- Benny Hinn
Tofik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades" – revival meeting/faith healing summits that are usually held in large stadiums in major cities. - Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Copeland (born December 6, 1936) is the founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a Christian religious organization, and a television evangelist. He was born in Lubbock, Texas. - Oral Roberts
Granville Oral Roberts (born January 24, 1918) is an American neo-Pentecostal televangelist. He is also a leader in the charismatic movement and a former faith healer. - Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen is a native Texan and the Pastor of Lakewood Church, which according to Church Growth Today is America's largest and fastest growing church. On July 16, 2005 after completing $95 million dollars in renovations, Joel moved Lakewood Church into its new 16,000-seat home - the former Compaq Center. It is the largest regularly-used worship center in the United States. Each week Joel delivers God's message of hope and encouragement to more than 38,000 attendees. - David Wilkerson
David Wilkerson co-authored a book in 1963. The book became a best-selling phenomenon and more than 15 million copies have been distributed in over 30 languages. Born May 19, 1931 in Hammond, Indiana, he is an American Christian evangelist, most famous for that book, The Cross and the Switchblade. - T. D. Jakes
Bishop T.D. Jakes IS A QUINTESSENTIAL LEADER. Known for his service to the church and the global community, his heartfelt efforts have made worldwide impact. He is a man at the forefront of philanthropy, a best-selling author, and most of all a premier contemporary spiritual voice. - Joyce Meyer
Pauline Joyce Hutchison Meyer, usually known as Joyce Meyer (born on June 4, 1943) is a charismatic Christian author and speaker. Her television and radio programs air in 25 languages in 200 countries. She has written over 70 books on Christianity and theology. Joyce and her husband, Dave, have four grown children, and live in St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri. - Creflo Dollar
Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr. is a televangelist, Word of Faith teacher, pastor, and the founder of the non-denominational Christian World Changers Ministries based in College Park, Georgia, which is the parent organization for World Changers Church International, International Covenant Ministries, Creflo Dollar Ministries, and Arrow Records. Each of these enterprises is overseen by Dollar and his wife, Taffi Dollar. - Jim Bakker
James Orsen Bakker (born January 2, 1940, in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of "The PTL Club," a popular evangelical Christian television program. A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce and effectively ended his time in the larger public eye. - Rod Parsley
Rod Parsley The Rod Parsley media outreach is going to a massive re-branding campaign, as well as a studio and equipment upgrade, and they're looking for media professionals to help them expand. If you're an Avid editor, graphic designer, After Effects whiz, or writer, contact Steve Howard at World Harvest Church in Columbus at showard@breakthrough.net . - Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - C. Peter Wagner
Charles Peter Wagner (1930-) is a former professor of Church Growth at Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission. He coined the term "Third Wave". He is the founder of Global Harvest Ministries, and co-founder of the World Prayer Center. Wagner and his wife, Doris, live in Colorado Springs and were attending New Life Church in 2004. However, as of 2006 they were attending Dutch Sheet's "Freedom Church". - Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 - September 27, 1944), also known as "Sister Aimee" or simply "Sister", was an evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s; she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church. - Derek Prince
Peter Derek Vaughan Prince (1915-2003) was an internationally recognised Bible teacher whose daily radio programme "Today with Derek Prince" (also called "Keys to Successful Living") broadcasts to half the population of the world in various languages. These languages include English, Arabic, Spanish, Croatian, Russian, Malagasy, Tongan, Samoan and four dialects of Chinese. He was probably most noted for his teachings about demons and Christian Zionism. - Tammy Faye
Tamara "Tammy" Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (born March 7, 1942) is an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show hostess, actress and a prominent television personality. She is the former wife of televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker, and she co-hosted with him on "The PTL Club", from 1976 to 1987. She is known for her tendency to wear heavy makeup, … - Carlton Pearson
Bishop Carlton D'Metrius Pearson, D.D. (born March 19, 1953) is currently an evangelical minister of the United Church of Christ. Bishop Pearson was licensed and ordained in the Church of God in Christ, a 7 million member African American conservative pentecostal denomination. Bishop Pearson is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he is the founder and senior pastor of New Dimensions. He is also a gospel vocalist who has won two Stellar Awards and was nominated for a Dove Award. - Paul Crouch
Paul Franklin Crouch (born March 29, 1934) is a the co-founder, chairman, and president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the world's largest Christian television network. The network has grown to 47 satellite stations and 12,500 affiliates, reaching nearly 100,000,000 households globally. Crouch, raised in Missouri, is the son of Pentecostal missionaries. - Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana) is a Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism who reached the height of his popularity in the 1980s. Swaggart is first cousin to recording artists Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. The sons of three sisters, all of them share the same middle name and play the piano. - Tommy Tenney
Tommy Tenney (b. 1956) is an American Pentecostal preacher most famous for his message of "God Chasing". In his influential book "The God Chasers" (1999), Tenney relates experiences of being "in the presence of God", including one occasion when a pulpit was purportedly divinely split in two. He teaches that every Christian should pursue an intimate relationship with God, and that supernatural occurrences are an ordinary outcome of the pursuit. - Marilyn Hickey
Marilyn Hickey is an American televangelist who promotes Word-faith theology. Marilyn Hickey is a popular minister on Christian television and teaches the Bible around the world. She was born in the 1930's in the United States. Although she was raised having casual church attendance, she was not a born again Christian until a teenager. In college she studied to be a Spanish Teacher. - Kim Clement
