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)
- 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)
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