List of Baháʼís

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

Family of Baháʼu'lláh

 * Ásíyih Khánum - known by her title Navváb
 * ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
 * Bahíyyih Khánum
 * Mírzá Mihdí
 * Shoghi Effendi

Royalty

 * Malietoa Tanumafili II (r. 1962–2007) - chieftain of the government of Samoa.
 * Marie of Romania (r. 1914–1927) - queen of Romania.

Bands

 * Common Market - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest.
 * Seals and Crofts - 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
 * Randy Armstrong - American musician and composer
 * Cindy Blackman - American jazz and rock drummer
 * Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - folk music performers
 * Celeste Buckingham - singer/songwriter
 * Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer
 * Vic Damone - American singer and entertainer
 * Khalil Fong - American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
 * Hazel Scott - American pianist and activist
 * Russell Garcia - motion picture composer
 * Dizzy Gillespie - American jazz trumpeter
 * Andy Grammer - American singer-songwriter
 * Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music
 * Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
 * Jack Lenz - Canadian composer
 * Kevin Locke - Lakota musician and dancer
 * Mike Longo - American jazz pianist
 * James Moody - American jazz saxophone and flute player
 * KC Porter - American multi-Grammy winning producer
 * Rachael Price - jazz vocalist
 * Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer
 * Flora Purim - Brazilian American jazz singer
 * Dan Seals - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
 * Tierney Sutton - American jazz singer
 * Louie Shelton - American jazz guitarist and producer
 * Charles Wolcott - pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies
 * J. B. Eckl - songwriter, producer, recording artist
 * Ryan Abeo - American singer/songwriter from Kentucky who performs under the moniker RA Scion.
 * Huening Kai - member of Tomorrow X Together
 * Huening Bahiyyih - member of Kep1er

Broadcasters

 * Susan Audé - news anchor at WIS, Columbia, South Carolina

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
 * Phil Lucas - Native American filmmaker
 * Harold Lee Tichenor - film producer

Actors

 * Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl, You)
 * Justin Baldoni (Everwood, Jane the Virgin)
 * Earl Cameron (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
 * Omid Djalili - comedian and actor
 * Barbara Hale - Emmy Award winner (Perry Mason)
 * Lois Hall - American movie and television actress
 * Lloyd Haynes - actor and television writer
 * Jeremy Iversen - actor and writer
 * Eva LaRue (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
 * Carole Lombard - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
 * Inder Manocha - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
 * Julie Mitchum - American Actress
 * Pardis Parker - Canadian comedian
 * Alex Rocco - Emmy Award winner (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
 * Rehana Sultan - Indian Actress
 * Valeska Surratt - Silent Film Actress
 * Travis Van Winkle - American actor, The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie
 * O. Z. Whitehead - American character actor (The Grapes of Wrath, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Lion In Winter)
 * Rainn Wilson (The Office, Six Feet Under)

Architects

 * Hossein Amanat (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Baháʼí Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
 * Louis Bourgeois (House of Worship of Wilmette)
 * Siamak Hariri (Baháʼí Temple of South America, House of Worship of South America)
 * William Sutherland Maxwell (Central Tower of the Château Frontenac; he was also a Hand of the Cause)
 * Fariborz Sahba (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)

Writers

 * Burl Barer - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Baháʼí oriented articles
 * Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
 * André Brugiroux - traveller and author
 * Barry Crump - New Zealand comic author
 * Margaret Danner - African-American poet
 * Rod Duncan - author of the Gaslight series
 * William S. Hatcher - mathematician, philosopher, educator
 * Robert Hayden - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978
 * Alain LeRoy Locke - author of books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
 * Guy Murchie - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
 * Bahiyyih Nakhjavani - Iranian writer
 * Arvid Nelson - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
 * Margaret Bloodgood Peeke - traveler, lecturer, author
 * Wellesley Tudor Pole - British writer
 * Jeffrey Reddick - creator of the Final Destination series
 * Holiday Reinhorn - writer
 * Gholamreza Rouhani - poet and satirist
 * William Sears - author of multiple books, an Emmy award-winning sportscaster, and host of a children's television program "In the Park."
 * Adib Taherzadeh - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts
 * Sverre Holmsen, a Swedish writer, environmentalist, traveller to Tahiti

Other artists

 * Alice Pike Barney - portrait artist
 * Laura Clifford Barney - philanthropist
 * Hussein Bikar - Egyptian painter
 * Amelia Collins - philanthropist
 * Sky Glabush - Painter
 * Bernard Leach - potter
 * Anis Mojgani - spoken-word poet
 * Tom Morey - musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
 * Fayard Nicholas - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
 * Rae Perlin (1910-2006) - artist
 * Mishkín-Qalam - calligrapher
 * Otto Rogers - Painter
 * Juliet Thompson - portrait artist
 * Mark Tobey - painter
 * Gwen Wakeling - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer

