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Aimee Semple McPherson
Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity
Alexander Mack
Co-founder and first pastor of the Schwarzenau Brethren
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
American minister
Billy Graham
American Christian evangelist
Charles Fox Parham
American preacher and evangelist
Charles Grandison Finney
American minister and writer (1792–1875)
Charles Spurgeon
British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
Charles Wesley
English Methodist and hymn writer (1707–1788)
Cotton Mather
Puritan clergyman (1663–1728)
Desmond Tutu
South African churchman, archbishop, and Nobel Prize winner
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian and dissident anti-Nazi
Ellen G. White
American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Francis Asbury
Methodist bishop in America
Franklin Graham
American Christian evangelist and missionary (born 1952)
George Fox
English Dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
George Whitefield
18th-century English minister and preacher
Henry Ward Beecher
American clergyman and abolitionist (1813–1887)
Huldrych Zwingli
Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)
Jacobus Arminius
Dutch theologian, inspirator of Arminianism
Jakob Ammann
Swiss Brethren minister from whom the Amish received their name
James S. White
American publisher, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1821–1881)
Jerry Falwell
American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator
Jim Bakker
American televangelist
Joel Osteen
American televangelist and author
John Calvin
French Protestant reformer (1509–1564)
John Flynn (minister)
Australian Presbyterian minister and founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service
John G. Lake
Canadian-American faith healer and missionary (1870–1935)
John Knox
Scottish clergyman, writer and historian (1514–1572)
John Mott
American Methodist and founder of the YMCA
John Smyth (English theologian)
English Baptist minister
John Stott
English Anglican presbyter and theologian (1921–2011)
John Wesley
Founder of the Methodist movement
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
American preacher and philosopher
Karl Barth
Swiss Protestant theologian (1886–1968)
Martin Bucer
16th-century German Prostestant reformer
Martin Luther
German priest, theologian and author (1483–1546)
Menno Simons
Dutch theologian, namesake for the Mennonites
Mikael Agricola
16th-century Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish
Oral Roberts
American religious leader (1918–2009)
Pat Robertson
American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)
Paula White
American television evangelist (born 1966)
Philip Henry
English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist
Philip Melanchthon
German reformer
Phoebe Palmer
Evangelist and writer
Richard Allen (bishop)
American educator, author, writer, and black leader (1760–1831)
Rick Warren
Christian religious leader
Roger Williams
English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation
Tammy Faye Messner
American evangelical and singer (1942–2007)
Thomas Cranmer
16th-century English Archbishop of Canterbury and Protestant reformer
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