List of Mennonites
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This is a list of Mennonites. Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation.
(To be included on this list, a person must be notable enough to have an already-existing Wikipedia article.)
General list
[edit]- Harold S. Bender – professor of theology, Goshen College[1]
- David Bergen – Giller Prize–winning writer[2]
- Travis Bergen – baseball player
- JC Chasez – American solo artist and singer for NSYNC[3]
- Christopher Dock – educator[4]
- Abraham Esau – German physicist[5]
- Howard Dyck – Canadian conductor and broadcaster[6]
- Dietrich Enns – baseball player
- Brendan Fehr – actor; linked to television series Roswell[7]
- Eric Fehr – hockey player
- Henry Friesen – endocrinologist; discovered prolactin[8]
- Jeff Friesen – former hockey player
- Byron Froese – hockey player
- Johann Funk – early Canadian Mennonite bishop[9]
- Joseph Funk – American music teacher and publisher[10]
- Michael Funk – former hockey player
- Lapiso Gedelebo – Ethiopian historian
- Owen Gingerich – Smithsonian astronomer[11][12]
- Girl Named Tom – winners of season 21 of The Voice
- Steven Goertzen – former hockey player
- Herman op den Graeff – Mennonite community leader, Krefeld (Germany); delegate and signer, Dordrecht Confession of Faith in 1632
- Joseph B. Hagey – bishop[13]
- Vincent Harding – African-American historian, theologian and civil-rights activist
- Hans Herr – bishop[14]
- Jeff Hostetler – National Football League quarterback[15]
- Julia Kasdorf – poet[16]
- Graham Kerr – known as "The Galloping Gourmet"[17][18]; television personality
- Cindy Klassen – five-time Olympic medalist[19]
- Eduard Klassen – harpist[20]
- Clayton Kratz – relief worker[21]
- Erik Kratz – American former professional baseball catcher, including Milwaukee Brewers[22]
- Alan Kreider – writer; employee, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary[23]
- Floyd Landis – professional road bicycle racer[24]
- Elaine Larsen – American jet car drag racer
- John Paul Lederach – professor, international peacebuilding[25][26]
- Lê Thị Hồng Liên – teacher; former political prisoner[27]
- María Gloria Penayo De Duarte – former First Lady of Paraguay; her husband, Nicanor Duarte, is a nominal Catholic who attends her church[28][29]
- Dustin Penner – former hockey player
- Casey Plett – writer
- Nguyen Hong Quang – vice president, Mennonite Church in Vietnam[30]
- Richie Regehr – former hockey player
- Robyn Regehr – former hockey player
- A. James Reimer – Canadian Mennonite theologian[31]
- James Reimer – hockey player[32]
- John D. Roth – Mennonite scholar[33]
- Menno Simons – theologian; Mennonitism named for him
- Jerome Monroe Smucker – founder, The J.M. Smucker Company
- Dan Snyder – hockey player[34]
- Gene Stoltzfus – American peace activist; founding director, Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Brad Thiessen – hockey player
- David Toews – hockey player
- Jonathan Toews – hockey player
- Miriam Toews – best-selling writer; winner, 2004 Governor General's Literary Award[link removed][35]
- Andrew Unger – novelist; creator and writer, The Daily Bonnet (satirical Mennonite website)
- Garry Unger – former hockey player
- Pierre Widmer – French Mennonite pastor and editor
- Armin Wiebe – writer
- Rudy Wiebe – Canadian writer and professor; raised Mennonite so knew no English until age six[36]
- Harvey L. Wollman – 26th Governor of South Dakota[37]
- John Howard Yoder – theologian and pacifist[38]
Canadian politicians connected to the Mennonites
[edit]- Albert Driedger – cabinet minister under Gary Filmon;[39] director, Elim Mennonite Church (Grunthal, Manitoba)[40]
- Jacob Froese – only Manitoba Social Credit Party MLA between 1959 and 1973, and was the party's leader for most if not all of the period from 1959 to 1977[39][41]
- Kelvin Goertzen – 23rd premier of Manitoba
- Harold Neufeld – cabinet minister under Gary Filmon; chair, Menno Simons College Foundation[39][42]
- Vic Toews – Conservative Party of Canada member; judge, Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba[43]
- Brad Wall – former premier of Saskatchewan[44]
- Cornelius Wiebe – first Mennonite to serve in the Manitoba Legislature[45]
Note: Several Canadian political figures have a Mennonite background. This might be more common in Canada than in most nations. This is perhaps most true in the case of Manitoba, though Saskatchewan and British Columbia also have significant Mennonites in politics. As this more concerns "connected to" this may include people who are ethnic Mennonites and not necessarily members of Mennonite churches.
