This list of
Baptists covers those who were members of Baptist churches or raised in such. It does not imply that all were practicing Baptists or remained so all their lives. As an article of faith, Baptists baptize believers after conversion, not infants.
Abbreviations of countries: Australia (A); Brazil (Br); Burma (Bu); Canada (Ca); China (C); Rep. of Congo (Kinshasa) (CK); Rep. of Congo (Leopoldville) (CL); England (E); India (I); Isle of Man (IoM); Jamaica (J); Japan (Jp); New Zealand (NZ); Puerto Rico (PR); Romania (R); Scotland (S); Sri Lanka, Ceylon (SL); Ukraine (Uk); United States and previous colonies (US)
Al Gore (born 1948, US), 45th Vice President of the United States
Kamala Harris (born 1964, US), 49th Vice President of the United States
Mike Huckabee (born 1955, US), former governor of Arkansas (R) and 2008 Presidential candidate[81]
Jesse Jackson (born 1941, US), American civil rights activist and Baptist minister; candidate for Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988; shadow senator for District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997[76]
Norman Kember (born 1931, US), biophysics professor and pacifist
Muriel Lester (1883–1968, E), social activist and pacifist
Lewis Valentine (1893–1986, W), preacher, politician and author
Paul Washer (born 1961, US), founder of HeartCry Missionary Society
Sidney Abram Weltmer (1858–1930, US), Baptist preacher, professor, magnetic pealer, mental scientist; from
Nevada, Missouri; founder of Weltmer Institute for Suggestive Therapeutics and American School of Magnetic Healing.
The Preacher's Wife: Pastor Henry Biggs (
Courtney Vance), his wife Julia (
Whitney Houston), his mother-in-law Margueritte Coleman (
Jenifer Lewis), his son Jeremiah (Justin Pierre Edmund) and many other characters were members of St. Matthew's Baptist Church.
"Lonely Lubbock Lights" (
Aaron Watson), a singer at the Broken Spoke (a honky-tonk bar) reveals that a love interest is the daughter of a Baptist minister who is keeping them apart (because he sings in bars).
"Uneasy Rider" (
Charlie Daniels), a hippie is stranded in a bar in the deep South and the locals start making trouble when the fast-thinking hippie accuses one of the locals of being a spy sent to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. The local replies that he's a "faithful follower of Brother
John Birch and a member of Antioch Baptist Church."
Designing Women,
Julia Sugarbaker (
Dixie Carter), presumably Suzanne Sugarbaker (
Delta Burke) and Charlene Frazier (
Jean Smart). Specifically, Charlene reveals that she is a "First Baptist" in the episode "Oh Suzanna". In the episode "How Great Thou Art" Charlene quits her church when she discovers her pastor is opposed to the
ordination of women, which was her dream at one time. Mary Jo Shively (
Annie Potts) briefly dates Julia's minister.
The Jeffersons, George Jefferson (
Sherman Hemsley) is revealed to be a Baptist during the third season in "The Christmas Wedding"[126] episode where his son Lionel (
Damon Evans) weds Jenny Willis (Berlinda Thomas). The wedding is held up because George wants a Baptist minister to conduct the service while the Willises want a minister of their denomination. Jenny and Lionel quickly marry when a minister (Robert Sampson) (who happens to be Baptist though white, to George's chagrin), is going door-to-door with a group of carolers.
The Grady Nutt Show, Rev. Grady Williams (
Grady Nutt), a minister in a short-lived sitcom on
NBC who balances family and ministry as he does in the pilot episode where he must preach the funeral of a disliked man while coming to terms with teenage daughter's dating.[128]
The Waltons, almost all principal characters were Baptists or attended the Baptist church. In the fourth-season episode "The Sermon", Rev. Matthew Fordwick (
John Ritter) asks John Boy (
Richard Thomas) to deliver a sermon while he goes on honeymoon. In the fifth-season episode "The Baptism", John Walton, Sr. (
Ralph Waite) refuses to attend a tent revival or be baptized.
Young Sheldon, young
Sheldon Cooper, raised a Baptist, lacks a belief in God. In the 2019 episode "Albert Einstein and the Story of Another Mary", he considers converting to Judaism to emulate famous scientists like Albert Einstein, but abandons this, telling his parents he will remain "the atheist Baptist you know and love."[130]
^Al Abrams.
"Sidelights on Sports: Notes From a Sad Trip". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 6, 1973. "I had always presumed Roberto CLemente was of the Catholic faith. His two close friends Phil Dorsey and Stan Garland, inform me he was a Baptist as are his parents." Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^My Life, by Earvin Magic Johnson with William Novak (1993), 8–9. "...when I was young we all went to the Union Missionary Baptist Church.";"Dad was deep in the Baptist church, active on all the committees. He and I both sang in the choir.";"My sisters became Adventists, while Dad and I and my brothers remained Baptists."
^"Iris Kyle". Facebook. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
^Joe Louis: Hard Times Man by Roberts, R., Yale University Press, (2010), 4. "He (Joe Louis) worked when he was told, went to the Baptist church on Sundays," 93. Louis would not win or lose the fight because he was black and Baptist , any more than Baer would because he was white and Jewish." 202. "‘‘I was born
a Republican. My mother was always a Republican—Republican and Baptist.’’"
