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List of famous televangelists, with photos, bios, and other information when available. Who are the top televangelists in the world? This includes the most prominent televangelists, living and dead, both in America and abroad. This list of notable televangelists is ordered by their level of prominence, and can be sorted for various bits of information, such as where these historic televangelists were born and what their nationality is. The people on this list are from different countries, but what they all have in common is that they're all renowned televangelists.

This list is made up of many different people, including Billy Graham and Harold Camping.

From reputable, prominent, and well known televangelists to the lesser known televangelists of today, these are some of the best professionals in the televangelist field. If you want to answer the questions, "Who are the most famous televangelists ever?" and "What are the names of famous televangelists?" then you're in the right place. 

Billy Graham is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
William Franklin "Billy" Graham Jr., KBE is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who rose to celebrity status in 1949 reaching a core ...more

Pat Robertson is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Marion Gordon Robertson is an American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister, who generally supports conservative Christian ideals. He presently serves as ...more

Joel Osteen is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Joel Scott Osteen is an American preacher, televangelist, author, and the Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church, the largest Protestant church in the United States, in Houston, Texas. His televised ...more

Harold Camping is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Harold Egbert Camping was an American Christian radio broadcaster, author and evangelist. Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that ...more

T. D. Jakes is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Bishop T.D. Jakes is a film producer and an actor.

Jerry Falwell is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist ...more

Franklin Graham is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Franklin Graham is an actor, author and an evangelist.

Aimee Semple McPherson is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American Los Angeles–based evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. She founded the Foursquare Church. McPherson ...more

Fulton J. Sheen is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Venerable Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. His cause for canonization as a saint was ...more

Zola Levitt is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Zola Levitt was a Jewish convert to evangelical Christianity who founded a church, Zola Levitt Ministries, in Dallas, Texas.

Marilyn Hickey is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Marilyn Hickey is an American Christian minister and televangelist who teaches Bible studies both nationally and internationally.

Robert H. Schuller is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author. Schuller was principally known for the weekly Hour of Power television program, which he ...more

Joyce Meyer is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Joyce Meyer is a Charismatic Christian author and speaker. Meyer and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered near the St. ...more

Jimmy Swaggart is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Jimmy Lee Swaggart is an American Pentecostal pastor, teacher, musician, author, and televangelist. He has preached to crowds around the world through his weekly telecast. According to the ...more

Paula White is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Paula Michelle White is an international Christian evangelist and teacher, TV personality, author and philanthropist. She is the Senior Pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, ...more

D. James Kennedy is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Dennis James Kennedy, better known as D. James Kennedy, was an American pastor, evangelist, and Christian broadcaster. He founded the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ...more

John Hagee is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
John Charles Hagee is an American founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a megachurch with more than 20,000 active members. Hagee is also the chief executive ...more

Benny Hinn is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades"—revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in ...more

Oral Roberts is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Granville Oral Roberts was an American Methodist-Pentecostal televangelist and a Christian charismatic. He founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University. As one ...more

Charles Stanley is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Charles Frazier Stanley is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in northern Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder and president of In Touch Ministries and also served two one-year terms as ...more

Charles Coughlin is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a controversial Roman Catholic priest based near Detroit at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He ...more

Morris Cerullo is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Morris Cerullo is an American pentecostal televangelist.

Jim Bakker is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
James Orsen "Jim" Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former host of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program. A sex ...more

Tammy Faye is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She co-hosted with him on The PTL Club. She ...more

Peter Popoff is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Peter Popoff is a German American televangelist, self-proclaimed prophet and faith healer. He conducts revival meetings and has a national television program. He initially rose to prominence in ...more

Herbert W. Armstrong is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Radio Church of God which was incorporated 21 October 1933 and was renamed Worldwide Church of God 1 June 1968, as well as starting Ambassador College 8 October ...more

