Celebrity JWs and exJWs

by Lady Lee 31 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Lady Lee
    Lady Lee

    There is quite a list many I have never heard of. I've done this before but this adds a lot of names - a lot

      • Gregg Alexander - The New Radicals' lead singer; raised by mother
      • Papa Dee Allen of the 70s-80s rock group War. Passed away during a concert
      • Peter Andre - Inactive - Singer raised in Australia, presently living in London with wife pin up model *Jordan
      • George Benson - Active - musician
      • Maurizio Bianchi - Musician
      • Cheryl Bradley - Executive Housekeeper
      • Ivana Brkic - Croatian Musician
      • Richard Cameron - Dutch Musician
      • Naomi Campbell - Inactive - Model -
      • Valerie Campbell - Active - model - Mother of Naomi Campbell
      • Tom Edur - Former NHLice hockey player.
      • Ida Eisenhower mother of Dwight President of USA - Inactive - Politician Meetings were held in his family home. It makes sense that he probably attended some of those. He was never baptized as a JW. His father stopped attending around 1914/1915 when Dwight was about 24 or 25. Dwight graduated from West Point in 1915.
      • Kid Gavilan - welterweight champion boxer; elected to boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 (convert to JWs)
      • Larry Graham - Active - Musician - Sly & the Family Stone
      • Danny Granger - professional basketball player (Indiana Pacers)
      • Teresa Graves - actress, star of TV movie and TV series "Get Christie Love!" (convert to JWs)
      • Gary Gygax - Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
      • Geri Halliwell - Inactive - Musician - Spice Girls
      • Roy Harper - songwriter, musician (raised)
      • Anthony Henderson - Famous quick tongued rap artist
      • Dave Hill - musician, Lead Guitarist and back vocals for Slade (convert)
      • Kim Holland - Dutch porn star (former JW)
      • Terrence Howard - actor; Ray, Hustle & Flow, etc.
      • The Jackson Family -- We all know about the Jackson family. I think the only ones who are still JW is the mother, oneof the older sisters, Rebbie. Mother/grandmother Katherine has been seen taking Michael's 3 kids to the hall.
      • Lord Jamar of the band Nubians - Inactive - Musician
      • JaRule - Inactive - Musician
      • Scott Johnson - Actor
      • K-os - Canadian R&B artist ; Raised Jehovah's Witness
      • Margaret Keane - Artist who said converting "changed her life."[1]
      • Peter Knowles - Famous soccer player in England who quit his football career in 1970 aged 24 to join the Jehovah's Witnesses.
      • Krazyzie Bone - Inactive - Musician
      • La Lupe - Cuban salsa singer (convert)
      • Phillip Landry - Musican
      • Chet Lemon - professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)
      • Brian Locking - Bass guitarist with The Shadows for eighteen months, but left to Jehovah's Witnesses activities.
      • Evelyn Mandela - first wife of South African president Nelson Mandela (convert to JWs)
      • Hank Marvin - Active - Musician
      • Mark McCumber - professional golfer
      • Jerry Lee Merrit, Rockabilly Hall Of Fame member
      • Dave Meyers - professional basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers in 1970s and later for the Milwaukee Bucks)
      • Thelonius Monk : Musician
      • Rene Montes de Oca Martija - dissident human-rights activist in Cuba (son of JW)
      • Van Morrison . He was taken to the Kingdom Hall as a child by his mother.
      • Miki Nakatani - Japanese Actress, Raised as a Jehovah's Witness
      • Dave Mustaine of the band Megadeth - Inactive - Musician
      • Gloria Naylor - novelist, author of The Women of Brewster Place (1982, American Book Award)
      • Viv Nicholson - famous London lottery winner in 1961. She then became a devout JW.
      • Evelyn Ntoko (first wife of Nelson Mandela
      • Mark O'Meara,golfer
      • Rustom Padilla - Filipino movie star
      • Angelo Palego - leader of team searching for Noah's Ark
      • Dave Pear - NFL professional football player for Colts, Buccaneers, and Raiders (convert)
      • Shont'e Peoples - professional football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders); convert to JWs
      • Selena Quintanilla Perez - Tejano singer; raised Jehovah's Witnesses
      • Prince - Active or inactive? - Musician
      • Nemesis Rising - Jacob and Joshua - Inactive
      • Herman Pizzanelli - leading Uruguayan concert guitarist in the 1960s (convert to JWs)
      • Ken Richmond - The man who banged the gong in the Rank Organisation film logo from 1955 onward.
      • Michelle Rodriguez - Inactive actress, Lost
      • Solveig Romero - Mexico and Switzerland, Actress and wife of Martin Campbell, the director of James Bond Casino RoyaleMiu Sakamoto - Japanese Singer,
      • John Salley raised a JW
      • Travis Scott - NFL football player for Rams (raised JW)
      • Jill Scott - R&B/neo-soul singer-poet raised a JW
      • Selena - Tejano singer (Selena Quintanilla)
      • Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Japanese musician, name comes from the Book of Isaiah
      • Sherri Shepherd - Inactive - TV presenter on The View
      • Patti Smith - punk rock star
      • Richard Sohl? Pianist. Died. with Patti Smith's group
      • Mickey Spillane - best-selling crime novelist (convert to JWs)
      • Damo Suzuki (Converted in the 1970s, current membership status uncertain)
      • Carol M. Swain - political scientist; professor at Vanderbilt University; author; left the Witnesses at the age of 20, in 1975
      • Bobby Tambling - English footballer
      • Phil Terry - member of the 60's R&B group The Intruders.
      • Jean Terrell - Replaced Diana Ross in the Supremes in 1970.
      • David Thomas - songwriter/vocalist for Pere Ubu (convert to JWs)
      • Akira Toriyama - Japanese Mangaka(Cartoonist), Author of Dragon Ball (Manga)
      • Yoshito Usui - Japanese Mangaka, Author of Crayon Shin-chan
      • Carmina Villarroel - Filipino actress
      • Leo J. Volpe (1916–13 April 2000) was a draft resister and conscientious objectoras a JW during World War 2. In 1973, after leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, he founded The Restored Israel of Yahweh, whose members believe that Volpe is the prophet Jeremiah resurrected
      • Reena Virk - Canadian child murder victim
      • Lark Voorhies - TV/movie actress Saved by the Bell
      • Wayan Brothers and Sisters : Damon, Dwayne, Keenen, Ivory, Kim, Nadia, Marlon, Shawn - Mostly Inactive - Actors
      • Lou Whitaker - professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)
      • Venus and Serena Williams - Active - tennis -- really???? active???
      • Chuck Winfield - Former Trumpet player for Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
      • Willie Wise - NBA professional basketball player for Seattle Super Sonics and Denver Nuggets
      • Akiko Yano - Japanese Singer, Former wife of Ryuichi Sakamoto
      • Hinano Yoshkawa - Inactive - Japanese Model
      • XZibit - Inactive – Musician
  • glenster
    glenster

