List of Anglicans
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This is a list of Anglicans, notable persons who were members of the church in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury, known as an Anglican Communion church. Members of schismatic churches may also be included. Only former Anglicans who left the church in adulthood may be included, with accompanying notice.
A to E[edit]
- Joseph Abbott (clergyman)
- Dean Acheson, American statesman
- Daniel Dulany Addison
- Robert Addison
- Spiro Agnew, American statesman and 39th Vice President of the United States
- Howard Ahmanson Jr.
- Madeleine Albright, American stateswoman
- W. H. Aldis (1871–1948), English missionary
- John Allin
- Charles P. Anderson
- Prince Andrew, Duke of York
- Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), saintly English bishop and scholar, who oversaw the translation of the Authorized Version (or King James Version) of the Bible.
- Anne, Princess Royal
- Thomas Arnold, schoolmaster
- Chester Arthur (1829–1886), 21st President of the United States (1881–85)
- Fred Astaire, American entertainer
- Jane Austen
- W. V. Awdry, clergyman and writer of the Railway Series books.
- Anne Ayres
- Charles Babbage, mathematician
- Ed Bacon, priest of the Episcopal Church
- Francis Bacon, lawyer and philosopher
- Jacob Bailey, Congregational church preacher who converted
- Douglas M. Baker Jr.
- Fred Barnes
- Isaac Barrow
- Diana Butler Bass, author, independent scholar, and church historian
- Evan Bayh
- Princess Beatrice of York
- Canon Gareth Bennett (1929–1987), Anglican priest and academic and critic of the Church of England
- Richard Meux Benson
- R. J. Berry
- John Betjeman (1906–1984)
- Kenneth Bevan (1898–1993), English missionary bishop
- James Blair (Virginia)
- James Blish, (atheist as an adult, then rejoined the church)
- Frederick Boreham (1888–1966), English missionary and Archdeacon of Cornwall
- Robert Boyle, natural philosopher
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Thomas Browne (1605–1682), English polymath
- Thomas Church Brownell
- Edmond Browning
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Charles Sumner Burch
- Gilbert Burnet
- George H. W. Bush, American statesman
- Prescott Bush
- Joseph Butler
- Samuel Butler (1613–1680), author of the religious and political satire Hudibras
- Harry F. Byrd
- James F. Byrnes (1882–1972), South Carolina politician and U. S. Supreme Court Justice (convert from the Roman Catholic Church)
- Cab Calloway, American musician
- David Cameron, British politician
- Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- Justin R. Cannon, American clergyman
- Robert Farrar Capon
- George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury
- Mariah Carey, singer-songwriter and actress
- Robert Carliell, didactic poet
- Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
- William Cassels (1858–1925), one of the Cambridge Seven
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Owen Chadwick (b. 1916), British academic and historian of Christianity
- Saxby Chambliss
- Charles III (b. 1948), King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms since 2022
- Philander Chase
- Salmon P. Chase
- Don Cherry, hockey player
- Christy Clark, Premier Of British Columbia
- Thomas M. Clark
- Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell
- Henry John Cody
- Richard Coles, vicar and former member of pop band The Communards
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Judy Collins, singer, songwriter
- Wallace E. Conkling
- Anne Conway (1631–1679), English philosopher, former Anglican, a convert to Quakerism
- James Cook
- Walter William Covey-Crump (1865–1949) English clergyman
- Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the English Reformation, and martyr
- Ander Crenshaw
- Alexander Cruden
- T. Pelham Dale
- George Dallas
- Jonathan Myrick Daniels,
- Charles Darwin, scientist (later agnostic)
- Ann B. Davis
- Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), President of the Confederate States of America
- Cecil B. DeMille, film director
- R. James deRoux, Jamaican Custos Rotulorum
- Philip Dick
- Benjamin Disraeli (born into a Jewish family, baptized as Anglican at age 12)
- Gregory Dix
- John Donne (1572–1631), (convert from Catholicism, was ordained as an Anglican; Dean of St Paul's & metaphysical poet)
- Audrey Donnithorne (1922–2020), English political economist and missionary, daughter of Vyvyan Donnithorne, former Anglican, a convert to Roman Catholicism
- Vyvyan Donnithorne (1886–1968), English missionary to Sichuan
- Marie Dressler, actress
- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- T. S. Eliot (1885–1965), poet
- Elizabeth I of England, Queen of England and Wales
- Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms from 1952 to 2022
- Duke Ellington, American musician
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Werner Erhard
- Princess Eugenie of York
- George Every
- Jim Exon
F to J[edit]
- Nigel Farage
- Austin Farrer (1904–1968), English theologian, philosopher, and friend of C. S. Lewis
- Mary Ferrar (1551–1634), founder of the Little Gidding community
- Nicholas Ferrar (1592–1637), deacon and leader of the Little Gidding community, publisher of the poetry of George Herbert
- John Neville Figgis
- Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop
- Robert Fludd (1574–1637), English physician, astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian
- Betty Ford
- Gerald Ford, American politician
- Dave Freudenthal
- Accepted Frewen
- Alexander Frey
- Thomas Gage (clergyman)
- Judy Garland (1922–1969), American actress
- Alexander Charles Garrett
- David Garrick, actor
- Lillian Gish
- William Gladstone
- Barry Goldwater
- Hannibal Goodwin
- Charles Gore
- Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), English novelist
- James Grahame
- John Galbraith Graham
- Alexander Viets Griswold
- Frank Griswold
- Chuck Hagel
- Stephen Hales
- Edmond Halley
- Diana Reader Harris
- William Henry Harrison
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Olivia de Havilland
- Thomas A. Hendricks
- George Herbert (1593–1633), Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
- Paul Hewson
- Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1599–1662), English clergyman and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts
- John Hines
- Ian Hislop
- Peter Hitchens
- John Henry Hobart
- Thomas Hobbes
- Canon Percy Holbrook
- John Holden (1882–1949), missionary and bishop
- Robert Hooke
- Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican priest and theologian of major importance
- Dave Hope (Anglican Mission in America)
- John Henry Hopkins
- Frank Houghton (1894–1972), English missionary bishop and author
- Reverend Robert Alfred Humble
- James Otis Sargent Huntington
- Carolyn Tanner Irish
- Simon Islip
- Molly Ivins
- Andrea Jaeger
- Alphonso Jackson
- Katharine Jefferts Schori
- Ben Jonson
- Charles Edward Jenkins III
- Edward Jenner
- Jeffrey John
- Boris Johnson, convert from Catholicism
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
- Absalom Jones
- Trevor Jones (priest)
- Benjamin Jowett
- Bernard Judd
K to O[edit]
- Jan Karon
- John Keble (1792–1866), poet and churchman
- Garrison Keillor
- Jackson Kemper
- Harriette A. Keyser
- Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)
- Jack Kingston
- Dave Kopay
- Ini Kopuria
- Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947)
- Arthur Lake
- William Laud (1573–1645), Archbishop of Canterbury executed during the English Civil War
- Timothy Laurence
- Alfred Lee
- Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III (1756–1818), Revolutionary War officer, Governor of Virginia, eulogist of George Washington, and father of Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), Confederate general
- C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), atheist as an adult, then rejoined the church
- Arthur Lichtenberger
- Rod Liddle
- Henry Parry Liddon
- Blanche Lincoln
- Bob Livingston
- John Locke (1632–1704)
- Adam Loftus
- Charles Fuge Lowder
- George Lukins
- Henry Francis Lyte
- John A. Macdonald, convert from Presbyterianism
- John Macquarrie
- James Madison (1751–1836), fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), the “Father of the Constitution” and the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Charles Mathias
- John Mbiti
- John McCain (former, then became a practicing Baptist[1])
- Alister McGrath (b. 1953), Northern Irish native theologian, priest, intellectual historian and Christian apologist
- Victor McLaglen
- John Milbank
- Reverend Joseph Miller Congregational Minister who became an Anglican priest
- Bernard Mizeki
- James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth President of the United States (1817–1825)
- Elizabeth Moon
- Benjamin Moore (1748–1816)
- Edward Morrow
- Francis Joseph Mullin, seventh president of Shimer College
- John Gardner Murray
- Howard Mowll (1890–1958), Bishop of Western China and Archbishop of Sydney
- John Mason Neale (1818–1866)
- Ursula Niebuhr
- Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
- Albert Jay Nock
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Sabelo Stanley Ntwasa
- Henry Oldenburg
- Ashley Olsen
- Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk
- John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne
- Harry Oppenheimer, convert from Judaism
- George Orwell (1903–1950)
- John Ostrander
- George Owen
P to T[edit]
- Horatio Parker
- Charles William Pearson
- Alan Paton,South African novelist and Anti Apartheid Activist
- Percy Pennybacker
- James De Wolf Perry
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021), husband of Elizabeth II (convert from Greek Orthodox)
- Autumn Phillips
- Mark Phillips
