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10th Dalai Lama

10th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1816-1837)

11th Dalai Lama

Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1842 to 1855

12th Dalai Lama

12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1857-1875)

13th Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama of Tibet (1876–1933)

14th Dalai Lama

Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940

Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1391 to 1474

Dalai Lama of Tibet (1476-1542)

3rd Dalai Lama (1543-1588)

Dalai Lama of Tibet (1589-1616)

Dalai Lama of Tibet (1617-1682)

Sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet (1683-1706)

7th Dalai Lama of Tibet

8th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1758-1804)

9th Dalai Lama (1805-1815)

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Indian spiritual teacher and the founder-preceptor of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1896-1977)

Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib

Paternal uncle of Muhammad (c.568-c.653)

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

Historical Arab ruler (624-692)

Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud

Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (c.594-c.653)

Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab

Companion of Muhammad and Scholar

Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad

Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad

Egyptian Quran reciter (1927–1988)

Abdul Qadir Gilani

Sunni Muslim preacher and theologian (1078–1166)

Son of Baháʼu'lláh and leader of the Baháʼí Faith

Indian philosopher and writer

Abraham ibn Ezra

Abraham Isaac Kook

First Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad (died 652 CE)

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari

Muslim theologian (874–936)

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari

Companion and the stand-bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi

8th-century Persian Sunni theologian and jurist and founder of the Hanafi school of thought

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

9th and 10th-century Persian theologian

Abu Musa al-Ash'ari

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

Leader and Merchant from the Quraysh tribe of Mecca

Hindu philosopher and theologian

Advaita Acharya

Indian Hindu guru and Vishnu devotee (1434–1559)

48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist

Indian Sufi philosopher

Korean Christian minister

Aimee Semple McPherson

Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity

Muhammad's third wife (c. 614 – 678)

11th-century Islamic scholar

Albertus Magnus

13th century German Dominican friar and saint

Syrian Islamic Historian and Hadith scholar

Aleister Crowley

English occultist (1875–1947)

Co-founder and first pastor of the Schwarzenau Brethren

Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev

Metropolitan of Russia

Persian Sunni muslim philosopher, theologian, jurist, logician and mystic

Tenth of the Twelve Shia Imams (828–868)

Eighth of the Twelve Shia Imams (766-818)

Great-grandson of the prophet Muhammad and fourth of the Twelve Imams (659-713)

ALi Corporation

Manufacturing company

British- American esoteric, theosophist and writer (1880-1949)

Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar

Aloysius Gonzaga

16th-century Italian Jesuit seminarian and saint

Alphonsus Liguori

Italian Catholic bishop (1696–1787)

13th-century Muslim scholar

Arab philosopher

Muslim scholar, jurist, and traditionist (767–820)

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1445–1505)

Iranian Muslim scholar, historian, and commentator on the Qur'an (839-923)

Persian scholar

Bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Church

Attendant of the Buddha and main figure in First Buddhist Council

Andrew the Apostle

Religious figure of the Christian faith

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Anselm of Canterbury

11th and 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, theologian, and saint

Anthony of Padua

Franciscan friar and Doctor of the Church

Anthony the Great

Christian saint, monk, and hermit

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

American minister

American writer and Satanist (1930–1997)

Apostles in the New Testament

Primary disciples of Jesus in the New Testament

Priest in Alexandria; founder of Arianism

4th century Mahayana Buddhist scholar

Athanasius of Alexandria

Patriarch of Alexandria

Indian Buddhist scholar

Augustine of Canterbury

Missionary, Archbishop of Canterbury, and saint

Jewish mystical rabbi from Poland, founder of Hasidic Judaism

Iranian prophet and founder of Bábism, also venerated in the Baháʼí Faith

Baha' al-Din Naqshband

Muslim Saint and founder of Naqshbandi order

Founder of the Baháʼí Faith

Jain deity/god/saint

Early Christian disciple and bishop

Bartholomew the Apostle

Christian Apostle and Martyr

12th-century social reformer, philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism

Basil of Caesarea

4th-century Christian bishop, theologian, and saint

Benedict of Nursia

Catholic saint and monk

Bernard of Clairvaux

Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)

Group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth

Bilal ibn Rabah

Companion of Muhammad and first Islamic muezzin

American Christian evangelist

Founder of the Knights Hospitaller

Semi-legendary founder of Zen Buddhism

Italian theologian (1221–1274)

