Preachers Noted For Secular Achievements
- Dr John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), a preacher among the Plymouth Brethren but arrested in 1956 for murdering two patients. Controversially found not guilty but suspected of up to 163 deaths.
- Bill "Parson" Brownlow (1805–1877), Methodist, anti-secessionist newspaper owner and journalist, and later governor of Tennessee
- John Danforth (born 1936), Episcopalian, Republican Senator from Missouri.
- B.G. Dyess (born 1922), Baptist, Louisiana state senator and Rapides Parish voter registrar
- Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, (1597–1676), Catholic, explorer
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1759), Anglican, novelist
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851) Congregationalist, deaf educator, Gallaudet University is named in his honor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), Unitarian, poet
- James Garfield (1831–1851), Disciples of Christ, U. S. President
- Eric Liddell (1902–1945), Baptist, Olympian featured in the movie Chariots of Fire
- Hugh Beaumont (1903–1984), Methodist, Television actor
- Jerry Clower (1926–1998), Baptist, rural humorist
- David Bauer, (1924–1988), Roman Catholic, hockey player and coach
- Fred Rogers (1928–2003), Presbyterian, children's television host
- Della Reese (born 1931), non-denominational, actress
- Bill Moyers (born 1935), Baptist, White House Press Secretary
- Grady Nutt (1937–1982), Baptist, Christian comedian, Hee Haw regular (1979–82)
- Clifton Davis (born 1945), Seventh-day Adventist, actor
- George Foreman (born 1949), boxer
- Sam Kinison (1953–1992), charismatic, comedian
- Mike Huckabee Baptist (2008 Presidential candidate and former governor of Arkansas)
- Ernie Fletcher (born 1956), Baptist (former lay preacher) Governor of Kentucky
- Richard Rossi (born 1963) Filmmaker and musician
- Christopher Priest (born 1961) Baptist, comic book author and editor
- Reggie White (1961–2004), Baptist/Messianic (Torah-observant), football player
- Kirk Cameron (born 1970), evangelical, actor
- John Williams, Uniting Church in Australia, scientist
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—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
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