Assassinated religious leaders

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.

Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary and Black nationalist leader who rose from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity to a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. He discovered the religious organization the Nation of Islam while in prison and served as its spokesperson from 1952 until 1964. He was also a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the African American community. A controversial figure accused of preaching violence, Malcolm X is also a celebrated figure with Black people and Muslims worldwide for his pursuit of racial justice.

founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and prophet (1805–1844)

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, 204 – 13 March 222), better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus ( ) and Heliogabalus ( ), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His short reign was notorious for religious controversy and alleged sexual debauchery. A close relative to the Severan dynasty, he came from a prominent Syrian Arab family in Emesa (Homs), Syria, where he served as the head priest of the sun god Elagabal from a young age. After the death of his cousin, the emperor Caracalla, Elagabalus was raised to the Principate at 1

second son of Mattathias, the first prince (r. 141–135 BCE) of the Hasmonean dynasty of the Kingdom of Judea

Jewish High Priest and King of Judea, 66 BC to 63 BC

Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and Salafi jihadist (1941–1989)

Companion of Muhammad

Eastern Orthodox theologian

Egyptian-American biochemist (1935-1990)

Croatian Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (1920-1947)

Roman Catholic bishop (1922-1998)

American Mormon leader (1813–1856)

Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop (1877-1936)

American Mormon leader

Spanish Christian missionary and Jesuit brother (1939–1987)

Catholic priest (1878-1942)

Pakastani religious leader and political figure

spiritual master in Kagyu school, who brought tibetan buddhism in Europe (1940-2013)

American martyr

Islamic scholar

Self-declared Messiah

Nicaraguan Jesuit (1950-1991)

former Chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

South African theologian

Pakistani Islamic scholar

Russian-Canadian pacifist, activist and philosopher

French Catholic priest

Afghan mullah (1982–2022)