Famous SDA's!!!

[Parade Orange]

RUDY HAHA!

u got it!

i was looking for Sybil [the book] being SDA and found this

i dont recall what or where

sorry

if it was accurate it would be a shorter list and less impressive:)

[Overaged]

How come I am not on the list? You don't have one single drywall taper on that list...but then, perhaps i should be on the Infamous Adventist List?

[Parade Orange]

OA

did u go over the list by line?

[bonnie]

OA

did u go over the list by line?

Clarence Thomas was raised by a SDA grandmother but is currently Catholic unless a very recent change

[Kountzer]

Originally Posted By: Kountzer

In the well known Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcom talks about his Mom becoming a seventh day adventist. It has been noted by others who have read the book that the sda church is the only institution that Malcolm spoke positively about.

Thanks for that.

Does he say how old he was at the time his mother became SDA?

I wonder if she was SDA the rest of her life.

I have the Autobiography but haven't read all of it yet.

I would be curious to know how well he knew SDA beliefs and the history of the church.

Malcolm just talked about his experiences with Adventists, about how they fed him and his family at pot lucks, and such. There' a famous quote from the book where he says that adventists were probably the nicest 'white people' he had ever encountered. That was a para phrase, but what he wrote was similar to that.

I don't think Malcolm ever became an adventist. I am familar with this famous adventist list. It is not very accurate.

[ClubV12]

I never put thought into the list one way or the other, an interesting foot note in the grand scheme of things, not much more.

[Overaged]

OA

did u go over the list by line?

Yes sir; I did. Why? Did I miss something?

[ClubV12]

Line by line? You mean like double checking and investigating each and every name to verify the truthfulness of the claim in each case.

Uh,,, no,,, I didn't, don't plan to, can't even imagine why someone would want to?

[Kountzer]

I've looked at this list, or lists like it a few times over the years. It is my observation that there are very few active members of this church who are also famous. Some are well known within the church, but those on the outside don't have a clue as to who they are. Quite a few on the list have had some connection with adventists at sometime in their lives. That doesn't equate to being a member.

Besides, it really doesn't matter, at the end of the day. Being famous and/or a member of the church will not get you saved into heaven.

[Parade Orange]

Music:

- Little Richard - pop singer

- Prince - pop singer (former SDA; now JW)

- Brian McKnight - R&B singer, songwriter (raised SDA)

- Salt - from rap group "Salt N Pepa" (convert to SDA)

- Charmaine - singer for Rebecca St James

- Kirk Franklin - Gospel music musician (lapsed)

- Joyce Bryant - jazz/blues singer famous during 1940s and 1950s

- Hugh Martin - Oscar-nominated and Tony-nominated songwriter; MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis (1944); Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; etc.

- Take 6 - Gospel music group comprised of SDAs (Alvin Chea, bass; Cedric Dent, baritone; Joey Kibble, second tenor; Mark Kibble, first tenor; Claude V. McKnight III, first tenor; David Thomas, second tenor)

- Virtue - female Gospel music group comprised of SDAs (Karima Kibble, Ebony Trotter, Heather Trotter and previously Negelle Sumpter: all attende Oakwood College)

- Jerome Fontamillas - guitarist, keyboard player for the popular rock band Switchfoot

-[font:Arial Black]Parade Orange- a.k.a Gay4Jesus ..plays the whistle (very well I might add)

- Rickey Smith - singer; finalist on popular TV show American Idol (2nd season)

- Joe Lutcher - band leader in 1940s and '50s; SDA convert; was major force in conversion of Little Richard to Seventh-day Adventism

- Sovory - Allen Sovory is the singer/songwriter of many songs in movies, including The Fan; Jason's Lyric; Blue Crush; The Sixth Man; American Wedding; backup singer for Lenny Kravitz; solo CD released in 1996 (son of SDA minister)

- Ivor Myers - rap singer who, with his groupm, the Boogiemonsters, converted to SDA; now SDA paster and religious TV show host

- Mervyn Warren Jr. - a founding member Take 6; also a solo artist; scored several major motion picure soundtracks; has written/produced music for Bette Midler, Boys II Men, Chicago and other major artists

