List of evangelical Christians

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This is a list of people who are notable due to their influence on the popularity or development of evangelical Christianity or for their professed Evangelicalism.

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

20th Century

• 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
• 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 Cooneyite and Go-Preacher sects
• Edward Cooney (1867 – 1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyite and Go-Preacher sects
• Aimee Semple McPherson (1890 – 1944), Pentecostal preacher and founder of Foursquare Church
• Karl Barth (1886 – 1968), leader of dialectical theology and author of Church Dogmatics
• William F. Albright (1891 – 1971), ceramics expert, founder of the Biblical archaeology movement
• Donald Barnhouse (1895 – 1960), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, founder of Eternity magazine
• 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
• Harold Ockenga (1905 – 1985), first president of the National Association of Evangelicals
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Contemporary

Scholars 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
• 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
• 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 The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC)
• Andreas Köstenberger, editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
• 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
• 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 and preachers

• 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
• Rob Bell, founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, featured speaker in NOOMA film series, author of Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
• Douglas Coe, leader of the Fellowship Foundation
• Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, founder of 9Marks Ministries, co-host of Together for the Gospel
• Billy Graham, evangelist and spiritual counselor to every U.S. president since Lyndon B. Johnson
• Ted Haggard, founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches
• Jack W. Hayford, president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
• Bill Hybels, pastor of Willow Creek Community Church
• T. D. Jakes, pastor of The Potter's House
• Phillip Jensen, Sydney Anglican
• Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
• John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church (California), editor of the MacArthur Study Bible, founder and president of The Master's Seminary
• C. J. Mahaney, leader of Sovereign Grace Ministries, co-host of Together for the Gospel
• Brian McLaren, prominent voice in the emerging church movement, author of A Generous Orthodoxy
• John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, author of Desiring God
• Winkie Pratney, apologist and evangelist
• Philip Ryken, pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church
• Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel fellowship of churches
• Charles Stanley, founder and president of In Touch Ministries
• Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist and former leader of the Assemblies of God
• Gardner C. Taylor, known as "the dean of American preaching"
• Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, author of The Purpose Driven Life, The Purpose Driven Church

Authors and speakers

• Jerry Bridges, speaker with The Navigators (organization), author of The Pursuit of Holiness
• 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
• Ron Hamilton, singer, songwriter, voice actor, and evangelist, more widely known by his nickname "Patch the Pirate"
• Hugh Hewitt, conservative radio talk show host, author
• Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent who persecuted Christians in Russia, but repented and defected to Canada
• Tim Lahaye, dispensationalist novelist, author of Left Behind series
• 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
• Dave Mitchell, Miami broadcaster and voice-over artist
• Luis Palau, Argentinian evangelist
• 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

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
• John D. Hannah, author and professor at Dallas Theological Seminary
• R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky
• Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary
• Chuck Swindoll, former president of Dallas 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

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
• Ralph Blair, psychotherapist, founder of Evangelicals Concerned, a network for gay and gay-friendly evangelicals
• Nathan Braun, activist and author, founder of the Christian Vegetarian Association
• Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
• George W. Bush, former President of the United States of America.
• Tony Campolo, author, sociologist, leader of the "Red-Letter Christian" movement
• Stuart Epperson, co-founder and chairman of Salem Communications
• Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and leader of Samaritan's Purse
• Frank Laubach missionary, writer, developer of the "Each One Teach One" literacy program
• Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
• Justin Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network
• 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)
• Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine