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 .

Central figures

*The Báb
*Bahá'u'lláh
*`Abdu'l-Bahá

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

*King Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa [cite news | title = Funeral and memorial service planned for Samoan head of state | url = http://news.bahai.org/story/543 | work = Bahá'í World News Service | author = Bahá'í International Community | date = 2007-05-14 | accessdate = 2007-05-14]
*Queen Marie of Romania [cite journal | last = Hassall | first = Graham | coauthors = Fazel, Seena | title = 100 Years of the Baha'i Faith in Europe | journal = Baha'i Studies Review | volume = 8 | issue = 3 | pages = pp. 35–44 | url = http://bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=hassall_fazel_100-years_europe&language=All#N_26_ | accessdate = 2007-04-26 ]

Artists

Bands

*Common Market [Details published in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer". [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/bands/band.asp?bandID=521] ] - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest
*Seals and Crofts [ [http://thompsonian.info/sc-landau-SR-1-71.html Introducing Seals and Crofts -Interview/Article] by Deborah Landau, from "Stereo Review" magazine (January 1971)] - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s

Musicians

*Dizzy Gillespie [ [http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/final_chorus/index.cfm?id=46 Remembering Dizzy] , by Nat Hentoff, This article can be found in the September 2004 issue of "JazzTimes"] - American jazz trumpeter
*Khalil Fong [ [http://www.bcmagazine.net/hk.bcmagazine.issues/bcmagazine_webissue253/06-livemusic.html BC Magazine - Interviews - Soul Messenger] ] - soul singer and songwriter from Hong Kong.
*Flora Purim [ [http://www.melt2000.com/page.html?chapter=0&id=28 Melt2000: Flora Purim (bio)] ] - Brazilian American jazz singer
*KC Porter [ [http://www.kcporter.com/kcbio.htm Biography on Official Webpage] ] - American multi-grammy winning producer
*Buffy Sainte-Marie - Academy Award-winning Canadian musician/composer
*Russell Garcia [ [http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/r_garcia.htm Russell Garcia] ] - motion picture composer
*Mike Longo [ [http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3591&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Interviews: JazzTrenzz: Between Sets with Mike Longo] "JazzTrenzz" By Karl Stober] - American jazz pianist
*Dan Seals [ [http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940817/08180765.htm Dan Seals has found a sense of hope since embracing Faith] by Frank Roberts, August 17, 1994, "The Virginian-Pilot", Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.] - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
*Tierney Sutton [ [http://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/musicians_in_performance/index.html Musicians in performance - January 26, 2007] ] - American jazz singer
*James Moody [ [http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/moody.html Interview with James Moody by Bob Bernotas] ] - American jazz saxophone and flute player
*Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff [ [http://www.mysticfig.com/faith.htm Official Website statement of faith] ] - folk music performers
*Vic Damone [ [http://bahai-library.com/newspapers/062900.html Music, faith can guide us, a singer believes - By Pat Kinney] ] - American singer and entertainer
*Jack Lenz [ [http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=81 Bahá'í Community of Canada, Canadian Bahá'ís > In the News > Jack Lenz] ] - Canadian composer
*Benny Cassette [ [http://news.bahai.org/story/572 Hip-hop hits spiritual chords] "Los Angeles", 12 August 2007 (BWNS)] - TV and hip hop producer
*Larry Robinson - songwriter and member of The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band
*Cindy Blackman [cite web | title = Cindy Blackman's got the beat | publisher = Toronto Star | date = 2008-06-07 | accessdate = 2008-06-07 | first = Ashante | last = Infantry | url = http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Music/article/438047] - American jazz and rock drummer
*Lasse Thoresen [http://info.bahai.org/article-1-6-2-8.html Bahai.org: Lasse Thoresen]
*Tom Price - Conductor, composer and producer [http://news.bahai.org/story/235]
*Rachael Price - Jazz vocalist [http://www.rachaelprice.net/]
*Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music [http://www.redgrammer.com/]

