- Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), more commonly known as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. He is tied with Tom Hanks as the only actors to have seven consecutive US$100 million plus blockbusters on his resume, and Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won the Golden Globe Award.
- L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard Scientology's esteemed founder. Slate Magazine/July 15, 2005
- Katie Holmes
Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18 1978) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB teen drama "Dawson's Creek" from 1998 to 2003. Holmes' part on the show, only her second professional role, made her a star. Her movie roles have ranged from art house films such as "The Ice Storm" to thrillers such as "Abandon" to blockbusters such as "Batman Begins".
- David Miscavige
David Miscavige is the successor to L. Ron Hubbard , current head of Scientology (Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center).
- Lisa McPherson
Lisa McPherson (February 10 1959-December 5 1995) was a Scientologist who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. Following her death the Church of Scientology was indicted on two felony charges "abuse and/or neglect of a disabled adult and practicing medicine without a license", putting under trial the nature of Scientology beliefs and practices.
- Keith Henson
Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest.
- Mary Sue Hubbard
Mary Sue Hubbard (born Mary Sue Whipp) (17 June 1931-25 November, 2002) was the third wife of American pulp fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. She was involved in the incorporation of the first Church of Scientology in December 1953 in New Jersey together with her husband and John Galusha.
- Paulette Cooper
Paulette Marcia Cooper is an American author who is best known for activism against the Church of Scientology and the repercussions she suffered as a result.
- Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer. He is arguably best known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion, although his contributions to straight-ahead jazz have been tremendous. He participated in the birth of the electric fusion movement as a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, and in the 1970s formed Return to Forever.
- Thomas Szasz
Dr. Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism.
- Tilman Hausherr
Tilman Hausherr (born 1965) is a German citizen living in Berlin, Germany. Hausherr is well-known among critics of Scientology for his frequent Usenet posts and for maintaining a website critical of Scientology. Hausherr is also the author of a software utility, Xenu's Link Sleuth, which was praised in a 2002 "PC Magazine" article covering 70 web builder utilities.
- Lee Baca
Leroy David Baca (born May 27 1942 in East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department as a Deputy Sheriff Trainee on August 23, 1965.
- Helena Kobrin
Helena Kempner Kobrin (born April 27, 1948) is an American Scientologist and lawyer at the firm Moxon & Kobrin, working for the Religious Technology Center, which controls the trademarks of Scientology and the copyright of the works of L. Ron Hubbard. She received her B.A. at Hofstra University and her J.D. at Seton Hall University. She was admitted to the bar in 1978, and at the California bar in 1991.
- Reed Slatkin
Reed Eliot Slatkin (born 22 January 1949 in Detroit, Michigan) was an initial investor and co-founder of EarthLink and the perpetrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in the United States since that conducted by Ponzi himself.
- Stacy Brooks
Stacy Brooks (born April 8, 1952) is one of the most public and outspoken critics of the Church of Scientology.<;sup></sup> Like her late ex-husband Robert Vaughn Young, a Scientology whistleblower employed by Scientology for over 20 years, Brooks was also a member of the Church, working in its upper level management in Los Angeles for almost fifteen years.<sup></sup> After leaving in 1989 Brooks joined the Lisa McPherson trust, …
- Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953 in London, Ontario) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian screenwriter, producer, film director, and a director/producer of television programs working in Hollywood.
- Arnaldo Lerma
The American writer Arnaldo (Arnie) Pagliarini Lerma (b. November 18, 1950) is a former Scientologist, and critic of Scientology, who has appeared in television, media and radio interviews.
- Mark Ebner
Mark Ebner is an American investigative journalist who writes about controversial issues in the Los Angeles area, including pit bull fighting in South Central, Scientology, and celebrity scandal. In 2002 he co-authored "Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out" with Harry Knowles. With Andrew Breitbart, he wrote the 2005 best-seller "Hollywood, Interrupted".
- David S. Touretzky
David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a BA in Computer Science at Rutgers University in 1978, and earned a Master's degree and a Ph.D. (1984) in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Touretzky has worked as an Internet activist in favor of freedom of speech, …
- Elli Perkins
Elli Perkins was a mother of two, a professional glass artist, and a Scientologist who lived in Western New York. She was a senior auditor at the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York. Her son, Jeremy, started showing signs of strange and disturbing behavior. She attempted to correct this with treatment approved by Scientology. Jeremy's schizophrenia eventually progressed to the point where he felt Elli was poisoning him, prompting an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
- Mark Rathbun
Mark "Marty" C. Rathbun was Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), the organization that controls the copyrights and trademarks of the materials relating to Dianetics and Scientology. His role was to head the Inspector General Network, …
- Stephen A. Kent
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He researches new and alternative religions, and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God/The Family, the Church of Scientology, and newer faiths operating in Canada.
