List of distinguished Baha’is
Royalty
Artists
Bands
- Common Market[3] - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest
- Seals and Crofts[4] - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s
Musicians
- Dizzy Gillespie[5] - American jazz trumpeter
- Khalil Fong[6] - soul singer and songwriter from Hong Kong.
- Flora Purim[7] - Brazilian American jazz singer
- KC Porter[8] - American multi-grammy winning producer
- Buffy Sainte-Marie - Academy Award-winning Canadian musician/composer
- Russell Garcia[9] - motion picture composer
- Mike Longo[10] - American jazz pianist
- Dan Seals[11] - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
- Tierney Sutton[12] - American jazz singer
- James Moody[13] - American jazz saxophone and flute player
- Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff[14] - folk music performers
- Vic Damone[15] - American singer and entertainer
- Jack Lenz[16] - Canadian composer
- Larry Robinson - songwriter and member of The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band
- Cindy Blackman[17] - American jazz and rock drummer
- Tom Price - Conductor, composer and producer[18]
- Rachael Price - Jazz vocalist[19]
- Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music[20]
- Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter.
Filmmakers
- Mark Bamford, writer, director (Cape of Good Hope)
- Mithaq Kazimi, director, producer (16 Days in Afghanistan)
Actors
- Anthony Azizi[21] (24)
- Justin Baldoni[22] (Everwood)
- Earl Cameron[23] (Thunderball, The Interpreter)
- Omid Djalili[24] - British comedian and actor
- Eva LaRue[25] (All My Children, CSI: Miami)
- Barbara Hale[26] - Emmy Award winner (Perry Mason)
- Carole Lombard[27] - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Inder Manocha[28] - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
- Alex Rocco[29] - Emmy Award winner (The Famous Teddy Z, The Godfather, The Wedding Planner)
- Valeska Surratt[30] - silent film actress
- Rainn Wilson[31] (The Office, Six Feet Under...)
- Lois Hall[32] - American movie and television actress
- Lloyd Haynes[33] - African-American actor and television writer.
- Pardis Parker,[34] Canadian comedian
- Rehana Sultan, Indian Actress
Architects
- Hossein Amanat [35] (Azadi Tower, buildings of the Bahá'í Arc, House of Worship of Samoa)
- Fariborz Sahba[36] (Lotus Temple, terrace gardens of Haifa)
- Louis Bourgeois[37] (House of Worship of Wilmette)
Writers
- Burl Barer[38] - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Bahá'í oriented articles.
- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff[14] - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
- André Brugiroux[39], traveller and author
- Barry Crump[40] - New Zealand comic author
- Robert Hayden[41] - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976–1978
- Alain LeRoy Locke[42] - books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
- Guy Murchie[43] - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
- Arvid Nelson[44] - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi.
- Wellesley Tudor Pole[45] - British writer
- Gholamreza Rouhani, poet and satirist [46]
- Nayyer Sina, poet and Songwriter [47]
- Adib Taherzadeh[48] - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts
- William S. Hatcher[49] - mathematician, philosopher, educator
- William Sears,[50] author of multiple books
- Holiday Reinhorn, writer[51]
Other artists
- Bernard Leach[52] - potter
- Mishkín-Qalam[53] - Calligrapher
- Tom Morey[54] - Musician and inventor of the bodyboard. Founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
- Mark Tobey[55] - painter
- Fayard Nicholas[56] - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
- Hussein Bikar[57] - Egyptian painter
- Anis Mojgani[58] - spoken word poet
- Gwen Wakeling[59] - Academy Award winning Hollywood costume designer
Athletes
- Nelson Évora[60] - Portuguese Olympic Gold Medal (Beijing, 2008) and Gold Medal recipient for the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump
- Cathy Freeman - Olympic gold medal-winning runner
- Khalil Greene[61] - Shortstop for the Texas Rangers
- Miles Kasiri[62] - Finalist in the 2004 Wimbledon Tennis Junior Championship, native of the UK.
- Armein D. Kirkland[63] - Collegiate basketball player for University of Cincinnati 2002-2006
- David Krummenacker [64] - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998.
- Luke McPharlin[65] - Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers
- David F. Nti-Berko[66] - Track & Field All-American Triple Jumper for the University of Alabama (1995), native of Ghana
- William Smith[67] - Collegiate football player at Wake Forest University (1964), pioneer in integration in college athletics
Educators
- Ali Murad Davudi[68] - Tehran University professor who disappeared in 1979
- Donna Denizé[69] - American poet and award-winning teacher
- Auguste-Henri Forel[70] - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- Phoebe Hearst[71] - first woman Regent of the University of California
- Joseph Watson[72] - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin
Others
- Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
- Richard St. Barbe Baker[73] - English environmentalist
- Lady Blomfield[74] - early Irish-British Bahá'í
- Dr Frederick D'Evelyn[75] - first Irish born Bahá'í
- David Kelly[76] - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
- Layli Miller-Muro[77] - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
- Lidia Zamenhof[78] - daughter of Dr. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
- Dhabihu'llah Mahrami[79] wrongfully accused Iranian Bahá'i, found dead in his cell in 2005
- Robert Sengstacke Abbott[80] an African American lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States.
- Zhang Xin - Chinese businesswoman[81]
Zhang Xin (businesswoman)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://www.sohochina.com
Zhang Xin (simplified Chinese: 张欣; traditional Chinese: 張欣; pinyin: Zhāng Xīn, born 1965) is a wealthy businesswoman from Mainland China. Presently, she is the CEO of SOHO China, the largest real estate developer in Beijing.
Her parents returned to China from Burma in the fifties and worked as translators at the Bureau of Foreign Languages.[1] They separated during the Cultural Revolution. Born in Beijing in 1965, Zhang Xin moved to Hong Kong at age of 14 with her mother and lived in a room just big enough for two bunk beds. She worked for five years in small factories that make garment and electronic products to save for education abroad. She described the 'conditions there were similar to those in mainland China today'.
By 19, she saved enough for an airfare to London and supporting herself for English study at secretarial school.[2] Later, she studied Economics at the University of Sussex. In 1992, she graduated with a Master’s Degree in Development Economics from Cambridge University. Upon graduation, she was hired by Barings Plc to work in Hong Kong. Soon, she moved to Goldman Sachs and started working for the investment bank. In 1994 she switched to Travelers Group before returning to her hometown, Beijing. She co-founded Hongshi (meaning Red Stone), which became SOHO China, with her husband Pan Shiyi in 1995.[2] The couple was described by The Times of London as 'China’s most visible and flamboyant property tycoons'.[1] SOHO China is the largest property developer in central Beijing.
Zhang Xin has won many prestigious international awards for her role as a patron of visionary architecture in China and as an innovative entrepreneur. She won BusinessWeek´s Stars of Asia Award for the year of 2004, and was awarded a Special Prize at the 8th la Biennale di Venezia. She also received the Year 2004 Montblanc Arts Patronage Award.[3] In 2007, she was selected as one of the “Ten Women to Watch in Asia” by the Wall Street Journal. In 2008, she was listed among Forbes magazine's "World's Most Powerful Women". In 2009, Zhang Xin was included among Forbes’ "Top Ten Billionaire Women We Admire" and Financial Times’ "Top 50 Women in World Business". In March 2010 she was named among “China Top 10 Career Women Role Models in 2009” by the All-China Women’s Federation, China Sun Media Group, Sina.com and Hunan TV.
Zhang Xin is a member and Young Global Leader of World Economic Forum, Davos, as well as a trustee of China Institute in America and a member of Asia Business Council.
She is also a member of the Bahá'í Faith.[4][5] and made a cameo appearance as a Chinese merchant in the WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS.
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