•
Firmin Abauzit (1679–1767), theologian, philosopher, editor, librarian. •
Jacques Abbadie (1654–1727), French
theologian. Key work:
Vindication of the Truth. •
Pierre Allix (1641–1717), pastor. Key work:
Some Remarks Upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont. •
Moses Amyraut (1596–1664), French theologian, proponent of
Amyraldism. •
Madeleine Barot (1909–1995), theologian and pacifist, co-founder of the Cimade. •
Henry Bidleman Bascom, US Congressional
chaplain, Methodist
bishop •
Jacques Basnage (1653–1723), theologian. Key work: ''Instructions pastorales aux Réformés de France sur l'obéissance due aux souverains''. •
Jacques Bernard (1658–1718), theologian. •
Charles Bertheau (1660–1732), pastor. •
Theodore Beza, French theologian. Key work:
Treasure of Gospel Truth. •
Michel Block, pastor, member of the conservative, Biblically faithful group, Les Attestants, and Christian pacifist. •
David Blondel (1691–1655), French clergyman, historian, classical scholar. •
Samuel Bochart (1599–1667), theologian and pacifist. Key work:
Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan. •
Marc Boegner (1881–1970), theologian, pastor, ecumenist. Key work:
Long Road to Unity: Memories and Anticipations. •
Laurent du Bois, Boston pastor. •
David Renaud Boullier (1699–1759), Dutch theologian and pastor, who argued animals have souls. Key work:
Essay on the Soul of Beasts. •
Brother Roger (1915–2005), founder of Taizé, Christian pacifist and ecumenist. Key work:
Sources of Taizé: No Greater Love. •
Harold Browne (1811–1891), English bishop. •
Pierre Brully, French pastor. •
Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), theologian. Key work:
The Decades. •
Cecil John Cadoux, British theologian and pacifist with Huguenot ancestry. Key work:
The Early Christian Attitude To War: a contribution to the history of Christian ethics. •
John Calvin (1509–1564), French theologian, pastor, and reformer. Key work:
Institutes of the Christian Religion. •
Louis Cappel, French clergyman, Hebrew scholar. •
Sebastian Castellio (1515–1563), theologian, early proponent of freedom of conscience. Key work:
Advice to a Desolate France. •
Daniel Chamier, theologian, ancestor of actor Daniel Craig, co-drafter of the Edict of Nantes. •
Guillaume Chartier, theologian and missionary. •
Richard Chenevix, Irish Anglican bishop, descended from the Chenevix family of Metz, Lorraine. •
Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel (1795–1868), liberal theologian, elected deputy of the Constituent Assembly after the revolution of February 1848. •
Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820–1875), liberal theologian, co-founder of the Historical Society of French Protestantism. Key work:
La Saint-Barthélémy. •
Jacques Couet (1546–1608), pastor. •
Antoine Court (1695–1760), pastor. Key work:
An Historical Memorial of the Most Remarkable Proceedings Against the Protestants in France from 1744-51. •
Pierre Courthial (1914–2009), pastor and neo-Calvinist theologian, participated in the writing of the Pomeyrol Theses which called for spiritual resistance to Nazism, member of Association Sully, a now-defunct Protestant royalist movement. Key work:
From Bible to Bible. •
Jean Crespin (1520–1572), martyrologist. Key work:
Lives of the Martyrs. •
Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999), theologian and ecumenist. •
Jean Daillé (1594–1670), French theologian. Key work:
Apology for the French Reformed Churches. •
Lambert Daneau (1530–1590), theologian. Key work:
Wonderful Workmanship of the World. •
Charles Daubuz (1673–1713), pastor, theologian, eschatologist. Key work:
A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John. •
Luke de Beaulieu, cleric. Key work:
A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven. •
Isaac de Beausobre (1659–1738), pastor. •
Guillaume de Clermont, pastor, regional synod president. •
Odet de Coligny (1517–1571), former Roman Catholic
cardinal, convert to Protestantism. •
Suzanne de Dietrich (1891–1981), theologian, Cimade worker, co-writer of the Pomeyrol Theses and pacifist (French Lutheran). •
Guillaume de Félice,
Comte de Panzutti, French
abolitionist, theologian. •
Jessé de Forest, leader of a group of Walloon-Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions. •
Jean de Labadie (1610–1674), Jesuit convert to Calvinism, founder of the pietistic
Labadists. •
Josué de la Place (c. 1596 – 1665 or possibly 1655), pastor and theologian. •
Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, Parisian pastor, co-author with Calvin of the Galllican Confession of Faith. •
Jean Delpech, pastor. •
Philippe de Mornay (1549–1623), theologian. Key work (likely author):
Vindiciae contra tyrannos. •
Antoine-Noé de Polier de Bottens (1713–1783), theologian. •
Edmond de Pressensé (1824–1891), student of Alexandre Vinet, theologian, pastor, writer, first president of the Human Rights League, father of Francis de Pressensé. Key work:
Jesus Christ : his times, life, and work. •
Roland de Pury (1907–1979), pastor, anti-Nazi activist, saviour of Jews in World War Two, opponent of the use of torture in the Algerian War and anti-Communist. He is the author of a Cell Journal written during his captivity by the Nazis. He was a signatory of the Pomeyrol Theses. •
Nicolas des Gallars (1520–1580), theologian, pastor at Threadneedle Street. •
Charles Drelincourt (1595–1669), pastor. Key work: ''The Christian's Defence Against the Fears of Death''. •
Laurent Drelincourt (1626–1681), theologian, pastor, poet, son of Charles Drelincourt. •
William Porcher DuBose (1836–1918), theologian, Episcopal priest, author •
Jacob Duché (1737–1798), pastor in Philadelphia, USA. •
Pierre Du Moulin (1568–1658), pastor. Key works:
Tyranny that the Popes Exercised for Some Centuries Over the kings of England and
The Christian Combate, or, A treatise of Affliction: with a Prayer and Meditation of the Faithfull Soule. •
John Durel, pastor who later became an Anglican minister. •
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994), theologian and pacifist. Key work: ''Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes''. •
Tommy Fallot (1844–1904), pastor, founder of Social Christianity. Key work:
Christianisme social, études et fragments (French Lutheran). •
Abraham Faure (1795–1875), South African pastor and author. •
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey (1711–1797), Huguenot pastor, journaqlist, author, educator, secretary of the Berlin Academy of Science, man of letters, theologian and historian. •
Gaston Frommel (1862–1906), French theologian. •
Jacques Gaillard, pastor and theologian. •
John Gano, Baptist preacher and Revolutionary War chaplain. •
John Gast (1715–1788), Irish minister. •
François Gaussen (1790–1863), pastor and eschatologist, Calvinist who was influential on the early Seventh Day Adventists. Key works:
Theopneusty; Or, the Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures and
The Prophet Daniel Explained. In a Series of Readings for Young Persons. •
Simon Goulart (1543–1628), pastor, theologian and poet. •
Rémi Gounelle (1967–), theologian, nephew of André Gounelle. •
Heinrich Grüber (1891–1975), theologian, opponent of Nazism and pacifist. •
François Hotman (1524–1590), theologian. Key work:
Francogallia. •
Pierre Jurieu, French pastor, orthodox Calvinist theologian and eschatologist. Key work:
Pastoral Letters. •
Isaac La Peyrère (1596–1676), theologian, writer and lawyer, forced to convert to Roman Catholicism, retract his writings and spend his final years in a monastery. •
Jean Lasserre (1908–1983), conservative, Biblically orthodox theologian, pastor and pacifist. Key work:
War and the Gospel •
Charles Layard (1750–1803), English clergyman. •
Jean Le Clerc (1657–1736), theologian, journalist and man of letters. •
Robert Le Maçon seigneur de la Fontaine, pastor, Threadneedle Street. •
Paul-Henri Marron (1754–1832), first pastor to work in Paris after Protestantism was legalised because of the French Revolution. •
Jacques Martin (1906–2001), pastor, pacifist, pioneer French conscientous objector, saviour of Jews in World War Two. •
Joseph Martin-Paschoud (1802–1873), liberal pastor, pacifist, supporter of Frédéric Passy's peace society, supporter of French Judaism. •
