People executed for heresy

Socrates (; ; – 399 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contrad

French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)

Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)

Italian Dominican friar and preacher (1452-1498)

Deacon, martyr, and saint

Spanish physician and theologian

leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury

Mansour al-Hallaj () or Mansour Hallaj () ( 26 March 922) (Hijri 309 AH) was a mystic, poet, and teacher of Sufism. He was best known for his saying, "I am the Truth" ("''Ana'l-Ḥaqq''"), which many saw as a claim to divinity, while others interpreted it as an instance of annihilation of the ego, which allowed God to speak through him. Al-Hallaj gained a wide following as a preacher before he became implicated in power struggles of the Abbasid court and was executed after a long period of confinement on religious and political charges. Although most of his Sufi contemporaries disapproved of his

English Bible translator and reformer

Grand Master of the Knights Templar

Avvakum Petrov (; 20 November 1620/1621 – 14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature.

Azerbaijani poet, c. 1369–1419

Czech philosopher

Italian philosopher

French mystic

English bishop (circa 1485-1555)

German Anabaptist leader

Priscillian (in Latin: Priscillianus; Gallaecia, – Augusta Treverorum, Gallia Belgica, ) was a wealthy nobleman of Roman Hispania who promoted a strict form of Christian asceticism. He became bishop of Ávila in 380. Certain practices of his followers (such as meeting at country villas instead of attending church) were denounced at the Council of Zaragoza in 380. Tensions between Priscillian and bishops opposed to his views continued, as well as political maneuvering by both sides. Around 385, Priscillian was charged with sorcery and executed by authority of the Emperor Maximus. The ascetic mov

Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites

French translator and scholar (1509-1546)

Persian poet who wrote in Arabic (714–783)

Italian preacher (1250-1307)

Sudanese philosopher (1909-1985)

Bishop of London; Anglican Saint

Swiss martyr

Kongo Empire guérisseuse (1684-1706)

English Protestant martyr

Russian military rebel

Domenico Scandella (1532–1599), known as Menocchio (), was an Italian miller from Montereale Valcellina, Republic of Venice, who was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition for his unorthodox religious views and then was burnt at the stake in 1599. The 16th-century life and medieval religious beliefs of Menocchio are known from the records of the Inquisition, and are the subject of The Cheese and the Worms (1976) by Carlo Ginzburg, as well as of the stageplay Menocchio (2002) by Lillian Garrett-Groag and the film Menocchio (Menocchio the Heretic) (2018) by Alberto Fasulo.

Italian physician and poet

French Knight Templar

Scottish clergyman and martyr; (1504–1528)

Italian humanist (1509-1567)

Jináb-i-Quddús () (c.1820–1849), is the title of Mullá Muḥammad ʻAlí-i-Bárfurúshi, who was the most prominent disciple of the Báb. He was the eighteenth and final Letter of the Living.

Dutch Anabaptist pacificist martyr

Swiss founder of Anabaptism

founder of the Apostolic Brethren

German Anabaptist martyr, author of the Schleitheim Confession

German mystic

German poet and mystic (1651-1689)

Scottish Protestant martyr; (1513-1546)

Italian humanist

English politician (1378-1417)

English Bible editor and martyr (c. 1505 – 1555)

was an 8th-century Muslim theologian who promoted the idea of Quranic createdness. He was also the personal tutor of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II

Italian missionary

Last person executed in Spain for heresy

Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester

executed Genevan atheist

French magistrat (1521-1559)

French type designer and printer

English Protestant priest, writer, and martyr

Spanish physician

Jewish political activist

Bosnian Sufi leader (died 1573)

English martyr

French Augustinian monk

Dutch noblewoman and Anabaptist burned at the stake for heresy

thumb|Entry for Latronius in a manuscript of Jerome's De viris illustribus Latronianus (or Latronian; died AD 385) was a poet and scholar of Hispania (Roman Spain) who was associated with Priscillianism. He was executed, along with Priscillian and several others, at Trier in 385. As such, he is considered among the first to be executed as heretics in the history of Christianity.