List of Christians
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List of Christians:
People sometimes define "Christianity" in mutually exclusive ways. Some denominations that call themselves "Christian" have had their Christianity denied by other denominations. This is a list of people who are notable due to their professed Christianity or for their influence on the popularity or development of some group of professed Christians.
Related Lists:
- List of Born-again Christian Laypeople
- List of popes
- List of saints
- List of Unificationists
- List of bishops
- List of Biblical figures
- List of Christian entertainers
- List of Christian politicians
- List of Christian scientists
- List of Evangelical Christians
- List of Methodist Bishops
- List of Methodist theologians
- For a list of Archbishops of Canterbury, see Archbishop of Canterbury
- List of notable cardinals
- For a list of notable archbishops, see Archbishop
- For a list of patron saints, see patron saint
- For a list of the apostles of Jesus, see apostle
List of Christians (who aren't also listed in one of the above lists):
- Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, (1483-1565)*Hosea Ballou, (1771-1852)
- Clara Barton, (1821-1912), founder of the Red Cross
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906-1945), German Theologian
- William Booth and Catherine Booth, founders of the Salvation Army
- Joseph A. Brown, Jr., (1973), Mighty Man of God
- Bill Bright, (1921-2003) founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
- Frederick Buechner, (born 1926), American author
- Heinrich Bullinger, (1504-1575), Swiss Reformer
- John Bunyan, (1628-1688), author of Pilgrim's Progress, Baptist preacher
- John Calvin, (1509-1564), Protestant Reformation
- Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1919), American entrepreneur, philanthropist and industrialist
- Sydney Bertram Carter, (1915-2004), poet, folk musician, and songwriter (example: Lord of the Dance)
- Gordon Clark (1908-1985), Calvinist philosopher and theologian, advocate of presuppositional apologetics
- Jonathan Myrick Daniels, (1939-1965), Episcopal seminarian, martyred for civil rights work
- Catherine Doherty, (1896-1985), social activist, foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate
- Edward VI of England, (1547-1553), first English Protestant monarch
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
- Adam Woeger, (born 1965), Internet Evangelist and Christian Internet pioneer
- Erasmus, Protestant Reformation
- Mary Baker Eddy, (1821-1910), founder of Christian Science
- Jonathan Edwards, preacher during the First Great Awakening, theologian, and president of the College of New Jersey which was later renamed Princeton University
- Elizabeth I of England, (1558-1603), Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the Church of England
- Calvin Fairbank, (1816-1898), abolitionist Methodist minister
- Jerry Falwell, American conservative Protestant
- George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends
- John Frame, (born 1939), philosopher and theologian
- John Gill, (1697-1771), Calvinist Baptist theologian and predecessor of Charles Spurgeon
- Joseph Glanvill, (1636-1680), philosopher
- Billy Graham, (born 1918), American conservative Protestant evangelist
- Henry VIII of England, (1491-1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church
- Benny Hinn, preacher and author
- Hong Xiuquan, (1812-1864), asserted himself to be the brother of Christ, led Taiping Rebellion
- A. A. Hodge, (1823-1886), Calvinist theologian and professor at Princeton Seminary
- Charles Hodge, (1797-1878), Calvinist theologian and professor at Princeton Seminary
- Jan Hus
- James I of England, (1603-1625), of the King James Bible
- Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire, (AD 527-565), called Second Council of Constantinople
- Søren Kierkegaard, (1813-1855) Danish Philosopher
- Edgar Ray Killen, (born in 1925) American Baptist minister and sawmill operator who conspired to kill several civil rights activists in 1964
- Martin Luther King Jr, (1929-1968), African American civil rights leader
- John Knox, Protest Reformation of Scotland
- Charles H. Kraft
- Abraham Kuyper, (1837-1920), Calvinist theologian, journalist, founder of the Free University in Amsterdam, and prime minister of the Netherlands
- Witness Lee, (1905-1997), founded the Local Church
- C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963), British author
- Emperor Marcian of the Byzantine Empire, (c. 390-457), called Council of Chalcedon
- Martin Luther, (1483-1546), of the Protestant Reformation
- Mary I of England, (1553-1558), Roman Catholic queen
- J. Gresham Machen, (1881-1937), leader of the revolt against modernism at Princeton Seminary, founder of Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
- Cotton Mather, New England Puritan leader
- Josh McDowell, American Christian writer
- Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
- Bruce Metzger, (born 1914) Bible Translator
- Mieszko I, (962-992)
- John Milton, (1608—1674), English poet
- John Murray, (1741-1815), universalist
- John Murray, (1898-1975), Calvinist theologian
- Nestorius, (428-431), Antiochene theologian, founded Nestorianism
- Origen, (182-251)
- Alvin Plantinga, (born 1932), analytic philosopher
- Oral Roberts pioneer tv preacher
- Pat Robertson, (born 1930), American conservative Protestant
- Charles Taze Russell, (1852-1916) also known as 'Pastor Russell'
- Philip Schaff, (1819-1893), Protestant church historian and theologian
- Francis Schaeffer, (1912-1984), philosopher and popular theologian, founder of the l'Abri community.
- Cyrus I. Scofield, (1843-1921), editor of the Scofield Reference Bible
- Menno Simons, (1496-1561), early leader of Anabaptist Mennonites
- Charles Spurgeon, (1834-1892), Baptist preacher
- Jeremy Taylor, (1613-1667), Anglican preacher
- Tertullian, early opponent of gnosticism
- Johann Tetzel
- Theodoret, theologian declared a heretic at the Second Council of Constantinople
- Mother Teresa
- K. H. Ting, Chinese Christian leader
- Harriet Tubman, (1820-1913)
- Francis Turretin, Calvinist, Scholastic theologian
- William Tyndale, (1484-1536)
- Cornelius Van Til, (1895-1987), Calvinist philosopher and theologian, advocate of presuppositional apologetics
- B. B. Warfield, (1851-1921), Calvinist theologian and professor at Princeton Seminary
- Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur 1880
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, preeminent leaders of Methodism
- George Whitefield (1717-1770), Calvinist founder of Methodism, preacher during the First Great Awakening
- John Wyclif, (born 1324)
- Huldrych Zwingli, (1484-1531), Protestant Reformer in Switzerland
See also: List of people by belief, List of people