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List of Jehovah's Witnesses
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List of famous Jehovah's Witnesses
A range of participation is represented by these individuals, from full activity to disaffiliation.
- George Benson - Jazz guitarist[1][2]
- Maurizio Bianchi - Musician[3][4]
- Valerie Campbell - Mother of Naomi Campbell[5]
- Tom Edur - Former NHL ice hockey player.[6]
- Ida Elizabeth Stover - Mother of United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower[7]
- Leopold Engleitner - Buchenwald concentration camp survivor and centenarian.[8]
- Benny Golson] - jazz musician & composer of "Killer Joe" October 8, 1980 Awake!
- Larry Graham - Sly & the Family Stone[9]
- Danny Granger - Indiana Pacers small forward[10]
- Teresa Graves - Reputedly the first black woman to play the lead in a police movie, also a singer.[11]
- Katherine Jackson - Michael Jackson's mother.[12]
- Rebbie Jackson - Singer, daughter of Katherine Jackson.[citation needed]
- Margaret Keane - Artist who said converting "changed her life."[13]
- Peter Knowles - Famous footballer in England who quit in 1970 at age 24 to join the Jehovah's Witnesses.[14]
- Brian Locking - Bass guitarist with The Shadows for eighteen months, but left to Jehovah's Witnesses activities.[15]
- Hank Marvin - Lead guitarist for The Shadows[16]
- David Meyers- Former NBA player[17]
- Bohumil Müller - Czech survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and underground religious leader under Communism.[18]
- Viv Nicholson - Major pools winner; later converted to become a Witness [19]
- Prince Converted in 2001[20]
- Theresa Krepsova
- Ken Richmond - The man who banged the gong in the Rank Organisation film logo from 1955 onward.[21][22]
- Selena Quintanilla Perez - Tejano singer
- Mickey Spillane - Novelist
- Damo Suzuki (Converted in the 1970s, current membership status uncertain)[23]
- Bobby Tambling - English footballer[24]
- David Thomas - Avant-garde rocker, "Jehovah's Kingdom come"[25][26]
- Jean Terrell - Replaced Diana Ross in the Supremes in 1970.[27]
- Reena Virk - Canadian child murder victim[28]
- Lark Voorhies - actress, Saved By The Bell[29]
- Lou Whitaker - Former MLB baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.[30]
- Sam Alvarado - Reedley High Site Tech[31]
- Jerry Hairston Jr. - Professional baseball player
- Scott Hairston - Professional baseball player
References
- ^ VH1
- ^ Times Online: "As a Jehovah's Witness I know my creator is watching me"
- ^ Staalplaat "Bianchi's 'nasty' period, before he became a Jehovah's Witness"
- ^ Paris Transatlantic magazine "Since his return in 1998 Bianchi – these days a fervent Jehovah’s Witness"
- ^ Vogue
- ^ Hockey Draft Cental
- ^ EISENHOWER: A FACTUAL SKETCH by TIME Magazine, April 07, 1952.
- ^ His website
- ^ Rolling Stone: "He is Larry Graham: veteran of Sly & the Family Stone, Woodstock survivor, chief engineer of Graham Central Station, devout Jehovah's Witness"
- ^ NBA.com "Raised in a religious household by Jehovah's Witnesses, Granger always has held himself to a high personal standard that has separated him from the pack."]
- ^ African American Registry
- ^ Interview: "One reason her feelings are so strong in this regard is that Jackson is a Jehovah's Witness and she strongly believes that the young are the most vulnerable to evil influences."
- ^ [1]
- ^ London Wolves bio: "He broke the hearts of all Wolves supporters, though, in 1969 when he hung up his boots to become a Jehovah’s witness."
- ^ Rockabilly bio says "he left the group so that he could devote all his time to his religious activities as a Jehovah's Witness"
- ^ Adherents.com "before this project was abandoned partly through Marvin's personal commitments - notably his indoctrination as a Jehovah's Witness in 1973, and the gradual reformation of the Shadows."
- ^ Awake! 1985 May 22, p. 21 My Basketball Career—Replaced by Two Other Loves!
- ^ 1972 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, 1971; 2000 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, 2000; Hesse, Hans, ed.: Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime 1933-1945. Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2001.
- ^ Adherents.com "No I don't buy lottery tickets or scratchcards. I am a Jehovah's Witness now and have been for 21 years. Gambling is not allowed."
- ^ MSNBC
- ^ UH.edu "Later in life he joined the Jehovah's Witnesses"
- ^ London Independent In later life, Ken Richmond converted to being a Jehovah's Witness and became a missionary in Malta
- ^ Japan Times
- ^ Times Online
- ^ Trouser Press
- ^ Britannica
- ^ Bio at "Soul Brother Records"
- ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia
- ^ Filmspot "Voorhies, a Jehovah's Witness, reportedly quit Days of Our Lives, because she believed a sex scene violated her religious principles."
- ^ NY Times by way of Adherents.com
- ^ KCUSD Website
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