List of Christian preachers

This is a list of notable Christian preachers.

Early Church

• Stephen (?–34) Stoned
• James (?–44) Apostle
• Barnabas (?–61) Disciple
• Paul (5–67) Beheaded
• Peter (?–67) Crucified
• Mark (?–68) Gospel of Mark
• Philemon (?–68) Recipient of the Epistle to Philemon
• Luke (?–84) Four Evangelists
• Timothy (17–97) Bishop of Ephesus
• John (6–100) Book of Revelation
• Silas (?–100) Silvanus of the Seventy
• Ignatius (35–107) Apostolic Fathers
• Titus (?–107) Bishop of Crete
• Simeon (?–117) Jewish Christian
• Polycarp (69–155) Bishop of Smyrna
• Matthew (?) Apostle
• Ananias (?) Sent to restore the sight of Saul of Tarsus
• Apollos (?) Acts of the Apostles, 1 Corinthians
• Priscilla and Aquila (?) Christian Missionary
• Stephanas (?) Household baptized by the Apostle Paul

Western Church

• Peter Chrysologus (406–450)
• Pope Leo I (400–461)
• Fulgentius of Ruspe (c 462–533)
• Martin of Braga (520–580)
• Saint Boniface (675–754)
• Saint Dominic (1170–1221)
• Anthony of Padua (1195–1231)
• Johannes Tauler, German Dominican (1300–1361)
• Oliver Maillard, French Franciscan (c.1430–1502)
• Savonarola, Italian Dominican (1452–1498)
• John of Capistrano (1386–1456), Italian Franciscan
• Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), Spanish Dominican
• Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444), Italian

Roman Catholic

• Julian Maunoir (1606–1683) French Jesuit "Apostle of Brittany"
• Tomasz Młodzianowski (1622–1686), Polish Jesuit
• Paolo Segneri (1624–1694), Italian Jesuit
• Junípero Serra, (1713–1784)
• Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704)
• Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704), Jesuit
• Tobia Lionelli (1647–1714), Slovene in Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
• Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663–1742)
• Theobald Mathew (1790–1856), Irish Capuchin and temperance reformer
• Aloysius Gentili (1801–48) Italian Rosminian, working in England
• Charles Coughlin (1891–1979)
• Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979)

Proto-Reformation

• John Wycliffe (1320–1384) Lollards
• Jan Hus (1369–1415)

Lutheran

• Martin Luther (1483–1547) The Ninety-Five Theses
• Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560)
• Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861)
• Bernt B. Haugan (1862)
• C.F.W. Walther (1811–1887)
• Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945)
• Walter A. Maier (1893–1950)
• J.A.O. Preus II (1920–1994)
• Gerhard Forde (1927–2005)
• John Warwick Montgomery (1931-2024)
• Rod Rosenbladt (1942–2024)
• Gerald B. Kieschnick (1943–present)
• Mark Hanson (1946–present)
• Matt Harrison (1962–present)

Calvinist

• John Oecolampadius (1482–1531)
• Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531)
• Martin Bucer (1491–1551)
• Peter Martyr Vermigli (1500–1562)
• Wolfgang Musculus (1497–1563)
• Andreas Hyperius (1511–1564)
• John Calvin (1509–1564)
• Guillaume Farel (1489–1565)
• Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575)

Presbyterian

• John Knox (1513–1572) Protestant Reformation
• Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875)
• Lyman Beecher (1799–1863)
• Jonathan Goforth (1859–1936) Canadian Presbyterian Mission
• Peter Marshall (1903–1949) New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
• James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000) Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
• Ian Paisley (1926–2014)
• Frederick Buechner (1926–present)
• D. James Kennedy (1930–2007) Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
• R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) Ligonier Ministries
• Tim Keller (1950–2023)

Anglican

• Hugh Latimer (1470–1555) Oxford Martyrs
• Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) Oxford Martyrs
• Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626)
• John Donne (1572–1631)
• John Tillotson (1630–1694)
• John Newton (1725–1807) Author of Amazing Grace
• Laurence Sterne (1713–1759), mainly in book form
• Samuel Clapham (known as Theophilus St. John) (1755–1830)
• J. C. Ryle (1816–1900)
• Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)
• John Stott (1921–2011)
• Dick Lucas (1925–present)
• John Chapman (evangelist) (1930–2012)
• Peter Jensen (1943–present)
• Phillip Jensen (1945–present)
• N. T. Wright (1948–present)
• Michael Bruce Curry (1953–present)
• Nicky Gumbel (1955–present)

