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Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921–1997)
Ivan Illich
Austrian philosopher and theologian (1926–2002)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Haitian politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president
Hélder Câmara
Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife (1909–1999)
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Peruvian theologian (1928–2024)
Ernesto Cardenal
Nicaraguan priest and politician (1925-2020)
Leonardo Boff
Brazilian Catholic liberation theologian (born 1938)
Camilo Torres Restrepo
Colombian theologian (1929-1966)
Cornel West
American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)
Dorothee Sölle
German theologian (1929–2003)
Paulo Evaristo Arns
Brazilian archbishop, cardinal and theologian (1921-2016)
Jon Sobrino
Spanish theologian
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann
Nicaraguan-American Catholic priest and diplomat (1933–2017)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
American theologian (1936–2022)
Aloísio Lorscheider
Catholic cardinal (1924–2007)
Teresa Forcades
Catalan Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and activist
Pedro Casaldáliga
Roman Catholic bishop (1928–2020)
Samuel Ruiz García
Mexican Roman Catholic bishop and indigenous rights activist. (1924–2011)
Fernando Cardenal
Nicaraguan Jesuit (1934-2016)
Marcella Althaus-Reid
Argentine theologian (1952-2009)
Ignacio Ellacuría
Spanish philosopher, Jesuit priest, assassinated martyr in El Salvador
Frei Betto
Brazilian Dominican friar, writer and activist
Arturo Lona Reyes
Catholic bishop
Erwin Kräutler
Brazil Roman-Catholic bishop of Austrian origin
Jeremiah Wright
retired pastor from Chicago, USA
Leonidas Proaño
Ecuadorian priest and theologian (1910-1988)
Rubem Alves
Brazilian theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst (1933-2014)
Juan Luis Segundo
Uruguayan theologian
James H. Cone
American theologian (1938–2018)
Enrique Dussel
Argentine-Mexican philosopher
Tomás Balduíno
Roman Catholic Bishop (1922-2014)
José Míguez Bonino
Argentine Methodist theologian
Mario Enrique Ríos Montt
Guatemalan Catholic bishop
Carlos Mugica
Argentine priest and activist (1930-1974)
Francisco Claver
First Igorot Bishop (1929-2010)
Chico Whitaker
Brazilian architect, politician and activist
Justo González García
Cuban-American Methodist historian
Gregory Baum
Canadian theologian
Andrés Torres Queiruga
Galician theologian
Emilio Castro
Uruguayan theologian (1927-2013)
Hugo Assmann
Brazilian theologian
Remi De Roo
Canadian Catholic bishop (1924-2022)
Alberto Methol Ferré
Uruguayan theologian (1929-2009)
Ada María Isasi-Díaz
American Roman Catholic theologian and academic (1943–2012)
Ivone Gebara
Brazilian nun and theologian
Frei Tito
Brazilian theologian (1945–1974)
Sergio Méndez Arceo
Catholic bishop (1907-1992)
Gérard Jean-Juste
Haitian activist (1946-2009)
Carter Heyward
American feminist theologian and priest (born 1945)
Elsa Támez
Mexican theologian
Franz Hinkelammert
Liberation theologist
Jean Marc Ela
Cameroonian sociologist and theologian (1936-2008)
Mariano Puga
Chilean priest
Jung Mo Sung
Brazilian theologian
Robert Goss
American theologian
Edgar Silva
Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic
Rubin Phillip
Anglican bishop
José Porfirio Miranda
Mexican theologian and philosopher
Richard Shaull
American theologian (1919–2002)
Gaspar García Laviana
Spanish theologian (1941–1978)