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'''List of Christians''':

People sometimes define "[[Christianity]]" in mutually exclusive ways. Some [[religious denomination]]s 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 Abunas]]
*[[List of popes]]
*[[List of saints]]
*[[List of Baptists]]
*[[List of Bishops and Archbishops]]
*[[List of Biblical figures]]
*[[List of Christian pastors in politics]]
*[[List of preachers]]
*[[List of Anglican church composers]]
*[[List of Christians in entertainment and media]]
*[[List of entertainers in Christian media]]
*[[List of Christian theologians]]
*[[List of Christian thinkers in science]]
*[[List of Anglicans and Episcopalians]]
*[[List of Assemblies of God people]]
*[[List of Christian Scientists (religious denomination)]]
*[[List of converts to Christianity]]
*[[List of Eastern Orthodox Christians]]
*[[List of evangelical Christians]]
*[[List of Jehovah's Witnesses]]
*[[List of Latter-day Saints]]
*[[List of Lutherans]]
*[[List of Mennonites]]
*[[List of Methodist Bishops]]
*[[List of Methodist theologians]]
*[[List of famous Australian Presbyterians]]
*[[List of notable American Presbyterians]]
*[[List of Protestant authors]] (Catholic authors is dealt with at the Catholic list)
*[[List of Puritans]]
*[[List of Quakers]]
*[[List of famous people with Restoration Movement ties]]
*[[Lists of Roman Catholics]]
*[[List of Seventh-day Adventists]]
*[[List of televangelists in Brazil]]
*[[List of United States televangelists]]
* For a list of Archbishops of Canterbury, see [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]
*[[List of 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 are not listed in one of the above lists==
This is for people whose Christianity is important to their notability or significance, but who may not fit above lists. This largely means people whose denominations do not have lists of their own for varied reasons, but others might not fit any existing denomination yet be known to history for their Christian philosophy or activities. In all cases if you can reasonably move any of these names to one of the more specific Christian lists please do so.

Note: This list is not, and probably cannot be, exhaustive. In addition do not add names of people whose Christianity is a matter of dispute among historians. Their Christianity should be confirmed and significant to their notability or life history. 

*[[Giacomo Aconcio]], (1492 – 1566?) early advocate of religious tolerance.
*[[Daniel Dulany Addison]], (1863-?) Episcopalian priest and writer knighted by the nation of [[Liberia]].
*[[Howard Ahmanson, Jr.]], (1950-), Intelligent Design advocate and millionaire.
*[[Alopen]], earliest recorded missionary to China ([[Nestorianism]])
*[[Nicolaus Von Amsdorf]], (1483-1565) German Protestant reformer.
*[[Bernhard Anderson]], Methodist cleric
*[[John Ashcroft]], (1942-) 79th Attorney General of the United States.
*[[Avvakum]], (died April 14, 1682) [[Old Believers]] figure, [[execution by burning]] for religious reasons.
*[[Anne Ayres]], (1816-1886) Anglican nun who founded a religious order.
*[[Babai the Great]], (551-628) leading figure in the [[Assyrian Church of the East]]
*[[John Badby]], a Lollard burned for heresy.
*[[Jan Peter Balkenende]], (1956-) Dutch Prime Minister who was once a special professor of Christian-Social Thought.
*[[John Ball (priest)|John Ball]], Lollard linked to [[Peasants' Revolt]]
*[[Hosea Ballou]], (1771-1852), Universalist clergyman.
*[[Mike Barber]], Former NFL [[Tight end]] who has a show on [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]].
*[[Praise-God Barebone]], (c. 1596-1679), Fifth Monarchist and minister.
*[[Henry Ward Beecher]], (1813-1887) significant abolitionist and clergyman.
*[[Wendy Beckett]], (1930-) Art historian and nun.
*[[Aragaw Bedaso]], (born 1934), folk singer and former deacon in Ethiopian Christianity.
*[[Sorghaghtani Beki]], mother of [[Möngke Khan]], [[Kublai Khan]], and [[Hulagu Khan]]. Declared "empress" 58 years after death in a ceremony that included a Nestorian mass.
*[[Charles Albert Berry]], [[Free Church of Scotland (post 1900)|Free Church of Scotland]] minister. 
*[[James Blair (clergyman)|James Blair]], minister who founded the [[College of William and Mary]].
*[[William Booth]], Methodist minister and founder of the [[Salvation Army]]
*[[John Bramlett]], former American football player and minister.
