The following are notable

Christian mission A Christian mission is an organized effort for the propagation of the Christian faith. Missions involve sending individuals and groups across boundaries, most commonly geographical boundaries, to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as ...

aries:

Early Christian missionaries

These are missionaries who predate the

Second Council of Nicaea The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the last of the first seven ecumenical councils by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. In addition, it is also recognized as such by the Old Catholics, the Anglican Communion, an ...

so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to early Christian groups. *

Alopen Alopen (, ; also "Aleben", "Aluoben", "Olopen," "Olopan," or "Olopuen") is the first recorded Assyrian Christian missionary to have reached China, during the Tang dynasty. He was a missionary from the Church of the East (also known as the "Nestori ...

– first missionary to China (Nestorian) *

Apollos Apollos ( grc-gre, Ἀπολλώς) was a 1st-century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament. A contemporary and colleague of Paul the Apostle, he played an important role in the early development of the ch ...

* Augustine of Canterbury – missionary to England *

Saint Barnabas Barnabas (; arc, ܒܪܢܒܐ; grc, Βαρνάβας), born Joseph () or Joses (), was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Nam ...

* Saint Boniface – influential in the conversion of German peoples * Brieuc * Columba – early missionary to Scotland * David of Basra – early missionary to India * Denis – early missionary to France *

Frumentius Frumentius ( gez, ፍሬምናጦስ; died c. 383) was a Phoenician Christian missionary and the first bishop of Axum who brought Christianity to the Kingdom of Aksum. He is sometimes known by other names, such as Abuna ("Our Father") an ...

– early missionary to Ethiopia *

Saint Kilian Kilian, also spelled Cillian or Killian (or alternatively ga, Cillín; la, Kilianus), was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia (Franconia is nowadays the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his labours in the latter h ...

– Irish missionary killed in

Franconia Franconia (german: Franken, ; Franconian dialect: ''Franggn'' ; bar, Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian languages, Franconian dialect (German: ''Fränkisch''). The three Regierungsbezirk, administrative ...

* Mark the Evangelist *

Luke the Evangelist Luke the Evangelist (Latin: '' Lucas''; grc, Λουκᾶς, '' Loukâs''; he, לוקאס, ''Lūqās''; arc, /ܠܘܩܐ לוקא, ''Lūqā’; Ge'ez: ሉቃስ'') is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of t ...

Pantaenus Saint Pantaenus the Philosopher ( el, Πάνταινος; died c. 200) was a Greek theologian and a significant figure in the Catechetical School of Alexandria from around AD 180. This school was the earliest catechetical school, and became infl ...

– early missionary to India * Saint Patrick – early missionary to Ireland *

Saint Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

Twelve Apostles In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. During the life and minist ...

– all of the twelve are considered missionaries *

Ulfilas Ulfilas (–383), also spelled Ulphilas and Orphila, all Latinisation of names, Latinized forms of the unattested Gothic language, Gothic form *𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌰 Wulfila, literally "Little Wolf", was a Goths, Goth of Cappadocian Ancie ...

– 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

Tsimshian The Tsimshian (; tsi, Ts’msyan or Tsm'syen) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their communities are mostly in coastal British Columbia in Terrace and Prince Rupert, and Metlakatla, Alaska on Annette Island, the only r ...

s *

James Hannington James Hannington (3 September 1847 – 29 October 1885) was an English Anglican missionary and martyr. He was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa. Early life Hannington was born on 3 September 1847 at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, England, ...

– saint in Anglicanism who was killed in Uganda *

Richard Johnson Richard or Dick Johnson may refer to: Academics * Dick Johnson (academic) (1929–2019), Australian academic * Richard C. Johnson (1930–2003), professor of electrical engineering * Richard A. Johnson, artist and professor at the University of ...

– first Christian cleric in Australia *

Francis Le Jau Francis Le Jau (1665 – September 10, 1717) was a missionary to South Carolina with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG). Born into a French Huguenot family in the La Rochelle region of France he later fled to England during the ...

, missionary to

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* Samuel Lyde – missionary to the

Alawites The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isl ...

of Syria *

Robert Machray Robert Machray (17 May 1831 – 9 March 1904) was an Anglican bishop and missionary and the first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (now called the Anglican Church of Canada). Life He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was the son of R ...

