Famous Preacher's Kids
WELL-KNOWN SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF MINISTERS
Baptist
- Aretha Franklin (1942- ), U.S. gospel and rock singer.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), U.S. clergyman and civil rights leader awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
- Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975), U.S. Black Muslim leader
- Malcolm X (1925-1965), U.S. black militant leader and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity and the Muslim Mosque, Inc.
Lutheran
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), French clergyman, physician, and musician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his missionary work in French Equatorial Africa.
Methodist
- George McGovern (1922- ), U.S. senator from South Dakota.
- Walter Mondale (1928- ), U.S. politician and vice-president.
- Nina Simone (1933- ), U.S. singer, composer, and pianist.
- Fran Tarkenton (1940- ), U.S. professional football player.
Presbyterian
- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), U.S. novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1932 and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938.
- Aaron Burr (1756-1836), U.S. political leader and third vice-president.
- Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), 22nd and 24th president of the U.S.
- Henry Luce (1898-1967), U.S. editor and magazine publisher who founded Time, Fortune, and Life.
- Sir John Reith (1889-1971), British engineer, government official, and founder of the BBC.
- Dean Rusk (1909- ), U.S. secretary of state during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), U.S. author best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin and her abolitionist views.
- DeWitt Wallace (1889-1981), U.S. publisher and founder of Reader's Digest.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th president of the U.S.
Unitarian
- Horatio Alger (1832-1899), U.S. author and Unitarian minister.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959), U.S. architect.
United Brethren
- Orville and Wilbur Wright (1871-1948; 1867-1912), U.S. inventors and pioneers in aviation.
Evangelical
- Leon Jaworski (1905- ), U.S. lawyer and government investigator.
- Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist.
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