List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)

Activists

 * Bonnie Carroll – President and founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
 * Henry Hyde Champion (1859-1928) – Socialist activist and journalist
 * Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) – Australian suffragette and social reformer.
 * Sallie Holley (1818-1893) – Abolitionist and educator
 * Muriel Matters (1877-1969) – Australian suffragist and educator
 * Roy Olmstead (1886-1966) – Former bootlegger turned anti-alcoholism activist
 * Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862-1939) – American suffragist and author

Elected officials

 * Nancy Witcher Astor (1879-1964) – second female Member of Parliament to be elected but the first to take her seat, serving from 1919 to 1945
 * Fred B. Balzar (1880-1934) – 15th Governor of Nevada
 * Owen Brewster (1888-1961) – 54th Governor of Maine, member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate
 * Jocelyn Burdick (1922-2019), United States Senator
 * Clarence A. Buskirk (1842-1926) – 10th Indiana Attorney General, traveling lecturer who promoted Christian Science in various countries
 * Ralph Lawrence Carr (1887-1950) – 29th Governor of Colorado
 * Thelma Cazalet-Keir (1899-1989) – British Conservative Member of Parliament
 * Thomas M. Davis – Member of the United States House of Representatives
 * David Dreier – Member of the United States House of Representatives
 * Bob Goodlatte – Member of the United States House of Representatives
 * William Higgs (politician) (1862-1951) – Australian Senator and member of the House of Representatives, Treasurer of Australia
 * Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
 * Charles H. Percy (1919-2011) – United States Senator from Illinois
 * Lamar S. Smith – Member of the United States House of Representatives
 * Victor Cazalet (1896-1943) – British Conservative Member of Parliament
 * Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955) – Second woman to take her seat as a British Member of Parliament
 * John D. Works (1847-1928) – United States Senator from California, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

Other political and military figures

 * John Ehrlichman (1925-1999) – Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
 * Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth (1909-1984) – British diplomat and politician
 * Thomas P. Griesa (1930-2017) – United States district judge
 * H.R. Haldeman (1926-1993) – White House Chief of Staff
 * Cecil Harcourt (1892-1959) - British naval officer, de facto governor of Hong Kong
 * Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940) – British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor
 * Egil Krogh (1939-2020) – American lawyer, United States Under Secretary of Transportation
 * Maurice Mansergh (1896-1966) - British admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
 * Ursula Mueller – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in OCHA
 * Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841-1907) – Scottish peer, politician, explorer, author, and teacher of Christian Science
 * Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore (1871-1962) – British soldier and politician
 * David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie (1893-1968) - Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier
 * Henry Paulson – 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
 * Stansfield Turner (1923-2018) – Admiral and former CIA Director
 * William Hedgcock Webster – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991

Business

 * J. Robert Atkinson (1887-1964) – founder of the Braille Institute of America
 * D. G. M. Bernard (1888-1975) - Banker in England, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.
 * B. F. Brisac (1858-1940) – American business executive and humanitarian
 * Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886-1946) – founder of The Seeing Eye
 * Antony Fisher (1915-1988) – British businessman and think tank founder
 * Lionel Fraser (1895-1965) – British banker
 * Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-1980) – inventor of Liquid Paper and mother of Mike Nesmith
 * Martha Matilda Harper (1857-1950) – American businesswoman and inventor who launched modern retail franchising
 * Ben Weingart (1888-1980) – American real estate investor and developer
 * Charles Wyly (1933-2011), American businessman
 * Sam Wyly, American businessman

Artists

 * Hilda Carline (1889-1950) – British post-impressionist painter
 * Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) – American artist and film maker
 * Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) – English artist and muralist, employed as an official war artist during World War II
 * Fougasse (1887-1965) – British cartoonist
 * Mina Loy (1882-1966) – British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian
 * Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) – British painter
 * Violet Oakley (1874-1961) – American artist known for murals and work in stained glass
 * Marcellus E. Wright Sr. (1881-1962) – American architect who designed the Altria Theater

