List of Anglicans
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
- Howard Ahmanson Jr.
- Madeleine Albright, American stateswoman
- 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, great American dancer
- 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
- James Blair (Virginia)
- James Blish, (atheist as an adult, then rejoined the church)
- Robert Boyle, natural philosopher
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- 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
- Robert Carliell, didactic poet
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Owen Chadwick (b. 1916), British academic and historian of Christianity
- Saxby Chambliss
- Charles, Prince of Wales
- 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
- Wallace E. Conkling
- James Cook
- 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
- 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)
- 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 (b. 1926), Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms since 1952
- 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), Church of England Deacon and leader of the Little Gidding community, Ferrar published the poetry of George Herbert
- John Neville Figgis
- Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop
- 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
- James Grahame
- John Galbraith Graham
- Alexander Viets Griswold
- Frank Griswold
- Chuck Hagel
- Edmond Halley
- Diana Reader Harris
- William Henry Harrison
- Prince Harry
- 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
- Robert Hooke
- Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican priest and theologian of major importance
- Dave Hope (Anglican Mission in America)
- John Henry Hopkins
- 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
- 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
- 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, now 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
- 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
- Harry Oppenheimer, convert from Judaism
- George Orwell (1903–1950)
- John Ostrander
- George Owen
P to T
- Horatio Parker
- Charles William Pearson
- Percy Pennybacker
- James De Wolf Perry
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921), 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
- 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
- Sarah, Duchess of York
- 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
- 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
- Ted Stevens
- 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 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)
- John Williams
- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1982)
- 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
- 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
- Bruce Smith. McCain Says He's Been Baptist for Years. ABC News. September 17, 2007 retrieved September 17, 2007.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-09-23. Retrieved 2007-01-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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