本条目记载了《圣经》里面的主要人物的列表。所有名字先按《新约》和《旧约》分类。

根据《旧约圣经》《创世记》所记载，以色列人的十二个支派都是又称为“以色列”的雅各的后人。他的十二个儿子各自成为了以色列十二支族的祖先：

This page introduces a list of about 2,600 proper names with their meanings from the Bible, mainly compiled from the 19th century public domain resources of Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary as part of Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible written by Roswell Dwight Hitchcock and Dictionary of the Bible by William R. Smith. Most of the male and female names and their definitions can also be found in Herbert Lockyer's reference books All the Men of the Bible and All the Women of the Bible. Most of the divine names and their definitions can also be found in Lockyer's All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible.