This list deals with those who are notable in the history or culture of all Methodist churches. For other Methodists who are not notable in Methodist history or culture, see :Category:Methodists. Early leaders John Wesley Charles Wesley George Whitefield Richard Allen Francis Asbury Reverend Zachariah Munsey Reverend David Munsey Thomas Coke William Law William Williams Pantycelyn Howell Harris James Varick Countess of Huntingdon Early women preachers Alice Cambridge Ann Carr Sarah Crosby Mary Bosanquet Fletcher Anne Lutton Phoebe Palmer Agnes Smyth Clergy Bernhard Anderson – Old Testament scholar Ephraim Kingsbury Avery – New England minister long thought to be the first American clergyman tried for murder Elihu Bailey – Wisconsin State Assemblyman Canaan Banana – first President of Zimbabwe John C. A. Barrett – Chairman of the World Methodist Council William Black (Methodist) – linked to Nova Scotia Henry Boehm – centenarian William Bramwell – 1790s revivalist preacher in Yorkshire George Bramwell Evens – nature writer of the Romani people Rev. Dr. Henry Brown – Methodist minister and author of The Impending Peril: Or, Methodism and Amusement William Gannaway Brownlow – Governor of Tennessee Byron Cage – gospel singer (African Methodist Episcopal Church) Thomas Charles – Welsh language author. (Of the Calvinistic Methodists) Zerah Colburn (math prodigy) – became a minister, after youth as a mental calculator Walter T. Colquitt – circuit-riding Methodist preacher who served in the US House of Representatives and the Senate. Thomas Mears Eddy – pastor William Edwards (architect) – Welsh designer of bridges Edward Eggleston – also author Calvin Fairbank – abolitionist Robert Newton Flew – theologian and ecumenist Wallace Wattles – New Thought pioneer, theologian and Christian Socialist - Famous for inspiring the blockbuster book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Author of Science of Getting Rich bestselling book 1910. Possibly the biggest selling author in the 20th and 21st Century who was a Methodist minister. Richard Watson – theology and president of the Methodist Conference Orange Scott – first president of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion Adam Crooks – Wesleyan Methodist Connexion Arno Clemens Gaebelein – also a writer Leslie Griffiths – life peer in the House of Lords Adam Hamilton (pastor) – senior pastor of the 17,000-member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas Harold P. Hamilton – Kentucky Wesleyan College President Hill, Rowland – founder of Surrey Chapel, London and early advocate of vaccination Silas Hocking – novelist and preacher Jabez