Christian humanists

Pope Francis was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first pope born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

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Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)

English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.

French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)

American writer (1892–1973)

English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)

English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)

French writer (1885-1970)

Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)

French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)

pope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)

German reformer (1497-1560)

English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church

German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)

Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist

Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)

founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)

Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

French writer (1888–1948)

Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921–1997)

French jurist, witchcraft theorist and political philosopher (1529 or 1530–1596)

Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457)

French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)

French philosopher (1913–2005)

Austrian philosopher and theologian (1926–2002)

Scottish novelist (1896–1981)

English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)

English Bible translator and reformer

American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)

German scholar, poet and reformer (1488-1523)

French philosopher (1882–1973)

French-English writer (1870–1953)

German humanist and satirist

priest and author (1915–1968)

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

German humanist and scholar of Greek and Hebrew (1455-1522)

Catholic cardinal and poet (1470–1547)

Dutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites (1496-1561)

Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)

French writer, poet and essayist (1846–1917)

Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (1703-1758)

Protestant reformer

Slovenian writer (1913–2022)

French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar (1519-1605)

Swiss Catholic theologian (1905–1988)

French philosopher (1905–1950)

British economist (1911–1977)

French scholar, humanist and administrator (1467-1540)

French theologian and humanist (1450 ca.-1536/1538)

Croatian national poet and European humanist

Co-founder of the Black Panther Party (1942-1989)

Swiss reformer (1504–1575)

French philosopher