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==Notable Independent Baptists==

==Notable Independent Baptists==

Independent Baptists of note include [[Dale Bigham]], [[J. R. Church]], [[J. Frank Norris]], [[Aaron Denson]], [[Edgar Feghaly]], [[Buck Hatfield]], [[Mike Herbster]] and his father Carl and brothers Matthew and Mark; Bob Jones, Jr., Bob Jones, III, [[Kevin O'Brien]], [[Don Ohm]], [[John R. Rice]], [[Peter Ruckman]], [[Ross Spencer]], and  [[Jimmy G. Tharpe]]. [[Jerry Falwell]] began his ministry as an Independent Baptist, but later led his church to the Baptist Bible Fellowship International and then also to the Southern Baptist Convention. Hymn writer and composer [[Ron Hamilton]] of Greenville, [[South Carolina]], the creator of the ''Patch the Pirate Adventures'', geared to win children to Jesus Christ, is another noted Independent Baptist.

Independent Baptists of note include:

*[[Dale Bigham]]

*[[J. R. Church]]

*[[J. Frank Norris]]

*[[Aaron Denson]]

*[[Edgar Feghaly]]

*[[Ron Hamilton]] (hymn writer/composer and creator of the ''Patch the Pirate Adventures'', geared to win children to Jesus Christ)

*[[Buck Hatfield]]

*[[Mike Herbster]] and his father Carl and brothers Matthew and Mark

*Bob Jones, Jr. and Bob Jones, III (Bob Jones, Sr., though founder of [[Bob Jones University]] which is influential in the IFB movement, was a Methodist)

*[[Kevin O'Brien]]

*[[Don Ohm]]

*[[John R. Rice]]

*[[Peter Ruckman]]

*[[Ross Spencer]]

*[[Jimmy G. Tharpe]]

 

[[Jerry Falwell]] began his ministry as an Independent Baptist, but later led his church to the Baptist Bible Fellowship International and then also to the Southern Baptist Convention, and thus was no longer Independent Baptist in his later years.

==Notable Independent Baptist Institutions==

==Notable Independent Baptist Institutions==