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, teached, 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, Buddishm, Taoism and Shintoism: priests, swamis, yogis, fakirs, gurus,...
We also list prophets, preachers, mystics, occultists and cult leaders in general here.
- Abraham (Important figure in Abrahamic religions)
- Johnny Appleseed
- Thomas Becket
- Helena Blavatsky
- Cesare Borgia
- Buddha (Founded Buddhism)
- John Calvin (Founded Calvinism)
- Aleister Crowley (Founded Thelema)
- Confuciusnote
- The Dalai Lama
- Dom Justo Takayama Ukon
- Mary Baker Eddy (Founded Christian Science)
- Billy Graham
- Henry VIII (Founded Anglicanism)
- L. Ron Hubbard (Founded Scientology)
- Jesus (Founder and Important figure in Christianity)
- Jim Jones
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Laozinote
- Anton Lavey
- Charles Manson
- Martin Luther (Founded Lutheranism and Important figure of Protestantism)
- Moses (Important figure to all Abrahamic religions and founder of Ancient Judaism)
- Mother Teresa
- The Prophet Muhammad (Founded Islam)
- Patron Saints
- The Pope (Head of all Catholicism)
- Pythagoras (Founded his own cult)
- Rasputin the Mad Monk
- Cardinal Richelieu
- 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)
- Desmond Tutu
- John Wesley
- John Wycliffe
- Zarathustra
- Huldrych Zwingli
