Name five well-known people who share your religious beliefs.

[UrbScotty]

For my fellow Christians out there, name five people of your denomination. So, if you're Presbyterian, name five prominent Presbyterians; if you're Lutheran, identify five Lutherans; etc.

If someone else has posted five names from your religion, try to think of five more.

They can be living or deceased, and they don't have to be political figures, but they may be.

I'll start. I'm Catholic, as are/were:

Mother Teresa
Cynthia McKinney
John Kerry
Dennis Kucinich
Dick Durbin

(I can think of so many more ;-))

[Left Is Write]

1. Well....

I Googled "famous Lutherans", but I would need to know what synod they were before I knew if they shared my religious philosophy.

Edited to add, though, that I'm tossing William H. Macy into my list right now. I'm guessing he's a member of a more liberal synod. Adding Gretchen Carlson too. She's from MN (like me), and she's an ELCA Lutheran.

[tjdee]

2. Bono, Edge, Larry Mullen.....umm....some other people....

I'm not particularly a Lutheran or a Presbyterian.

I am a run of the mill Protestant--personally I think there are too many splinter groups.

I guess Jimmy Carter....um...his wife.... :silly:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. Jesus Christ, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dorthy Day, Phil Berrigan

[Siyahamba]

4. 5 well-known United Church of Christers:

Howard Dean
Bob Graham
Jim Jeffords
Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey

[More Than A Feeling]

5. Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, MLK Jr., Reverend Jim Wallis

Baptists all. (Not sure whether Bill, Al, and Jimmy are Southern Baptists or not, but I know that MLK and Jim Wallis are/were American Baptists, which is my particular sect(if that is the right word))

[yellowdogintexas]

10. Southern Baptist would be correct for Bill, Al, and Jimmy

[murielm99]

6. I am a United Methodist.

Hillary Clinton
Toni Braxton
Jackie Robinson
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth

[yellowdogintexas]

9. add: Jim Wright, Speaker of the House of Representatives of

the United States, Retired.

and a member of my personal United Methodist Congregation

also
Spanky McFarland (Spanky of Little Rascals, and was a great contributor to charitable causes in the local area) (on edit: McFarland was also a member of my church, he died shortly after I became a member and his funeral was in my church. When his photo was in the paper I realized I had been seeing him around the place a lot, just did not know who he was)

John and Elizabeth Edwards

also on edit: Ethan Hawke's grandparents go to my church and he shows up there a few times a year.

[supernova]

7. Famous Presbyterians

There are lots more, but I guess these are the main ones:


* John Knox - the founder of Scottish Presbyterianism
* Andrew Jackson - 7th U.S. President
* Woodrow Wilson - 28th U.S. President
* Dwight D. Eisenhower - 34th U.S. President
* John Witherspoon - only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence
* Aaron Burr - U.S. Vice-President under Jefferson; killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
* Rev. Aaron Burr - co-founder of Princeton University
* John Glenn - U.S. astronaut, Senator
* Jimmy Stewart - actor; star of such films as It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Krueger's Christmas
* Fred Rogers - host of influential children's show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" (also an ordained Presbyterian minister)
* Brian DePalma - film director; raised as a Presbyterian
* Mark Twain - American author

[lpbk2713]

8. Never really looked into it but ........ Geaorge Carlin

is the only one I can think of at the moment.

[zanne]

12. Isn't he a "Carlinist"?

I'm a "zanneist".

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

11. This is hard

Hakeem Olajuwon
Louis Farrakhan (but I am NOT in the Nation of Islam!)
Muhammad Ali
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Yusuf Islam

[joefree1]

13. Merlin, Anthony Quinn, Winston Churchill, Dali Lama,

Ghandi, Cybill Shepard ,Virginia Woolf, Brigitte Nielsen, Buhhda

Famous pagans.

OK, Winston is a bit of a stretch but he was made a member of The Ancient Order of Druids. Anthony Quinn is my favorite tree hugging Druid.

[steve2470]

14. famous Methodists

Tim Curry - actor
Toni Braxton - singer
Nina Simone - singer
Tori Amos
Wesley Branch Rickey

http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_meth.html

[Dukkha]

15. Richard Gere, Phillip Glass, Lisa Simpson, Yoda, Winnie the Poo,

here's a longer list of Zen Buddhists

* Penelope Cruz
* Tiger Woods
* Roberto Baggio
* Fabien Barthez
* Orlando Bloom
* Jackie Chan
* Leslie Cheung
* Leonard Cohen
* Watazumi Doso, Roshi
* Patrick Duffy
* Michael Everson
* William Clay Ford, Jr.
* Richard Gere
* Allen Ginsberg
* Philip Glass
* Ron Glass
* Herbie Hancock
* Kirk Hammett
* bell hooks
* Christmas Humphreys
* Phil Jackson
* Maxi Jazz
* Charles Johnson
* Jet Li
* Gustav Meyrink
* John Milius
* Anita Mui
* Kathleen Dee-Anne Norris
* Lisa Raye
* Keanu Reeves
* Steven Seagal
* Wayne Shorter
* Sesshu Toyo
* Oliver Stone
* Teresa Teng
* Tina Turner
* Alice Walker
* Faye Wong
* Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beastie Boys)
* Sally Yeh

[Donailin]

16. Bishop Desmund TuTu . . .

Dennis Kucinich
Fr.Phillip Berrigan (deceased)
St. Francis
Fr. Andrew Greeley


(I'm a cradle Catholic who's fallen away)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Episcopalian/Anglican

Desmond Tutu
Bishop Spong
Madeleine L'Engle
Terry Waite
Thurgood Marshall