List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)

Activists, politicians, and military figures

Activists

• Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882-1985) – Native American singer and activist
• Bonnie Carroll – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
• Henry Hyde Champion (1859-1928) –Socialist activist and journalist
• Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) – Australian suffragette and social reformer.
• Sallie Holley (1818-1893) – Abolitionist and educator
• Olive Moorman Leader (1852-1930) – temperance reformer, suffragist, educator, and human rights activist
• Muriel Matters (1877-1969) – Australian suffragist and educator
• Roy Olmstead (1886-1966) – Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist
• Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862-1939) – American suffragist and author
• Marietta T. Webb (1864-1951) – Civil rights activist

Elected officials

• Nancy Witcher Astor (1879-1964) – second female Member of Parliament to be elected but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945
• Fred B. Balzar (1880-1934) – 15th Governor of Nevada
• Owen Brewster (1888-1961) – 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate
• Jocelyn Burdick (1922-2019), United States Senator
• Clarence A. Buskirk (1842-1926) – 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries
• Ralph Lawrence Carr (1887-1950) – 29th Governor of Colorado
• Thelma Cazalet-Keir (1899-1989) – British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Thomas M. Davis – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• David Dreier – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Bob Goodlatte – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• William Higgs (politician) (1862-1951) – Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia
• Gustav A. Hoff (1852-1930), American businessman and Mayor of Tucson.
• Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
• Charles H. Percy (1919-2011) – United States Senator from Illinois
• Lamar S. Smith – Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Victor Cazalet (1896-1943) – British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955) – Second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
• John D. Works (1847-1928) – United States Senator from California, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

Other political and military figures

• Mary Bartelme (1866-1954) – pioneering American judge and lawyer, referred to as "America's only woman judge"
• John Ehrlichman (1925-1999) – Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
• Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth (1909-1984) – British diplomat and politician
• Thomas P. Griesa (1930-2017) – United States district judge
• H.R. Haldeman (1926-1993) – White House Chief of Staff
• Septimus J. Hanna (1845-1921) – Judge and Civil War veteran, later Christian Science practitioner and teacher
• Cecil Harcourt (1892-1959) - British naval officer, de facto governor of Hong Kong
• Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940) – British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor
• Egil Krogh (1939-2020) – American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation
• Maurice Mansergh (1896-1966) - British admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
• Ursula Mueller – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in OCHA
• Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841-1907) – Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science
• Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore (1871-1962) – British soldier and politician
• David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie (1893-1968) - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier
• Henry Paulson – 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Oliver P. Smith (1893-1977), American Marine four star general who served in WWII and the Korean War
• Stansfield Turner (1923-2018) – Admiral and former CIA Director
• William Hedgcock Webster – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991

Business

• J. Robert Atkinson (1887-1964) – founder of the Braille Institute of America
• D. G. M. Bernard (1888-1975) - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.
• B. F. Brisac (1858-1940) – American business executive and humanitarian
• Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886-1946) – founder of The Seeing Eye
• Antony Fisher (1915-1988) – British businessman and think tank founder
• Lionel Fraser (1895-1965) – British banker
• Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-1980) – inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith
• Martha Matilda Harper (1857-1950) – American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising
• Robert Hotung (1862-1956), Businessman and philanthropist from British Hong Kong
• Ben Weingart (1888-1980) – American real estate investor and developer
• Charles Wyly (1933-2011), American businessman
• Sam Wyly, American businessman

Arts and entertainment

Artists

• Hilda Carline (1889-1950) – British post-impressionist painter
• Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) – American artist and film maker
• Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II
• Fougasse (1887-1965) – British cartoonist
• Mina Loy (1882-1996) – British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian
• Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) – British painter
• Violet Oakley (1874-1961) – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass
• Marcellus E. Wright Sr. (1881-1962) – American architect who designed the Altria Theater

Authors

• Richard Bach – author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Andrew Clements (1949-2019) – American author of children's books, including Frindle
• Willis Vernon Cole (1882-1939) – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine
• Heather Vogel Frederick – former journalist & editor, American historical fiction, fantasy, & contemporary fiction author of at least 20 books for young readers
• Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866-1939) — American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science
• Godfrey John (d. about 2003) – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher
• William D. McCrackan (1864-1923) – writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic
• J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)– American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
• Danielle Steel – American author

Entertainment figures

• Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) – Singer
• Kenny L. Baker (1912-1985) – singer and actor
• Valerie Bergere (1867-1938)– French-born actress of stage and screen
• Elisabeth Bergner (1949- 1986) - Austrian/British actress
• Carol Channing (1921-2019) – American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian
• Juanin Clay (1949-1995) – American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger
• Joan Crawford (190?-1977)– American film and television actress
• Doris Day (1922-2019) – American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
• Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) – Canadian-American actress
• Robert Duvall (1931-2026) – American actor
• Georgia Engel (1948-2019) – American film, television, and stage actress
• Edith Evans (1888-1976) - actress
• Horton Foote (1916-2009) – playwright and screenwriter
• Kelsey Grammer – actor
• Charlotte Greenwood (1890-1977) – actress and dancer
• Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) – English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer
• Corinne Griffith (1894-1979) – American actress, producer, author and businesswoman
• David Liebe Hart – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter
• Howard Hawks (1896-1977) – film director
• Peter Horton – actor
• Bud Jamison (1894-1944) – actor active from 1915 to 1944
• Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) – silent film star
• Val Kilmer (1959-2025) – American actor
• Matt Lauria (1982- ) -- American actor
• Eve McVeagh (1919-1997) – American actress
• Martin Melcher (1915-1968) – producer, third husband of Doris Day
• Conrad Nagel (1897-1970) – actor
• Antoinette Perry (1888-1946) – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards
• Mary Pickford (1892-1979) – Canadian-American actress; co-founder of the film studio United Artists; one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) – American actress, dancer, and singer
• Lilia Skala (1896-1994) – Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field
• Jean Stapleton (1923-2013) – actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker
• W. S. Van Dyke (1889-1943) – director of films, including The Thin Man
• King Vidor (1889-1982) – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award
• Anna May Wong (1905-1961) – American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star
• Alfre Woodard – actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat
• Alan Young (1919-2016) – English–American actor

Musicians

• Cornelius Bumpus (1945-2004) – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan
• Blanche Calloway (1902-1978) – bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister
• Alberta Neiswanger Hall (1870-1956) – composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for '
• Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) – jazz musician
• Bruce Hornsby – rock musician
• Kay Kyser (1905-1985) – American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter
• Everett Lee (1916-2022) – Conductor
• Michael Nesmith (1942-2021) – member of The Monkees,
• Ruth Barret Phelps (1899-1980) – theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor