Former Members
- Individuals should be listed in this section only if they are prominent as ex-Adventists
- Wayne Bent – former pastor who founded Lord Our Righteousness Church
- Robert Brinsmead – edited Present Truth Magazine
- D. M. Canright – Pastor who left over difficulties concerning Ellen White.
- Daniel Cooper (New Zealand murderer) (1881-1923)- child murderer and illegal abortionist; expelled from church in January 1918, although previously member for over a decade.
- Desmond Ford – Australian preacher dismissed for criticizing the investigative judgment teaching, resulting in the most controversial dismissal ever in the church.
- Victor Houteff – founder of the Shepherd's Rod offshoot.
- Moses Hull – Former pastor who converted to spiritualism.
- J. Mark Martin – former Adventist pastor fired over doctrinal issues. Senior pastor of Calvary Community Church.
- Steve Durkac - Former pastor in Southern Union who is now pastor of West Mobile Bible Fellowship in Mobile, Alabama.
- Jesse Martin – boy sailor; his parents were Adventists
- Shirley Ardell Mason, known as "Sybil" – famous dissociative identity disorder patient. Her parents were apparently Adventists
- Judge Greg Mathis - Born and raised Seventh Day Adventist. Membership lapsed.
- Elizaphan Ntakirutimana – ex-pastor and Rwandan Genocide participant
- Ronald Numbers – science historian and author of The Creationists, and former Adventist lecturer.
- David Pendleton – former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and 2002 candidate for lieutenant governor, now a Catholic.
- Dale Ratzlaff – Former Adventist pastor dismissed over doctrinal issues. Directs Life Assurance Ministries and is the editor of a website critical of Ellen White.
- Paul Rusesabagina – internationally honored for saving 1,268 civilians during the Rwandan Genocide; the subject of 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. Describes himself as a "lapsed Adventist" in his autobiography.
- Paul Schubert – Christian academic and professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School
- Richard Wright – author whose autobiography Black Boy mentions clashes with his Adventist family.
- Malcolm X – Raised Adventist by his mother.
- Augusto César Sandino – Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician, cooperativist, member of Adventist church in his youth, adopted vegetarianism due to church teachings
- Sirhan Sirhan – Palestinian convicted of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- Mark "Chopper" Read - Notorious Australian ex-criminal and author of real and fictional crime books. In his books Chopper claims to have been raised Adventist by a strictly devout mother.
See also Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists.
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