Biographies: Notable Protestant Religious Leaders

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Notable Protestant Religious Leaders

Abbott, Lyman, American clergyman and editor
Aglipay, Gregorio, Philippine clergyman
Akinola, Peter Jasper, Nigerian Anglican prelate
Albright, Jacob, American religious leader
Allen, Richard, American clergyman
Andrewes, Lancelot, Anglican divine
Arminius, Jacobus, Dutch Reformed theologian
Asbury, Francis, Methodist bishop in America
Bacon, Leonard, American Congregational minister
Ballou, Adin, American Universalist clergyman
Ballou, Hosea, American clergyman
Ballou, Hosea, 2d, American Universalist clergyman
Barth, Karl, Swiss Protestant theologian
Bascom, Henry Bidleman, American Methodist minister and college president
Baxter, Richard, English nonconformist clergyman
Beecher, Henry Ward, American Congregational preacher
Beecher, Lyman, American Presbyterian clergyman
Beissel, Johann Conrad, founder of the Seventh-Day Baptist community at Ephrata
Bengel, Johann Albrecht, German Lutheran theologian and biblical scholar
Beza, Theodore, French Calvinist theologian
Biddle, John, founder of English Unitarianism
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa (Brown), American Unitarian minister
Blair, James, Church of England clergyman
Bliss, Philip Paul, American evangelist and writer of gospel songs
Boehm, Martin, American evangelical preacher
Boehme or Böhme, Jakob, German religious mystic
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, German Protestant theologian
Booth, Evangeline Cory, general of the Salvation Army
Booth, William, English religious leader
Brainerd, David, missionary to the Native Americans
Bray, Thomas, English clergyman and philanthropist
Brenz, Johannes, German Protestant reformer
Brooks, Phillips, American Episcopal bishop
Browne, Robert, English clergyman
Brownson, Orestes Augustus, American author and clergyman
Brunner, Emil, Swiss Protestant theologian
Bucer or Butzer, Martin, German Protestant reformer
Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel, American evangelist
Bullinger, Heinrich, Swiss Protestant reformer
Bultmann, Rudolf Karl, German existentialist theologian
Bushnell, Horace, American Congregational minister
Butler, Joseph, English bishop
Calvin, John, French Protestant theologian
Cameron, John, Scottish scholar and theologian
Cameron, Richard, Scottish leader of the Cameronians
Campbell, Alexander, clergyman
Carlstadt, German Protestant reformer
Chalmers, Thomas, Scottish preacher
Charles, Thomas, Welsh nonconformist clergyman
Chauncy, Charles, American Congregational clergyman
Cheyne, Thomas Kelly, English cleric and biblical critic
Clarke, James Freeman, American Unitarian clergyman and author
Cocceius, Johannes, German theologian
Coffin, Henry Sloane, American Presbyterian clergyman
Conway, Moncure Daniel, American author and preacher
Coquerel, Athanase Laurent Charles, French Protestant clergyman
Cotton, John, Puritan clergyman in England and Massachusetts
Coverdale, Miles, English translator of the Bible
Craig, John, Scottish minister of the Reformation
Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von, German theologian and historian
Davenport, John, Puritan clergyman
Dickinson, Jonathan, American Presbyterian clergyman
Divine, Father, African-American religious leader
Dowie, John Alexander, founder of the Christian Catholic Church
Drummond, Henry, Scottish clergyman and author
Dwight, Timothy, American clergyman, author, educator
Dyer, Mary, Quaker martyr
Eaton, Theophilus, Puritan leader in Connecticut
Eddy, Mary Baker, founder of the Christian Science movement
Edwards, Jonathan, American theologian
Edwards, Jonathan, American theologian and metaphysician
Eliot, John, English missionary in colonial Massachusetts
Episcopius, Simon, Dutch Protestant theologian
Erastus, Thomas, Swiss Protestant theologian
Erskine, Ebenezer, founder of the Secession Church in Scotland
Ettwein, John, German-American churchman
Farel, Guillaume, French religious reformer
Finley, Robert, American clergyman
Finney, Charles Grandison, American evangelist
Foakes-Jackson, Frederick John, English theologian and church historian
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, American clergyman
Fox, George, English religious leader
Francke, August Hermann, German Protestant minister and philanthropist. In 1686
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, American clergyman and writer
Garrettson, Freeborn, American Methodist preacher
Gogarten, Friedrich, German theologian
Goodell, William, American missionary in the Middle East
Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson, American Greek scholar
Gore, Charles, English prelate and theologian
Graham, Billy, American evangelist
Grellet, Stephen, Quaker missionary
Hall, Samuel Read, American educator and clergyman
Hamann, Johann Georg, German Protestant theologian
Hanaford, Phoebe Ann (Coffin), American Universalist minister
Harris, Barbara C. , Episcopal clergywoman
Harris, Thomas Lake, American Christian mystic
Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, Moravian missionary in the United States
Henderson, Alexander, Scottish churchman
Hodge, Charles, American Calvinist theologian
Holmes, John Haynes, American clergyman
Hooker, Richard, English theologian and clergyman
Hopkins, Samuel, American clergyman and theologian
Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, countess of, English religious leader
Huss, John, Czech religious reformer
Hutchinson, Anne, religious leader in New England
Inge, William Ralph, Anglican prelate and author
Johnson, Samuel, American clergyman
Judson, Adoniram, American Baptist missionary
Knox, John, Scottish religious reformer
Lake, Kirsopp, English biblical scholar