Authors

 * Richard Bach – author of Jonathon Livingston Seagull 
 * Andrew Clements (1949-2019) – American author of children's books, including Frindle
 * Willis Vernon Cole (1882-1939) – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine
 * Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866-1939) — American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science
 * Godfrey John (d. about 2003) – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher
 * William D. McCrackan (1864-1923) – writer, author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic
 * J. D. Salinger – American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
 * Danielle Steel – American author

Entertainment figures

 * Kenny L. Baker – singer and actor
 * Valerie Bergere (1867-1938) – French-born actress of stage and screen
 * Carol Channing (1921-2019) – American actress, singer, dancer, and comedian
 * Juanin Clay (1949-1995) – American actress with roles in WarGames and The Legend of the Lone Ranger
 * Joan Crawford (190?-1977) – American film and television actress
 * Doris Day (1922-2019) – American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
 * Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) – Canadian-American actress
 * Robert Duvall – American actor
 * Georgia Engel (1948-2019) – American film, television, and stage actress
 * Horton Foote (1916-2009) – playwright and screenwriter
 * Kelsey Grammer – actor
 * Charlotte Greenwood (1890-1977) – actress and dancer
 * Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) – English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer
 * Corinne Griffith (1894-1979) – American actress, producer, author and businesswoman
 * David Liebe Hart – puppeteer, actor, singer and painter
 * Howard Hawks (1896-1977) – film director
 * Peter Horton – actor
 * Bud Jamison (1894-1944) – actor active from 1915 to 1944
 * Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) – silent film star
 * Val Kilmer – American actor
 * Eve McVeagh (1919-1997) – American actress
 * Martin Melcher (1915-1968) – producer, third husband of Doris Day
 * Conrad Nagel (1897-1970) – actor
 * Antoinette Perry (1888-1946) – Broadway director, mentor and actress; namesake of the Tony Awards
 * Mary Pickford (1892-1979) – Canadian-American actress; co-founder of the film studio United Artists; one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
 * Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) – American actress, dancer, and singer
 * Lilia Skala (1896-1994) – Austrian-American architect and actress best known for playing the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field
 * Jean Stapleton (1923-2013) – actress, best known for playing Edith Bunker
 * W. S. Van Dyke (1889-1943) – director of films, including The Thin Man
 * King Vidor (1889-1982) – director, producer, and screenwriter who won an Academy Honorary Award
 * Anna May Wong (1905-1961) – American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star
 * Alfre Woodard – actress who won awards for roles in Miss Evers' Boys, Radio, Memphis Beat
 * Alan Young (1919-2016) – English–American actor

Musicians

 * Cornelius Bumpus (1945-2004) – jazz musician, member of the Doobie Bros. and Steely Dan
 * Blanche Calloway (1902-1978) – bandleader; Cab Calloway's sister
 * Alberta Neiswanger Hall (1870-1956) – composer of children's songs and composed musical settings for The Songs of Father Goose
 * Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) – jazz musician
 * Bruce Hornsby – rock musician
 * Kay Kyser (1905-1985) – American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter
 * Michael Nesmith (1942-2021) – member of The Monkees,
 * Ruth Barret Phelps (1899-1980) – theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church
 * Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor

Athletes/sportspeople

 * Harold Bradley Jr. (1929-2021), Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist
 * Adin Brown – U.S. association football player
 * Rowland George (1905–1997), Olympic rower; oldest surviving British Olympic gold medalist upon his death.
 * Nile Kinnick (1918-1943) – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner
 * Shannon Miller – American gymnast
 * Harry Porter (1882-1965) – Olympic gold medalist high jumper
 * George Sisler (1893-1973) – baseball player
 * Tommy Vardell – American football player
 * Aaron Goldsmith - Sports Commentator for the Seattle Mariners and Fox College Hoops

Education and academia

 * Iris Mack – mathematician, first black female professor in applied mathematics at M.I.T.
 * Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948) – American educator and the founder of Principia College, a Christian Science college
 * Robert Peel (historian) (1909-1992) – historian and church worker, best known for his three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy
 * David E. Sweet (1933–1984) – founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
 * George B. Thomas (1914–2006) - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT.

