harold Lee Tichenor – film producer
Actors
Penn Badgley – American movie and television actor (Gossip Girl, You) Justin BaldoniMail Tribune The 'Daze' of his life – American movie actor and director (Everwood, Jane the Virgin) Earl Cameron (Thunderball, The Interpreter) Omid DjaliliIn The Arena With Omid Djalili 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 – 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 – American actor and writer Eva LaRue – American movie and television actress (All My Children, CSI: Miami) Carole LombardThe Baháʼí World 1940-1944 pp.635. Baháʼí Publishing Trust, Wilmette. – American actress Inder ManochaComedian wins major award London, United Kingdom, 25 May 2004 (BWNS) – British stand-up comedian and actor Julie Mitchum – American actress Pardis Parker – Canadian comedian Alex RoccoObituary Sandie Rocco Copyright Coastal View (Carpinteria Valley, CA, USA) 2002 – American actor (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner) Rehana Sultan – Indian actress Valeska Surratt – American silent film actress Travis Van Winkle – American actor (The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie) O. Z. 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 – 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 BourgeoisCanadian Baha'i Community: Louis Bourgeois (House of Worship of Wilmette) Siamak Hariri (Baháʼí Temple of South America, House of Worship of South America) Fariborz Sahba (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)
Writers Burl BarerBurl Barer, Brilliant Author author's blog – true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Baháʼí oriented articles Maya Kaathryn BohnhoffOfficial Website statement of faith – fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats André BrugirouxAndré Brugiroux author's website – traveller and author Barry Crump – New Zealand comic author Margaret Danner – African-American poet Rod Duncan – author of the Gaslight series William S. Hatcherreprint of open letter to fellow students on conversion 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 HaydenRobert Hayden 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 Louise Profeit-LeBlanc - an Aboriginal Canadian storyteller, cultural educator, artist, writer, choreographer, and film script writer from the Northern Tutchone Nation Guy MurchieI am a Baháʼí by Guy Murchie, Chicago Sunday Tribune, magazine section, July 13, 1958 – 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 TaherzadehAdib Taherzadeh, member of the Universal House of Justice, passes away ONE COUNTRY, Volume 11, Issue 4 / January–March 2000 – member of the Universal House of Justice and author of 'The Revelation of Baha'u'llah', a four-volume series on the writings of Baha'u'llah Sverre Holmsen – Swedish writer, environmentalist, traveller to Tahiti
Other artists Alice Pike Barney – portrait artist Laura Clifford Barney – humanitarian, philanthropist, and representative of the International Council of Women to the League of Nations Hussein BikarThe others- A court ruling providing official recognition to Bahais has done little to ease the debate on this Israeli-based cult by Gihan Shahine, Al-Ahram Weekly – Egyptian painter Amelia Collins – philanthropist Sky Glabush"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. – potter, regarded as 'the Father of British Studio pottery' Anis MojganiAnis Mojgani Bio – spoken-word poet Tom MoreySultan of surf, baron of boogie (Apr 06) – musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company Fayard NicholasSelected profiles of African-American Baháʼís – 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 GreeneDolbee, Sandi,"Passion for game, faith drives Padres' Greene" , The San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 September 2004. Accessed 10 August 2007. – 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 McPharlinA player and more 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. Mildred Mottahedeh – founder of Mottahedeh & Company Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966), American billionaire, founder of Paylocity Zhang Xin and Pan ShiyiMarketWatch: Chinese Billionaire Embraces Religion (06-03-2011) – famous Chinese business couple Zia Mody – Indian corporate lawyer and businesswoman
Scholarly Academics and Educators Alain LeRoy LockeAlain Lock - Faith and Philosophy , by Dr. Christopher Buck, Studies in Bábí and Baháʼí Religions, Vol 18, Anthony E. Lee General Editor, p.64 - – philosopher and writer, known as the 'Dean of the Harlem Renaissance' Roland Faber – Theologian and Philosopher, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Theologian, Professor of scriptural interpretation at Oxford University Stanwood Cobb – Writer, as well as Founder and then president of the Association for the Advancement of Progressive Education Dwight W. Allen – American professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group Julie Oeming Badiee – American professor, Islamic art historian, educator Alessandro Bausani – linguist, translator and leading scholar of Iranian literature and religion Ali Murad Davudi (1922–1979?) – Iranian Baháʼí who was a member of the national governing body of the Baháʼís in Iran. He was a professor at Tehran University in the philosophy department. In 1979, during a wave of persecution toward Baháʼís, he was kidnapped and has been presumed a victim of state execution. Nava Ashraf - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, whose research focuses on development economics, behavioral economics, and family economics Donna Denizé – American poet and award-winning teacher Mae C. Hawes – African-American professor, settlement worker, literacy educator Phoebe Hearst – first woman Regent of the University of California Auguste-Henri ForelSwiss Baha'is Celebrate 100 Years of Contributing to World Civilization Baha'i Switzerland, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Switzerland – Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist Jagdish Gandhi – founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India Firuz Kazemzadeh – Professor of History at Yale University, member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States Patricia Locke – Lakota Native American educator Pellom McDaniels – professor, researcher, inventor, author, historian, curator at Emory University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Founder of Arts For Smarts Foundation.