19th-century Latter Day Saint religious leader

Thai Buddhist monk

5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Roman Catholic bishop

Catherine of Siena

Italian Dominican saint (1347–1380)

Chaim Yosef David Azulai

Rabbinical scholar

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Indian Vaishnavite saint from Bengal

Charles Coughlin

Canadian-American Catholic priest (1891–1979)

Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)

American mystic

Charles Fox Parham

American preacher and evangelist

Charles Grandison Finney

American minister and writer (1792–1875)

Charles Reynolds (cleric)

Irish Catholic cleric

Charles Spurgeon

British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist

Charles Taze Russell

Founder of the Bible Student movement

English Methodist and hymn writer (1707–1788)

Korean Confucianism official, philosopher, and poet

Chögyam Trungpa

Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer (1939-1987)

Founder of The Nation of Gods and Earths

Clement of Alexandria

Christian theologian (c.150 – c.215)

Clement of Rome

Fourth Pope of the Catholic Church from AD 88 to 99

Saint and second wife of the Frankish king Clovis I

Irish missionary monk, one of Ireland's three patron saints

Cornelius Jansen

Bishop and theologian (1585-1638)

Puritan clergyman (1663–1728)

Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev

Russian bishops

Cyril and Methodius

Byzantine Slavic brothers

Cyril of Alexandria

Patriarch of Alexandria

Cyril of Jerusalem

4th-century Christian theologian, bishop, and saint

American religious cult leader (1959–1993)

David Miscavige

Leader of the Church of Scientology

Dayananda Saraswati

Indian philosopher and socio-religious reformer (1824–1883)

3rd-century Bishop of Paris and saint

South African churchman, archbishop, and Nobel Prize winner

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German theologian and dissident anti-Nazi

Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician (c.480–c.540)

Dionysius Exiguus

Byzantine saint

Japanese Zen buddhist teacher

Dongshan Liangjie

Chinese writer and monk

Doreen Valiente

American journalist, anarchist social activist, Catholic convert and Servant of God

A 20th-century purported clairevoyent, psychic healer, prophet of Universal Consciousness

16th-century English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint

Elijah Muhammad

African American religious leader (1897–1975)

Elizabeth Ann Seton

American Roman Catholic educator and saint (1774–1821)

American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Emanuel Swedenborg

18th-century Swedish scientist and theologian

Ephrem the Syrian

4th century Syrian deacon, hymnographer and theologian

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

12th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher

Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint

Daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)

Fatima bint Musa

Daughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam

Faustina Kowalska

Nun and saint from Poland

Fethullah Gülen

Turkish scholar, theologian and dissident (1941–2024)

Frances Xavier Cabrini

Italian-American Roman Catholic nun and saint

Methodist bishop in America

Francis de Sales

Bishop of Geneva

Francis of Assisi

Italian Catholic saint (c. 1181–1226)

Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

Catholic cardinal (1436-1517)

François Fénelon

French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)

Franklin Graham

American Christian evangelist and missionary (born 1952)

Fulton J. Sheen

American catholic bishop and television presenter

Tibetan Buddhist teacher, monk and philosopher (1079–1153)

Gandharan founder of Dzogchen tradition

Medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar

English Dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

George Gurdjieff

Spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer

Australian Catholic cardinal (1941–2023)

George Ripley (transcendentalist)

American transcendentalist community founder

George Whitefield

18th-century English minister and preacher

British Wiccan leader

Hindu yogi and saint

Gregory of Narek

Armenian 10th century monk

Gregory of Nazianzus

Archbishop of Constantinople from 379 to 381

Gregory of Nyssa

4th-century bishop of Nyssa, Asia Minor

Grigori Rasputin

The fifth Guru of Sikhism

Guru Gobind Singh

The tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher (1666-1708)

Founder of Sikhism

Japanese Zen Buddhist master

Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib

Muhammad's companion and uncle

Hasan al-Askari

Eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams

Muslim Scholar, theologian, exegete, judge, and thinker

Grandson of Muhammad, real fifth caliph of Sunni Islam and the second Shia Imam (625–670)

Heinrich Kramer

German churchman and inquisitor

Helena Blavatsky

Russian mystic and writer (1831–1891)

Henry Ward Beecher

American clergyman and abolitionist (1813–1887)

Hilary of Poitiers

Bishop of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367)

