Biographies: Other Notable Religious Leaders

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Other Notable Religious Leaders

Abu Hanifa, Muslim jurist
Aga Khan, religious leader and imam
Baha Ullah, Persian religious leader
Bhave, Vinoba, Indian religious figure
Bukhari, Muhammad ibn Ismail, al-, Arabic scholar
Chaitanya, Indian mystic
Chih-i, Chinese Buddhist scholar and founder of the T'ien-t'ai (in Japan
Chishti, Muin ad-Din Hasan, Indian Muslim saint
Confucius, Chinese sage
DÅgen, Zen master
Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
Davis, Andrew Jackson, American spiritualist
Farrakhan, Louis, African-American religious leader
Ghose, Chinmoy, Indian mystic and poet
Hsuan-tsang, Chinese Buddhist scholar and translator
Husein, Muslim saint of the Shiites
Ibn al-Arabi or Ibn Arabi, Muhyi ad-Din Muhammad bin Ali al-Hatimi at-Tai, Muslim Sufi mystic
Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad, Muslim jurist and theologian
Ibn Taymiyya, Taqiyy ad-Din Ahmad, Muslim theologian and jurist
Ibn Tumart, Berber Muslim religious leader
Krishnamurti, Jiddu, Indian religious figure
Kukai, Japanese priest
Kumarajiva, Buddhist scholar and missionary
Malcolm X, American militant black leader
Manu, semilegendary Hindu lawgiver
Mencius, Chinese Confucian philosopher
Milarepa, saint and poet of Tibetan Buddhism
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian Muslim religious reformer
Muhammad, Elijah, American black-nationalist and religious leader
Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest
Olcott, Henry Steel, American religious leader and author
Qutb, Sayyid, Egyptian Islamist
Ramakrishna, Hindu mystic
Saraswati, Dayananda, Indian religious reformer
Shuayb, non-biblical prophet
Sistani, Ali Husaini or Husayni, Shiite grand ayatollah in Iraq
Steiner, Rudolf, German occultist and social philosopher
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, Japanese Buddhist scholar
Valentinus, founder of the Valentinians
Vivekananda, Hindu mystic
Yogananda, Indian mystic