- Jaci Velasquez - Christian contemporary singer; appeared in the movie Aye Papi

- John Stoddart - successful composer, song writer who has worked with major popular music artist (this is not the similarly-named famous photographer)

Film, Television, Radio:

- Mark Brown - African-American screenwriter, director, and producer known for such films as Barbershop (2002), Two Can Play That Game, and How To Be A Player

- Philip Michael Thomas - actor best for starring as "Rico Tubbs" on the 1980s TV series Miami Vice

- Clifton Davis - actor; star of TV series "That's My Mama" (1984), "Amen" (1986); star of "The Painting" (2001), more; also an ordained SDA pastor

- Darwood Kaye - actor, best known as "Waldo" in Little Rascals film serials and TV series (SDA convert and pastor, using birth name "Ken Smith")

- Chi McBride - actor, Boston Public TV series, etc. (raised SDA)

- Greg Mathis - famous no-nonsense TV judge, star of syndicated TV series "The Judge Greg Mathis Show" (lapsed)

- Terry Benedict - filmmaker; second unit 1st A.D. for "Terminator"; producer/director of "The Conscientious Objector" (about fellow SDA Desmond Doss)

- Paul Johnson - owner of a Christian music publishing company; first husband of TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford

Journalism:

- Joan Lunden - network broadcast journalist (raised SDA)

- Paul Harvey - nationally famous radio broadcaster (convert)

Sports:

- Magic Johnson - professional basketball player

- Archie Moore - heavy weight boxing champion (convert)

Literature:

- Art Buchwald - Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator and author (raised SDA)

- Richard Wright - one of first African-American writers to achieve literary fame (raised SDA)

- Arna Bontemps - important Harlem Renaissance writer, poet

- Rene Noorbergen - author of religious books, books about prophecy, incl.: Secrets of the Lost Races: New Discoveries of Advanced Technology in Ancient Civilizations; Ellen G. White, Prophet of Destiny; Jeane Dixon: My Life and Prophecies; The Ark File; Charisma of the Spirit: In Search of a Supernatural Experience: A Journalist Looks at the Tongues Movement; Nostradamus Predicts the End of the World; The Soul Hustlers; The Death Cry of an Eagle: The Rise and Fall of Christian Values in the United States; A.D. 2000: A Book About the End of Time; Invitation to a Holocaust: Nostradamus Forecasts World War III; Shadow of Terror; Noah's Ark Found: The End of the Search; You Are Psychic: The Incredible Story of David N. Bubar

Art:

- Harry Anderson - American painter, illustrator.

- Rachel Roy - fashion designer; married to hip hop Rocafella Records exec Damon Dash (raised SDA)

Activism:

- Sojourner Truth - abolitionist, black activist

- Paul Rusesabagina - hotel manager who saved hundreds from genocide in Rwanda; portrayed by Don Cheadle in Oscar-nominated role in movie "Hotel Rwanda" (2004)

- Malcolm X - influential African-American leader; led Black Muslim movement and Nation of Islam (raised SDA)

Health and Medicine:

- John Harvey Kellogg - influential doctor who studied health, developed exercise machines, marketed granola; John Kellogg hired his younger brother W.K. Kellogg, who invented breakfast cereal based on John's ideas and founded cereal company (later excommunicated)

- Desmond Doss - medic and conscientious objector who became a war hero; only Congressional Medal of Honor recipient who never used used weapons

- Ben Carson - accomplished neurosurgeon; first to successfully separate Siamese twins joined at head

- Dr. Leonard Bailey - pioneering surgeon

- William S. Sadler - (1875-1969) prominent physician, surgeon, psychiatrist, professor, and author of 42 books; key Urantia figure (former SDA)

- Milton Brown - Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Research Assistant Professor in Neurology, University of Virginia

- Shirley Mason - most famous psychiatric patient in history (multiple-personality disorder); portrayed in 1973 best-selling book Sybil and a 1976 TV movie

Politics:

- Jerry Lyle Pettis - (1916-1975) U.S. Representative from California, 1967-1975 (33rd District 1967-1975, 37th District 1975)

- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett - (1926- ) U.S. Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1993-.

