- Shoghi Effendi
Sho<u>gh</u>í Effendí Rabbání, better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. After the passing of `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá'í community entered a new phase, evolving from that of a single individual to an administrative order founded on the "twin pillars" of the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice, being the executive and legislative branches. - Juan Cole
John "Juan" Ricardo I. Cole (born October 1952 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian. - Martha Root
Martha Louise Root was a prominent traveling teacher of the Bahá'í Faith in the late 19th and early 20th century. Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith called her "the foremost travel teacher in the first Bahá'í Century", and named her a Hand of the Cause posthumously. Known by her numerous visits with Heads of State and other public figures. Of special importance was her efforts with Queen Marie of Romania, … - Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21 1917 - January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. In addition to featuring in these epochal moments in jazz, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, … - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist. "Artists are the people who are able to resist the school system fragmenting us because it's convenient to do so, when the art teacher is in competition with the music teacher, and all creativity is in competition with the 'real' curriculum." - Eva Larue
Eva LaRue (born Eva Maria LaRuy on December 27, 1966 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress. - Holiday Reinhorn
Holiday Reinhorn (born 1964 in Portland, Oregon) is a fiction writer known for her short stories. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop the author of "Big Cats" published by Free Press in 2005. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, Gulf Coast and many other literary magazines. She is married to actor Rainn Wilson, who stars in The Office (US TV series). They are both members of the Baha'i Faith. - Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 - January 16, 1942), born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in a number of classic films of the 1930s. - Mason Remey
Charles Mason Remey was an eminent and controversial American Bahá'í with a distinguished life of service to the Bahá'í Faith. In 1960 Remey claimed to be the second Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith. Because of this controversial claim, he and his followers split from the majority of Bahá'ís who believed that no appointment had been made, and they mutually excommunicated each other as Covenant-breakers. Acquaintances knew him as Mason Remey. - Khalil Greene
Khalil Thabit Greene is a Major League Baseball shortstop who plays for the San Diego Padres. He bats and throws right-handed. He is an adherent of the Bahá'í Faith, and says his faith has helped his athletic performance. - Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden (August 4 1913 - February 25 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. - Burl Barer
Burl Barer (born 1947, Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author and literary historian. He is best known for his fiction and non-fiction writings about the character Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint". Barer's best-known work is "The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Television, and Film 1928-1992" which was first published in 1992 and republished in 2003. He received a 1994 Edgar Award for this book, … - George Townshend
George Townshend was born in Ireland and was a well known writer, clergyman before his conversion to the Bahá'í Faith in which he became a Hand of the Cause. - Nicholas Brothers
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was born October 20 1914 born in Mobile, Alabama. Harold Nicholas was born March 27, 1921 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Nicholas Brothers grew up in Philadelphia, the sons of musicians who played in their own band at the old Standard Theater, their mother at the piano and father on drums. At the age of three, Fayard was always seated in the front row while his parents worked, and by the time he was ten, … - Cathy Freeman
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman OAM (born February 16, 1973) is an Australian athlete who is particularly associated with the 400 m race. As an Aboriginal Australian, she is regarded as a role model for her people, and by many in the non-Aboriginal community as a symbol of national reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. She was born in Mackay, Queensland. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, … - Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1921) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress known as Perry Mason's loyal secretary "Della Street". - Flora Purim
Flora Purim was born in Rio de Janeiro, March 6 1942. She is a Brazilian jazz singer known mainly for her work in jazz fusion. She received her fame on Chick Corea's 1972 album, "Return to Forever" and recorded with many artists through the decades of her career, including Stanley Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie, Jaco Pastorius, and her husband, Airto Moreira. - Bernard Leach
Bernard Howell Leach CH (January 5, 1887 - May 6, 1979), a British studio potter. Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong, but spent his young adult years in Japan where he came into contact with a group of young Japanese art lovers who called themselves Shirakaba (白樺). Through them he learned about William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. - Fayard Nicholas
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American dancer, and the elder brother of the tap dancing pair The Nicholas Brothers. The two greatest tap dancers that ever lived-certainly the most beloved dance team in the history of entertainment were Fayard (1914-2006) and Harold (1921-2000), the famous Nicholas Brothers. Born in Mobile, Alabama, the Nicholas Brothers grew up in Philadelphia, the sons of musicians who played in their own band at the old Standard Theater, … - Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson (pronounced "Rain") (born January 20, 1966) is a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winning American actor. He is known for his roles as the neurotic Dwight Schrute on the American television comedy "The Office," and Arthur Martin, assistant mortician in HBO's "Six Feet Under". - Mike Longo
Mike Longo(born March 19, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a jazz pianist, composer, and author. He is most known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie. - Alain Leroy Locke
Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1886 - June 9, 1954) was an African American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. He is best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance." His philosophy served as a strong motivating force in keeping the energy and passion of the Movement at the forefront. - Helen Elsie Austin
Dr. Helen Elsie Austin was an attorney, US Foreign Service Officer, and member of the Bahá'í National Spiritual Assemblys in the United States and North West Africa. She was among the first African Americans admitted to the practice of law in the United States. Dr. Austin was gifted with a natural humor illustrated by this quote: "I have shortened this talk, lest it become like the mercy of God in that it endures forever and passes all understanding." Dr. - Dan Seals
Dan Wayland Seals (born February 8, 1948 in McCamey, Texas) is an American musician. - Alex Rocco
Alex Rocco (born Alexander Federico Petricone, Jr. on February 29 1936) is an American actor. His roles have ranged from comedy to playing gangsters in Mafia movies, the latter fitting in with his reported connections to mob organizations. - Rúhíyyih Khanum
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khanum, born Mary Maxwell was the wife of Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921-1957. She was appointed by him as a Hand of the Cause, and served an important role in the transfer of authority from 1957-1963. In 2004, CBC viewers voted her number 44 on the list of "greatest Canadians" on the television show "The Greatest Canadian". - Frederick Mayer
Frederick Mayer was an educational scientist and philosopher of the University of Redlands, California and one of the leading creativity experts. One of his most important aims was a global humanism. Until the very last days of his life he was active as an author. More than sixty books deal with creativity, education and humanism. He became a Bahá'í in 1996. Mayer was particularly affected by the quote "Pride is not for him who loves his country, … - Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili (born September 30, 1965) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. - Fariborz Sahba
Fariborz Sahba is an Iranian Bahá'í architect, born in 1948, now living in Canada. Among his designs are: *Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi, India, also known as the Lotus Temple. *The Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, in Haifa, Israel. He is also the chief-editor of Varqá, an International Children's Magazine, founded in 1970. - James Moody
James Moody (born March 26 1925) is a jazz saxophone and flute player. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. As he grew up in New Jersey, he was attracted to the saxophone after hearing George Holmes Tate, Don Byas, and Count Basie. He recorded his first album for Blue Note Records in 1948. He is best known for his hit "Moody's Mood for Love," an improvisation based on "I'm in the Mood for Love"; in performance, he often improvises vocals for that tune. - Thomas L. Thompson
Thomas L. Thompson is a biblical theologian, born Jan 7, 1939 in Detroit Michiganand currently lives in Denmark. Attended Duquesne, Oxford, Tuebingen and Temple universities He obtained a B.A. from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1962, and his PhD at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976. - Louis Bourgeois
Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois (b. March 19, 1856 St. Célestin de Nicolet, Quebec - d. August 20, 1930) was a Canadian architect who is best known as the designer of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Louis Bourgeois, in his youth, worked as a clerk in a church contractor's office Trois-Rivières, Quebec, and through this experience planned the construction of the Church of Saint-Wenceslas in 1892. - Phoebe Hearst
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 - April 13, 1919) was the mother of William Randolph Hearst. She was born in Franklin County, Missouri. At the age of 19, she married George Hearst, who later became a U.S. Senator. Soon after their marriage the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst, in 1863. A major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley in 1897, … - Hossein Amanat
Hossein Amanat is a Canadian-Iranian Bahá'í architect who has designed three buildings on the Bahá'í Arc in Haifa, Israel and the Bahá'í House of Worship in Samoa. He is also the architect of the Azadi Tower, previously known as the Shahyad Tower and he was the architect of initial buildings of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. - Tom Morey
Tom Morey (born Detroit, Michigan, August 15, 1935) also known by the moniker "Y" is a musician, engineer, and surfer responsible for several technological innovations that have heavily influenced modern developments in surfing equipment design. - Zia Mody
Zia Mody is a prominent Indian legal consultant. She is considered an authority on corporate merger & acquisitions law, securities law, private equity and project finance. - Phil Lucas
Phil Lucas (b. Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 1942; d. Bellevue, Washington, United States, February 4, 2007) was a filmmaker of mostly Native American themes that did not buy into stereotypes. - Mark Tobey
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 - April 24, 1976) was an American Abstract Expressionism Painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the others. Friend and mentor, Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions. - Malietoa Tanumafili II of Tanumafili II
Malietoa Tanumafili II, GCMG, CBE, (January 4, 1913 - May 11, 2007) (also called Susuga) was the Malietoa, the title of one of Samoa's four paramount chiefs, and the head of state, or "O le Ao o le Malo", a position that he held for life, of Samoa from 1962 to 2007. He was co-chief of state in 1962 and became the sole head of state on April 15, 1963. At the time of his death, he was the oldest national leader in the world. - Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is a Persian writer educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. She now lives in France where she teaches. She taught European and American literature in Belgium. Her first novel "The Saddlebag - A Fable for Doubters and Seekers" was an international bestseller. It describes events set in the Najd plateau along the pilgrim route between Mecca and Medina during one day in 1844-1845, when a mysterious saddlebag passes from hand to hand, …
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