Prophets in Christianity

Biblical people with claimed prophetic experiences

• Ananias of Damascus (Acts 9:10–18)
• Eldad (Numbers 11:26)
• Eliezer (2 Chronicles 20:37)
• Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist (Luke 1:41)
• Elihu (Job 32–35)
• Jahaziel (2 Chronicles 20:14)
• Joachim (Luke 3:23)
• Joseph, legal father of Jesus (Matthew 1:20)
• Mary, mother of Jesus (Luke 1:26–28)
• Medad (Numbers 11:26)
• King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (Daniel 2:1)
• Saul, the first king to unite Israel (1 Samuel 10:10)
• Simeon of Jerusalem (Luke 2:25, 26)
• Solomon (1 Kings 3:5)
• Zechariah, father of John the Baptist (Luke 1:67)

Men of God

• A man of God (1 Samuel 2:27–36)
• A man of God (1 Kings 20:28)
• One of the sons of the prophets (1 Kings 20:35–42)
• A man of God (2 Chronicles 25:7–9)
• The seventy elders of Israel (Numbers 11:25)

False prophets and prophets of Baal

• Ahab, son of Kolaiah (Jeremiah 29:21–23)
• Antichrists (1 John 2:18–19)
• Elymas (a.k.a. Bar-Jesus) (Acts 13:6–12)
• Hananiah (Jeremiah 28:5)
• Jezebel (Revelation 2:20) (not to be confused with the Jezebel of the Old Testament)
• The false prophet (Revelation 16:13, 19:20, 20:10)
• The false prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:13–40)
• Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14)
• Shemaiah son of Delaiah (Nehemiah 6:10)
• Shemaiah the Nehelamite (Jeremiah 29:24)
• Simon Magus (Acts 8:9–24)
• Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah (Jeremiah 29:21)
• Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah (1 Kings 22:24)

Claimed post-biblical prophets

The following persons are considered by some Christians to be prophets, or to have had prophetic experiences.

• Ammia of Philadelphia (fl. late 1st – early 2nd century AD)
• Quadratus of Athens (2nd century, sometimes considered one of the seventy apostles)
• Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla (2nd century, founders of Montanism)
• Quintilla (3rd century, founder of an offshoot movement from Montanism)
• Iarlaithe mac Loga (6th century, founder of the School of Tuam)
• Merlin (6th century, likely invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth from older legends, first appears in the Prophetiae Merlini)
• Palladius of Embrun (6th century, Bishop of Embrun)
• Columba (521–597, credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland)
• Saint Malachy (1094–1148, Archbishop of Armagh and author of the Prophecy of the Popes)
• James Salomoni (1231–1314)
• Joan of Arc (1412–1431)
• Nostradamus (1503–1566)
• Justus Velsius (1510–1571, Dutch faith healer who debated against John Calvin)
• Eleanor Davies (1590–1652)
• Ann Bathurst (17th century, member of the Philadelphians)
• Martha Hatfield (17th century, Puritan)
• John Bull and Richard Farnham (17th century, claimed to be the two witnesses of the Book of Revelation)
• Margareta i Kumla (17th century, claimed to have seen angels and demons fight over her soul)
• John Robins (17th century, Ranter rescued from Roundhead recourse by recanting his revelations)
• Anne Wentworth (17th century, persecuted by Baptists)
• John Reeve (1608–1658, co-founder of Muggletonianism)
• Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698, co-founder of Muggletonianism)
• Mary Cary (1621–1653, supporter of the Fifth Monarchists)
• Eva Margareta Frölich (1650–1692) (Millennialist, pietist author and critic of the Church of Sweden)
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772, founder of Swedenborgianism)
• Joanna Southcott (1750–1814, author of prophecies kept in a box to be opened in times of national crisis, claimed judgement day would happen in 2004)
• Public Universal Friend (1752–1819, preacher who claimed to have died and been reborn without gender)
• George Rapp (1757–1847, founder of the Harmony Society)
• John Ward (1781–1837, claimed successor of Joanna Southcott)
• William Miller (1782–1849, founder of Adventism)
• John Wroe (1782–1863, founder of the Christian Israelite Church)
• Bernhard Müller (1788–1834, founder of an offshoot from the Harmony Society, that would later start the Germantown Colony)
• Helena Ekblom (1790–1859, Swedish preacher who was put in an asylum for refusing to comply with the Church of Sweden's doctrines)
• Joseph Smith (1805–1844, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement)
• Hong Xiuquan (1814–1864, founder of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom)
• John Bosco (1815–1888, founder of the Salesians of Don Bosco)
• Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910, founder of Christian Science)
• Ellen G. White (1827–1915, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church)
• John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907, founder of the Christ Community Church)
• Nona L. Brooks (1861–1945, founder of the Church of Divine Science)
• William Irvine (1863–1947, co-founder of the Two by Twos movement)
• Siener van Rensburg (1864–1926, advisor to Koos de la Rey, influenced the Suidlanders)
• E. W. Kenyon (1867–1948, possible line of transmission between the New Thought and Word of Faith movements)
• Helena Konttinen (1871–1916, a "sleeping preacher" who started a revivalist movement)
• Felix Manalo (1886–1963, founder of the Iglesia ni Cristo)
• Padre Pio (1887–1968, Catholic saint, purportedly predicted the papacy of John Paul II)
• William M. Branham (1909–1965, influence on televangelism)
• A. A. Allen (1911–1970, Pentecostal evangelist and faith healer)
• Kenneth Hagin (1917–2003, pioneer of the Word of Faith movement)
• Oral Roberts (1918–2009, considered the godfather of the charismatic movement, founder of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University)
• T. L. Osborn (1923–2013, Pentecostal evangelist and musician)
• Pat Robertson (1930–2023, chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, host of The 700 Club, noted for controversial statements)
• David Wilkerson (1931–2011, author of The Cross and the Switchblade and founder of the Teen Challenge)
• Reverend Ike (1935–2009, noted for his slogan "You can't lose with the stuff I use!")
• Kenneth Copeland (born 1936, televangelist, noted as an advocate of prosperity theology and for claiming to have ended the COVID-19 pandemic)
• Robert Tilton (born 1946, televangelist noted for his prosperity theology infomercials and questionable fundraising practices)
• Roch Thériault (1947–2011, founder of a polygamous doomsday cult called the Ant Hill Kids)
• John Paul Jackson (1950–2015, author noted for dream interpretation)
• Benny Hinn (born 1952, televangelist noted for faith healing and prosperity theology)
• David Koresh (1959–1993, leader of the Branch Davidians during the Waco siege)
• Creflo Dollar (born 1962, televangelist noted for prosperity theology)
• T. B. Joshua (1963–2021, televangelist and founder of Synagogue, Church of All Nations)
• Joshua Iginla (born 1969, televangelist, prosperity theology preacher, and megachurch pastor)
• Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin (born 1972, founder of the Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry, criticized for flamboyant ministry)
• Daniel Obinim (born 1977, minister noted for controversial actions and statements)