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
Brigham Young01 June 1801, American
Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Thérèse of Lisieux02 January 1873, French
Nun
Sri Aurobindo15 August 1872, Indian
Political and Spiritual Leader
Bernadette Soubirous07 January 1844, French
Saint
Pope John XXIII25 November 1881, Italian
Pope
Paramahansa Yogananda05 January 1893, Indian
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada01 September 1896, Indian
Founder of ISKCON
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad13 February 1835, Indian
Founder of Ahmadiyya Sect
Narayana Guru20 August 1856, Indian
Spiritual Leader, Social Reformer
George Gurdjieff01 January 1866, Armenian
Spiritual Teacher
Charles Taze Russell16 February 1852, American
Christian Restoration Minister
Meher Baba25 February 1894, Indian
Religious Leader
Pope Pius IX13 May 1792, Italian
Religious Leader
Mary Baker Eddy16 July 1821, American
Religious Leader
John Bosco16 August 1815, Italian
Priest
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla08 May 1753, Mexican
Priest
Pope Pius XI31 May 1857, Italian
Religious Leader
Pope Leo XIII02 March 1810, Italian
Pope
Mirra Alfassa21 February 1878, French
Spiritual Guru
Muhammad Ahmad12 August 1844, Sudanese
Religious Leader
Mary MacKillop15 January 1842, Australian
Nun
Charles Kingsley12 June 1819, British
Priest
Dayanand Saraswati12 February 1824, Indian
Indian philosopher
Raphael Kalinowski01 September 1835, Polish
Discalced Carmelite Friar
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa18 February 1836, Indian
Spiritual & Religious Leader
Ellen G. White26 November 1827, American
Writer
Pope Pius X02 June 1835, Italian
Catholic priest
Aimee Semple McPherson09 October 1890, Canadian
Cleric
Usman dan Fodio15 December 1754, Nigerian
Teacher
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Hudson Taylor21 May 1832, British
Physician, Translator, Theologian, Non-fiction
Mary Slessor02 December 1848, British
Missionary
Sadhu Sundar Singh03 September 1889, Indian
Missionary
Ezra Taft Benson04 August 1899, American
Religious Leader
Joseph Franklin Rutherford08 November 1869, American
Lawyer, Judge
Joseph F. Smith13 November 1838, American
Political leader
Cosmo Gordon Lang31 October 1864, Scottish
Archbishop
Aga Khan I1804 AD, Iranian
Governor
John Humphrey Noyes03 September 1811, American
Preacher
Leonidas Polk10 April 1806, American
Bishop
Wilford Woodruff01 March 1807, American
Religious leader
David O. McKay08 September 1873, American
Religious Leader
Oliver Cowdery03 October 1806, American
Abraham Isaac Kook07 September 1865, Israeli
rabbi, mystic, Rosh yeshiva
James Strang21 March 1813, American
Politician
Leonard Howell16 June 1898, Jamaican
William Ellery Channing07 April 1780, American
Preacher
Wovoka1856 AD, American
Religious leader
Sidney Rigdon19 February 1793, American
Religious Leader
Lorenzo Snow03 April 1814, American
Political Leader
Therese Neumann09 April 1898, German
Stigmatic
John Alexander Dowie25 May 1847, Scottish
Evangelist
Yitzhak Kaduri1898 AD, Israeli, Iraqi
Rabbi
Pio of Pietrelcina25 May 1887, Italian
Charles Studd02 December 1860, British
Cricketer, Author, Missionary
Edmund Ignatius Rice01 June 1762, Irish
Missionary
Michael von Faulhaber05 March 1869, German
Archbishop
Joel Teitelbaum13 January 1887, Romanian
Philosopher, Rabbi
Minnie Vautrin27 September 1886, American
Missionary
Francis Asbury20 August 1745, British, American
Bishop
Moshe Feinstein03 March 1895, American
Theologian, Rabbi, Philosopher
Samuel Wilberforce07 September 1805, British
Bishop
Crowfoot1830 AD, Canadian
tribal chief, warrior
Samson Raphael Hirsch20 June 1808, German
Rabbi, Translator
Tuanku Imam Bonjol1772 AD, Indonesian
Religious leader
Washakie1800 AD, American
tribal chief
Hakeem Noor-ud-Din1841 AD, Indian
physician
Solomon Schechter07 December 1847, Romanian
Rabbi, University teacher
Abraham Geiger24 May 1810, German
Historian, Rabbi, University teacher
Anders Chydenius26 February 1729, Finnish
Priest
Swami Sivananda08 September 1887, Indian
Spiritual & Yoga Teacher
Jemima Wilkinson29 November 1752, American
Religious leader
St. Katharine Drexel26 November 1858, American
Philanthropist
Samory1830 AD, Papua New Guinean
Cleric
Alexander Duff15 April 1806, Scottish
Missionary
Keshab Chunder Sen19 November 1838, Indian
Philosopher
Joseph Smith, III06 November 1832, American
Religious leader
Denis-Auguste Affre27 September 1793, French
Archbishop
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth05 May 1887, British
Archbishop
Martin Franz Julius Luther16 December 1895, German
Barnett Robert Brickner14 September 1892, American