Who are some famous Lutheran artists?
Ann-Margret, actressTroy Aikman, football player, quarterback Dallas Cowboys 12 yearsLoni Anderson, actressJohann Sebastian Bach, composer, organist, harpsichordistOrson Bean, actor, game show panelistIngrid Bergman, actressDietrich Bonhoeffer, theologianCarl E. Braaten, theologianTycho Brahe, nobleman, astronomerBeau & Jeff Bridges, actors, directorsRita Mae Brown, novelist, poet, screenwriter, activistMartin Bucer, Protestant reformer, influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican doctrinesRobert Bugbee, minister, current President of the Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC)Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989, TV personality, Fox & FriendsDana Carvey, actor, stand up comedianMartin Chemnitz, theologian, reformer, confessorHerbert W. Chilstrom, minister, first Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)Gary Cole, actorLucas Cranach the Elder, painterKirsten Dunst, actress, singer, model, Bring It On, SpidermanFred Durst, musician with Limp BizkitDale Earnhardt, race car driver and team ownerMyron Floren, musician, accordion The Lawrence Welk ShowPaul "Ace" Frehley, musician, former lead guitarist of KissJanie Fricke, country music singerGreta Garbo, actressLou Gehrig, baseball player, first baseman New York Yankees 17 yearsTheodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, writer, poet, cartoonistPaul Gerhardt, hymn writerGustavus Adolphus, King of SwedenKirsten Haglund, Miss America 2008 (ELCA)Dag Hammarskjöld, diplomat, economist, second Secretary-General of the United NationsGeorg Friedrich Händel, composer, The MessiahMark Hanson, minister, 3rd/current Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)Matthew C. Harrison, minister, 13th/current President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)Mary Hart, TV personality, formerly on Entertainment TonightDavid Hasselhoff, actor, singer, producer, bodybuilder, businessmanMarty Haugen, composer of liturgical musicOswald C.J. Hoffman, minister, broadcaster, speaker for The Lutheran Hour (LCMS)Felicity Huffman, actress, Desperate HousewivesHubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice-President under L.B. JohnsonWilliam Hurt, actor, Kiss of the Spider WomanSusan Johnson, minister, 4th/current National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)Laura Kaeppeler, Miss America 2012Immanuel Kant, Enlightenment philosopherGarrison Keillor, author, storyteller, radio personality, A Prairie Home Companion (NOT LUTHERAN but he plays one on the radio).Johannes Kepler, astronomerSøren Kierkegaard, philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, author, father of existentialismChris Kirkpatrick, singer with 'N SyncKris Kristofferson, country music singer-songwriter, musician, film actor, A Star Is BornTom Landry, football player, football coach, head coach Dallas Cowboys 29 yearsGary Larson, cartoonist, creator of "The Far Side"J.K. Wilhelm Loehe, minister, writer, founding sponsor of the Lutheran Church-Missouri SynodLyle Lovett, country singer-songwriter, actor (LCMS)Martin Luther, former monk, former priest, professor, major figure in the Protestant ReformationWilliam H. Macy, actor, writer, FargoBetty Mahmoody, public speaker, author Not Without My DaughterPaul L. Maier, historian, novelist, professor (LCMS)Paul O. Manz, composer for choir and organMartin E. Marty, minister, religious scholar-writerEdwin Meese III, attorney, U.S. Attorney General under ReaganPhilipp Melanchthon, reformer, collaborator with Luther, first systematic theologian of the ReformationJohn Mellencamp, rock singer-songwriter, musician, painterFelix Mendelssohn, composer, "Wedding March," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"Ethel Merman, actress, singerFrederick Muhlenberg, minister, first and third Speaker of the U.S. House of RepresentativesHenry Melchoir Muhlenberg, minister, patriarch of Lutheran Church in the U.S.Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian, ethicist, public intellectual, professorFriederich Nietzsche, philosopher, poet, composerPat O'Brien, host Fox Sports Radio, formerly Access Hollywood and CBS SportsMary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, actresses, Full House, fashion designers, businesswomenLinus Pauling, chemist, biochemist, peace activist, educatorJ.A.O. Preus II, minister, professor, 8th President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, major figure in the Seminex affair that split the Missouri Synod (LCMS)Dennis Rader, BTK serial killer (ELCA)William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, 1986-2005 (LCMS)Andy Richter, actor, comedian, sidekick of Conan O'BrienJean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopherCarl F. Schalk, composer, author (LCMS)Mark G. Schroeder, minister, 12th/current President of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., U.S. Army general, Commander of U.S. Central Command 1988-1991Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, missionaryJon Scott, TV news anchor, Fox's Happening Now(LCMS)Eric Sevareid, CBS journalistElke Sommer, actress, entertainerKevin Sorbo, actor, HerculesDavid Soul, actor, singer, Starsky and HutchKatie Stam, Miss America 2009 (LCMS)Krister Stendahl, theologian, professor, Bishop of Stockholm - Church of SwedenRick Steves, author, TV personality, Rick Steves' Europe (ELCA)Ethan Stiefel, ballet dancer/directorSally Struthers, actress, spokespersonTsar Peter III, Emperor and Autocrat of All the RussiasLiv Ullmann, actress, movie directorJohn Updike, novelist, poet, short story writer, criticJesse Ventura, pro wrestler, governor of MinnesotaKatharina von Bora, former nun, wife of Martin LutherMax von Sydow, film actor in Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and SpanishC.F.W. Walther, theologian, first President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)Roger Williams, popular music pianistBruce Willis, actor, Moonlighting, Die HardJohn Woo, film director, Mission Impossible 2Steve Zahn, actor, comedian (ELCA)