Templeton Prize laureates

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

14th Dalai Lama

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

Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert", she was best known for more than six decades of field research on the social and family life of wild chimpanzees in the Kasakela chimpanzee community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Beginning in 1960, under the mentorship of the palaeontologist Louis Leakey, Goodall's research demonstrated that chimpanzees share many key traits with humans, such as using tools, having complex emotions, forming lasting social bonds, engaging in organised warfare, and passing on knowledge across generations, which redefined the traditional view that humans are uniquely different from other animals.

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1939 to 1948 and the vice-chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. Radhakrishnan is considered one of the most influential and distinguished 20th century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he held the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta from 1921 to 1932 and Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford from 1936 to 1952.

20th-century American physicist

American Christian evangelist (1918–2018)

theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)

American theoretical physicist

German physicist (1912–2007)

Canadian philosopher (born 1931)

Italian founder of the Focolare Movement (1920–2008)

Swiss monk (1915–2005)

American Christian philosopher

British physicist (1946-)

religious award

British physicist and mathematician (1952-2020)

Spanish-American philosopher and biologist (1934–2023)

Indian freedom fighter, social worker (1914–2008)

physicist, theologian and anglican priest (1930–2021)

British rabbi (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (1991-2013) and Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal (2009-2020)

American lawyer, politician, public servant and Christian advocate (1931–2012)

Polish philosopher, theologian, theoretical physicist and Roman Catholic priest

Roman Catholic cardinal (1904–1996)

English writer, doctor, founder of the hospice care movement, palliative care activist

Somaliland politician

cosmologist from South Africa

American theologian, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat (1933-2017)

Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian

American evangelist (1921–2003)

Hungarian-American priest-theologian and theoretical physicist (1924–2009)

British marine biologist (1896–1985)

British rabbi, styled Baron Jakobovits (1921-1999)

Protestant theologian (1913–2007)

American academic (1923–2013)

Indian philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer (1920–2003)

British biochemist and theologian (1924–2006)

Founder of the Buddhist new religious movement Rissho Kosei-kai

American philosopher

Australian biologist (1918-2009)

French journalist (1945–2020)

Scottish soldier and cleric (1895-1991)

American political scientist

American academic (1911–1997)

American theologian (1919-1990)

South Korean pastor (1902-2000)

British businessman (1921–2016)

Founder of World Muslim Congress (1912–1997)