- Robert Lee 'Bob' Stump - (1927- ) U.S. Representative from Arizona 3rd District, 1977-.

- Sheila Jackson Lee - controversial U.S. Representative from Houston's 18th District (Texas), Democrat (1995-)

- John Street - mayor of Philadelphia

- Don Chairez - district judge; unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. Representatve from Nevada in 1998

Religious Leaders:

- Ellen White - co-founder and early prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventists

- Joseph Bates - sailor, sea captain, and a co-founder of Seventh-day Adventist Church

- Admiral Barry Black - became the Senate Chaplain for the U.S. Senate in August 2003; first African-American and first SDA to hold this position

- Wintley Phipps - SDA pastor, singer; founder of the U.S. Dream Academy; multiple Grammy nominations; author of The Power of A Dream (1996)

- John Osborne - controversial SDA minister, criminal, hate-monger, and eventually repentant televangelist and author

- Victor Houteff - founder of the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, an SDA splinter group (1942-1961)

- David Koresh - former SDA who became Branch Davidian leader

Controversy:

- Elizaphan Ntakirutimana - chief SDA pastor of Rwanda who, along with his son Gerard, was one of the leaders of the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda

- Gerard Ntakirutimana - medical doctor and Seventh-day Adventist who was one of the leaders of the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda

- Lee Boyd Malvo - younger member of the "Beltway Sniper" duo that terrorized the Washington D.C. area in 2002 (former SDA; converted to Islam before he became a serial killer)

- Marcus Wesson - mass murderer who killed 9 family members in Fresno, California in March 2004

- Robert L. Yates, Jr. - most prolific serial killer in Washington state history

- Dayton Leroy Rogers - the "Molalla Forest Killer"; serial killer convicted of killing six women

- George Speight - leader of an indigenous uprising and non-violent coup attempt in Fiji, year 2000

- Kenneth Bianchi - "Hillside Strangler" serial killer (converted to SDA while in prison after his crimes)

Other:

- Eva Dykes - pioneering African-American female scholar, who broke through barriers by earning a Doctorate degree

- Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain - SDA pastor and his devout SDA wife who were wrongly accused of murdering their baby Azaria after a dingo snatched and killed her. Strong religious prejudice in their community helped lead to a wrongful conviction in what became one of Australia's most famous crime cases: the Dingo Trial of 1981-82. Elaine Hudson and John Hamblin starred as the couple in the 1983 TV movie "Who Killed Baby Azaria?" Miranda Otto and Craig McLachlan played the couple in the 2004 miniseries "Through My Eyes." Meryl Streep and Sam Neill starred as the couple in the 1988 movie "A Cry in the Dark."

In addition to the individuals listed above, some people who known within the SDA community, specifically because of their missionary efforts or other contributions to Seventh-day Adventism, include Hudson Taylor, John Tay (Pitcairn), Elsa Luukkanen (Finland), Luther Warren and Henry Fenner (SDA youth organization), Charles and Mary Andrews (student missionaries),

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Other names that have been submitted by readers of this website, but which we have not finished doing additional research and verification for:

Dawnn Lewis - actress

Malik Taylor ("Phife") - rap singer; group: Tribe Called Quest (lapsed)

John Davis - rap singer; group: Tribe Called Quest (converted to Islam)

Kim Fields - actress, "Facts of Life", "Living Single" (lapsed)

John Leguizamo - actor

Chilli - from pop group

A.C. Green - former Phoenix Suns basketball player

Clarence Thomas - U.S. Supreme Court justice

Bernie Casey - professional football player who became a film actor

Jonathan Slocumb - comedian best known for his frequent appearances on The Steve Harvey Show

Fred Hammond - musician

Lola Falana - singer, dancer, actress

Fred "Rerun" Berry - actor

Al Jarreau - singer

Busta Rhymes - rapper

Dick Rutan - pilot

Muhammad Ali (when he was still Cassius Clay) - boxer

Roy Rogers - actor

Dale Evans - actress

Alan Wiggins - noted Major League Baseball Player with the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles. Was a member of the Padres 1984 World Series Team. Still holds Padre's single-season stolen base record with 70 steals (reportedly raised SDA)

