Who are some famous Lutheran artists?

Answer 1

Ann-Margret, actress

Troy Aikman, football player, quarterback Dallas Cowboys 12 years

Loni Anderson, actress

Johann Sebastian Bach, composer, organist, harpsichordist

Orson Bean, actor, game show panelist

Ingrid Bergman, actress

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian

Carl E. Braaten, theologian

Tycho Brahe, nobleman, astronomer

Beau & Jeff Bridges, actors, directors

Rita Mae Brown, novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Martin Bucer, Protestant reformer, influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican doctrines

Robert Bugbee, minister, current President of the Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC)

Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989, TV personality, Fox & Friends

Dana Carvey, actor, stand up comedian

Martin Chemnitz, theologian, reformer, confessor

Herbert W. Chilstrom, minister, first Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

Gary Cole, actor

Lucas Cranach the Elder, painter

Kirsten Dunst, actress, singer, model, Bring It On, Spiderman

Fred Durst, musician with Limp Bizkit

Dale Earnhardt, race car driver and team owner

Myron Floren, musician, accordion The Lawrence Welk Show

Paul "Ace" Frehley, musician, former lead guitarist of Kiss

Janie Fricke, country music singer

Greta Garbo, actress

Lou Gehrig, baseball player, first baseman New York Yankees 17 years

Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, writer, poet, cartoonist

Paul Gerhardt, hymn writer

Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden

Kirsten Haglund, Miss America 2008 (ELCA)

Dag Hammarskjöld, diplomat, economist, second Secretary-General of the United Nations

Georg Friedrich Händel, composer, The Messiah

Mark 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 Tonight

David Hasselhoff, actor, singer, producer, bodybuilder, businessman

Marty Haugen, composer of liturgical music

Oswald C.J. Hoffman, minister, broadcaster, speaker for The Lutheran Hour (LCMS)

Felicity Huffman, actress, Desperate Housewives

Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice-President under L.B. Johnson

William Hurt, actor, Kiss of the Spider Woman

Susan Johnson, minister, 4th/current National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)

Laura Kaeppeler, Miss America 2012

Immanuel Kant, Enlightenment philosopher

Garrison Keillor, author, storyteller, radio personality, A Prairie Home Companion (NOT LUTHERAN but he plays one on the radio).

Johannes Kepler, astronomer

Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, author, father of existentialism

Chris Kirkpatrick, singer with 'N Sync

Kris Kristofferson, country music singer-songwriter, musician, film actor, A Star Is Born

Tom Landry, football player, football coach, head coach Dallas Cowboys 29 years

Gary Larson, cartoonist, creator of "The Far Side"

J.K. Wilhelm Loehe, minister, writer, founding sponsor of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

Lyle Lovett, country singer-songwriter, actor (LCMS)

Martin Luther, former monk, former priest, professor, major figure in the Protestant Reformation

William H. Macy, actor, writer, Fargo

Betty Mahmoody, public speaker, author Not Without My Daughter

Paul L. Maier, historian, novelist, professor (LCMS)

Paul O. Manz, composer for choir and organ

Martin E. Marty, minister, religious scholar-writer

Edwin Meese III, attorney, U.S. Attorney General under Reagan

Philipp Melanchthon, reformer, collaborator with Luther, first systematic theologian of the Reformation

John Mellencamp, rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter

Felix Mendelssohn, composer, "Wedding March," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"

Ethel Merman, actress, singer

Frederick Muhlenberg, minister, first and third Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, minister, patriarch of Lutheran Church in the U.S.

Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian, ethicist, public intellectual, professor

Friederich Nietzsche, philosopher, poet, composer

Pat O'Brien, host Fox Sports Radio, formerly Access Hollywood and CBS Sports

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, actresses, Full House, fashion designers, businesswomen

Linus Pauling, chemist, biochemist, peace activist, educator

J.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'Brien

Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher

Carl 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 1988-1991

Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, missionary

Jon Scott, TV news anchor, Fox's Happening Now(LCMS)

Eric Sevareid, CBS journalist

Elke Sommer, actress, entertainer

Kevin Sorbo, actor, Hercules

David Soul, actor, singer, Starsky and Hutch

Katie Stam, Miss America 2009 (LCMS)

Krister Stendahl, theologian, professor, Bishop of Stockholm - Church of Sweden

Rick Steves, author, TV personality, Rick Steves' Europe (ELCA)

Ethan Stiefel, ballet dancer/director

Sally Struthers, actress, spokesperson

Tsar Peter III, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias

Liv Ullmann, actress, movie director

John Updike, novelist, poet, short story writer, critic

Jesse Ventura, pro wrestler, governor of Minnesota

Katharina von Bora, former nun, wife of Martin Luther

Max von Sydow, film actor in Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish

C.F.W. Walther, theologian, first President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)

Roger Williams, popular music pianist

Bruce Willis, actor, Moonlighting, Die Hard

John Woo, film director, Mission Impossible 2

Steve Zahn, actor, comedian (ELCA)

Answer 2

Here are few some famous Lutheran artist:

Shane Battier, NBA (Memphis Grizzlies)

Tom Brady, NFL (New England Patriots)

Bill Cartwright, NBA (former player and coach)

Tom Landry, NFL (former Dallas Cowboys head coach)

Andy North, PGA