This is a list of people who are notable due to their influence on the popularity or development of evangelical Christianity or for their professed evangelicalism.
Historical
(This list is organized chronologically by birth)
- William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), first published use of the term evangelical in English (1531)
- John Bunyan (1628–1688), persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress
- Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great Awakening
- John Wesley (1703–1791), English clergyman; founder of Methodism
- Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English clergyman; brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism
- George Whitefield (1714–1770), English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley
- Isaac Backus (1724–1806), advocate of the separation of church and state
- Henry Venn (1725–1797), founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain
- John Newton (1725–1807), Scottish clergyman, author of Amazing Grace
- William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet/author of numerous hymns, including "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
- Francis Asbury (1745–1816), founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- William Wilberforce (1759–1833), worked to abolish slavery in the British Empire
- Henry Thornton (1760–1815), banker, philanthropist, reformer and Member of Parliament
- Richard Allen (1760–1831), founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination (1816)
- William Carey, (1761–1834) British missionary to India. Known as the "father of modern missions"
- Nathan Bangs (1778–1862), editor of the Christian Advocate, president of Wesleyan University
- Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"
- Henry Venn (1796–1873), grandson of Henry Venn, pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843), Scottish preacher and minister of St Peter's, Dundee
- Joseph M. Scriven (1819–1886), Irish poet, moved to Canada and wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- William Henry Green (1825–1900), chairman of the Old Testament committee for the American Standard Version (1901)
- Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1899) and Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), leaders in the Holiness movement
- William Booth (1829–1912) and Catherine Booth (1829–1890), founders of The Salvation Army.
- James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission
- Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), English Baptist preacher and advocate of Calvinism
- Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899), American evangelist, pastor and educator
Twentieth century
(This list is organized chronologically by birth)
- Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), blind American writer of many famous hymns including "Blessed Assurance"
- Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910), Scottish Baptist minister
- Joseph Parker (1830-1902), theologian, Congregationalist minister, pastor of City Temple
- Edward McKendree Bounds, (1835-1913), American author and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy
- Phineas F. Bresee, (1838–1915), founder of the Church of the Nazarene
- Albert Benjamin Simpson, (1843–1919), preacher, writer, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
- Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924), was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style served as a model for Pentecostalism.
- William Mitchell Ramsay, (1851–1939), archaeologist known for his expertise in Asia Minor
- R. A. Torrey (1856–1928), American evangelist, pastor and educator and one of the founders of modern evangelical fundamentalism
- Oswald Thompson Allis (1856–1930), co-founder of Westminster Theological Seminary
- Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), linguist committed to defending the reliability of the Hebrew Bible
- Charles Studd (1860–1931), missionary in China, India and the Congo, founder of WEC International
- Billy Sunday (1862–1935), American evangelist and proponent of Prohibition
- William Irvine (1863–1947), Scottish evangelist, founder of the Cooneyites and Two by Twos sects
- G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945), British evangelist and pastor of Westminster Chapel
- Edward Cooney (1867–1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyites and Go-Preachers sects
- Harry Ironside (1876–1951), evangelist and pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago (1930–48).
- Karl Barth (1886–1968), leader of dialectical theology and author of Church Dogmatics
- Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960), Japanese evangelist and social reformer
- Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), Pentecostal preacher and founder of Foursquare Church
- Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929?), Indian missionary
- Clarence Bouma (1891–1962), first president of the Evangelical Theological Society
- William F. Albright (1891–1971), ceramics expert, founder of the biblical archaeology movement
- Henri Lanctin (1892-1986), French Protestant evangelist active in Canada
- Donald Barnhouse (1895–1960), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, founder of Eternity magazine
- D.P. Thomson (1896–1974), Scottish evangelist, exponent of visitation and lay evangelism, Warden of the St Ninian's Training Centre, Crieff
- Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963), preacher, author of The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy
- Martyn Lloyd Jones (1899–1981), reformed preacher at Westminster Chapel
- Frank E. Gaebelein (1899–1983), founding headmaster of The Stony Brook School, general editor of the Expositor's Bible Commentary
- John Sung (1901-1944), Chinese evangelist
- Frank Jenner (1903–1977), English Australian evangelist
- Bakht Singh (1903-2000), pioneer of the Indian Church movement
- Harold Ockenga (1905–1985), first president of the National Association of Evangelicals
- James Gordon Lindsay (1906–1973), revivalist preacher, author, and founder of Christ for the Nations Institute
- Carl Fredrik Wisløff (1908–2004), theologian, professor in church history, preacher in Norwegian Lutheran Mission
- William M. Branham (1909–1965), preacher and prophet, pacesetter and initiator of the Tent Revival Era of the 1940s and 1950s
- Merrill Unger (1909–1980), Old Testament professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, defender of biblical inerrancy
- F. F. Bruce (1910–1990), apologist, one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible
- A. A. Allen (1911–1970), was a minister with a Pentecostal ministry, associated with the "Voice of Healing" movement.
- Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984), theologian, philosopher, founder of L'Abri, author of A Christian Manifesto
- Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003), founding editor of Christianity Today
- Robert Pierce (1914–1978), founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse
- Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), biblical scholar and translator who served on the board of the American Bible Society
- Gleason Archer (1916–2004), theologian, educator, and author
- T. L. Osborn (1923–2013), American Pentecostal evangelist, singer, author, teacher and designer.
- D. James Kennedy (1930–2007), founder of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Knox Theological Seminary
- Jerry Falwell (1933–2007), founder of Liberty University and the Moral Majority
- James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church.
- Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995), minister, educator, apologist, and a major figure in Christian Reconstructionism