– clergyman and missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada *

Samuel Marsden Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society, believed to have introduced Christianity to New Zealand. Marsden was a prom ...

– missionary to Australia *

Henry Martyn Henry Martyn (18 February 1781 – 16 October 1812) was an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he was educated at Truro Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. A chance encount ...

– missionary to India * William Mitchell – missionary to India *

Charles Pearson Charles Pearson (4 October 1793 – 14 September 1862) was a British lawyer and politician. He was solicitor to the City of London, a reforming campaigner, and – briefly – Member of Parliament for Lambeth. He campaigned against corruption ...

– pioneer of the

Church of Uganda The Church of Uganda is a member province of the Anglican Communion. Currently there are 37 dioceses which make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop. Each diocese is divided into archdeaconries, each headed by a senior priest known ...

Henry Townsend Henry Townsend may refer to: * Henry Townsend (Norwich) (1626–1695), early American colonist born in Norwich, Norfolk, England * Henry Townsend (Oyster Bay) (1649–1703), American colonist born in Oyster Bay * Henry Townsend (missionary) (1815� ...

– missionary in West Africa * Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe – missionary in Kashmir * John Wesley – missionary/evangelist in Europe and America *

Walter Weston Walter Weston (25 December 1861 – 27 March 1940), was an English clergyman and Anglican missionary who helped popularise recreational mountaineering in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. Background and early life Weston was born 25 De ...

– missionary to Japan, popularized the term " Japanese Alps" * George Whitefield – missionary/evangelist to the colonial United States *

John Burdett Wittenoom John Burdett Wittenoom (24 October 1788 – 23 January 1855) was a colonial clergyman who was the second Anglican clergyman to perform religious services in the Swan River Colony, Australia, soon after its establishment in 1829. Biography Ea ...

– missionary to Australia * Charles Stewart Thompson – missionary to India

Baptist

* Ellen Arnold – Australian Missionary *

Gladys Aylward Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book ''The Small Woman'', by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and made into the film ''The Inn of ...

– Missionary in China and Taiwan * Anne Luther Bagby – Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil * Lauran Bethell – missionary to Thailand and

Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russia, whic ...

* Joseph Booth – missionary to what is now Malawi *

William Carey (missionary) William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first ...

– Missionary in India Founder of the baptist missionary society * Chow Leung – Missionary to Chicago Chinatown * William Goldsack * 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 * George Liele – first American missionary; served in Jamaica * Eleanor Macomber – American missionary to Burma * Daniel Sharpe Malekebu – Malawian missionary who served in Malawi *

Isaac McCoy Isaac McCoy (June 13, 1784 – June 21, 1846) was a Baptist missionary among the Native Americans in what is now Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Kansas. He was an advocate of Indian removal from the eastern United States, proposing an Indian ...

– missionary to the American Indians *

Lottie Moon Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon (December 12, 1840 – December 24, 1912) was a Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly 40 years (1873–1912) living and working in China. As a teacher and evangelist ...

– Southern Baptist missionary to China * Hopestill Pillow – New Zealand female missionary to India in the 19th century, member of the

Zenana Missions The zenana missions were outreach programmes established in British India with the aim of converting women to Christianity. From the mid 19th century, they sent female missionaries into the homes of Indian women, including the private areas of ...

Anna Seward Pruitt Anna (Seward) Pruitt (1862–1948), was born in Tallmadge, Ohio, on May 16, 1862, the daughter of John Woodhouse and Urania (Ashley) Seward. She traveled west in the early 1880s to teach school in Ojai, California; her letters about the trip were ...

– 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 Issachar Jacox Roberts (Chinese: 罗孝全 ''Luó Xiàoquán'') (1802–1871) was a Southern Baptist missionary in Qing China notable for being in direct contact with Hong Xiuquan and for denying him Christian baptism. Early life Roberts wa ...

– Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired

Hong Xiuquan Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary who was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdo ...

William Ward (missionary) William Ward (1769–1823) was an English pioneer Baptist missionary, author, printer and translator. Early life Ward was born at Derby on 20 October 1769, and was the son of John Ward, a carpenter and builder of that town, and grandson of Thom ...

