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 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Marie of Romania (r. 1914–1927) - queen of Romania.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Artists

Bands

• Common Market - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Seals and Crofts - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s.<ref>Introducing Seals and Crofts -Interview/Article Template:Webarchive by Deborah Landau, from Stereo Review magazine (January 1971)</ref>

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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American musician and composer
• Cindy Blackman<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> - American jazz and rock drummer
• Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff<ref name="Official Website statement of faith">Official Website statement of faith Template:Webarchive</ref> - folk music performers
• Celeste Buckingham - singer/songwriter
• Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer
• Vic Damone<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American singer and entertainer
• Khalil Fong<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
• Hazel Scott<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>- American pianist and activist
• Russell Garcia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - motion picture composer
• Dizzy Gillespie<ref>Remembering Dizzy Template:Webarchive, by Nat Hentoff, This article can be found in the September 2004 issue of JazzTimes</ref> - American jazz trumpeter
• Andy Grammer - American singer-songwriter
• Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
• Jack Lenz<ref>Baháʼí Community of Canada, Canadian Baháʼís > In the News > Jack Lenz Template:Webarchive</ref> - Canadian composer
• Kevin Locke - Lakota musician and dancer
• Mike Longo<ref>Interviews: JazzTrenzz: Between Sets with Mike Longo Template:WebarchiveJazzTrenzz By Karl Stober</ref> - American jazz pianist
• James Moody<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American jazz saxophone and flute player
• KC Porter<ref>Biography on Official Webpage Template:Webarchive</ref> - American multi-Grammy winning producer
• Rachael Price - jazz vocalistTemplate:Dead link<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref>
• Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Flora Purim<ref>Melt2000: Flora Purim (bio) Template:Webarchive</ref> - Brazilian American jazz singer
• Dan Seals<ref>Dan Seals has found a sense of hope since embracing Faith Template:Webarchive by Frank Roberts, August 17, 1994, The Virginian-Pilot, Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.</ref> - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
• Tierney Sutton<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American jazz singer
• Louie Shelton<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> - American jazz guitarist and producer
• Charles Wolcott<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> - pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies
• J. B. Eckl<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>- songwriter, producer, recording artist
• Ryan Abeo<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American movie and television actor (Gossip Girl, You)
• Justin Baldoni<ref>Mail Tribune The 'Daze' of his life Template:Webarchive</ref> - American movie actor and director (Everwood, Jane the Virgin)
• Earl Cameron<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
• Omid Djalili<ref>In The Arena With Omid Djalili Template:Webarchive By Darius Kadivar, Payvand's Iran News, 3/12/07</ref> - English comedian and actor
• Stu Gilliam - American movie actor and stand-up and TV comedian
• Barbara Hale<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> - American Emmy Award winning actress (Perry Mason)
• Lois Hall - American movie and television actress
• Lloyd Haynes - American actor and television writer
• Jeremy Iversen<ref>https://www.facebook.com/jeremyiversen/about?section=contact-info Template:User-generated source</ref> - American actor and writer
• Eva LaRue<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American movie and television actress (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
• Carole Lombard<ref>The Baháʼí World 1940-1944 pp.635. Baháʼí Publishing Trust, Wilmette.</ref> - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Inder Manocha<ref>Comedian wins major award Template:Webarchive London, United Kingdom, 25 May 2004 (BWNS)</ref> - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
• Julie Mitchum<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> - American Actress
• Pardis Parker<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - Canadian comedian
• Alex Rocco<ref>Obituary Sandie Rocco Template:Webarchive Copyright Coastal View (Carpinteria Valley, CA, USA) 2002</ref> - Emmy Award winning actor (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
• Rehana Sultan - Indian Actress
• Valeska Surratt<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> - Silent Film Actress
• Travis Van Winkle<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> - American actor (The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie)
• O. Z. Whitehead<ref>Weinberg, Robert (1998). "Obituary O. Z. Whitehead Actor and writer". Baháʼí Studies Review. Vol. 8. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008.</ref> - American character actor (The Grapes of Wrath, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Lion In Winter)
• Rainn Wilson<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> - American movie and television actor (The Office, Six Feet Under)

Architects

• Hossein Amanat<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Baháʼí Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
• Louis Bourgeois<ref>Canadian Baha'i Community: Louis Bourgeois Template:Webarchive</ref> (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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)

