Wednesday, September 12, 2007
So, it took a while for me to get back to this, but we now continue our journey famous people from different religions. There are a TON of notable people that are Catholic, so I cut down the list to these. Enjoy...
John F. Kennedy Jr. - 35th U.S. President
Adolf Hitler - German Nazi dictator (rejected Catholicism, became anti-Catholic and anti-Christian)
John Roberts - appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005
Antonin Scalia - U.S. Supreme Court justice
Arnold Schwarzenegger - movie star, governor of California
Clarence Thomas - U.S. Supreme Court justice
Augustine - influential Christian philosopher
St. Patrick - brought Christianity to Ireland
Alexander Pope - poet and satirist
Anne Rice - gothic vampire novelist
William Shakespeare - playwright
J.R.R. Tolkien - fantasy writer
Oscar Wilde - influential Irish writer (deathbed convert from Anglican to Catholicism)
Dan Aykroyd - comedian, actor (lapsed)
Alan Alda - actor famous for his role as "Dr. 'Hawkeye' Pierce" on TV's M*A*S*H (devout Catholic until early adulthood, then mostly lapsed)
Stephen Baldwin - actor
Ernest Borgnine - actor; McHale's Navy, Marty, etc.
Peter Boyle - actor (former Christian Brother, i.e., he was studying to become a priest; lapsed)
Nicolas Cage - Oscar-winning actor, Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
James Cagney - Oscar-winning actor, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Jim Caviezel - actor; played "Jesus" in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
Sean Connery - movie star
Bing Crosby - actor, singer, movie star
Nicole Kidman - actress
Bill Murray - comedian, actor
Bob Newhart - popular TV sitcom actor, comedian
Jack Nicholson - actor
Al Pacino - Oscar-winning actor, Scent of a Woman (1992)
Martin Scorsese - film director
Martin Sheen - actor
Jon Voight - Oscar-winning actor, Coming Home (1978)
John Travolta - actor (convert to Scientology)
John Wayne – actor
Robert De Niro - actor, movie star (non-practicing)
Roger Ebert - America's leading film critic (lapsed)
Clark Gable - Oscar-winning actor, It Happened One Night (1934)
Mel Gibson - actor, film director (traditionalist Catholic)
Josh Hartnett - actor, movie star
Alfred Hitchcock - influential film director
Bob Hope - movie star, comedian
Casey Kasem - nationally prominent Top 10 D.J.
Gene Kelly - actor, dancer, movie star
Casey Kasem - nationally prominent Top 10 D.J.
Arlo Guthrie - American folk singer (convert)
Joey Fatone - singer with boy band N'Sync
Bono - lead singer for Irish rock band U2; humanitarian (father was a lapsed Catholic)
Sonny Bono - singer ("Sonny and Cher"), U.S. Representative (convert to Scientology)
Madonna - pop singer, actress (lapsed; convert to Kabbalah)
Bruce Springsteen - rock star
Salvador Dali - Surrealist painter (convert)
Leonardo da Vinci - artist, scientist, inventor
Edgar Degas - famous French painter
Michelangelo - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was a famous Italian painter, artist, sculptor
Pablo Picasso - (1881-1973) famous painter
Raphael - famous Italian painter
Andy Warhol - famous American painter and artist known for his pop art
Haven't been reading your blogs, but does this have to do with our Eat Texan search for the Babtist attitude? It seems like that's what we are made to learn, but i don't know.
But at the same time, most of those peple are just actors or someone involved with film. But it's more of a Northern thing, and a rest of the world thing. But who's to say they're right?
Sorry for stumbling upon your blog and commenting so much.
Love,
James
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