Some religious heros of mine:

* JS Bach for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBmygI-N3M&feature=related
* George Herbert for http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bitter-sweet/
* Charles Granderson Finney for http://www.gospeltruth.net/1851Sys_Theo/index1851st.htm
* Sir Francis Bacon for http://www.constitution.org/bacon/nov_org.htm
* Hugo Grotius for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_(governmental_view)
and Sir Isaac Newton