More Heroes from History - Some Distant, Some Quite Recent

Squanto - Native American who helped the Pilgrims and came to faith in Christ
Johnny Appleseed -  Helped the early American settlers by growing apple trees.
Wellesley Bailey - Founder of the Leprosy Mission
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German pastor who stood in opposition to Hitler, martyred.
David Brainerd - Among the first to teach North American Indians the gospel of Christ
John Bunyan - Wrote Pilgrims Progress
Jim Elliot - Martyred missionary to South American Indians, whose wife, Elizabeth, returned and lived among her husband's murderers.
John Calvin - A Christian Reformer
William Carey - A Missionary to India
Amy Carmichael - Missionary to India, helped girls get free of being exploited.
Thomas Cranmer - Archbishop to Henry VIII. Major impact on the reformation and today's church
Oliver Cromwell - A constitutional reformer who brought political stability after the civil war
Jonathon Edwards - Revival preacher
Desiderius Erasmus - First printed Greek version of the New Testament
John Foxe - wrote Foxe's Book or Martyrs
Elizabeth Fry - Prison visitor and social reformer
Billy Graham - The people's Evangelist 'Hour of Decision'
Patrick Hamilton - A Scottish martyr whose preaching influenced the Scottish and English church
Peter Marshall - Preacher who became Chaplain of the U.S. Senate in the 1940s.  Husband of writer Catherine Marshall who wrote "Christie" and other books.
William Hunter - The boy martyr who refused to recant his faith.
John Huss - Martyred. He opposed the Roman church and preached the Gospel
Adoniram Judson - Missionary to Burma
Fanny Crosby - Blind hymn writer
John Knox - Reformation in Scotland
George Frederick Handel - Composer who wrote the Messiah
Eric Liddel - Athlete with principles 'Chariots of Fire'
David Livingstone - World-famous missionary from Scotland taking God's light to Africa
Martin Luther - The father of the Reformation
Sir Charles Middleton - First Lord of the Admiralty. Saved England at a time of peril
D.L. Moody - A great Bible teacher
George Mueller - Provided homes and education to over 120,000 children in England
John Newton - Slave-trader turned Christian, wrote "Amazing Grace"
Florence Nightingale - World-famous nurse
Nate Saint - Missionary and martyr
Jerome Savonarola - A pioneer of the Reformation
Mary Slessor - Dedicated Scottish missionary to Africa
C. H. Spurgeon -  The Great Orator
Dr. Henry Morris - Scientist and writer who founded the Institute for Creation Research.
Billy Sunday - A baseball player turned preacher
Hudson Taylor - First missionary to take God's Word to inland China
Corrie Ten Boom - A heroic modern day saint and evangelist
Robert Jermain Thomas - Protestant missionary martyr who changed the nation of Korea
William Cameron Townsend - Set up the Wycliffe Bible Translators to take the Word to the world
Lillian Trasher - Missionary in Egypt
William Tyndale - Translated the New Testament into English. Martyred
Saint Patrick - Missionary to Ireland circa 400 AD.
John and Charles Wesley - Methodist founders, hymn writers
George Whitfield - A revival preacher
William Wilberforce - The Christian politician who brought the end to the slave trade
John Wycliffe - The first English translation of the Bible
Count Zinzendorf - A Christian reformer in Education
Ulrich Zwingli - Led the Reformation movement in the northern part of Switzerland
Robert Sheffy -  Circuit riding preacher who held large camp meetings in the late 1800s
Col. George and Sarah Clarke - Founders of Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago.
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman -  Missionaries to American Indians in the Northwest