- Barbara Schwarz
Barbara Schwarz is a German national, living in the United States, who has made a record number of requests under the United States' Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The "Lexington Herald-Leader" referred to Schwarz as "history's most prolific filer" of Freedom of Information Act requests. Since 1989, she has issued thousands of FOIA requests, and dozens of lawsuits to numerous federal and state governmental departments and agencies, …
- Quentin Hubbard
Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard, was the son of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. His father had groomed his son to take over the organization for him. Personally he wanted little to do with Scientology. Quentin was discovered by police October 28, 1976, unconscious from an apparent suicide attempt, and died two weeks later without having regained consciousness.
- Bob Minton
Robert Schenk Minton (born circa 1947) is a retired banker who helped Nigeria manage its debt and a former critic of Scientology.
- Geoffrey Lewis
Geoffrey Lewis (born July 31, 1935 in San Diego, California) is an American character actor who has been popular since the early 1970s, often featured in offbeat roles. He is also a member of the musical group Celestial Navigations, with Geoff Levin, known for their storytelling abilities, producing eloquent, unforgettable narratives accompanied by haunting, stirring music. Lewis is the father of ten children, including actress Juliette Lewis.
- Ernie Reyes Jr.
Ernest E. Reyes, Jr. (born January 15 1972) is an American actor.
- Ignatius Piazza
Dr. Ignatius "Naish" Piazza (b. 1960) is the founder and director of the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute in Pahrump, Nevada. He is a four weapons combat master, and lives near Santa Cruz, California.
- Gayle Moran
Gayle Moran is a vocalist, keyboard player (piano, organ, and synthesizer), and songwriter. She was a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the middle 70s, appearing on "Apocalypse" (1974) and "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" (1975). She later appeared on recordings by Return to Forever, e.g. "Musicmagic" (1977), and Chick Corea, e.g. "My Spanish Heart" (1976) and "The Mad Hatter" (1978) and "The Leprechaun" (1993).
- Leo Ryan
Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. (May 5 1925-November 18 1978) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Representative from the 11th Congressional District of California from 1973 until he was murdered in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre. After the Watts Riots of 1965, then-Assemblyman Ryan took a job as a substitute school teacher to investigate and document conditions in the area.
- Marissa Ribisi
Santina Marissa Ribisi (born December 17, 1974) is an American actress, perhaps best known as Cynthia Dunn in the cult favorite "Dazed and Confused". Ribisi was born in Los Angeles, California, her mother, Gay, is a manager for actors and writers. Ribisi has acted since the age of 9. Her twin brother, Giovanni Ribisi, is also an actor. Ribisi wrote and acted in the film Some Girl in 1998, and has had roles in the films True Crime, The Brady Bunch Movie, …
- Jessica Rodriguez
Jessica Rodriguez rose to worldwide prominence during the media furor over Scientology's involvement with actress Katie Holmes.
- Ronald Dewolf
Ronald DeWolf (May 7, 1934 - September 16, 1991), born Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Jr., also known as Nibs Hubbard, was the eldest child of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Hubbard's first wife, Margaret Louise Grubb.
- Johan Helsingius
Johan "Julf" Helsingius, born in Finland, started and ran the Anon.penet.fi internet remailer. Anon.penet.fi was one of the most popular Internet remailers, handling 10,000 messages a day. The server was the first of its kind to use a password-protected PO box system for sending and receiving e-mails. In the Eighties he was the system administrator for the central Finnish news node as well as one of the founding members of the Finnish UNIX User Group.
- William Sims Bainbridge
Dr. William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an innovative American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He is also the first Senior Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
- Norbert Blüm
Norbert Blüm is a German federal legislator from North Rhine-Westphalia, Chairman of the CDU there, and former minister for labor and social affairs (for 16 years in the government of Helmut Kohl). Born in Rüsselsheim, he trained as a toolmaker at Adam Opel AG in the town. During this time he was a founding member of the local Scout Group within the Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg.
- Volney Mathison
Volney G. Mathison was an American experimenter/hobbyist in early biofeedback, galvanic skin response technology, and psychogalvanometer (lie-detector machine) research in the 1940s and 1950s. He was also a Chiropractor and an author of paranormal and Science Fiction books. Mathison discovered through experiments with early lie-detectors during the 1940s that when the subject was reminded of certain past events, the lie detector needle would fluctuate.
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (also known as Ileana Ros; born July 15 1952) is a Republican United States Representative for (map), having held that office since 1989. She was born in Havana, Cuba, was educated at Florida International University where she received a BA in Education and an MA in Educational Leadership, and also attended the University of Miami where she received a PhD in Higher Education.
- Christopher Evans
Dr Christopher Riche Evans (1931 - October 10, 1979) was a British psychologist and computer scientist. Evans entered the field of computer science after joining the National Physical Laboratory in the mid 1950s. In 1979, he wrote a book about the oncoming microcomputer revolution, "The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Computer Revolution" (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, ISBN 0-575-02708-8), which included predictions for the future up to the year 2000.
- Cyril Vosper
Cyril Ronald Vosper (7 June, 1935 - 4 May, 2004) was a Scientologist and later a critic of Scientology. He wrote "The Mind Benders", which was the first book on Scientology to be written by an ex-member and the first critical book on Scientology to be published (narrowly beating "Inside Scientology" by Robert Kaufman).