List of evangelical Christians

Historical

William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), first published use of the term evangelical in English (1531)

John Bunyan (1628–1688), persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great Awakening

John Wesley (1703–1791), English clergyman; founder of Methodism

Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English clergyman; brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism

George Whitefield (1714–1770), English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley

Isaac Backus (1724–1806), advocate of the separation of church and state

Henry Venn (1725–1797), founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain

Henry Venn (1796–1873), grandson of Henry Venn, pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory

John Newton (1725–1807), Scottish clergyman, author of Amazing Grace

William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet/author of numerous hymns, including "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"

Francis Asbury (1745–1816), founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church

William Wilberforce (1759–1833), worked to abolish slavery in the British Empire

Henry Thornton (1760–1815), banker, philanthropist, reformer and Member of Parliament

Richard Allen (1760–1831), founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination (1816)

William Carey, (1761–1834) British missionary to India. Known as the "father of modern missions"

Nathan Bangs (1778–1862), editor of the Christian Advocate, president of Wesleyan University

Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843), Scottish preacher and minister of St Peter's, Dundee

Joseph M. Scriven (1819–1886), Irish poet, moved to Canada and wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus

Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), blind American writer of many famous hymns including "Blessed Assurance"

William Henry Green (1825–1900), chairman of the Old Testament committee for the American Standard Version (1901)

Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1899) and Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), leaders in the Holiness movement

William Booth (1829–1912) and Catherine Booth (1829 –1890), founders of The Salvation Army.

James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission

Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), English Baptist preacher and advocate of Calvinism

Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899), American evangelist, pastor and educator

Maria Woodworth-Etter Maria Buelah Woodworth-Etter (July 22, 1844–September 16, 1924) was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style served as a model for Pentecostalism.

A. A. Allen Asa Alonso Allen (March 27, 1911 – June 11, 1970), better known as A. A. Allen, was a minister with a Pentecostal evangelistic healing and deliverance ministry, associated with the "Voice of Healing" movement.

Twentieth century

(This list is organized chronologically by births)

Phineas F. Bresee, (1838–1915), founder of the Church of the Nazarene

Albert Benjamin Simpson, (1843–1919), preacher, writer, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance

R. A. Torrey (1856–1928), American evangelist, pastor and educator and one of the founders of modern Evangelical Fundamentalism

William Mitchell Ramsay, (1851–1939), archaeologist known for his expertise in Asia Minor

Oswald Thompson Allis (1856–1930), co-founder of Westminster Theological Seminary

Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), linguist committed to defending the reliability of the Hebrew Bible

John George Govan (1861–1927), founder of the Faith Mission

Billy Sunday (1862–1935), American evangelist and proponent of Prohibition

William Irvine (1863–1947), founder of the Cooneyites and Two by Twos sects

Edward Cooney (1867–1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyites and Go-Preachers sects

Harry Ironside (1876–1951), evangelist and pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago (1930–48). An ultra-conservative force in the Evangelical movement.

Karl Barth (1886–1968), leader of dialectical theology and author of Church Dogmatics

Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), Pentecostal preacher and founder of Foursquare Church

William F. Albright (1891–1971), ceramics expert, founder of the biblical archaeology movement

Clarence Bouma (1891–1962), first president of the Evangelical Theological Society

Donald Barnhouse (1895–1960), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, founder of Eternity magazine

D.P. Thomson (1896–1974), Scottish evangelist, exponent of visitation and lay evangelism, Warden of the St Ninian's Training Centre, Crieff

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963), preacher, author of The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy

Martyn Lloyd Jones (1899–1981), reformed preacher at Westminster Chapel

Frank E. Gaebelein (1899–1983), founder of The Stony Brook School, general editor of the Expositor's Bible Commentary

Frank Jenner (1903–1977), English Australian evangelist

Harold Ockenga (1905–1985), first president of the National Association of Evangelicals

William M. Branham (1909–1965), preacher and prophet, pacesetter and initiator of the Tent Revival Era of the 1940s and 1950s

Merrill Unger (1909–1980), Old Testament professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, defender of biblical inerrancy

F. F. Bruce (1910–1990), apologist, one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible

Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984), theologian, philosopher, founder of L'Abri, author of A Christian Manifesto

Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003), founding editor of Christianity Today

Robert Pierce (1914–1978), founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse

Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), biblical scholar and translator who served on the board of the American Bible Society

Gleason Archer (1916–2004), theologian, educator, and author

T. L. Osborn, Tommy Lee "T.L." Osborn (December 23, 1923 – February 14, 2013) was an American Pentecostal evangelist, singer, author, teacher and designer, whose established ministry was based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first missionary evangelist to attend open fields or parks, in non-Christian nations, to proclaim Christ and to pray for miracles as proof that "He is Alive."

Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009), founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission

D. James Kennedy (1930–2007), founder of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Knox Theological Seminary

Frederick K. C. Price, Apostle Frederick K.C. Price (born January 3, 1932) The founder and head pastor of Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC), located in Inglewood, CA. Gained international renown via the Ever Increasing Faith ministry broadcasts that airs weekly on television and radio.

Jerry Falwell (1933–2007), founder of Liberty University and the Moral Majority

James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, author of The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel

Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995), minister, educator, apologist, and a major figure in Christian Reconstructionism

Carl Fredrik Wisløff (1908–2004), theologian, professor in church history, preacher in Norwegian Lutheran Mission

Bible scholars, philosophers, and theologians

Gregory Beale, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society

Craig Blomberg, New Testament scholar at Denver Seminary, author of How Wide the Divide? An Evangelical and a Mormon in Conversation

Greg Boyd, theologian, author and senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

William Lane Craig, professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, author of The Kalam Cosmological Argument

Millard Erickson, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society

Gordon D. Fee, theologian, succeeded F.F. Bruce as editor of the New International Commentary on the New Testament, author of How to Read the Bible for All its Worth (co-authored with Douglas Stuart).

Sinclair Ferguson, former editor of Banner of Truth Trust

John Frame, theologian noted for his work in epistemology and presuppositional apologetics, author of The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God

Norman Geisler, co-founder of Southern Evangelical Seminary, co-author of General Introduction to the Bible

Graeme Goldsworthy, Australian Anglican theologian

Wayne Grudem, co-founder of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, author of Systematic Theology

Gary Habermas, author, lecturer, and debater on the topic of the Resurrection of Jesus

Kenneth Kitchen, Egyptologist, author of On the Reliability of the Old Testament

Andreas Köstenberger, editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

Gordon Lindsay, James Gordon Lindsay (June 18, 1906 – April 1, 1973) was a revivalist preacher, author, and founder of Christ for the Nations Institute

Richard Longenecker, professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College

John Warwick Montgomery, writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics

J. P. Moreland, professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology

Thomas C. Oden, father of Paleo-Orthodoxy; theologian associated with Drew University in New Jersey

Joel Osteen, Joel Scott Osteen (born March 5, 1963) An American preacher, televangelist, lecturer and New York Times Bestselling author. The Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church, the largest Protestant church in the U.S., in Houston, Texas.

J. I. Packer, theological editor for the English Standard Version, author of Knowing God

Andrew Purves, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame, philosopher, Warrant and Christian Belief

Moisés Silva, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society

R. C. Sproul, Reformed theologian, founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries

John Stott, former Rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place

Miroslav Volf, professor at Yale Divinity School

Stephen H. Webb, professor at Wabash College

Nicholas Wolterstorff, professor emeritus of philosophical theology, and Fellow of Berkeley College (Yale); author, Lament for a Son

Edwin M. Yamauchi, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society

Ravi Zacharias, apologist, author

Pastors, preachers and evangelists

Leith Anderson, pastor of Wooddale Church, president of the National Association of Evangelicals

Alistair Begg, pastor of Parkside Church, radio preacher of Truth for Life

Francis Chan, former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church

Douglas Coe, leader of the Fellowship Foundation

Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Max Copeland (born December 6, 1936) is one of the leaders of the Charismatic Movement and is an American author, musician, public speaker, and televangelist.

Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, founder of 9Marks Ministries

D. G. S. Dhinakaran, evangelical preacher, founder of Jesus Calls Ministries and the Karunya University.

Billy Graham, evangelist and spiritual counselor to every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower

John Hagee, founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas.

Ted Haggard, founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches

Jack W. Hayford, president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

Johnny Hunt, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of the First Baptist Church Woodstock, Georgia

Bill Hybels, pastor of Willow Creek Community Church

Phillip Jensen, Sydney Anglican

Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia

Timothy J. Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (NY City), author of The Reason for God

D. James Kennedy, founder of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

Kathryn Kuhlman, Kathryn Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 – February 20, 1976) was an American born-again Christian and healing evangelist

John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church (California), editor of the MacArthur Study Bible, founder and president of The Master's Seminary

James MacDonald, James S. MacDonald (born 1960) is an American pastor, non-denominational Bible teacher, and author. Best known as the founding and senior pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel meeting in seven locations in greater Chicago, Illinois, the radio and television Bible-teacher of Walk in the Word, and the author of Lord, Change My Attitude (Before It's Too Late), Act Like Men, and Vertical Church.

