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This list deals with those who are notable in Methodist history or culture, but do not fit List of Methodist Bishops or List of Methodist theologians. It includes members of all churches that fit as Methodist.

Contents 1 Clergyman 1.1 Missionaries 2 Laity 2.1 Politicians 2.2 Scientists 2.3 Writers (Including hymn-writers)

• Bernhard Anderson - Old Testament scholar.
• Canaan Banana - First President of Zimbabwe.
• William Black (methodist) - Linked to Nova Scotia
• Henry Boehm - Centenarian.
• George Bramwell Evens - Nature writer of the Roma people.
• William Gannaway Brownlow - Governor of Tennessee.
• Zerah Colburn (math prodigy) - Became a minister, after youth as a mental calculator.
• Edward Eggleston - Also author.
• Calvin Fairbank - Abolitionist.
• Arno Clemens Gaebelein - Also a writer.
• Leslie Griffiths - Life peer in the House of Lords.
• Harold P. Hamilton - Kentucky Wesleyan College President.
• Silas Hocking - Novelist and preacher.
• John Hogan - US Congressman and preacher.
• Andrew Hunter (Methodist preacher) - "Father of Arkansas Methodism."
• Leonard Monk Isitt (minister) - New Zealand Methodist minister.
• James W. Kemp - Minister known for writing about Dr. Seuss as he relates to Christianity.
• Lowen Kruse - Nebraska state senator.
• Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - Known as a humorist.
• William Losee - Canadian circuit rider.
• Sarah Mallett - Preacher.
• William Morley Punshon - Preaching/Lecturing.
• Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow - First woman president of the Methodist Conference.
• Egerton Ryerson - Ryerson University is named for him.
• William Ryerson - Political figure.
• Tex Sample - Sociologist of religion.
• William J. Simmons - Founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (suspended minister)
• Donald Soper - Christian socialist and pacifist.
• Elizabeth Stroud - Lesbian (pastorship revoked)
• Edward Sugden - First master of Queen's College (University of Melbourne).
• Wilbur Fisk Tillett - Clergyman and educator.
• Channing Heggie Tobias - Member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights.
• Cecil Williams - Involved in HIV/AIDS causes.

• Henry Augustus Buchtel - Did missionary work in Bulgaria, also a Governor of Colorado.
• Henry Hare Dugmore - Wesleyan missionary and translator in South Africa.
• Alexander Robert Edgar - Missionary to Australia. (convert from Anglicanism)
• James Hope Moulton - Missionary known for studying/preaching to the Parsis.
• Christoph Gottlob Müller - Founded the Wesleyan Church in Germany.

This concerns those not of the Methodist clergy who are still of importance to the history or culture of Methodists.

Note: The religion of these non-clergy Methodists should relate to their historical significance.

• Newton Rowell - A leading lay figure in Canada's Methodist church and a politician.
• William Spence - Lay preacher in Primitive Methodism.
• Taufa'ahau Tupou IV - Lay preacher in the Free Wesleyan Church and former King of Tonga.

Note: They should have some involvement in religion and science discussion in order to be relevant.

• William Daniel Phillips - Nobel Prize winning physicist and a founding member of the "International Society for Science & Religion."

• William F. Albright-Methodist archaeologist who writes on Bible archaeology.
• Samuel Chadwick - The Way to Pentecost
• Phoebe Knapp - Methodist hymnwriter.
• Ann Griffiths - Poet and hymn-writer. (Convert from Anglicanism)
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Welsh Methodist hymnwriter. (Calvinistic Methodist and preacher)