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Born August 23, 1744 • England
Died April 11, 1833 (aged 88) • London • England
George Whitefield
George Whitefield
British clergyman
George Fox
George Fox
English religious leader
Latimer, detail of a panel painting by an unknown artist, 1555; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Latimer
English Protestant
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
Andrewes, Lancelot
Lancelot Andrewes
English theologian
Nowell, Alexander
Alexander Nowell
English priest
Thomas Bray
British minister
Charles Simeon
British clergyman
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
American evangelist
Vieira, António
António Vieira
Portuguese author and diplomat
St. John of Ávila
Spanish religious reformer
Amanda Smith
American religious leader
Dwight L. Moody
Dwight L. Moody
American evangelist
Nilson do Amaral Fanini
Brazilian religious leader
Sunday, Billy
Billy Sunday
American evangelist
John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum
John Bunyan
English author
Patron saint of Ireland
St. Patrick
bishop and patron saint of Ireland
St. Boniface
Saint Boniface
English missionary
Booth, William
William Booth
British minister
William Carey.
William Carey
British missionary