Puritan

• John Harvard (1607–1638)
• Joseph Alleine (1634–1668)
• John Davenport (1597–1670)
• Matthew Henry (1662–1714)
• Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)

Independent Evangelical (Evangelical Free)

• G. Campbell Morgan (1863–1945)
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981)

Baptist

• Balthasar Hubmaier (1480–1528) (Anabaptist)
• Roger Williams (1603–1684)
• John Bunyan (1628–1688)
• William Kiffin (1616–1701)
• Benjamin Keach (1640–1704) (Reformed/Particular Baptist)
• John Gill (1697–1771) (Reformed/Particular Baptist)
• Isaac Backus (1724–1806)
• John Gano (1727–1804)
• Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) (Reformed/Particular Baptist)
• John Leland (1754–1841)
• Robert Hall (1764–1831)
• William Carey (1761–1834) (Reformed/Particular Baptist)
• Christmas Evans (1755–1838)
• William Miller (1782–1849)
• Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) (Reformed/Particular Baptist)
• Nat Turner (1800-1831)
• William Garrett Lewis (1834–1885)
• Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) Metropolitan Tabernacle (Reformed/Particular Baptist)
• John Alexis Edgren (1839–1908)
• Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910)
• Frances E. Townsley (1850–1909)
• Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)
• George W. Truett (1867–1944)
• Harry A. Ironside (1876–1951)
• J. Frank Norris (1877–1952)
• Mordecai Ham (1877–1961)
• Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) (Non-Trinitarian, non confessional)
• Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969)
• George Beauchamp Vick (1901–1975)
• John R. Rice (1895–1980)
• Lester Roloff (1914–1982)
• Joseph Harrison Jackson (1900–1990)
• Curtis Hutson (1934–1995)
• Jack Hyles (1926–2001)
• W.A. Criswell (1909–2002) Southern Baptist Convention
• Stephen F. Olford (1918–2004)
• Adrian Rogers (1931–2005)
• Jerry Falwell (1933–2007)
• Lee Roberson (1909–2007)
• Neiliezhü Üsou (1941–2009)
• Peter Ruckman (1921–2016)
• Billy Graham (1918–2018) (non confessional)
• Charles Stanley (1932–2023)
• Albert N. Martin (1934–present)
• Tony Campolo (1935–2024)
• Kent Hovind (1953–present)

Methodist

• George Whitefield (1714–1770)
• Daniel Rowland (1713–1790)
• John Wesley (1703–1791)
• Francis Asbury (1747–1816)
• Peter Cartwright (1785–1873)
• William Booth (1829–1912) The Salvation Army
• Bob Jones, Sr. (1883–1968) Bob Jones University
• Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976)
• William Willimon (1946–present)

Independent

• Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700–1760), Moravian Church
• Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) Moody Bible Institute
• R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) Church of the Open Door
• Billy Sunday (1862–1935) Evangelist
• A.W. Tozer (1897–1963) Christian and Missionary Alliance
• J. Vernon McGee (1904–1988) Church of the Open Door
• Walter Martin (1928–1989) Christian Research Institute
• Paris Reidhead (1919–1992) Christian and Missionary Alliance
• Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) Evangelist
• David Wilkerson (1931–2011) Times Square Church
• Chuck Smith (1927–2013) Calvary Chapel
• John MacArthur (1939–present) Grace Community Church
• Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020) Christian apologist
• John Piper (1946–present)

Seventh-day Adventist

• Joseph Bates (1792–1872) Great Disappointment
• James White (1821–1881) Adventist Review
• John Nevins Andrews (1829–1883) Andrews University
• Ellen G. White (1827–1915) Conflict of the Ages (book series)
• James Edson White (1849–1928) Review and Herald Publishing Association
• H.M.S. Richards, Sr. (1894–1985) Voice of Prophecy
• George Vandeman (1916–2000) It Is Written
• Mark Finley (1945–present) It Is Written

Church of Christ

• Walter Scott (1796–1861)
• Batsell Baxter (1886–1956)
• Marshall Keeble (1878–1968)
• Batsell Barrett Baxter (1916–1982)
• Ira North (1892–1984)
• Kenneth W. Wright (1945–present)
• Jimmy Allen (1930-2020)

Pentecostal

• Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) Pentecostalism
• William J. Seymour (1870–1922) Azusa Street Revival
• Charles Parham (1873–1929) Speaking in tongues
• F. F. Bosworth (1877–1958)
• Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) Foursquare Church
• William Branham (1909–1965) Faith Healer, prophet
• A. A. Allen (1911–1970)
• James Gordon Lindsay (1906–1973) Faith Healer
• Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976) Faith Healer
• Derek Prince (1915–2003) Faith, spiritual warfare, demonology
• Kenneth E. Hagin (1917–2003) Word of Faith
• Jack Coe (1918–1956)
• Oral Roberts (1918–2009) Oral Roberts University
• Yiye Ávila (1925–2013)
• Marcus Lamb (1957–2021) Pentecostalism, televangelist
• Morris Cerullo (1931–2020) Pentecostalism, evangelist
• Jimmy Swaggart (1935–2025) Assemblies of God
• David Yonggi Cho (1936–present) Yoido Full Gospel Church, Assemblies of God Discipleship, church Growth
• Jim Bakker (1940–present) Tammy Bakker (1942–2007) Assemblies of God televangelists
• Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019) evangelist
• William Kumuyi (1941–present)
• Ezekiel H. Guti (1923–2023) Forward in Faith Ministries International
• Steven Furtick (1980–present)
• Daniel Olukoya (1989 - present) Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide

Charismatic

• Paul Cain (1929–2019) Kansas City Prophets
• John Wimber (1934–1997) Vineyard Movement
• Kenneth Copeland (1936–present) Eagle Mountain International Church
• Benson Idahosa (1938–1998) Word of Faith
• Enoch Adeboye (1942–present) Redeemed Christian Church of God, Servant of Yahweh
• Joyce Meyer (1943–present)
• Benny Hinn (1952–present) Prosperity theology
• David Oyedepo (1954–present) Living Faith Church Worldwide
• T.D. Jakes (1957–present) Prosperity theology
• Nicholas Duncan-Williams (1957–present) Faith, Spiritual Warfare, Prayer
• Mensa Otabil (1959–present) Prosperity theology
• Dag Heward-Mills (1963–present) Evangelist & Crusades, Church Growth, Church Planting, Loyalty & Disloyalty
• Joseph Prince (1963–present) Prosperity theology
• Joel Osteen (1963–present) Prosperity theology
• Chris Oyakhilome (1963–present) Christ Embassy
• General Butt Naked (1971–present) the End Time Train Evangelistic Ministries Inc.

Preachers with secular professions

• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• William Gannaway Brownlow (1805–1877)
• James Garfield (1831–1881)
• William Lee Taylor (1854–1915)
• William A. Creditt (1864–1921)
• Eric Liddell (1902–1945)
• Hugh Beaumont (1903–1984)
• Carl Stuart Hamblen (1908–1989)
• Jerry Clower (1926–1998)
• Fred Rogers (1928–2003)
• Bill Moyers (1934–2025)
• Joe Simon (1936–2021)
• John Danforth (1936–present)
• Eugene Record (1940–2005)
• Grady Nutt (1937–1982)
• Solomon Burke (1940–2010)
• Ted DiBiase (1954–present)
• Clifton Davis (1945–present)
• Denzel Washington (1954–present)
• Al Green (1946–present)
• Eddie Holman (1946–present)
• Jesse Jackson (1941–present)
• Bernice King (1963–present)
• George Foreman (1949–2025)
• Mike Huckabee (1955–present)
• Al Sharpton (1954–present)
• Ernie Fletcher (1952–present)
• Reggie White (1961–2004)
• John Battle (1962–present)
• Richard Rossi (1963–present)
• Pebbles (1964–present)
• John Blue (1966–present)
• Raphael Warnock (1969–present)
• Kirk Cameron (1970–present)
• Montell Jordan (1968–present)
• Napoleon Kaufman (1973–present)
• Kel Mitchell (1978–present)
• Freddie Stone (1947–present)
• Darryl Strawberry (1962–present)
• Derwin Gray (1971–present)
• Vanity (1959–2016)
• Kurtis Blow (1959–present)
• Joseph Simmons (1964–present)
• Jay Underwood (1968–present)
• Warryn Campbell (1975–present) *
• Demond Wilson (1946–2026) *
• Rosey Grier (1932–present) *

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