religious figure

C605 concept

A religious figure is an individual recognized within a faith tradition as a spiritual leader, teacher, or exemplar who guides, influences, or embodies the beliefs and practices of that religion.

Aliases (50)

rabbi ×40
Church Father ×34
Christian monk ×18
religious reformer ×16
Biblical figure ×15
Christian bishop ×15
Christian minister ×15
Presbyterian minister ×13
monk ×13
Islamic scholar ×12
Eastern Orthodox saint ×11
Anglican priest ×10
Protestant reformer ×10
Roman Catholic priest ×10
missionary ×10
Christian religious title ×9
Sufi mystic ×8
Catholic cleric ×7
Christian mystic ×7
Jewish mystic ×7
ancient Egyptian deity ×7
founder of religious order ×6
Desert Father ×5
Islamic religious leader ×5
Latin Church Father ×5
Talmudist ×5
Christian religious leader ×4
Hindu saint ×4
Reformation leader ×4
evangelist ×4
preacher ×4
priest ×4
spiritual leader ×4
spiritual teacher ×4
Christian religious figure ×3
Pilgrim leader ×3
ascetic writer ×3
religious founder ×3
spiritual guide ×3
16th-century religious leader ×2
Apostolic Father ×2
Catholic nun ×2
Catholic religious order member ×2
Christian evangelist ×2
Christian hermit ×2
Christian leader ×2
Christian reformer ×2
Eastern Christian monk ×2
Eastern Christian saint ×2
Hindu monk ×2

Instances (489)

Jacob ("figure in the Hebrew Bible")
Maimonides ("rabbi")
Moses ("Torah figure")
Saadia Gaon ("rabbi")
scribes of Judah ("religious functionaries")
King Jehoiachin of Judah ("Biblical figure")
Book of Ezekiel ("Major Prophet")
John Knox ("Protestant reformer")
Eusebius of Caesarea ("Church Father")
Lactantius ("Church Father")
King Zedekiah of Judah ("Biblical figure")
Mary
Richard Baxter ("Christian minister")
Athanasius of Alexandria ("Church Father")
John Owen ("pastor")
Albertus van Raalte ("Christian minister")
Lyman Beecher ("Presbyterian minister")
Thomas Campbell ("Presbyterian minister")
St. Augustine ("Church Father")
John Chrysostom ("Church Father")
Basil of Caesarea ("Church Father")
John Witherspoon ("Presbyterian minister")
Gregory of Nazianzus ("Church Father")
Gregory of Nyssa ("Church Father")
Mikael Agricola ("Lutheran clergyman")
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ("Roman Catholic priest")
Ambrose of Milan ("Christian bishop")
José María Morelos y Pavón ("Roman Catholic priest")
Irenaeus of Lyons ("Christian bishop")
Origen ("Church Father")
Tertullian ("Church Father")
Ignatius of Loyola ("founder of religious order")
Sudama (in Hindu tradition) ("devotee in Hindu tradition")
Swami Vivekananda ("Hindu monk")
Jerome ("Church Father")
Cyril of Alexandria ("Church Father")
Suffering servant ("prophetic figure")
Shimon bar Yochai (traditional attribution of Zohar) ("Tannaitic sage")
Adi Shankaracharya ("Hindu monk")
Ignatius of Antioch ("Christian bishop")
St. Peter of Damascus ("Eastern Christian monk")
Polycarp of Smyrna ("Christian bishop")
Isaac Luria ("rabbi")
Joseph Gikatilla ("Jewish mystic")
Ramanujacharya ("Hindu religious leader")
infant John the Baptist ("religious figure in Christian art")
Clement of Rome ("Apostolic Father")
Moses de León ("rabbi")
Justin Martyr ("Church Father")
Adam
St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
Abhinavagupta ("Kashmir Shaivism philosopher")
Swami Prabhupada ("Hindu spiritual teacher")
Nachmanides (Ramban) ("rabbi")
Dwight L. Moody ("evangelist")
Supreme Leader ("religious leadership position")
Abraham Abulafia ("Jewish mystic")
Moshe Cordovero ("rabbi")
Morgenstern ("rabbi")
Evagrius Ponticus ("Christian monk")
Philip Melanchthon ("Protestant reformer")
Nicolaus Copernicus ("Catholic cleric")
St. Maximus the Confessor ("Christian mystic")
St. John Climacus ("Christian monk")
Rumi ("Sufi mystic")
St. Isaac the Syrian ("Christian monk")
St. Symeon the New Theologian ("Christian mystic")
Namdev ("Bhakti movement saint")
Junípero Serra ("Roman Catholic priest")
Apostle Bartholomew ("missionary")
John the Baptist ("Jewish preacher")
St. Gregory Palamas ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
Eknath ("Hindu saint")
St. Mark the Ascetic ("Christian monk")
St. Hesychios the Priest ("Eastern Christian monk")
Ramdas Swami ("Hindu saint")
St. Theophan the Recluse ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
Guarino Guarini ("Roman Catholic priest")
John of Patmos ("Biblical figure")
Cardinal Mazarin ("Roman Catholic priest")
Yosef Karo ("rabbi")
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ("Islamic scholar")
Alexander of Alexandria ("Christian bishop")
Augustine of Hippo ("Church Father")
William Brewster ("Pilgrim leader")
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ("Jesuit priest")
Joseph Lowery ("Christian minister")
John Wesley ("Christian minister")
Sixtus V ("16th-century religious leader")
Saint Methodius ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
Billy Graham ("Christian evangelist")
Richard Price ("Presbyterian minister")
pir ("spiritual guide")
al‑Ghazali ("Sufi mystic")
John Stott ("Anglican priest")
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ("Roman Catholic priest")
Saint Benedict of Nursia ("Christian monk")
Ibn Arabi ("Sufi mystic")
Eddy ("American religious leader")
al‑Junayd ("Sufi mystic")
B. R. Ambedkar ("Buddhist leader")
al‑Hallaj ("Sufi mystic")
Martyn Lloyd-Jones ("Christian minister")
Nefertem ("ancient Egyptian deity")
House of Galen ("Catholic cleric")
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani ("Islamic scholar")
Norman Thomas ("Presbyterian minister")
Luke the Evangelist ("evangelist")
Alexander Nevsky ("Russian Orthodox saint")
Mary Baker Eddy ("religious founder")
Luke ("Biblical figure")
Good Shepherd ("title of Jesus Christ")
Saint Joseph ("Christian religious figure")
Fatimah bint Muhammad ("religious figure in Islam")
Joseph Karo ("rabbi")
Rabia al‑Adawiyya ("Sufi mystic")
Fred Rogers ("Presbyterian minister")
Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang ("Christian religious leader")
Fred ("Presbyterian minister")
Leo Baeck ("rabbi")
Wyatt Tee Walker ("Christian minister")
Jesse ("Biblical figure")
Saint Francis of Assisi ("Christian mystic")
Helena Dragaš ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
Dalai Lama ("Buddhist religious leader")
Jonathan Sacks ("rabbi")
Gregor Mendel ("monk")
George Walker (minister) ("Presbyterian minister")
John Seddon of Warrington ("religious educator")
Philip Holland ("Presbyterian minister")
Lydia ("Biblical figure")
Saint Nicholas of Myra ("Christian bishop")
George Whitefield ("Anglican priest")
Catholicos of All Armenians ("religious leadership position")
Mesrop Mashtots ("monk")
Constantina ("Christian figure")
the Devil
Rabbi Joachim Prinz ("rabbi")
Grigori Rasputin ("faith healer")
Jehan Cauvin ("Christian reformer")
Mordecai Kaplan ("rabbi")
Isabelo de los Reyes ("religious reformer")
William Farel ("Reformation leader")
Thomas Cranmer ("Protestant reformer")
Sarada Devi ("Hindu saint")
Martin Bucer ("Protestant reformer")
Pope Leo I ("Church Father")
Pope Clement VII ("16th-century religious leader")
Abraham Geiger ("rabbi")
David Einhorn ("rabbi")
Eugene Borowitz ("rabbi")
Sally Priesand ("rabbi")
Debendranath Tagore ("religious reformer")
Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark ("Christian religious title")
Isaac Mayer Wise ("rabbi")
Patrick Dodson ("Roman Catholic priest")
Stephen S. Wise ("rabbi")
William Whewell ("Anglican priest")
Saint Dominic ("founder of religious order")
Moses the Black ("Christian monk")
Poemen the Great ("Christian monk")
Savior ("Christian religious title")
Vinoba Bhave ("spiritual leader")
Saint Anne ("Biblical figure (traditional)")
Saint Mary
Jacob of Serugh ("Church Father")
Narsai ("Church Father")
Shenoute of Atripe ("Coptic monk")
Kaufmann Kohler ("rabbi")
Ephrem the Syrian ("Church Father")
William Tyndale ("Reformation leader")
Jonas Wendell ("19th-century religious leader")
Muhammad ("founder of a religion")
Zerubbabel ("Biblical figure")
Joshua son of Jehozadak ("Biblical figure")
Aphrahat ("Church Father")
Anthony the Great ("Christian monk")
Haj Amin al-Husseini ("Islamic religious leader")
Sarah Pierpont Edwards ("American religious figure")
Macarius of Egypt ("Christian monk")
John of Antioch ("Christian bishop")
Saint Michael
David Livingstone ("missionary")
Francisco de Vitoria ("Roman Catholic priest")
Lily Montagu ("religious reformer")
Francisco Suárez ("Roman Catholic priest")
Mahavira ("spiritual teacher")
Mark the Evangelist ("Christian evangelist")
John Mark ("Biblical figure")
Zebedee ("Biblical figure")
Ishmael
Frederick Buechner ("Presbyterian minister")
John Cassian ("Christian monk")
Tirthankaras ("spiritual teacher")
Dioscorus ("character in Christian hagiography")
Archimandrite Ignaty ("Russian cleric")
Saint Chad ("missionary")
Palladius of Helenopolis ("Christian bishop")
Rufinus of Aquileia ("Latin Church Father")
Ibrahim ("religiousFigure")
Menno Simons ("religious reformer")
Regina Jonas ("rabbi")
Meletius of Antioch ("Christian bishop")
Nectarius of Constantinople ("Christian bishop")
John Tillotson ("Anglican priest")
Jakob Ammann ("religious reformer")
Rif ("rabbi")
Tur ("rabbi")
Pope Gregory the Dialogist ("Latin Church Father")
John Carver ("Pilgrim leader")
Rabbi Moshe Isserles ("rabbi")
Patriarch Hermogenes ("Russian Orthodox saint")
Gregory the Great ("Latin Church Father")
Dominie Hendrik Scholte ("Christian minister")
Pastor Russell ("Christian minister")
Johannes Agricola ("Protestant reformer")
Warnock ("Christian minister")
Guru Nanak ("spiritual teacher")
Guru Granth Sahib ("Guru of the Sikhs")
Abel ("Biblical figure")
Nut ("ancient Egyptian deity")
Jim Casy ("preacher")
Shakyamuni Buddha ("religious founder")
Christian saints ("category of religious figures")
Brother Cadfael ("monk")
Saint Lawrence ("person venerated in the Catholic Church")
John Lydgate ("monk")
Guru Gobind Singh ("spiritual leader")
Venerable Bede ("monk")
Horus ("ancient Egyptian deity")
Katharina von Bora ("former nun")
Jethro ("priest")
George Foreman ("Christian minister")
Geb ("ancient Egyptian deity")
Usman dan Fodio ("Islamic scholar")
Rule for Anchoresses ("spiritual guide")
Manuel da Nóbrega ("missionary")
Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad ("Druze religious figure")
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin ("Druze religious leader")
Thaddaeus ("Christian religious figure")
Saint Isaac of Dalmatia ("Christian monk")
José de Anchieta ("Roman Catholic saint")
Martin of Tours ("monk")
Saint David ("monk")
John Calvin ("Protestant reformer")
Huldrych ("Protestant reformer")
Abraham Joshua Heschel ("rabbi")
Saint Yared ("Christian religious figure")
Eutychius of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
Theodore of Mopsuestia ("Church Father")
David Hoyle ("Anglican priest")
Teresa ("Catholic nun")
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon ("rabbi")
George Fox ("Christian religious leader")
Seth ("Biblical figure")
Edmund Nelson ("Anglican priest")
Mpho Andrea Tutu ("Anglican priest")
John Newton ("Anglican priest")
Jehoiakim ("Biblical figure")
Alexander Campbell ("religious reformer")
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros ("religious reformer")
Pelagius ("monk")
Charlotte of Bourbon ("former nun")
Heinrich Bullinger ("Christian minister")
Rabbi Akiva ("Tannaitic sage")
Thomas Kinnicut Beecher ("Christian minister")
Jesus Christ
Virgin Mary
Robert Wilberforce ("Anglican priest")
Charles Wesley ("Anglican priest")
Schwarzschild ("rabbi")
Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi ("Islamic scholar")
Mother Teresa ("Catholic nun")
Saint Clare of Assisi ("founder of religious order")
Plutarch ("priest")
Alcuin of York ("Christian monk")
Amun ("ancient Egyptian deity")
Paul the Deacon ("monk")
Wibert of Ravenna (Antipope Clement III) ("Catholic cleric")
de Bèze ("Protestant reformer")
Leander of Seville ("Christian bishop")
Aurelius Ambrosius ("Christian bishop")
Kobo Daishi ("Japanese Buddhist monk")
Yitzhak-Meir Levin ("rabbi")
Pyrrhus of Constantinople ("7th-century religious leader")
Tarasios of Constantinople ("Christian bishop")
Saint John ("evangelist")
Yehuda Leib Fishman (Maimon) ("rabbi")
Augustine of Canterbury ("Christian monk")
Silas ("monk")
Ali ibn Abi Talib ("Islamic religious leader")
Grand Ayatollah ("religious authority")
Saint Simeon the Myrrh-streaming ("monk")
Theophanes the Cretan ("Orthodox monk")
Hasan ibn Ali ("Islamic religious leader")
Husayn ibn Ali ("Islamic religious figure")
Ahmet Yesevi ("Sufi mystic")
Dominican friars ("Catholic religious order member")
Reverend Jonas Clarke ("Christian minister")
Pope Celestine IV ("Catholic cleric")
St. Brendan the Navigator ("Christian monk")
St Mary
Musa ("religious figure in Islam")
Pope Alexander IV ("Catholic cleric")
Saint Sava ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
William Bradford ("Pilgrim leader")
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī ("rabbi")
Rashi ("rabbi")
Hoshea ("Biblical figure")
Noah ("Torah figure")
Emir of Kano ("Islamic religious leader")
Conscience ("spiritual guide")
Saint Columba ("monk")
Joseph ("Biblical figure")
Osiris ("ancient Egyptian deity")
Martin Luther ("Christian reformer")
Zoroaster ("religious reformer")
Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' ("Christian religious title")
Harun
William Smith ("Christian minister")
Brother Justin Crowe in Carnivàle ("preacher")
Jabir ibn Hayyan ("Islamic scholar")
Barton W. Stone ("Christian minister")
Giovanni Angelo Medici ("Catholic cleric")
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo ("missionary")
Saint Baldred of Tyninghame ("missionary")
Jakob Böhme ("Christian mystic")
Archbishop of Athens and All Greece ("Christian religious title")
Karl Rahner ("priest")
Akali Phula Singh
Gersonides ("Talmudist")
Samuel ibn Tibbon ("rabbi")
Patriarch of All Romania ("Christian religious title")
Capuchin friars ("Catholic religious order member")
Patriarch of Bulgaria ("Christian religious title")
Robert de Sorbon ("Roman Catholic priest")
Abraham
Ashbel Green ("Presbyterian minister")
Saint Barbara ("legendary Christian figure")
Gorakhpur ("Hindu yogi and saint")
Boutes ("priest")
Huldrych Zwingli ("Swiss Protestant Reformer")
Saint Nino ("missionary")
Leopold Zunz ("rabbi")
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ("Christian mystic")
William Hunt (bishop) ("Christian religious leader")
Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi ("Christian religious title")
Abdullah ibn Ibad ("Islamic religious leader")
Peter of Sebaste ("Christian bishop")
Ra ("ancient Egyptian deity")
John of Damascus ("Christian monk")
Madonna
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki ("rabbi")
Mark of Ephesus ("Eastern Orthodox saint")
Bishop of Lugdunum ("Christian religious title")
Saint Agnes of Rome ("person venerated in the Catholic Church")
Ira Eisenstein ("rabbi")
Samuel Holdheim ("rabbi")
William Robertson ("Presbyterian minister")
Godfrey of Bouillon ("Christian leader")
Myles Coverdale ("Protestant reformer")
Mikael Olavinpoika ("Lutheran clergyman")
Patriarch of Jerusalem ("Christian religious title")
Ibn Khaldun ("Islamic scholar")
Ibn al-Nafis ("Islamic scholar")
Pope Alexander VII ("Catholic cleric")
Dara Shikoh ("Islamic scholar")
Pope Celestine III ("Christian religious leader")