1 | A list of all real-life religious leaders and activists with their own page on this site. It's specifically intended for all people who preached, taught, founded or led a religion, not those who are just religious by faith and nothing more. |
2 | |
3 | * For Christianity, this means: monks, nuns, priests, saints, and popes. |
4 | * For Islam, this means: imams and ayatollahs. |
5 | * For Judaism, this means: rabbis. |
6 | * For Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shintoism: priests, swamis, yogis, fakirs, gurus,... |
7 | |
8 | We also list prophets, preachers, mystics, occultists, and cult leaders in general here. |
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10 | [[index]] |
11 | * Abraham (important prophet in all Abrahamic religions) |
12 | * UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}} (founded Atenism) |
13 | * UsefulNotes/JohnnyAppleseed |
14 | * Creator/ThomasAquinas |
15 | * Creator/AugustineOfHippo |
16 | * Creator/BishopBarron |
17 | * UsefulNotes/ThomasBecket |
18 | * Creator/RobertHughBenson |
19 | * UsefulNotes/HelenaBlavatsky (founded Theosophy) |
20 | * Creator/LionelBlue |
21 | * Cesare Borgia |
22 | * UsefulNotes/TheBuddha (founded Buddhism) |
23 | * John Calvin (founded Calvinism) |
24 | * Creator/AleisterCrowley (founded Thelema) |
25 | * Creator/{{Confucius}}[[note]]It is controversial as to whether Confucianism is a religion or a philosophy. For the sake of simplicity, Confucius will be listed here.[[/note]] |
26 | * UsefulNotes/TheDalaiLama (highest priest of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism) |
27 | ** [[UsefulNotes/FourteenthDalaiLama 14th Dalai Lama]] (the current holder of that position, and the most noted in modern culture) |
28 | * UsefulNotes/DomJustoTakayamaUkon |
29 | * Mary Baker Eddy (founded Christian Science) |
30 | * UsefulNotes/CardinalInfanteFerdinand (more important as a statesman than as a religious figure) |
31 | * Billy Graham |
32 | * UsefulNotes/HenryVIII (founded Anglicanism) |
33 | * Creator/LRonHubbard (founded Scientology) |
34 | * UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} (founder and central figure of Christianity) |
35 | * UsefulNotes/JimJones (cult leader of the People's Temple; responsible for the Jonestown massacre) |
36 | * UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr |
37 | * UsefulNotes/JohnLewis |
38 | * UsefulNotes/MalcolmX |
39 | * UsefulNotes/AyatollahKhomeini |
40 | * Creator/{{Laozi}}[[note]]It is controversial as to whether Taoism is a religion or a philosophy. For the sake of simplicity, Laozi will be listed here, too.[[/note]] |
41 | * UsefulNotes/AntonLaVey (founded [=LaVeyan=] UsefulNotes/{{Satanism}}) |
42 | * UsefulNotes/CharlesManson (cult leader of the Manson Family; responsible for a number of horrific murders carried out by the Family) |
43 | * UsefulNotes/MartinLuther (founder of Lutheranism and important figure of Protestantism) |
44 | * UsefulNotes/TheVirginMary |
45 | * UsefulNotes/CardinalMazarin (more important as a head of state than as a religious figure) |
46 | * Moses (important figure to all Abrahamic religions, and founder of Ancient Judaism) |
47 | * Creator/JohnHenryNewman |
48 | * Creator/TheApostlePaul (wrote 1/3rd of the New Testament) |
49 | * UsefulNotes/TheProphetMuhammad (founded Islam) |
50 | * UsefulNotes/PatronSaints |
51 | * UsefulNotes/ThePope (highest priest of Catholic Christianity) |
52 | ** UsefulNotes/NotablePopes |
53 | *** UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI |
54 | *** UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII |
55 | *** UsefulNotes/PopePiusXII |
56 | * Pythagoras (founded his own cult) |
57 | * UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin |
58 | * UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu (more important as a head of state than as a religious figure) |
59 | * UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea (revered as gods by their people) |
60 | * Albert Schweitzer |
61 | * UsefulNotes/HaileSelassie (worshipped as a deity by Rastafarians, though not with his approval) |
62 | * UsefulNotes/JosephSmith (founded Mormonism, or LDS movement) |
63 | * UsefulNotes/PierreTeilhardDeChardin |
64 | * UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada (most notorious figure of UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition) |
65 | * UsefulNotes/DesmondTutu |
66 | * John Wesley (founder of the Methodist movement within Protestantism) |
67 | * John Wycliffe |
68 | * Zarathustra (founded Zoroastrianism) |
69 | * Huldrych Zwingli |
70 | [[/index]] |
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