C. J. Mahaney, leader of Sovereign Grace Ministries

J. Vernon McGee, John Vernon McGee, Th.D., LL.D, (June 17, 1904 – December 1, 1988) An ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUS). Later became pastor of a non-denominational church, a Bible teacher, theologian, and was also a radio minister.

John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, author of Desiring God

David Platt, pastor and president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board

Philip Ryken, former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, current president of Wheaton College

R. W. Schambach, Robert W. Schambach (April 3, 1926 – January 17, 2012) was an American televangelist, pastor, faith healer and author.

Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel fellowship of churches

Charles Stanley, founder and president of In Touch Ministries

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist and formerly affiliated with the Assemblies of God

Chuck Swindoll pastor, founder and president of Insight for Living

Gardner C. Taylor, known as "the dean of American preaching"

Paul Washer, founder of HeartCry Missionary Society

Jack Van Impe, pastor and host of Jack Van Impe Presents.

Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, author of The Purpose Driven Life, The Purpose Driven Church

John Wimber, pastor and founder of the Association of Vineyard Churches

Authors and speakers

Jerry Bridges, speaker with The Navigators (organization), author of The Pursuit of Holiness

Tony Campolo, pastor, sociologist, author, public speaker and leader of the Red-Letter Christian movement

Shane Claiborne, writer, political activist and leader of the Red-Letter Christian movement

Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship, author of Born Again

James Dobson, psychologist, founder of Focus on the Family, author of Dare to Discipline

Tony Evans, widely syndicated radio broadcaster

Louie Giglio, speaker and founder of Passion Conferences

Hugh Hewitt, conservative radio talk show host, author

Kent Hovind, dangers of evolution, scientific evidence for the Bible

Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent who persecuted Christians in Russia, but converted and defected to Canada

Tim Lahaye, dispensationalist novelist, author of Left Behind series

Jeri Massi, author of the Christy Award-nominated Valkyries: Some Through the Fire

Joyce Meyer, charismatic speaker, author of Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Chuck Missler, apologist, author, founder of Koinonia House Ministries

Luis Palau, Argentinian evangelist

Joni Eareckson Tada, author, radio host, and founder of Joni and Friends.

Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine, political activist and leader of the Red-Letter Christian movement

David F. Wells, author of No Place for Truth or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology, motivator for The Cambridge Declaration

Philip Yancey, Christianity Today editor, columnist, author of The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace

Ed Young, Edwin Barry "Ed" Young (born 16 March 1961) is a Writer, Speaker, Artist, and the founding and senior Pastor of Fellowship Church. His international ministry includes the televised broadcast, Ed Young Television, C3 Global and Fellowship Live.

Educators and professors

Darrell Bock, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society

Don Carson, professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

W. A. Criswell, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention

Ligon Duncan, president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Robert Godfrey, president of Westminster Seminary California

Kenneth E. Hagin, Kenneth Erwin Hagin (August 2, 1917 – September 19, 2003) was an influential American Charismatic preacher. Hagin founded RHEMA Bible Training College (RBTC) in 1974.

John D. Hannah, author and professor at Dallas Theological Seminary

Irving Hexham, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky

Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary

Mark Noll, history professor at the University of Notre Dame

Haddon Robinson, president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Klyne Snodgrass, professor at North Park Theological Seminary, author of Between Two Truths

Chuck Swindoll, former president of Dallas Theological Seminary

Influencers and innovators

Howard Ahmanson, Jr., philanthropist and financier many evangelical organizations

George Barna, directing leader of The Barna Group, a Christian research and training organization

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ

Stuart Epperson, co-founder and chairman of Salem Communications

Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and leader of Samaritan's Purse

Benny Hinn, Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn (born 3 December 1952) is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades"—revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your Day.

Chip Ingram, Ralph Browne "Chip" Ingram II (born June 21, 1954) is a Christian pastor, author, and orator. The founder and teaching pastor of Living on the Edge, an international discipleship ministry, the senior pastor of Venture Christian Church in Los Gatos, CA. Ingram is also the co-founder of PrimeMovers, a six-month, facilitated discovery process that activates Christian high-capacity leaders into their God-prepared purpose in life.

T. D. Jakes, Thomas Dexter "T. D." Jakes, Sr. (born June 9, 1957) is an American pastor, author and filmmaker. He is the bishop of The Potter's House, a Nondenominational American megachurch.

Frank Laubach missionary, writer, developer of the "Each One Teach One" literacy program

Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

John Osteen, John Hillery Osteen (August 21, 1921 – January 23, 1999) was the founder and first pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, from its beginnings in 1959 until his death in 1999.

Tony Perkins, political activist and president of the Family Research Council

Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America

Jay Alan Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)