Actors

*Justin Baldoni [ [http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0905/life/stories/03life.htm Mail Tribune The ‘Daze’ of his life] ] ("Everwood")
*Earl Cameron [ [http://www.onecountry.org/e171/e17104as_Earl_Cameron_story.htm Veteran actor Earl Cameron brings a sense of world citizenship to UN role] by Robert Weinberg, "ONE COUNTRY", Volume 17, Issue 1 / April-June 2005] ("Thunderball", "The Interpreter")
*Omid Djalili [ [http://payvand.com/news/07/mar/1171.html In The Arena With Omid Djalili] By Darius Kadivar, "Payvand's Iran News", 3/12/07] - British comedian and actor
*Eva LaRue [http://www.csiguide.com/cast.asp?csi=1888 "CSI Guide"] ("All My Children", "CSI: Miami")
*Barbara Hale [cite news | title = Bahai faith teaches universal acceptance of God | author = The Associated Press | date = 2000-12-30 | url = http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/123000-1.html] - Emmy Award winner ("Perry Mason")
*Carole Lombard [The Bahá'í World 1940-1944 pp.635. Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette.] - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
*Inder Manocha [ [http://news.bahai.org/story/300 Comedian wins major award] London, United Kingdom, 25 May 2004 (BWNS)] - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
*Alex Rocco [ [http://www.uga.edu/bahai/2002/020704-1.html Obituary Sandie Rocco] Copyright Coastal View (Carpinteria Valley, CA, USA) 2002] - Emmy Award winner ("The Famous Teddy Z", "The Godfather", "The Wedding Planner")
*Valeska Surratt [ [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/notes/vol2/newhist.html Research Notes in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies,] Vol. 2, no. 8 (November 1998), Summary of Julie Chanler's from "Gaslight to Dawn", New History Foundation, NY 1956, by Robert Stauffer] - silent film actress
*Rainn Wilson [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Rainn Wilson |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1597537,00.html|quote=Did being of the Baha'i faith help you understand the spirituality? As a Baha'i, I believe in all the spiritual beliefs: Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity. |work=Time Magazine |date=March 8, 2007 |accessdate=2008-08-24 ] ("The Office", "Six Feet Under"...)
*Lois Hall [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355838/bio Biography for Lois Hall] IMBD.com IMBD biography] - American movie and television actress
*Lloyd Haynes [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371496/bio IMDB Biography] ] - African-American actor and television writer.

Architects

*Hossein Amanat [cite web | url = http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=78 | title = Hossein Amanat | author = Bahá'í community of Canada | accessdate = 2007-04-29] (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Bahá'í Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
*Fariborz Sahba [cite web | url = http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=79 | title = Fariborz Sahba | author = Bahá'í community of Canada | accessdate = 2007-10-24] (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)
*Louis Bourgeois [ [http://www.ca.bahai.org/main.cfm?sid=68 Canadian Baha'i Community: Louis Bourgeois] ] (House of Worship of Wilmette)

Writers

*Burl Barer [ [http://adoraburl.typepad.com/burl_barer/2005/12/electric_menora.html Burl Barer, Brilliant Author] author's blog] - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Bahá'í oriented articles.
*Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff [ [http://www.mysticfig.com/faith.htm Official Website statement of faith] ] - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
*Barry Crump [ [http://www.bahai-library.com/books/biblio/biography.autobio.html “ ‘Crump Flags It Away’—Profile of Barry Crump, a New Zealand Baha’i” by Tony Reid, "New Zealand Listener" (Wellington, N. Z.) (Nov. 20, 1982): 21-22, 25, 26] ] - New Zealand comic author
*Robert Hayden [ [http://bahai-library.com/index.php5?file=buck_robert_hayden Robert Hayden] by Christopher Buck, Published in "Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature" 2:4 pages 177-181, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004-01] - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 - 1978
*Alain LeRoy Locke [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=JR_DF2MRlsIC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=&source=web&ots=L6IFfArY73&sig=wcv1_h0nNIeHUhi1A79qjTavf9k#PPA64,M1 Alain Lock - Faith and Philosophy] , by Dr. Christopher Buck, "Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í Religions", Vol 18, Anthony E. Lee General Editor, p.64 - ISBN 9781890688387] - books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
*Guy Murchie [ [http://bahai-library.com/index.php5?file=murchie_pamphlet_reprint_article I am a Bahá'í] by Guy Murchie, "Chicago Sunday Tribune", magazine section, July 13, 1958] - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
*Wellesley Tudor Pole [cite web | url = http://bahai-library.org/books/chosen/chosen5.html| title = The Chosen Highway | publisher = Baha'i Publishing Trust Wilmette, Illinois | author = Lady Blomfield | accessdate=2006-10-01 | date=2006-10-01 ] - British writer
*Adib Taherzadeh [ [http://www.onecountry.org/e114/e11413as_Taherzadeh.htm Adib Taherzadeh, member of the Universal House of Justice, passes away] "ONE COUNTRY", Volume 11, Issue 4 / January-March 2000] - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts

Other artists

*Bernard Leach [Weinberg, Robert (ed.) (1999). "Spinning the Clay into Stars: Bernard Leach and the Bahá'í Faith", pp. 21 & 29. George Ronald, Oxford. ISBN 0-85398-440-9] - potter
*Mishkín-Qalamcite book |author=Balyuzi, H.M. |year=1985 |title=Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh |publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |id=ISBN 0853981523 | pages = pp. 270-271] - Calligrapher
*Tom Morey [ [http://www.theheyday.com/featured_article.php?page_get=335 Sultan of surf, baron of boogie (Apr 06)] ] - responsible for Morey Surfboards
*Mark Tobey [cite web |url=http://www.mark-tobey.com/ |title=Mark Tobey |accessdate=2007-07-08 |publisher=Namen der Kunst] - painter
*Fayard Nicholas [ [http://www.bahaistudy.net/node/77 Selected profiles of African-American Bahá'ís] ] - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
*Hussein Bikar [ [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/794/eg6.htm The others- A court ruling providing official recognition to Bahais has done little to ease the debate on this Israeli-based cult] by Gihan Shahine, "Al-Ahram Weekly"] - Egyptian painter
*Anis Mojgani [ [http://web.mac.com/zorky/notpoet/Anis_Mojgani_Bio.html Anis Mojgani Bio] ] - spoken word poet
*Gwen Wakeling - Academy Award winning Hollywood costume designer

