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Question by An Earthly Hope: Did you know some famous Witnesses of Jehovah?
Politics:
- Dwight D. Eisenhower – U.S. President (raised JW)
- Evelyn Mandela – first wife of South African president Nelson Mandela (convert to JWs)
- Lieby Piliso – Nelson Mandela’s younger sister

Sports:
- Venus Williams and Serena Williams – world chamption/Olympic gold medalist tennis players
- Lou Whitaker – professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)
- Chet Lemon – professional baseball player (Detroit Tigers)
- Shont’e Peoples – professional football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders); convert to JWs
- Kid Gavilan – welterweight champion boxer; elected to boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 (convert to JWs)
- Dave Pear – NFL professional football player for Colts, Buccaneers, and Raiders (convert)
- Mark McCumber – professional golfer
- Dave Meyers – professional basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers in 1970s)
- Danny Granger – professional basketball player (Indiana Pacers)
- Travis Scott – NFL football player for Rams (raised JW)
- Willie Wise – NBA professional basketball player for Seattle Super Sonics and Denver Nuggets

Music:
- Prince – pop singer (convert to JWs)
- Selena – Tejano singer (Selena Quintanilla)
- Hank Marvin – famous guitarist with the Shadows (convert to JWs)
- George Benson – singer, guitarist
- Larry Graham – singer; member of Sly And The Family Stone between 1967 and 1972, founder of Graham Central Station
- David Thomas – songwriter/vocalist for Pere Ubu (convert to JWs)
- Herman Pizzanelli – leading Uruguayan concert guitarist in the 1960s (convert to JWs)
- Dave Hill – musician, Lead Guitarist and back vocals for Slade (convert)
- Rebbie Jackson – singer
- Michael Jackson – singer, pop superstar (lapsed)
- Janet Jackson – singer (lapsed)
- Katherine Jackson – matriarch of the Jacksons musical dynasty
and the mother of pop music legends The Jackson 5,
Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson- La Toya Jackson – singer (lapsed)
- Jackson Five – musical group (lapsed)
- Ja Rule – rap singer, film actor (raised)
- Patti Smith – punk rock star
- Geri Halliwell – singer (Spice Girls)
- Jill Scott – R&B/neo-soul singer-poet
- Roy Harper – songwriter, musician (raised)
- La Lupe – Cuban salsa singer (convert)

Actors and Actresses:
- Terrence Howard – actor; Ray, Hustle & Flow, etc.
- Teresa Graves – actress, star of TV movie and TV series “Get Christie Love!” (convert to JWs)
- Lark Voorhies – TV/movie actress
- Michelle Rodriguez – actress, movie star (lapsed)
- Wayans Brothers – and sisters: Damon Wayans, Dwayne Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kim Wayans, Nadia Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans;

Comedians, Actors, Filmmakers:
- Rustom Padilla – Filipino movie star
- Carmina Villarroel – Filipino actress
- Naomi Campbell – supermodel
- Kim Holland – Dutch porn star (former JW)

Literature:
- Mickey Spillane – best-selling crime novelist (convert to JWs)
- Gloria Naylor – novelist, author of The Women of Brewster Place (1982, American Book Award)
Religious Leaders:
- Charles Taze Russell – founder and first president of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Society; died in 1916
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford – second president of Jehovah’s Witnesses, from 1916 until his death in 1942
- Nathan H. Knorr – third leading figure in the history of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, president of Watchtower Bible and Tract Society from 1942 until he died in 1977
- Frederick W. Franz – president of Watchtower Society from 1977 until his death in 1992
- Milton G. Henschel – president of Watchtower Society from 1992 to 2000
- Don A. Adams – current president of the Watchtower Society, since late 2000

Other:
- Margaret Keane – artist famous for her “Big Eye” paintings (convert)
- Carol M. Swain – political scientist; professor at Vanderbilt University; author of Black Faces, Black Interests and The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration; left the Witnesses at the age of 20, in 1975
- Viv Nicholson – famous London lottery winner in 1961. She then became a devout JW. The musical Spend, Spend, Spend was based on her story.
- Rene Montes de Oca Martija – dissident human-rights activist in Cuba (son of JW)
- Hayden Covington – leading attorney for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Watchtower Society; won multiple U.S. Supreme Court cases; represented Muhammad Ali in court
- Firpo Carr – historian, author of Germany’s Black Holocaust: 1890-1945; Wicked Words: Poisoned Minds – Racism in the Dictionary; founder: Scholar Technological Institute of Research, Inc. (STIR). No longer associated. Heard on L.A. radio defending Michael Jackson during his trial. (lapsed)
- Angelo Palego – leader of team searching for Noah’s Ark
Some have left the Truth, Others learned and excepted it.
bar_enosh- I couldn’t agree more. We are all imperfect, and it is Jehovah that will read our hearts in the end.

Best answer:

Answer by Jeff S
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?

“Willie Wise – NBA professional basketball player for Seattle Super Sonics and Denver Nuggets”

you know you are stretching your copy and paste job thin when you mention an NBA guy i’ve never heard of. I’m a huge NBA fan. and the Sonics aren’t even a team anymore. lol.

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