| 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. |
| 9 | ---- |
| 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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