- Harold S. Bender
Harold Stauffer Bender (1897-07-19 - 1962-09-21) was a prominent professor of theology at Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana) and Goshen Biblical Seminary. His accomplishments include founding both the Mennonite Historical Library and the Mennonite Quarterly Review Bender is perhaps best known for authoring "The Anabaptist Vision" in 1944.
- Alan Kreider
The Reverend Dr Alan Fetter Kreider was born at Goshen, Indiana on 8 November 1941. He was ordained at the London Mennonite Fellowship in 1975. He has been Associate Professor of Church History and Mission at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary since 2004. His main interests are peace and ecclesiastical history.
- Floyd Landis
Floyd Landis (born October 14 1975) is an American cyclist. He is a time-trial specialist as well as a strong climber. Landis turned professional in 1999 with the Mercury Cycling Team. He joined the US Postal Service team in 2002, and moved to the Phonak Hearing Systems team in 2005. Landis was fired from the Phonak team on August 5, 2006, after testing revealed an abnormally high testosterone/epitestosterone ratio.
- John A. Hostetler
John A. Hostetler (1918-2001) was an author, educator, and leading scholar of Amish and Hutterite societies.
- Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Henry Wiebe is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992. Wiebe was born at Speedwell, near Fairholme, Saskatchewan in what would later become his family’s chicken barn. For thirteen years he lived in an isolated community of about 250 people, as part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian west.
- Donald Kraybill
Donald B. Kraybill is a prolific author, lecturer, and educator on Anabaptist faiths and living. Kraybill is widely recognized for his studies on Anabaptist groups, and is the foremost expert on the Old Order Amish. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor, and Senior Fellow of Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
- Christopher Dock
Christopher Dock (c.1698-1771 in Skippack, USA) was a Mennonite educator. He is thought to have immigrated to the United States by 1714, becoming a teacher at Skippack by 1718. He wrote, in German, the earliest known teaching methods text in the U.S.: "Schul-Ordnung" ("School Management") - a book on general pedagogy. The book was completed on August 3, 1750, but was not published until 1770. The Christopher Dock Mennonite High School, in Lansdale, …
- Julia Kasdorf
Julia Kasdorf (born December 6, 1962) is an American poet. Born Julia Spicher in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, she grew up in the suburbs southeast of Pittsburgh near Irwin, Westmoreland County. Her parents were Mennonites who chose to leave their rural community in central Pennyslvania for the city. Her first published poem appeared in 1977 in "Images Remembered II", an anthology of the Poets in the Schools program.
- John Paul Lederach
Dr. John Paul Lederach is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana and concurrently Distinguished Scholar at Eastern Mennonite University. He has written widely on conflict resolution and mediation. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado and has been at the Eastern Mennonite University since 1990. Dr.
- Hans Herr
Hans Herr was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a descendant of the Knight, Hugo Herr. He joined the Mennonite religious society. When religious persecution became unendurable, many of his congregation emigrated with him to the Palatinate in Germany, which was governed by a ruler who promised them protection and religious freedom. This was satisfactory until the Palatinate fell into the hands of other rulers, …
- A. James Reimer
A. James Reimer (b. 1942) is a Canadian Mennonite theologian with a dual academic appointment: he is a professor at Conrad Grebel University College, a member college of the University of Waterloo, and a professor in the Toronto School of Theology, a consortium of divinity schools federated with the University of Toronto. Reimer was born and raised in small-town southern Manitoba. As a teen, he was baptized in the local Mennonite church.
- Le Thi Hong Lien
Le Thi Hong Lien is a Christian teacher from Vietnam. She taught for the Mennonite Church in Vietnam. She was arrested in June 2004 along with other members of her church. She was released from Bien Hoa Mental Hospital on April 28, 2005.
- Johann Cornies
Johann(es) Cornies (June 20, 1789, Baerwalde/Bärwalde near Danzig (now Niedźwiedzica (pl), near Stegna village, Powiat Nowodworski ("Tiegenhof"), Pomorze Voivodship) – March 13, 1848, Ohrloff/Orloff, Molotschna Gebiet) was a Prussia-born Mennonite German settler to Russia.
