List of Protestant authors

African-American Protestants

• Jupiter Hammon – former slave and poet from New York
• Phyllis Wheatley – former slave and poet from Boston, Massachusetts and Senegal, Africa

  Anabaptists

• Petr Chelčický – 15th century political leader from Bohemia

  Baptists

• John Ankerberg – apologist from Chicago, Illinois
• Alfred James Broomhall
• Benjamin Broomhall – missionary and administrator of the China Inland Mission from Bayswater, London
• Marshall Broomhall
• John Bunyan – allegorical author of The Pilgrim's Progress from London, England
• Bob Cornuke – biblical archeologist from Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Martha Foster Crawford – writer and missionary
• Thomas Dixon – novelist, playwright, state legislator, and author of The Clansman from North Carolina
• John Gill – biblical scholar and expository author from Horsleydown, Southwark, England
• Billy Graham – radio, television, and crusade evangelist from Charlotte, North Carolina
• David Jeremiah – radio and television evangelist, pastor, and expository author from El Cajon, California
• Adoniram Judson – missionary to Burma; translated the Bible from English to Burmese
• Benjamin Keach – author of scriptural parables and catechism from Southwark, South London, England
• William Garrett Lewis
• John Piper
• Bernard Ramm – Christian apologetics
• John Rippon
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• Rick Warren

  Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)

• Daniel Sidney Warner – Church of God minister and founder of Gospel Trumpet Flyer

  Church of Ireland

• Jakob Abbadie – Swiss writer

  Congregationalists

• John Adams – religious worker whose poems speak of "flaming piety"
• Thomas Binney – Congregationalist theologian and poet
• Samuel Dyer
• Jonathan Edwards
• William Ellis – missionary who wrote Madagascar Revisited
• George MacDonald – Congregationalist pastor
• John Milton – Paradise Lost
• Marilynne Robinson – Gilead, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner
• John Updike – Rabbit, Run, raised Lutheran, later belonged to Congregationalist and Episcopalian congregations
• Richard Owen Roberts - Theologian and Church historian.

  Free Church of Scotland

• Horatius Bonar – minister in the Free Church of Scotland and a poet
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne – Scottish ecclesiastical historian
• Henry Drummond – Free Church of Scotland writer
• George Adam Smith – books concerning the Bible

  Lutheran

• Mikael Agricola – founding figure in Finnish literature
• Marva Dawn – theological writing
• Garrison Keillor – humorist
• John Warwick Montgomery – Christian apologetics
• Hallgrímur Pétursson – priest, poet, and hymnodist

  Methodists

• William F. Albright – Methodist archaeologist who writes on Bible archaeology
• Esther E. Baldwin – missionary, teacher, translator, writer, editor
• Julia Colman – temperance educator, activist, editor, writer
• Edward Eggleston – Methodist minister and author
• Arno Clemens Gaebelein – Methodist minister and writer
• Annie Ryder Gracey – author and missionary
• Phoebe Knapp – Methodist hymnwriter
• Augustus Baldwin Longstreet – Methodist minister and humorist
• Mary A. Miller – Methodist historian, editor, and publisher
• William Williams Pantycelyn – Methodist hymnwriter
• George Whitefield

  Brethren

• K.V. Simon – poet from India

  Pentecostal

• Benny Hinn – preacher and author
• Jimmy Swaggart - preacher and author

  Plymouth Brethren

• Arthur Charles Gook – English to Icelandic translations of literature, poems, and hymns

  Presbyterian

• Pearl S. Buck – parents were missionaries, but she later left the religion
• Elisabeth Elliot – missionary
• Johnny Hart – cartoonist, on the evangelical end of Presbyterianism
• Emrys ap Iwan – Welsh Presbyterian minister who wrote for newspapers, etc.
• Timothy Keller – Senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, author of The Reason for God.
• Catherine Marshall – author of "Christy" and "A Man Called Peter"
• John Ortberg – Senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, author of If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat.
• Robert Louis Stevenson – wrote on religious matters at times
• Thomas Vincent
• Andrew Young – poet and botanical writer
• Frederick Buechner – novelist, theologian, and minister

  Puritan

• James Janeway

  Reformed Church

• Nicolaas Beets – novelist and poet
• Corrie ten Boom – memoirist
• Edward Tanjore Corwin – history writing
• James Isaac Good – history writing
• Martha Hooper Blackler Kalopothakes – missionary, journalist, translator
• Andrew Murray – religious and inspirational writing

  United Church of Canada

• Ralph Connor – Canadian clergyman and bestselling novelist

  Other

• Alice May Douglas – author of poetry, juvenile literature, non-fiction; newspaper editor
• C. S. Lewis - British writer and lay theologian.
• E. W. Kenyon
• Edith Jessie Archibald – suffragist and writer
• Ethel Barrett – Christian author and children's author
• Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings – writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, missionary
• Ted Dekker – bestselling novelist
• Henry Grattan Guinness
• Lillian Resler Keister Harford – church organizer, editor, author
• Joshua Harris – Calvinist pastor and writer
• Jerry B. Jenkins – co-author of the Left Behind books and Gil Thorp comics
• Jakob Jocz – third generation Hebrew Christian
• Hal Lindsey – end-times author
• Josh McDowell – Christian writer
• Ra'ouf Mus'ad – Protestant playwright of Coptic ancestry
• J. Dwight Pentecost
• Legh Richmond – The Dairyman's Daughter
• Geraldine Taylor
• Hudson Taylor
• Kenneth N. Taylor – linked to Moody Bible Institute
• Daniel Sidney Warner – Holiness author and Reformation minister
• Ravi Zacharias – evangelical writer from India