Journalism

 * Richard Bergenheim (1948-2008) – American journalist and editor
 * Erwin Canham (1904-1982) – editor of the Christian Science Monitor, also the last Resident Commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands
 * Kay Fanning (1927-2000) – editor of the Anchorage Daily News and Christian Science Monitor, first woman to edit an American national newspaper.
 * Harold Frederic (1856-1898) – journalist and novelist
 * Virginia Graham (1910–1993) – English humourist
 * John Hughes (editor) – American journalist, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor and The Deseret News
 * Edward J. Meeman (1889-1966) – American journalist
 * Cora Rigby (1865-1930) – first woman at a major paper to head a Washington news bureau, co-founder of the Women's National Press Club.
 * Marjorie Shuler (1888-1977) – suffragist, author, adventurer, publicist, journalist, longtime writer for the Christian Science Monitor. Daughter of famous suffragist Nettie Rogers Shuler.

Exploration, invention, and science

 * Neil Kensington Adam (1891-1973) – British chemist
 * Edmund F. Burton (1862-1921) – physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science
 * Laurance Doyle – researcher at SETI
 * Claribel Kendall (1889-1965) – American mathematician
 * Charles Lightoller (1874-1952) – surviving Second Officer of the Titanic
 * Jer Master (unknown-2010) – Indian pediatrician who abandoned medicine for the faith
 * Homer E. Newell Jr. (1915-1983) – NASA administrator, mathematics professor, and author
 * Alan Shepard (1923-1998) – first American to travel into space, one of the first to walk on the Moon
 * Doris Huestis Speirs (1894-1989) – Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet
 * John M. Tutt (1879-1966) – American medical doctor who became a teacher of Christian Science

Other

 * John V. Dittemore (1876-1937) – trustee of Eddy estate, director of The Mother Church, then critic and co-author of Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition
 * Calvin Frye (1845-1917) – personal assistant of Mary Baker Eddy
 * Mary W. Adams (1834-1908) – in 1905 hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build house in Highland Park, Illinois
 * Septimus J. Hanna (1845-1921) – Judge and Civil War veteran, later Christian Science practitioner and teacher
 * Violet Spiller Hay (1873–1969) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and hymnist
 * Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) – Christian Science practitioner, Journal editor, later started her own college and association
 * Bliss Knapp (1877-1958) – Christian Science lecturer, practitioner, teacher and author
 * Annie M. Knott (1850-1941) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and church leader
 * Laura Lathrop (1845-1922) – Christian Science teacher in New York
 * Augusta E. Stetson (1842-1928) – Christian Science teacher in New York, excommunicated in 1909
 * Irving C. Tomlinson (1860-1944) – Universalist minister who converted to Christian Science

Notable people raised in Christian Science

 * E. Power Biggs (1906-1977) – Concert organist and recording artist, his mother was a Christian Scientist.
 * Jonathan Carroll – American fiction writer
 * Hart Crane – American poet
 * Christina Crawford – American author and actress
 * Ellen DeGeneres – American comedian
 * Daniel Ellsberg – American economist who released the Pentagon Papers
 * William Everson (1912-1994) – American poet
 * Stewart Farrar (1916-2000) – English writer
 * Paul Feig – American filmmaker
 * Henry Fonda (1905-1982) – American actor
 * Ralph Giordano (1923-2014) – German writer
 * Spalding Gray (1941-2004) – American actor and writer
 * Keith Green (1953-1982) – American musician
 * Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) – American writer
 * Jim Henson (1936-1990)– American puppeteer
 * Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) – British actress
 * James Hetfield – of Metallica
 * Jack Kemp (1935-2009) – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, member of the United States House of Representatives
 * Myles Kennedy – of Alter Bridge
 * William Luce (1931-2019)– American playwright and screenwriter
 * Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907-1945) – German jurist, executed in 1945 for anti-Nazi activity
 * Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) – American actress, model, and singer
 * V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) – British writer and literary critic
 * Chris Shays – member of United States House of Representatives
 * John Simpson – BBC journalist
 * Julian Steward (1902-1972) – American anthropologist
 * Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) – English-American actress
 * William Thetford (1923-1988) – American professor
 * Denton Welch (1915-1948) – English writer and artist
 * Robin Williams (1951-2014) – American actor and comedian
 * Bobby Franks (1909–1924), American murder victim of Leopold and Loeb