    http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Van_Morrison.html

    Davis: There's a lot of the gospelsound in your music. Is it true your family were Jehovah's Witnesses?

    Van Morrison: No no no no, not really. My mother was in it for a while, a brief encounter, that was all.

    Davis:: Were you taken door-to-door as a child with the Witnesses?

    Van Morrison: No, but I was taken to a couple of meetings. I found them quite pleasant, but that was all.

  • behemot
  • Caligula1
    Caligula1

    Lady Lee, glenster, behemot

    Thanks

  • BabaYaga
    BabaYaga

    Criminey! There are a lot there that I recognize and I never had any idea about the JW affiliation.

    Thanks for the updated list, Lady Lee!

  • behemot
    behemot

    I didn't find any evidence about Thelonius Monk ever being a JW, it seems his mother was one:

    "Monk's imperturbability, bordering on stoicism, has enabled him to stand up under an obstacle-strewn life. The fact that his mother, Barbara, a former civil service worker, was a Jehovah's Witness may account for Monk's detachment from worldly concerns. "I don't believe in luck, good or bad," Monk once declared, "If a guy's good, he'll make it. If not, he won't."

    source: http://id3512.securedata.net/theloniousrecords/Profiles_interviews/Frank%20London%20Brown.htm

  • not sure yet
    not sure yet

    One person on this list is my brother. He was raised a witness but never baptized, he left around highschool years. He's very respectful, though.

  • palmtree67
    palmtree67

    I knew Shonte Peoples very well.

    He was df'ed (in absentia) about 4 years ago. I know he's remarried and living in the States again. I doubt he's back in, although his dad is a JW elder.

  • possible-san
    possible-san

    Well, Mr. Yoshito Usui (Japanese Mangaka, Author of Crayon Shin-chan) has passed away in September, last year (2009).

    He went to a mountain (Mt. Arafune) alone, and fell over a 394 feet (120m) cliff and died.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshito_Usui

    Although the police has said, "He did not commit suicide", I think that that is doubtful.
    The comic/manga (Crayon Shin-chan) which he draws is "vulgar/obscene" and do not harmonize with the morality of JW.



    I feel that his "trouble" was there.

    possible

  • Lady Lee
    Lady Lee

    wow P-san

    I would suspect suicide too

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