Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Spiritual & Religious Leaders, including Swami Vivekananda, Joseph Smith, Pope Paul VI, Pope John XXIII and Pope Pius XII.
Swami Vivekananda12 January 1863, Indian
Leader
Sai Baba of Shirdi28 September 1835, Indian
Spiritual Guru
Jiddu Krishnamurti12 May 1895, Indian
Public Speaker & Philosopher
Bernadette Soubirous07 January 1844, French
Saint
Brigham Young01 June 1801, American
Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Sri Aurobindo15 August 1872, Indian
Political and Spiritual Leader
Pope John XXIII25 November 1881, Italian
Pope
Paramahansa Yogananda05 January 1893, Indian
Thérèse of Lisieux02 January 1873, French
Nun
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada01 September 1896, Indian
Founder of ISKCON
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad13 February 1835, Indian
Founder of Ahmadiyya Sect
George Gurdjieff01 January 1866, Armenian
Spiritual Teacher
John Bosco16 August 1815, Italian
Priest
Charles Taze Russell16 February 1852, American
Christian Restoration Minister
Meher Baba25 February 1894, Indian
Religious Leader
Narayana Guru20 August 1856, Indian
Spiritual Leader, Social Reformer
Pope Pius X02 June 1835, Italian
Head of the Catholic Church (1903-1914)
Pope Pius IX13 May 1792, Italian
Religious Leader
Pope Pius XI31 May 1857, Italian
Religious Leader
Mary Baker Eddy16 July 1821, American
Religious Leader
Mirra Alfassa21 February 1878, French
Spiritual Guru
Pope Leo XIII02 March 1810, Italian
Pope
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla08 May 1753, Mexican
Priest
Mary MacKillop15 January 1842, Australian
Nun
Muhammad Ahmad12 August 1844, Sudanese
Religious Leader
Frances Xavier Cabrini15 July 1850, Italian, American
Nun
Charles Kingsley12 June 1819, British
Priest
Dayanand Saraswati12 February 1824, Indian
Indian philosopher
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa18 February 1836, Indian
Spiritual & Religious Leader
Raphael Kalinowski01 September 1835, Polish
Discalced Carmelite Friar
Ellen G. White26 November 1827, American
Writer
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Usman dan Fodio15 December 1754, Nigerian
Teacher
Sadhu Sundar Singh03 September 1889, Indian
Missionary
Hudson Taylor21 May 1832, British
Physician, Translator, Theologian, Non-fiction
Mary Slessor02 December 1848, British
Missionary
Oliver Cowdery03 October 1806, American
Ezra Taft Benson04 August 1899, American
Religious Leader
Muhammad Abduh1849 AD, Egyptian
Jurist
Pope Pius VII14 August 1742, Italian
Pope
Joseph F. Smith13 November 1838, American
Political leader
Cosmo Gordon Lang31 October 1864, Scottish
Archbishop
Joseph Franklin Rutherford08 November 1869, American
Lawyer, Judge
Aga Khan I1804 AD, Iranian
Governor
Leonidas Polk10 April 1806, American
Bishop
Wilford Woodruff01 March 1807, American
Religious leader
Charles Studd02 December 1860, British
Cricketer, Author, Missionary
Michael von Faulhaber05 March 1869, German
Archbishop
David O. McKay08 September 1873, American
Religious Leader
Wovoka1856 AD, American
Religious leader
Abraham Isaac Kook07 September 1865, Israeli
rabbi, mystic, Rosh yeshiva
Leonard Howell16 June 1898, Jamaican
Therese Neumann09 April 1898, German
Stigmatic
John Alexander Dowie25 May 1847, Scottish
Evangelist
William Ellery Channing07 April 1780, American
Preacher
James Strang21 March 1813, American
Politician
Minnie Vautrin27 September 1886, American
Missionary
Sidney Rigdon19 February 1793, American
Religious Leader
Edmund Ignatius Rice01 June 1762, Irish
Missionary
Lorenzo Snow03 April 1814, American
Political Leader
Yitzhak Kaduri1898 AD, Israeli, Iraqi
Rabbi
Alexander Crummell03 March 1819, American
Minister
Joel Teitelbaum13 January 1887, Romanian
Philosopher, Rabbi
John Humphrey Noyes03 September 1811, American
Preacher
Francis Asbury20 August 1745, British, American
Bishop
Moshe Feinstein03 March 1895, American
Theologian, Rabbi, Philosopher
John Chilembwe31 May 1871, Malawian
Pastor
Tuanku Imam Bonjol1772 AD, Indonesian
Religious leader
Pio of Pietrelcina25 May 1887, Italian
Samuel Wilberforce07 September 1805, British
Bishop
Samson Raphael Hirsch20 June 1808, German
Rabbi, Translator
Crowfoot1830 AD, Canadian
tribal chief, warrior
José Burgos09 February 1837, Filipino
Priest
Stephen Samuel Wise17 March 1874, Hungarian, American
Rabbi
Catherine Booth17 January 1829, British
Religious leader
Emil Brunner23 December 1889, Swiss
Theologian
Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana1840 AD, Zimbabwean
Spiritual Leader
John Gresham Machen28 July 1881, American
Theologian
Hakeem Noor-ud-Din1841 AD, Indian
physician
Abraham Geiger24 May 1810, German
Historian, Rabbi, University teacher
James Augustine Healy06 April 1830, American
Religious leader
Rama Tirtha22 October 1873, Indian
Teacher
Edward White Benson14 July 1829, British
Archbishop of Canterbury
Washakie1800 AD, American
tribal chief
Antoinette Brown Blackwell20 May 1825, American
Protestant minister
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow31 January 1865, Russian
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Solomon Schechter07 December 1847, Romanian
Rabbi, University teacher
Maria Monk27 June 1816, Canadian
Nun
Ahmad Dahlan01 August 1868, Indonesian
Islamic revivalist
Mother Mary Alphonsa20 May 1851, American
Writer
Ryōkan02 November 1758, Japanese
Buddhist Monk
Eliza R. Snow21 January 1804, American
Poet
Frederick Temple30 November 1821, British
Archbishop
Désiré-Joseph Mercier21 November 1851, Belgian
Translator
Richard Whately01 February 1787, British
Economist