Catholic
- Ignatius of Antioch (35–107) (also Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Polycarp (69–155) (also the Eastern Orthodox Church)
- John Chrysostom (347–407) (also Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
- Henry of Lausanne d. 1148, heretical, opposed by Bernard
- John Bromyard (died c. 1352)
- Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), German (Dominican) mystic
- Jan Huss (1369–1415) (condemned and executed as a heretic)
- Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444), Franciscan
- Giovanni da Capistrano (1386–1456), Franciscan
- James of the Marches (1391–1476), Franciscan
- Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Dominican, also executed as a heretic
- Petrus Canisius (1521–1597), Jesuit preacher of the Counter-Reformation in the German-speaking lands
- Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Trinitarian brother, preacher to the court Philip II of Spain, and poet
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627–1704), whose sermons are classics of French prose
- Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) Jesuit preacher of the age of Louis XIV
- Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663–1742), Oratorian
- John Henry Newman (1801–1890), converted from Anglicanism
- Bernard Vaughan SJ (1847–1922)
- Charles Coughlin (1891–1975)
- Bishop Fulton Sheen (1895–1975)
- Pope John Paul II, (1920–2005)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)