List of Christian missionaries

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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
• Brieuc
• Columba – early missionary to Scotland
• David of Basra – early missionary to India
• Denis – early missionary to France
• Frumentius – early missionary to Ethiopia
• Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia
• Mark the Evangelist
• Pantaenus – early missionary to India
• Saint Patrick – early missionary to Ireland
• Paul of Tarsus
• Twelve Disciples – all of the twelve are considered missionaries
• Ulfilas – missionary to the Goths

List of Catholic missionaries

Main article: List of Catholic missionaries

List of Eastern Orthodox missionaries

Main article: List of Eastern Orthodox missionaries

Medieval to modern missionaries

Anglican

• Gladys Aylward – missionary to China and Taiwan
• 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
• 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
• Charles Stewart Thompson – missionary to India

Baptist

• 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 – linked to India and a founder of the Baptist Missionary Society
• 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 whose writings home made the couple celebrities
• George Liele – first American missionary; served in Jamaica
• Eleanor Macomber – American missionary to Burma
• Isaac McCoy – missionary to the American Indians
• Lottie Moon – Southern Baptist missionary to China (the Lottie Moon Christmas offering is still an important event in the Southern Baptist calendar)
• Anna Seward Pruitt – part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist missionary who worked with Lottie Moon in North China
• Cicero Washington Pruitt – husband and fellow Southern Baptist missionary to North China
• Issachar Jacox Roberts – Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired Hong Xiuquan
• Charlotte White – widow, the first unmarried American female foreign missionary; arrived in India in 1816[1]

Plymouth Brethren

• Jim Elliot – missionary to Ecuador
• Anthony Norris Groves
• George Müller – preached in various countries

Congregationalists

• William Scott Ament – controversial missionary to China
• David Bogue – missionary to India, convert from the Church of Scotland
• Hedley Bunton – 20th-century missionary in China who lived under Japanese occupation for a time
• 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
• David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa
• Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China
• Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa
• Peter Parker – 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
• Lancelot Threlkeld – linguist and missionary linked to the Lake Macquarie mission
• Mary E. Van Lennep – missionary to Smyrna and Constantinople
• John Williams – congregationalist in the South Pacific

Latter-day Saint

• Samuel Smith – brother to Joseph Smith, first LDS missionary
• Brigham Young – missionary in the British Isles, became 2nd President of the Church
• John Taylor – missionary in his native country of Britain, became 3rd President of the Church
• Wilford Woodruff – missionary in the British Isles, became 4th President of the Church
• Heber C. Kimball – missionary in the British Isles
• Dan Jones – missionary in his native country of Wales, translated many materials into Welsh
• Orson Hyde – missionary across Europe and into the Holy Land
• Parley P. Pratt – missionary to the Southern and Midwestern US, Canada, South America
• Joseph F. Smith – missionary to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) at age 15
• Matthew Cowley – missionary to New Zealand's Māori people, translated the Book of Mormon into Māori

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
• George Richmond Grose – missionary to China
• Joseph Crane Hartzell – missionary work in 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
• 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 - American Methodist missionary to Korea
• William B. Scranton - American Methodist missionary to Korea

Moravian

• Alexander Worthy Clerk – 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 – 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 – renewer of the Moravian Church

Presbyterian

• Horace Grant Underwood – first Protestant missionary to Korea
• 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
• Lloyd Kim - American missionary to Cambodia and the coordinator of Mission to the World
• 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
• William Chalmers Burns – missionary to China
• Nicholas Timothy Clerk – 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 – pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906
• Alexander Duff – missionary in India
• John Lawrence Goheen – Presbyterian missionary, administer of Ichalkaranji state of British India
• William Imbrie – American missionary to Japan
• Samuel Kirkland – American Revolution figure who did missionary work among the Tuscarora
• Eric Liddell – Olympic athlete who became a Scottish missionary in China
• Alexander Murdoch Mackay – Presbyterian missionary to Uganda[2]
• George Leslie Mackay – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan
• James Laidlaw Maxwell – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan
• Robert Morrison – first Protestant missionary in China
• John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides" (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 – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria
• Absalom Sydenstricker – Presbyterian missionary to China, father of Pearl S. Buck
• 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[3] and China
• Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – wife of Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams; Church of Scotland missionary in the Eastern Himalayas
• Asher Wright – missionary to Native American Seneca people
• Gladstone Porteous – Australian missionary to China of Scottish descent

Other Protestant

• 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 – 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
• James Legge – Sinologist and missionary to China
• Eugen Liebendörfer – 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 – 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 – 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 – Syria
• Annie Royle Taylor – China and Tibet
• Hudson Taylor – missionary in China
• James Springer White – Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Rosina Widmann – German educator and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast
• Johannes Zimmermann – German linguist and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast

Other Christian

• Heidi Baker – co-founder IRIS ministries
• Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church
• William F. P. Burton – missionary pioneering in the Congolian rainforests
• Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary
• Robert A. Jaffray – Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary to China
• Thomas Raymond Kelly – Quaker
• Wayman Mitchell – missionary and founder of Christian Fellowship Ministries
• Raphael Morgan – Jamaican-American Greek Orthodox priest, thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America
• Robert Pierce – founder of World Vision International
• Ockert Potgieter – South African missionary to Ukraine
• Erika Sutter – Swiss missionary to South Africa
• John Allen Chau – American Evangelical, killed by the Sentinelese people after he approached the island in hopes of converting them.
• Loren Cunningham – founder of Youth with a Mission (YWAM)

See also

• List of Protestant missionaries in China
• List of Protestant missionaries in India
• List of Catholic missionaries
• List of Catholic missionaries to China
• List of Catholic missionaries in India
• List of Catholic missions in Africa
• List of Eastern Orthodox missionaries
• List of missionaries to Hawaii
• List of missionaries to the South Pacific
• List of Slovenian missionaries
• List of Russian Orthodox missionaries
• List of Protestant missionaries to Southeast Asia
• List of Eastern Orthodox missionaries
• List of SVD missions
• Timeline of Christian missions

References

1. White, Ann (March 1988). "Counting the Cost of Faith. America's Early Female Missionaries". Church History. 57 (1): 22. doi:10.2307/3165900.
   Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing. p. 727.
2. "Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay". World Digital Library. 1907. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
3. "Scottish Missionary Archives".