List of Christian martyrs

According to Acts of the Apostles

James, son of Zebedee ^{[Acts 12:1-2]}

Saint Stephen ^{[Acts 7:58–60]}

According to Josephus

James, brother of Jesus

According to early Christian tradition

Saint Peter, first attested by Tertullian about AD 200

Paul the Apostle, first attested by Ignatius probably about AD 110

According to late or local Christian tradition

Mark the Evangelist

Philip the Apostle - conflicting accounts

Andrew the Apostle

Jude the Apostle

Bartholomew the Apostle - conflicting accounts

Thomas the Apostle

Largely or wholly legendary

Simon the Zealot, varying and contradictory late traditions.

According to early Christian tradition or with some historical attestation within a hundred years of the event

Polycarp of Smyrna

Justin Martyr

Scillitan Martyrs

Perpetua and Felicity

Ptolemaeus and Lucius

Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, with Blandina and several others, the "Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne"

Pope Fabian

Saint Sebastian

Saint Agnes

Felix and Adauctus

Marcellinus and Peter

Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

Euphemia

Cyprian

According to late Christian tradition or with some historical attestation more than a hundred years after the event

Saint Alban

Ignatius of Antioch

Gelasinus

Saint Pancras

Saint Valentine

Largely or wholly legendary

Saint Afra

Saint George

Januarius

Vincent of Saragossa

Saint Behnam

Saint Lucy

Lawrence of Rome

Saint Cecilia

Catherine of Alexandria

Vitus

Middle Ages—5th to 15th centuries

Valentine and Engratia, ca. 715, Hermit martyrs of Segovia

Ludmila of Bohemia, 921

King Edward the Martyr, 979

Jovan Vladimir, 1014

Stanislaus of Szczepanów, 1079

Saint Thomas Becket, 1170

Tsar Lazar, 1389

John Huss (Jan Huss), 1415

Jerome of Prague, 1416

Reformation Era—16th century

Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake

Felix Manz, 1527

Patrick Hamilton, 1528

George Blaurock, 1529

St Thomas More, 1535, executed

St John Fisher, 1535

William Tyndale, 1535

Carthusian Martyrs, 1535–1537

St. Arthur of Glastonbury, 1539

Margaret Pole, 1541

Juan de Padilla, Spanish missionary to New Mexico, 1542

Anne Askew, 1546

George Wishart, 1546

Matthew Hammond, 1549

Luis de Cancer, Spanish missionary to La Florida, 1549

Hugh Latimer, 1555

Nicholas Ridley, 1555

Rowland Taylor, 1555

John Hooper, 1555

John Rogers, 1555

William Hunter, 1555

Lawrence Saunders, 1555

Thomas Cranmer, 1556

Dirk Willems, 1569

St Edmund Campion, 1581

Margaret Ball, 1584

The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, various dates

Indian martyr

Devasahayam Pillai, 1712-1752

Others

Martyrs of Japan

Kakure Kirishitan

Francis Taylor, 1621

Vietnamese Martyrs, 1625 - 1886

Magdalene of Nagasaki, 1634

Lorenzo Ruiz, 1637

Canadian Martyrs, North American Martyrs, 1642–1649

Arthur Bell, 1643

Isaac Jogues, 1646 (French Jesuit in New York killed by Indians)

John de Britto, 1647-1693, born in Portugal and beheaded in India

Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (Dominican missionary to China), 1648

Diego Luis de San Vitores and Pedro Calungsod, 1672

Feodosia Morozova (Old Believer), 1675

Oliver Plunkett, 1681

Felipe Songsong, 1685

Constantin Brâncoveanu, 1714

Vicente Liem de la Paz (Tonkinese Dominican), 1773

Luís Jayme, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1775

Cosmas of Aetolia, 1779

Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1781

Martyrs of Compiegne, 1794

Andrés Quintana, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1812

Chinese Martyrs (various Christian denominations), 19th and 20th centuries

Andrew Dung-Lac (Vietnamese Catholic), 1839

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born Dec. 23, 1805, Sharon, Vt., U.S.—died June 27, 1844, Carthage, Ill.

Hyrum Smith, 1844

Korean Martyrs, 1839, 1846, 1866

Peter Chanel (Catholic priest), 1841

Andrew Kim Taegon, 1846

Marcus Whitman, 1847

Narcissa Whitman, 1847

Lucy Yi Zhenmei, one of the 19th century Chinese Catholic Martyrs, 1862

Thomas Baker, 1867, English missionary killed and eaten, Fiji

Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–1887

Esther John 1929-1960, Found Killed in Chichawatni commemorated at Westminster Abbey.

Maria Goretti (also a rape victim), 1902

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, 1918

Nun Barbara (Yakovleva), 1918

Saints of the Cristero War 1926-1927

Miguel Pro, 1927

Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, 1927

Toribio Romo González, 1928

Manche Masemola, (1913–1928)

José Sánchez del Río 1928

Innocencio of Mary Immaculate 1934

Bartolome Blanco Marquez, 1936

Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War 1934, 1936–1939

Paul Schneider (pastor), 1939

Maximilian Kolbe (Polish Franciscan, died at Auschwitz), 1941

Edith Stein (Carmelite nun, died at Auschwitz), 1942

Lucian Tapiedi, 1942

Franz Jägerstätter, 1943

Dusty Miller (Martyr), 1945, a Methodist layman killed as a P.O.W. of the Japanese in Thailand during World War II.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (April 9, 1945) Lutheran Pastor and member of the German Resistance

Rolando Rivi, fourteen-year-old Seminarian 1945

Theodore Romzha, 1947

Beda Chang, 1951

Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová, 1955

Jim Elliot, 1956

Nate Saint, 1956, killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people

Ed McCully, 1956

Pete Fleming, 1956

Boyax Baga, 1956

ChengHua Yu, 1956

Wang Zhiming (1907 - December 29, 1973) Chinese pastor, publicly executed

Janani Jakaliya Luwum (1922 – 17 February 1977), Archbishop of Uganda.

Óscar Romero (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), Archbishop of San Salvador

Rani Maria Vattalil, 25 February 1995, India

Kosheh Martyrs, Egypt, 1998–2000

Martin Burnham, 2002

Nag Hammadi martyrs, Egypt 2010

Jacques Hamel – Priest killed in the 2016 Normandy church attack.