A REALLY BIG LIST OF FAMOUS EPISCOPALIANS Dean Acheson - U.S. Secretary of State (1949-53) Douglas Adams - popular comedic science fiction author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyseries (devout Anglican until age 18, then agnostic, then atheist) James Agee - influential film critic Spiro Agnew - U.S. Vice-President under Nixon Edward Albee - playwright Eric Ambler - influential British spy novel author Chester A. Arthur - 21st U.S. President Gerald Ford - 38th U.S. President Fred Astaire - popular movie star and dancer Charles Babbage - influential mathematician whose theories were instrumental in development of computers Francis Bacon - influential scientific philosopher Tallulah Bankhead - movie star (identified herself as a "high Episcopalian agnostic") James Blish - acclaimed science fiction writer; author of A Case of Conscience; etc. Humphrey Bogart - movie star (lapsed) Bono - lead singer for Irish rock band U2; humanitarian Robert Boyle - father of modern chemistry Marion Zimmer Bradley - fantasy writer; The Mists of Avalon; etc. William Henry Bragg - Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work on X-ray diffraction Margaret Wise Brown - influential children's book author: Goodnight Moon; The Runaway Bunny; etc. (non-churchgoer; Presbyterian father; Episcopalian mother) George H. W. Bush - 41st U.S. President Charlie Chaplin - great silent film star, comedian, director; "The Little Tramp" (lapsed, agnostic) George M. Dallas - Vice-President under Pres. Polk Charles Darwin - father of evolutionary biology Bette Davis - movie star (mostly lapsed Episcopalian/Baptist family background) Richard Dawkins - influential evolutionary biologist (lapsed) Cecil B. DeMille - movie director, The Ten Commandments, etc. Philip K. Dick - acclaimed science fiction writer; movie adaptations of his work include Blade Runner; Total Recall; Minority Report; Paycheck; Impostor Marie Dressler - Academy Award-winning actress T.S. Eliot - poet Benjamin Franklin - a leading American Founding Father (raised Episcopalian; Deist) Hannibal Goodwin - perfected application of photographic emulsion to a roll of film, a key development in film technology that allowed motion pictures to be made Judy Garland - movie star Lillian Gish - movie star Cary Grant - movie star (lapsed) William Henry Harrison - 9th U.S. President Olivia de Havilland - Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949) Thomas A. Hendricks - U.S. Vice-President under Cleveland Robert Hooke - English scientist; formulated the law of elasticity; proposed a wave theory of light Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President (raised Episcopalian; Deist) Edward Jenner - medical scientist who made vaccination for smallpox William Thomson, Lord Kelvin - important thermodynamics physicist C.S. Lewis - author, novelist, theologian, philosopher; Mere Christianity; The Chronicles of Narnia; etc. (born into Church of Ireland) John Locke - philosopher James Madison - 4th U.S. President Guglielmo Marconi - inventor of the radio James E. McGreevey - first openly GLBT U.S. governor (New Jersey); resigned after gay adultery/nepotism/security scandal Victor McLaglen - Best Actor Academy Award forThe Informer, 1935 (Anglican) Harriet Miers - White House general counsel; nominated by Pres. Bush to be on U.S. Supreme Court (never confirmed) James Monroe - 5th U.S. President Van Morrison - singer (Church of Ireland) Nevill Mott - Nobel Prize-winning physicist; explained the effect of light on a photographic emulsion Georgia O'Keeffe - famous American painter (nominal) Laurence Olivier - movie star (agnostic, but a dedicated Anglican) John Ostrander - comic book writer Franklin Pierce - 14th U.S. President Sidney Poitier - movie star (Anglican while young) Norman Rockwell - famous American painter (lapsed Episcopalian) Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt - 26th U.S. President (Dutch Reformed, but attended Episcopalian congregation) Dante Gabriel Rossetti - famous painter George Bernard Shaw - influential Irish playwright; received Nobel Price in Literature; founder of the Fabian Society (raised in Church of Ireland; later atheist, then mystic) Cordwainer Smith - science fiction writer David Souter - U.S. Supreme Court justice since 1990 John Steinbeck - prominent American novelist (The Grapes of Wrath; etc.) Laurence Sterne - influential author in 1700s; wrote Tristram Shandy (clergyman in Church of Ireland) Zachary Taylor - 12th U.S. President Alfred Lord Tennyson - influential writer Joseph J. Thomson - Nobel Laureate in Physics, discoverer of the electron, founder of the field of atomic physics John Tyler - 10 U.S. President Matthew Tindal - philosopher of deism Henry A. Wallace - U.S. Vice-President under F.D. Roosevelt George Washington - 1st U.S. President Oscar Wilde - influential