Just Looking? Famous Episcopalians
(and Anglicans).
Other pages in Just Looking:
What We Believe
What To Expect
Dictionary of Episco-Speak
Women & the Church
From the comedian Robin Williams, who is an Episcopalian, on an HBO special:
Top 10 Reasons to Be an Episcopalian:
10. No snake handling.
9. You can believe in dinosaurs.
8. Male and female God created them; male and female we ordain them.
7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.
6. Pew aerobics.
5. Church year is color-coded.
4. Free wine on Sunday.
3. All of the pageantry -- none of the guilt.
2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.
...and the Number One to be an Episcopalian:
1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.
Writers - most wrote MANY books
- C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia
- Madeleine L'Engle, A wrinkle in Time
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey
- Alexandra Stoddard, Daring to be Yourself
- Cordwainer Smith, The Rediscovery of Man
- T. S. Elliot, lyrics to the musical "CATS" (talk about trivia! He's written much more.)
- Susan Howatch, Mystical Paths
- Hillaire Belloc, The Four Men, Vile Bodies
- Jan Karon, The Mitford Series
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carrol
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, author of the first dictionary
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Joseph Addison (writer and editor)
- William Congreve
- Diane Mott Davidson, mystery writer, Dying for Chocolate
- Edith Pargeter aka Ellis Peters, The Brother Cadfael Mysteries (shown on PBS)
- Father Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- William Wordsworth
- Jane Austen
Poets
- Father Clement C. Moore, "A Visit From St. Nick" aka "The Night Before Christmas"
- John Donne, "No Man is an Island "
- W.H. Auden, "Tell me the truth about love"
- Philip Larkin, "Many famous feet have trod"
- John Dryden
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Robert Browning
- Elizabeth Barrett
- John Masefield
Thespians (actors/actresses)
- William Powell, Life With Father
- Vincent Price, horror movies- "that voice"
- Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind
- Ethel Merman
- Anne B. Davis (Alice from Brady Bunch)
- David Garrick (is the 19th century Shakespearian actor)
- Sir Laurence Olivier
- Susan Howatch
TRIVIA: Movies with church services modeled after Episcopal/Anglican
- The Princess Bride, wedding scene
- The Titanic, Morning Prayer service in first Class
Athletes
- Jerry Glanville, NASCAR driver #81 Ford
- Sammy Sosa
Public Officials
- General Colin Powell
- President George H. W. Bush
- Jonathan Daniels, civil rights activist
- Former Justice Thurgood Marshall
- President George Washington
- President James Madison
- President Franklin Pierce
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- President Gerald Ford
- General Robert E. Lee
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis
- General John Bell Hood
- General Leonidas Polk
- Elizabeth I and William III
- Almost all Kings and Queens of England since George II, such as Queen Victoria; Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
- Winston Churchill
- Benjamin Disraeli, 19th century Tory prime minister
- Jonathan Daniels (civil rights martyr, featured in a made for TV movie on Selma )
Others
- Charles Darwin, scientist
- Buzz Aldrin, co-pilot astronaut on Apollo 11 - he and Neil Armstrong were the first to walk on the moon
- Terry Waite, Negotiator, ex-hostage in Iran crisis
- Captain Cook
- Captain Vancouver
- Sir Isaac Newton the scientist
- Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, The Alcoholic Anonymous 12 Step Program
- Charlie Duke of Apollo 16
- Sr. Christopher Wren - architect of St. Paul's (England)
- George H. Gallup, Jr. (of Gallup Polls)
Musicians
- Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead
- Duke Ellington
- Judy Collins
Church Musicians
- George Frederic Handel
- Isaac Watts
- Charles Wesley
- Henry Purcell, Westminster Abbey organist
- John Newton, "Amazing Grace"
- Philips Brooks, "O Little Town of Bethlehem "
Preachers/Church Leaders
- Former Archbishop Desmund Tutu of South Africa
- Agnes Sanford, pioneer in healing ministry
- John Wesley
- Archbishop Cranmer
Church Writers and Theologians
- George Herbert, A Country Parson
- Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894, A series of Devotional essays published by the SPCK, The Goblin Market, Prince's Progress)