List of Baháʼís

Central figures

• The Báb
• ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
• Baháʼu'lláh

  Other lists

• List of Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh
• List of the Disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
• List of the Hands of the Cause of God
• List of the Knights of Baháʼu'lláh
• List of former Baháʼís

  Family of Baháʼu'lláh

• Ásíyih Khánum - known by her title Navváb
• ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
• Bahiyyih Khánum
• Mírzá Mihdí
• Shoghi Effendi

  Royalty

• Malietoa Tanumafili II - chieftain of the government of Samoa.
• Marie of Romania - queen of Romania.

  Artists

Bands

• Common Market - hip hop duo from the American Pacific Northwest.
• Seals and Crofts - American soft rock duo in the early 1970s.

  Musicians

• Mirza Abdollah - also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history
• Cindy Blackman - American jazz and rock drummer
• Jeff and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - folk music performers
• Celeste Buckingham - singer/songwriter
• Doug Cameron - Canadian musician/composer
• Vic Damone - American singer and entertainer
• Khalil Fong - American-born Hong Kong singer and songwriter
• Russell Garcia - motion picture composer
• Dizzy Gillespie - American jazz trumpeter
• Andy Grammer - American singer-songwriter
• Red Grammer - American singer-songwriter best known for children's music
• Anousheh Khalili - Iranian-American singer, pianist and songwriter
• Jack Lenz - Canadian composer
• Kevin Locke - Lakota musician and dancer
• Mike Longo - American jazz pianist
• James Moody - American jazz saxophone and flute player
• KC Porter - American multi-Grammy winning producer
• Rachael Price - jazz vocalist
• Tom Price - conductor, composer and producer
• Flora Purim - Brazilian American jazz singer
• Dan Seals - American musician, of England Dan and John Ford Coley
• Tierney Sutton - American jazz singer
• Louie Shelton - American jazz guitarist and producer
• Charles Wolcott - pianist, arranger, composer for Disney and MGM films, credited with bringing rock and roll to the movies

  Broadcasters

• Susan Aude Fisher News Anchor WIS Columbia SC

  Filmmakers

• Mark Bamford - writer, director
• Mary Darling - producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
• Clark Donnelly - producer, Little Mosque on the Prairie
• Phil Lucas - Native American filmmaker
• Harold Lee Tichenor - film producer

  Actors

• Anthony Azizi
• Penn Badgley
• Justin Baldoni
• Earl Cameron
• Omid Djalili - comedian and actor
• Stu Gilliam - American actor and comedian
• Barbara Hale - Emmy Award winner
• Lois Hall - American movie and television actress
• Lloyd Haynes - actor and television writer
• Jeremy Iversen - actor and writer
• Eva LaRue
• Carole Lombard - ranked 23rd greatest American female screen legend, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Inder Manocha - British Asian stand-up comedian and actor
• Pardis Parker - Canadian comedian
• Alex Rocco - Emmy Award winner
• Rehana Sultan - Indian actress
• Valeska Surratt - silent film actress
• Travis Van Winkle - American actor, The Last Ship, Hart of Dixie
• Rainn Wilson
• Julie Mitchum - American Actress

  Architects

• Hossein Amanat
• Fariborz Sahba
• Louis Bourgeois
• William Sutherland Maxwell
• Siamak Hariri

  Writers

• Burl Barer - true crime genre specializing, author of The Saint, as well as Baháʼí oriented articles
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - fantasy and science fiction author in short story and longer formats
• André Brugiroux - traveller and author
• Barry Crump - New Zealand comic author
• William S. Hatcher - mathematician, philosopher, educator
• Robert Hayden - Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976–1978
• Alain LeRoy Locke - author or books on poetry, race-awareness and research in various arts
• Nemat Mokhtarzada - writer and poet of Afghan origin
• Guy Murchie - philosopher, scientific writer, aviator
• Bahiyyih Nakhjavani - Iranian writer
• Arvid Nelson - comic book writer, creator of Rex Mundi
• Wellesley Tudor Pole - British writer
• Jeffrey Reddick - creator of the Final Destination series
• Holiday Reinhorn - writer
• Gholamreza Rouhani - poet and satirist
• William Sears - author of multiple books, an Emmy award-winning sportscaster, and host of a children's television program "In the Park."
• Adib Taherzadeh - literary historian of Baha'i sacred texts
• Rod Duncan - author of the Gaslight series

