Religious Organization-Pentecostal
Tweet (1971- )
Lyricist, guitarist, singer Tweet, as she was called growing up on Custer Street, in Rochester, New York, was born Charlene...
Denis Mukwege (1955- )
Dr. Denis Mukwege is a Nobel Prize-winning gynecologist, human rights activist, and Pentecostal pastor from the Democratic Republic of the...
Corey Lamar Jones (1984-2015)
The shooting death of 31-year-old Corey Lamar Jones in 2015 by Pakistani-American police officer Nouman K. Raja when Jones was...
Ivy Ruth Taylor (1970- )
Ivy Ruth Taylor, the first popularly-elected African American mayor of San Antonio, Texas, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on...
John Abraham Godson (1970- )
John Abraham Godson, a conservative politician, university lecturer, businessman, and former Pentecostal preacher, is the first person of African descent...
Thomas Dexter Jakes (1957- )
Bishop T.D. Jakes—megachurch pastor, best-selling author, playwright, and movie producer—was born Thomas Dexter Jakes on June 9, 1957, in South...
Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate (1871-1930)
Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate founded a Pentecostal denomination and became one of the first American women to hold the title...
