The Lineage of Evolutionary Enlightenment*:

In chronological order:

Adi Shankara (788 – 820) – founder of Vedanta
Jakob Bohme (1575-1624) – Introduced evolving conception of God.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) – father of idealism

Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854) – early ideas of evolutionary spirituality
Georg Hegel (1770–1831) – early conceptualization of evolutionary spirituality 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) – American Trascendentalist
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) – the evolution of man
Richard M. Bucke (1837–1902) – author of the book, Cosmic Consciousness

William James (1842 – 1910) – one of the founders of Pragmatism
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) – work conveys the process of EE, Creative Evolution
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) – forefather of East meets West movement

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – founder of Process Philosophy
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) – poet, philosopher, founder of Integral Yoga
Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) – greatest sage of 20th Century (begins direct lineage) 

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) – Evolutionary (in Christianity)
Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) – sage and modernist (in regard to Vedanta)
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) – wrote Autobiography of a Yogi

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) – renowned writer/ speaker
Gopi Krishna (1903–1984) – Indian Kundalini (energy) Master
Jean Gebser (1905-1973) – developed theory of stages of evolution (I & We)

Parahamsa Hariharananda (1907-2002) – Kriya Yoga Master 

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H.W.L. Poonja (1910-1997) – Andrew Cohen teacher, whose famous quote 
“You don’t have to make any effort to be free” began the final awakening.
Ajja (1916-2007) – Profoundly awakened teacher
Swami Chidananda (1916-2008) – taught about making awakening primary

Swami Krishnananda (1922-2001) – Indian sage and East/West philosopher
Vimala Thakar (1923-2009) – female enlightened teacher
Michael Murphy (1938-present) – founder of the human potential movement

Ken Wilber (1949-present) – developed Integral/AQAL Theory
Brian Swimme (1950-present) – author and teacher    
Andrew Cohen (1955-present) – author and teacher



Compiled from these two videos from the EnlightenNext Organization:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wkXhZurtFo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbOax8ZEBZg&feature=player_embedded