Gene Conley - dual-sports figure of the 1950s. Played simultaneously with both the Boston Red Soxs as a Pitcher, and Basketball for the Boston Celtics

Oliver Nelson - noted African-American Jazz, Film, and TV composer. Wrote theme for TV's Six Million Dollar Man

Dr. Frank Jobe - acclaimed sports surgeon with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and most noted for his "Tommy John Surgery" which has saved the careers of numerous athletes

Rod Perry - actor best known for his major supporting role as "Sergeant David 'Deacon' Kay" on the TV series "S.W.A.T." (1975-1976)

Jonathan Jackson - actor, singer with band Enation

Musical Groups: Isley Brothers, and Black Sabbath

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Interviews with Seventh-day Adventists, published in Dialogue

College and University Dialogue is a publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. According to the publication's official webpage, it is "an international journal of faith, thought, and action published by the Committee on Adventist Ministry to College and University Students (AMiCUS) in cooperation with the 13 world divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church." This journal regularly publishes brief interviews with Seventh-day Adventists. An index to these interviews, ranging in time from 1994 through 2003, can be found here: http://dialogue.adventist.org/indexes/profiles.htm

The individuals interviewed in this Dialogue series are listed below, along with descriptions of who they are as taken from the article title. Although none of these individuals are "famous" in the sense that they are well known by the general public, they are all accomplished Seventh-day Adventists.

Milton S. Afonso: Philanthropist in Brazil

Verna Alva: Psychiatrist in Peru

Mario H. Ochoa: Executive Vice President of ADRA International

Nathan Greene: Illustrator

Ljiljana (Lilo) Ljubisic: world-class athlete

Sir James Carlisle: Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda

Barry C. Black: chaplain in the U.S. Navy

Leona Glidden Running: linguist and scholar

Eardell Jenner Rashford: judge in New York City

Carlos Puyol Buil: Spanish pastor, scholar, and administrator

Ruy Vieira: creationist in Brazil

Grace Adeoye: university lecturer and researcher from Nigeria

Manuel Escorcio: South African international singer

Jon Johanson: record-breaking aviator from Australia

Linda Hyder Ferry: physician

Barbara Reynolds: Education Program Officer at UNICEF

Ben Carson: pediatric neurosurgeon

Grace Emori: Epidemiologist

Birgid Faber: Orthodontist in Germany

Raymond Romand: neurobiologist in France

Harrington Fitz Henry: engineer-evangelist in Jamaica

Ethel Nelson: pathologist and writer

Lars Justinen: illustrator and artist

Ghanem Fargo: businessman in Iraq

Beverly Wesner-Hoehn: musician

Gloria Diokno: university lecturer and researcher from the Philippines

Floyd Murdoch: birdwatcher

Phil MacKay: painter of wildlife in Australia

Sientje Mewengkang: congresswoman in Indonesia

Michael A. Comberiate: rocket scientist

Mary Grace Gellekanao: unique concert pianist

Alois Kinder: businessman in Austria

John Ap: urban and tourism planner

Gwendolyn Winston Foster: Philadelphia's Health and Fitness Czar

David Pendleton: in the Hawaii House of Representatives

Kay Kuzma: an Adventist with a passion for family values

Ebenezer Chambi: physician, health educator, and community leader

Phetsile Kholekile Dlamini: Swaziland Minister for Health and Social Welfare

Elfred Lee: Artist in Mexico

Alexei Sergeev: Art Historian in Russia

Mario Veloso: poet from Chile

Heber Pintos: illustrator from Uruguay

Marilyn C. Savedra: nurse educator and researcher

Nery Cruz: artist in Puerto Rico

Mary Atieno Ang'awa: judge in Kenya's High Court

Elizabeth Ostring: family physician in New Zealand

Rachel Nyirabu: Wife of Tanzania's Ambassador to the U.S.A

Marilyn Fargo: specialist in conciliation

Bertha Saveniers: sculptor in Belgium

Francisco de Araujo: conductor, producer, and artistic director

Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse: musician with an up-tempo vision for Adventist education

Victor Issa: sculptor

James Graves: Supreme Court judge in Mississippi

Ingrid Klamberg: Sex Counselor in Sweden

Siriporn Tantipoonwinai: educational leader in Thailand

Kim Gangte: member of parliament in India

Joan Coggin: international health-care ambassador

Pik-Yee Kan: family physician in Singapore

Yoshinori Namihira: optical fiber research engineer in Japan

Maria Lee: hotel manager in China

See also:

- Mark Wahlberg - despite rumors, apparently he is not a Seventh-day Adventist

RUDYWOOFS CAUGHT IT

[ClubV12]

Oh you the sneaky one Parade!

