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.
- For Christianity, this means: monks, nuns, priests, reverends, saints, and popes.
- For Islam, this means: imams and ayatollahs.
- For Judaism, this means: rabbis.
- For Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shintoism: priests, swamis, yogis, fakirs, gurus,...
We also list prophets, preachers, mystics, occultists and cult leaders in general here.
- Abraham (important prophet in all Abrahamic religions)
- Akhenaten (founded Atenism)
- Johnny Appleseed
- Thomas Aquinas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Bishop Barron
- Thomas Becket
- Helena Blavatsky
- Lionel Blue
- Cesare Borgia
- The Buddha (founded Buddhism)
- John Calvin (founded Calvinism)
- Aleister Crowley (founded Thelema)
- Confuciusnote
- The Dalai Lama (highest priest of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism)
- Dom Justo Takayama Ukon
- Mary Baker Eddy (founded Christian Science)
- Billy Graham
- Henry VIII (founded Anglicanism)
- L. Ron Hubbard (founded Scientology)
- Jesus (founder and central figure of Christianity)
- Jim Jones (cult leader of the People's Temple; responsible for the Jonestown massacre)
- John Lewis
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Laozinote
- Anton LaVey (founded LaVeyan Satanism)
- Charles Manson (cult leader of the Manson Family; responsible for a number of horrific murders carried out by the Family)
- Martin Luther (founder of Lutheranism and important figure of Protestantism)
- Moses (important figure to all Abrahamic religions, and founder of Ancient Judaism)
- Mother Teresa
- The Apostle Paul (wrote 1/3rd of the New Testament)
- The Prophet Muhammad (founded Islam)
- Patron Saints
- The Pope (highest priest of Roman Catholic Christianity)
- Pythagoras (founded his own cult)
- Grigori Rasputin
- Cardinal Richelieu (more important as a head of state than as a religious figure)
- The Rulers of North Korea (revered as gods by their people)
- Albert Schweitzer
- Haile Selassie (worshipped as a deity by Rastafarians, though not with his approval)
- Joseph Smith (founded Mormonism, or LDS movement)
- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
- Desmond Tutu
- John Wesley
- John Wycliffe
- Zarathustra
- Huldrych Zwingli
