List of evangelical Christians

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
• 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

Contemporary

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)