- Abu Hamza Al-Masri
Abu Hamza al-Masri is a Muslim cleric in the United Kingdom, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.
- Emperor Of Japan
According to the Japanese Constitution, the is a symbol of Japan and the unity of its people. He is the head of the Japanese Imperial Family. Under Japan's present constitution, the emperor is a ceremonial figurehead in a constitutional monarchy (see Politics of Japan). The current emperor is His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito, who has been on the Chrysanthemum Throne since his father Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) died in 1989.
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hashemi Bahramani born on August 25, 1934, is an influential Iranian politician, and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. He served as President of Iran from 1989 to 1997, losing on the second ballot to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 election on his attempt for a third term in office.
- Ruhollah Khomeini
Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mustafavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی "Rūollāh Mūsavī Khomeynī" (September 21 1902 – June 3 1989) was a Shi`i Muslim cleric, philosopher and "marja" (religious authority), and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.
- Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu : This is an unbelievable achievement. As you might know, we have won the Rugby World Cup in 1995. It did wonders back then. Success in sports connected the people in a way that only a few politicians have been able to achieve in the past. We are looking forward to similar results in the context of the Football World Cup 2010. The Football World Cup makes South Africans feel more self-confident.
- Ahmad Khatami
Ahmad Khatami is one of the Iranian hardliner clerics who has strong ties with the supreme leader and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He believes in the continuance of uranium enrichment. He is also a member of the Assembly of Experts. Although his name resembles that of Mohammad Khatami, the reformist former president of Iran, the two men are not related. In fact, they have opposite points of view on many issues, such as democracy in Iran.
- Vali Nasr
Vali Reza Nasr (b. 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. An expert in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs and Islam and politics, in January, 2006, Nasr was named the Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy.
- Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like "Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal", "A Journal to Stella", "The Drapier's Letters", "The Battle of the Books", and "A Tale of a Tub". Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry.
- Mohammad-Ali Abtahi
Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi is an Iranian (Persian) politician, close to former President Mohammad Khatami. He has served first as President Khatami's chief of staff, then his Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and finally his advisor. He was the first cabinet member in Iran to write a weblog or have an Orkut account during his membership in the cabinet.
- Hassan Rowhani
Hassan Rowhani is an Iranian politician and cleric, and as of March 2007, a member of the Supreme National Security Council. Rowhani's membership in the council is as one of the two representatives of the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. He was the chief negotiator with the European countries of UK, France, and Germany over Iran's nuclear program. Under his supervision, his team agreed to suspend nuclear enrichment without any conditions.
- Mehdi Karroubi
Hojjat ol-Eslam Mehdi Karroubi is an Iranian politician and cleric, the resigned chairman and founding member of the Association of Combatant Clerics party. He was the Speaker of the Iranian parliament from 2000 to 2004, and from 1989 to 1992, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 presidential election. Karroubi was also a candidate in the 2004 parliamentary elections in Tehran, but after he ranked thirty-first in the first round, …
- Thomas Becket
(St.) Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. He engaged in a conflict with King Henry II over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. He is also commonly known as Thomas à Becket, although this form may not have been contemporary.
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi is an Iranian politician and Shia cleric. He has been the head of the judicial system of Iran since 1999, when he replaced Mohammad Yazdi, and, according to a recent extension, he will serve at least until 2009. Hashemi Shahroudi had been the leader of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which has been the reason for the many objections to his serving as head of the Judiciary System.
- Mohsen Kadivar
Mohsen Kadivar is an Iranian philosopher, University lecturer, cleric and activist. Kadivar married in 1981 and has four children.
- Ramzan Kadyrov
Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov (Russian: Рамзан Ахмадович Кадыров is the President of the Russian republic of Chechnya and a former Chechen rebel. Ramzan is the son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May 2004, and heads a private army known as the "Kadyrovtsy". Kadyrov is widely believed to have amassed a huge fortune from extorting kickbacks and from the illegal sale of Chechen oil.
- Allan Boesak
Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak (23 February 1945 -) is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and was a politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in 1999 but was re-instated as a cleric in late 2004.
- Brian Davis
Brian Newton Davis CNZM (1934-1998) was Bishop of Waikato from 1980 to 1985 and Archbishop and Primate of New Zealand and Bishop of Wellington from 1986-1997.
- Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
Ayatollah Haj Shaykh Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician. He is widely seen as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's spiritual advisor, and a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader. Mesbah Yazdi espouses complete isolation from the West and proclaims non-literal interpretations of the Quran as heretical.
- Ali Fallahian
Hojjatoleslam Ali Fallahian, (born 1945), in Najafabad, Iran. He is a conservative Islamic cleric. He was minister of intelligence in Hashemi Rafsanjani's government. He was also a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic.
- John Howe
John Howe (born Loughborough, May 17,1630; died London, April 2, 1705) was an English Puritan theologian. He served briefly as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. At the age of five he went to Ireland with his father, who had been ejected from his living by William Laud, but returned to England in 1641 and settled with his father in Lancaster. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, and at Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., 1650; M.A., 1652), …
- Glen Jenvey
Glen Jenvey began studying radical Islamic groups when he was in college. His first job as a spy, was for the United States authorities to spy in Iran. He was hired by the Sri Lankan National Intelligence Bureau in London to spy on the Tamil Tigers' offices and demonstrations in London. Over the years, Jenvey has worked for the intelligence services of several other countries, including Sri Lanka and India with close links to Russia and USA.
- Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
Hojatoll-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (born in Qom circa 1959) is an important mullah and politician in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2005, he was appointed as the new interior minister of the country by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the approval of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners based on the orders of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other key Islamic scholars.