[John317]

Clarence Thomas was raised by a SDA grandmother but is currently Catholic unless a very recent change

Do you know if he attended SDA churches or if he was ever a member?

He testified before the Senate that he was brought up and educated as a Roman Catholic.

The wikipedia confirms this:

Quote:

He was raised Roman Catholic. (He later attended an Episcopal church with his first wife but returned to the Catholic Church in the late 1990s.) He considered entering the priesthood at the age of 16, and became the first black student to attend St. John Vianney's Minor Seminary (Savannah) on the Isle of Hope. He also briefly attended Conception Seminary College, a Roman Catholic seminary in Missouri.

His biography says:

Quote:

Thomas's father abandoned the family when Thomas was two years old. After the family house was destroyed by fire, Thomas's mother, a maid, remarried, and Thomas, then age seven, and his brother were sent to live with their grandfather. He was educated in Savannah, Georgia, at an all-African American Roman Catholic primary school run by white nuns and then at a boarding-school seminary, where he graduated as the only African American in his class. He attended Immaculate Conception Abbey in his freshman year of college and then transferred to Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1971. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1974.

[Parade Orange]

im glad we have check factors here

ummm fact checkers

i guess im living proof u cant believe everything u read :)

[John317]

That's sure the truth.

[John317]

- Jerry Lyle Pettis - (1916-1975) U.S. Representative from California, 1967-1975 (33rd District 1967-1975, 37th District 1975)

A Republican, he represented Loma Linda and other parts of Southern California in the US Congress.

His family was originally from Phoenix, Arizona, where he was born. He served for a while as an SDA evangelist.

He died while flying his private plane from Washington, D.C. to his home in California. His plane crashed in fog on the hills near Banning, CA.

His online biography says:

Quote:

Jerry Lyle Pettis (July 18, 1916 in Phoenix, Arizona – February 14, 1975, in Banning, California) was an American politician and a Congressman from California. He was also a rancher, teacher, aviator, religious leader, and businessman.

Educated in Arizona and California, he graduated from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California in 1938. He did graduate work at the University of Southern California and the University of Denver in 1939-1941 before becoming a businessman. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II and was a pilot for United Airlines.

In 1966, he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives representing California's 33rd congressional district until January 1975 and its 37th congressional district thereafter. He was re-elected in 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1974 before dying in a private aircraft crash in Banning, California on February 14, 1975. His wife, Shirley Neil Pettis, replaced him in the House when she won a special election on April 29, 1975.

He was a Seventh-day Adventist.

The Jerry Pettis Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital in Loma Linda, California was so named in his honor.

It was named after Jerry Pettis because he was the main one who arranged for the SDA church to donate a large amount of property to the government for the hospital.

[Overaged]

LOL; you must be talking about that whistle-blower dude..

[bonnie]

I can't find the article I originally read some years ago,but did find this

The religion of Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice

The religious affiliation (religion) of Clarence Thomas, an influential African-American and ... Clarence Thomas was also raised by a Seventh-day Adventist grandmother and ...

www.adherents.com/people/pt/Clarence_Thomas.html

[Parade Orange]

yes i play the whistle!

i play the 'STOP IM AN IRISH EARLY 20TH CENTURY COP' chorus

i play the 'LISTEN UP -IM A COACH AND GET THE LEAD OUT' sonnet

i play the 'IM THE LEADER OF THE MARCHING BAND IN A PARADE!' {WOOO HOOO} composition

and im working on my..

'THE MUSIC AT THE RAVE IS NOW KICKING AND I GOTTA SHOW MY APPRECIATION' aria

all using the same whistle!

talk about talent