List of Popular Baptists
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David Platt pastor
David Joseph Platt is an American pastor. He is currently the president of the Southern Baptist Conventions International Mission Board, and he is also the author of the New York Times Best Seller Radical Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Platt released a followup book, Radical Together Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God in April 2011. And in February 2013, he released Follow Me A Call to Die. a Call to Live, which included an introduction by Francis Chan. Platt r....
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Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the Prince of Preachers. He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.....
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David Crockett Graham
David Crockett Graham , D.Sc., Ph.D., B.D., F.R.G.S. was a polymath American Baptist minister and missionary, educator, author, archeologist, anthropologist, naturalist and field collector in Szechuan Province, West China from 1911 to 1948. From 1921 to 1942, Graham collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution nearly 400,000 zoological specimens, including more than 230 new species and 9 new genera, of which 29 were named after him . From 1932 to 1942 he was curator of the Museum of Art, A....
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Henry Martin Tupper
Henry Martin Tupper D.D. was a Baptist minister who founded Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Beginning with bible and literacy classes in December 1865, it was the first university established for African Americans following the end of the civil war, and the oldest historically black college and university in the Southern United States, as well as one of the oldest coeducational universities in the country. When the institute moved into a new building in 1871, it was renamed as Shaw....
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Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the AfricanAmerican Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights, and the progression of political rights of African Americans in America. He was active working with world leaders, such as John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and John D. Rockefeller, in improving the social standing of minorities in politics, education, and business.....
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Francis Wayland
Francis Wayland , American Baptist educator and economist, was born in New York City, New York. He was president of Brown University and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island. In Washington, D.C., Wayland Seminary was established in 1867, primarily to educate former slaves, and was named in his honor. ....
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Howard Finster
Howard Finster was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Gardens, a folk art sculpture garden with over 46,000 pieces of art. His creations include outsider art, nave art, and visionary art. Finster first came to widespread notice in the 1980s with his album cover designs for R.E.M. and Talking Heads.....
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Oren B Cheney
Oren Burbank O. B. Cheney was an American politician, Free Will Baptist clergyman, and academic. He initially gained fame and influence in the 1850s through his religious leadership and academic endeavors. Cheney was a leader in the New England antislavery movement and played an active role in the empowerment of African Americans and women in the American Civil War and decades beyond. He served as a congressman in the Maine House of Representatives in 1851, through the Free Soil, Whig and Indep....
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Ezekiel Robinson
Ezekiel Gilman Robinson was an American Baptist clergyman, theologian and educator, born at Attleboro, Massachusetts, and educated at Brown University and at Newton Theological Institution. He preached at Norfolk, Virginia, and at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was professor of Hebrew and biblical interpretation in the Western Theological Seminary , and in 1849 accepted a call to a church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Three years later he was appointed professor of theology in Rochester Theological Seminary ....
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James Garrard
James Garrard was a farmer and Baptist minister who served as the second governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. Because of term limits imposed by the state constitution adopted in 1799, he was the last Kentucky governor elected to two consecutive terms until the restriction was eased by a 1992 amendment, allowing Paul E. Pattons reelection in 1999.....
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James Manning minister
James Manning was an American Baptist minister, educator and legislator from Providence, Rhode Island best known for being the first president of Brown University and one of its most involved founders. He was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. At the age of 18, he attended the Hopewell Academy in Hopewell, New Jersey under the direction of Reverend Isaac Eaton in preparation for his religious studies. In 1762, he graduated from the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.....
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Fred Luter
Fred J. Luter Jr. was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention on 2012 June 19. He is SBCs first AfricanAmerican president. According to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary president Daniel L. Akin, . . . the most significant event to happen in our history since our formation is Luters election.....
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Alfred G Jones
Alfred George Jones was a British baptist missionary to China. Jones had his own business in New Ross, Ireland which he delegated to his manager in order to go on his mission to China. He attended Lancashire Independent College, a dissenting academy from 1874 to 1876 and arrived in Yantai, Shandong in 1876. In the following year, he went to Qingzhou to assist Timothy Richard by keeping the accounts for an ongoing relief effort for the victims of the Northern Chinese Famine of 18761879. He conti....
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Jan Baptist van Helmont
Jan Baptist van Helmont was a Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be the founder of pneumatic chemistry. Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word gas into the vocabulary of scientists.....
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