- Pelagius
Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk and reformer who denied the doctrine of Original Sin from Adam and was declared a heretic by the Roman Catholic Church. His interpretation of a doctrine of free will became known as Pelagianism. He was well educated, fluent in both Greek and Latin, and learned in theology. He spent time as an ascetic, focusing on practical asceticism, which his teachings clearly reflect. He was not, however, a cleric.
- Allama Hassan Turabi
Allama Hassan Turabi was a Pakistani and prominent Shiite Muslim cleric, chief of the main Shiite political party, Islami Tehrik. He was assassinated by a Sunni Bangladeshi on 14 July 2006 following his return from an anti-Israel protest regarding the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. </small>
- Mohammad-Javad Larijani
Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician and mathematician. He is currently the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in Tehran. Previously, he has been a Majlis representative and the director of Majlis Research Center, and a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. While not wearing the Islamic clerics uniform anymore, Larijani, raised in a religious family, …
- James Meek
The Reverend James Meek, D.D was minister of Cambuslang from 1774 until his death. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1795, but is most remembered as the model Enlightenment cleric who wrote the entry for Cambuslang in the First Statistical Account of Scotland. This report is very elegantly written - though no doubt this was in part due to John Sinclair’s excellent editing.
- Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti
Ayatollah Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti, (October 24, 1928 - June 28, 1981) was an Iranian cleric, the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic Party, and the head of the Islamic Republic's judicial system. He was assassinated together with more than seventy members of the Islamic Republic party on June 28, 1981. Beheshti was born in Isfahan and studied both at the University of Tehran and under Allameh Tabatabaei in Qom.
- Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Hojatoleslam Mohammad Javad Bahonar was the second prime minister of Iran following the 1979 revolution, and the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic Party. Bahonar was born in Kerman, Iran. He was a cleric who was imprisoned for anti-government activities during the 1960s. However, he had not been active in politics for a long time before the Revolution, but was co-authoring textbooks in Islamic studies.
- Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence was a Carmelite monk, who is today most commonly remembered for the closeness of his relationship to God as recorded in the classic Christian text, "The Practice of the Presence of God". Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman in Hériménil, near Lunéville in the region of Lorraine, located in modern day eastern France. He received a revelation of the providence and power of God at the age of 18, …
- Abdul Rahman Al-Barak
Abdul Rahman al-Barak is a top Saudi cleric who is close to the kingdom's royal family. In January 2007 he urged Sunnis all over the world to reject reconciliation with Shiite muslims in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. Al-Barak said Shiites should be considered "worse than Jews or Christians". "By and large, rejectionists (Shiites) are the most evil sect of the nation and they have all the ingredients of the infidels," al-Barak wrote in a fatwa, or religious edict, …
- Hussein Khomeini
Hojatoleslam Hussein Khomeini is the grandson of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He has been a controversial figure in Iran for calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic government and encouraging a US invasion.
- Ali-Akbar Meshkini
Ayatollah Ali Akbar Feyz-Ani (born 1922 in Meshkin), famously known as Meshkini, is an Iranian cleric and politician. As of 2007, he is the chairman of the Iranian Assembly of Experts, which selects the Supreme Leader of Iran and supervises his activities. He is the author of many books on Islamic jurisprudence and general issues of Islam. Meshkini is the chair of Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom.
- Tim Costello
Tim Costello studied Law and Education at Monash University and is now CEO of Australia's largest aid and development organisations, World Vision. He is a leading spokesperson on issues relating to Australia's response to global poverty. He also continues to speak publicly about issues relating to social justice, social inclusion and strengthening communities. Mr Costello was ordained a Baptist Minister in 1986 and was elected as mayor of St Kilda in 1993.
- Mohammed Emami-Kashani
Ayatollah Mohammed Emami-Kashani (born in Bid Aabaad, Isfahan, in 1917) is a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has been the Interim Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran. He has called al-Qaeda an "illegitimate child of America and Israel": He is a proponent of the rule of law with the following condition, At the age of 18, he left for Najaf, Iraq, to continue his Islamic education.
- Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf (Born in Osijek, Croatia - 1956), is an influential Christian theologian and currently the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He has been a member in both the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Evangelical Church in Croatia. He is widely known for his works on systematic theology, ethics, conflict resolution, and peace-making.
- Beyers Naudé
Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé was an Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist picture.
- Liviu Constantinescu
Liviu Constantinescu was a Romanian geophysicist, professor of geophysics, member of the Romanian Academy. He was the cofounder, together with Sabba S. Ştefănescu, of the Romanian school of geophysics. Born into an old family of Christian Orthodox clerics from Transylvania, Liviu Constantinescu ignored suggestions from family and teachers to become an engineer or teacher and decided to study natural sciences.
- Thomas Rotherham
Thomas Rotherham, also known as Thomas (Scot) de Rotherham (August 24, 1423 - May 29, 1500), was an English cleric and statesman. Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Thomas was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Rotherham, of Brookgate in Rotherham, and his wife, Alice Scot. He was first educated as a young boy by a teacher of grammar, who came, according to Thomas, "I know not by what fate save it was the Grace of God".
- Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani is an Iranian cleric and politician. Presently, he is the Secretary General of the Combatant Clergy Association (جامعهٔ روحانیت مبارز). He was the Interim Prime Minister of Iran from September 2 to October 29, 1981, appointed by a provisional presidential council, after the assassination of President Mohammad Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar.
- Richard Peters
Richard Peters was an American cleric and a civil servant in colonial Pennsylvania. For many years he was the rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia. He was born in Liverpool, England, where his father, Ralph Peters, was the town clerk. He was educated at Westminster School and Oxford University. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1731 and emigrated to America in 1735. Peters became an assistant at Christ Church in Philadelphia and served there for two years.