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
- 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
Twentieth 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 Cooneyites and Two by Twos sects
- Edward Cooney (1867–1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyites and Go-Preachers 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
- Frank E. Gaebelein (1899-1983), founder of The Stony Brook School, general editor of the Expositor's Bible Commentary
- 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
- Robert Pierce (1914–1978), founder of World Vision
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
- 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 On the Reliability of the Old Testament
- 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
- Douglas Coe, leader of the Fellowship Foundation
- Kenneth Copeland, founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries based in Fort Worth, Texas and host of the daily Believer's Voice of Victory broadcasts.
- Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, founder of 9Marks Ministries
- Billy Graham, evangelist and spiritual counselor to every U.S. president since Lyndon B. Johnson
- 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
- 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
- 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 formerly affiliated with the Assemblies of God
- Gardner C. Taylor, known as "the dean of American preaching"
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- Frank Laubach missionary, writer, developer of the "Each One Teach One" literacy program
- Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
- 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