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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
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
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
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
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
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
References
External links
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