– Missionary and printer in India

Plymouth Brethren

Jim Elliot Philip James Elliot (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956) was an American Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. Early life Elliot was born in Portland ...

– missionary to Ecuador *

Anthony Norris Groves Anthony Norris Groves (1 February 1795 – 20 May 1853) was an English Protestant missionary, who has been called the "father of faith missions". He launched the first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims, and settled in Baghdad, and la ...

George Müller George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren m ...

– preached in various countries

Congregationalists

William Scott Ament William Scott Ament (Chinese Names: 梅子明 and 梅威良 Mei Wei Liang) (14 September 1851 – 6 January 1909 in San Francisco) was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from 1877, and wa ...

– controversial missionary to China * Griffith John Missionary in China and companion of Jonathan Goforth * Thomas J. Arnold Missionary in China during the Qing dynasty *

David Bogue David Bogue (18 February 175025 October 1825) was a British nonconformist religious leader. Life He was born at Hallydown Farm, in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland, the son of John Bogue, farmer, and his wife, Margaret Swanston. ...

– missionary to India, convert from the

Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...

* Samuel Dyer – 19th-century China * William Ellis – missionary to the South Pacific and an author * Cynthia Farrar – missionary to India, 1827–1862 *

Cyrus Hamlin Cyrus ( Persian: کوروش) is a male given name. It is the given name of a number of Persian kings. Most notably it refers to Cyrus the Great ( BC). Cyrus is also the name of Cyrus I of Anshan ( BC), King of Persia and the grandfather of Cyru ...

– American missionary in Turkey * Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt - first world missionary for

Woman's Christian Temperance Union The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization, originating among women in the United States Prohibition movement. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program th ...

David Livingstone David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of t ...

– missionary and explorer in Africa *

Walter Henry Medhurst Walter Henry Medhurst (29 April 179624 January 1857), was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School. He was one of the early translators of the Bible into Chinese-language editions. Earl ...

– revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China * Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa *

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– missionary and doctor in 19th-century China * 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 *

Eric Liddell Eric Henry Liddell (; 16 January 1902 – 21 February 1945) was a Scottish sprinter, rugby player and Christian missionary. Born in Qing China to Scottish missionary parents, he attended boarding school near London, spending time when p ...

Missionary and athlete in China *

Lancelot Threlkeld Lancelot Edward Threlkeld (20 October 1788 – 10 October 1859) was an English missionary, primarily based in Australia. He was married twice and survived by sons and daughters from both marriages. Thelkeld is known for his work with Biraban i ...

– linguist and missionary linked to the

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mission * Mary E. Van Lennep – missionary to Smyrna and Constantinople * John Williams – congregationalist in the South Pacific

Methodist

* Young John Allen – missionary in Qing China * Francis Burns – missionary to Liberia * Thomas Coke * 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 * E. Stanley Jones – missionary to India *

Walter Russell Lambuth Walter Russell Lambuth (November 10, 1854 – September 26, 1921) was a Chinese-born American Christian bishop who worked as a missionary establishing schools and hospitals in China, Korea and Japan in the 1880s. Birth and family Born in Shang ...

– 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 *

Henry Gerhard Appenzeller Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was a Methodist missionary. He and four other missionaries, including Horace N. Allen, Horace G. Underwood, William B. Scranton, and Mary F. Scranton introduced Protestant Chri ...

- American Methodist missionary to Korea * William B. Scranton - American Methodist missionary to Korea

Moravian

* Johann Leonhard Dober Missionary in St. Thomas in the Caribbean *

Alexander Worthy Clerk Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 March 1820 – 11 February 1906) was a Jamaican Moravian pioneer missionary, teacher and clergyman who arrived in 1843 in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Go ...

– Jamaican Moravian missionary to the Gold Coast, now Ghana * Christian David – Moravian missionary in Greenland, Livland and Pennsylvania * 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 David Nitschmann der Bischof (David Nitschmann the Bishop, December 18, 1695/96, Suchdol nad Odrou, Moravia – October 8, 1772, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was with Johann Leonhard Dober one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren in ...

– 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 David Zeisberger (April 11, 1721 – November 17, 1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native American tribes who resided in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts to Christianity in the ...

– Moravian missionary known for his role in the history of the

Christian Munsee The Christian Munsee are a group of Lenape (also known as ''Delaware''), an Indigenous people in the United States, that primarily speak Munsee and have converted to Christianity, following the teachings of Moravian missionaries. The Christian M ...

Nicolaus Zinzendorf Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf (26 May 1700 – 9 May 1760) was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christian mission pioneer and a major fig ...

– Founder of the Moravian church

Presbyterian

* Susan Law McBeth – Presbyterian missionary to American Indians and author *

Horace Grant Underwood Horace Grant Underwood (19 July 1859 – 12 October 1916) was a Presbyterian missionary, educator, and translator who dedicated his life to developing Christianity in Korea. Early life Underwood was born in London and immigrated to the United ...

– first Protestant missionary to Korea *

Samuel Austin Moffett Rev. Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939, ko, 마포삼열, Hanja: ) was one of the early American Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. He studied at Hanover College, Indiana, and in 1888 at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. In 1889, he w ...

- American missionary to Korea and founder of

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in Pyongyang * Samuel H. Moffett - American missionary to Korea and faculty at

Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a private school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1812 under the auspices of Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of t ...

* Lloyd Kim - American missionary to Cambodia and the coordinator of

Mission to the World Mission to the World (MTW) is the mission-sending agency for the Presbyterian Church in America. This evangelical Christian organization believes in advancing the Great Commission by promoting Reformed and covenantal church planting movements u ...

* Harvie M. Conn - American missionary to Korea and a missiologist * John Livingston Nevius - American missionary in China who advocated the Nevius Principle * Ralph D. Winter - American missiologist and founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission * Michael Oh - American missionary to Japan and executive director of

Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, more commonly known as the Lausanne Movement, is a global movement that mobilizes evangelical leaders to collaborate for world evangelization. The stated vision is "the whole church taking the whole ...

William Chalmers Burns William Chalmers Burns (宾惠廉, 1 April 1815 – 4 April 1868) was a Scottish Evangelist and Missionary to China with the English Presbyterian Mission who originated from Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire. He was the coordinator of the Overseas ...

– missionary to China *

Nicholas Timothy Clerk Nicholas Timothy Clerk (28 October 1862 – 16 August 1961) was a Protestant theologian, clergyman and pioneering missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society in southeast colonial Ghana. His father was the Jamaican Moravian mission ...

– Presbyterian missionary in southeast colonial Ghana * Peter Hall – Presbyterian missionary in colonial Ghana * William Alderman Linton - American missionary to Korea * William D. Reynolds - American missionary to Korea * David Earl Ross - American missionary to Korean and founder of Jesus Evangelism Band ( YWAM Korea) *

Hunter Corbett Hunter Corbett D.D. (; December 8, 1835 – January 7, 1920) was a pioneer American missionary to Chefoo (Zhifu芝罘区, in Yantai), Shandong China, he served with the American Presbyterian Mission. He was a fervent advocate of the missionary ent ...

– pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906 * Alexander Duff – missionary in India *

William Montague Ferry William Montague Ferry Sr. (September 8, 1796 – December 30, 1867) was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and community leader who founded several settlements in Ottawa County, Michigan. He became known as the father of Grand Haven and fathe ...

- Presbyterian missionary who was stationed on Mackinac Island. * John Lawrence Goheen – Presbyterian missionary, administer of

Ichalkaranji Ichalkaranji ( t͡səlkəɾəɳd͡ʒiː is a city in Kolhapur District, Indian state of Maharashtra, governed by a municipal corporation. It is known for its textile manufacturing industry and "Manchester City of Maharashtra". Ichalkaranji ...

state of British India * William Imbrie – American missionary to Japan * Samuel Kirkland – American Revolution figure who did missionary work among the

Tuscarora Tuscarora may refer to the following: First nations and Native American people and culture * Tuscarora people **''Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation'' (1960) * Tuscarora language, an Iroquoian language of the Tuscarora people * ...

– Olympic athlete who became a Scottish missionary in China * Alexander Murdoch Mackay – Presbyterian missionary to Uganda * George Leslie Mackay – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan *

James Laidlaw Maxwell James Laidlaw Maxwell Senior (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ''Má Ngá-kok''; ; born 18 March 1836 in Scotland – March 1921) was the first Presbyterian missionary to Formosa ( Qing-era Taiwan). He served with the English Presbyterian Mission. Maxwell ...