Athletes

 * Nelson Évora – 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
 * Matthew W. Bullock – American soccer player
 * Khalil Greene – American professional baseball player
 * David Krummenacker – Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
 * Pellom McDaniels – American professional gridiron football player
 * Luke McPharlin – Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers

Business

 * Thornton Chase - first Baháʼí of the West, was a businessman when he joined the religion in 1894/5.
 * Mildred Mottahedeh - founder of Mottahedeh & Company
 * Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966), American billionaire, founder of Paylocity
 * Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi - famous Chinese business couple
 * Zia Mody - Indian corporate lawyer and businesswoman.

Educators

 * Dwight W. Allen - professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group
 * Alessandro Bausani - a leading Islamic studies scholar in Italy, professor Naples, Rome
 * Ali Murad Davudi - Tehran University professor who disappeared in 1979
 * Donna Denizé - American poet and award-winning teacher
 * Mae C. Hawes - African-American professor, settlement worker, literacy educator
 * Phoebe Hearst - first woman Regent of the University of California
 * Auguste-Henri Forel - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
 * ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan - Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys. Hand of the Cause.
 * Jagdish Gandhi - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
 * Firuz Kazemzadeh - historian, member of the National Spiritual Assembly
 * Patricia Locke - Lakota Native American educator
 * Dr. Pellom McDaniels - professor, researcher, inventor, author, historian, curator at Emory University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Founder of Arts For Smarts Foundation.
 * Joseph Watson - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin
 * Todd Lawson - Emeritus Professor of Islamic thought at the University of Toronto.

Journalism

 * Robert Sengstacke Abbott - lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States.

Public service

 * David Kelly - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
 * Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
 * Jacqueline Left Hand Bull - Indian Health care policy administrator
 * Layli Miller-Muro - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
 * Mahmud Jamal - Judge on the Supreme Court of Canada
 * Payam Akhavan - prosecutor for United Nations tribunals and law professor
 * 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.

Scholars (of Baháʼí history, Baháʼí theology, apologetics, etc.)

 * Udo Schaefer - A German lawyer and prolific author, specialising in Baháʼí apologetics and theology, notably ethics.
 * Moojan Momen - historian specializing in Baháʼí history and theology
 * Peter Smith - historian and sociologist, author of a much-cited academic study of Baháʼí history, The Babi and Bahaʼi Religions: From Messianic Shiʻism to a World Religion.
 * Franklin Lewis - author and translator in Iranian studies, who has also published literary analyses of the works of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh.
 * Robert Stockman - historian, theologian, apologist and biographer, noted especially for works on the Baháʼí community in North America.
 * Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl - (Persian language: ميرزا أبوالفضل‎), or Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání (1844–1914) - was the foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States.
 * ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari - (1902 – 1972) was a prominent Iranian Baháʼí scholar. He became a Baháʼí in 1927. He was a teacher in one of the Baháʼí schools in Iran, until the schools were closed in 1934. He prepared many compilations of Bahá'í writings, commentaries, apologetic works, and historic studies.
 * Ali Murad Davudi - (1922–1979?) was an Iranian Baháʼí who was a member of the national governing body of the Baháʼís in Iran. He was a professor at Tehran University in the philosophy department. In 1979, during a wave of persecution toward Baháʼís, he was kidnapped and has been presumed a victim of state execution.

Scientist

 * Dr. Ron McNair - physicist and astronaut; died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986

Others

 * Leonora Armstrong - international traveler
 * Richard St. Barbe Baker - English environmentalist
 * Lady Blomfield - early Irish-British Baháʼí, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
 * Dr Frederick D'Evelyn - first Irish-born Baháʼí
 * Helen Clevenger, murdered college student, Bahá'í.
 * Nelson Évora
 * Constance Langdon-Davies
 * Dhabihu'llah Mahrami - wrongfully accused Iranian Baháʼí, found dead in his cell in 2005
 * Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan - British hereditary peer
 * Nossrat Peseschkian - psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
 * Parivash Rohani, Iranian-American Baha'i activist
 * Hilda Yen - internationalist, diplomat, aviator
 * Lidia Zamenhof - daughter of L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto

Other lists

 * List of Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh
 * List of the Hands of the Cause of God
 * List of the Knights of Baháʼu'lláh
 * List of former Baháʼís