Hymnwriter

This page lists 690 biographies of hymnwriters, covering lives from 475 to 1973. Featuring Elias Lönnrot, Frans Michael Franzén and Lars Oftedal. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Peter Maurice

1803 – 1878

Gerard Moultrie

1829 – 1885

Elizabeth Scott

1700 – 1776

John Francis Wade

1711 – 1786

William Orcutt Cushing

1823 – 1902

Katherine Hankey

1834 – 1911

Henry Venn Elliott

1792 – 1865

John Berridge

1716 – 1793

Ruth May Fox

1853 – 1958

Ann Griffiths

1776 – 1805

Matthew Bridges

1800 – 1894

Rudolf Ewald Stier

1800 – 1862

George Matheson

1842 – 1906

Manie Payne Ferguson

1850 – 1932

Bhagat Trilochan

b. 1269

James Quinn

1919 – 2010

John William Hewett

1824 – 1886

Flora Hamilton Cassel

1852 – 1911

Robert Hall Baynes

1831 – 1895

Sidney E. Cox

1887 – 1975

Mark Hill Forscutt

1834 – 1903

Mary Dagworthy James

1810 – 1883

William Young Fullerton

1857 – 1932

Brian Wren

b. 1936

Anneke Esaiasdochter

1510 – 1539

Walter John Mathams

1853 – 1931

George Washington Bethune

1805 – 1862

George Hugh Bourne

1840 – 1925

Elizabeth Joan Cosnett

1936 – 2024

John Ryland

1753 – 1825

William True Sleeper

1819 – 1904

Stephen P. Hill

1806 – 1884

Eliza Sibbald Alderson

1818 – 1889

Louis F. Moench

1847 – 1916

John Longhurst

b. 1940

Richard Leach

b. 1953

David Patillo White

1828 – 1903

Godfrey Thring

1823 – 1903

Thomas Worsley Staniforth

1845 – 1909

Frank I. Kooyman

1880 – 1963

Susanna Taylor

1755 – 1823

Roy Cheville

1897 – 1986

Felix Manz

1498 – 1527

Henry Fowler

1779 – 1838

Ada R. Habershon

1861 – 1918

Arthur Tozer Russell

1806 – 1874

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt

1851 – 1920

William Henry Draper

1855 – 1933

George Rawson

1807 – 1889

Johann Konrad Pfenninger

1747 – 1792

Emma Leslie

1812 – 1878

Mary Owen

1796 – 1875

Maria de Fleury

1773 – 1791

John Menzies Macfarlane

1833 – 1892

John Rippon

1751 – 1836

Daniel Webster Whittle

1840 – 1901

Elizabeth Prentiss

1818 – 1878

Anne Louise Ashley-Greenstreet

b. 1835

Sir Henry Williams Baker, 3rd Baronet

1821 – 1877

Marianne Nunn

1778 – 1847

Thomas Olivers

1725 – 1799

Michael Saward

1932 – 2015

Rusty Edwards

b. 1955

Maurice Dafydd

Robert Cruttenden

1690 – 1763

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

1840 – 1929

Jim Manley

b. 1940

Maria Grace Saffery

1773 – 1858

G. Homer Durham

1911 – 1985

Anne Quigley

b. 1956

Willy Reske

1897 – 1991

Henry Twells

1823 – 1900

Cornelie Booth

1864 – 1919

John Hampden Gurney

1802 – 1862

Athelstan Riley

1858 – 1945

Steve James

b. 1953

Samuel Trevor Francis

1834 – 1925

Sarah Bache

1771 – 1844

Robert Corbet Singleton

1810 – 1881

Romanos the Melodist

490 – 556

Amos Sutton Hayden

1813 – 1880

Archer Thompson Gurney

1820 – 1887

John Ellerton

1826 – 1893

John M. Chamberlain

1844 – 1928

Elizabeth Parson

1812 – 1873

Lee Tom Perry

b. 1951

Elizabeth Ayton Godwin

1817 – 1889

John L. Bell

b. 1949

Thomas Ken

1637 – 1711

John Larsson

1938 – 2022

Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt

1652 – 1712

Bertha Mae Lillenas

1889 – 1945

Damian Lundy

1943 – 1996

John E. Tullidge

1806 – 1873

Jann Aldredge-Clanton

b. 1946

Ray Palmer

1808 – 1887

Ada Jane Blenkhorn

1858 – 1927

Katharine Purvis

1842 – 1907

William Gadsby

1773 – 1844

Josiah Rees

1744 – 1804