The following are notable Christian missionaries:
Early Christian missionaries These are missionaries who predate the Second Council of Nicaea so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to early Christian groups.
Alopen – first missionary to China (Nestorian) Apollos Augustine of Canterbury – missionary to England Saint Barnabas Saint Boniface – influential in the conversion of German peoples
Columba – early missionary to Scotland Saint Denis – early missionary to France Frumentius – early missionary to Ethiopia Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia Mark the Evangelist Luke the Evangelist Pantaenus – early missionary to India Saint Patrick – early missionary to Ireland Saint Paul Twelve Apostles – all of the twelve are considered missionaries Ulfilas – missionary to the Goths
List of Catholic missionaries
List of Eastern Orthodox missionaries
Medieval to modern missionaries
Anglican Geoffrey Bingham – missionary in Pakistan James Blair – Scottish-born American clergyman in the Virginia Colony, founder of the College of William & Mary William Duncan – worked with the Tsimshians James Hannington – saint in Anglicanism who was killed in Uganda Richard Johnson – first Christian cleric in Australia Francis Le Jau, missionary to South Carolina Samuel Lyde – missionary to the Alawites of Syria Robert Machray – clergyman and missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada Samuel Marsden – missionary to Australia Henry Martyn – missionary to India William Mitchell – missionary to India Charles Pearson – pioneer of the Church of Uganda Charles Stewart Thompson – missionary to India Henry Townsend – missionary in West Africa Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe – missionary in Kashmir John Wesley – missionary/evangelist in Europe and America Walter Weston – missionary to Japan, popularized the term "Japanese Alps" George Whitefield – missionary/evangelist to the colonial United States John Burdett Wittenoom – missionary to Australia
Baptist Ellen Arnold – Australian Missionary Gladys Aylward – missionary in China and Taiwan Anne Luther Bagby – Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil Lauran Bethell – missionary to Thailand and Eastern Europe Joseph Booth – missionary to what is now Malawi William Carey (missionary) – missionary in India Founder of the baptist missionary society William Goldsack - missionary to East Bengal India Adoniram Judson – American missionary to Burma whose conversion to Baptist beliefs en route to the mission field led to the founding of the first Baptist association in the U.S. Ann Hasseltine Judson – wife of Adoniram Judson and missionary in Burma. Translated portions of the Bible into Burmese Chow Leung – missionary to Chicago Chinatown George Liele – first American missionary; served in Jamaica Isaac McCoy – missionary to the American Indians Eleanor Macomber – American missionary to Burma Daniel Sharpe Malekebu – Malawian missionary who served in Malawi Lottie Moon – Southern Baptist missionary to China Hopestill Pillow – New Zealand female missionary to India in the 19th century, member of the Zenana Missions Anna Seward Pruitt – part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist missionary who worked with Lottie Moon in North China Cicero Washington Pruitt – Southern Baptist missionary to North China Issachar Jacox Roberts – Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired Hong Xiuquan William Ward (missionary) – Missionary and printer in India
Plymouth Brethren Jim Elliot – missionary to Ecuador Anthony Norris Groves - missionary to Baghdad George Müller – preached in various countries
Congregationalists William Scott Ament – controversial missionary to China Thomas J. Arnold - missionary in China during the Qing dynasty David Bogue – missionary to India, convert from the Church of Scotland Samuel Dyer – 19th-century China William Ellis – missionary to the South Pacific and an author Cynthia Farrar – missionary to India, 1827–1862 Cyrus Hamlin – American missionary in Turkey Griffith John - missionary in China and companion of Jonathan Goforth Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt - first world missionary for Woman's Christian Temperance Union David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China Luella Miner - missionary in China, 1887 to 1935 Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China Ellen M. Stone - missionary, teacher, author remembered for the Miss Stone Affair Arthur Henderson Smith – missionary and author, more than 50 years in China Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign mission Lancelot Threlkeld – linguist and missionary linked to the Lake Macquarie mission Mary E. Van Lennep – missionary to Smyrna and Constantinople Charlotte White - missionary to India, 1816-1826 John Williams – congregationalist in the South Pacific
Methodist Young John Allen – missionary in Qing China Henry Gerhard Appenzeller - American Methodist missionary to Korea Francis Burns – missionary to Liberia Thomas Coke – the first Methodist bishop Shoshi Mukhi Das – missionary of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, teacher and nurse Thomas Birch Freeman – Anglo-African missionary and colonial official in West Africa Francis Dunlap Gamewell – chief of fortifications, Boxer Rebellion, China Mary Ninde Gamewell – American missionary in China; writer Mary Porter Gamewell – American missionary in China George Richmond Grose – missionary to China Joseph Crane Hartzell – missionary work in Africa Gertrude Howe – American teaching missionary in China William Hughlett – medical missionary to Africa E. Stanley Jones – missionary to India Walter Russell Lambuth – established missionary schools and hospitals in East Asia Mary Ann Lyth – English missionary, translator, teacher J. P. Martin – children's book writer and missionary in Africa Pilipo Miriye – missionary to Nigeria Sioeli Nau – missionary work in Fiji and Tonga Samson Oppong – Ghanaian prophet-preacher Mary Reed – missionary to India Dorothy Ripley – missionary to the United States Samuel Evans Rowe – missionary work in Africa Isaiah Benjamin Scott – African-American missionary to Liberia William B. Scranton - American Methodist missionary to Korea William Taylor (missionary) – Reverend who became Bishop in Africa during the latter half of the 19th century
