– jazz musician Bruce Hornsby – rock musician Kay Kyser (1905-1985) – American bandleader and radio personality, later a Christian Science practitioner and active promoter Michael Nesmith (1942-2021) – member of The Monkees, Ruth Barret Phelps (1899-1980) – theater and church organist, later organist at the Mother Church Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor Sports Athletes/sportspeople Harold Bradley Jr. (1929-2021), Football player, actor, singer, and visual artist Adin Brown – U.S. association football player Rowland George (1905–1997), Olympic rower; oldest surviving British Olympic gold medalist upon his death. Nile Kinnick (1918-1943) – American college football player and Heisman Trophy winner Shannon Miller – American gymnast Harry Porter (1882-1965) – Olympic gold medalist high jumper George Sisler (1893-1973) – baseball player Tommy Vardell – American football player Aaron Goldsmith - Sports Commentator for the Seattle Mariners and Fox College Hoops Intellectual life Education and academia Iris Mack – mathematician, first black female professor in applied mathematics at M.I.T. Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948) – American educator and the founder of Principia College, a Christian Science college Robert Peel (historian) (1909-1992) – historian and church worker, best known for his three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy David E. Sweet (1933–1984) – founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College George B. Thomas (1914–2006) - American mathematician and professor of mathematics at MIT. Journalism Richard Bergenheim (1948-2008) – American journalist and editor Erwin Canham (1904-1982) – editor of the Christian Science Monitor, also the last Resident Commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands Kay Fanning (1927-2000) – editor of the Anchorage Daily News and Christian Science Monitor, first woman to edit an American national newspaper. Harold Frederic (1856-1898) – journalist and novelist Virginia Graham (1910–1993) – English humourist John Hughes (editor) – American journalist, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor and The Deseret News Edward J. Meeman (1889-1966) – American journalist Cora Rigby (1865-1930) – first woman at a major paper to head a Washington news bureau, co-founder of the Women's National Press Club. Marjorie Shuler (1888-1977) – suffragist, author, adventurer, publicist, journalist, longtime writer for the Christian Science Monitor. Daughter of famous suffragist Nettie Rogers Shuler. Exploration, invention, and science Neil Kensington Adam (1891-1973) – British chemist Edmund F. Burton (1862-1921) – physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science Laurance Doyle – researcher at SETI Claribel Kendall (1889-1965) – American mathematician