People of Mennonite ancestry or background
[edit]These are people of Mennonite ancestry, but who are/were not members of the Mennonite religion. In some cases names, listed here include people whose current status as Mennonites is undetermined.
- Sandra Birdsell – Canadian poet[46]
- Di Brandt – Canadian poet[47]
- Greg Brenneman – former chief executive officer, Burger King[48]
- Dyan Cannon – American actress; father, Ben Friesen, was of Mennonite ancestry
- Arthur Compton – physicist; 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery of the Compton effect
- Karl Taylor Compton – physicist, president, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1930–1948)
- Wilson Martindale Compton – trade-association executive
- John Denver – folk singer-songwriter[49][50]
- Dwight D. Eisenhower – thirty-fourth president of the United States (1953–1961); Eisenhower's direct ancestor, Hans Nicol Eisenhauer, was a Mennonite who settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1741[51]
- Katherine Esau – American botanist[52]
- Patrick Friesen – Canadian poet[53]
- Anna German – Polish singer[54]
- Philip D. Gingerich – paleontologist[55]: 137
- Malcolm Gladwell – English-Canadian journalist, bestselling writer, and speaker; has made a return to religion though not of a specific church at the moment[56]
- Jon Gnagy – American art instructor on television[57]
- Ashley Graham – American plus-size model and television presenter[58]
- Matt Groening – American cartoonist; creator, The Simpsons animated sitcom television series; his father, Homer Groening, was born and raised in a Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonite family from Saskatchewan[59]
- Jonathan Groff – American actor and singer; originated the role of King George in the Broadway musical Hamilton
- Joey Kelly – former member, The Kelly Family (music group)[60]
- James L. Kraft – founder, Kraft Foods[61]
- Milton Hershey – founder, The Hershey Company[62]
- Robyn Regehr – hockey player[63]
- Adolph Rupp – college basketball coach[64]
- Marlin Stutzman – politician; raised Mennonitem but is now Baptist[65]
- Hermann Sudermann – German dramatist and novelist[66]
- Dick Winters – U.S. Army major; World War II commander, Easy Company (depicted in the television miniseries Band of Brothers)[67]
People incorrectly identified as Mennonite
[edit]- George Armstrong Custer – erroneously identified as coming from Mennonite background by biographer Milo Milton Quaife[68]
References
[edit]- ↑ Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Deprecated link archived 2007-09-29 at archive.today
- ↑ McClelland & Stewart publishers[permanent dead link]
- ↑ The religion of J.C. Chasez, singer with N'SYNC
- ↑ Eastern Mennonite University Archived 2006-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Goossen, Ben (March 21, 2019). "Hitler's Mennonite Physicist". Anabaptist Historians. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Howard Dyck" The Canadian Encyclopedia
- ↑ "Brendan Fehr's website". Archived from the original on May 5, 2006. Retrieved December 12, 2005.
- ↑ Industry Canada Archived 2006-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Klippenstein, Lawrence (1998). "Funk, Johann". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIV (1911–1920) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ↑ "Bethel College". Archived from the original on November 27, 2005. Retrieved December 12, 2005.
- ↑ ABC.Net
- ↑ Mennonite Weekly Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Deprecated link archived 2007-09-29 at archive.today
- ↑ Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Deprecated link archived 2004-12-17 at archive.today
- ↑ His biography at Amazon.com
- ↑ Avatar Review
- ↑ Farming Magazine[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Mennonite Economic Development Associates
- ↑ Canadian Christianity.com
- ↑ "About the Artist - The Klassen's Music". December 9, 2022. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
- ↑ Christianity Today
- ↑ Mennonite World Review
- ↑ Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Profile Archived 2011-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Swiss Mennonite.org
- ↑ Menno Link
- ↑ "University of Colorado at Boulder". Archived from the original on June 14, 2006. Retrieved August 24, 2006.