Hillel the Elder

Jewish religious leader of the 1st century

Hosius of Corduba

Semi-legendary Chinese Chan-master

Huldrych Zwingli

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)

Grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Imam (626–680)

American Religious Leader

Youngest cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Syrian Hanafi Jurist

Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)

10th century Persian Shia Islamic scholar

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Egyptian Islamic Jurist and theologian

Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian (994-1064)

Islamic Exegete and Scholar

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Syrian Islamic jurist, theologian and spiritual writer (1292-1350)

Abbasid jurist and scholar

Founder of the Almohad movement (c.1080–c.1128/30)

Ignatius of Antioch

Patriarch of Antioch from 68 to 107

Ignatius of Loyola

16th-century Catholic priest, theologian and saint; founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

Innocent of Alaska

Russian bishop and saint

2nd-century Greek bishop and saint

Isaac Abarbanel

Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier

Isidore of Kiev

Catholic cardinal

Isidore of Seville

Spanish bishop, confessor and doctor of the Catholic Church

The first imam of Ibadis, muhaddith and faqih

Polish-Jewish religious leader

Jacobus Arminius

Dutch theologian, inspirator of Arminianism

Jacobus de Voragine

Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa (c.1230-1298)

Jacques Maritain

French philosopher

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

French bishop and theologian

Ja'far al-Sadiq

8th-century Muslim scholar and scientist

Jahm bin Safwan

Islamic theologian

Ancient Indian sage, scholar, and Hindu philosopher

Swiss Brethren minister from whom the Amish received their name

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

Political activist and Islamic ideologist (1838/1839–1897)

American publisher, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1821–1881)

James the Great

One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus

James, brother of Jesus

Brother of Jesus according to the New Testament

James, son of Alphaeus

One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ

Czech theologian and philosopher

4th and 5th-century Catholic priest, theologian, and saint

American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator

Central figure of Christianity

American televangelist

American cult leader and mass murderer (1931–1978)

Korean monk of the Goryeo period

American televangelist and author

Joel Teitelbaum

Grand Rebbe of Satmar Hasidim

German theologian

German Dominican friar and seller of indulgences

French Protestant reformer (1509–1564)

John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)

First Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States

John Chrysostom

Archbishop of Constantinople from 347 to 407

John Flynn (minister)

Australian Presbyterian minister and founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Canadian-American faith healer and missionary (1870–1935)

John Henry Newman

English cleric and cardinal

Scottish clergyman, writer and historian (1514–1572)

American Methodist and founder of the YMCA

Spanish priest and Doctor of the Church

John of Damascus

8th-century Byzantine monk and saint

John of the Cross

Spanish Catholic priest, friar, mystic, and saint

John Smyth (English theologian)

English Baptist minister

English Anglican presbyter and theologian (1921–2011)

John the Apostle

Apostle of Jesus

John the Baptist

1st-century prophet

Founder of the Methodist movement

English theologian

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

American preacher and philosopher

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

Author of the last great codification of the jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch

Joseph Kibweteere

Ugandan religious leader

Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement

2nd-century rabbi and editor of the Mishnah

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Disciple and betrayer of Christ

Jude the Apostle

One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus

Junayd of Baghdad

9th and 10th-century Persian Islamic mystic

Junípero Serra

Christian missionary

Swiss Protestant theologian (1886–1968)

Zoroastrian high-priest of the late 3rd century

Khadija bint Khuwaylid

First wife of Muhammad (554–619)

Foremost female disciple of Gautama Buddha, Buddhist nun

Japanese Buddhist monk

Kuchan Buddhist monk and translator (344-413)

Kumārila Bhaṭṭa

Hindu philosopher and scholar

American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)

11th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, jurist and theologian

Lawrence of Brindisi

Roman Catholic priest and a theologian

Lazarus of Bethany

Subject of a prominent miracle of Jesus in the Gospel of John

Jamaican Rastafari preacher

Chinese religious leader and dissident

Tibetan Buddhist scholar

Louis Farrakhan

American religious leader (born 1933)

Luke the Evangelist

One of the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels

Chinese Buddhist teacher

Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow

Russian cleric, Iconographer and Saint

Hindu philosopher who founded Dvaita Vedanta school

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

24th Tirthankara of Jainism, last in current cycle of Jain cosmology

12th-century Sephardic Jewish rabbi

Vedic philosopher from ancient India

Islamic scholar and traditionalist (711–795)

