- Luke the Evangelist
Luke the Evangelist (Greek Loukas) is said by tradition and by the opening statement of the Acts of the Apostlesto be the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the third and fifth books of the New Testament. In Catholicism, he is patron saint of painters, physicians and healers, and his feast day is October 18.
- Mark The Evangelist
Mark the Evangelist (1st century) is traditionally believed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark and a companion of Peter. He also accompanied Paul and Barnabas in Paul's first journey. After a sharp dispute, Barnabas separated from Paul, taking Mark to Cyprus (Acts 15:36-40). Later Paul calls upon the services of Mark, the kinsman of Barnabas, and Mark is named as Paul's fellow worker.
- John The Evangelist
John the Evangelist (d. ca. 110; יוחנן "The LORD is merciful", Standard Hebrew Yoḥanan, Tiberian Hebrew Yôḥānān), or the Beloved Disciple, is the name used to refer to the author of the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John. Traditionally he has been identified with John the Apostle.
- Billy Graham
William Franklin Graham Jr. (born November 7, 1918) is a career evangelist and an Evangelical Christian. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple U.S. presidents and was number 7 on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention.
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel .
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- 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.
- Franklin Graham
William Franklin Graham III, known publicly as Franklin Graham (born July 14, 1952), is an American Christian evangelist and missionary. The fourth out of five children of evangelist Billy Graham and wife Ruth Bell Graham, he was born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina, and currently lives in Boone, North Carolina.
- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- Ted Haggard
Ted Arthur Haggard (born June 27, 1956) is a former American evangelical preacher. Known as Pastor Ted to the congregations he has served, he is the founder and disgraced former pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado; a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches; and was leader of the National Association of Evangelicals from 2003 until November 2006.
- Billy Sunday
William Ashley Sunday was an American athlete and religious figure who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. Born into poverty, Sunday spent some years in an orphanage before taking a series of odd jobs in several small Iowa towns as he demonstrated his prowess in amateur athletics.
- Luis Palau
Luis Palau - Evangelist Story of evangelist, Luis Palau More information on the Luis Palau ministry View his VIDEO
- Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, commonly C.H. Spurgeon, (June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher who remains highly influential amongst Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known in various circles as the "Prince of Preachers." He also founded the charity organization now known as Spurgeon's, that works worldwide with families and children.
- Brian McLaren
Brian D. McLaren is a prominent, controversial voice in the Emerging Church movement. He was recognized as one of "Time" magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America," and is the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Ray Comfort
Ray Comfort (December 5, 1949) is an a well-known creationist and evangelist born in New Zealand . In 1989, Comfort was offered the opportunity to to become the Pastor of Evangelism with Hosanna Chapel in the city of Bellflower, in Southern California. He moved to the United States to accepted the position in order to bring the Way of the Master teaching to the American Church . [1]
- Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 - 29 March 1788) was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Despite their closeness, Charles and his brother did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs. In particular, Charles was strongly opposed to the idea of a breach with the Church of England into which they had been ordained. Charles Wesley is chiefly remembered for the many hymns he wrote.
- John Brown
John Brown (died 1845) attended Queens' College, Cambridge. He was Vicar of St. Mary's Leicester and famous for his evangelical preaching.
- Dwight L. Moody
Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 - December 22, 1899), also known as D.L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now the Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.
- 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.
- 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.
- D. James Kennedy
Dr. D. James Kennedy , Senior Pastor -- Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
- Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist. Zacharias is a descendant of two rich religious traditions, first Hindu priests (of the Nambudiri Brahmin caste), and later as Christian ministers. In one of his lectures, Zacharias asserts that a Swiss-German priest spoke to one of his ancestors about Christianity, …
- Kent Hovind
Kent Hovind is an American evangelist and Young Earth creationist. He is most famous for creation science seminars, many of which have been taped and widely distributed. His seminars, which often make use of humor, aim to convince listeners to believe in creationism and to reject evolution. Hovind's views are criticized by the scientific community, …
- Duncan Riley
Duncan Riley (born September 4, 1975) is a blogger and former Vice President of b5media which he founded along with Darren Rowse, Jeremy Wright and was later joined by Shai Coggins. He lives in Australind, Western Australia, Australia.
- Hal Lindsey
Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey (born November 23 1929) is an American evangelist and Christian writer. A graduate of the Dallas Theological Seminary, a prominent Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author, he expresses this theology in his writings. He currently resides in the Palm Springs area of Southern California.
- Richard Roberts
Richard Roberts is an American televangelist and the president of Oral Roberts University, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the son of televangelist Oral Roberts and hosts his own religious television show, "Something Good Tonight". Roberts is also president and chief executive officer of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, …
- Greg Laurie
Greg Laurie was born in 10 December 1952. He serves as the chief pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship a Calvary Chapel in Riverside in California. He became a Christian beneath the admiral of Pentecostal advocate Lonnie Frisbee at Newport Harbor Aerial School. Then, at the age of 19, he had the befalling to advance [... ] read more>>
- Don Box
Don Box is a software developer currently working at Microsoft. Along with Bob Atkinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, and Dave Winer, Don was of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services. He currently works on Brad Lovering's team working on model-driven runtime and tool support at Microsoft. Prior to that, Don was an architect on Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as Indigo) and related technologies.
- Bill Bright
William R. "Bill" Bright (October 19, 1921 - July 19, 2003) was an American evangelist. The founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, he wrote The Four Spiritual Laws in 1956 and produced the Jesus Film in 1979. Born into an Oklahoma family, Bright described himself as being a "happy pagan" in his youth. He graduated from Northeastern State University in Oklahoma with an Economics degree. While in his early 20s he moved to Los Angeles, …
- Josh McDowell
Joslin "Josh" McDowell is a Christian apologist, evangelist, and writer. He is within the Evangelical tradition of Protestant Christianity, and is the author or co-author of some 77 books, of which his best known titles include "More Than A Carpenter", "Evidence That Demands A Verdict", and "Right from Wrong".
- Rodney Howard-Browne
Rodney Howard-Browne (Born June 12, 1961) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and raised in the Eastern Cape and Transkei is a Charismatic preacher and evangelist from South Africa.
- Dave Hunt
Dave Hunt (1926 -) is a Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He has been in full-time ministry since 1973. The Berean Call ministry, which highlights Dave's materials, was started in 1990. Hunt has traveled to the Near East, lived in Egypt, and written numerous books on theology, prophecy, cults, and other religions, including critiques of Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and Calvinism, among others.
- John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby, (November 18, 1800 - April 29, 1882) was an Anglo-Irish evangelist, an influential figure among the original Plymouth Brethren, and founder of the Darbyites. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism.
- Smith Wigglesworth
Smith Wigglesworth (1859 - 1947), was a British religious figure and an important figure in the early history of Pentecostalism.
- 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.
- Dorinda Clark Cole
Dorinda Clark Cole (born Dorinda Grace Clark) is an American evangelist and gospel singer. She is best known as a member of The Clark Sisters and as a daughter of pioneering choral director Mattie Moss Clark.
- John Murrell
John Murrell (born October 15, 1945) is an American-born Canadian playwright. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Murrel moved to Alberta after graduating with a BFA in 1966 or 1968. He then studied at the University of Calgary. In 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and awarded the Alberta Order of Excellence. Murrell also translated some Russian and French works.
- Marjoe Gortner
Marjoe Gortner (born January 14, 1944 in Long Beach, California) is a former evangelical minister who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four, and then outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary about the lucrative business of Pentecostal preaching. The name "Marjoe" is a combination of the names "Mary" and "Joseph".