List of Methodists

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.

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Early leaders

Early women preachers

Clergy

Bishops

Missionaries

Theologians
Main article: List of Methodist theologians

Laity

Women Lay Leaders
  • Belle Harris Bennett (1852–1922) – missionary and suffragist from Richmond Kentucky who led the Southern Methodist Church reform giving women full laity rights in 1919
  • Eliza Bennis (1725-1802) - early Irish convert (1769) and leader in Limerick and Waterford

Educators
  • Dr. Henry N. Snyder (1865–1949) – educator and author who served as president of Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC from 1902 until his retirement in 1942

Entertainers

Politicians
  • David Hallam – British Member of the European Parliament and Methodist Local Preacher
  • Paul Boateng – lay preacher who became Britain's first black Cabinet minister in 1997
  • Colin Breed – lay preacher and British Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet member
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham – helped found a Methodist church in New Waverly, Texas; political figure who worked to uplift the standard of living for the disenfranchised
  • Isaac Foot – Vice President of the Methodist Conference (1937–38) and President of the Liberal Party (UK) (1947)
  • John Karefa-Smart – Sierra Leonese foreign minister and Methodist elder
  • Robert Newbald Kay – British Liberal MP. Also a member of the Methodist Conference who was important to the Methodist chapel in Acomb, North Yorkshire.
  • Nelson Mandela -South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
  • Edmund Marshall – Methodist local preacher, ecumenical adviser to the Bishop of Wakefield and former MP.
  • William McKinley – 25th President of the United States
  • Florence Paton – lay preacher, British Labour party
  • Newton Rowell – leading lay figure in Canada's Methodist church and a politician
  • Frederick Stewart (Australian politician) – Australian Cabinet minister and lay preacher
  • Boris Trajkovski – President of the Church Council of the Macedonian Evangelical Methodist Church and second President of the Republic of Macedonia.
  • Taufa'ahau Tupou IV – lay preacher in the Free Wesleyan Church and former King of Tonga
  • Feng Yuxiang – General of the Zhili Clique and later founder of the Guominjun, known as the "Christian General" and "Backstabbing General"

Scientists

Writers (including hymn writers)

Fictional characters
  • Superman – also known as Clark Kent or Kal-El. Superman is the archetypal costumed super-hero. He is clearly the most influential character in the comic book super-hero genre. The character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both of whom were Jewish. The character of Superman, however, has always been depicted as having been raised with a solidly Protestant upbringing by his adoptive Midwestern parents – Jonathan and Martha Kent. Of Clark's parents, Martha is the more devout churchgoer. Clark Kent was raised as a Methodist. The Kents are Methodists, although Jonathan is not as regular a churchgoer as his wife.
  • Superboy – also known as Conner Kent or Kon-El Superboy is a clone made from the DNA of Superman (who was raised as a Methodist) and Lex Luthor (a Nietzschean atheist). Superboy was being raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who were also the adoptive parents of Clark Kent, the Kryptonian infant orphan who grew up to be Superman.
  • Jonathan and Martha Kent – Clark and Conner Kent's adopted parents.
  • Supergirl – real name is Linda Danvers, the fictional character of Supergirl (the post-Crisis version written prominently by Peter David during the late 1980s and 1990s) was an active Methodist. Supergirl's minister, Rev. Larry Varvel, was based on a real-life Methodist minister of the same name.
  • Hank, Peggy, and Bobby Hill along with majority of King of the Hill characters – attend Arlen First Methodist Church.
  • Amanda Waller – also known as The Wall, White Queen, and Black King—leader of the Suicide Squad and Checkmate
  • Samuel and Rose Sayer – Methodist missionaries played by Robert Morley and Katharine Hepburn in John Huston's film adaption of C. S. Forester's novel, The African Queen.
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