*[[Michael Bray]], Minister of the [[Army of God]]
*[[Phineas F. Bresee]], A founder of the [[Church of the Nazarene]]
*[[Bill Bright]], (1921-2003) founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
*[[John Brown (abolitionist)]], ([[1800]]-[[1859]])
*[[Gilbert Burnet]], theologian and scholar
*[[George Campbell (Presbyterian minister)]] 
*[[Thomas Carlyle (Scottish lawyer)]]-Irvingite "apostle."
*[[Carman (singer)|Carman]], (1957-) Italian-American contemporary Christian music singer.
*[[Sydney Carter]], (1915-2004), poet, folk musician, and songwriter (example: ''Lord of the Dance'') 
*[[George Washington Carver]], (1864-1943) botanist and biologist who claimed that God gave him the ideas for his plant products.
*[[Donald Caskie]], [[Church of Scotland]] minister linked to French resistance
*[[Vladimir Chertkov]], Tolstoyan thinker.
*[[David Yonggi Cho]], Korean pastor of the [[Yoido Full Gospel Church]]
*[[Sarel Cilliers]], [[Voortrekkers]] personage and preacher.
*[[Mary Elizabeth Clark]], [[Transsexuality|Transsexual]] nun and AIDS activist of the [[American Catholic Church]] (birth name Michael Clark)
*[[Randy Clark]], apologetic and founder of [[Global Awakening Apostolic Missions Network]].
*[[Jean Claude]], French Protestant theologian.
*[[Margareta Clausdotter]], Bridgettine nun.
*[[Jacques Clément]], Dominican friar and assassin.
*[[Jack Clemo]], [[Deafblindness|Deaf-blind]] religious poet.
*[[Hendrik de Cock]], minister.
*[[Mark Cook]], Musician turned pastor at the [[Calvary Chapel]].
*[[Ray Comfort]], (1949-) minister and evangelist.
*[[Boston Corbett]], self-castrated minister who killed [[John Wilkes Booth]].   
*[[Robert Crowley (printer)]], Protestant artist and theologian. 
*[[Terry Cummings]], Pentecostal minister formerly in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]].	
*[[Jonathan Myrick Daniels]], (1939-1965), Episcopal seminarian, martyred for civil rights work	 
*[[William H. S. Demarest]], University President and minister in [[Dutch Reformed Church]]. 	 
*[[T. A. Denny]], Irish businessman and [[Salvation Army]] member who paid rent for them. 
*[[Gregory Dix]], member of an Anglican Benedictine foundation.	 
*[[Catherine Doherty]], (1896-1985), social activist, foundress of the [[Madonna House Apostolate]] 	
*[[Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger]], a founder of [[Old Catholic Church]] 	
*[[Clemente Domínguez y Gómez]], The Palmarians deem him to have been Pope Gregory XVII. 	 
*[[Lorenzo Dow]], (1777–1834), Primitive Methodism figure and minister. 	 
*[[John Alexander Dowie]], clergyman known for the [[Flat Earth Society]]. 	 
*[[Henry Drummond (1786-1860)]], A founder of the Irvingites. 	 
*[[Henry Hare Dugmore]], (1810-1896), Wesleyan missionary and translator in South Africa. 	 
*[[David du Plessis]], Pentecostal who attended the Second Vatican Council.
*[[James Dutton]], [[NASA]] [[Astronaut]], Officer's Christian fellowship
*[[Freeman Dyson]], physicist and [[Templeton Prize]] winner(unspecified) 
*[[Edward VI of England]], (1547-1553), first English Protestant monarch 
*[[Mary Baker Eddy]], (1821-1910), founder of [[Christian Science]] 	
*[[Thomas Charles Edwards]], Welsh Presbyterian minister and academic. 	
*[[Elizabeth I of England]], (1558-1603), [[Anglican]] queen and first ''Supreme Governor'' of the Church of England
*[[Jacques Ellul]], [[Christian anarchism]] thinker
*[[James Endicott (church leader)|James Endicott]], former [[Moderator of the United Church of Canada]].
*[[Ebenezer Erskine]], Scottish church leader
*[[George Bramwell Evens]], Methodist minister, nature writer, and [[Roma people|Roma person]].
*[[John Hicks Eynon]], (1801 -1888), Canadian [[Bible Christian Church]] missionary to Canada.
*[[Ezana of Axum]], Ethiopian leader who converted to Christianity.
