This is our full list of representative Christians through the centuries.

It’s a list that will certainly grow, as we work through more stories and as we add contemporary Christians who go onto be part of the great cloud of witnesses that is referred to in Scripture. To read more about any of the Christians below, please click on their image. you can then move back and forth via the post links below each article or return to searching with links in the header and footer. The order has a bit of theology embedded in it. We choose with the birth day or year of the person, not their death day. We understand that God knit us together and called us well before we returned a call to him, that he knew us even when we didn’t fully know him. We trust the multiple ways to search will alleviate any misgivings you might find in the order.

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Simon Peter

Paul of Tarsus

100

Justin Martyr

155

Tertullian of Carthage

274

Alban

296

Athanasius of Alexandria

347

John Chrysostom

354

Augustine of Hippo

387

Patrick

480

Benedict of Nursia

521

Columba of Iona

560

Isidore of Seville

675

Venerable Bede

1033

Anselm of Canterbury

1090

Bernard of Clairvaux

1098

Hildegard of Bingen

1119

Thomas Becket

1181

Francis of Assisi

1225

Thomas Aquinas

1265

Dante Alighieri

1320

John Wycliffe

1347

Catherine of Siena

1369

Jan Hus

1412

Joan of Arc

1478

Thomas More

1483

Martin Luther

1484

Ulrich Zwingli

1489

Thomas Cranmer

1491

Ignatius of Loyola

1509

John Calvin

1514

John Knox

1521

Anne Askew

1593

George Herbert

1596

René Descartes

1612

Anne Bradstreet

1623

Blaise Pascal

1624

George Fox

1662

Samuel Wesley

1662

Matthew Henry

1674

Isaac Watts

1685

George Handel

1703

Jonathan Edwards

1703

John Wesley

1707

Charles Wesley

1711

John Francis Wade

1714

George Whitefield

1716

George Taylor

1719

James Smith

1721

Roger Sherman

1724

Isaac Backus

1725

John Newton

1725

John Morton

1728

Caesar Rodney

1733

George Read

1734

Thomas McKean

1734

Robert Morris

1737

Charles Carroll

1739

George Clymer

1742

Manasseh Cutler

1742

James Wilson

1745

Francis Asbury

1745

Benjamin Rush

1755

Richard Furman

1759

William Wilberforce

1759

Charles Simeon

1760

Richard Allen

1761

Willam Carey

1770

William Wordsworth

1773

Joseph Mohr

1775

Lyman Beecher

1785

Peter Cartwright

1792

John Henry Hopkins

1792

Charles Finney

1797

Sojourner Truth

1797

Theodore S. Wright

1801

John Henry Newman

1804

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

1805

George Mueller

1805

Angelina Grimké

1805

William Lloyd Garrison

1806

James Finn

1807

Phoebe Palmer

1807

Robert E. Lee

1809

Abraham Lincoln

1811

Harriett Beecher Stowe

1813

Søren Kierkegaard

1813

Henry Ward Beecher

1813

David Livingstone

1818

Frederick Douglass

1819

Alexander Crummell

1820

Florence Nightingale

1820

Fanny Crosby

1821

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821

George Williams

1822

Harriet Tubman

1824

Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

1828

Andrew Murray

1828

Horatio Spafford

1829

William Booth

1830

Christina Rossetti

1830

Oliver Otis Howard

1832

Thomas Baker

1837

D.L. Moody

1840

Lottie Moon

1848

Mary Slessor

1850

Annie Armstrong

1856

Charles H. Gabriel

1857

Milton Hershey

1860

C.T. Studd

1860

Anton Chekhov

1862

Billy Sunday

1866

Annie Johnson Flint

1870

William Seymour

1871

John Wesley Work Jr.

1874

Oswald Chambers

1874

Nikolai Berdyaev

1874

G.K. Chesterton

1878

Frank Buchman

1878

Harry Emerson Fosdick

1879

Clarence E. Macartney

1886

Karl Barth

1886

Paul Tillich

1887

Charles E. Fuller

1887

Lillian Hunt Trasher

1888

T.S. Eliot

1891

William F. Albright

1892

Reinhold Niebuhr

1892

Corrie ten Boom

1892

J.R.R. Tolkien

1893

Dorothy L. Sayers

1897

Dorothy Day

1897

A.W. Tozer

1898

C.S. Lewis

1899

Thomas A. Dorsey

1902

Kyrillos VI

1903

Malcolm Muggeridge

1904

Karl Rahner

1905

Harold J. Ockenga

1906

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1909

Simone Weil

1910

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

1911

Marshall McLuhan

1912

Jacques Ellul

1914

Robert Pierce

1915

Thomas Merton

1916

Walker Percy

1917

Louis Zamperini

1917

Bob Lindsey

1917

Óscar Romero

1918

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918

Billy Graham

1918

Oral Roberts

1920

Ruth Graham

1920

John Paul II

1920

P.D. James

1921

Truett Cathy

1921

John Stott

1925

Flannery O’Connor

1926

Allan Sandage

1926

Ivan Illich

1926

Elizabeth Alexandra

1927

Jim Elliot

1931

Maura Clarke

1932

Johnny Cash

1932

Eugene Peterson

1933

Jerry Falwell

1934

Brennan Manning

1934

John Wimber

1935

Tony Campolo

1936

James Dobson

1939

John F. MacArthur

1939

Maria Laura Mainetti

1939

Dorothy Kazel

1940

Ita Ford

1943

Charles Ballard

1944

Jack Heaslip

1947

Larry Norman

1950

Tim Keller

1953

Jean Donovan

1953

Keith Green

1955

Rick Elias

1955

John Chacha

1955

Rich Mullins

1991

John Allen Chau

1993

Charlie Kirk

Peter Cartwright

Methodist

September 1, 1785 - September 25, 1872

By Greg Jones

Peter Cartwright was a man forged by the frontier, a plainspoken, passionate, and fiercely convicted man. Born on September 1, 1785, in Amherst County, Virginia, Cartwright came of age in the raw borderland of Logan County, Kentucky, where his family settled amid the hard edges of early American expansion. It was here, in the rough…

John Henry Hopkins

Episcopal

January 30, 1792 - January 9, 1868

By Zach Kincaid

John Henry Hopkins Jr. may not have a name the average man or woman would recognize, but he was the author of a work virtually everyone knows, the Christmas carol We Three Kings of Orient Are. While he wrote other carols, hymns and songs, it is this Christmastime favorite that will forever afford him a…

Charles Finney

Congregational

August 29, 1792 - August 16, 1875

By Greg Jones

Charles Grandison Finney was one of the most influential figures of the Second Great Awakening, a man whose faith was not merely a private conviction but a force that reshaped the moral landscape of the United States. His preaching, revival meetings, and later academic career at Oberlin College were all animated by a singular belief:…

John Henry Newman

Anglican, Catholic

February 21, 1801 - August 11, 1890

By Zach Kincaid

John Henry Newman began his career as an Anglican churchman and scholar and ended it as a Roman Catholic cardinal. He was born in London on February 21, 1801, and at the age of fifteen, he enrolled in Trinity College, beginning an association with Oxford University that would last for nearly thirty years. Newman moved from Trinity to…

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

Anglican

December 13, 1804 - December 31, 1891

By Zach Kincaid

Crowther was born with the name Ajayi in Osogun, in the Egba section of the Yoruba people, in what is now western Nigeria. When about 13, he was taken as a slave by Fulani and Yoruba Muslim raiders and sold several times before being purchased by Portuguese traders for the transatlantic market. His ship was…

William Lloyd Garrison

Nondenominational

December 10, 1805 - May 24, 1879

By Greg Jones

William Lloyd Garrison, born in 1805 in the seaside town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, came of age in a nation teetering between the ideals of liberty and the brutal realities of human bondage. The son of a struggling Baptist mother and an absent father, Garrison was raised in poverty and piety. His mother, Frances Maria Garrison,…