Athletes

*Nelson Évora [ [http://news.bahai.org/story/316 Baha'i World News Service - Top sportsmen find support in faith] ] - Portuguese Gold Medal recipient for the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump
*Khalil Greene [Dolbee, Sandi, [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040820/news_1n20greene.html "Passion for game, faith drives Padres' Greene"] , "The San Diego Union-Tribune", 2004-09-20. Accessed 2007-08-10.] - Shortstop for the San Diego Padres
* Miles Kasiri [ [http://www.collegeandjuniortennis.com/Wimbledon04.htm 2004 WIMBLEDON JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS ] ] - Finalist in the 2004 Wimbledon Tennis Junior Championship, native of the UK.
*Armein D. Kirkland [ [http://gobearcats.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/kirkland_armein00.html Player Bio: Armein Kirkland :: Men's Basketball ] ] - Collegiate basketball player for University of Cincinnati 2002-2006
*David Krummenacker [ [http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/236 Running the race of his life ] ] - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998.
*Luke McPharlin [ [http://www.australianrules.com.au/2004stories/mcpharlin.html A player and more] by Les Everett, "Australian Rules", from the "Fremantle Herald"] - Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers
*David F. Nti-Berko [ [http://www.prempeh.org/profiles/sportsleg.html Amanfoo Profiles ] ] - Track & Field All-American Triple Jumper for the University of Alabama (1995), native of Ghana
* William Smith [ [http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/8491811 Clemson Tigers, NCAA Football, Wake Forest Demon Deacons - CBSSports.com ] ] - Collegiate football player at Clemson University (1964), pioneer in integration in college athletics

Educators

*Ali Murad Davudi [cite journal | journal = Bahá'i Studies Review | volume = 9 | year = 1999/2000 | issue = 1 | first = Novin | last = Doostdar | url = http://bahai-library.org/bsr/bsr09/9G1_obituaries.htm | title = Obituaries] - Tehran University professor who disappeared in 1979
*Donna Denizé [ [http://www.american.edu/ocl/kay/staff.html Staff of the Kay Spiritual Life Center of American University] ] - American poet and award-winning teacher
*Auguste-Henri Forel [ [http://www.bahai.ch/english/centenary_interlaken.html Swiss Baha'is Celebrate 100 Years of Contributing to World Civilization] Baha'i Switzerland, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Switzerland] ] - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
*Phoebe Hearst [cite book | author=Effendi, Shoghi | title=God Passes By | location=Wilmette | publisher=Bahá'í Pub. Trust | year=1974 | id=ISBN 0-87743-020-9] - first woman Regent of the University of California
*Joseph Watson [ [http://www.ucd.ie/press/newpre17.htm Instonian to be UCD's Professor of Irish] , UCD Press Releases] - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin

Others

*Richard St. Barbe Baker [ [http://www.manofthetrees.org/HTMLS/inmemoriam.htm In Memoriam] , Published in Bahá'í World, Vol. XVIII: 1979-1983, by Hugh C. Locke] - English environmentalist
*Lady Blomfield [ [http://www.btinternet.com/~iain.s.palin/heritage/blmem.htm U.K. Bahá'í Heritage Site: A Memorial To Lady Blomfield] ] - early Irish-British Bahá'í
*Dr Frederick D'Evelyn [cite web|url=http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/ispalin/bc4ni/comm/65/fde.htm|title=Dr Frederick D'Evelyn's life] - first Irish born Bahá'í
*David Kelly [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076869.stm "Profile: Dr David Kelly"] BBC] - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
*Layli Miller-Muro [ [http://www.tahirih.org Tahirih Justice Center] ] - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
*Lidia Zamenhof [ [http://bahai-library.org/essays/zamenhof.html John Dale - Notes on the life of Lidia Zamenhof] ] - daughter of dr. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
*Dhabihu'llah Mahrami [cite web | date = 2006-12-23 | accessdate = 2006-10-31 | url = http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Dec/27-622911.html | title = U.S. Condemns Iran's Persecution of Bahai Religious Prisoner | publisher = U.S. Department of State | author = U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs] wrongfully accused Iranian Bahá'i, found dead in his cell in 2005
*Robert Sengstacke Abbott [http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/101095.html Robert S. Abbott and the Chicago Defender: A Door to the Masses] by Mark Perry, printed in October 10th, 1995 issue of the Michigan Chronicle.] an African American lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States.

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