- Peter Phillips
- Zara Phillips
- Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th President of the United States of America
- Reverend Jonas Pilling
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), South Carolina Revolutionary War veteran, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and Federalist Party presidential candidate
- Arthur T. Polhill-Turner (1862–1935), one of the Cambridge Seven
- Cecil H. Polhill-Turner (1860–1938), one of the Cambridge Seven
- Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp (1860–1939), one of the Cambridge Seven
- Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), third Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement
- James Ramsay, abolitionist
- Michael Ramsey (1904–1988), 100th Archbishop of Canterbury
- John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), Virginian Congressman and U. S. Minister to Russia
- George Read (1733–1788), signer of the Declaration of Independence from Delaware and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787
- Tatum Reed
- Martin Rees
- George F. Regas
- Gene Robinson
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), wife of Franklin Roosevelt and "First Lady of the World"
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945), 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, artist
- Christina Rossetti, poet
- Maria Francesca Rossetti
- J. K. Rowling
- Sarah, Duchess of York
- Douglas Sargent, English missionary to Sichuan and third Bishop of Selby
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist
- Samuel Seabury
- William Shakespeare
- Henry Sherrill
- Charles Simeon, leading evangelical
- C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet and critic of the Church of England
- Christopher Smart
- Benjamin B. Smith
- Cordwainer Smith
- Song Cheng-tsi (1892–1955), Bishop of West Szechwan
- Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- David Souter
- Diana, Princess of Wales, royal princess
- William Archibald Spooner, Oxford academic
- Russell Stannard[2]
- John Steinbeck (1902–1968), American novelist
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), Anglican clergyman and Anglo-Irish novelist whose best remembered novel is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Sufjan Stevens, American singer[3]
- Ted Stevens
- Frederick Streetly, Anglican priest, archdeacon of Tobago
- Charles Studd (1860–1931), one of the Cambridge Seven
- Frederick Reginald Pinfold Sumner, deacon and photographer
- E. W. Swanton, journalist and cricket commentator
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish clergyman, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer known for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub
- Stuart Symington
- Robert A. Taft
- Ethelbert Talbot
- Oliver Tambo (1917–1993), South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), Anglican bishop in Ireland and devotional writer
- Michael Taylor, of Ossett
- Zachary Taylor
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet
- R. S. Thomas, Welsh clergyman and poet
- Martin Thornton (1915–1986), British priest and spiritual director known for his writings on ascetical theology
- Arthur Tooth, Anglican priest noted for Ritualism
- Richard Chenevix Trench
- Henry St. George Tucker
- Daniel S. Tuttle
- Desmond Tutu, South African bishop; Archbishop of Cape Town
- Millard E. Tydings
- John Tyler
U to Z[edit]
- Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941)
- Peter van Inwagen
- Henry Vaughan (1621−1695), Welsh poet
- Thomas Vaughan (1621−1666), Welsh clergyman, philosopher and alchemist
- Henry A. Wallace
- Keith Ward
- George Washington
- Sam Waterston
- Francis Wharton
- Alfred Wheeler, Australian composer
- William White
- George Whitefield
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish dramatist and poet (converted on his deathbed to Roman Catholicism)
- William, Prince of Wales (b. 1982)
- John Williams
- Robin Williams
- Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, deathbed convert
- Selina Win Pe
- Colin Winter
- Rev. Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), diarist and missionary to colonial South Carolina
- William Wordsworth
- William Butler Yeats
See also[edit]
- List of Anglican church composers - includes some non-Anglicans who wrote Anglican church music.
- List of people who have converted to Anglicanism
- Category:Anglican writers
References[edit]
- ^ Bruce Smith. McCain Says He's Been Baptist for Years. ABC News. September 17, 2007 retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ "God for the 21st Century Press Release - Templeton Foundation Press". Archived from the original on 2006-09-23. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ Murray, Noel (July 13, 2005). "Sufjan Stevens". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
External links[edit]
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