Biographies: Other Notable Religious Leaders

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Other Notable Religious Leaders

Malcolm X

See also

• Activists and Reformers
• Notable African-American Religious Leaders

• People in the News
• Recent Obituaries

Related Links

• Major Religions of the World
• Holidays: Religious and Secular, 2006
• Islamic Holidays, A.H. 1423-1430 (2002-2009)
• Major Islamic Holidays
• Islam Primer
• Hindu Festival Dates 2006 and 2007
• Sikh Festival Dates, 2006 and 2007
• Jain Festival Dates, 2006 and 2007
• Selected Worldwide Religious Sites

Biographies by Category

• Abu Hanifa, Muslim jurist
• Aga Khan, religious leader and imam
• Baha Ullah, Persian religious leader
• Bhave, Vinoba, Indian religious figure
• Bukhari, Muhammad ibn Ismail, al-, Arabic scholar
• Chaitanya, Indian mystic
• Chih-i, Chinese Buddhist scholar and founder of the T'ien-t'ai (in Japan
• Chishti, Muin ad-Din Hasan, Indian Muslim saint
• Confucius, Chinese sage
• Dōgen, Zen master
• Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
• Davis, Andrew Jackson, American spiritualist
• Farrakhan, Louis, African-American religious leader
• Ghose, Chinmoy, Indian mystic and poet
• Hsuan-tsang, Chinese Buddhist scholar and translator
• Husein, Muslim saint of the Shiites
• Ibn al-Arabi or Ibn Arabi, Muhyi ad-Din Muhammad bin Ali al-Hatimi at-Tai, Muslim Sufi mystic
• Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad, Muslim jurist and theologian
• Ibn Taymiyya, Taqiyy ad-Din Ahmad, Muslim theologian and jurist
• Ibn Tumart, Berber Muslim religious leader
• Krishnamurti, Jiddu, Indian religious figure
• Kukai, Japanese priest
• Kumarajiva, Buddhist scholar and missionary
• Malcolm X, American militant black leader
• Manu, semilegendary Hindu lawgiver
• Mencius, Chinese Confucian philosopher
• Milarepa, saint and poet of Tibetan Buddhism
• Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
• Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian Muslim religious reformer
• Muhammad, Elijah, American black-nationalist and religious leader
• Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest
• Olcott, Henry Steel, American religious leader and author
• Qutb, Sayyid, Egyptian Islamist
• Ramakrishna, Hindu mystic
• Saraswati, Dayananda, Indian religious reformer
• Shuayb, non-biblical prophet
• Sistani, Ali Husaini or Husayni, Shiite grand ayatollah in Iraq
• Steiner, Rudolf, German occultist and social philosopher
• Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, Japanese Buddhist scholar
• Valentinus, founder of the Valentinians
• Vivekananda, Hindu mystic
• Yogananda, Indian mystic