Writers

• Burl Barer<ref>Burl Barer, Brilliant Author Template:Webarchive author's blog</ref> - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Baháʼí oriented articles
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff<ref name="Official Website statement of faith" /> - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
• André Brugiroux<ref>André Brugiroux Template:Webarchive author's website</ref> - traveller and author
• Barry Crump<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - New Zealand comic author
• Margaret Danner - African-American poet
• Rod Duncan - author of the Gaslight series
• William S. Hatcher<ref>reprint of open letter to fellow students on conversion Template:Webarchive Pamphlet copyright 1965, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of America, Baha'i Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois</ref> - mathematician, philosopher, educator
• Robert Hayden<ref>Robert Hayden Template:Webarchive by Christopher Buck, Published in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature 2:4 pages 177-181, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004-01</ref> - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978
• Alain LeRoy Locke<ref>Alain Lock - Faith and Philosophy Template:Webarchive, by Dr. Christopher Buck, Studies in Bábí and Baháʼí Religions, Vol 18, Anthony E. Lee General Editor, p.64 - Template:ISBN</ref> - author of books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
• Guy Murchie<ref>I am a Baháʼí Template:Webarchive by Guy Murchie, Chicago Sunday Tribune, magazine section, July 13, 1958</ref> - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
• Bahiyyih Nakhjavani - Iranian writer
• Arvid Nelson<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
• Margaret Bloodgood Peeke<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> - traveler, lecturer, author
• Wellesley Tudor Pole<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - British writer
• Jeffrey Reddick - creator of the Final Destination series
• Holiday Reinhorn - writer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Gholamreza Rouhani - poet and satirist<ref name="Moghbelin">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Better source needed
• William Sears<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> - 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<ref>Adib Taherzadeh, member of the Universal House of Justice, passes away Template:Webarchive ONE COUNTRY, Volume 11, Issue 4 / January–March 2000</ref> - 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<ref>The others- A court ruling providing official recognition to Bahais has done little to ease the debate on this Israeli-based cult Template:Webarchive by Gihan Shahine, Al-Ahram Weekly</ref> - Egyptian painter
• Amelia Collins - philanthropist
• Sky Glabush<ref name=balzer2>"Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture". Canadian Art Magazine, April 1, 2014. by David Balzer</ref> - Painter
• Bernard Leach<ref>Weinberg, Robert (ed.) (1999). Spinning the Clay into Stars: Bernard Leach and the Baháʼí Faith, pp. 21 & 29. George Ronald, Oxford. Template:ISBN</ref> - potter
• Anis Mojgani<ref>Anis Mojgani BioTemplate:Dead link</ref> - spoken-word poet
• Tom Morey<ref>Sultan of surf, baron of boogie (Apr 06) Template:Webarchive</ref> - musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
• Fayard Nicholas<ref>Selected profiles of African-American Baháʼís Template:Webarchive</ref> - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
• Rae Perlin (1910–2006) - artist
• Mishkín-Qalam<ref name="Balyuzi">Template:Cite book</ref> - calligrapher
• Otto Rogers<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> - Painter
• Juliet Thompson - portrait artist
• Mark Tobey<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - painter
• Gwen Wakeling<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer

Athletes

• Nelson Évora<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - Portuguese Olympic gold medalist (Beijing, 2008) and gold medalist at the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump<ref name="bahai-library.com">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Cathy Freeman - Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner
• Matthew W. Bullock - American football player
• Khalil Greene<ref>Dolbee, Sandi,"Passion for game, faith drives Padres' Greene" Template:Webarchive, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 September 2004. Accessed 10 August 2007.</ref> - American professional baseball player
• David Krummenacker<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
• Pellom McDaniels - American professional gridiron football player
• Luke McPharlin<ref>A player and more Template:Webarchive by Les Everett, Australian Rules, from the Fremantle Herald</ref> - 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.<ref name=BEP2009>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• Mildred Mottahedeh - founder of Mottahedeh & Company
• Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966), American billionaire, founder of Paylocity<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi<ref>MarketWatch: Chinese Billionaire Embraces Religion Template:Webarchive (06-03-2011)</ref> - 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<ref name="Rasmussen-2001">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Donna Denizé<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - American poet and award-winning teacher
• Mae C. Hawes<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - African-American professor, settlement worker, literacy educator
• Phoebe Hearst<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> - first woman Regent of the University of California
• Auguste-Henri Forel<ref>Swiss Baha'is Celebrate 100 Years of Contributing to World Civilization Template:Webarchive Baha'i Switzerland, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Switzerland</ref> - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
• ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan - Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys. Hand of the Cause.
• Jagdish Gandhi<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
• Firuz Kazemzadeh<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - 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<ref>Instonian to be UCD's Professor of Irish Template:Webarchive, UCD Press Releases</ref> - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin
• Todd Lawson - Emeritus Professor of Islamic thought at the University of Toronto.

Journalists

• Robert Sengstacke Abbott<ref name="door">Robert S. Abbott and the Chicago Defender: A Door to the Masses Template:Webarchive by Mark Perry, printed in the October 10th, 1995 issue of the Michigan Chronicle.</ref> - lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States.

Public service

• David Kelly<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> - 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<ref name="RapidCity">Template:Cite news</ref> - American Sicangu Lakota Health care policy administrator
• Sara Vander Stelt - shook the hand of a president; former NGO worker
• Layli Miller-Muro<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - former Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
• Mahmud Jamal<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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

• Niky Kamran - Mathematician<ref>Template:Cite</ref>
• Peter J. Olver - Mathematician<ref>Template:Cite</ref>

Others

• Leonora Armstrong - Baháʼí pioneer and international traveler<ref>Whatever happened to the Double Crusade? Template:Webarchive, by Glenford Mitchell, Notable Talks., Bahai-Library.com, 10–05–1996</ref>
• Richard St. Barbe Baker<ref>In Memoriam Template:Webarchive, Published in Baháʼí World, Vol. XVIII: 1979-1983, by Hugh C. Locke</ref> - English environmentalist
• Lady Blomfield<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - early Irish-British Baháʼí, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
• Dr Frederick D'Evelyn<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - first Irish-born Baháʼí
• Helen Clevenger - murdered college student<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Constance Langdon-Davies - among the early British converts to Baháʼí Faith
• Dhabihu'llah Mahrami<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - wrongfully accused Iranian Baháʼí, found dead in his cell in 2005
• Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - British hereditary peer
• Nossrat Peseschkian<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> - psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
• Parivash Rohani - Iranian-American Baha'i activist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Hilda Yen<ref name="MottaMem">Baha'i World, XV, 1968-73, pp. 476-78."In Memoriam; Hilda Yank Sing Yen 1905 - 1970" by Mildred Mottahedeh.</ref> - internationalist, diplomat, aviator
• Lidia Zamenhof<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> - 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