Notable Progressive Christians
- Karen Armstrong
- Jay Bakker
- Rob Bell
- Diana Butler Bass
- Marcus Borg
- Walter Brueggemann
- Walt Brown
- William Jennings Bryan
- John M. Buchanan
- Frederick Buechner
- Bart Campolo
- Tony Campolo
- Shane Claiborne
- William Sloane Coffin
- John Dominic Crossan
- Michael Dowd
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Becky Garrison
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Anne Lamott
- James Lawson-life long community leader and advocate for social justice
- Brian McLaren
- Brian P. Moore - US Presidential candidate for the 2008 Presidential elections
- Carrie Newcomer
- John Shelby Spong
- Barbara Brown Taylor
- C.T. Vivian
- Wynn Wagner III (author and archbishop of the Old Catholic Church)
- Jim Wallis
- Walter Wink
- Daniel Wise (former editor of Zion's Herald, which later became The Progressive Christian magazine)
- Br. Karekin M. Yarian, BSG
- Frank P. Zeidler
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