Irish playwright, novelist, poet, story writer (raised in Church of Ireland; deathbed conversion to Catholicism) Tennessee Williams - playwright William Butler Yeats - W.B. Yeats was an influential Irish poet; received Novel Prize for Literature (Church of Ireland) Some additional U.S. Senators who were Episcopalians: Ted Stevens - Alaska Barry Goldwater - Arizona John McCain - Arizona (1987-) Blanche Lincoln - Arkansas Prescott Bush - Connecticut (1952-63) Bill Nelson - Florida Saxby Chambliss - Georgia Evan Bayh - Indiana William Dodd Hathaway - Maine (1973-79) Millard E. Tydings - Maryland (1927-51) Charles Mathias - Maryland (1969-87) Stuart Symington - Missouri (1953-76) Chuck Hagel - Nebraska Jim Exon - Nebraska (1979-97) James W. Wadsworth, Jr. - New York (1915-27) Robert A. Taft - Ohio 1939-53 Robert Latham Owen - Oklahoma (1907-25) Lincoln Chafee - Rhode Island Claiborne Pell - Rhode Island (1961-97) John H. Chafee - Rhode Island (1976-99) Kay Bailey Hutchison - Texas Phil Gramm - Texas (1985-2002) John Warner - Virginia Harry F. Byrd - Virginia (1933-65) Harry F. Byrd, Jr. - Virginia (1965-83) Chuck Robb - Virginia (1989-2001) Brock Adams - Washington (1987-93) Alan Simpson - Wyoming (1979-97) Pete Williams - New Jersey/ABSCAM scandal Some additional U.S. Representatives who were Episcopalians: Bill Alexander - Arkansas (1969-93) Bill McCollum - Florida (1981-2001) Jack W. Buechner - Missouri (1987-91) Jo Bonner - Alabama 1st Don Young - Alaska (1973-) John Shadegg - Arizona 3rd Sam Farr - California 17th Rob Simmons - Connecticut 2nd Adam Putnam - Florida 12th Dan Miller - Florida 13th (1993-2003) Ander Crenshaw - Florida 4th John Mica - Florida 7th Jack Kingston - Georgia 1st David McIntosh - Indiana 2nd (1995-2001) Jim Leach - Iowa 2nd Bob Livingston - Louisiana 1st (1977-99) Charles Boustany - Louisiana 7th (2005-) James Symington - Missouri 2nd (1969-77) Rodney Frelinghuysen - New Jersey 11th Robert E. Andrews - New Jersey 1st Randy Kuhl - New York 29th (2005-) Cass Ballenger - North Carolina 10th Ralph Regula - Ohio 16th Chris Bell - Texas 25th Jeb Hensarling - Texas 5th James McDermott - Washington 7th Jim Sensenbrenner - Wisconsin 5th (1979-) Judy Biggert - Illinois 13th Brian Kerns - Indiana 7th (2001-2002) Some additional U.S. Governors who were Episcopalians: Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) - Governor and Senator from California Fife Symington - Arizona (1991-97) George Deukmejian - California (1983-91) Charles L. Terry, Jr. - Delaware (1965-69) Pete du Pont - Delaware (1977-85) Bill Weld - Massachusetts (1991-97) Kenny Guinn - Nevada Mark Sanford - South Carolina Carroll Campbell - South Carolina (1987-95) Thomas A. Riggs - Territorial Alaska (1918-21) Bob Wise - West Virginia Dave Freudenthal - Wyoming Stanley K. Hathaway - Wyoming (1967-75) U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices who were Episcopalians: John Jay John Marshall Salmon P. Chase Melville W. Fuller Morrison R. Waite Harlan F. Stone Additional U.S. Supreme Court Justices who were Episcopalians: Alfred Moore Benjamin R. Curtis Bushrod Washington Byron R. White David H. Souter Edward T. Sanford George Sutherland Horace H. Lurton James F. Byrnes James Iredell James Wilson John A. Campbell John Rutledge Owen J. Roberts Peter V. Daniel Philip P. Barbour Potter Stewart Robert H. Jackson Rufus W. Peckham Samuel Chase Sandra Day O'Connor Stephen J. Field Thomas Johnson Thurgood Marshall Ward Hunt William H. Moody Willis Van Devanter Gallery of Famous Anglicans Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556). Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the three Anglican Bishops martyred in Oxford in the sixteenth century under Queen Mary Tudor. Cranmer is best known for being the primary architect of the Book of Common Prayer as well as the author of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (orginally Forty-two Articles). He was largely responsible for the abolition of the distinctly Roman Catholic ceremonies, the destruction of images and relics, and the purging of medieval Roman superstitious heresies in the Church of England. He was burnt at the stake on March 21, 1556, placing his hand first in the flames as an indication of his regret in signing recantations "for fear of death". Charles Simeon (1759-1836). Evangelical divine of the Anglican Church during a time of great spiritual decline in the Church of England. He held his incumbency at Trinity Church in Cambridge for his entire career. At first he met with great resistance to Evangelical preaching but later seemed to have turned the course of the entire church towards revival. Read more on Charles Simeon in an article on our "Articles Page". George Whitefield (1714-1770). Anglican Evangelist and leader in the early Methodist movement. He came under the influence of John