List of Christians:

Many people define "Christianity" in mutually exclusive ways. Virtually every sect and denomination that calls itself "Christian" has had its Christianity denied by other sects and 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
• 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)
• Thomas Aquinas, (1225-1274)
• 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
• 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
• Edward VI of England, (1547-1553), first English Protestant monarch
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• Thomas More, (1478-1535), chancellor of Henry VIII, martyred
• John Murray (Anglo-American Universalist minister), (1741-1815), universalist
• John Murray (theologian), (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'
• 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)
• William Tyndale, (1484-1536)
• Cornelius Van Til, (1895-1987), Calvinist philosopher and theologian, advocate of presuppositional apologetics
• 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)
• Huldreich Zwingli, (1484-1531), Protestant Reformation in Switzerland

See also: List of people by belief, List of people