Clergy
- Bernhard Anderson - Old Testament scholar.
- Ephraim Kingsbury Avery, New England minister long thought to be the first American clergyman tried for murder
- Canaan Banana - First President of Zimbabwe.
- John C. A. Barrett - Chairman of the World Methodist Council,
- William Black (Methodist) - Linked to Nova Scotia.
- Henry Boehm - Centenarian.
- George Bramwell Evens - Nature writer of the Roma people.
- William Gannaway Brownlow - Governor of Tennessee.
- Byron Cage - Gospel singer. (African Methodist Episcopal Church)
- Thomas Charles - Welsh language author. (Of the Calvinistic Methodists)
- Zerah Colburn (math prodigy) - Became a minister, after youth as a mental calculator.
- Walter T. Colquitt - Circuit-riding Methodist preacher who served in the US House of Representatives and the Senate.
- William Edwards (architect) - Welsh designer of bridges.
- Edward Eggleston - Also author.
- Calvin Fairbank - Abolitionist.
- Robert Newton Flew - Theologian and ecumenist.
- Orange Scott - First president Wesleyan Methodist Connexion.
- Adam Crooks - Wesleyan Methodist Connexion.
- Arno Clemens Gaebelein - Also a writer.
- Leslie Griffiths - Life peer in the House of Lords.
- Adam Hamilton (pastor) - Senior pastor of the 17,000 member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas.
- Harold P. Hamilton - Kentucky Wesleyan College President.
- Hill, Rowland - founder of Surrey Chapel, London and early advocate of vaccination
- Silas Hocking - Novelist and preacher.
- John Hogan - US Congressman and preacher.
- Andrew Hunter (Methodist preacher) - "Father of Arkansas Methodism" and a politician.
- Leonard Isitt (minister) - New Zealand Methodist minister.
- James W. Kemp - Minister known for writing about Dr. Seuss as he relates to Christianity.
- Samuel Kobia - General Secretary of the World Council of Churches,
- Lowen Kruse - Nebraska state senator.
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - Known as a humorist.
- William Losee - Canadian circuit rider.
- Sarah Mallett - Preacher.
- William Morley Punshon - Preaching/Lecturing.
- Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow - First woman president of the Methodist Conference.
- Egerton Ryerson - Ryerson University is named for him.
- William Ryerson - Political figure.
- Tex Sample - Sociologist of religion.
- William J. Simmons - Founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (suspended minister)
- Ndabaningi Sithole - Founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union and a Methodist minister.
- John Karefa-Smart - Leader of the United National People's Party of Sierra Leone.
- Donald Soper - Christian socialist and pacifist.
- Edward Sugden - First master of Queen's College (University of Melbourne).
- Wilbur Fisk Tillett - Clergyman and educator.
- Charles Tindley - Gospel music composer.
- Channing Heggie Tobias - Member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights.
- Ray Vaughn - Christian musician and evangelist.
- Simon Topping - Activist on poverty causes like Make Poverty History.
- Cecil Williams - Involved in HIV/AIDS causes.
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“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.”
—Henry VIII (1491–1547)
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)