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 (1941–2026)

• 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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