The following list of Baptists is a catalogue of those who were members of Baptist churches or who were raised in Baptist churches. It is not intended to imply that all those who appear on the list were practicing Baptists or that they remained Baptists their entire lives. As an article of faith, Baptists do not baptize infants, so one with a Baptist background would not automatically have ever been technically a Baptist.
*Askew, Anne, early Baptist martyr *Birch, John, missionary killed by the Communist Chinese on August 25, 1945 *Elliott, Jean, missionary to Iraq on March 15, 2005 *Elliott, Larry, missionary killed with Jean Elliot *McDonnall, Davod, missionary killed with Jean Elliot *Gariety, Kathy, missionary killed in Yemen killed on December 30, 2003 *Meyers, Martha, missionary killed with Kathy Gariety. *Koehn, Bill, medical missionary, killed with Kathy Gariety *Tovar, Antolìn, Venezuelan *Watson, Karen, missionary killed with Jean Elliott
Fried Green Tomatoes, by Fannie Flagg **Idie Threadgood ** Rev. Scroggins *The Mitford series by Jan Karon **Sophia Burton, a single mother raising two daughters **Absalom Greer, elderly minister and close friend of the series'protagonist, Father Tim Kavanagh (an Episcopalian rector). **Madelaine Kavanagh, Father Tim's mother **Emma Newland, Father Tim's secretary who was raised Baptist, converted to the Episcopal church, then returned to the Baptist church when she married. **Harold Newland, Emma's wife **Rodney Underwood, the town's chief of police To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee **Miss Maudie Atkins, Neighbor of Scout Finch, the protagonist More moderate than the "Footwashing Baptists" who make a brief appearance **Mr. Radley's father. Another of Scout's neighbors.
Baptists on Television
Designing Women, Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), presumably Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) and Charlene Frazier (Jean Smart). Specifically Charlene reveals that she is a Missionary Baptist. In the episode "How Great Thou Art" Charlene quits her church when she discovers her pastor is opposed to the ordination of women, which was her dream at one time. Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts) briefly dates Julia's minister. Gimme a Break!, Nell Harper (Nell Carter) is the daughter of a Baptist minister. Golden Girls, Blanche Deveraux, according to a fan site, is a Southern Baptist. The Waltons, Almost all the principal characters were Baptists or attended the Baptist church. In the fourth season episode "The Sermon", Rev. Matthew Fordwick (John Ritter) asks John Boy (Richard Thomas) to deliver a sermon while he goes on his honeymoon. In the fifth season episode "The Baptism" John Walton, Sr. (Ralph Waite) refuses to attend a tent revival or be baptized.
Baptists in Song
*"Guilty" (The Statler Brothers) contains the lines "If she seems bitter of other ways, / Seems to have lost her Baptist ways, / If the truth comes harder than a lie, / If she's guilty, so am I" *"Southern Baptist Heartbreak"(The Warren Brothers) contains the lines "Somewhere in the middle of 'Have Thy Own Way,' / She left an empty pew; she said 'I think that's what I'll do.'"
