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published: 3/17/04
updated: 5/1/06

Notable People in Christianity

Christian history is populated with interesting characters and personalities. Whether saint, heretic, pope, bishop, monk, scholar, philosopher, statesman, preacher or author, each person profiled in this section made a contribution to Christianity as well as western history.

  • Biblical Figures
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • John the Baptist
  • John the Apostle
  • Mary, Mother of Jesus
  • Mary Magdalene
  • Matthew
  • Mark
  • Paul
  • Peter

  • Heretics
  • Apollinarius
  • Arius
  • Marcion
  • Montanus
  • Nestorius
  • Paul of Samosata
  • Pelagius
  • Sabellius

  • Popes
  • Benedict XVI
  • Gregory the Great
  • Innocent
  • John XXII
  • John Paul II
  • Leo X
  • Pius IX
  • Urban

  • Rulers
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • George W. Bush
  • Charlemagne
  • Charles V
  • Constantine
  • Elizabeth I
  • Frederick the Wise
  • Henry VIII
  • Honorius
  • Mary
  • Theodosius
  • Victoria
  • Reformers (Chart)
  • James Arminius
  • John Calvin
  • Thomas Cranmer
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • George Fox
  • Jan Hus
  • John Knox
  • Hugh Latimer
  • Martin Luther
  • Philip Melanchthon
  • Nicholas Ridley
  • Menno Simons
  • Philipp Jakob Spener
  • John Wesley
  • George Whitefield
  • John Wycliffe
  • Ulrich Zwingli
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    Catholic Reformation
  • Robert Bellarmine
  • Gasparo Contarini
  • Ignatius of Loyola
  • Girolamo Savonarola
  • Tomas de Torquemada
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    Artists and Writers
  • John Bunyan
  • G.K. Chesterton
  • Dante
  • C.S. Lewis
  • John Milton
  • Blaise Pascal
  • J.R.R. Tolkein
  •  
    Scholars
  • Venerable Bede
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Adolf von Harnack
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    Social Activists
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • William Booth
  • John Brown
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • John Newton
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Mother Teresa
  • William Wilberforce

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