Basil Maturin, Anglican minister and writer who later converted to Roman Catholicism, Lusitania torpedoeing victim, grandson of Charles Maturin. •
Jacques Maury (1920–2020), pastor, president of the French Protestant Federation. •
Pierre Maury (1890–1956), pastor. •
Pierre Merlin (died 1603), chaplain to Coligny, later pastor at La Rochelle and synod head. •
Eugène Ménégoz (1838–1921), symbolo-fideist,liberal theologian (French Lutheran), anti-pacifist and promoter of Just War Theory. •
Caesar de Missy (1703–1775), pastor, Savoy, London, chaplain to King George III. •
Frédéric Monod (1794–1863), pastor. •
Wilfred Monod (1867–1943), liberal theologian, Social Christianity supporter, founder of the Order of Watchers, argued for rehabilitation of Marcion and for the removal of omnipotence and omnipresence from the conception of God. •
Pierre Mouchon (1733–1797), pastor and grandfather of journalist and social worker, Eugénie Niboyet. •
Andrew Murray, South African, pastor, teacher and writer, Huguenot descendant on his mother's side. •
Wolfgang Musculus (1497–1563), theologian. •
Beyers Naudé, South African anti-apartheid cleric. •
Samuel Nevill (1837–1921), the first Anglican Bishop of Dunedin and, later, Primate of New Zealand. •
Elias Palairet (1713–1765), brother of Jean Palairet, pastor successively at the French church at Greenwich, Saint John's Church, Spitalfields, and the Dutch chapel at Saint James's, Westminster, classical and Biblical philologist. •
Simon Pelloutier (1694–1757), French pastor in Berlin. •
Jean Pradel, pastor. •
Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), American clergyman. •
Paul Rabaut (1718–1794), pastor. •
Jacques Reclus (1796–1882), pastor. •
Cyril Restieaux (1910–1996), Former Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth. •
Albert Réville (1826–1906), pastor, extreme liberal theologian, Dreyfus supporter. •
Pierre Richier (c. 1506–1580), French theologian and missionary. •
André Rivet (1572–1651), theologian. •
Albert Rivett (1855–1934), Australian Congregationalist minister and pacifist, father of the scientist, David Rivett. •
William Romaine (1714–1795), evangelical Anglican minister. Key work:
The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith. •
Pierre Roques (1685–1748), pastor. •
Auguste Sabatier (1839–1901), symbolofideist, called by some "the greatest French theologian since Calvin", expert on dogma and the links between theology and culture (French Lutheran). •
Jacques Saurin (1677–1730), pastor, Threadneedle Street and the Netherlands refugee communities, early advocate of religious tolerance. Key work:
Sermons on Diverse Texts of the Scriptures. •
Edmond Scherer (1815–1889), liberal theologian, agnostic. •
Laurent Schlumberger (1957–), first President of the
United Protestant Church of France from 2013 to 2017. •
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), liberal/unorthodox theologian and pastor, missionary, hospital founder, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, physician, had pacifist leanings, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1953, Lutheran from Alsace. •
Jules Siegfried, pastor and pacifist. •
Sydney Smith (1771–1845), Essex-born Anglican minister and humorist, founder of the
Edinburgh Review, lecturer at the Royal Institution and remembered for his comical rhyming recipe for salad dressing, descendant of Olier family. •
Charles Terrot (1790–1872), Scottish Episcopalian minister, theologian and mathematician. pastor, Christian pacifist, saviour of Jews in World War Two and anti-nuclear campaigner. Key work:
Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution. •
Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), theologian, considered the most important thinker of nineteenth century French-speaking Protestantism. Key work:
Homiletics; or the Theory of Preaching. •
Pierre Viret (1511–1572), theologian. Key work:
Thou Shalt Not Kill. •
Charles Wagner (1852–1918), pastor, liberal theologian, Social Christianity advocate. ==Philanthropists and charity workers==