20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

American Christian evangelist (1918–2018)

Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, he became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and an ardent advocate and early supporter of LGBTQ rights in the United States. From 1991 to 1997, he served as a shadow United States senator for the District of Columbia.

Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007

American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator

American boxer (1912–1988)

American pastor and politician (born 1969)

American actor and director

American Baptist pastor and writer

American politician (born 1968)

American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)

American theologian and writer

United States Baptist theologian (1861–1918)

American singer and musician (born 1946)

American Christian fundamentalist and Young Earth Creationist

American sociologist and pastor (1935–2024)

independence leader in Malawi

American pastor (1878-1969)

American blues and gospel singer and guitarist (1896–1972)

American baptist pastor (1899–1984)

American football player (1961–2004)

American theologian

American theologian (born 1929)

American musician (1939–2005)

American politician

49th Governor of Alabama (1933-2009)

American basketball player-coach

American Baptist clergyman (1853–1929)

American Christian socialist Baptist minister (1855–1931)

American historian (1884–1968)

American politician (1837-1904)

Civil rights activist (1922-2011)

American Baptist minister and relief worker (1914-1978)

American politician (1941–2013)

American politician (born 1933)

American television evangelist

American theologian

American theologian (1950–2005)

American Christian evangelist and missionary

American Baptist minister and professor

American voice actor (1949–2024)

American actor (1951-2003)

American minister (1887–1968)

Chinese advocate for women's suffrage in the United States

American writer and activist (1924-2020)

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1922–2001)

American Baptist clergyman

American educator, activist, minister (1894–1984)

American politician (1850–1929)

United States Army officer (1967–2008)

"Love Worth Finding"

American Christian minister

American theologian and apologist (1919-1967)

American minister (1917–1995)

American pastor

American pastor and author

American Baptist minister (1930–1969)

politician in Massachusetts, US (1927-2019)

American theologian (1939-2019)

American New Testament scholar (1906–1998)