John Harvard

John Harvard

male, deceased (1638)
John Sadler, St Saviour's Grammar School, tavern, Orientalist, southwark, puritan…Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Universityandcollegenamesakes, Harvard University
John Harvard (November 26, 1607 - September 14, 1638), despite having spent less than eighteen months of his life in Massachusetts, is known in the...
Oral Roberts

Oral Roberts

male, 91 years old
religious scandal, Christian, Universityandcollegenamesakes, neo-pentecostal, Religious scandals, Television evangelist
Granville Oral Roberts (born January 24, 1918) is an American neo-Pentecostal televangelist. He is also a leader in the charismatic movement and a...
James Watt

James Watt

male, deceased (1819)
Member of the Lunar Society, steam power, Universityandcollegenamesakes, from Inverclyde, steam engine, Alumni of the University of Glasgow…heriot-watt university
James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the...
John Wesley

John Wesley

male, deceased (1791)
English pamphlet writer, Christianity in London, English letter writer, Renewers of the church, Christian Revivalist, Christianity in Oxford…Lincoln College, Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, Universityandcollegenamesakes, Oxford University
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had...
William Taylor

William Taylor

male, deceased (1902)
Methodist, from Virginia, Theologian, Autobiographer, bishop, missionary…Universityandcollegenamesakes
William Taylor (1821-1902) was an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1884.
Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget

male, deceased (1980)
Developmental psychologist, Aspects of Radical Constructivism, Universityandcollegenamesakes, natural scientist, theory of cognitive development, Erdős number 3
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his...
Francis Asbury

Francis Asbury

male, deceased (1816)
English migrants to British North America, buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Clergy in the American Revolution, English Methodist clergy, immigrant to the United States, Pioneer…Universityandcollegenamesakes, Monuments and memorials in Washington, D.C.
Francis Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Born at Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire,...

John Baldwin

male, deceased (1884)
Methodist, Educator, philanthropist, founder, American, baldwin-wallace college…baker university, Universityandcollegenamesakes
John Baldwin (October 13, 1799-December 28, 1884) was the founder of Baldwin Institute (later Baldwin University) in Berea, Ohio, which would...
John Emory

John Emory

male, deceased (1835)
Methodist, minister, Maryland Eastern Shore native, buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, book editor, Magazine editor…washington college, Washington College alumni, Universityandcollegenamesakes
John Emory (11 April 1789 - 1835) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832.
Richard Allen

Richard Allen

male, deceased (1831)
Stokley Sturgis, american revolution, reverend, slave, African American, American…Universityandcollegenamesakes
Richard Allen (February 14 1760 - March 26 1831) an African American pastor and the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Born as a...