- Milton S. Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 - October 13, 1945) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is famous for founding The Hershey Chocolate Company and the "company town" of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey was born on a farm near Derry Church, Pennsylvania, the only surviving child of Henry and Fanny Hershey. Due to the family's frequent moves, Milton Hershey dropped out of school after the 4th grade and was apprenticed to a Lancaster printer.
- Joseph Yoder
Joseph Yoder (1872 September 22 - 1956 November 13) was an educator, musicologist, and writer, the first successful Mennonite literary figure in the United States, especially known for his semi-fictional account of his mother's life, "Rosanna of the Amish" (1940), and for his investigation of the sources of the Amish tunes of the Ausbund, along with his efforts to record and preserve traditional Amish music.
- Vic Toews
Victor "Vic" Toews, PC, MP [teıvz] (born September 10, 1952) is a Canadian politician. He has represented Provencher in the Canadian House of Commons since 2000, and currently serves in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as President of the Treasury Board. Toews previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- Marguerite de Angeli
Marguerite de Angeli was a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book "The Door in the Wall". She wrote and illustrated twenty-eight of her own books, and illustrated more than three dozen books and numerous magazine stories and articles for other authors.
- Patrick Friesen
Patrick Frank Friesen (born 5 July 1946) is a Canadian poet. Born in Steinbach, Manitoba, he studied at the University of Manitoba. Friesen currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing at Kwantlen University College.
- Joseph Funk
Joseph Funk (1778-1862) was a pioneer American music teacher and publisher. Joseph Funk was born April 6, 1778, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry and Barbara (Showalter) Funk, and a grandson of Bishop Henry Funck. Bishop Funck came to America in 1719, and was the first Mennonite bishop in America. As a boy, Joseph moved with his parents to Rockingham County, Virginia, and spent the rest of his life there.
- John Goerzen
John Goerzen is a prominent member of the Internet Gopher community and a former president/chairman of Software in the Public Interest. He is the developer for the PyGopherd Gopher server and runs [gopher://gopher.quux.org/ gopher.quux.org], one of the largest maintained Gopher servers.
- Jc Chasez
JC Chasez (born Joshua Scott Chasez on August 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C.), is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and producer, best known as one of the lead vocalists in the pop group 'N Sync.
- Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich is professor for astronomy and the history of astronomy at Harvard University; in 1992-93 he chaired Harvard's History of Science Department. His research included solar and stellar atmosphere astronomy, and concentrated on the history of astronomy; he has published numerous papers and books, and has served in several professional societies.
- Cindy Klassen
Cindy Klassen (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian skater and Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian. Klassen is a descendant of Mennonite immigrants to Manitoba and is a graduate of Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg. She started her sports career as an ice hockey player; in her youth she played for the Canadian National Youth Team. When she wasn't selected for the 1998 Winter Olympics, …
- Klaas Reimer
Klaas Reimer (1770-1837) was the founder of the "Kleine Gemeinde", a Mennonite denomination now called the Evangelical Mennonite Conference.
- Jacob Hoeppner
Jacob Hoeppner, was one of two delegates selected by the Mennonite community in Danzig, Prussia, to travel to South Russia and evaluate land along the Dnieper River near Chortitza as a possible settlement. The Mennonites were recruited by Queen Catherine II the Great to settle on territory recently won from the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The entire Ukraine had a population of three million at most.
- Peter Jansen
Peter Jansen was a Beatrice, Nebraska sheep rancher and Nebraska state representative and senator.
- Howard Dyck
Howard Dyck is a Canadian conductor and broadcaster. He was born in Winkler, Manitoba Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he has a long and distinguished career in classical music. He is currently the conductor and artistic director of the Grand Philharmonic Choir (formerly known as the Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic Choir) and chamber singers, the Bach Elgar Choir of Hamilton as well as the Consort Caritatis Choir and Orchestra.
- Moses M. Beachy
Moses M Beachy (December 3, 1874 - July 7, 1946) was the founding bishop of the Beachy Amish Mennonite churches in 1927 and a former bishop in the Old Order Amish churches.
