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480 - July 11, 543Founder of 12 monasteries in Italy which would become the Rule of St. Benedict
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Isidore of Seville
560 - Apr. 4 636Archbishop of Seville and often viewed as the last Scholar of the Ancient World
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John Wycliffe
1320 - Dec. 31, 1384Theologian, Preacher, and Translator of the Bible into English
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Joan of Arc
Jan. 6, 1412 - May 30, 1431Defender of and Warrior for France during the Hundred Year War
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Ulrich Zwingli
Jan. 1, 1484 - Oct. 11, 1531Pastor, Theologian, and Leader of the Reformation in Switzerland
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Thomas Cranmer
July 2, 1489 - Mar. 21, 1556 Leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of CanterburyMORE





Blaise Pascal
June 19, 1623 - Aug. 19, 1662 Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer, and PhilosopherMORE





Jonathan Edwards
Oct. 5, 1703 - Mar. 22, 1758Pastor during the America's First Great Awakening
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Isaac Backus
Jan. 9, 1724 - Nov. 20, 1806Preacher who campaigned against state-established churches
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John Newton
July 24, 1725 - Dec. 21, 1807Slave Ship Captain turned Minister and Writer of "Amazing Grace"
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Richard Allen
Feb. 14, 1760 - Mar. 26, 1831Preacher and Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
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William Wilberforce
August 24, 1759 - July 29, 1833Politician who single-handedly abolished Great Britain's Slave Trade
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William Carey
August 17, 1761 - June 9, 1834Missionary, founder of first college in India and founding member of Baptist Missionary Society
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Charles Simeon
Sept. 24, 1759 - Nov. 1, 1836Pastor and a Founder of the Church Missionary Society
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John Henry Hopkins
Jan. 30, 1792 - Jan. 9, 1868First Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
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George Mueller
Sept. 27, 1805 - Mar. 10, 1898Founder of Orphanages and Schools through England
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Alexander Crummell
Mar. 3, 1819 - Sept. 10, 1898Founding pastor of St Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington D.C.
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Annie Armstrong
July 11, 1850 - Dec. 20, 1938Missionary and Founder of the Woman's Missionary Movement
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Feb. 4, 1906 - Apr. 9, 1945German Lutheran Pastor, Theologian and Anti-Nazi Dissident
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Lillian Hunt Trasher
Sept. 27, 1887 - Dec. 17, 1961 Missionary and Founder of the first Christian Orphanage in EgyptMORE







Charles E. Fuller
Apr. 25, 1887 - Mar. 18, 1968Radio Evangelist and Founder of Fuller Seminary
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Dorothy Day
Nov. 8, 1897 - Nov. 29, 1980Journalist, Social Activist and Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
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Jean Donovan
Apr. 10, 1953 - Dec. 2, 1980Missionary to El Salvador volunteering to feed the poor during the country's civil war
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Rich Mullins
Oct. 21, 1955 - Sept. 19, 1997Musician, Composer and Music Teacher to Navajo children
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Allan Sandage
June 18, 1926 - Nov. 13, 2010Astronomer who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe
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Jack Heaslip
Feb. 21, 1944 - Feb. 21, 2015Parish Pastor and notably influential to the band U2
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John Chacha
Jan. 15, 1955 - Apr. 16, 2015Missionary and Founder of Teamwork City of Hope in Tanzania
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