All 50 profiles, A to Z

• AA
  AaronMoses' older brother and spokesman before Pharaoh, and the first high priest of Israel.Exodus & Conquest
  333 references

• 

  AbrahamThe father of Israel, who believed God's promise when it looked impossible, and whose faith was counted as righteousness.Patriarchs
  275 references

• 

  AdamThe first man, formed by God from the dust of the ground and placed in the garden of Eden.Patriarchs
  27 references
• AN
  AndrewPeter's brother, first a disciple of John the Baptist, who brought his brother to Jesus, and later the boy with the loaves and the Greeks who wanted to see him.Gospels
  12 references
• AQ
  AquilaThe tentmaker from Pontus who with his wife Priscilla received Paul into their Corinth workshop and home, travelled with him to Ephesus, and kept a church in their house.Early Church
  6 references
• BA
  BarnabasThe Cypriot Levite surnamed Son of Encouragement, who sold his field for the poor, believed in Saul when no one else would, fetched him to Antioch, and travelled with him on the first journey.Early Church
  28 references
• BA
  BathshebaThe wife of Uriah the Hittite, taken by David; afterwards David's wife and the mother of Solomon, for whom she secured the throne.United Kingdom
  12 references
• CO
  CorneliusThe devout centurion of Caesarea whose prayers and alms rose before God, who sent for Peter at an angel's word, and in whose house the Holy Spirit fell on Gentiles for the first time.Early Church
  10 references

• 

  DanielThe young exile who would not defile himself with the king's food, interpreted dreams for the kings of Babylon, read the writing on the wall, and came unharmed out of the lions' den.Exile & Return
  72 references

• 

  DavidThe shepherd of Bethlehem who killed Goliath, became Israel's king, received God's everlasting covenant, and wrote many of the Psalms.United Kingdom
  963 references
• DE
  DeborahThe prophetess who judged Israel and sent Barak into battle against Sisera's army.Judges
  9 references

• 

  ElijahThe prophet from Tishbe who shut the heavens by his word, faced down the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, and was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind.Divided Kingdom
  92 references
• EL
  ElishaElijah's successor, who caught his falling cloak, received a double portion of his spirit, and did miracles for widows, a great lady of Shunem, and a Syrian general.Divided Kingdom
  53 references

• 

  EstherThe Jewish queen of Persia who fasted, risked her life to approach the king uninvited, and exposed Haman's plot to destroy her people.Exile & Return
  45 references

• 

  EveThe first woman, built by God from Adam's rib, and the mother of all the living.Patriarchs
  4 references
• GI
  GideonThe reluctant judge who routed the Midianites with three hundred men, trumpets and torches, and refused to be made king.Judges
  50 references

• 

  IsaacThe son of promise born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age, who carried the wood of his own offering up Moriah.Patriarchs
  123 references

• 

  IsaiahThe prophet who saw the LORD high and lifted up in the temple, volunteered to be sent, and foretold the child to be born and the servant pierced for our transgressions.Divided Kingdom
  54 references

• 

  JacobRenamed Israel by God; the father of the twelve sons whose families became the tribes of Israel.Patriarchs
  341 references
• JZ
  James, son of ZebedeeOne of the inner three apostles, brother of John, who saw the Transfiguration and was the first of the Twelve to die for Jesus, killed by Herod's sword.Gospels
  19 references

• 

  JeremiahThe prophet who announced Jerusalem's fall for forty years, was beaten and imprisoned for preaching it, bought a field as a pledge of restoration, and promised a new covenant.Divided Kingdom
  124 references

• 

  JesusThe Son of God, born of Mary in Bethlehem, who preached the kingdom of God, was crucified for our sins according to the Scriptures, and was raised on the third day.Gospels
  1145 references
• JO
  JobThe blameless man of Uz who lost his wealth, his servants and his children in a single day, refused to curse God, argued his case through long nights of debate, and was restored.Patriarchs
  53 references

• 

  John the BaptistThe prophet in the wilderness who prepared the way of the Lord, baptised the crowds and Jesus himself in the Jordan, pointed to him as the Lamb of God, and was beheaded by Herod.Gospels
  89 references
• JA
  John, the apostleThe disciple whom Jesus loved, who leaned against him at the supper, stood at the cross and received his mother, ran to the empty tomb, and wrote the fourth Gospel and the Revelation.Gospels
  35 references

• 

  JosephSold by his brothers into Egypt, and raised by God to rule the country and keep his whole family alive through the famine.Patriarchs
  197 references
• JN
  Joseph of NazarethThe righteous carpenter betrothed to Mary, who believed the angel, took her as his wife, named the child Jesus, and guarded the family into Egypt and back.Gospels
  16 references
• JO
  JoshuaMoses' assistant, who led Israel across the Jordan and into the land of Canaan after Moses died.Exodus & Conquest
  189 references
• LA
  LazarusThe friend of Jesus at Bethany, brother of Martha and Mary, who died and lay four days in the tomb, and came out alive at Jesus' call.Gospels
  11 references
• LY
  LydiaThe seller of purple cloth from Thyatira whom Paul found worshipping at the riverside in Philippi, whose heart the Lord opened to his message, and whose house became the meeting place of the first church in Europe.Early Church
  2 references

• 

  MaryThe mother of Jesus, a young woman of Nazareth who believed the angel's word, bore the Son of God, treasured all these things in her heart, and stood by him at the cross.Gospels
  20 references

• 

  Mary MagdaleneThe woman delivered from seven demons, who followed Jesus from Galilee and supported his ministry, watched at the cross and the burial, and was the first to see him risen and to carry the news.Gospels
  14 references
• MA
  MatthewThe tax collector of Capernaum who rose from his booth at the two words, follow me, and whose name the first Gospel bears.Gospels
  8 references
• MI
  MiriamThe prophetess who watched over her baby brother at the Nile and led the women of Israel in song after the crossing of the sea.Exodus & Conquest
  12 references

• 

  MosesThe prophet who led Israel out of slavery in Egypt, received the Law on Mount Sinai, and brought the people to the edge of Canaan.Exodus & Conquest
  785 references
• NE
  NehemiahThe cupbearer of Artaxerxes who heard of Jerusalem's ruin, prayed, got the king's leave, and rebuilt the city's wall in fifty-two days.Exile & Return
  5 references
• NI
  NicodemusThe Pharisee and ruler of the Jews who came to Jesus by night to ask his questions, later spoke up for a fair hearing in the council, and helped to bury him with a royal weight of spices.Gospels
  5 references

• 

  NoahThe righteous man who built the ark and brought his family and the animals through the flood.Patriarchs
  47 references

• 

  PaulThe Pharisee who persecuted the church until the risen Jesus stopped him on the Damascus road, and who became his apostle to the Gentiles, travelling the Roman world and writing many of the New Testament letters.Early Church
  182 references

• 

  PeterThe Galilean fisherman who confessed Jesus as the Christ, denied him three times on the night he was betrayed, was restored by the risen Lord, and preached at Pentecost.Gospels
  179 references
• PE
  Philip the evangelistOne of the Seven, who took the gospel down to Samaria, was sent by an angel to the desert road to explain Isaiah to the Ethiopian official, and years later hosted Paul in his house at Caesarea.Early Church
  16 references
• PR
  PriscillaAquila's wife, a tentmaker who worked beside Paul in Corinth, hosted a church in her house, risked her neck for Paul's life, and with her husband explained the way of God more accurately to Apollos.Early Church
  6 references

• 

  RuthThe Moabite widow who refused to leave her mother-in-law Naomi, took refuge under the wings of Israel's God, and became the great-grandmother of King David.Judges
  13 references

• 

  SamsonThe Nazirite judge of immense strength, whose secret Delilah drew out of him, and who pulled Dagon's temple down on his enemies and himself.Judges
  38 references

• 

  SamuelThe last judge of Israel and its prophet, given to Hannah in answer to prayer, who anointed Saul and then David as king.Judges
  121 references
• SA
  SarahAbraham's wife, who laughed at the promise and then bore Isaac in her old age, exactly as God had said.Patriarchs
  48 references
• SA
  SaulIsrael's first king, tall and promising at his anointing, who lost the kingdom by disobedience and died on Mount Gilboa.United Kingdom
  327 references

• 

  SolomonDavid's son, who asked God for wisdom above riches, built the temple in Jerusalem, and in old age let his many wives turn his heart after other gods.United Kingdom
  265 references
• ST
  StephenThe first martyr of the church: one of the Seven chosen to serve the widows, full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, who traced Israel's history to the council's face, saw heaven opened, and died praying for his killers.Early Church
  7 references
• TI
  TimothyPaul's true child in the faith, the young co-worker from Lystra whose sincere faith had lived first in his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice, and who received Paul's last surviving letter.Early Church
  28 references

Genesis (8) · Exodus (8) · Leviticus (5) · Numbers (8) · Deuteronomy (9) · Joshua (7) · Judges (7) · Ruth (2) · 1 Samuel (7) · 2 Samuel (7) · 1 Kings (11) · 2 Kings (9) · 1 Chronicles (15) · 2 Chronicles (10) · Ezra (5) · Nehemiah (7) · Esther (1) · Job (2) · Psalm (11) · Proverbs (2) · Ecclesiastes (1) · Isaiah (9) · Jeremiah (8) · Lamentations (1) · Ezekiel (7) · Daniel (3) · Hosea (3) · Amos (4) · Obadiah (2) · Micah (5) · Zechariah (2) · Malachi (3) · Matthew (22) · Mark (17) · Luke (22) · John (16) · Acts (29) · Romans (14) · 1 Corinthians (9) · 2 Corinthians (6) · Galatians (7) · Ephesians (2) · Philippians (3) · Colossians (4) · 1 Thessalonians (3) · 2 Thessalonians (3) · 1 Timothy (5) · 2 Timothy (7) · Titus (2) · Philemon (3) · Hebrews (15) · James (5) · 1 Peter (5) · 2 Peter (4) · Jude (3) · Revelation (5)

The index behind this section (STEP Bible’s TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge) separates 3,129 named individuals in Scripture. 50 are profiled in full here so far; the rest follow in batches. Name and reference data: STEP Bible (TIPNR), Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0. Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible, public domain, each checked against the published text.