- Brendan Fehr
Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr (born October 29, 1977) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Michael Guerin on the WB television series "Roswell". He modeled to earn more pocket money and his pictures appeared in magazines. He was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where in 1996 he was cast in an early Internet soap opera, "CR6". He broke into television in 1997 when he was cast in "Breaker High".
- Paul Steckle
Paul Daniel Steckle is a Canadian Member of Parliament for Huron—Bruce and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He served as a township councillor in Stanley Township, Ontario from 1970 to 1980, and was elected reeve in 1980 where he served as until 1985. He is considered one of the more conservative members of the Liberal caucus.
- Adolph Rupp
Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 - December 10, 1977) is one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is the third winningest men's college coach in total victories (after Bobby Knight and Dean Smith), winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching, and setting a remarkable standard of excellence that exists to this day. Rupp is also second among all coaches in alltime winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee.
- Jacob Froese
Jacob Froese (born November 28, 1917, died June 14, 2003) a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was the province's only Social Credit MLA between 1959 and 1973, and was the party's leader for most if not all of the period from 1959 to 1977. Froese was born in Winkler, Manitoba. He was educated in the local school system and worked as a farmer, also becoming a leading figure in the Winkler Credit Union Society. Early in his life, he was a Young Liberal.
- Jeff Hostetler
Jeff W. Hostetler, a.k.a. "Hoss" (born April 22, 1961 in Hollsopple, Pennsylvania), is a former American football quarterback in the NFL, who played for the New York Giants, Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, and Washington Redskins.
- Mark Warawa
Mark Warawa (born May 7, 1950) is a Canadian politician. Formerly a businessman and loss prevention officer as well as a city councillor in Abbotsford, British Columbia from 1990 to 2004. Warawa was first elected as a Conservative in the 2004 election in the newly created district of Langley. He was re-elected in the 2006 election. On February 10, 2006, Warawa was named parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment.
- Katherine Esau
Katherine Esau (3 April, 1898 - 4 June 1997) was a German-American botanist. She was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire ("now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine") to a family of Mennonites of German descent. After the Revolution her family moved to Germany, and then to California, where she achieved her doctorate in 1931. Esau was a pioneering plant anatomist - perhaps the greatest plant anatomist of the 20th century.
- Cornelius Wiebe
Dr. Cornelius W. Wiebe, CM, MD, D.h.c (February 18, 1893 - July 12, 1999) was a Canadian physician and politician. Wiebe was born to a Mennonite family in Altona, Manitoba. He was educated at Wesley College, the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Medical College, receiving his MD in 1925. He practiced family medicine in Winkler, Manitoba from 1925 to 1978, and, according to local tradition, continued to practice on an informal basis after his retirement.
- Raymond Chan
Raymond Chan, PC, MP (Jyutping: Can4 Ceok3 Jyu4), (b. 1951) is the first Chinese Canadian to be appointed to the Cabinet of Canada. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Chan was elected to Parliament in the 1993 federal election, defeating then Defence Minister Tom Siddon in the riding of Richmond, British Columbia. Chan is the third Chinese Canadian to be elected to Parliament, after Douglas Jung, who secured a seat in 1957, and Art Lee in 1974.
- Maurice Vellacott
Maurice Vellacott is a Canadian politician. He has served in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, and is currently the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Saskatoon—Wanuskewin in the province of Saskatchewan. Vellacott is a prominent social conservative. He is co-chair of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus, which includes Conservative and Liberal MPs.
- Robyn Regehr
Robyn Regehr, (born April 18 1980, in Recife, Brazil) grew up in Rosthern, Saskatchewan and is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.
- Ronald S. Kraybill
Ronald S. Kraybill is a professor in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. Inspired by the pioneering work of Dave Worth and Mark Umbreit in Ontario, Kraybill conducted the first Victim-Offender Reconciliation meetings in the US in 1977 in Elkhart, Indiana. He was the founding director of the Mennonite Conciliation Service in 1979, …