List of Methodists
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This list deals with those who are notable in the history or culture of all Methodist churches. For other Methodists who are not notable in Methodist history or culture, see Category:Methodists.
Early women preachers
Clergy
- Bernhard Anderson – Old Testament scholar
- Ephraim Kingsbury Avery – New England minister long thought to be the first American clergyman tried for murder
- Elihu Bailey – Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Canaan Banana – first President of Zimbabwe
- John C. A. Barrett – Chairman of the World Methodist Council
- William Black (Methodist) – linked to Nova Scotia
- Henry Boehm – centenarian
- William Bramwell – 1790s revivalist preacher in Yorkshire
- George Bramwell Evens – nature writer of the Romani people
- Rev. Dr. Henry Brown – Methodist minister and author of The Impending Peril: Or, Methodism and Amusement
- William Gannaway Brownlow – Governor of Tennessee
- Byron Cage – gospel singer (African Methodist Episcopal Church)
- Thomas Charles – Welsh author. (Calvinistic Methodist)
- Zerah Colburn (math prodigy) – became a minister, after youth as a mental calculator
- Walter T. Colquitt – circuit-riding Methodist preacher who served in the US House of Representatives and the Senate.
- Thomas Mears Eddy – pastor
- William Edwards (architect) – Welsh designer of bridges
- Edward Eggleston – also author
- Calvin Fairbank – abolitionist
- Robert Newton Flew – theologian and ecumenist
- Wallace Wattles – New Thought pioneer, theologian and Christian Socialist - Famous for inspiring the blockbuster book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Author of Science of Getting Rich bestselling book 1910. Possibly the biggest selling author in the 20th and 21st Century who was a Methodist minister.
- Richard Watson – theology and president of the Methodist Conference
- Orange Scott – first president of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion
- Adam Crooks – Wesleyan Methodist Connexion
- Arno Clemens Gaebelein – also a writer
- Leslie Griffiths – life peer in the House of Lords
- Adam Hamilton (pastor) – senior pastor of the 17,000-member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas
- Harold P. Hamilton – Kentucky Wesleyan College President
- Hill, Rowland – founder of Surrey Chapel, London and early advocate of vaccination
- Silas Hocking – novelist and preacher
- Jabez Bunting – President of the Methodist Conference
- John Hogan – U.S. Congressman and preacher
- Andrew Hunter (Methodist preacher) – "Father of Arkansas Methodism" and a politician
- Leonard Isitt (minister) – New Zealand Methodist minister
- James W. Kemp – minister known for writing about Dr. Seuss as he relates to Christianity
- Samuel Kobia – General Secretary of the World Council of Churches
- Lowen Kruse – Nebraska state senator
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet – known as a humorist
- William Losee – Canadian circuit rider
- Sarah Mallett – preacher
- William Morley Punshon – preaching/lecturing
- Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow – first woman president of the Methodist Conference
- Egerton Ryerson – The former Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) was named after for him
- William Ryerson – political figure
- Tex Sample – sociologist of religion
- William J. Simmons – founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (suspended minister)
- Ndabaningi Sithole – founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union and a Methodist minister.
- John Karefa-Smart – leader of the United National People's Party of Sierra Leone
- Donald Soper – Christian socialist and pacifist
- Edward Sugden – first master of Queen's College (University of Melbourne)
- Wilbur Fisk Tillett – clergyman and educator
- Charles Tindley – gospel music composer
- Channing Heggie Tobias – member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights
- Simon Topping – activist on poverty causes like Make Poverty History
- Don Wildmon – Methodist pastor; founder of the conservative activist group American Family Association
- Cecil Williams – involved in HIV/AIDS causes
Bishops
- William Taylor (bishop) — Methodist missionary who established the first church in California and introduced Methodism to countries around the world.
- Richard Allen – founder of African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Sarah Allen – AME, founded the Daughters of the Conference
- Daniel Payne – AME, first African-American president of an African-American university, Wilberforce University
- Richard Whatcoat – third bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church
Missionaries
- Henry Appenzeller — missionary to Korea
- Joseph Beech – missionary to Sichuan, Western China
- George John Bond – missionary to China and Japan
- Henry Augustus Buchtel – did missionary work in Bulgaria, also a Governor of Colorado.
- James Calvert - missionary to Fiji
- Charles Cowman – missionary to Japan
- Lettie Cowman – missionary to Japan
- Henry Hare Dugmore – Wesleyan missionary and translator in South Africa
- James Endicott – missionary to Sichuan, Western China
- Alexander Robert Edgar – missionary to Australia. (convert from Anglicanism)
- Ailie Gale – missionary to China
- Francis Dunlap Gamewell – missionary to China
- E. Stanley Jones — missionary to India
- Leslie Gifford Kilborn – missionary to Sichuan, Western China
- Omar Leslie Kilborn – missionary to Sichuan, Western China
- James Hope Moulton – missionary known for studying/preaching to the Parsis
- Christoph Gottlob Müller – founded the Wesleyan Church in Germany.
- John Hunt (missionary) – one of the earliest missionaries in Fiji.
- Mary Reed – missionary to the lepers of India
- Susanna Carson Rijnhart – missionary to Tibet and Sichuan
- George Scott – missionary to Sweden
- Theo Sørensen – missionary to Tibet and Sichuan
- Martha Van Marter - American home missionary, editor, writer