This is a listing of the major offices within the Lutheran churches, as well as significant individual Lutheran clergy.
- Presidents of the Lutheran World Federation
- Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
- Presidents, Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS)
- Land provosts and state bishop, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin (1921–1976)
- List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar
- Bishops of Hamburg, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977–2008)
- Bishops of Hamburg-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Hamburg, 2008– to date)
- State bishops, Evangelical-Lutheran State Church of Hanover
- Bishops of Helsinki
- Lutheran bishops of Hólar
- Bishops of Holstein-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Lübeck, 1977–2008)
- Bishops of Iceland
- List of bishops of Lund (Earlier names on the list are Catholic)
- Presidents & Bishops, Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore
- Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg
- Bishops of Schleswig, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Schleswig-Holstein (1925–1976), North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977–2008)
- Bishops of Schleswig and Holstein, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Schleswig, 2008– to date)
- Bishops, Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK)
- Lutheran bishops of Skálholt
- Lutheran Bishops of Turku and Archbishops of Turku and Finland
- Lutheran Archbishops of Uppsala
- Presidents, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
- Leading persons and state bishops, Evangelical State Church in Württemberg
Academics
- Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer (b. 1954) - President of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan[4]
- Kristian Anker (1848-1928) - President of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College[5]
- Anton Marius Andersen (1847-1941) - Founding President of Trinity Seminary at Dana College[6]
- Georg M. Grossmann (1823-1897) - Founder of Wartburg College[7]
- Theodore Marcus Hansen (1886-1973) - President of Dana College and Trinity Seminary
- John N. Kildahl (1857-1920) - Lutheran church minister, author and educator, President of St. Olaf College
- O. P. Kretzmann (1901-1975) - President of Valparaiso University, Lutheran pastor, author, and professor
- Peter Laurentius Larsen - Founding president of Luther College.
- Knud Ejler Løgstrup - Danish philosopher and theologian. Pastor at Sandager- Holevad from 1936–1943. Professor at University of Aarhus from 1943-1975
- Thorbjorn N. Mohn - Founding president of St. Olaf College
- Bernt Julius Muus - Founder of St. Olaf College
- Robert Preus - Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and seminary president
- Stephan Ludwig Roth - Transylvanian educationist.[8]
- Jacob Tanner (1865-1964) - Norwegian American Lutheran educator and religious author
- John Tietjen (1928-2004) - Noted for the Seminex controversy.[9]
- Peter Sørensen Vig (1854-1929) - President of Trinity Seminary and the president of Dana College[10]
Theologians
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A founding member of the Confessing Church who was executed by Nazi Germany.[22]
- Otto von Gerlach - Nineteenth-century German.[23]
- N. F. S. Grundtvig - Danish pastor, author, poet and author of hymns
- Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour.[24]
- Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism.[25]
- Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LCMS.[26]
- Martin Luther - German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, with whose teachings Lutheranism is associated.
- Martin Niemöller - Former U-boat captain who became a theologian and, after initial enthusiasm, turned against Nazism.[27]
- Jacob Aall Ottesen - Norwegian American minister, theologian and church leader[28]
- Gunnar Rosendal (1897-1988) - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism.[29]
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