– among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan * Robert Morrison – first Protestant missionary in China *

John Gibson Paton John Gibson Paton (24 May 1824 – 28 January 1907), born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. He brought to the natives of the New Hebrides education and Christianity. He developed small in ...

– Scottish missionary to "the

New Hebrides New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium (french: link=no, Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides, "Condominium of the New Hebrides") and named after the Hebrides Scottish archipelago, was the colonial name for the island group ...

" (now part of Vanuatu) * Francis Young Pressly – American missionary to Punjab, Pakistan 1945–1972 * Carl Christian Reindorf - Gold Coast historian, minister and missionary *

Mary Slessor Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...

– Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria *

Absalom Sydenstricker Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker (, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931.Jost Zetzsche. "Absalom Sydenstricker," in K. Lodwick and W. C. Kwan, (ed.), ''The Missionary Kaleidoscope: Portraits of Six China Mis ...

– Presbyterian missionary to China, father of

Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Pulitze ...

* William James Wanless

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, F.A.C.S – founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897 * Aeneas Francon Williams (Rev) –

minister; missionary in the

Eastern Himalayas ] The Eastern Himalayas extend from eastern Nepal across Northeast India, Bhutan, the Tibet Autonomous Region to Yunnan in China and northern Myanmar. The climate of this region is influenced by the monsoon of South Asia from June to September. ...

and China * Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – wife of Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams;

missionary in the

* Asher Wright – missionary to Native American Seneca people * Gladstone Porteous – Australian missionary to China of Scottish descent * Donald Fraser – Free Church of Scotland missionary to Malawi * Robert Grierson – Canadian missionary to Korea *

Samuel Cochran Samuel Cochran (May 9, 1871 – December 26, 1952) was an American medical missionary and philanthropist who worked for over twenty years in Eastern China. One of the "first half-dozen physicians in China," Cochran was the Station Chairman for th ...

– American missionary to China

Other Protestant

* Hedvig Posse – Swedish missionary in South Africa, linguist and hymn writer * David Asante – Gold Coast native linguist, educator and missionary * Reinhard Bonnke – German charismatic Christian evangelist * Paul Brand – missionary surgeon in India * 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 *

Hans Egede Hans Poulsen Egede (31 January 1686 – 5 November 1758) was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inui ...

– Norwegian Lutheran missionary called "The Apostle of

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...

" * John Eliot – Puritan missionary to the American Indians *

Leung Faat Liang Fa (1789–1855), also known by #Name, other names, was the second Han Chinese, Chinese Protestantism in China, Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist. He was ordained by Robert Morrison (missionary ...

– Chinese convert who did missionary work in Southeast Asia and his homeland *

Mark Finley Mark A. Finley (born 1945) is the former host and director of ''It Is Written'' (from 1991–2004), for which he traveled around the world as a televangelist. He was the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor to do a satellite evangelistic series ...

– Seventh-day Adventist Church *

Jason Frenn Jason Frenn (born October 24, 1966, in Los Angeles, California) is an international missionary evangelist, author, and conference speaker, whose live ministry events have attracted a cumulative worldwide audience of over 7 million people. As a bil ...

– 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 Hermann Gundert (Stuttgart, 4 February 1814 – 25 April 1893 in Calw, Germany) was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the maternal grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert is chiefly know ...

– German linguist and Basel missionary to India *

James Legge James Legge (; 20 December 181529 November 1897) was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the London ...

– Sinologist and missionary to China *

Eugen Liebendörfer Eugen Liebendörfer (born 16 February 1852 in Leutkirch; died 3 October 1902 in Stuttgart) was the first German missionary doctor in India as part of the Basel Mission. He was also a co-founder of the Association for Medical Mission at Stuttgar ...

– German medical missionary to India * William Miller – Second Advent Movement * Hermann Mögling – German missionary to India * Volbrecht Nagel – German missionary to India * Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen – Lutheran missionary to Sumatra *

Torill Selsvold Nyborg Torill Selsvold Nyborg (born 23 February 1952) is a Norwegian nurse, missionary and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. She was born in Kvam as a daughter of electrician Johannes Selsvold (1914–1997) and housewife Dorthea Selsvold ...

