| 1. | Athanasius - Five-time exile for fighting "orthodoxy" |
| 2. | Augustine of Hippo - Architect of the Middle Ages |
| 3. | John of Damascus - Image-conscious Arab |
| 4. | Anselm - Reluctant bishop with a remarkable mind |
| 5. | Thomas Aquinas - The brilliant "dumb ox" |
| 6. | Martin Luther - Passionate reformer |
| 7. | John Calvin - Father of the Reformed faith |
| 8. | Jacob Arminius - Irenic anti-Calvinist |
| 9. | Jonathan Edwards - America's greatest theologian |
| 10. | Karl Barth - Courageous theologian |
| 11. | Justin Martyr - Defender of the "true philosophy" |
| 12. | Clement of Alexandria - Theologian for the intelligentsia |
| 13. | Gregory Thaumaturgus - "The Wonder Worker" |
| 14. | Antony of Padua - "The hammer of heretics" |
| 15. | Blaise Pascal - Scientific and spiritual prodigy |
| 16. | George Whitefield - Sensational evangelist of Britain and America |
| 17. | Charles Finney - Father of American revivalism |
| 18. | Dwight L. Moody - Revivalist with a common touch |
| 19. | Billy Sunday - Salty evangelist |
| 20. | Billy Graham - Evangelist to millions |
| 21. | Ambrose of Milan - Most talented bishop of the early church |
| 22. | John Chrysostom - Early church's greatest preacher |
| 23. | Richard Baxter - Moderate in an age of extremes |
| 24. | John Newton - Reformed slave trader |
| 25. | Charles Simeon - Evangelical mentor and model |
| 26. | Lyman Beecher - Revivalist who moved with the times |
| 27. | Thomas Chalmers - Unrelenting advocate for the poor |
| 28. | John Nelson Darby - Father of dispensationalism |
| 29. | Charles Spurgeon - Finest nineteenth-century preacher |
| 30. | Harry Emerson Fosdick - Liberalism's popularizer |
| 31. | Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn - Dutch painter of the soul |
| 32. | Johann Sebastian Bach - "The Fifth Evangelist" |
| 33. | George Frideric Handel - Composer of Messiah |
| 34. | John Bunyan - Pilgrim who made progress in prison |
| 35. | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| 36. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Russian novelist of spiritual depth |
| 37. | George MacDonald - Fabled Victorian writer |
| 38. | G.K. Chesterton - "Enormous" essayist, poet, writer |
| 39. | Dorothy Sayers - Mystery writer and apologist |
| 40. | C.S. Lewis - Scholar, author, and apologist |
| 41. | Dante Alighieri - Worldly creator of divine verse |
| 42. | Geoffrey Chaucer - Medieval England's greatest storyteller |
| 43. | John Donne - Poet of God's love |
| 44. | George Herbert - England's greatest religious poet |
| 45. | John Milton - Puritan author of Paradise Lost |
| 46. | Anne Bradstreet - America's first poet |
| 47. | Isaac Watts - Father of English hymnody |
| 48. | Charles Wesley - Greatest hymn writer of all time |
| 49. | Fanny Crosby - Prolific and blind hymn writer |
| 50. | T.S. Eliot - Modernist poet |
| 51. | Menno Simons - Anabaptist peacemaker |
| 52. | John Knox - Presbyterian with a sword |
| 53. | John Smyth - The "Se-Baptist" |
| 54. | George Fox - First Friend |
| 55. | Nikolaus von Zinzendorf - Christ-centered Moravian "brother" |
| 56. | John Wesley - Methodical pietist |
| 57. | Francis Asbury - Methodist on horseback |
| 58. | Richard Allen - Father of the American Methodist Episcopal Church |
| 59. | William Miller - Mistaken founder of Adventism |
| 60. | Alexander Campbell - Christian |
| 61. | Aimee Semple McPherson - Foursquare phenomenon |
| 62. | Benedict of Nursia - Father of western monasticism |
| 63. | Bernard of Clairvaux - Medieval reformer and mystic |
| 64. | Dominic - Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) |
| 65. | Francis of Assisi - Mystical founder of the Franciscans |
| 66. | John Wycliffe - Medieval "protestant" |
| 67. | Joan of Arc - Teenage war hero with visions |
| 68. | Ulrich Zwingli - Militant Swiss reformer |
| 69. | Ignatius of Loyola - Founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) |
| 70. | Phoebe Palmer - Mother of the holiness movement |
| 71. | Søren Kierkegaard - Christian existentialist |
| 72. | Columbanus - Irish missionary to Europe |
| 73. | Cyril and Methodius - Apostles to the Slavs |
| 74. | Francis Xavier - First missionary to Japan |
| 75. | Matthew Ricci - Controversial evangelist to China |
| 76. | John Eliot - Apostle to Native Americans |
| 77. | William Carey - Father of modern Protestant missions |
| 78. | David Livingstone - Missionary-explorer of Africa |
| 79. | Hudson Taylor - Faith missionary to China |
| 80. | Antony of Egypt - Greatest Desert Father |
| 81. | Hildegard of Bingen - Benedictine abbess, visionary, and writer |
| 82. | Catherine of Siena - Mystic and political activist |
| 83. | Thomas À Kempis - Author of the most popular devotional classic |
| 84. | Teresa of Avila - Carmelite mystic and feisty administrator |
| 85. | John of the Cross - Spanish mystic of the soul's dark night |
| 86. | Brother Lawrence - Practitioner of God's presence |
| 87. | William Law - Champion of the serious, devout, and holy life |
| 88. | Andrew Murray - Leading student in Christ's school of prayer |
| 89. | Oswald Chambers - Preacher who gave his utmost |
| 90. | John Woolman - Quaker mystic and abolitionist |
| 91. | William Wilberforce - Antislavery politician |
| 92. | Elizabeth Fry - Prison reformer |
| 93. | Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist and women's rights advocate |
| 94. | Lord Shaftesbury (Antony Ashley Cooper) - Godly English statesman |
| 95. | William Gladstone - Prime Minister of impeccable morals |
| 96. | Harriet Tubman - The "Moses" of her people |
| 97. | Catherine Booth - Compelling preacher and co-founder of the Salvation Army |
| 98. | William Booth - First General of the Salvation Army |
| 99. | Walter Rauschenbusch - Champion of the social gospel |
| 100. | Constantine - First Christian emperor |
| 101. | Theodosius I - Emperor who made Christianity "the" Roman religion |
| 102. | Justinian I and Theodora I - Greatest Byzantine rulers |
| 103. | Leo I - Pope and international diplomat |
| 104. | Gregory the Great - "Servant of the Servants of God" |
| 105. | Charlemagne - Christian ruler of a "holy" empire |
| 106. | Innocent III - Warring "Vicar of Christ" |
| 107. | Louis IX - Saintly king of France |
| 108. | Henry VIII - Defender of the faith |
| 109. | Origen - Biblical scholar and philosopher |
| 110. | Eusebius of Caesarea - Father—and maker—of church history |
| 111. | Jerome - Bible translator whose version lasted a millennium |
| 112. | The Venerable Bede - Father of English history |
| 113. | Erasmus - Pious humanist who sparked the Reformation |
| 114. | Nicholas Copernicus - Revolutionary astronomer |
| 115. | William Tyndale - Translator of the first English New Testament |
| 116. | John Foxe - Martyrologist |
| 117. | Francis Bacon - Philosopher of science |
| 118. | Galileo Galilei - Misjudged astronomer |
| 119. | Ignatius of Antioch - Earliest post-New Testament martyr |
| 120. | Polycarp - Aged bishop of Smyrna |
| 121. | Perpetua - High society believer |
| 122. | Boniface - Apostle to Germany |
| 123. | Thomas Becket - Murdered archbishop of Canterbury |
| 124. | John Huss - Pre-Reformation reformer |
| 125. | Thomas Cranmer - Genius behind Anglicanism |
| 126. | Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer - English reformers who died together |
| 127. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German theologian and resister |