Moravian
Alexander Worthy Clerk – Jamaican Moravian missionary to the Gold Coast, now Ghana Christian David – Moravian missionary in Greenland, Livland and Pennsylvania Johann Leonhard Dober - missionary in St. Thomas in the Caribbean Anna Rosina Gambold – Moravian missionary in Georgia; diarist Rose Ann Miller – Jamaican Moravian educator and missionary to the Gold Coast, now Ghana Catherine Mulgrave – Angolan-Jamaican educator and missionary to the Gold Coast, now Ghana Anna Nitschmann – Moravian missionary David Nitschmann der Bischof – Moravian bishop and missionary in Pennsylvania Christian Jacob Protten – Gold Coast educator and missionary Rebecca Protten – Caribbean Moravian evangelist and missionary to the Gold Coast August Gottlieb Spangenberg – head of the Moravian Church in America in its early days David Zeisberger – Moravian missionary known for his role in the history of the Christian Munsee Nicolaus Zinzendorf – Founder of the Moravian church
Presbyterian William Chalmers Burns – missionary to China Nicholas Timothy Clerk – Presbyterian missionary in southeast colonial Ghana Samuel Cochran – American missionary to China Harvie M. Conn - American missionary to Korea and a missiologist Hunter Corbett – pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906 Alexander Duff – missionary in India William Montague Ferry - Presbyterian missionary who was stationed on Mackinac Island. George Ashmore Fitch – American missionary to China and Korea Donald Fraser – Free Church of Scotland missionary to Malawi John Lawrence Goheen – Presbyterian missionary, administer of Ichalkaranji state of British India Robert Grierson – Canadian missionary to Korea Mary Coombs Greenleaf – American missionary who worked among the Chickasaw Indians Peter Hall – Presbyterian missionary in colonial Ghana William Imbrie – American missionary to Japan Lloyd Kim - American missionary to Cambodia and the coordinator of Mission to the World Samuel Kirkland – American Revolution figure who did missionary work among the Tuscarora Eric Liddell – Olympic athlete who became a Scottish missionary in China William Alderman Linton - American missionary to Korea Susan Law McBeth – Presbyterian missionary to American Indians and author Alexander Murdoch Mackay – Presbyterian missionary to Uganda George Leslie Mackay – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan James Laidlaw Maxwell – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan Samuel Austin Moffett - American missionary to Korea and founder of Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang Samuel H. Moffett - American missionary to Korea and faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary Robert Morrison – first Protestant missionary in China
John Livingston Nevius - American missionary in China who advocated the Nevius Principle
Michael Oh - American missionary to Japan and executive director of Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides" (now part of Vanuatu) Gladstone Porteous – Australian missionary to China of Scottish descent Francis Young Pressly – American missionary to Punjab, Pakistan 1945–1972 Carl Christian Reindorf - Gold Coast historian, minister and missionary William D. Reynolds - American missionary to Korea David Earl Ross - American missionary to Korea and founder of Jesus Evangelism Band (YWAM Korea) Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria Absalom Sydenstricker – Presbyterian missionary to China, father of Pearl S. Buck Horace Grant Underwood – first Protestant missionary to Korea William James Wanless M.D., F.A.C.S – founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897 Aeneas Francon Williams (Rev) – Church of Scotland minister; missionary in the Eastern Himalayas and China Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – wife of Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams; Church of Scotland missionary in the Eastern Himalayas Ralph D. Winter - American missiologist and founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission Asher Wright – missionary to Native American Seneca people
Other Protestant
David Asante – Gold Coast native linguist, educator and missionary Reinhard Bonnke – German charismatic Christian evangelist Paul Brand – missionary surgeon in India John Allen Chau – American Evangelical, killed by the Sentinelese people after he approached the island in hopes of converting them Emilie Christaller – German educator and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast Johann Gottlieb Christaller – German linguist and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast Aril Edvardsen – Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary Jonathan Edwards - Missionary to the native Housatonic people of Massachusetts Hans Egede – Norwegian Lutheran missionary called "The Apostle of Greenland" John Eliot – Puritan missionary to the American Indians Leung Faat – Chinese convert who did missionary work in Southeast Asia and his homeland Mark Finley – Seventh-day Adventist Church Jason Frenn – contemporary missionary to Latin America Theodore Hamberg – Swedish missionary to China Hermann Herlitz – German pastor and missionary to Australia Regina Hesse – Gold Coast educator and missionary Hermann Gundert – German linguist and Basel missionary to India Robert A. Jaffray – Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary to China James Legge – Sinologist and missionary to China Eugen Liebendörfer – German medical missionary to India