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, English churchman
Laski, John, Polish Protestant reformer
Laud, William, archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
Law, William, English clergyman
Lee or Legh, Rowland, English bishop
Lee, Ann, English religious visionary
Leighton, Robert, Scottish prelate and classical scholar
Lightfoot, Joseph Barber, English prelate and scholar
Luther, Martin, German leader of the Protestant Reformation
Muhlenberg, Heinrich Melchior, American Lutheran clergyman
Munzer or Muntzer, Thomas, German Protestant reformer
Mather, Cotton, American Puritan clergyman and writer
Mather, Increase, American Puritan clergyman
Mathews, Shailer, American theologian
Maurice, Frederick Denison, English clergyman and social reformer
McGready, James, American Presbyterian minister and evangelist
McPherson, Aimee Semple, U.S. evangelist
Melanchthon, Philip, German scholar and humanist
Melville, Andrew, Scottish religious reformer and scholar
Menno Simons, Dutch religious reformer
Moody, Dwight Lyman, American evangelist
Morse, Jedidiah, American Congregational clergyman
Muhlenberg, William Augustus, American Episcopal clergyman
Murray, John, founder of the Universalist denomination in America
Neander, Johann August Wilhelm, German theologian and church historian
Nevin, John Williamson, American theologian and educator
Newton, John, English clergyman and hymn writer
Niebuhr, Helmut Richard, American theologian
Niebuhr, Reinhold, American religious and social thinker
Niemoeller or Niemöller, Martin, German Protestant churchman
Oecolampadius, Johannes, German Protestant reformer
Osiander, Andreas, German reformer
Otterbein, Philip William, German-American clergyman
Paley, William, English theologian
Parker, Matthew, English prelate
Parker, Theodore, American theologian and social reformer
Parkhurst, Charles Henry, American clergyman and reformer
Pike, James Albert, American Episcopal bishop
Potter, Henry Codman, American Episcopal bishop
Prime, Samuel Irenaeus, American Presbyterian clergyman and editor
Prince, Thomas, American clergyman
Purvey, John, English scholar
Pusey, Edward Bouverie, English clergyman
Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst, American mental healer
Ramsey of Canterbury, Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron, archbishop of Canterbury (1961-74)
Rauschenbusch, Walter, American clergyman
Ridley, Nicholas, English prelate, reformer, and Protestant martyr
Robertson, Pat, American evangelist and politician
Robinson, John, English nonconformist pastor
Rogers, Adrian Pierce, American Southern Baptist clergyman
Rogers, John, English Protestant martyr
Russell, Charles Taze, founder of the movement whose followers are known as Russellites
Söderblom, Nathan, Swedish churchman
Sabatier, Auguste, French Protestant theologian
Savage, Minot Judson, American Unitarian clergyman and writer
Schaff, Philip, biblical scholar and church historian in America
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst, German Protestant theologian
Schori, Katharine Jefferts , bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States
Schuller, Robert, American Protestant minister and television evangelist
Schweitzer, Albert, Alsatian theologian
Schwenkfeld, Kaspar von, German religious reformer
Selwyn, George Augustus, English prelate
Smith, Joseph, American Mormon leader
Socinus, Faustus, Italian religious reformer
Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, a founder of the Moravian Church in America
Spener, Philipp Jakob, German theologian
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, English Baptist preacher
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, English clergyman and author
Stillingfleet, Edward, English prelate and author
Strauss, David Friedrich, German theologian and philosopher
Sunday, Billy, American evangelist
Swedenborg, Emanuel, Swedish scientist
Tait, Archibald Campbell, British churchman
Talmage, Thomas De Witt, American Presbyterian clergyman
Taylor, Edward Thompson, American Methodist missionary preacher
Taylor, Jeremy, English bishop and theological and devotional writer
Temple, Frederick, Anglican prelate
Temple, William, archbishop of York (1929-42) and archbishop of Canterbury (1942-44);
Tennent, Gilbert, American Presbyterian clergyman
Tillich, Paul Johannes, American philosopher and theologian
Tindal, Matthew, English deist
Toy, Crawford Howell, American biblical scholar
Tutu, Desmond, South African religious leader
Tyndale, Tindal, or Tindale, William, English biblical translator
Ussher or Usher, James, Irish prelate and scholar
Vermigli, Pietro Martire, Italian Protestant reformer
Vincent, John Heyl, American Methodist bishop
Vinet, Alexandre Rodolphe, Swiss Protestant theologian and historian of literature
Warburton, William, English bishop and author
Ware, Henry, American clergyman
Wayland, Francis, American clergyman and educator
Wesley, Charles, English Methodist preacher and hymn writer
Wesley, John, English evangelical preacher
Wessel, Johann, Dutch theologian
Wheelock, Eleazar, American clergyman
White, Ellen Gould (Harmon), leader of the Seventh-day Adventists
Whitefield, George, English evangelistic preacher
Wilberforce, Samuel, English prelate
Williams, Rowan Douglas, Archbishop of Canterbury
Williams, Sir George, English merchant and founded the Young Men's Christian Association
Wise, John, American clergyman
Woolman, John, American Quaker leader
Worcester, Noah, American Congregational clergyman
Wyclif, Wycliffe, Wickliffe, or Wiclif, John, English reformer
Young, Brigham, American religious leader
Zeisberger, David, American Moravian missionary
Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf von, German churchman
Zwingli, Huldreich or Ulrich, Swiss Protestant reformer