List of Scientologists
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A Scientologist is a follower of the doctrines and beliefs of Scientology
Scientology
Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices created by science fiction and fantasy author L. Ron Hubbard , starting in 1952, as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics...

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The following is an incomplete list of notable past and present Scientologists:

List of members

Name Lifetime Notes
1951– Actress.
1947– Actress (mother of Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis
Thomas W. Davis
Thomas W. "Tommy" Davis is the head of the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles, California.-Celebrity Centre:...

).
1973– Actress.
1983– Actress.
1968– Actress.
1939– Actress.
1958– Salesman, author, motivational speaker, media personality
1957– Voice-over actress.
1966– Actress and musician. Ceberano is a third-generation-Scientologist; her grandmother worked as a governess
Governess
A governess is a girl or woman employed to teach and train children in a private household. In contrast to a nanny or a babysitter, she concentrates on teaching children, not on meeting their physical needs...

 for the children of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
1982– Actress, raised Scientologist.
1950–2011 Actor.
1944– Former keyboardist for the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

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1941– Musician.
1962– Actor
1971– Founder of EarthLink
EarthLink
EarthLink , is an Internet service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It claims 1.94 million subscribers.- Business :EarthLink provides a variety of Internet connection types, including dial-up, DSL, satellite, and cable. Both dial-up and high speed Internet access are available...

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Ex-owner of Neopets
Neopets
Neopets is a virtual pet website that was launched by Adam Powell and Donna Williams on November 15, 1999. Two years after the web site was launched, Adam Powell and Donna Williams sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring. On June 20, 2005, Viacom bought Neopets, Inc...

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1969– Actor.
1971– Actress.
Writer and director.
1966– Musician and actor.
1989– Celebutante.
1978– Actress (raised Catholic
Catholicism
Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....

), introduced to Scientology by Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....

 while they were dating.
1944–1994 Musician.
1951– Musician and film music composer.
1933–2008 Acting teacher.
1970– Actor.
1935– Actor.
1973– Actress.
1966–1990 Scientologist whose suicide was the focus of the Time
Time (magazine)
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magazine article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" is an article, written in 1991 by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar, which is highly critical of Scientology. It was first published by Time magazine on May 6, 1991, as an eight-page cover story, and was later published in Reader's Digest in October...

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1976– Actor.
1959–1995 American woman whose death has been a source of controversy for Scientology.
1959– Actor and improviser.
1949– Opera singer.
1965– Actress.
1982– Actress. Placed among "famous Scientologists" in a 2009 article in the St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times is a United States newspaper. It is one of two major publications serving the Tampa Bay Area, the other being The Tampa Tribune, which the Times tops in both circulation and readership. Based in St...

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1960– Actor.
1973– Actress.
1958– Actress.
1962–2003 Actor.
1949–2003 Scientologist businesswoman who was murdered by her son who suffered from mental illness
Mental health
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1980– Actress and model.
1980– Actress.
1987– Trader.
1968– Singer.
1945– Actress.
1962– Actress and wife of John Travolta.
1947– Actress.
1970– Actress.
1974– Actor raised Scientologist.
1974– Actress raised Scientologist.
1947– Actor.
1967– Actress.
1987–2006 Actor.
1953– Rock bassist.
Chiropractor, Management by Statistics consultant.
1949– Criminal Ponzi scheme
Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation...

 perpetrator.
1976– Actor.
1954– Actor.
1954– Television show host. Listed among "A list" members of Scientology in a 2006 article in The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

. Identified among "notable Scientologists" in the 2007 edition of the book Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles by authors William W. Zellner and Richard T. Schaefer. Placed among "famous Scientologists" in a 2009 article in the St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times is a United States newspaper. It is one of two major publications serving the Tampa Bay Area, the other being The Tampa Tribune, which the Times tops in both circulation and readership. Based in St...

. Her husband, a lawyer, is a fellow practitioner of Scientology. She told People magazine, "I am a strong advocate of their ethics."
2007– Scientology family who was attacked by their mentally ill daughter/sister after a lapse in medication.
1946– Musician.
1970– Musician.

Former members

Name Lifetime Notes
1952– Actor, star of Orientation: A Scientology Information Film, left the organization in 2009 and requested his money back.
1960– Actor, rose to Operating Thetan
Operating Thetan
In Scientology, the state of Operating Thetan is a spiritual state above Clear. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, defined it as "knowing and willing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time ". According to religious scholar J...

 level OT V within the organization, left Scientology and subsequently spoke out publicly against the organization in 2008.
1935–1998 Entertainer and congressman (R-CA 44th). Identified among "notable Scientologists" in the 2007 edition of the book Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles by authors William W. Zellner and Richard T. Schaefer.
1948– Transgender
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

 author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist, was a spokesperson for Scientology.
1931–1977 Actor, rose to Grade IV within the organization, utilized Scientology techniques while filming a movie in Louisiana
Louisiana
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1935– American football
American football
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 player. Credited Dianetics with his recovery from a sports injury; left after some of his friends "were expelled and harassed during a power struggle with church management."
1914–1997 Burroughs was an author and poet. In the 1960s Burroughs joined and left the Church of Scientology
Church of Scientology
The Church of Scientology is an organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. The Church of Scientology International is the Church of Scientology's parent organization, and is responsible for the overall ecclesiastical management, dissemination and...

. In talking about the experience, he claimed that the techniques and philosophy of Scientology helped him and that he felt that further study into Scientology would produce great results. He was skeptical of the organization itself, and felt that it fostered an environment that did not accept critical discussion. His subsequent critical writings about the church and his review of Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman led to a battle of letters between Burroughs and Scientology supporters in the pages of Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

magazine. He wrote the book, Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology.
1953– Actress. Is critical of Scientology's "straightforward" desire for money.
1947– Whistleblower
Whistleblower
A whistleblower is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government department, a public or private organization, or a company...

, and critic of the Scientology organization.
1935– With wife, Marry Anne DeGrimston, founder of The Process Church of The Final Judgment
The Process Church of The Final Judgment
The Process, or in full, The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known by non-members as the Process Church, was a religious group that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by the English couple Mary Anne and Robert DeGrimston...

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1978–1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 student and primary developer of EarthLink
EarthLink
EarthLink , is an Internet service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It claims 1.94 million subscribers.- Business :EarthLink provides a variety of Internet connection types, including dial-up, DSL, satellite, and cable. Both dial-up and high speed Internet access are available...

's innovative ISP software; committed suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

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1953– Film director
Film director
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, Academy Award winner, in response to the San Diego branch's public support of California Proposition 8 and other factors, including Scientology's "indefensible actions, and inactions" and lies.
1941– Lyricist.
1940– Singer. Listed among "A list" members of Scientology, in a 2006 article in The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

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1934– Identified as a Scientologist during time in prison. Manson studied Scientology while incarcerated. He incorporated Scientology doctrines in his teachings. He ordered Manson Family member Bruce Davis to journey to the United Kingdom and work for the Scientology organization in London
London
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1964– Film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 of The Underground Comedy Movie and spokesman for Shamwow!.
1908–1971 Spiritual writer and founder of Eckankar
Eckankar
Eckankar is a new religious movement founded in the United States in 1965, though practiced around the world long before with a solid following in China. It focuses on spiritual exercises enabling practitioners to experience what its followers call "the Light and Sound of God." The personal...

. Joined Scientology and achieved the status of "Clear
Clear (Scientology)
Clear in Dianetics and Scientology is one of two levels a practitioner can achieve on the way to personal salvation. A state of Clear is reached when a person becomes free of the influence of engrams, unwanted emotions or painful traumas not readily available to the conscious mind...

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1942–2008 Musician and actor.

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