List of famous Jehovah's Witnesses
A range of participation is represented by these individuals, from full activity to disaffiliation.
- Ken Richmond - The man who banged the gong in the Rank Organisation film logo from 1955 onward. LOL!
- Peter Knowles - Famous soccer player in England who quit his football carrer in 1970 aged 24 to join the Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Hank Marvin - Lead guitarist for The Shadows
- Viv Nicholson - Major pools winner
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Japanese musician, name comes from the Book of Isaiah
- George Benson - Jazz guitarist
- Maurizio Bianchi - Musician
- Ivana Brkic - Croatian Musician
- Valerie Campbell - Mother of Naomi Campbell
- Tom Edur - Former NHL ice hockey player.
- Leopold Engleitner - Buchenwald concentration camp survivor and centenarian.
- Larry Graham - Sly & the Family Stone
- Teresa Graves - Reputedly the first black woman to play the lead in a police movie, also a singer.
- Gary Gygax - Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
- Katherine Jackson - Michael Jackson's mother.
- Rebbie Jackson - Singer, daughter of Katherine Jackson.
- Scott Johnson - actor
- Margaret Keane - Artist who said converting "changed her life."[1]
- Brian Locking - Bass guitarist with The Shadows for eighteen months, but left to Jehovah's Witnesses activities.
- Bohumil Müller - Czech survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and underground religious leader under Communism.
- Evelyn Ntoko (first wife of Nelson Mandela)
- Selena Quintanilla Pérez - Tejano Singer
- Prince - Musician
- Joshua Elliot Rodrigues - English Student, name comes from the Book of Joshua (N.B - This addition looks to be a spoof entry.)
- Mickey Spillane - Novelist
- Damo Suzuki (Converted in the 1970s, current membership status uncertain)
- Bobby Tambling - English footballer
- Phil Terry - member of the 60's R&B group The Intruders.
- David Thomas - Avant-garde rocker, "Jehovah's Kingdom come"[2][3]
- Jean Terrell - Replaced Diana Ross in the Supremes in 1970.
- Reena Virk - Canadian child murder victim
- Lark Voorhies - actress, Saved By The Bell
- Venus Williams - Tennis
- Serena Williams - Tennis
- Lou Whitaker - Former MLB baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.
- Ida E. Eisenhower (Mother of President Eisenhower)
List of Former Jehovah's Witnesses
- Gregg Alexander- The New Radicals' lead singer; Raised by mother
- Peter Andre - Singer raised in Australia, presently living in London with wife pin up model Jordan
- Naomi Campbell- Supermodel; Raised by mother
- Dwight David Eisenhower who became the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
- Raymond Franz
- Geri Halliwell - Singer (Spice Girls); Raised as a Jehovah's Witness
- Anthony Henderson - Famous quick tongued rap artist from legendary group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony a.k.a "Krayzie Bone", Sawed-Off Gangsta, or Leathaface
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - American writer of Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses (converted to Catholicism)
- Michael Jackson - Michael was raised a Jehovah's Witness but disassociated shortly after his hit album, Thriller
- Olin R. Moyle
- Dave Mustaine - Guitarist (ex-Metallica; Megadeth; ex- MD .45)
- Gloria Naylor - Novelist
- Michelle Rodriguez - actress
- Leo Volpe
- Wayans brothers - Actors/Comediens ; Raised Jehovah's Witnesses
- Jill Scott-Singer; rasied as a Jehovah's Witness
Note: This list was originally drawn from [4] The information was edited by the creator of this list, a former Witness who can attest to each citation herein personally, but is skeptical of other entries on the source site. Further some later edits that followed this note are not using Adherents.com as a source. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses"
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