*[[Calvin Fairbank]], (1816-1898), abolitionist Methodist minister
*[[D'Brickashaw Ferguson]], American football player and youth minister with a religious studies degree.
*[[Nicholas Ferrar]], (1592-1637), Anglican monk
*[[John Neville Figgis]], historian, political philosopher, and Anglican monk.	 
*[[Gerald Flurry]], minister in the [[Philadelphia Church of God]].
*[[John Weir Foote]], (1904—1988), Canadian Presbyterian minister who received the Victoria Cross.
*[[George Foreman]], (1949-) former profesional boxer and an ordained minister.
*[[Dom Franco]], Calvary Chapel musician.
*[[Irving Fryar]], Retired NFLer and Pentecostal minister.
*[[Theodore Frelinghuysen]], President of the American Bible Society ([[1846]]-[[1862]]) and [[Henry Clay]]'s running mate.
*[[Marvin Pentz Gay, Sr.]]-Minister in the [[Church of God, House of Prayer]] and murderer of his son [[Marvin Gaye]].	
*[[George of Podebrady]], first king to join the [[Hussite]]s 	 
*[[Gerardo of Borgo San Donnino]], Friar who became important in the [[Joachimites]].
*[[Michael Gerson]], (1965-) advisor to President George W. Bush named in "The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals In America." 
*[[Gertrude of Hackeborn]], (1223-1292) Cistercian nun.
*[[Gigi (singer)|Gigi]], [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]] singer.
*[[Duane Gish]], creationist who taught at the [[San Diego Christian College]].
*[[Joseph Glanvill]], (1636-1680), philosopher and clergyman.
*[[John Glas]], Scottish clergyman 
*[[Dean Goffin]], (1916-1984) New Zealand composer and member of the Salvation Army, he did music for them.
*[[James Grahame]], Scottish poet and Anglican priest.
*[[Rosey Grier]], Ordained former "all pro" [[Defensive tackle]]. (retired)
*[[Harold P. Hamilton]], a soldier, college president, professor of Christian Thought, and charity administrator.
*[[W. C. Handy]], blues musician from a long line of ministers.
*[[Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh]], Reverend and College President.
*[[Lemuel Haynes]], (1753-1833), African-American Calvinist clergyman who opposed slavery.
*[[Kong Hee]], minister in [[City Harvest]].
*[[Henry VIII of England]], (1491-1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] Church
*[[Roman Herzog]], (born April 5, 1934) active in Protestantism and politics. 
*[[Hong Xiuquan]], (1812-1864), [[Baptist]] influenced. asserted himself to be the brother of Christ, led [[Taiping Rebellion]](considered a heretic similar to [[Arianism]], saw himself and Jesus as more like demi-gods.)
*[[Dave Hope]] former bassist for [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] who is a priest in the [[Anglican Mission in America]].
*[[Elizabeth Hope]], possibly the "Lady Hope" in the story/legend concerning [[Charles Darwin]].
*[[Jan Hus]], (1369-1415) Czech religious thinker, philosopher, and reformer.
*[[Jacob Hutter]], founder of [[Hutterite]]s.
*[[Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain]], Spanish royal who became a nun.
*[[Edward Irving]], founded the "Irvingites"
*[[Leonard Monk Isitt (minister)|Leonard Monk Isitt]], (1855-1937), New Zealand Methodist minister.
*[[John Paul Jackson]], "Streams Ministries International" 
*[[James I of England]], (1603-1625), of the [[King James Bible]]
*[[George Jeffreys (minister)]], (1889–1972), Welsh founder of [[Elim Pentecostal Church]].
*[[John of Nikiû]], Coptic bishop
*[[John of Rokycan]], [[Hussite]] theologian.
*[[Hall Johnson]], minister's son associated with [[Spiritual (music)|spirituals]]
*[[Absalom Jones]], (1746 - 1818), African American abolitionist and clergyman.
*[[David Joris]], (ca. [[1501]] - [[1556]]), Anabaptist thinker.
*[[Justinian I|Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire]], (AD 527-565), called [[Second Council of Constantinople]]
*[[Toyohiko Kagawa]], Japanese Christian pacifist.
*[[Uchimura Kanzō]], founder of [[Mukyōkai]]
*[[Napoleon Kaufman]], [[Oakland Raiders]] player who left to become a minister.
*[[Hanns Kerrl]], Nazi politician who tried for a "synthesis between Nazism and Christianity."
*[[Søren Kierkegaard]], (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and father of [[Christian existentialism]] .