– Norwegian Lutheran missionary in Arequipa from 1977 to 1982 * Theophilus Opoku – Gold Coast native linguist, educator and missionary * Jorge Armando Pérez – contemporary missionary to Latin America * Susanna Carson Rijnhart – Tibet * Fritz Ramseyer – Swiss builder and missionary to the Gold Coast *

Andreas Riis Andreas Riis (12 January 1804 – 13 January 1854) was a Danish minister and pioneer missionary who is widely regarded by historians as the founder of the Gold Coast branch of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society. A resident of the Gold ...

– Danish minister and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast * Helen Roseveare – missionary physician in the Congo * Albert Shelton – Disciples of Christ missionary to Tibetans * John Smith – West Indies * George Peter Thompson – Liberian minister and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast *

Sarah Lanman Smith Sarah Lanman Smith (also known as, Sarah L. Huntington Smith; June 18, 1802 – September 30, 1836) was a 19th-century American Christian missionary, memoirist, and school founder. In 1835, she established the American School for Girls, which becam ...

– Syria *

Annie Royle Taylor Hannah Royle Taylor (7 October 1855 – 9 September 1922), known as Annie Royle Taylor, was an English explorer and Evangelical missionary to China. She was the first Western woman known to have visited Tibet. She attempted to reach the "forb ...

– China and Tibet *

Hudson Taylor James Hudson Taylor (; 21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Baptist Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 51 years in China. The society that he began was respons ...

– missionary in China *

James Springer White James Springer White (August 4, 1821 – August 6, 1881), also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and husband of Ellen G. White. In 1849 he started the first Sabbatarian Adventist periodical entitled '' Th ...

– Seventh-day Adventist Church * Rosina Widmann – German educator and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast *

Johannes Zimmermann Johannes Zimmermann (2 March 1825 – 13 December 1876) was a missionary, clergyman, translator, philologist and ethnolinguist of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland, who translated the entire Bible into the Ga language of ...

– German linguist and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast

Other Christian

Heidi Baker Heidi Gayle Baker''Long-time resident had a love of teaching'', https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-cpt-1022-farrell-obit-20101021-story.html (born August 29, 1959) is a Christian missionary, itinerant speaker, and the CEO of Iris ...

– co-founder IRIS ministries * Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church * William F. P. Burton – missionary pioneering in the

Congolian rainforests The Congolian rainforests are a broad belt of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forests which extend across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central Africa. They are the only major rainforests which absorb more carbon than they ...

Stephen Grellet Stephen Grellet (28 October 1772 – 16 November 1855) was a prominent French-American Quaker missionary. Life Grellet was born Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier in Limoges, France, the son of Antoine Gabriel Grellet, a counsellor of King Loui ...

– Quaker missionary *

Robert A. Jaffray Robert Alexander Jaffray (1873 – July 29, 1945) was a Mission (Christian), missionary to China, Indonesia and several other countries, with Christian & Missionary Alliance, The Christian & Missionary Alliance, who served as the founding principa ...

–

Christian and Missionary Alliance The Alliance World Fellowship is the international governing body of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (The Alliance, also C&MA and CMA). The Alliance is an evangelical Protestant denomination within the Higher Life movement of Christianity ...

missionary to China * Thomas Raymond Kelly – Quaker * Wayman Mitchell – missionary and founder of Christian Fellowship Ministries * Raphael Morgan – Jamaican-American

Greek Orthodox The term Greek Orthodox Church ( Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also cal ...

priest, thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America * Robert Pierce – founder of

World Vision International World Vision International is an evangelical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. It prefers to present itself as interdenominational and also employs staff from non-evangelical Christian denominations. It was ...

* Ockert Potgieter – South African missionary to Ukraine * Erika Sutter – Swiss missionary to South Africa *

John Allen Chau John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, indigenous people in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island, India in ...

– American Evangelical, killed by the

Sentinelese The Sentinelese, also known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are an indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal in the northeastern Indian Ocean. Designated a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group ...

people after he approached the island in hopes of converting them. * Loren Cunningham – founder of Youth with a Mission (YWAM)

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