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)