*[[Simon Kimbangu]], founder of [[Kimbanguism]]
*[[Kerry Kittles]], in the NBA and also a eucharistic minister.
*[[Bernhard Knipperdolling]], ([[1495]]-[[1536]]), An [[Anabaptist]] leader.
*[[George Williams Knox]], Presbyerian theologian
*[[James Charles Kopp]], American terrorist with "The Lambs of Christ."
*[[Feliksa Kozłowska]], founder of the [[Mariavite Church]]. 	 
*[[Charles H. Kraft]], anthropologist, linguist, and Protestant exorcist.
*[[Ed Macauley]], [[Basketball Hall of Fame]]r who is now a Catholic deacon. 
*[[Manche Masemola]], (1913-1928) recognized in Anglicanism as a martyr. 
*[[MC Hammer]], (1962-) former American rapper and preacher.
*[[Joe Meineke]], demonologist, paranormal researcher, and spiritual councelor
*[[Marilyn Musgrave]], one of four Pentecostals currently in the US Congress and noted for social conservativism.
*[[Sabelo Stanley Ntwasa]], Anglican priest and anti-apartheid activist.
*[[David Nyvall]], shaped the history of the [[Evangelical Covenant Church]].
*[[John Oldcastle]], Leader in [[Lollardy]]
*[[Giovanni Battista Orsenigo]]-Catholic monk, noted dentist.
*[[Samuel Bilehou Oschoffa]]-[[Celestial Church of Christ]] founder.[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=active&q=cache:C2t4QGQWzosJ:www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/pdf/1998/adogame1998.pdf+%22] 
*[[Horatio Parker]], (1863–1919), Composer and Episcopalian.<!--Possibly belongs in Anglican church composer list-->
*[[William Dudley Pelley]], Minister's son and American fascist who founded a school that taught "Christian Economics."
*[[Percy Pennybacker]], (1895-1963), Texan engineer who helped found St. George's Episcopal Church in Austin.
*[[Dom Perignon (person)]], [[Benedictine]] [[Vintner]].
*[[Troy Perry]], Founder of the [[Metropolitan Community Church]].
*[[Peter J. Peters]], Christian pastor in the Anti-Semitic [[LaPorte Church of Christ]].
*[[William Daniel Phillips]], Nobel Prize winning physicist and a founding member of the "International Society for Science & Religion."
*[[George C. Pidgeon]], (1872-1971), Canadian minister
*[[Sam Pollard]], Bible Christian missionary to China who invented a script for the [[Hmong language|Hmong]] language.
*[[Harrison Poteat]], founder of [[Church of God, House of Prayer]]. 	 
*[[Vavasor Powell]], Fifth Monarchists and itinerant preacher. 	  
*[[Prokop the Great]], leading [[Hussite]] general. 	 
*[[Pasquier Quesnel]], (1634 - 1719), Theologian of [[Jansenism]]. 	 	
*[[Robert Rainy]], (1826 - 1906), Moderator of [[United Free Church of Scotland]] 
*[[Kelvin Ransey]], NBA athlete who left to become a minister.	 
*[[Joseph Hubert Reinkens]], bishop in Old Catholicism. 	 	
*[[Branch Rickey]], (1881-1965) Major League Baseball executive and former player, also funded [[FCA]]. 	 
*[[Paul Robins]], (1804 - 1890), Bible Christian Church reverend 	 	
*[[Johannes Ronge]], (1813-1887), [[Roman Catholic]] dissenter, founder of the [[German Catholic]] sect	 
*[[Maria Francesca Rossetti]], English author who became an Anglican nun.
*[[Newton Rowell]], (1867-1941), Canadian politician and a leading lay figure in the Methodist church. 	 
*[[Daniel Rowland]], Welsh revivalist 	 
*[[John Rudder]], Australian linguist, [[Christian art]]ist exhibited at the [[Phoenix Prize for spiritual art]], and [[Uniting Church in Australia]] person. 	 
*[[Jacob Bar-Salibi]], [[Syriac Orthodox Church]] author who wrote commentaries on the Gospels.  
*[[William Sawtrey]], said to be first Lollard martyr.
*[[Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig]], ([[1490]]-[[1561]]), Christian reformer, the [[Schwenkfelder Church]] is named for him. 
*[[Cyrus I. Scofield]], (1843-1921), editor of the ''[[Scofield Reference Bible]]'' 	 
*[[Ling-Sheng Zhang]], early leader in the [[True Jesus Church]]. 	 
