Tina Fey - Saturday Night Live TV series writer and on-screen co-host of "Weekend Update" segment
John Belushi - comedian; Saturday Night Live star; film actor (raised Albanian Orthodox)
Joseph Stalin - brutal Communist leader (left Church, embraced atheism)
Vladimir Lenin - Communist leader of Russia (embraced atheism)
John Cassavetes - influential film director (marginal Greek Orthodox)
Michael Dukakis - Massachusetts governor; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President (1988)
Olympia Dukakis - Academy Award-winning actress
Sergei Eisenstein - influential Russian film director, pioneer of montage film editing
Elia Kazan - film director; On the Waterfront; Gentleman's Agreement; etc. (lapsed Greek Orthodox)
Frank Schaeffer - acclaimed author (convert to Greek Orthodoxy)
Nikos Kazantzakis - Greek writer; author of The Last Temptation of Christ (excommunicated from Greek Orthodox Church)
Vladimir Nabokov - influential Russian-American writer best known for Lolita (1955) and Pale Fire (1962)
Igor Stravinsky - celebrated Russian-American composer of modern classical music (Russian Orthodox)
Christopher Orr - actor, The Mighty Ducks, etc. (convert from Lutheran to Orthodox)
Cyril Lucaris / Cyril I - became Patriarch of Constantinople as Cyril I in 17th Century, first great leader of Church since since fall of Constantinople in 1453
Spencer Abraham - U.S. Secretary of Energy for Pres. George W. Bush
George Stephanopoulos - communication director for Pres. Clinton; news show host
Darrell Issa - U.S. Representative from California; wealthy businessman; personally financed 2003 recall election that ended Gov. Gray Davis's term early
George Tenet - CIA director from 1997 to 2004
Paul Weyrich - powerful conservative American activist; founder of the Heritage Foundation
Terry Mattingly - nationally prominent syndicated religion journalist
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan - religious scholar, Yale professor, co-editor of 55-volume Luther's Works (convert from Lutheran to Orthodox)
William A. Dembski - a leading proponent of Intelligent Design theory (raised Catholic; became an Evangelical; converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 1997; returned to Evanglicalism in 1999; now teaches at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY)
George W. Gekas - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (Repub.)
Dick Lane - California politician; candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1998
Steven Corodemus - New Jersey politician; candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1996
Anthony Zevgolis - Virginia politician; candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1996
John Pappageorge - Michigan politician; candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1996
Kerry Katsorhis - New York City sheriff; candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1996
Chris Evangel - candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey in 1996
Michael Petyo - candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana in 1996
Notable Eastern Orthodox Politicians Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eastern-orthodox.html; viewed 2 December 2005
California George N. Zenovich (b. 1922)
Peter J. Pitchess (1912-1999)
Connecticut George P. Harlamon (b. 1919)
Florida Gus Michael Bilirakis (b. 1963)
Michael Bilirakis (b. 1930)
Indiana Adam Benjamin, Jr. (1935-1982)
Maryland Helen Delich Bentley (b. 1923)
Paul Spyros Sarbanes (b. 1933)
Massachusetts Michael Stanley Dukakis (b. 1933)
Nicholas James Mavroules (b. 1929)
Maine Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe (b. 1947)
Michigan E. N. Karay (1905-1992)
George Zaven Hart (b. 1927)
Jack J. Garris (1919-2005)
Katherine Czarnecki (1911-2001)
Mary V. Beck (1908-2005)
Michael Novak (1917-2003)
Minnesota Sam Solon (1931-2001)
Nebraska Paul Louis Douglas (b. 1927)
New Hampsire Harry Vaios Spanos (1926-1995)
North Carolina Nick Galifianakis (b. 1928)
Pennsylvania George William Gekas (b. 1930)
Gus Yatron (1927-2003)
Rhode Island George Panichas (1930-1970)
West Virginia Callie Tsapis (b. 1923)
Edwin J. Bowman (b. 1946)
Paul Zakaib, Jr. (b. 1932)
Notable Members of the Russian Orthodox Church Sources: NNDB.com (http://www.nndb.com/lists/868/000071655/; viewed 5 July 2005); "Category: Russian Orthodox Christians" page on Wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_Orthodox_Christians; viewed 12 August 2005)
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Nedoshivin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Schmemann
Andronic Nikolsky
Anna Akhmatova
Anthony Bloom
Basil Fool for Christ
Catherine the Great
Dmytro Bortniansky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Grigori Rasputin
Ivan the Terrible
Jaroslav Pelikan
John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco
John Tavener
Konstantin of Murom
Leo Tolstoy
Leonid Kuchma
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Lermontov
Natalie Wood
Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Novikov
Nikolai of Japan
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Oksana Baiul
Peter the Great
Philaret
Seraphim Rose
Sergei Averintsev
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theophan the Recluse
Tikhon of Zadonsk
Tsar Alexander I
Tsar Nicholas I
Tsar Nicholas II
Tsar Paul I
Tsar Peter II
Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Yushchenko
Vladimir Putin
Category:Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Metropolitans_and_Patriarchs_of_Moscow; viewed 12 August 2005): Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow; Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow; Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow; Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow; Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow; Isidore the Apostate; Jonas; Maximus, Metropolitan of all Rus; Metropolitan German; Metropolitan Peter; Metropolitan Philip; Patriarch Adrian; Patriarch Alexius I; Patriarch Alexius II; Patriarch Filaret (Feodor Romanov); Patriarch Hermogenes; Patriarch Ignatius; Patriarch Joasaphus I; Patriarch Jove; Patriarch Nikon; Patriarch Pimen I; Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow; Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow; Pitirim of Krutitsy; Saint Innocent of Alaska; Simon, Metropolitan of Moscow; Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow; Theognostus; Tikhon of Moscow; Zosimus, Metropolitan of Moscow