Maṇḍana Miśra

Indian philosopher

Female guru-deity in Tibetan Buddhism

Prophet and founder of Manichaeism

Marcion of Sinope

Early Christian theologian (c.85–c.160)

American Voodoo practitioner (1801–1881)

Mark the Evangelist

Apostle of Jesus

Tibetan Buddhist teacher

Marshall Applewhite

American cult leader

Biblical figure

16th-century German Prostestant reformer

German priest, theologian and author (1483–1546)

Martin of Tours

4th-century Christian cleric and saint

Mary Baker Eddy

American religious leader

Australian foundress and saint

Follower of Jesus

Mary, mother of Jesus

Mother of Jesus Christ, according to the Christian New Testament

Catholic missionary

Matthew the Apostle

Christian evangelist and apostle

Matthias the Apostle

Apostle died circa AD 80

One of the Buddha's closest disciples

American-Israeli far-right politician, author and rabbi

Meister Eckhart

13/14th-century German theologian, philosopher and mystic

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Seventh Chabad Rebbe

Dutch theologian, namesake for the Mennonites

Michael I Cerularius

Ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople

Mikael Agricola

16th-century Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish

Iranian philosopher and inventor

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

19th-century Indian religious figure; founder of the Ahmadiyya movement

Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi

Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric (c.1627 – 1699)

Mordecai Kaplan

Lithuanian American rabbi

Spiritual progenitor of the Ganapatyas

Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

Founder of Islam (c. 570 – 632)

Egyptian Islamic jurist, scholar and liberal reformer (1849-1905)

Muhammad al-Baqir

Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams

Muhammad al-Bukhari

Persian Muhaddith (scholar of hadith) (810-870)

Muhammad al-Jawad

Ninth of the Twelve Shia Imams (811–835)

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Twelfth and last of the Twelve Shia Imams

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Islamic scholar, jurist, and eponym of Wahhabi movement (1703–1792) from Saudi Arabia

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi

Founder of the Senussi dynasty

Iranian Shia Islamic philosopher and theologian

Seventh of the Twelve Imams (765–799 CE)

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Islamic Hadith scholar of Caliphate era

Sephardic rabbi and scholar

Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher (c.150–c.250)

Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha

Archbishop of Constantinople from 428 to 431

American religious leader (1918–2009)

Early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian (c. 184–c. 253)

Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980

Osman Nuri Topbaş

Turkish Sufi leader

Talmudic scholar, posek and Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983

8th-century Buddhist lama

20th-century Italian saint, priest stigmatist and mystic

Papias of Hierapolis

Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis and author (c.60-c.130 AD)

Paramahansa Yogananda

20th-century Indian yogi and guru

23rd Tirthankara in Jainism

American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)

Ancient Indian scholar(s)

Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow

Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'

Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow

Patriarch Job of Moscow

Patriarch of Moscow from 1589 to 1605

Patriarch Joseph of Moscow

Sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1642—1652)

Patriarch Nikon of Moscow

Seventh Patriarch of Moscow (1605 - 1681)

Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

19th and 20th-century Russian Orthodox priest, patriarch, and saint

Paul the Apostle

Christian apostle and missionary

American television evangelist (born 1966)

Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest

Peter Chrysologus

Bishop of Ravenna

Eleventh-century Benedictine monk

Jesuit priest and evangelist

Peter the Hermit

11th century French Christian priest and key figure during the First Crusade

Philaret Drozdov

Russian bishop (1783-1867)

English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist

Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow

Russian Orthodox bishop, venerated as a saint and martyr

Philip Melanchthon

German reformer

Philip the Apostle

Christian saint and apostle

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

American writer

Evangelist and writer

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher and Jesuit priest (1881–1955)

Pierre-Jean De Smet

Christian bishop of Smyrna (69-155)

Roman governor of Judaea and condemner of Jesus

Head of the Catholic Church from 678 to 681

Pope Alexander I

6th Pope of the Catholic Church from c. 107 to c. 115

Pope Benedict XV

Head of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922

Pope Benedict XVI

Head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013

Bishop of Rome from 366 to 384

266th pope of the Catholic Church

64th Bishop of Rome; head of the Roman Catholic Church from AD 590 to 604

Pope Gregory II

89th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (from 715 to 731)

