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The following list sets down the name of each member of the Baháʼí Faith who is the subject of a Wikipedia article. For another index of individual Baháʼís with Wikipedia articles, see Category:Bahá'ís by nationality.

Family of Baháʼu'lláh

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Royalty

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Artists

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Bands

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Musicians

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Broadcasters

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  • Susan Audé - news anchor at WIS, Columbia, South Carolina

Filmmakers

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Actors

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Architects

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Writers

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Other artists

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Athletes

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Business

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Scholarly

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Educators

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Journalists

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  • Robert Sengstacke Abbott[86] - lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African American millionaires of the United States.

Public service

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  • David Kelly[87] - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)
  • Dorothy Wright Nelson - Senior Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; former dean, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
  • Jacqueline Left Hand Bull[88] - Indian Health care policy administrator
  • Layli Miller-Muro[89] - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
  • Mahmud Jamal[90] - Judge on the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Payam Akhavan - prosecutor for United Nations tribunals and law professor
  • Robert B. Powers - prominent police officer in the history of California during which he co-established one of the earliest training programs for police in matters of race relations.

Scholars (of Baháʼí history, Baháʼí theology, apologetics, etc.)

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  • Udo Schaefer - A German lawyer and prolific author, specialising in Baháʼí apologetics and theology, notably ethics.
  • Moojan Momen - historian specializing in Baháʼí history and theology
  • Peter Smith - historian and sociologist, author of a much-cited academic study of Baháʼí history, The Babi and Bahaʼi Religions: From Messianic Shiʻism to a World Religion.[91]
  • Franklin Lewis - author and translator in Iranian studies, who has also published literary analyses of the works of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh.
  • Robert Stockman - historian, theologian, apologist and biographer, noted especially for works on the Baháʼí community in North America.
  • Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl - (Persian language: ميرزا أبوالفضل‎), or Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání (1844–1914) - was the foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States.
  • ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari - (1902 – 1972) was a prominent Iranian Baháʼí scholar. He became a Baháʼí in 1927. He was a teacher in one of the Baháʼí schools in Iran, until the schools were closed in 1934. He prepared many compilations of Bahá'í writings, commentaries, apologetic works, and historic studies.
  • Ali Murad Davudi - (1922–1979?) was an Iranian Baháʼí who was a member of the national governing body of the Baháʼís in Iran. He was a professor at Tehran University in the philosophy department. In 1979, during a wave of persecution toward Baháʼís, he was kidnapped and has been presumed a victim of state execution.

Scientists

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  • Dr. Ron McNair - physicist and astronaut; died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986[92]

Others

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Other lists

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References

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