Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 - February 20, 1976) She was an evangelist with a passion for the lost. She believed in miracles and deliverance by the power of the Holy Spirit, and was part of the extreme pentacostal arm of Protestant Christianity. She was born in Concordia, Missouri to German parents and died in Tulsa, following open-heart surgery.

She was born-again at the age of fourteen in the Methodist Church of Concordia, Missouri.

Miss Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and in many other countries holding ] between the 1940s and 1970s. She had a weekly Sunday

In the 1970s she gain notoriety and was granted an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Oral Roberts University in 1972.

On her passing in 1976, Kathryn Kuhlman was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

She is survived by her eponymous foundation: The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation. The foundation was established in 1957, and its Canadian branch in 1970. In 1982 the Foundation terminated its nationwide radio broadcasting.

As of 1999, many Kathryn Kuhlman audio messages have been preserved on digital media for future generations. The website KathrynKuhlman.com] in operation through the Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation, makes available audio messages, crusade footage, teachings, and books.