Pope Honorius I

Pope John Paul II

Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005

Pope John XXIII

Head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963

Pope from 440 to 461

96th Pope between 795-816

Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054

Head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903

Head of the Catholic Church from c. 68 to c. 80 AD

Head of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978

Head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878

Head of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914

Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958

Pope Sylvester I

33rd pope and saint (reigned 314–335)

Pope Sylvester II

Pope (938–1003)

Pope Zephyrinus

Pope and Bishop of Rome from 199 to 217

Jewish scholar and sage (c. 50 – c.135)

Female Sufi scholar and saint (died 801)

Founder and leader of the Raëlian Movement

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Indian reformer and writer (1772–1833)

Indian godman, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement

Indian mystic and religious preacher

Ramana Maharshi

Hindu philosopher, exegete of Vishishtadvaita Vedanta school

13th and 14th-century Majorcan writer and philosopher

Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal

French rabbi and commentator

Babylonian rabbi

Richard Allen (bishop)

American educator, author, writer, and black leader (1760–1831)

Christian religious leader

First Tirthankara of Jainism

Robert Bellarmine

Catholic cardinal, saint, and Doctor of the Church

English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation

Indian guru, poet and philosopher of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition (1489-1564)

10th-century Rabbi and philosopher and biblical exegete

Jewish mystic and self-proclaimed Messiah (1626–1676)

Saint Christopher

Christian saint

Founder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221)

4th-century Christian saint and martyr

Husband of Mary and legal father of Jesus

4th-century Christian saint

Christian missionary, bishop, and saint

Christian apostle

1st-century early Christian martyr and saint

Early Christian evangelist, philosopher and bishop from Roman Anatolia

Salman the Persian

Companion of Muhammad the Prophet; first Persian convert to Islam

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Jewish theologian and rabbi, Germany 19th century

Śāntarakṣita

Indian philosopher

Main disciple of Gautama Buddha

Sathya Sai Baba

11th-century Persian scholar

Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad

Appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957

Founder of Aum Shinrikyo (1955–2018)

Shunryū Suzuki

Japanese Buddhist monk who popularized Zen in the US

American Mormon leader (1793–1876)

Religious figure who confronted Peter

Simon the Zealot

Apostle of Jesus

Society for Irish Latin American Studies

Scientific society

Japanese Buddhist monk

Thai buddhist monk

Indian Nationalist, Philosopher, Poet, Mahayogi,Maharishi

Stefan Yavorsky

Eastern Orthodox archbishop

Stephen McNallen

American spiritual leader (born 1948)

Persian religious leader

Father of Siddhartha Gautama

Korean religious leader (1920–2012)

Swami Vivekananda

Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)

Founder of Swaminarayan Sampradaya

Tammy Faye Messner

American evangelical and singer (1942–2007)

Swiss Muslim scholar

Teresa of Ávila

Roman Catholic saint (1515–1582)

Christian theologian

Founder of Buddhism

Thérèse of Lisieux

19th-century French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)

Thomas à Kempis

German canon regular

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170, Christian martyr

16th-century English Archbishop of Canterbury and Protestant reformer

Thomas the Apostle

Early Christian saint – one of the Twelve Apostles

16th-century Archbishop of York, Chancellor of England, and cardinal

Indian philosopher

Tomás de Torquemada

Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420–1498)

Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Uddālaka Āruṇi

Foremost female disciple of Gautama Buddha, Buddhist nun

Hindu philosopher

Legendary Indian poet, author of the Ramayana

Ancient Hindu sage

4th/5th century Gandharan Buddhist monk

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to Hasidism

Ancient Hindu sage

Vladimir Bogoyavlensky

Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromartyr

Sage in ancient India

William Ellery Channing

American Unitarian clergyman (1780-1842)

William J. Seymour

African American holiness pentecostal preacher

William M. Branham

American Christian minister (1909–1965)

William Miller (preacher)

American Baptist preacher

William Tyndale

Bible translator and revolutionary from England

Korean buddhist philosopher

Yahweh ben Yahweh

Nation of Yahweh Founder

First female lama in Tibetan Buddhism

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

First Chief Rabbi of Israeli

Yohanan ben Zakkai

1st-century rabbi and Jewish leader

Chinese Buddhist philosopher

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

American writer and activist, Jewish Renewal movement pioneer

Alid political and religious leader (c.695–740)

Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi

Companion of Muhammad and his adopted son

Zayd ibn Thabit

Personal scribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Founder of the Tiantai tradition of Buddhism in China

Iranian prophet and spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism