Roger Williams 1603 – 1684 Founder of the First Baptist church in America, Roger Williams was born in London and raised in the Episcopal Church,

John Knox 1513 – 1572 Born in Scotland, John Knox was ordained as a Catholic priest sometime between 1530 and 1540. He was converted to

John Calvin 1509 – 1564 John Calvin, a French scholar who became a leading preacher and dominant force in the Reformation of the sixteenth century,

Menno Simons 1492 – 1559 Menno Simons was born in Friesland, Holland. Little is known of his early life and education. In 1524 he was

Martin Luther 1483 – 1546 The great German Reformer, Martin Luther, was born November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Saxony, and died there February 18, 1546.

William Tyndale 1494 – 1536 BIBLE TRANSLATOR AND REFORMER. William Tyndale was ordained as a priest in 1521, having studied Greek diligently at Oxford and

Ulrich Zwingli 1484 – 1531 Ulrich Zwingli was educated at schools in Basel and Bern, Switzerland, and Vienna, Austria. He had a happy boyhood with

Balthasar Hubmaier 1480-1528 Hubmaier was born of poor parents in Augsburg, Germany. Although little is known of his early life, he was an unusual student,

John Huss 1369 – 1415 John Huss was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in 1401 after receiving the Bachelor’s and Master’s