Historical
- William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), first published use of the term evangelical in English (1531)
- John Bunyan (1628–1688), persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress
- Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great Awakening
- John Wesley (1703–1791), English clergyman; founder of Methodism
- Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English clergyman; brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism
- George Whitefield (1714–1770), English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley
- Isaac Backus (1724–1806), advocate of the separation of church and state
- Henry Venn (1725–1797), founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain
- Henry Venn (1796–1873), grandson of Henry Venn, pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory
- John Newton (1725–1807), Scottish clergyman, author of Amazing Grace
- William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet/author of numerous hymns, including "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
- Francis Asbury (1745–1816), founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- William Wilberforce (1759–1833), worked to abolish slavery in the British Empire
- Richard Allen (1760–1831), founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination (1816)
- Nathan Bangs (1778–1862), editor of the Christian Advocate, president of Wesleyan University
- Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843), Scottish preacher and minister of St Peter's, Dundee
- Joseph M. Scriven (1819–1886), Irish poet, moved to Canada and wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), blind American writer of many famous hymns including "Blessed Assurance"
- William Henry Green (1825–1900), chairman of the Old Testament committee for the American Standard Version (1901)
- Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1899) and Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), leaders in the Holiness movement
- James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission
- Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), English Baptist preacher and advocate of Calvinism
- Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899), American evangelist, pastor and educator
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