Richard Rossi is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Richard Rossi is an American filmmaker, actor, producer, musician, writer, talk radio host, and a former evangelical minister, church planter, and healing evangelist. His 1995 trial, ended in a ...more

Adrian Rogers is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Adrian Pierce Rogers served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He was also a Southern Baptist pastor whose church services aired on television, and a conservative ...more

David Jeremiah is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
David Paul Jeremiah is a conservative evangelical Christian author, televangelist, and currently the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, an evangelical megachurch in El Cajon, ...more

Creflo A. Dollar, Jr. is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr. is an American televangelist, pastor, and the founder of the non-denominational World Changers Church International based in Fulton County, Georgia, Creflo Dollar ...more

Jack Van Impe is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Jack Leo Van Impe is an American televangelist who is known for his half-hour weekly television series Jack Van Impe Presents, an eschatological commentary on the news of the week through his ...more

Earl Paulk is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Earl Pearly Paulk, Jr. was the founder of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill, a charismatic/Pentecostal megachurch in Decatur, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Noted as "one of the country’s first ...more

Jesse Duplantis is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Jesse Duplantis is an Evangelical Charismatic Christian minister based in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, and the founder of Jesse Duplantis Ministries.

Juanita Bynum is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Juanita Bynum is an American Pentecostal televangelist, author, actress and gospel singer.

Steve Munsey is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Steve K. Munsey is the pastor of the Family Christian Center in Munster, Indiana. He is frequently seen on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, DayStar, and local stations throughout the United

Eddie Long is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Eddie Lee Long is the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, near Lithonia. When Long started as pastor for ...more

Kenneth E. Hagin is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Kenneth Erwin Hagin was an influential American Pentecostal preacher. He is often referred to as the "father" of the "Word of Faith" movement. Many of his followers often ...more

Richard Roberts is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Richard Roberts is chairman and chief executive officer of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and previously served as president of Oral Roberts University for 15 years. After Roberts ...more

Kenneth Copeland is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Kenneth Copeland is one of the leaders of the Charismatic Movement and is an American author, musician, public speaker, and televangelist. While Copeland has been strongly identified with ...more

Gene Scott is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
William Eugene "Gene" Scott was an American pastor and teacher who served for almost 50 years as an ordained minister and religious broadcaster in Los Angeles, California.

John Ankerberg is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
John Ankerberg is an American Christian evangelist and TV presenter. He is an ordained Baptist minister and has written 91 books focusing on religious subjects. He is the producer and host of ...more

Billy Joe Daugherty is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Billy Joe Daugherty was founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was also the founder of Victory Christian School, Victory Bible Institute and Victory World Missions ...more

Robert A. Schuller is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Robert Anthony Schuller is an American author, televangelist and television executive. He was formerly a minister on the Hour of Power weekly television program broadcast from the Crystal ...more

John Avanzini is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Dr. John Avanzini is an American televangelist and "Word of Faith" Bible teacher who preaches a message of financial prosperity. Avanzini who was raised in Lake Jackson, Texas, has his ...more

Joseph Farah is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Joseph Francis Farah is an American author, journalist and editor-in-chief of the conservative website WorldNetDaily.

Bob Larson is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Bob Larson is an American radio and television evangelist, and a pastor of Spiritual Freedom Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Larson has authored numerous books on the subjects of rock music and ...more

Kathryn Kuhlman is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was an American faith healer and evangelist.

Paul Crouch is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Paul Franklin Crouch was an American Christian broadcaster. Crouch, along with his wife Jan, and televangelist Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network in

A. A. Allen is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Asa Alonso Allen, better known as A. A. Allen, was an evangelist with a Pentecostal healing and deliverance ministry. He was, for a time, associated with the "Voice of Healing" ...more

Kerry Shook is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list List of Famous Televangelists
Kerry Shook is an American minister, best-selling author, and Senior Pastor of Woodlands Church in The Woodlands, Texas. In February 2008, Shook released One Month to Live: 30 Days to a ...more