lay preacher Taufa'ahau Tupou IV – lay preacher in the Free Wesleyan Church and former King of Tonga Feng Yuxiang – General of the Zhili Clique and later founder of the Guominjun, known as the "Christian General" and "Backstabbing General" Women lay leaders Belle Harris Bennett (1852–1922) – missionary and suffragist from Richmond Kentucky who led the Southern Methodist Church reform giving women full laity rights in 1919 Eliza Bennis (1725–1802) – early Irish convert (1769) and leader in Limerick and Waterford Eliza Clark Garrett (1805–1855) – Chicago-based leader who founded the Garrett Bible Institute seminary. Freer Helen Latham (1907–1987) - Australian, president of World Federation of Methodist Women Educators Dr. Henry N. Snyder (1865–1949) – educator and author who served as president of Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC from 1902 until his retirement in 1942 Entertainers Beyoncé – American singer Brian Courtney Wilson – American gospel and CCM singer Brittany Hargest – member of CCM group Jump5 Toni Gonzaga and Alex Gonzaga – Filipina television personalities/recording artists Scientists Charles Coulson – became Vice-President of the British Methodist Conference in 1959 and won chemistry's Davy Medal in 1970. Ernest Walton – Irish physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics William Daniel Phillips – Nobel Prize–winning physicist and a founding member of the "International Society for Science & Religion" Arthur Leonard Schawlow – co-winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics Writers (including hymn writers) William F. Albright – Methodist archeologist who writes on Bible archaeology Jennie M. Bingham — American author Emily Rose Bleby – Jamaican/British social reformer Adda Burch — American teacher, missionary, activist, reporter Marietta Stanley Case (1845-1900), American poet and temperance advocate Samuel Chadwick – The Way to Pentecost Fanny Crosby – American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham (1831-1911), American missionary, church worker, editor, translator Nannie Webb Curtis (1861-1920), American essayist, editor (convert from Baptist) Susanna M. D. Fry (1841–1920), American writer, editor Ann Griffiths – poet and hymn writer (convert from Anglicanism) Phoebe Knapp – Methodist hymn writer Harper Lee – American author who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird William Williams Pantycelyn – Welsh Methodist hymn writer (Calvinistic Methodist and preacher) Amy Parkinson (1855-1938), Canadian poet, hymnwriter Emma Rood Tuttle (1839–1916) — American author Fictional characters Superman – also known as Clark Kent or Kal-El. Superman is the archetypal costumed super-hero. He is clearly the most influential character in the comic book super-hero genre.