  Other artists

• Alice Pike Barney - portrait artist
• Hussein Bikar - Egyptian painter
• Amelia Collins - philanthropist
• Laura Clifford Barney - philanthropist
• Bernard Leach - potter
• Mishkín-Qalam - calligrapher
• Anis Mojgani - spoken-word poet
• Tom Morey - musician, inventor of the bodyboard, founder and namesake for the Morey Boogie bodyboard company
• Fayard Nicholas - American dancer and one half of the Nicholas Brothers
• Rae Perlin - artist
• Juliet Thompson - portrait artist
• Mark Tobey - painter
• Gwen Wakeling - Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer
• Otto Rogers - Painter
• Sky Glabush - Painter
• Keavan Yazdani - Director & Visual Artist

  Athletes

• Nelson Évora - Portuguese Olympic gold medal and gold medal recipient for the 2007 Athletics World Championship in Osaka, Japan in Triple Jump
• Cathy Freeman - Australian Olympic gold medal-winning runner
• Khalil Greene - shortstop for the Texas Rangers
• David Krummenacker - Track & Field World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion 1997, 1998
• Pellom McDaniels - NFL Defensive End for the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Falcons, Birmingham Fire
• Luke McPharlin - Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers
• Ramak Safi - Iranian footballer who plays for the Jacksonville Armada in the NASL

  Business

• Thornton Chase - first Baháʼí of the West, was a businessman when he joined the religion in 1894/5.
• Mildred Mottahedeh - founder of Mottahedeh & Company
• Musa Naghiyev - Azerbaijani industrial oil magnate
• Steve Sarowitz, American billionaire, founder of Paylocity
• Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi - famous Chinese business couple

  Scholarly

Educators

• Dwight W. Allen - professor, author, education reformer, consultant and advisor to UNESCO and the World Bank Group
• Alessandro Bausani - a leading Islamic studies scholar in Italy, professor Naples, Rome
• Ali Murad Davudi - Tehran University professor who disappeared in 1979
• Donna Denizé - American poet and award-winning teacher
• Auguste-Henri Forel - Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
• ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan - Prominent Iranian educator, administered the Tarbiyat School for Boys. Hand of the Cause.
• Jagdish Gandhi - founder of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India
• Phoebe Hearst - first woman Regent of the University of California
• Firuz Kazemzadeh - historian, member of the National Spiritual Assembly
• Patricia Locke - Lakota Native American educator
• Dr. Pellom McDaniels - professor, researcher, inventor, author, historian, curator at Emory University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Founder of Arts For Smarts Foundation.
• Joseph Watson - Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin

  Journalism

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

  Public service

• David Kelly - former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence
• 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 - Indian Health care policy administrator
• Layli Miller-Muro - Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center
• 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.)

• 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.
• 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.

  Scientist

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

  Others

• Phoebe Hearst - Prominent American Philanthropist, Feminist and Suffragist
• Leonora Armstrong - international traveler
• Richard St. Barbe Baker - English environmentalist
• Lady Blomfield - early Irish-British Baháʼí, and a supporter of the rights of children and women
• Dr Frederick D'Evelyn - first Irish-born Baháʼí
• Nelson Évora
• Dhabihu'llah Mahrami - wrongfully accused Iranian Baháʼí, found dead in his cell in 2005
• Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan - British hereditary peer
• Nossrat Peseschkian - psychiatrist, psychotherapist; founder of Positive Psychotherapy
• Hilda Yen - internationalist, diplomat, aviator
• Lidia Zamenhof - daughter of L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto