18th-century biblical scholars

founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)

Swiss astronomer (1718–1751)

English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)

Professor of medicine:Montpellier/Paris/wrote the first great treatise on syphilis/venereal diseases (1684-1766)

Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London (1710-1787)

English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar and theologian (1697-1771)

Romanian Greek Catholic Bishop of Făgăraș (1752-1764)

Polish orientalist and biblical scholar

Italian historian

Scottish poet (1716-1768), helped translate the New Testament into Scottish Gaelic

preacher and author, died 1821

Portuguese theologist

Welsh mathematician, theologian and biblical scholar