- ↑ "Amnesty International". Archived from the original on February 12, 2006. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Mennonite Brethren Herald". Archived from the original on August 9, 2006. Retrieved August 31, 2006.
- ↑ US Department of State, Home Page
- ↑ "Human Rights Watch". Archived from the original on May 9, 2006. Retrieved November 17, 2007.
- ↑ Mennonite Publishing Network Archived 2006-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "James Reimer has faith in his game". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. April 4, 2011.
- ↑ Goshen
- ↑ CTV
- ↑ "Book Author View | Random House of Canada". Archived from the original on June 1, 2014. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
- ↑ McClelland & Stewart publishers
- ↑ South Dakota Legislative Manual, 1975
- ↑ Goshen
- 1 2 3 "MLA Biographies – Deceased". Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014.
- ↑ "Albert Driedger". Winnipeg Free Press. July 21, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Jacob Froese". Winnipeg Free Press. June 19, 2003. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ↑ Urry, James (2006). Mennonites, politics, and peoplehood: Europe-Russia-Canada, 1525-1980 - Page 351. University of Manitoba Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-88755-688-3. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
When Neufeld resigned in 1993, another NDP Mennonite candidate, Harry Schellenberg, won the by-election, ...
- ↑ "Mennonites won't lose citizenship over 80-year-old glitch: Toews", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, January 26, 2007, 9:18 report. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
- ↑ "MWR : MB elected provincial premier". Archived from the original on August 7, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
- ↑ "105-year-old wins Order of Canada" CBC article.
- ↑ Sandra Birdsell's website Archived 2006-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Griffin Poetry Prize site Archived 2006-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ USA Today
- ↑ "Bethel College". Archived from the original on September 7, 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2006.
- ↑ University of Michigan Archived 2008-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Eisenhower's direct ancestor, Hans Nicol Eisenhauer, was a Mennonite that settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1741. "Eisenhower Birthplace – Eisenhower Family Tree". Archived from the original on March 20, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2008. Eisenhower's pacifist roots may have influenced his presidential farewell speech in which he warned the country against the emerging military-industrial complex."Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961". Archived from the original on August 12, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
- ↑ The National Academies Press
- ↑ Association of Manitoba Book Publishers Archived 2006-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Biography. sz-n.com. April 12, 2013. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ↑ Mueller, Tom (2010). "Valley of the Whales". National Geographic. 218 (August): 118–137. Archived from the original on July 23, 2010.
…Gingerich himself grew up in a strictly principled Christian environment, in a family of Amish Mennonites in eastern Iowa.
- ↑ Religion News
- ↑ Real Life Magazine Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Graham, Ashley; Paley, Rebecca (May 9, 2017). A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, & Power Really Look Like. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-266796-0.
- ↑ Seattle Times
- ↑ Kelly, Joey (2014). America for Sale. Reinbek: Rowohlt. Google Books. Retrieved 2015-11-08. 18th-century ancestors of his mother Barbara-Ann Suokko were Amish.
- ↑ Illinois Review
- ↑ Hershey history site Archived 2005-11-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "NHL website". Archived from the original on July 20, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2006.
- ↑ "Adolph Rupp". NBA. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
Rupp was born outside Halstead, Kansas to Mennonite German immigrants…
- ↑ IndyStar
- ↑ Krahn, Cornelius; van der Zijpp, Nanne (1959). "Sudermann (Suderman, Zudermann, Suterman, Soermann) family". Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.
The noted author Hermann Sudermann was of Mennonite background, his father having been baptized as Mennonite in Elbing
- ↑ Winters, Richard D. and Cole Christian Kingseed. Beyond Band of Brothers, p. 4-5.
- ↑ "Mennonite Life - June 2006 - Juhnke article George Armstrong Custer and Samuel S. Haury". Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2006.