List of Lutheran clergy

Lists of Lutheran bishops and archbishops

• Presidents of the Lutheran World Federation
• Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
• Presidents, Evangelical Lutheran Synod
• Land provosts and state bishop, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin
• List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar
• Bishops of Hamburg, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Bishops of Hamburg-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
• State bishops, Evangelical-Lutheran State Church of Hanover
• Bishops of Helsinki
• Lutheran bishops of Hólar
• Bishops of Holstein-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Bishops of Iceland
• List of bishops of Lund
• Presidents & Bishops, Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore
• Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg
• Bishops of Schleswig, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Schleswig-Holstein, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Bishops of Schleswig and Holstein, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Bishops, Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Lutheran bishops of Skálholt
• Lutheran Bishops of Turku and Archbishops of Turku and Finland
• Lutheran Archbishops of Uppsala
• Presidents, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
• Leading persons and state bishops, Evangelical State Church in Württemberg

  Additional Lutheran leaders

• Johan Arnd Aasgaard - President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Erland Carlsson - One of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod
• Gottlieb Bender Christiansen - Founding President of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Claus Lauritz Clausen - President of the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
• Elling Eielsen - Founder of The Eielsen Synod
• Lars Paul Esbjörn - One of the founders Augustana Synod and Augustana College
• Tuve Hasselquist - Founding President of the Augustana Synod
• Ulrik Vilhelm Koren - President of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Christoph Kähler - Presiding bishop of the Protestant Lutheran Church in Thuringia. :de:Christoph Kähler
• Margot Käßmann - Bishop for the Protestant Lutheran Church of Hanover.
• Jaan Kiivit, Jr - Former Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
• Johan Kõpp - Estonian Lutheran bishop who fled to Sweden after the Soviet takeover.:et:Johan Kõpp
• Ishmael Noko - General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation.
• Eric Norelius - One of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod
• Kuno Pajula - Former Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
• Andres Põder - The current Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
• Hans Gerhard Stub - First Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Jonas Swensson - Former President of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church.

  List of clergy

Academics

• Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer - President of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Kristian Anker - President of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College
• Anton Marius Andersen - Founding President of Trinity Seminary at Dana College
• Georg M. Grossmann - Founder of Wartburg College
• Theodore Marcus Hansen - President of Dana College and Trinity Seminary
• John N. Kildahl - Lutheran church minister, author and educator, President of St. Olaf College
• O. P. Kretzmann - President of Valparaiso University, Lutheran pastor, author, and professor
• Peter Laurentius Larsen - Founding president of Luther College.
• Knud Ejler Løgstrup - Danish philosopher and theologian. Pastor at Sandager- Holevad from 1936–1943. Professor at University of Aarhus from 1943-1975
• Thorbjorn N. Mohn - Founding president of St. Olaf College
• Bernt Julius Muus - Founder of St. Olaf College
• Robert Preus - Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and seminary president
• Stephan Ludwig Roth - Transylvanian educationist.
• Jacob Tanner - Norwegian American Lutheran educator and religious author
• John Tietjen - Noted for the Seminex controversy.
• Peter Sørensen Vig - President of Trinity Seminary and the president of Dana College

  Activists

• K. G. William Dahl - Lutheran minister, author and social advocate. Founder of Bethphage Mission.
• Robert Graetz - Possibly the only white member of the Montgomery Improvement Association.
• Sumowood Harris - Liberian peace activist.
• Bernt B. Haugan - American minister, politician, and temperance leader.
• Judith Hird - first woman to become a Lutheran pastor.
• William A. Passavant - Lutheran minister noted for bringing the Lutheran Deaconess movement to the United States.
• Roland Weisselberg - Critic of the former East Germany who later committed Self-immolation as a protest against the spread of Islam.

  Explorers and colonizers

• Gotthard Fritzsche - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.
• Rasmus Jensen - One of the earliest Lutheran chaplains to go the "New World."
• August Kavel - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.
• Martin Stephan - Settled with a colony of Saxons, later excommunicated.
• Reorus Torkillus - First Lutheran clergyman to settle in New Sweden

  Missionaries

• Johan Campanius - Assigned to New Sweden, Missionary to the Lenape.
• Hans Egede - "Apostle of Greenland."
• Onesimos Nesib - Convert from Ethiopia who translated the Bible into Oromo and did missionary work in Africa.
• Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in India.
• Martti Rautanen - First Christian missionary in Ovamboland in Namibia.
• :ja:アレクサンダー・ヘール|Alexander Durham Hail - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
• :ja:ジョン・バックスター・ヘール|John Baxter Hail - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

  Politicians

• Joh Bjelke-Petersen - Former Premier of Queensland.
• Kjell Magne Bondevik - Former Prime Minister of Norway.
• Francis Hoffmann - Once Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and also wrote under a pen-name.
• John Herman Koch - Former Wisconsin State Assemblyman.
• Antti Johannes Rantamaa - Finnish chaplain who served in the Parliament of Finland.

  Theologians

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A founding member of the Confessing Church who was executed by Nazi Germany.
• Otto von Gerlach - Nineteenth-century German.
• N. F. S. Grundtvig - Danish pastor, author, poet and author of hymns
• Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour.
• Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism.
• Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LCMS.
• Martin Luther - German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, with whose teachings Lutheranism is associated.
• Martin Niemöller - Former U-boat captain who became a theologian and, after initial enthusiasm, turned against Nazism.
• Jacob Aall Ottesen - Norwegian American minister, theologian and church leader
• Gunnar Rosendal - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism.

  Writers

• Caspar Aquila - Tract writer.
• Johann Ernst Glück - Translated the Bible into Latvian.
• Paul Henkel - Tract writer.
• Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten - German poet.
• Eduard Mörike - German Romantic poet.
• Olaf M. Norlie - Lutheran minister, educator scholar and author
• Kristian Ostergaard - Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator and author
• Johann Adolf Schlegel - Poet who wrote "Spiritual Songs" and fathered two poets.

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