Who Are Some Famous Episcopalians and Anglicans?
Who are some of your Saints?
Here is a sample list of noted Episcopalians and Anglicans. The * after a person’s name indicates this person is celebrated in our Calander of Saints.
Theologians
Lancelot Andrews: Bishop and spiritual writer The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrews is one of his more famous writings
John Wesley*: priest and founder of the Methodist Church
Thomas Cramner*: Archbishop of Canterbury and author of the first Book of Common Prayer, Martyr
William Laud*: Archbishop of Canterbury under Charles I, Martyr
Edward Pusey: Priest, Tractorian and founder of the first Anglican Sisterhood since the Reformation
Samuel Seabury*: First American Bishop
John Donne*: Priest, Theologian, author, poet and hymnist
John Keble*: Priest, Tractioian, social activist
Absalom Jones*: first black ordained Episcopal Priest
David Pendleton Oakerhater*: First Native American Deacon and Missionary
United States Presidents and Patriots
George Washington: First U.S. President 1789-1797
James Madison: Fourth U.S. President 1809-1817
James Monroe: Fifth U.S. President 1817-1825
William Harry Harrison: Ninth U. s. President 1841
John Tyler: Tenth U.S. President 1841-1845
Zachery Taylor: Twelfth President 1849-1850
Franklin Pierce: Fourteenth President 1853-1857
Chester A. Arthur: Twenty-first President 1881-1885
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-second 1933-1945
Gerald Ford: Thirty-eighth President
George H.W. Bush: Forty-first President
Francis Scott Key: patriot and author of the words to the Star Spangled Banner
Patrick Henry: patriot “Give me Liberty or Give me Death”
Betsy Ross: patriot, maker of the first flag
Martha Washington: patriot
Thirty-one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
Authors
Jane Austin: author (Emma, Pride and Prejudice. etc.)
James Blish: science fiction author(A Case of Conscience, etc.)
Marion Zimmer Bradley: fantasy writer ( The Mists of Avalon, etc.)
Anne Bronte: novelist and poet
Charlotte Bronte: novelist
Emily Bronte: novelist
Lewis Carroll: author (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, etc.)
Philip K. Dick: science fiction author (Blade Runner, etc.)
Charles Dickins: author (Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, etc.)
T.S.Eliot: poet and playwriter (Murder in the Cathrdral, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)
Henry James: author (The Princess Casamassima, etc.)
John Keats: poet
P.D. James: dectective novelist
Madeleine L’Engle: author (A Wrinkle in Time, etc.)
C. S. Lewis*: author and Christian apologist The Chronicals of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, Suprised by Joy and A Grief Observed are among his many works
Dorothy Sayers: author and scholar (the Lord Peter Wimsey dectective novels, Creed or Chaos, The Wimsical Christian,and a translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy)
William Shakespere: Playwrite and Poet
Percy Blythe Shelley: poet
Mary Shelly: author (Frankenstein)
Bram Stoker: author (Dracula)
Evelyne Underhill*: author and mystic (Worship)
Tennessee Williams: playwrite(The Glass Managerie, etc.)
William Wordsworth: author and poet
Social Reformers
Florence Nightengale: Nurse and reformer
Amelia Jenks Bloomer*: reformer and champion of women’s rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton*: reformer and champion of women’s rights
Sojourner Truth: reformer*, activist for abolition and women’s rights
Harriet Ross Tubman*: reformer and leader of the underground railroad
Julia Chester Emery*: social activist and founder of the United Thank Offering (Episcopal relief fund)
Constance and her Companions “The Marytrs of Memphis”*: killed fighting an outbreak of yellow fever in Memphis, Tennessee
Early Church Teachers and Theologians (pre-Anglican)
Thomas Aquinas*: theologian, author of Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles, used the philosophy of Aristotle
Augustine of Canterbury*: First Archbishop of Canterbury and missionary
Augustine of Hippo*: author of The City of God and Confessions as well as many other works
Thomas a Becket*: Archbishop of Canterbury, martyerd
Bede the Venerable*: scholar of the history of Christianity in England before Augustine of Canterbury was sent
Columba*: Founder of the Monastary of Iona to train missionaries to evangalize the Picts of Northern Scotland
Francis of Assisi*: spiritualist and founder of the Orders of Franciscian Monks and the Poor Clare Nuns
Julian of Norwich*: anchoress and mystic, author of The Revelations of Divine Love or The Book of Showings, based on revelations she received during a grave illness and later; the first English woman of letters and the first English theologian to write in English
Patrick of Ireland*: bringer of the Christian faith to Ireland
Actors, Artists, Musicians and Entertainers
Fred Astaire: Actor
Bono: Lead Singer group U2
Natalie Cole: Singer
Judy Collins: Actress
Cecil B. DeMille: Movie Director
Duke Ellington: Big Band Leader
Judy Garland: Actress
Sir William Gilbert: Playwrite
Lillian Gish: Actress
Olivia de Havilland: Actress
Mary Martin
Van Morrison: Musician
Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen: Actresses
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sir Arthur Sullivan: Playwrite
Sam Waterstone
Robin Williams: Comedian & Actor
Scientists, Explorers and Inventors
Charles Babbage: mathmatician and theorist behind computer technology
Sir Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle: scientist, father of modern chemistry
Captain John Cook
Sir Charles Darwin
Hannible Goodwin: perfected the use of photoemersion allowing motion pictures to be made
Robert Hooke: scientist developed the theory of elasticity and proposed wave theory for light
Edward Jenner: scientist, vaccination for smallpox
Guglielmo Marconi: inventor of the radio
Margaret Mead: anthropologist
Comic Book Characters
Batman
Invisible Woman
Human Torch
Phoenix
The Beast
Archangel
Psylocke
Captain Britain
Dan Dare
Chamber
Scarcrow of Romney March
The Hound
Cyclops
* indicates the person has a Saint’s Day in the Calander of Saints
