Preachers, Theologians, and Missionaries
- Abernathy, Ralph, pastor and civil rights activist
- Armstrong, Annie, missionary organizer, the SBC's Easter mission offering is collected in her honor.
- Birch, John, Missionary to China and ardent anti-communist
- Burchell, Thomas, missionary to Jamaica
- Campolo, Tony, pastor and professor of sociology
- Carey, William, missionary to India
- Carroll, B(enajah) H(arvey), pastor, theologian, founding president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Carroll, JM, pastor author of The Trail of Blood
- Charles Henry Carter, English missionary to Ceylon and translator of the Old Testament, Book of Psalms,and New Testament into Sinhalese from Hebrew and Greek. Considered to be the foremost sinhalese scholar of his time, his A Sinhalese-English Dictionary (Reprint, New Delhi 1996. ISBN 81-206-1174-8) is still considered an authority on the language today.
- Chambers, Oswald, British pastor author of My Utmost for His Highest, born the son of a Baptist pastor, converted to Christianity under C. H. Spurgeon (below)
- Cheney, Oren, American abolitionist and founder of Bates College
- Christian, John T., church historian
- Clarke, Dr. John, medical doctor, early proponent of separation of church and state
- Craig, Elijah, preacher, educator and entrepreneur, purported inventor of bourbon whiskey
- Criswell, W.A., pastor, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, founder of Criswell College
- De La Torre, Miguel A., prolific author on Hispanic religiosity.
- Falwell, Jerry, televangelist, founder of the Moral Majority
- Gill, John, pastor and theologian
- Graham, Billy
- Ham, Mordecai, tent revivalist who preached the sermon where Billy Graham was converted to Christianity
- Holmes, Obadiah, early New England Baptist minister who was cruelly whipped in Boston for his Baptist beliefs and activism; pastor of the Baptist Church at Newport, Rhode Island for 30 years.
- Johnny Hunt, author and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
- Hyles, Jack, controversial pastor and leader of the Independent Baptist movement
- Jordan, Clarence, pastor and author of the The Cotton Patch Gospel
- King, Dr. Martin Luther (Jr.), Civil rights leader, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, pastor; missionary and church historian
- Loretta Lynn, world-wide famous female Country Music artist.
- MacArthur, John (Jr.), pastor and theologian
- Moon, Charlotte ("Lottie") Diggers, missionary to China. the SBC's Christmas missionary offering is named in her honor.
- J. Frank Norris, flamboyant Baptist preacher, one of the most controversial figures in the history of American fundamentalism.
- Phelps, Fred, controversial minister most noted for protesting the funerals of homosexuals, and servicemen
- John Piper (theologian), pastor and preacher at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, also head of Desiring God.
- Harold Philmon Reeves (1923–2009), a Shreveport, Louisiana native, and his wife, the former Rose Lengefeld, were the first Southern Baptist missionaries to Thailand, where in the 1950s they established two churches and an English ministry in Bangkok. Reeves served as the Asian representative for the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission.
- Rogers, Adrian, televangelical
- Spurgeon, C. H., British pastor, known as "The Prince of Preachers"
- Smyth, John, pastor who founded the first English-speaking Baptist church
- Stanley, Charles, televangelist founder of In Touch Ministries
- Williams, Roger, founded the First Baptist Church in America
- Neiliezhü Üsou (1941–2009), an influential Baptist preacher, theologian, Church musician, Music teacher and composer from the North-Eastern state of India, Nagaland.
- Sidney Abram Weltmer (1858-1930), an influential Baptist preacher, Professor, Magnetic Healer, Mental Scientist. From Nevada, Missouri. Founder of the Weltmer Institute for Suggestive Therapeutics and the American School of Magnetic Healing. Author of harmonized healing books and editor of Weltmer's magazine.
- Andrew Justin Rodgers (1990–present),Independent Baptist. Attended Jacksonville Christian Academy. Missionary to Vanuatu.
- Paul Washer, founder of HeartCry Missionary Society.
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Famous quotes containing the word missionaries:
“It was very agreeable, as well as independent, thus lying in the open air, and the fire kept our uncovered extremities warm enough. The Jesuit missionaries used to say, that, in their journeys with the Indians in Canada, they lay on a bed which had never been shaken up since creation, unless by earthquakes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)