*[[Peter Short]], [[Moderator of the United Church of Canada]]. 	 
*[[William J. Simmons]], (b. 1880) founder of the second ''[[Ku Klux Klan]]'' and a suspended Methodist Episcopal Church, South minister. 	 
*[[Matt Slick]], founder/leader [[Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry]]
*[[Christopher Smart]], Anglican poet of several religious verses. He was committed to a mental asylum for "religious mania."
*[[Joanna Southcott]], self-described prophetess.
*[[August Gottlieb Spangenberg]], (1704 - 1792), bishop in Moravianism.
*[[Herbert Spaugh]], (1896-1978), US Moravian bishop. 	 
*[[William Spence]], (1846 - 1926), trade unionist, politician, and lay preacher in Primitive Methodism. 	 
*[[William Archibald Spooner]], Anglican priest known for [[Spoonerism|those... things]] 	 
*[[D. C. Stephenson]], KKK and self-proclaimed "defender of Protestant womanhood." 
*[[Ray Steadman-Allen]], composer for the Salvation Army.	 
*[[Sufjan Stevens]], American musician and songwriter. [[Seven Swans]] contains religious imagery. 
*[[Ezra Stiles]], An important President of [[Yale University]] and a clergyman. 
*[[Kamal Stino]], Coptic who was Agriculture Minister under [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] and had a personal relationship with two Coptic Popes. 	 
*[[Henry Ossawa Tanner]], African American painter and bishop's son who did some Christian religious art.
*[[James Hudson Taylor]] ([[1832]] - [[1905]]) - British [[missionary]] to [[China]] and founder of the [[China Inland Mission]].	 
*[[Jeremy Taylor]], (1613-1667), [[Anglican]] preacher
*[[Johann Tetzel]], Dominican Order member.
*[[Theodoret]], theologian declared a heretic at the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] 	 
*[[Mother Teresa]] 
*[[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]], gospel singer and an influence on [[rock and roll]].
*[[Walter Thornton]], (1875-1960) Major League Baseball player and evangelist. 	 
*[[David Tilson]], Canadian politician and on the board of a UCC church.
*[[K. H. Ting]], Chinese Christian leader 	 
*[[Leo Tolstoy]], writer and religious thinker of [[The Kingdom of God is Within You]](excommunicated, deemed unorthodox)
*[[Joseph Tracy]], Minister known for the [[American Colonization Society]] and "New England Renaissance." 	  	 
*[[Richard Chenevix Trench]], Anglican archbishop and poet. 	  	 
*[[Nat Turner]], Slave rebellion leader who claimed to have visions from God. 	 
*[[William Tyndale]], (1484-1536), Bible translator killed for heresy. 	 
*[[Louise de la Vallière]], [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV "The Sun King"]]'s mistress who became a Carmelite nun. 	 	  	 
*[[Guido Verbeck]], (1830-1898), Missionary to Japan 	 
*[[Denmark Vesey]], Planner of a slave rebellion who co-founded a black Methodist church. 	 
*[[Clayton Waagner]], "Army of God." 	 
*[[James Elvin Wagner]], a [[United Church of Christ]] co-president 	 
*[[Warren Prall Watters]], [[Independent Catholic Churches|Independent Catholic archbishop]]. 	 
*[[Peter Waldo]], (12th c) of the [[Waldensians]] 	 	 
*[[Alma Bridwell White]], Woman bishop who founded the "Pillar of Fire Church" and was a member of the [[Ku Klux Klan|KKK]].
*[[Mel White]], gay clergyman and author.
*[[Robert Wilkins]], Blues guitarist and elder in [[Church of God in Christ]].
*[[Ronald Wilson]], Australian judge and President of the Assembly in the Uniting Church in Australia 	 
*[[John Winebrenner]], (1797 - 1860), founder of a Church. 
*[[Colin Winter]], (1928 - 1981), Anglican bishop and anti-apartheid activist
*[[A. Harold Wood]], (1894?-1989), missionary in [[Tonga]]. 	 	 
*[[John Wyclif]], (born 1324) 	 
*[[David Zeisberger]], Moravian missionary to American Indians. 	 
*[[Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf]], Leading [[Moravians (religion)]] figure.
*[[Nanne Zwiep]], pastor killed for resisting the Nazis.

== See also ==
* [[List of people]]
* [[List of people by belief]]

[[Category:Lists of Christians| ]]