This is a list of notable Christian preachers.

Early Church

thumb|upright|Paul

  • 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

thumb|upright|Martin Luther

  • 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

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  • 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

thumb|upright|Early Baptist preacher Benjamin Keach

thumb|upright|Martin Luther King Jr.

  • 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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File:John Knox statue, Haddington.jpg|John Knox

File:Jonathan Edwards.jpg|Jonathan Edwards

File:Charles Haddon Spurgeon by Alexander Melville.jpg|Charles Spurgeon

File:Dwight Lyman Moody c.1900.jpg|D.L. Moody

File:RWEmerson.jpg|Ralph Waldo Emerson

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