Famous JW's (or exJW)..an almost complete listing.

by badwillie 85 Replies latest jw friends

  • badwillie
    badwillie

    Famous Jehovah's Witnesses

    • Dwight D. Eisenhower - U.S. President (raised JW)

    • Venus and Serena Williams - world chamption/Olympic gold medalist tennis players
    • Michael Jackson - singer, pop superstar
    • Prince - singer; convert to JWs
    • Janet Jackson - singer
    • La Toya Jackson - singer
    • Geri Halliwell - singer (Spice Girls)
    • Jackson Five - musical group
    • Selena - Tejano singer (Selena Quintanilla)
    • Dave Hill - musician (Slade)
    • Roy Harper - songwriter, musician
    • Larry Graham - singer; member of Sly And The Family Stone between 1967 and 1972, founder of Graham Central Station
    • David Thomas - songwriter/vocalist for Pere Ubu; convert to JWs
    • Herman Pizzanelli - leading Uruguayan concert guitarist in the 1960's; convert to JWs

    • Lou Whitaker - professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)
    • Chet Lemon - professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)

    • Evelyn Mandela - first wife of South African president Nelson Mandela; a convert to JWs
    • Lieby Piliso - Nelson Mandela's younger sister
    • Rene Montes de Oca Martija -- dissident human-rights activist in Cuba (son of JW)

    • Teresa Graves - actress, star of TV movie and TV series "Get Christie Love!"; convert to JWs
    • Wayans Brothers - comedians, actors, filmmakers
    • Rustom Padilla - Filipino movie star
    • Carmina Villarroel - Filipino actress

    • Gloria Naylor - novelist, author of The Women of Brewster Place (1982, American Book Award)
    • Mickey Spillane - best-selling crime novelist; convert to JWs in 1952 (still active)

    • Carol M. Swain - political scientist; professor at Vanderbilt University; author of Black Faces, Black Interests and The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration; left the Witnesses at the age of 20, in 1975

    • Viv Nicholson - famous London lottery winner in 1961. She then became a devout JW. The musical Spend, Spend, Spend was based on her story.



  • worldlygirl
    worldlygirl

    So many JW musicians, yet the Kingdom Melodies still suck. Why can't they get the Jacksons to write some new ones? Just wondering.

  • drwtsn32
    drwtsn32

    Great list! But I don't see George Benson!

  • teejay
    teejay

    What about that chick that used to paint the kids with the big eyes back in the 60s/70s? I think she was Japanese.

  • blondie
    blondie

    That is Margaret Keane. I don't think she is Japanese.

    http://besmirched.tripod.com/margaret.html

    http://www.keane-eyes.com/

  • plmkrzy
    plmkrzy

    There are several missing from the list. Wasn't Van Morrison raised a JW? for example.

  • cruzanheart
    cruzanheart

    Also Tommy Reynolds of the group Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds.

    Nina

  • teejay
    teejay

    >>> Also Tommy Reynolds of the group Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds.

    I used to go to the district conventions in a certain city back when they had live orchestras. Remember that? Good memories, hearing live music fill the auditorium like that.

    Anyway, this one year the guy on the tympani was reportedly Tommy Reynolds. Supposedly, he up left the group, none of his band members knew where he was, and the next time they saw him he was either a Dub or was studying with the Dubs. Created quite a buzz. Never found out if it was him or not. Probably JW legend.

    So he was really a Dub, eh? Cool.

  • RunningMan
    RunningMan

    Don't forget Mark Barton. He was the fellow who walked into an Atlanta stockbroker's office and killed 14 people, in addition to his family and then himself.

  • riz
    riz

    Our very own lovable fashionista Mike Musto

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