This list of
Baptists covers those who were members of Baptist churches or raised in such. It does not imply that all were practicing Baptists or remained so all their lives. As an article of faith, Baptists baptize believers after conversion, not infants.
Abbreviations of countries: Australia (A); Brazil (Br); Burma (Bu); Canada (Ca); China (C); Rep. of Congo (Kinshasa) (CK); Rep. of Congo (Leopoldville) (CL); England (E); India (I); Isle of Man (IoM); Jamaica (J); Japan (Jp); New Zealand (NZ); Puerto Rico (PR); Romania (R); Scotland (S); Sri Lanka, Ceylon (SL); Ukraine (Uk); United States and previous colonies (US)
Al Gore (born 1948, US), 45th Vice President of the United States
Kamala Harris (born 1964, US), 49th Vice President of the United States
Mike Huckabee (born 1955, US), former governor of Arkansas (R) and 2008 Presidential candidate[81]
Jesse Jackson (born 1941, US), American civil rights activist and Baptist minister; candidate for Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988; shadow senator for District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997[76]
Norman Kember (born 1931, US), biophysics professor and pacifist
Muriel Lester (1883–1968, E), social activist and pacifist
Lewis Valentine (1893–1986, W), preacher, politician and author
Paul Washer (born 1961, US), founder of HeartCry Missionary Society
Sidney Abram Weltmer (1858–1930, US), Baptist preacher, professor, magnetic pealer, mental scientist; from
Nevada, Missouri; founder of Weltmer Institute for Suggestive Therapeutics and American School of Magnetic Healing.
The Preacher's Wife: Pastor Henry Biggs (
Courtney Vance), his wife Julia (
Whitney Houston), his mother-in-law Margueritte Coleman (
Jenifer Lewis), his son Jeremiah (Justin Pierre Edmund) and many other characters were members of St. Matthew's Baptist Church.
"Lonely Lubbock Lights" (
Aaron Watson), a singer at the Broken Spoke (a honky-tonk bar) reveals that a love interest is the daughter of a Baptist minister who is keeping them apart (because he sings in bars).
"Uneasy Rider" (
Charlie Daniels), a hippie is stranded in a bar in the deep South and the locals start making trouble when the fast-thinking hippie accuses one of the locals of being a spy sent to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. The local replies that he's a "faithful follower of Brother
John Birch and a member of Antioch Baptist Church."
Designing Women,
Julia Sugarbaker (
Dixie Carter), presumably Suzanne Sugarbaker (
Delta Burke) and Charlene Frazier (
Jean Smart). Specifically, Charlene reveals that she is a "First Baptist" in the episode "Oh Suzanna". In the episode "How Great Thou Art" Charlene quits her church when she discovers her pastor is opposed to the
ordination of women, which was her dream at one time. Mary Jo Shively (
Annie Potts) briefly dates Julia's minister.
The Jeffersons, George Jefferson (
Sherman Hemsley) is revealed to be a Baptist during the third season in "The Christmas Wedding"[126] episode where his son Lionel (
Damon Evans) weds Jenny Willis (Berlinda Thomas). The wedding is held up because George wants a Baptist minister to conduct the service while the Willises want a minister of their denomination. Jenny and Lionel quickly marry when a minister (Robert Sampson) (who happens to be Baptist though white, to George's chagrin), is going door-to-door with a group of carolers.
The Grady Nutt Show, Rev. Grady Williams (
Grady Nutt), a minister in a short-lived sitcom on
NBC who balances family and ministry as he does in the pilot episode where he must preach the funeral of a disliked man while coming to terms with teenage daughter's dating.[128]
The Waltons, almost all principal characters were Baptists or attended the Baptist church. In the fourth-season episode "The Sermon", Rev. Matthew Fordwick (
John Ritter) asks John Boy (
Richard Thomas) to deliver a sermon while he goes on honeymoon. In the fifth-season episode "The Baptism", John Walton, Sr. (
Ralph Waite) refuses to attend a tent revival or be baptized.
Young Sheldon, young
Sheldon Cooper, raised a Baptist, lacks a belief in God. In the 2019 episode "Albert Einstein and the Story of Another Mary", he considers converting to Judaism to emulate famous scientists like Albert Einstein, but abandons this, telling his parents he will remain "the atheist Baptist you know and love."[130]
^Al Abrams.
"Sidelights on Sports: Notes From a Sad Trip". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 6, 1973. "I had always presumed Roberto CLemente was of the Catholic faith. His two close friends Phil Dorsey and Stan Garland, inform me he was a Baptist as are his parents." Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^My Life, by Earvin Magic Johnson with William Novak (1993), 8–9. "...when I was young we all went to the Union Missionary Baptist Church.";"Dad was deep in the Baptist church, active on all the committees. He and I both sang in the choir.";"My sisters became Adventists, while Dad and I and my brothers remained Baptists."
^"Iris Kyle". Facebook. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
^Joe Louis: Hard Times Man by Roberts, R., Yale University Press, (2010), 4. "He (Joe Louis) worked when he was told, went to the Baptist church on Sundays," 93. Louis would not win or lose the fight because he was black and Baptist , any more than Baer would because he was white and Jewish." 202. "‘‘I was born
a Republican. My mother was always a Republican—Republican and Baptist.’’"