List of Bahá'ís

The following list sets down the name of each member of the Bahá'í Faith who is the subject of a Wikipedia article. For another index of individual Bahá'ís with Wikipedia articles, see Category:Bahá'ís by nationality.

Central figures

• `Abdu'l-Bahá
• Bahá'u'lláh

Other lists

• List of Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh
• List of the Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá
• List of the Hands of the Cause of God
• List of the Knights of Bahá'u'lláh

Family of Bahá'u'lláh

• Ásíyih Khánum, known by her title Navváb
• Bahiyyih Khánum
• Mírzá Mihdí
• Shoghi Effendi

Royalty

• O le Ao o le Malo Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa^[1]
• Queen Marie of Romania^[2]

Artists

Bands

• Common Market^[3] - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest
• Seals and Crofts^[4] - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s

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
• Cindy Blackman^[5] - American jazz and rock drummer
• Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff^[6] - folk music performers
• Celeste Buckingham - singer/songwriter
• Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer
• Vic Damone^[7] - American singer and entertainer
• Khalil Fong^[8] - American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
• Russell Garcia^[9] - motion picture composer
• Dizzy Gillespie^[10] - American jazz trumpeter
• Andy Grammer - American singer-songwriter
• Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music^[11]
• Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
• Jack Lenz^[12] - Canadian composer
• Kevin Locke - Lakota musician and dancer
• Mike Longo^[13] - American jazz pianist
• James Moody^[14] - American jazz saxophone and flute player
• KC Porter^[15] - American multi-Grammy winning producer
• Rachael Price - jazz vocalist^[16]
• Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer^[17]
• Flora Purim^[18] - Brazilian American jazz singer
• Larry Robinson - songwriter and member of The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band
• Dan Seals^[19] - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
• Tierney Sutton^[20] - American jazz singer
• Louie Shelton^[21] - American jazz guitarist and producer
• Charles Wolcott^[22] - pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies

Broadcasters

• Susan Aude Fisher News Anchor WIS Columbia SC

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
• Mithaq Kazimi - director, producer (16 Days in Afghanistan)
• Phil Lucas - Native American filmmaker
• David S. Ruhe - producer of many films, winner of the Golden Reel, Venice Film Festival & The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain^[23]
• Harold Lee Tichenor - film producer
• Ken Zemke - TV producer

Actors

• Anthony Azizi^[24] (24)
• Justin Baldoni^[25] (Everwood)
• Earl Cameron^[26] (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
• Omid Djalili^[27] - comedian and actor
• Barbara Hale^[28] - Emmy Award winner (Perry Mason)
• Lois Hall^[29] - American movie and television actress
• Lloyd Haynes^[30] - actor and television writer
• Eva LaRue^[31] (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
• Carole Lombard^[32] - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Inder Manocha^[33] - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
• Pardis Parker^[34] - Canadian comedian
• Alex Rocco^[35] - Emmy Award winner (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
• Rehana Sultan - Indian actress
• Valeska Surratt^[36] - silent film actress
• Travis Van Winkle^[37] - American actor, The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie
• Rainn Wilson^[38] (The Office, Six Feet Under)

Architects

• Hossein Amanat^[39] (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Bahá'í Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
• Fariborz Sahba^[40] (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)
• Louis Bourgeois^[41] (House of Worship of Wilmette)
• William Sutherland Maxwell (Central Tower of the Château Frontenac; he was also a Hand of the Cause)

Writers

• Burl Barer^[42] - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Bahá'í oriented articles
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff^[6] - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
• André Brugiroux^[43] - traveller and author
• Barry Crump^[44] - New Zealand comic author
• William S. Hatcher^[45] - mathematician, philosopher, educator
• Robert Hayden^[46] - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976–1978
• Alain LeRoy Locke^[47] - author or books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
• Nemat Mokhtarzada - writer and poet of Afghan origin
• Guy Murchie^[48] - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
• Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
• Arvid Nelson^[49] - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
• Wellesley Tudor Pole^[50] - British writer
• Jeffrey Reddick - creator of the Final Destination series
• Holiday Reinhorn - writer^[51]
• Gholamreza Rouhani - poet and satirist^[52]
• Mahvash Sabet^[53] - poet and Baha'i prisoner of conscience^[54] in Iran
• Nathan Rutstein^[55] - author
• William Sears^[56] - author of multiple books
• Nayyer Sina - poet and songwriter^[52]
• Adib Taherzadeh^[57] - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts
• Roger White,^[58] poet

Other artists

• Alice Pike Barney - portrait artist
• Hussein Bikar^[59] - Egyptian painter
• Amelia Collins - philanthropist
• Bernard Leach^[60] - potter
• Mishkín-Qalam^[61] - calligrapher
• Anis Mojgani^[62] - spoken-word poet
• Tom Morey^[63] - musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
• Fayard Nicholas^[64] - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
• Rae Perlin (1910-2006) - artist
• Juliet Thompson - portrait artist
• Mark Tobey^[65] - painter
• Gwen Wakeling^[66] - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer

Athletes

• Nelson Évora^[67] - Portuguese Olympic gold medal (Beijing, 2008) and gold medal recipient for the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump
• Cathy Freeman - Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner
• Khalil Greene^[68] - shortstop for the Texas Rangers
• Aaron Hooper - Canadian footballer (soccer) who last played in the Canadian Soccer League
• David Krummenacker^[69] - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
• Luke McPharlin^[70] - Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers
• Ramak Safi - Iranian footballer (soccer) who plays for the Jacksonville Armada in the NASL

Business

• Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi^[71] - Chinese business couple

Educators

• Dwight W. Allen - professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group
• Ali Murad Davudi^[72] - Tehran University professor who disappeared in 1979
• Donna Denizé^[73] - American poet and award-winning teacher
• Auguste-Henri Forel^[74] - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
• Jagdish Gandhi^[75] - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
• Phoebe Hearst^[76] - first woman Regent of the University of California
• Patricia Locke - Lakota Native American educator
• Joseph Watson^[77] - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin

Public Service

• David Kelly^[78] - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
• Jacqueline Left Hand Bull^[79] - Indian Health care policy administrator
• Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
• Robert B. Powers - 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.
• Payam Akhavan - prosecutor for United Nations tribunals and law professor

Journalism

• Robert Sengstacke Abbott^[80] - lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States

Science

• Dr. Ron McNair - physicist and astronaut; died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986^[81]

Others

• Leonora Armstrong - international traveler^[82]
• Richard St. Barbe Baker^[83] - English environmentalist
• Lady Blomfield^[84] - early Irish-British Bahá'í, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
• Dr Frederick D'Evelyn^[85] - first Irish born Bahá'í
• Nelson Évora^[86]
• Dhabihu'llah Mahrami^[87] - wrongfully accused Iranian Bahá'i, found dead in his cell in 2005
• Layli Miller-Muro^[88] - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
• Nossrat Peseschkian^[89] - psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
• Andrew Robeman^[86]
• Hilda Yen^[90] - internationalist, diplomat, aviator
• Lidia Zamenhof^[91] - daughter of Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto

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41. Canadian Baha'i Community: Louis Bourgeois
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43. André Brugiroux author's website
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External links

• Famous Bahá'ís and Appreciations of the Faith

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