Kim Clement is a Christian evangelist, musician, and prophet closely associated with the Word of Faith movement within the pentecostal Christian church. Clement has appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network multiple times and has personally visited the White House at the request of U.S. President George W. Bush. - John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft was the 79th Attorney General of the United States. He served during the first term of President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2005. Ashcroft was previously the Governor of Missouri (1985–1993) and a U.S. Senator from Missouri (1995–2001). He is the author of several books, including: "On My Honor: The Beliefs that Shape My Life", "Lessons from a Father to his Son," and most recently, … - Morris Cerullo
Morris Cerullo (born 1932) is an international evangelist from San Diego, California. - Kathryn Kuhlman
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 - February 20, 1976) was a 20th Century American faith healer. She believed in miracles and deliverance by the power of the Holy Spirit, and was part of the Pentecostal arm of Protestant Christianity. She was born in Concordia, Missouri to German parents and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following open-heart surgery. - Jesse Duplantis
Jesse Duplantis (born July 9, 1949) is an Evangelical Charismatic Christian minister based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and the founder of Jesse Duplantis Ministries. - Reinhard Bonnke
Reinhard Bonnke is a German charismatic Christian evangelist. He was reportedly born-again at the age of 9. He studied at The Bible College of Wales in Swansea and pastored in Germany for seven years. He began his ministry in Africa, with which he is principally identified, preaching in Lesotho in 1967. He has subsequently held large evangelical meetings across the continent. - Edir Macedo
Edir Macedo Bezerra (born February 18, 1945) is a religious leader. He founded the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God with R. R. Soares, who later went on to found his own church, International Church of the Grace of God. Macedo was raised Catholic, but by 1970 was a Pentecostal. He founded the "Neo-Pentecostal" IURD, its Portuguese initials, in 1977. In 1986 he studied the methods of Evangelism in the United States and lived in Brooklyn for a time. - David Yonggi Cho
David Yonggi Cho is a Korean Christian minister. He is Senior Pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), which is the world's largest congregation, with a membership of over 800,000 in 2006 - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - Becky Fischer
Becky Fischer (born 1951) is a Pentecostal children's pastor. She is best known for her role in the 2006 documentary film "Jesus Camp." Fischer is a third-generation Pentecostal on her father's side and a fourth-generation Pentecostal on her mother's side. Her grandfather was an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God for 75 years. Fischer was a businesswoman in her native Bismarck, North Dakota for 23 years, … - Charles Capps
Charles Capps is a major figure in the Word of Faith movement, and has had a great influence on the movement through his books. He claims to have been a farmer and land developer before entering full-time ministry. Capps has a ministry, "Concepts of Faith" and is primarily a seminiar speaker, although he also has a radio program and television program. Capps often speaks on issues related to Biblical prophecy. For students of the Word of Faith movement, … - William J. Seymour
William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 - September 28, 1922) was an African American minister, and an initiator of the Pentecostal religious movement. Born the son of freed slaves in Centerville, Louisiana, Seymour developed a belief in glossolalia ("speaking in tongues") as a confirmation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. As a consequence of teaching this, he was removed from the Los Angeles parish where he had formerly ministered. Looking for a place to continue his work, … - Charles E. Blake
Bishop Charles Edward Blake Sr. serves as the Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle of the Church of God in Christ, an 8 million-member Holiness-Pentecostal denomination. Blake is the fifth Presiding Bishop (seventh leader) of the historically African-American denomination. Since 1985, he has been the Jurisdictional Prelate of the First Ecclesiastic Jurisdiction of Southern California, overseeing the more than 250 churches that make up the jurisdiction. - Ernest Angley
Ernest Angley (born August 9, 1921 in Gastonia, North Carolina) is an international Christian evangelist, based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. A native of rural North Carolina, he was raised a Baptist, and at the age of 18 he said he underwent a "life-changing experience" with Jesus. In the early 1950s, traveling with their tent, he and his wife arrived in northeast Ohio as a traveling salvation and healing evangelist; the locals embraced them, … - Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935), also known by the nickname The Killer, is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. - Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5 1932), better known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist, who began performing in the 1940s and recording from 1951. Penniman's reputation rests on a string of groundbreaking hit singles from 1955 through 1957, such as "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally", which helped lay the foundation for rock and roll music, influencing generations of rhythm and blues, … - A. A. Allen
A. A. Allen was born Asa A. Allen at Sulphur Rock, Arkansas into the Methodist church. His middle name, given only as "A." on his birth certificate, was changed to "Alonso" at around age four. A later Pentecostal convert, Allen’s life and methods were not without controversy and as with many of the other tent evangelists, he was the recipient of much criticism and personal scrutiny. Allen died in June of 1970 in San Francisco, … - John G. Lake
John Graham Lake, usually known as "John G. Lake", was a businessman influenced by the healing ministry of John Alexander Dowie, received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1907 in the wake of the Azusa Street Revival and became known for his ministry as a missionary and “faith healer.” His life and message are represented in a book compiled by Roberts Liardon, entitled, "John G. Lake: The Complete Collection of His Life Teachings". - Karen Wheaton
The Rev. Karen Harris Wheaton Towe is a Pentecostal minister and gospel singer. Born Karen Harris, she grew up in a Pentecostal family, the younger of two daughters, in Hamilton, Alabama where she was active in church music from an early age. In the late 1970s Karen toured with Thurlow Spurr's Festival of Praise, a pioneering Christian touring choir and band. In the early 1980s Karen traveled with her own band, … - Charles Fox Parham
Charles Fox Parham (4 June 1873 - c. 29 January 1929) was a controversial American preacher who is considered by many to be the "founder of modern Pentecostalism." However, several allegations of sodomy and racism have diminished his reputation.
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