Bunting – President of the Methodist Conference John Hogan – U.S. Congressman and preacher Andrew Hunter (Methodist preacher) – "Father of Arkansas Methodism" and a politician Leonard Isitt (minister) – New Zealand Methodist minister James W. Kemp – minister known for writing about Dr. Seuss as he relates to Christianity Samuel Kobia – General Secretary of the World Council of Churches Lowen Kruse – Nebraska state senator Augustus Baldwin Longstreet – known as a humorist William Losee – Canadian circuit rider Sarah Mallett – preacher William Morley Punshon – preaching/lecturing Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow – first woman president of the Methodist Conference Egerton Ryerson – The former Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) was named after for him William Ryerson – political figure Tex Sample – sociologist of religion William J. Simmons – founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (suspended minister) Ndabaningi Sithole – founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union and a Methodist minister. John Karefa-Smart – leader of the United National People's Party of Sierra Leone Donald Soper – Christian socialist and pacifist Edward Sugden – first master of Queen's College (University of Melbourne) Wilbur Fisk Tillett – clergyman and educator Charles Tindley – gospel music composer Channing Heggie Tobias – member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights Simon Topping – activist on poverty causes like Make Poverty History Don Wildmon – Methodist pastor; founder of the conservative activist group American Family Association Cecil Williams – involved in HIV/AIDS causes Bishops Richard Allen – founder of African Methodist Episcopal Church Sarah Allen – AME, founded the Daughters of the Conference Daniel Payne – AME, first African-American president of an African-American university, Wilberforce University Richard Whatcoat – third bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church Missionaries Henry Appenzeller — missionary to Korea Henry Augustus Buchtel – did missionary work in Bulgaria, also a Governor of Colorado. Charles Cowman – missionary to Japan Lettie Cowman – missionary to Japan Henry Hare Dugmore – Wesleyan missionary and translator in South Africa James Endicott – missionary to Sichuan, Western China Alexander Robert Edgar – missionary to Australia. (convert from Anglicanism) Ailie Gale – missionary to China E. Stanley Jones — missionary to India Leslie Gifford Kilborn – missionary to Sichuan, Western China Omar Leslie Kilborn – missionary to Sichuan, Western China James Hope Moulton – missionary known for studying/preaching to the Parsis Christoph Gottlob Müller – founded the